Maurice Cunningham is a specialist on dark money and its infiltration into education debates. As he watched the response to the Uvalde massacre of babies, he noticed the missing voices of the “mama bears.”
He writes:
Right Wing “Mama Bears” Hibernate on Uvalde
They’re fearless on Fox News—Tiffany Justice of Moms for Liberty, Erika Sanzi or Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education, Keri Rodrigues of National Parents Union—self-proclaimed “mama bears” fiercely protecting their cubs from a public school education. But murder and traumatization in our schools caused by assault weapons? The mama bears hibernate. And there’s reason.
Parents for Education has had nothing to say about Uvalde but it has sent out four email blasts from Neily and Sanzi since the massacre in Texas—fundraising letters! They playact rage about a legal theory not taught in K-12 and promote terror of innocentLGBTQ teens. But on real terror, silence. This is defending education?
Moms for Liberty mustered a quick Facebook reaction of the ‘thoughts and prayers’ genre then went back to its specialties: demonizing vulnerable transgender children, book banning, and putting bounties on teachers’ heads.
Right wing papa bears are absent fathers on gun violence. Take Ian Prior of the Virginia privatization operation Fight for Schools. He plays an outraged parent on Fox News but this Republican communications pro isn’t touching any fight for schools that might involve making them safe for educators and children.
None of these individuals nor their phony parent groups can diveinto the fight to keep guns out of our schools for a simple reason: they are dependent on far right funding including the Koch network and the extremist Council for National Policy. Among the CNP’s members are Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association.
No, there will be no criticism of the NRA from these “parents’ and “moms.” That would not only be condemning an ally, it would be spitting in the faces of the money givers.
National Parents Union, Koch and Walton funded, has a separate problem. NPU depicts itself as representing people of color, an approach that masks its corporate nature. So NPU president Keri Rodrigues produced a public letter to President Biden, laying much of the blame for inaction on Biden himself—a curious position for a member of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee. As to denouncing Republican intransigence to any action on gun safety? Speechless.
NPU, a charter and privatization front, is fighting the Biden administration on regulation of charter schools. Privatization schemes are almost wholly dependent on Republican votes.
Real mama bears fight for kids, not oligarchs.
These groups aren’t speaking out because they can’t. They’re part of the problem. Follow the money.
Maurice T. Cunningham is author of “Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization.”
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Aaaand we have another mass shooting, this time at a hospital.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tulsa-shooting-saint-francis-hospital-medical-building/
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From now on all patients and visitors should have to enter through one entrance where they are strip searched . All other doors to the Hospital should be welded shut . The surgery suite should have an AR15 standing against the oxygen tanks .
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Yes, we must harden the hospitals.
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…and strapped doctors and nurses. After all, they are first responders.
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speduktr,
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Obviously doctors need to be carrying guns to protect their patients. That will solve everything.
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and then, just like with schools, we won’t be able to blame the gun, only the person who made a mistake inside the building….
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I’m sorry, but this did make me laugh, Joel. Thanks for that.
I’m reminded of the infamous Mary Tyler Moore episode “The Funeral of Chuckles the Clown,” in which she laughed during his funeral.
There was a situation–when my sister & I were 11 & 16–that was very serious, but instead of crying, we laughed. My mother was appalled, stating, “You two are very strange.”
A mental health professional told me–a while back–that, sometimes, when wanting or needing to cry, people will laugh, that being a nervous reaction to a bad situation.
But, still, thanks for the warped imagery, Joel. It certainly goes with a warped world, doesn’t it?
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Actually I experienced that emotion my self as a college freshman, in 1970 . When we lost a friend and was told the same.
What else is there to do with the Republican party and cowardly Democrats. There has been 1 mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur in 1996 Six members of a family killed by a family member before he committed suicide. when they they toughened their gun laws. There were 13 mass shootings the decade before . That change in laws took place 12 days after the massacre.
This is not a mental health problem , not a background check problem , not an age problem . It is a gun problem . .
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The reason is none of them care about the commoners who must attend public school. They are just spigot spewing the right wing propaganda.
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exactly
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Are we really trying to compare the terrible damage done by teaching real history to the damage that would be done to the seditionist Party by losing the support of the NRA and gun manufacturers . The damage that would be done to the oligarchs who fund these groups if we had a truly educated citizenry. Of Course these AstroTurf groups don’t give a crap about Children.
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What’s happened to this nation? Where we always so close to this self destruction? I’ve never felt so helpless and threatened. Where are our leaders that can lead us out of this?
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It was like this in the late 60’s/early 70’s but back then there were way less guns, no military style weapons/upgrades etc, and NO social media broadcasting the latest tragedy in seconds flat. That was followed by the big recession years.
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It’s not just that they don’t speak about anything that would offend their donors- they aggressively and constantly complian that every single pro-public school group is owned by teachers unions.
The hypocrisy is amazing and it’s completely unquestioned in ed reform.
Allied with teachers unions = not credible
Allied with billionaire ed reform funders = completely unbiased and credible
These same paid operatives REGULARLY complain about how much Randy Weingarten makes, without ever revealing or even mentioning that all ed reformers are paid and some of them are paid very, very well.
How much are these people paid and who pays them? It’s a good, fair question, but it isn’t asked in ed reform, let alone answered:
“Tiffany Justice of Moms for Liberty, Erika Sanzi or Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education, Keri Rodrigues of National Parents Union”
If you’re an ed reformer and you insist that every pro public school group is owned by teachers unions, you really have to talk about who owns ed reformers. That would be consistent, logical, fair.
How much does the head of 50 CAN make and who pays him? If that’s relevant and important with teachers unions then it’s relevant and important with ed reformers.
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Has there been any insight on how a teenager working a minimum wage job was able to afford a few thousand dollars worth of firearms? I’ve been teaching for 15 years and it is a rare day when my checking account cracks the 3000.00 threshold.
Also, Ohio just passed a bill that drastically reduces the amount of training required for teachers and staff to carry while in the schoolhouse. And, this is right after another law was passed back in March declaring us a permitless carry state. Both of which were opposed by the FOP.
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I believe that he had quit school and was working at a fast food restaurant? He was a kid living with his grandparents so he likely got to keep everything he earned from his job. It’s easy to make $$$$ when there are no bills to be paid.
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The gun shop owner gave the guns and ammo to him on credit.
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Is that true? If so, what a kind and generous person to extend such help to the disadvantaged teens who might not be able to purchase weapons if other gun owners weren’t so charitable and understanding of their great needs.
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The shooter’s money amassing guns & ammo purchase is actually quite suspicious. Uvalde Oasis Outback is THE Guns & Grub Hangout for TX DPS, TX Troopers, Border Patrol, Police, SWAT.
It sold 2 expensive AR platform rifles + Ammo to an 18 y.o. the local legals already had on their radar! Oasis gun store has also repeatedly been linked to cartel gun smugglers. Money is money to them.
But the Maga/White/GOPee rules Uvalde despite its 80% Hispanic citizenry. Oasis-O is both THE hangout for law enforcement and a monthly meeting place for many other groups.
The Uvalde County Republican Women meet there and their FB page proudly decries “THE BORDER INVASION.”
It is a racially-divided town where white people have more money. They have more property. They own the biggest businesses. They employ the most people. They control the government. They vote GOPee. They don’t send their kids to Robb Elementary.
And they have the most guns.
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Most of the guns in Mexico come from Texas. Mexico has stricter gun laws than Texas. The estimate is about 250,000 guns per year that are smuggled into Mexico.
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I heard in the radio today that Oklahoma passed an anti-red flag law last year—meaning that no town or city or county can pass a red flag law, alerting authorities to a person who should be considered dangerous and barred from having a gun. Oklahoma legislators want all people, including the criminally insane, to be armed.
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Just not caring about “commoners,” period, Mike. Remember the massacre in the Amish school?
Many probably don’t.
(There was a made-for-tv-movie based on that incident.)
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There is a GREAT play by Jessica Dickey about the Amish school shooting. It’s called The Amish Project. I was fortunate enough to see a production of it a couple years ago. Powerful.
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It isn’t just guns. None of these groups have made any practical worthwhile contributions to any public school anywhere. It’s all lobbying for charters and vouchers and against teachers unions. They add no value at all to public schools.
The only time public schools are mentioned in ed reform is to draw an unfavorable comparison to the charter and private schools they prefer, or to impose yet another gimmicky, currently fashionable mandate ON public schools. There’s nothing positive at all.
Twenty five years these folks have absolutely dominated my state legislature and for twenty five years my states PUBLIC schools have dropped in national rankings. There are thousands of them, they’re all paid, and no one can point to anything they’ve actually accomplished unless it’s charters or vouchers.
The Ohio public education system was better before the first ed reformer was hired and got their first public contract. They’ve contributed nothing. It has to be the worst investment ever in terms of value.
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Following the money often leads to the same right wing oligarchs. They fund the wrecking balls used to destroy a civil society and undermine democracy.
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“worthwhile contributions to public schools”, uhhh, American theocrats who are linked to libertarians, want religious schools to replace public schools. It’s in the training manual of Koch-funded Paul Weyrich, posted at Theocracy Watch.
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“Citizen Stewart
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I guess when they stoke fear about “indoctrination” in public education, they don’t mean the “indoctrination” they want kids get through their public education programs.”
More hypocrisy and incoherence from the “ed reform movement”
They spent the last six months accusing public schools of “indoctrinating” students and launching a moral panic, while AT THE SAME TIME lockstep promoting a huge new chain of charter schools that is overtly, ideologically Right.
This “movement” has no grounding in anything. They switch sides of each and every argument without a second thought or any explanation or discussion, based PURELY on ideology and a preference for privatzed systems over public schools, which of course is also purely ideological.
Political indoctrination in schools is BAD, unless ed reformers have a new charter chain to sell, then it’s magically GOOD. No discussion of any of this incoherence at all- it’s just swallowed whole.
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Citizen Stewart is a real jackass.
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I have the greatest respect for Maurice Cunningham. The time and care he takes to research and gather facts and data is a gift to public education.
The fact that NYT reporters and other folks from the so-called “liberal” media would rather go get a soundbite from Erika Sanzi or Keri Rodrigues — and misrepresent them as volunteer parents who just care about education — and ignore or discredit folks like Maurice Cunningham is an embarrassment to the journalism schools their degrees are from. Reporting is now just presenting the (often false) narratives that are in favor with the powers that be, and including an easy to miss disclaimer presenting “the other side” — the side that is willing to take the time to explain their reasoning instead of changing the subject or trying to foment outrage. It is the side with the most credibility whose motives are questioned, while the side with right wing billionaire support funding their organizations who are presented as paragons of virtue whose credibility must never be questioned.
If Maurice Cunningham got even 1% of the fawning coverage Emily Oster did, reporters might start practicing journalism again. When researchers’ privilege and connections are outstanding, their shoddy research techniques and past retractions are ignored as journalists rush to present them as credible truth tellers.
Thank you to Maurice Cunningham for his work
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“The fact that NYT reporters and other folks from the so-called “liberal” media would rather go get a soundbite from Erika Sanzi or Keri Rodrigues — and misrepresent them as volunteer parents who just care about education — and ignore or discredit folks like Maurice Cunningham is an embarrassment to the journalism schools their degrees are from.”
It fascinates me that people on this blog recognize this fact about mainstream media when it comes to education but fail to recognize that it applies to nearly every area of “reporting”. Mainstream media have slashed reporting positions over the past couple decades. They don’t have enough reporters to thoroughly cover most stories in depth and with nuance. Most of what passes for “journalism” is seeking out “experts” and unnamed government officials and simply quoting them with no further due diligence.
Of course everyone on this blog (including me) recognizes the hard work and expertise of people like Cunningham, Nancy Flanagan, Peter Greene and many, many others who have dedicated their lives to education. No one would consider calling them “fake news” or “Russian propaganda” simply because their views don’t line up with the official establishment narrative.
So why then do you not recognize the hard work and expertise of people like Ben Norton, Aaron Mate, Scott Ritter, Joe Lauria and many, many others who have dedicated their lives to researching and understanding foreign policy in depth? Why are they “fake news” or “Russian propaganda” simply because their views don’t line up with the official establishment narrative?
I challenge you all to read mainstream news in all areas the way you read it on education. Look for unnamed sources, sources with conflicts of interest, sources who have set themselves up as “experts” with no real experience, evidence-free claims, etc. And then look to non-mainstream sources the way you look to education bloggers – look at their experience in the field, the evidence they provide, etc. You already realize that mainstream news, at best, does not always present the full story on education (one might even go so far as to say they lie). Is it, just maybe, possible, that the same is true in other areas as well?
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The 43 references for the Wikipedia entry, “GrayZone,” provide
background about the foreign policy view of the people who Dienne cites.
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I recognize this failure by the mainstream media in many areas of reporting.
Why do you fail to recognize it when it comes to smearing the Dems?
Zelensky versus Putin and you side with Putin?
Why don’t you recognize it when Aaron Mate makes truly Orwellian posts in which “peace” is defined as “allow Putin to do whatever he wants to Ukraine without us lifting a finger”?
Aaron Mate is now on the side of William Barr and John Durham — strange bedfellows when a supposedly peaceful guy is so obsessed with defending Russia and Putin that he elevates the guy who found nothing wrong with the Bush era CIA torture as his latest way to demonize Democrats.
Why can’t you recognize that the writers like Aaron Mate who trust William Barr and John Durham more than Biden, Bernie or AOC are NOT truth-tellers. They are either witting or unwitting propagandists.
I don’t mind being critical of the NYT and I call it out. You never criticize and you trust implicitly some writer who believes John Durham and William Barr. Why?
The obsession with exonerating Putin is remarkable. Why don’t you understand that any so-called “reporter” who can’t see that Putin does very bad things has a very extreme bias?
Go lecture the anti-war protesters in Russia. If they are still alive.
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Agree with the praise for Cunningham. Adding a bit of info. about
CNP and LaPierre. CNP is religious and LaPierre was raised in a conservative religion.
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Speaking of Emily Oster’s positioning by influencers- the right wing Maryland Public Policy Institute described her as a “dispassionate expert.” In the same article, “Time to ….Re-imagine Public Schools,” 11-2-2020, posted at the Institute’s site, there was the following, “We also see that better does not necessarily mean more expensive…e.g. Baltimore’s Catholic schools…”
The Institute article doesn’t mention the model for the Cristo Rey school chain. One possible administrative cost saving may be related to the mandatory low level jobs held by students (a 1- day a week requirement) when the students’ earnings are returned to the school.
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I just read a review of Emily Oster’s latest book about data-driven parenting that politely demolished her. By Gina Bellefante, in The Atlantic (I think).
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The Family Firm book?
Oster’s new research looks like it will be about her take on infant mortality in the U.S. That should be interesting as well as the right wing’s response.
She reminds me of Steven Levitt.
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WaPo posted Oster’s explanation about infant mortality i.e. unsafe sleep (4-10-2022). The public comments that followed suggested some important variables may have been missed like those associated with poverty and unpaid maternity leave.
I think Oster has found a niche.
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Linda says “She reminds me of Steven Levitt.”
There is a good reason for that. Here is a quote from an article from “American Scientist” about Freakonomics (and Levitt):
“The case of the missing girls: Monica Das Gupta is a World Bank researcher who, along with others in her field, has attributed the abnormally high ratio of boy-to-girl births in Asian countries to a preference for sons, which manifests in selective abortion and, possibly, infanticide. As a graduate student in economics, Emily Oster (now a professor at the University of Chicago) attacked this conventional wisdom. In an essay in Slate, Dubner and Levitt praised Oster and her study, which was published in the Journal of Political Economy during Levitt’s tenure as editor:
Oster’s work stirred debate for a few years in the epidemiological literature, but eventually she admitted that the subject-matter experts had been right all along. One of Das Gupta’s many convincing counterpoints was a graph showing that in Taiwan, the ratio of boys to girls was near the natural rate for first and second babies (106:100) but not for third babies (112:100); this pattern held up with or without hepatitis B.
In a follow-up blog post, Levitt applauded Oster for bravery in admitting her mistake, but he never credited Das Gupta for her superior work. Our point is not that Das Gupta had to be right and Oster wrong, but that Levitt and Dubner, in their celebration of economics and economists, suspended their critical thinking.”
(End of quote)
This was written before Oster moved to teaching at Brown, but it is typical of how her shortcomings are not just covered up, but that folks like Levitt bend over backward to PRAISE Oster for finally making the corrections to her shoddy research years later than any credible researcher should.
Anyone who didn’t benefit from the extreme privilege granted Oster would not have a job in academia given the mistakes in her earlier research was AND her improper and/or unprincipled understanding of what it means to be a credible researcher is. It certainly isn’t surprising that the early research Oster hyped to present a false certainty about the lack of spread of COVID in schools was so shoddy given her history. And yet…folks like Levitt will always excuse it.
Compare the extreme privilege of Emily Oster – who is allowed to make serious error after error – to how Nikole Hannah-Jones was treated because of an ambiguous “error” about the weight she gave to a historical fact. Hannah-Jones immediately revised her essay to address the criticisms that she placed too much weight on something that many (but not all) historian discounted as less influential, but that still didn’t satisfy the critics who treated her as if every word she writes was a lie. The double standard — Emily Oster has to meet a very low bar (she can be wrong for years, deny she is wrong, and then finally make a correction and be praised for it) while Nikole Hannah-Jones has to be perfect because not even an immediate revision is good enough.
So yes, Steven Levitt was one of the first to hype Emily Oster’s shoddy early research as a grad student, so they definitely have much in common.
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Levitt also praised Joshua Rauh’s pension work. Similar to Oster, Rauh landed well (SIEPR) after the grave criticism of his work.
Media report that Oster’s Data Hub (Covid and schools) is funded by a think tank associated with Charles Koch, Peter Thiel’s Emergent Ventures, Arnold Ventures, etc.
Little Sis’ diagram , “How Dark Money Shaped the School Masking Debate,” informs.
I’m not at all surprised by private Brown University….
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It is nearly impossible to believe that so many of our fellow citizens choose the slaughter of young children over responsible gun control. There is no need for weapons of war in a civilized society, and yet politicians refuse to make necessary changes. As a retired teacher I know that weapons have no place in the classroom. In Ohio, our leaders have decided that no one needs a permit to carry a gun, and training will soon be reduced to two hours. We are leaving this state do to the political climate.
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OMG, Diane. As I’d said on another post, Oklahoma is definitely NOT OK.
An “ANTI” red flag law?!
&–I’d just like to remind all you IL readers the IL has had a red flag law (we call it the F.R.O.-Firearms Restraining Order) in effect since 2019. Had people been more aware/made themselves more aware, I know of at least 6 gun deaths (by handgun) which could have been prevented that year.
Read more at http://www.speakforsafetyil.org/
& please feel free to forward that link.
&, BTW–on the front page of Tuesday’s Chgo. Tribune (yes, our conservative Chicago daily!): “Maker of Ghost Guns Charged.” Some dangerous fool making them tried to sell them online…turns out he was selling to undercover agents.
So much for those people who laughed after Gov. Pritzker’s signing of the IL ban on ghost guns a few weeks ago.
People of IL: please reelect Gov. Pritzker & other incumbents who have voted for, authored &/or co-sponsored common sense gun laws in IL.
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The Right Wing Silent Mamas & Papas prefer we not know that in April 1970 the Mexican-American families at Uvalde Robb Elementary staged a walkout. 500 students also left the High School. The Strike went on for 6 weeks supported by the community.
They Protested the very Racist white-run school district. Separate and extremely unequal buildings, school grounds, facilities, transport and more. Armed Texas Rangers were sent in to quell the rebellion. Uvalde White bosses threatened parents with firing.
Monica Muñoz Martinez was Educated in Uvalde Texas.
She Became a historian at Brown University. And Wrote a book entitled The Injustice Never Leaves You Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas.
Monica is now a MacArthur Genius Fellow. PhD in American Studies Yale/AB Brown U. She Teaches at U T Austin and launched Mappingviolence.com.
Mapping Violence is a digital project recovering lost and obscured cases of racial violence in Texas from 1900 to 1930,
The record of what was done is preserved and respected and shared.
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Very informative; my question would be do the Mexican American residents or more appropriately the majority of them remember that history. A City or at least a county that is overwhelmingly Hispanic voted pretty solidly Republican down the line . For certain the Mayor of the 78% Mexican American town of Uvalde is a right wing Republican.
How quickly we forget our roots .
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Uvalde La Raza is still quite rooted in its Roots. But we know how time wears on people. Especially decades crammed full of Citizen United crooked cash cows, computerized vote theft, gerrymandering, uninterrupted right wing media propaganda, threats, intimidation, unemployment, drug sabotage and the militarization of USA law enforcement.
As awful and as predictable as it has been, all people strongly rooted in democracy are activating.
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Hillsdale / UT Austin- what’s wrong with the picture?
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Thank you so much for this, Ms. Irwin! I’m going to get my hands on a copy of that book!
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Ms Martinez’s project for recovering the history of violence against Hispanic people in Texas:
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Kathy-
The average age of the GOP’s voting demographic is deceased. What better place to mine for conservatives then among the much younger Hispanic community? (Read Ryan Girdusky’s interview posted at Pat Buchanan’s site to identify the commonality.)
It struck many as odd that a tribal nation would sponsor a school run by Hillsdale. Native Americans are being targeted by Republican operatives because more than 20% belong to conservative religions. UT-Austin may be courting the demographic that Monica Munoz Martinez studies. With a tactical pivot of the right wing, the segment may be seen as an opportunity for potential GOP voters.
I hope that Democratic strategists are engaged in a situational analysis (SWOT).
The rights of two substantially large groups will remain under attack from the GOP that is, women and black people. The significantly smaller non-Christian segment will also feel the brunt of GOP wins.
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OK. This is a list of mass shootings in the U.S. IN THE LAST MONTH. These have become so common that most don’t even make the national news anymore.
May 3, Beaumont TX, 5 injured
May 3, Cowley Co. KS, 4 injured
May 3, Baton Rouge, LA, 5 injured
May 5, Sunnyside, WA, 5 injured
May 6, New Orleans, LA, 2 killed, 4 injured
May 7, Miami, FL, 4 injured
May 7, Garland, TX, 2 killed, 2 injured
May 7, Lexington, KY, 2 killed, 3 injured
May 8, Clarkston, GA, 3 killed, 3 injured
May 9, Tuscaloosa, AL, 5 injured
May 9, Detroit, MI, 4 injured
May 10, Brookshire, TX, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 10, Baltimore, MD, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 10, Philadelphia, PA, 4 injured
May 10, Chicago, IL, 6 injured
May 10, Chicago, IL, 1 killed, 4 injured
May 10, Baltimore, MD, 5 injured
May 11, Paterson, NJ, 1 killed, 4 injured
May 11, Indianapolis, IN, 4 injured
May 11, Saint Louis, MO, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 11, Chicago, IL, 4 injured
May 12, Hot Springs, AK, 1 killed, 4 injured
May 13, Milwaukee, WI, 17 injured
May 14, Buffalo, NY, 10 killed, 3 injured
May 15, Amarillo, TX, 1 killed, 4 injured
May 15, Houston, TX, 2 killed, 3 injured
May 15, Elizabeth City, NC, 4 injured
May 15, Winston Salem, NC, 7 injured
May 15, Laguna Woods, CA, 1 killed, 5 injured
May 17, Palo Alto, CA, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 18, Philadelphia, PA, 5 injured
May 19, Chicago, IL, 2 killed, 7 injured
May 20, New Orleans, LA, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 20, Highland, CA, 1 killed, 8 injured
May 20, Kissimmee, FL, 1 killed, 3
May 21, Tacoma, WASH, 4 injured
May 21, Goshen, IN, 2 killed, 3 injured
May 23, Cleveland, OH, 5 injured
May 23, North Charleston, SC, 5 injured
May 24, Uvalde, TX, 22 killed, 17 injured
May 25, Philadelphia, PA, 4 injured
May 27, Stanwood, MI, 4 killed, 1 injured
May 27, Anniston, AL, 6 injured
May 28, Memphis, TN, 4 injured
May 28, Colorado Springs, CO, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 28, Malabar, FL, 4 injured
May 29, Fresno, CA, 1 killed, 3 injured
May 20, Chattanooga, TN, 6 injured
May 29, Chicago, IL, 5 injured
May 29, Henderson, NV, 7 injured
May 29, Phoenix, AZ, 1 killed, 5 injured
May 29, Chicago, IL, 1 killed, 4 injured
May 29, Houston, TX, 4 injured
May 29, Merced, CA, 1 killed, 3 injured
Ma 29, Taft, OK, 1 killed, 7 injured
May 30, Philadelphia, PA, 2 killed, 2 injured
May 30, Benton Harbor, MA, 1 killed, 6 injured
May 30, Charleston, SC, 10 injured
May 31, Waco, TX, 4 injured
June 1, Tulsa, OK, 5 killed
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Let’s get all Originalist about this
If Congress wants to allow any adult member of a state militia without a history of criminality or mental illness to purchase and own a 1789 musket or handgun, while making all other firearms owned by other persons illegal, I am totally fine with that. I would venture the following: what “arms” meant to the authors of the 2nd Amendment wasn’t remotely what the term refers to today.
In other words, I am totally fine with a right to bear “arms” as that term was understood in 1789.
QED.
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As long as that right to own 1789 arms is extended only to members of militias well regulated by the states.
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ofc
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