GOP dominated Texas school board approves curriculum that incorporates Bible lessons for K-5 classes.
This is Christian nationalism & it is an existential threat to our republic. It seeks to revive the white supremacist foundings of this country & it is a huge mistake to underestimate its danger.
Lebanon’s capital Beirut was targeted in a massive Israeli attack early on Saturday morning, with five missiles raining down on an eight-storey residential building in the heart of the city, leading to several fatalities. Local media reported that the building had been completely destroyed and that Beirut had woken up to a “horrific massacre”. Follow our liveblog for the latest developments in the Middle East.
Via Marc Elias:
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court REJECTS Republican National Committee, motion to send its lawsuit challenging the counting of absentee ballots that are not submitted in a sealed return envelope back to state court.
This likely dooms it for 2024.
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-carolina-absentee-voting-guidance-challenge/
About the X block in Brazil.
Brazilian supreme court were asking X to close/suspend/moderate:
- accounts spreading fake news
- accounts spreading hate speech
- accounts spreading fascism/nazism ideology
- accounts spreading racism
- accounts spreading anti-lgbtqia hate speech
- accounts demanding to close the supreme court
- accounts trying to create disarmony between federal powers, using fake news (executive branch, judiciary branch and legislative branch)
- accounts asking to have another militar dictatorship government instead of democracy
- accounts using free speech to attack judges, legislators, executives and governament branch leaders
- accounts using free speech to haras other people
And a lot, lot more.
They tried several times to talk with them, but twitter refused to comply or respond.
Supreme court is doing their job to secure our Constitution and our Brazilian democracy.
Twitter/X is a toxic non-moderated place right now, it's a risk for us and it's refusing to control their network, it's refusing to comply with Brazilian laws and Brazilian judiciarty court decisions.
That's what's happening.
That's the true.
If you have question I'm here to help!
Busted..
Via david.heath.writer on Threads:
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Steve Herman
Laffy
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