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

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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The Kennedy hall of shame on Palestine

This is so bad, it’s almost parody but unfortunately it demonstrates Kennedy is no different to Biden, Harris and bi-partisan associates when it comes to Foreign policy and the ‘security’ of Israel. He can’t pronounce Chechnya. He calls the hijab “habib”. It’s a genuinely embarrassing display of ignorance and orientalism.

The Kennedy hall of shame on Palestine

H/T: The Most Revolutionary Act. Video via Due Dissidence

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Henry Kissinger makes surprise visit to China, meets defense minister

Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, the 100-year-old who was at the heart of the United States’ rapprochement with China half a century ago, has made a surprise visit to Beijing.

Henry Kissinger makes surprise visit to China, meets defense minister

Video via Activist News Network

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EXCLUSIVE: Vovan & Lexus are not pranking Scott Ritter

https://www.youtube.com/live/ifH1fAeGFJc?feature=share

Scheduled for Jul 3, 2023 – On episode 36 of the show we are joined by “Vovan and Lexus”, Russian comedians Vladimir Kuznetsov and Aleksei Stolyarov, they are noted for their prank telephone calls to prominent individuals. “Vovan and Lexus” began to work together in 2014 since then they had pranked many prominent people, in 2020, they made telephone calls to Prince Harry and Justin Trudeau, introducing themselves as Greta Thunberg and her father. On the night following the 2022 missile explosion in Poland, they pranked Polish President Andrzej Duda into thinking he was talking with Emmanuel Macron. Most recently in February 2023, they announced that they pranked Angela Merkel, pretending to be Petro Poroshenko. Other notable pranks include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former American President George W. Bush, the British defence secretary Ben Wallace and the current U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.

EXCLUSIVE: Vovan & Lexus are not pranking Scott Ritter via Scott Ritter

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance

But no threat of any kind is required to conduct surveillance under Section 702. The law permits surveillance of any foreigner abroad, as long as a significant purpose of the surveillance is to acquire “foreign intelligence information.” FISA defines this term extremely broadly to include any “information related to . . . the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs.” A conversation between friends about whether the United States should do more to support Ukraine would justify surveillance under this definition.

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