Notices by Judd Legum (juddlegum@journa.host), page 7

RT @ThePlumLineGS@twitter.com

More Florida BS: The group representing supervisors of public school libraries is asking DeSantis admin to confirm in writing that Don't Say Gay and Stop Woke laws don't apply to libraries. They haven't, prompting fears that libraries are afoul of law:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/27/desantis-school-libraries-dont-say-gay-critical-race-theory/

??: https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/status/1619066295760130053

1. On Monday, I reported teachers in Manatee County, Florida were told to make the books in their library inaccessible to students

The report included images of bookshelves covered w/construction paper

Since then there has been an effort to BLAME THE TEACHERS for overreacting

An ABSOLUTELY HEARTBREAKING message from a teacher in Duval County, Florida who is being forced to make her classroom library inaccessible as a result of @RonDeSantisFL@twitter.com's policies

(via @MelissainJax@twitter.com)

1. Florida teachers are being told to remove all books from their classroom libraries OR FACE FELONY PROSECUTION

The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

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https://popular.info/p/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books

The Washington Post is laying off journalists, supposedly out of economic necessity

Consider that, in 2021, Bezos paid twice as much to build a new yacht ($500 million) as he paid for the Washington Post

The boat costs $50 million per year to maintain

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-05-07/jeff-bezos-s-new-superyacht-heralds-roaring-market-for-big-boats

1. Everyone should know the story of the life — and untimely death — of LARRY PRICE JR

1. This week thousand of the world's elite have traveled to Davos.

For a membership fee of as much as $921,000 annually, billionaires and CEOs can discuss the world's problems with non-profit leaders and government officials.

And that's the beauty of it. It's all talk.

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2. There is lots of talk about "stakeholder" capitalism.

But once they leave, the billionaires and CEOs vigorously oppose policies that benefit stakeholders other than investors and executives.

https://popular.info/p/the-true-priorities-of-the-global

3. That's why @petersgoodman@twitter.com calls Davos "a prophylactic against change, an elaborate reinforcement of the status quo served up as the pursuit of human progress"

@petersgoodman@twitter.com 4. The economic data backs up Goodman's perspective. The elite meet at Davos each year and talk about "stakeholder capitalism" while the ultra-wealthy take a larger and larger share of new wealth.

https://popular.info/p/the-true-priorities-of-the-global

@petersgoodman@twitter.com 5. A new report from @Oxfam@twitter.com "finds that over the last two years, "the richest 1% have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth – nearly twice as much money as the bottom 99% of the world’s population."

Since 2020, billionaire wealth has increased by $2.7 billion every day.

RT @JuddLegum@twitter.com

1. Pretty much every right-wing politician will mark MLK Day with the same quote, stripped of all context

REMINDER: MLK SAID MORE THAN 35 WORDS

??: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1614796651079548928

IMO, we shouldn’t celebrate MLK Jr’s legacy by ignoring his entire life and claiming he supported ideas that he vigorously opposed

RT @JuddLegum@twitter.com

1. Pretty much every right-wing politician will mark MLK Day with the same quote, stripped of all context

REMINDER: MLK SAID MORE THAN 35 WORDS

??: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1614796651079548928

Right now the United States House of Representatives is governed by a secret document between McCarthy and a couple dozen other members WHO TRIED TO OVERTURN THE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

The lies are well-established but the heart of the George Santos story is MONEY.

How did Santos go from having essentially no money in 2020 to being a millionaire in 2022.

His “explanation” is not very credible.

1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida

I talked to her to find out why

Buckle up

This one gets a bit wild

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2. One book challenged by the teacher, Vicki Baggett, is When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball

The book is about the childhood of Rudolph, a sprinter who won three gold medals

It covers how she overcame physical limitations and racial prejudice in the 40s to become a champion

RT @emorwee@twitter.com

If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:

At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/19/1143753129/power-companies-florida-alabama-media-investigation-consulting-firm

??: https://twitter.com/emorwee/status/1604866859018473474

IMPORTANT: @elonmusk@twitter.com's new policy preventing linking to competitors is in DIRECT VIOLATION of European Union rules.

Penalty can be a fine of up to 20% of Twitter's annual revenue

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-and-open-digital-markets_en#what-will-be-the-consequences-of-non-compliance

Musk, who has banned journalists from Twitter by (falsely) claiming they revealed his exact real-time locations, tweets out his exact real-time location

RT @elonmusk@twitter.com

At World Cup right now

??: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604490162976698368