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Apr 27, 2022

Red States like Tennessee are moving more and more money out of public education funding, opting to give the funding to private charter schools through vouchers and other means of fund diversion. The privatization of education has long been underway as the right-wing has been chipping away at teacher unions, panic over CRT, and more recently, the accusations that LGBT teachers are ‘grooming’ children to be gay in public schools.
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The Young Turks: April 27, 2022

More audio recordings of House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy have been released where he is recorded worrying about hard-line Trump supporters like Mo Brooks and Matt Gaetz inciting violence in the aftermath of the January t6h Capitol riots. While McCarthy talked tough behind the scenes, he instead opted to play nice and accept far-right extremist members of the Republican Party.
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Red States like Tennessee are moving more and more money out of public education funding, opting to give the funding to private charter schools through vouchers and other means of fund diversion. The privatization of education has long been underway as the right-wing has been chipping away at teacher unions, panic over CRT, and more recently, the accusations that LGBT teachers are ‘grooming’ children to be gay in public schools.
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After it was announced that Elon Musk struck a deal to buy Twitter, the social media site was flooded with reports of high-profile users losing, or in some cases gaining, thousands of followers at an irregular rate. Twitter alleges that the fluctuations in follow count are due to organic new account activation and deactivation, even though they didn't release any data about the activity.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has launched an investigation into Los Angeles Times reporter Alene Tchekmedyian for publishing an article about Villanueva allegedly covering up a case of inmate abuse. In the article, Tchekmedyian implicated Villanueva as leading the cover-up effort and published security footage of the incident obtained from a whistleblower.
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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Greene blasted the Catholic Church in a recent interview, saying that Satan is controlling the church since they helped migrants and refugees find housing in the country. Greene accused the U.S. Catholic Church of illegally using taxpayer and federal funds to "assist in illegal immigration”.
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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Kevin Stitt has signed a law that bans anyone from declaring themselves as non-binary on the state’s birth certificates. The bill is in response to Republicans’ nationwide war against the transgender and non-binary communities, which will surely lead to an uptick in harassment of LGBT individuals as well as a decline in mental health for the community, especially LGBT youths.
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Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn has had a pretty rough couple of months and it seems to only be getting worse as right-wing publications have accused Cawthorn of insider trading. Cawthorn recently posted a video saying that the Republican establishment has been engaged in a drip campaign against him, ruining his reputation at every opportunity they can.
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A Beverly Hills home listed on the market at around $9.5 million gives buyers the opportunity to buy a matching house in the Decentraland world, a ‘decentralized’ virtual world where users can purchase ‘land', participate in events, and customize their avatar, for an additional $100,000. No, we are not making this up.
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A 77-year-old Ukrainian grandmother is doing her part to help the war effort against Russia by opening her animal shelter to hundreds of pets left behind by refugees fleeing the conflict.
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A family has just won a $5 million settlement against a country club for golfers causing obscene and repeated damage to their home. While their property was looking out onto the 15th fairway, the country club was neglectful in providing sufficient protection to the family’s house by failing to properly design the course.
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New page: Red States like Tennessee are moving more and more money out of public education funding, opting to give the funding to private charter schools through vouchers and other means of fund diversion. The privatization of education has long been underway as the right-wing has been chipping away at teacher unions, panic over CRT, and more recently, the accusations that LGBT teachers are ‘grooming’ children to be gay in public schools. - TYT.com