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The Republican bombshell for today’s oversight hearing for a Biden Impeachment?

Their star witness Jonathan Turley testifying there’s no evidence to impeach

Kek.

A Texas teacher was fired after assigning an illustrated adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary to her middle school class, in a move that some are calling “a political attack on truth” https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/20/texas-teacher-fired-anne-frank-book-ban
Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders

Move comes as education laws restricting teaching of race, sexuality and other topics are being implemented across the US

The Guardian

Congratulations to Hal Rafter and to the organizers and volunteers who knocked on doors, made calls, wrote, and got out the vote.

This is a flipped seat from being held by a Republican. NH Democrats have now won eight of the nine special elections this year. Don’t pay attention to polls. Pay attention to results. This was a Trump district. Now it isn’t.

Democrats flip key #NewHampshire seat, putting them inches from erasing GOP's majority-
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/9/19/2194297/-Democrats-flip-key-New-Hampshire-seat-putting-them-inches-from-erasing-GOP-s-majority

Democrats flip key New Hampshire seat, putting them inches from erasing GOP's majority

New Hampshire Democrat Hal Rafter scored a major pickup for his party on Tuesday by flipping a swingy seat in a special election for the state House, a triumph that puts Democrats one seat away from ...

Daily Kos

Texas teacher fired after assigning an illustrated Anne Frank book

The graphic novel adaptation released in 2018 is faithful to the original text in Anne Frank's diary. 
#AureFreePress

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-teacher-anne-frank-fired-18375331.php

Anne Frank's Diary
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Harry Potter
The Hunger Games
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Just some of the books removed from Peel District School Board #PDSB shelves under an "equity-based" selection process; a new provincial directive from the #Ontario Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce.

#bill98 #onpoli #DougFord #lecce #conservatives #OntED
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/peel-school-board-library-book-weeding-1.6964332

'Empty shelves with absolutely no books': Students, parents question school board's library weeding process | CBC News

Several Peel District School Board students, parents and community members are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new book weeding process intended to ensure school library books are inclusive, but that appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books published in 2008 or earlier.

CBC
Biden impeachment inquiry ‘eight months of abject failure’, watchdog report says

The Congressional Integrity Project reports on several inconsistencies and untruths in James Comer’s investigation

The Guardian

In 1996, a gunman slaughtered 16 kids and a teacher in Dunblane, Scotland. After a public outcry, the UK passed common sense gun laws.

In the 27 years since then, the UK has had ZERO school shootings.

Dear Republicans: We tried it your way and it doesn't work

The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS. Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was b...

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