Researcher/writer/speaker on history of conservative infrastructure and impact of Religious Right on policy, former fellow with Political Research Associates
Pittsburgh
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Frederick Clarkson is an expert on religious freedom and how this progressive concept is abused. He warns that calls "for civility sound suspiciously like an effort to mute the voices of those most likely to suffer should this vision of religious freedom be fully realized."
Check out my story @RDispatches on a forthcoming manifesto on religious freedom -- which alleges the Left and Right are imperiling religious freedom. They don't say who, and they don't say how -- but the authors may be talking about themselves. bit.ly/2Pi0ZtH
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"Given the country’s level of wealth, the government spends far too little — at least $1.6 trillion a year too little — on social welfare."
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MS Gov Phil Bryant signs 15-week abortion ban, wants Mississippi to be "safest place in America for an unborn child." MS ranks 50th in health of women, 50th in health of children, 50th in health of infants, 1st in infant mortality. #priorities
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Tonight we're going to look at why the middle class has been in decline for 30 years while oligarchy is on the rise. #InequalityTownHall
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58 years ago this month, 4 North Carolina A&T students held first major sit-in of civil rights movement at Greensboro Woolworth. They were 18 & 19 at time. A reminder of the power young activists have
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There is no such thing as an innocent bystander. If we are standing by, we are guilty. Last 4 years: 1) 2,710 U.S. children under 12 killed by guns, 2) 1,333 mass shootings (30 in 2018), & 3) 8 at schools. Prayer alone is not enough, we must act. #PrayerAndPolicy @PrevGunViolence
Very sad to hear of the death of BLM activist Muhiyidin d'Baha from Charleston SC. He was shot and killed in New Orleans on Monday night.
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Trump just announces he wants to restart the nuclear arms race. Atomic clock:tick tick
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Everyone feels incredible sympathy for those poor parents. But Trump's scapegoating of immigrants is just disgusting. #SOTU
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Weird that @realDonaldTrump is claiming that the prices of prescription drugs will come down when he picked a big pharma executive to be Secretary of HHS.
The same guy who raised the price of insulin by more than 1000%. #SOTU
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...Call me paranoid, but this bit of the #SotU sounds like a call for Congress to allow a purge of civil servants, yes?
And they also failed to connect it to another current issue, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, in hot water for the "Reason as Racism" oped by ownership. PG endorsed Reschenthaler even though they had audio reported in breaking CNN article.
CNN also missed fact that the other cohost on that radio show was Guy Reschenthaler, now a PA state senator.
How can it be that none of the stories on the Trump appointee Carl Higbie, who spouted racist garbage on a radio show he hosted, mention that his position included being spokesperson for Americorp MLK Day projects? Does that seem like an accident? cnn.com/2018/01/18/politics/…
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John Robinson Block, the @PittsburghPG publisher who was behind the reprehensible editorial "Reason for Racism," will not allow this letter to the editor to appear in the newspaper. We offer it here.
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Tom Wolf will be the only candidate running for governor who does not support school vouchers pennlive.com/politics/index.…
Tax bill incentivizes neovoucher programs, allowing donors to receive as much as 37% profit for "donations" in some state tax credit programs for private schools. xitter.cf/jeffbcdm/status/943699…
This just out: Congress ramping up federal support for school vouchers. New schemes bring K-12 school vouchers in through the backdoor by using the tax code bit.ly/2oXW9Jz
Glad to see effort to quantify use of these 3 curricula in voucher schools, but note that there are dozens more lesser known and equally bad publishers. huffingtonpost.com/entry/sch…