Showing posts with label revolt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label revolt. Show all posts

Friday, June 2, 2023

Opinion | In a deep red Florida county, a student-teacher revolt shames the right - The Washington Post

But the real story of the night was the response. Again and again, parents and students forcefully defended teachers. They cast the right's attacks, the censoring of educators and the removal of books as the real threats to education…


Tuesday, March 29, 2022

The bible and slavery (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Guest: Jeremy Schipper. Religion at Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearing. State/church complaints in Colorado, Virginia and Tennessee. Jazz musicians Tahira Clayton and Addison Frei perform freethinker Cole Porter's "I Concentrate on You." Then Professor of Religion Jeremy Schipper describes how the bible was used in both sides of the slavery/anti-slavery debates in his new book, Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Opinion | Behind Tucker Carlson and J.D. Vance, a ‘New Right’ revolt against the GOP unfolds - The Washington Post

…The New Right breaks with the long-enduring libertarian-plutocratic streak in GOP economic orthodoxy. Many New Rightists agree that we can and should use government power to reconfigure markets to achieve better social outcomes…


Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Fox News accused of stoking violence after Tucker Carlson ‘revolt’ prediction

"You don't need to wade into the online fever-swamps to see the cauldron of extremism simmering. Fox News is ratcheting up heat and legitimising nightly. "Fox News, not Facebook, will be the driver of the next insurrection. Plain and simple."


Tuesday, September 15, 2020

NYTimes: Trump Health Aide Pushes Bizarre Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt

...Over all, his tone was deeply ominous: He warned, again without evidence, that "there are hit squads being trained all over this country" to mount armed opposition to a second term for Mr. Trump. "You understand that they're going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that's where this is going," Mr. Caputo added...

Saturday, May 16, 2020

The partisan revolt against efforts to fight the virus isn’t as big as you might think - The Washington Post

When President Trump was first asked whether he might wear a mask as part of the push to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, he shrugged. “I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it and that’s okay,” Trump said during a briefing in early April. He explained further a bit later: “As I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens … I don’t see it for myself. … I just don’t.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/05/13/partisan-revolt-against-efforts-fight-virus-isnt-big-you-might-think/

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Pompeo facing an all-out revolt as Trump’s years-long effort to ‘blow this place up’ takes a devastating toll – Raw Story

Morale has plummeted in the State Department under Mike Pompeo, but it has been sinking since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s secretary of state is facing an all-out revolt in the federal agency he oversees, as confidence in his leadership plummets and career officials accuse him of letting the president corrupt the department and U.S. foreign policy, reported the New York Times....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/pompeo-facing-an-all-out-revolt-as-trumps-years-long-effort-to-blow-this-place-up-takes-a-devastating-toll/










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