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Americans Used To Understand Public Schools and the Commons
 The idea of America as a true "land of opportunity" is anathema to their ideal of a nation of "classes and orders" where every person knows their place and morbidly rich white men are in charge. In many ways today's conservative war on public education dates back to the 1950s when, in 1954's Brown v Board decision, the Supreme Court ruled that public schools must allow Black children to sit in the same classrooms with white children.This so outraged white conservatives that public schools were shut down altogether in some states and counties, and private, all-white "academies" were opened, many by religious figures, across the nation. It was the beginning of a concerted, 75-year-long assault on public education. The Republican war against public education moved from being purely about race to incorporating an ideological rationalization or excuse with the 1980 effort by billionaire David Koch to run for vice president on the Libertarian ticket.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: John Harwood Sums It Up In a Tweet - the juxtaposition of two events in NYC today - Biden's speech to the UN and the NY AG's fraud suit against the Trumps - underscores the simplest contrast: a decent man who believes in the American experiment has replaced an indecent con man, who does not, as president of the US
Tweet: " the juxtaposition of two events in NYC today - Biden's speech to the UN and the NY AG's fraud suit against the Trumps - underscores the simplest contrast:
a decent man who believes in the American experiment has replaced an indecent con man, who does not, as president of the US" by John Harwood.
Americans Used To Understand Public Schools and the Commons
Quote: " We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended." - Libertarian National Platform 1980.
Crazy Alert! Trump Is Pushing FBI Looking for Hillary's Emails At Mar-a-Lago?!
The Internet Solves Trump's "Peekaboo" Letitia James Slur
Uber Wealthy Bezos is Buying Homes to Rent-Trap America - We Need to Stop This!
Hour Three: Ali Velshi Weighs in NY AG's Fraud Suit Against Trump and More...- Ali Velshi, Host - MSNBC “Velshi" (Sat/Sun 8-10aET) & "The Last Word" (Fri 10pET) / Host of the digital platform, The Velshi Exchange 
Tweet: " A quiet dinner in Moscow" by Alec Luhn.
Quote: " The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and black people. We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting people to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, break up their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." - John Ehrlichman.
Geeky Science! Are Blueberries a Superfood? Study finds eating the fruit every day can reverse cognitive decline in elderly people
Will Desantis' Contempt for Migrants Backfire?- Chris Lehmann, DC Bureau Chief - The Nation Magazine
Quote: "There are four kinds of countries in the world: developed countries, undeveloped countries, Japan and Argentina" - attributed to Simon Kuznets.
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Will Trump's Indictment Lead To Narcissistic Collapse? Featuring Ali Velshi
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Has the Land of Opportunity Been Sold?
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