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Top Union Accuses Texas of Targeting Teachers Over Charlie Kirk Posts

Texas Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments Joseph Gedeon The Guardian
A major Texas teachers’ union filed a federal lawsuit against the state challenging what it describes as unconstitutional investigations into hundreds of educators who posted comments on social media following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking a Page From the Confederacy

Layla A. Jones Talking Points Memo
By partnering with right-wing groups, Trump and his allies are exercising control over the retelling of history in hopes of shaping the political opinions of the youngest Americans, threatens to propagandize public education for generations to come.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement

Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates YouTube
The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was harshly critical of my response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In an article in Vanity Fair, he suggested I was whitewashing Kirk’s legacy, comparing it to the whitewashing of the Southern cause after the Civil War.

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

Ta-Nehisi Coates Vanity Fair
"Burying the truth of the Confederacy, rewriting its aims and ideas, and ignoring its animating words allowed for the terrorization of the Black population...and the destruction of democracy."...are ignoring and sanitizing Charlie Kirk's legacy.

Missed Kimmel’s Return? Here’s a Transcript of His Monologue

Jimmy Kimmel, Luciana Lopez CNN Business
Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late night show Tuesday after his suspension amid pressure from the FCC and the Trump administration, and counter pressure against Disney and ABC-TV and a massive consumer boycott over denial of free speech in the country

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Cancellation Is Peak Hypocrisy

Branko Marcetic Jacobin
After campaigning on ending censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump is making the list of things you're not allowed to say in America longer and longer. ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show signals that not even comedians are safe
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