People are sounding the alarm on the “supplemental curriculum” created by PragerU, an unaccredited right-wing group, that has been approved by Florida schools

Frederick Douglass is depicted in a video, saying founding fathers had to 'compromise' on slavery & urges kids to work

SCOOP: Turns out the longtime housing rights activist our mayor accused of treating him like a plantation owner would (because she asked him a strongly-worded question) is.... an 84 year-old Holocaust survivor.

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Senator Mike Gravel, my friend, was finally laid to rest at Arlington Cemetery on 6/20/2023. I made this video to commemorate the event. In true form, Mike requested for there not to be a gun salute, as he maintained his anti-violence stance to the very end. RIP King.

I am proud to be reintroducing Medicare for All with my colleagues in the House and Senate to once and for all guarantee health care as a human right.

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Read our conversation with Henry Williams 🏗 and @davideoks about the failure of economic development all around the world. And how in so many countries, things are either stagnating or getting worse.

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New Odd Lots!

We’re used to thinking of economic development as a line that’s almost always going up over time.

But on this episode, Joe Weisenthal & I speak with Henry Williams 🏗 and @davideoks, who argue that much of the world economy has been going in reverse.

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Wow. 1.5 million views on this Gravel Institute #LASDgangs video
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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d…

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

🚨TRUMP INDICTED🚨

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Doctors at a major US insurance company deny tens of thousands of claims a month without even looking at patients’ files.

“We literally click & submit,” a former Cigna doctor told @ProPublica & The Capitol Forum. “It takes all of 10 seconds to do 50 at a time.”

The inside story 🧵

Left: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz after signing a law that guarantees free breakfast and lunch to all public school students

Right: Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders after signing a law that makes child labor easier

Companies and institutions that need to be bailed out by the government when they fail, should be owned by the government.

You can’t privatize the profit and socialize the losses.

This is a real image from this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference.

An area that the Japanese have really led on is public transportation. We got to tour the Bullet Train (Shinkansen)! I’m a huge rail stan and the entire operation blew my mind.

I was pleased to meet today with former leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and his colleagues at the Progressive International and the Peace & Justice Project. I look forward to working together to build international solidarity toward a future that works for all people.

Brazilian January 6th is literally happening right now. Bolsonaro supporters storming Congress.

Dumbest people on the planet

ANNOUNCING 🎥: The premiere of the first Progressive International mini-documentary, 'We will recover the right to smile,' on the rocky road to Lula's historic victory in Brazil — feat. MST Oficial, @MTST, PT Brasil, the Progressive International delegation, and more. Watch the full premiere now on YouTube:

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