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Grassroots Groups Announce 500K Call Push to Protect Health Care in Shutdown Showdown

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Indivisible, MoveOn, and Working Families Power Combine Efforts to Ensure Dems Keep Holding the Line WASHINGTON – As health care premiums prepare to go up and the Trump-Republican shutdown continues, grassroots groups are coming together to push half a million calls to Congress to protect health care access.  Throughout this week, Indivisible, MoveOn Civic Action, and Working Families Power (WFP) are activating their members to place calls to Congress to demand they preserve ACA subsidies and reinstate life-saving Medicaid funding that Republicans gutted to make way for tax cuts for…

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White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters, officials said. The proposal, which was presented to the State Department last week and is still in a highly preliminary phase, is not expected to pass muster with either the department’s leadership or Congress, which will…

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Math Teachers Group’s Push for Identity Politics Damages Math’s Inherent Equity

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The world’s largest math education organization is injecting identity politics where it doesn’t belong—and undermining math education in the process. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics told teachers to “regularly and intentionally integrate more equity, justice, and culturally centered mathematics education” in every math lesson in a May 20 position statement, The council argues that math education must respond to the “culture” of students, represented in “multidimensional identities,” including “race, ethnicity, religion, generation, gender, sexual orientation, education, class, occupation and socio-economic status, and disability.” While proper math education, to…

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Alliance of Big Tech, Dark Money Groups Partners With Counties in State That Bans ‘Zuckerbucks’ for Elections

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The group that distributed most of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s controversial election grants in 2020 has designated at least two Utah counties as part of a new effort, despite a state ban on private money funding election operations.  The two local juridictions are Cache County, with a population of 137,00, and Weber County, population 267,000. The U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence, a group launched by the Center for Tech and Civic Life and other left-leaning organizations, designated the Utah counties as participants in its plans for 2024. In 2022, the…

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Biden on green group’s naughty list, gets taunted for ‘Oily Christmas’

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An environmental group isn’t feeling much holiday cheer toward President Biden. Friends of the Earth has plastered downtown Washington and Capitol Hill neighborhoods with posters depicting Mr. Biden as Ebenezer Scrooge holding a wad of cash. Environmental groups are incensed that Mr. Biden went back on his campaign promise not … The Washington Times stories: White House

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