Bill and Jumelle deliver the second half of our episode from last week, this time focusing on Sen Wes Climer (candidate for SC Governor) and Artificial Intelligence!
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#SouthCarolina #SCPol #SCPolitics #WesClimer #scgovernor #DEI #PublicEducation #SchoolVouchers #PrivateSchools #ReligiousSchools #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #NotebookLM #chatbots #consciousness
🚫 Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada orders the closure of religious schools for girls, citing concerns over the teaching of modern subjects. This is the latest in a series of restrictions on education for Afghan women and girls. #Taliban #Afghanistan #GirlsEducation #ReligiousSchools
📚 Afghan girls say religious schools are no substitute for modern education after the Taliban’s ban on girls’ schooling. #Afghanistan #GirlsEducation #Taliban #ReligiousSchools #UNESCO
https://momentmag.com/opinion-five-moments-that-shaped-israel/
Fania Oz-Salzberger notes the disastrous consequences for Israel of a 1953 law which made provision for "the near-complete autonomy of ultra-Orthodox schools with no core curriculum, no secular subjects, no history and geography and languages, no sciences, hardly any math, and a heavily policed gender separation. "
#Israel #IsraelPalestine #StateEducationLaw #UltraOrthodox #Education #ReligiousSchools #ConfessionalEducation
I am often baffled by a mainstream media establishment that has learned the phrase "every accusation is a confession" by rote, but continues to report on TrumpWorld Republican efforts to transform US public education into a fascist indoctrination factory as if it were a parental rights, or religious liberty issue. These folks are openly and blatantly turning the odious and reactionary belief cluster around Trump's cult of personality into enforced reality, and while they probably can't convince *you* that up is down and fascism is freedom, they're determined to make sure that's the only reality your kids ever know.
I wrote about a recent example of this indoctrination project in action on NIDC, while examining the recent news that noted fundie fascist ideologue Ryan Walters has passed education standards that attempt to force teachers in Oklahoma to present Trump's 2020 election conspiracies (aka The Big Lie) as factual analysis.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/20/26643/
Nina-Bytes: Poisoning the Well
"Folks who aren’t familiar with politics in Oklahoma or unhinged fascist cultists who worship Trump may not be familiar with state school superintendent Ryan Walters, but calling him an “ideologue” really doesn’t cover how entirely committed he is to Christian Nationalist ideology and the Trump regime’s enforced unreality. This is the guy behind Oklahoma’s wasteful and corrupt attempted purchase of Trump-branded Bibles, as well as a Project 2025-style plan to restore “religious education” to Oklahoma public schools. He’s also a big proponent of new innovations in trying to make state taxpayers support religious charter schools that will presumably teach Christian Nationalist doctrine. As the article notes, in addition to teaching the Big Lie as fact in Oklahoma schools, Walters also wants to teach kids that Covid came from a lab in China and “remove education about Black Lives Matter and George Floyd’s murder,” just in case you were worried he might not be racist enough. In other words, it’s safe to say that indoctrinating kids with horrifying reactionary ideas that support an objectively fascist agenda is Ryan’s jam."
#Fascism #Trump #TheBigLie #$2020ElectionConspiracies #Oklahoma #ChristianNationalism #Propaganda #Indoctrination #TrumpCult #HitlerYouth #Homphobia #Islamophobia #Racism #WhiteNationalist #Nativism #RyanWalters #Education #GOP #RepublicanParty #ReligiousSchools
Terrifying developments in Oklahoma mean its time to talk about Ryan Walters, Trump's cult of personality, and Christian nationalist indoctrination in schools.
#Ohio offers a new way to use public money for #ChristianSchools. Opponents say it’s unconstitutional
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Updated 12:09 AM EST, November 17, 2024
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — "Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap #taxpayer money used more typically for #PublicSchools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning #conservative political group and facing objections from defenders of the #SeparationOfChurchAndState.
"In President-elect Donald #Trump, backers of school choice have gained an ally in their efforts to share taxpayer money with families to pay for things like private school tuition. Trump has cast school choice as a way to counter what he calls leftist indoctrination in public classrooms and is expected to seek a boost for the movement at the federal level.
"The Ohio case shows how governments can push the envelope to funnel money to private schools.
"The state has put a small part of its budget surplus toward competitive grants for expanding and renovating #ReligiousSchools. Most of the winning construction projects are associated with the #CenterForChristianVirtue, an Ohio-based advocacy group that’s seen its revenues balloon amid the state’s push to expand religious educational options. "
Read more:https://apnews.com/article/christian-private-school-choice-ohio-3c49fe1477a678377ede32e5de5f6db3
#ChristoFascism #ChristianCoalition
#ChristianNationalism
#Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism
Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools. The practice could expand, as backers of school choice have an ally in President-elect Donald Trump. One new approach that has emerged in Ohio has defenders of the separation of church and state crying foul. The state has put part of its budget surplus toward $4.9 million in construction projects for religious schools. The nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State says that is unconstitutional. They have launched an investigation. The Republican-led Ohio Senate calls the allegations “laughable.”
Via #CTV News, 12:10pm EDT, Oct 24, 2024
#FrançoisLegault's #CoalitionAvenirQuébec (#CAQ)→refusing to end public funding for #ReligiousSchools
All CAQ MNAs present in House on Thur voted against a #PartiQuébécois (#PQ) motion calling for consistency w/ principles of #secularism & withdrawal of funding for these schools
In #Quebec, some 50 pub schools — #Catholic, #Evangelical, #Protestant, #Muslim, #Jewish & #Orthodox — receive ~$160M/year in public funding
#RedStates #underfire for using #taxpayer #money pushing #religion in #PublicSchools
#Civilrights #groups #investigating #costs of placing #Trump #Bibles in #Oklahoma #schools, #Ohio's spending on #construction for #private #religiousschools
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://19thnews.org/2024/10/ohio-oklahoma-spending-church-state-religion-schools/#Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
#ChurchStateSeparation #NEWS -
‘We Dissent’: #Project2025 — A roadmap to hell
How a new generation of #Christiannationalists explain #Vance’s #MAGA appeal
In an Unprecedented Move, #Ohio is Funding the Construction of Private #ReligiousSchools
#Christian #Nationalists want to destroy the #JohnsonAmendment.
#Voting in #housesofworship: how you can find #secular alternatives
Why Christian Nationalists don't want you to #vote
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/church-state-separation-g5hp0m0uy
The First Amendment secular right of the separation of church and state, the wall between religion and government. Critical of Theocracy, Dominionism, and Christian Nationalism, and exposing the "American Taliban" cult. If you'd like to be a contributor, email [email protected]
Overseas threats hit the Ohio city where Trump and #Vance lied about #Haitians #eatingpets
Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private #ReligiousSchools
Member of #BernieMoreno’s Senate #campaign staff resigns
#Drought conditions impacting #hydrology of #rivers in Ohio
#OhioSupremeCourt clears #ballotlanguage saying #antigerrymandering measure calls for the opposite
Ohio sheriff asks residents to 'write down' #Harris supporter addresses
https://flipboard.com/@dustcircle/ohio-rights-and-reports-0a0eth61y
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