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  22 hours ago

  Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers

  texastribune.org - Robert Downen

  Some members of the committee said such a ban, proposed two months after a prominent conservative activist was caught meeting with a famous white …

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  1 day ago

  The Terrifying Amount of Koch Millions Flowing Into US Universities

  commondreams.org - David Armiak

  Charles Koch contributed $52.6 million in grants to colleges and universities through his Charles Koch Foundation in 2022, an analysis of the …

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  3 days ago

  Ammon Bundy Has Disappeared

  The Atlantic - By Jacob Stern

  An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished. Two weeks before chaos hit St. Luke’s hospital in Boise, Idaho—before Ammon Bundy showed up with an armed mob and the hospital doors had to be sealed and death threats crashed the phone lines—a …

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  4 days ago

  NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins partnered with a rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ hate group

  LGBTQ Nation - Molly Sprayregen

  He has said that gay people should learn to "follow Jesus" in the past. Kirk Cousins, starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings, recently …

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  Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging

  grist.org - Erin Douglas & Kevin Vu, The Texas Tribune

  The Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education last week rejected most of the proposed textbooks that include climate science for eighth …

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  Trump's Attacks On Judge and Law Clerk Triggers “Hundreds” Of Threats: Report

  Vanity Fair - Eric Lutz

  The former president went on another tear against the civil fraud case in an unglued Thanksgiving message to the N.Y. Attorney General, Judge Arthur Engoron, and other targets of his ire. Donald Trump celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday this week by taking advantage of a pause in the gag order he’d …