Tag: dishonesty

Did Florida decide that its middle school curriculum will include that some enslaved people benefited from slavery?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Did Florida decide that its middle school curriculum will include that some enslaved people benefited from slavery?

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the standard, saying it mirrors language in the AP African American Studies course framework.

That standard states:

“In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South. Once free, American African Americans used these skills to provide for themselves and others.”

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As an extreme liberal, I say this with love: You’re an idiot if you believe Florida wants to teach that slavery was beneficial for enslaved people

Kamala the insincere: The truth about Florida’s education standards

Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power

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U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.

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The irregular warfare program has provided training to allied forces in countries that face a threat of invasion by larger neighbors, the senior Defense Department official said. The Washington Post has reported that an irregular warfare proxy program in Ukraine was terminated just before the Russian invasion, and that some officials want to restart it.

Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power

Don’t Be So Quick To Listen To America’s Retired Generals On Ukraine

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Don’t Be So Quick to Listen To America’s Retired Generals on Ukraine: Americans have always loved military leaders, especially generals; the 1970 movie Patton, about the life of the United States’ greatest World War II commander, is still popular in America. When the current crop of active and retired generals speak today, it is unsurprising that most in our country reflexively accept what they say at face value. Especially as their assessments and advice relate to American vital national interests in the Russia-Ukraine War, however, such trust should be reassessed.

Don’t Be So Quick To Listen To America’s Retired Generals On Ukraine

He doesn’t think that we’re in a proxy war with Russia?!

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At War With the Truth

An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny

Alzheimer’s latest drug and science journalism’s memory problem

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

In July, the medical community was rocked by a disappointing reminder of science’s weakest link: the humans doing the work. The journal Science had shared that its six-month investigation supported the findings of whistleblower Matthew Schrag, who first noted altered images in a high-impact paper on Alzheimer’s, published in Nature in 2006. That paper is still flagged on Nature as under review, but the damage has already been done. Alzheimer’s drugs for the last decade and a half have been developed around claims without as much evidence as initially believed—which might also explain why they haven’t been working, leading people to pour false hope into useless and often expensive treatment plans for declining loved ones.

Alzheimer’s latest drug and science journalism’s memory problem