The anti-democracy movement is still fulminating.

Corporate malfeasance continues.

The climate catastrophe is worsening.

Inequality is widening.

The haters and bigots have not retreated.

But their most powerful weapon is cynicism

We must keep fighting.

I've told y'all I don't care much for #NFL football anymore. But I do care a lot about NFL players.

#DamarHamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field and the game would have continued if both teams hadn't protested.

Up until a few years ago the NFL used race norming, meaning that if both Brett Favre and I won brain damaged settlements my payout would be lower, because "Blacks have lower IQ anyways!"

You may be able to enjoy this sport. I can't.

Wishing Damar a speedy and complete recovery.

Chaos. Dysfunction. Disorder.

These words not only describe the humiliating, extremist freak show we are currently witnessing with the GOP’s vote for Speaker, but also the way in which the Republicans will govern.

Today, the civil war in the Republican Party has come into the open. But it’s not particularly civil and it’s not exactly a war.

It’s the mindless hostility of a political party that’s lost any legitimate reason for being. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-the-hell-is-the-republican-party

“It didn’t seem like it was worth the risk,” UCF's Jonathan Cox told @ProPublica about his decision -- in the wake of Florida passing DeSantis' "Stop Woke Act" -- to scrap two courses that explored colorblind racism.

“I’m completely unprotected....
Somebody who’s not even in the class could come after me. Somebody sees the course catalog, complains to a legislator — next thing I know, I’m out of a job.”

#CRT #DeSantis #Florida #Education #Race

https://www.propublica.org/article/desantis-critical-race-theory-florida-college-professors?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post