Heather Scott: Idaho Republicans Pass Dangerous Measure to Gut Marriage Equality
https://newrepublic.com/post/190801/idaho-republicans-supreme-court-same-sex-marriage

* ID GOP asks SCOTUS to overturn 2015 landmark ruling Obergefell v. Hodges
* allowed same-sex marriage

#USpol #USlaw
#GOP #Trump2 #HeatherScott #ConspiracyTheorists #homophobia #antiDEI #antiCRT #whiteNationalism
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #antiLGBT #SCOTUS #TitleIX #Obergefell #SameSexMarriage
#Christofascism #transgenocide #theocracy
#WomensRights #TransRights #misogyny #sexism

Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g-s1-44753/immigration-senate-kristi-noem-confirmation-vote

* in charge of cracking down on immigration
* visa changes; border security measures
* mass deportations
* oversees 260k+ fed. employees incl. agencies that deal w. immigration, responding to natural disasters
* DHS works w. U.S.' intelligence agencies to prevent terrorist threats

#GOP #Trump1 #Trump2 #fascism #KristiNoem #DHS #xenophobia #MassDeportations
#1619Project #1776Pledge #antiLGBT #antiCRT

/1 Apropos to preceding item

* ugh: YCombinator/HN owned by billionaire Peter Thiel
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113392116004875490

Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42698737

* conservative, Christofascist attacks on public education
* drive discontent, ignorance, compliance, servitude

#conservatism #GOP #ParentalRights #vigilantism
#PublicEducation #PrivateEducation #CharterSchools #SchoolVouchers
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #HistoricalRevisionism #antiCRT
#Christofascism #transgenocide

Mission f. God: Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-vouchers-ohio-church-state-tax-dollars-private-religious

Superb 3-pt series
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/16/salon-investigates-the-on-public-schools-is-being-fought-from-hillsdale-college
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110608529417350253

TX Lt Gov Dan Patrick: private school vouchers top legislative priority
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113449035360937424

#conservatism #GOP
#PublicEducation #PrivateEducation #CharterSchools #SchoolVouchers
#ChristianRight #antiLGBT #HistoricalRevisionism #antiCRT #HillsdaleCollege
#Christofascism #transgenocide #DominionTheocracy

/1 Black conservative Ben Carson an anti-critical race theory proponent

[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805209780268350

* Noem & Carson's Fox News op-ed against critical race theory
* recall that ideology posited pre-Civil War slaves benefited f. slavery 🤨

#USpol #GOP #Trump1 #HHS #BenCarson #BlackConservatism #antiCRT #CRT
#Trump2 #fascism #Project2025 #ChristianRight #antiLGBT #KristiNoem
#Christofascism #transgenocide

[2021] Kristi Noem signs "1776 pledge" to ban "anti-American indoctrination" in public schools
https://www.salon.com/2021/05/06/gop-gov-kristi-noem-signs-1776-pledge-to-ban-anti-american-indoctrination-in-public-schools
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/cultural-challenge-defeat-anti-american-indoctrination-dr-ben-carson-gov-kristi-noem

* "1776 Pledge to Save Our Schools"
* informal vow by Noem, other GOP incl. fmr US Sec. Housing & Urban Development Ben Carson

Ben Carson
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113805166317422013

1776 Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_Commission
* Trump1 advisory comm.
* supported so-called "patriotic education"

#GOP #Trump1 #KristiNoem #BenCarson #1619Project #1776Pledge #antiLGBT #antiCRT

Republican Heather Scott asks U.S. Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/republican-asks-supreme-court-to-condemn-overturn-same-sex-marriage/

* frames SCOTUS decision as “illegitimate overreach”
* wants to bring back “natural definition of marriage” even though diff. forms of marriage (incl. same-sex unions) existed throughout human history
* Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito have called for reconsideration of Obergefell v. Hodges

#GOP #HeatherScott #homophobia #antiCRT #whiteNationalism #antiLGBT #Obergefell #ConspiracyTheorist

Christopher Rufo: Trump Leans on Disturbing Figure to Threaten Public Universities
https://newrepublic.com/post/188800/donald-trump-christopher-rufo-woke-schools

* Right-wing provocateur Christopher Rufo
* leading actor in right-wing culture wars, f. moral panic surrounding “critical race theory” to hoax about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, OH

#education #CriticalRaceTheory #antiCRT #racism
#ChrisRufo #conservatism #ManhattanInstitute
#FarRight #Trumpism #GOP #Trump2 #fascism
#antiLGBT #transphobia
#DeSantis #NewCollegeOfFlorida