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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Trump and the GOP are waging war on an educated public. They don’t want Americans to develop critical thinking and a sense of history so they are undermining public education through vouchers for religious schools, attacking universities, and decimating the Department of Education.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

In face of ongoing white supremacist violence, voter suppression, & anti-history education EOs & laws, 250 U.S. history scholars signed a letter urging school districts to devote more time & resources to teaching the Reconstruction era. Read & share www.teachreconstructionreport.org/open-letter

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An Open Letter on the Need to Teach the Reconstruction Era — Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle

This letter has been signed by more than 190 scholars of U.S. history. It can be presented to school districts by teachers, scholars, parents, students, and other concerned community members. We will ...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

#tdih 1835 "Instead of attempting to remove the honest misapprehensions of the people, they cater to their prejudices, and take advantage of them, to gain low, dirty, temporary, local triumphs." -- Thaddeus Stevens, in speech in defense of public schools ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

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April 11, 1835: Thaddeus Stevens Gives Speech in Defense of Free Schools Act

Thaddeus Stevens gave a speech in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in defense of the Free Schools Act of 1834, which moved the state House to vote against repeal and the Senate to take anothe...

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South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (SCADP) @scadeathpenalty.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Call Governor McMaster NOW at 803-734-2100! Use the following script on the photo below. #justiceformikalmahdi #scadp #shameonSC #StopExecutions #EndTheDeathPenalty

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AAUP @aaup.org · 04/04/2025

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

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contrapossum.bsky.social @contrapossum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I also saw the verbal wit, the clarity, the courage the heart and the intelligence of our legislative black caucus on full display. It was a glimpse into what this state could be, what it once was under Radical Reconstruction, and what I know it will be again.

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contrapossum.bsky.social @contrapossum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yesterday at the South Carolina State House, I watched the Republican Party push through a Jim Crow segregationist bill with no fiscal impact survey completed, no entertaining of any amendments that weren’t given to them by the Heritage Foundation and no answer to why it was needed or helpful

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South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (SCADP) @scadeathpenalty.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Read the words of Brad Sigmon's lawyer, Bo King, who describes what it's like to witness a firing squad execution. King is the chief of the Capital Habeas Unit for the Fourth Circuit (part of the Federal Public Defender’s Office): www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... 55s

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I saw South Carolina use a firing squad to execute a man. I am sick with rage. | Opinion

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a gurney for 20 minutes.

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Beaufort County Democratic Party @beaufortcountydems.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

““770,000 plus students lost access to books that one parent complained about, and that just feels very un-American,” says Mary Foster, with the group “Families Against Book Bans” out of Beaufort, SC.” Proud of local org FABB for standing up for all SC children💙 www.abccolumbia.com/2025/02/19/s...

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SC House Dems call for amendments to public schools' book banning process - ABC Columbia

"This legislation really is about protecting and having the backs of librarians across our state," says Bauer.

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