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Utah Senate president says Utah Jazz star Donovan Mitchell ‘doesn’t really understand’ what happened with critical race theory push

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune | Published: 9/8/2021

In the video, recorded at the Council for National Policy’s 40th Anniversary Meeting in May and posted on Twitter and YouTube, Adams, R-Layton, responded to a question about how state legislatures are handling corporate blowback from laws targeting cultural issues like abortion and transgender athletes participating in girls’ sports. He said someone had texted him […]

Stuart Adams or Donovan Mitchell … who you gonna hear and trust when it comes to race in Utah?

ALEC, Education, Extremism

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune | Published: 9/8/2021

“We have work to do to try to educate ’em. … Let’s get after him and let’s go tell him what we’re doing because I don’t really think he understands …”

Donovan Mitchell didn’t ‘understand’ Utah’s critical race theory resolution, Utah Senate president says

Democracy, Education, Extremism

Source: DeseretNews | Published: 9/8/2021

In the video, Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, can be seen participating on a panel with other conservative leaders from across the nation in May, a day after the Utah Legislature called its own “extraordinary session” to pass a pair of nonbinding resolutions urging the State School Board to ban what lawmakers considered “harmful” critical […]

Senate President Stuart Adams blames Donovan Mitchell for blowback on attempted Critical Race Theory ban

ALEC, Education, Extremism

Source: KSL News Radio | Published: 9/8/2021

President Adams was responding to a question about how Utah is handling corporate push back on social justice issues like abortion and transgender bills. Speaking of bills on those topics that ran in the 2021 legislative session, Adams said, “We tried to do something similar to Florida and Mississippi. It made it through the House, […]

Bill Mill-ennialism: Arkansas’ End Times Politics May Be Coming to a State Near You

ALEC, Democracy, Extremism

Source: Religion Dispatches | Published: 9/7/2021

According to a report by David Armiak of the Center for Media and Democracy, the venerable rightwing business-focused bill mill American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) provided a forum to NACL at its annual meeting in Austin, Texas in December 2019. There, Rapert claims to have secured nine state chairs. He says that NACL is modeled […]

How schools can address their community’s deep trauma

Education

Source: AlterNet | Published: 8/27/2021

Billions in federal taxpayer dollars have in fact been directed to the mostly unregulated charter school industry over the past 20 years, according to watchdog groups such as the Center for Media and Democracy, with the supposed goal of leveling the playing field for students from marginalized communities.

How ‘America’s Frontline Doctors’ Sold Access to Bogus COVID-19 Treatments—and Left Patients in the Lurch

Extremism, Trump

Source: Time | Published: 8/26/2021

The emergence of AFLD was a coordinated political effort months in the making. The group was the brainchild of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a secretive network of conservative activists. During a May 11 call of CNP members that was leaked to the Center for Media and Democracy, a progressive watchdog group, members complained that Trump was being […]

Freedom of Speech According to the Gospel of Koch

Bradley Files, Democracy, Education, Koch

Source: CounterPunch | Published: 8/18/2021

What he failed to disclose to readers is that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), which conducted the survey in cooperation with a fellow traveller organisation called RealClearEducation (RCE), is a proponent of the oxymoronic “intellectual diversity movement” whose goal is to “dismantle the so-called liberal bias” in US academia, according to Sourcewatch, […]

Rightwing lobbies and dark money funders backing assaults on voting rights

ALEC, Democracy

Source: The Guardian | Published: 8/18/2021

In late July, Alec hosted a two-and-a-half-day “exclusive” meeting in Salt Lake City before Alec’s annual conference for an elite group of state legislators who are Alec members. They discussed ways to revise voting laws and compared notes about what’s been achieved already, according to an Alec email disclosed by the Center for Media and […]

ALEC and the FEC: Did right-wing organization violate campaign law and its own tax-exempt status?

ALEC, Democracy

Source: Sun Sentinel | Published: 8/11/2021

According to the complaint filed by the Center for Media and Democracy, one of ALEC’s arch-foes, it distributed election campaign software worth between $2,376 and $5,760 to an unknown number of state legislators as a benefit of their membership. The estimate Is based on the manufacturer’s pricing structure to non-ALEC members.