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AOC calls out ‘racial injustice, colonization, misogyny’ in minute-long DNC speech (FOX News)
Firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., called out “racial injustice, colonization, misogyny” as she helped nominate progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT., to be the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.
While former Vice President Joe Biden was assured to win the nomination vote, Sanders did earn delegates during the primary and was formally nominated during the Democratic National Convention proceedings.
Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive freshman lawmaker who has skyrocketed into the national psyche since assuming office, has closely aligned herself with Sanders and policies such as the Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all and comprehensive immigration reform.
So now, the ACLU wants to abolish the Department of Homeland Security. If that sounds like an idea out of left field, why, it most certainly is.
First, there were calls to defund the police. Then, demands for steep cuts in defense. Now, the left wants to abolish the department created — with overwhelming bipartisan support — to make us safer after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Of course, the ACLU learned long ago that championing far-left fantasies was an express pass to fund-raising bonanzas. After 9/11, the ACLU made attacking the Patriot Act their cause célèbre — and an aroused left cheerfully opened its wallets. [Read More]
Pandemic parents: Why can child-care open in schools that won’t allow classes? (Washington Post)
Schools in Montgomery County won’t open for traditional classes in the fall, but hundreds, maybe thousands, of elementary schoolchildren may be taking part in “distance learning hubs” in the same buildings that were closed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
In programs run by child-care providers long based in county schools, students would take their Chromebooks to school daily and join small cohorts of their peers — akin to parent-organized “pandemic pods” that are popular across the country. Children ages 5 to 12 would follow online learning schedules and participate in activities during free time.[Read More]
