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Gunmaker, ordered to hand over documents to Sandy Hook families sends 1000s of "random cartoons"
A gunmaker was ordered to hand over documents to Sandy Hook families. The materials included thousands of "random cartoons."
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https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/A-gun-maker-was-ordered-to-hand-over-documents-to-16296757.php
Conservatives - wrong about EVERYTHING like forever
anti-Critical Race Theory protests don't live up to the hype
Right wing astroturf campaigns rely on trolling the mainstream press and liberal groups into giving them outsize attention.
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NPR's Fresh Air: 'Forget The Alamo' Author Says We Have The Texas Origin Story All Wrong
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico.
The siege of the Alamo was memorably depicted in a Walt Disney series and in a 1960 movie starring John Wayne. But three writers, all Texans, say the common narrative of the Texas revolt overlooks the fact that it was waged in part to ensure slavery would be preserved.
"Slavery was the undeniable linchpin of all of this," author Bryan Burrough says. "It was the thing that the two sides had been arguing about and shooting about for going on 15 years. And yet it still surprises me that slavery went unexamined for so long."
In their new book, Forget the Alamo, Burrough and co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford challenge common misconceptions surrounding the conflict including the notion that Davy Crockett was a martyr who fought to the death rather than surrender.
On how Texas history often fails to address slavery
It still surprises me that slavery went unexamined for so long. But then you have to understand: The Texas revolt, for 150 years, was largely ignored by academics, in part because it was considered déclassé, it was considered provincial, and because the state government of Texas, much as they're doing now, has for 120, 130 years, made very clear to the University of Texas faculty and to the faculty of other state-funded universities that it only wants one type of Texas history taught ... and that if you get outside those boundaries, you're going to hear about it from the Legislature.
On how Mexican Americans were largely written out of Texas history
The Tejanos, who were the Texians' key allies and a number of which fought and died at the Alamo, were entirely written out of generations of Texas history [as it was] written by Anglo writers. This was mirrored very much in the kind of ethnic cleansing that went on after the revolution in which hundreds of Tejanos were pushed out of San Antonio, in Victoria and existing towns, their lands taken, laws passed against their ability to marry white women and hold public office.
On the myth that the Alamo defenders fought to the death
[Mexican Gen. Antonio López de] Santa Anna is coming north with 6,000 troops. [The Alamo defenders have] maybe 200 guys at essentially an indefensible open-air Spanish mission. There has always been this great mystery of why on earth [Lt. Col. William] Travis and [James] Bowie stay, and the best argument there is probably because they believe reinforcements would be forthcoming. Every other day they send off these plaintive, dramatic letters asking for reinforcement that, by and large, never came.
But the truly perplexing thing is that in the two weeks leading up to the arrival of Santa Anna's forces in San Antonio, Travis and Bowie are getting almost daily warnings of the progress. They know they're coming and yet still they stay there. It makes absolutely no sense of why they stayed there, except for the fact that these are men who, by and large, have never been in war. You get a sense that Travis never really believes something bad can happen to him. I mean, the idea that Mexican soldiers would show up and kill them all just seems like a notion that he never really accepted, that somehow something would happen to spirit them all the way to safety. And of course, it doesn't happen. And of course, this leads to one of the great myths, which is the bravery of the Alamo defenders, how they fought to their death and everything. And when you look at the facts, they never made a conscious decision to fight to the death. There was no line in the sand drawn. ...
What we now know is because Mexican accounts accounts from Mexican officers and soldiers a number of them, a dozen of them have come to light over the last 50 years, show that between a third and a half [of] the Texas defenders actually broke and ran. They ran out into the open where they were unceremoniously run down and killed by Mexican cavalry. Now, neither we nor the academic authors who first found this say that this means anybody was a coward. It was just that the place was overrun. It wasn't like every man fought to his death in place, as generations of historians have taught us.
On how the 1960 John Wayne movie The Alamo perpetuated these myths
[Wayne] made the movie basically because he wholeheartedly believed that America was falling apart, that it was going to the dogs and that somebody needs to stand up for what are today called "patriotic values," "family values," "American values." And it's also pretty clear ... [Wayne] was ardently pro-Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign and ardently anti-Kennedy and in his mind, believed that this type of huge shout-out of American patriot values could somehow defeat John F. Kennedy.
The movie, most reviewers would tell you, is a mess. It perpetuates every hoary Alamo myth. And yet it spoke to a certain cross section of American and international viewers. It was really the thing that more than anything, caused the Alamo to become the international icon that it's become.
more: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/1006907140/forget-the-alamo-texas-history-bryan-burrough
Why Critical Race Theory is needed
https://twitter.com/davenewworld_2/status/1405201055835635723Critical Race Theory
Dem Rep - won't introduce resolution to censure Greene after her apology over Holocaust remarks
Democrat says he won't introduce resolution to censure Greene after her apologyRep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) said Tuesday that he is scrapping plans to introduce a resolution to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after she apologized for comparing mask and vaccine rules during the COVID-19 pandemic to the Holocaust.
Schneider, who is Jewish, said that he was "pleasantly surprised" to see Greene visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington on Monday and make a public apology.
"I appreciate that after her visit she understood the harm of her comparison and offered an apology. In light of her apology, I am electing not to go forward at this time with introducing a resolution of censure," Schneider said in a statement.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/558659-democrat-says-he-wont-introduce-resolution-to-censure-greene-after-her-apology
Reading the Park Police IG Report More Closely. It doesn't support the headlines.
https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1403709863994220549Yesterday, the Inspector General for the Department of the Interior released a report on the United States Park Polices (USPP) involvement in the expulsion that was widely taken to knock down that conclusion. The IGs executive summary says it was really all about installing a security fence:
Most media outlets built their headlines around this conclusion
CBS: Watchdog finds clearing of protesters from Lafayette Park wasn't for Trump photo op
ABC: Police did not clear Lafayette Square so Trump could hold 'Bible' photo op: Watchdog
CNN: Watchdog report finds Park Police did not clear racial injustice protesters from Lafayette Park for Trump's visit to St. John's Church last June
The problem with these headlines is the actual IG report is too jurisdictionally limited to support, and offers multiple reasons to doubt, its exonerative conclusion. (Indeed, if you click through, youll find each of the news stories linked above is more equivocal than its headline.) The oversimplification of the report in these headlines and in tv coverage has led to widespread confusion about its contents. Here are a few important points to know about what the IG report actually says and doesnt say:
Jurisdictional Limitations. The IG report only concerns itself with the activities and decision-making of one federal agency, the Park Police, out of many who were present at Lafayette Park on June 1, 2020.
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The Secret Services Request and Key Redactions. Despite its jurisdictional limits, the IG report documents a number of potentially significant interactions the USPP had with other agencies, in particular the Secret Service.
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Unexplained Secret Service Decisions. The IG report reveals that the Secret Service took actions that were contrary to the USPP operational plan which affected the overall timing and conduct of the clearing operation.
full article: https://www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/reading-the-park-police-ig-report
Ex-Alaska GOP State Rep Charged With Voter Fraud
Alaska Public Radio reports:
The charges against LeDoux came after state elections officials notified the Alaska State Troopers of what they described as irregularities with absentee ballot applications during her 2018 re-election campaign. The FBI also participated in the investigation.
Simpsons son Caden is also being charged with voter misconduct. Hes represented by a public defender, according to a state courts database.
more: https://www.alaskapublic.org/2021/06/10/former-alaska-rep-ledoux-and-her-aide-face-new-charges-of-felony-voter-fraud/
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