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Concern about the children. this is happening all across the country but it is not going unchecked. late last year in texas, governor greg abbott last year ordered education officials to develop statewide standards to prevent the presence of pornography and obscene content in texas public schools, including school libraries. some texas districts have taken this directive and used it as license to remove all sorts of books, especially those focusing on lgbtq+ topics, racism and even sex education...

The u.s. west coast, up 250%, and from asia to the u.s. east coast, up 184%. guess what, those chronically high prices, well, eventually they get passed on to you, me, and the american consumers. so in other words, dont expect prices to go down any time soon. sandra. >> sandra: thanks for washing it for us, ashley. down to texas, a briefing happening about the southern border. the governor youll see, greg abbott in the center, attorney general ken paxton is speaking right now. they are talking t...

In less than 5 minutes... ...so you can stay... one step ahead. tens of thousands of federal employees are starting out the new year with a raise. president biden told federal agencies to bump the wage for federal workers up to $15 an hour. under the new directive 67,000

Moral panic about critical race theory. of course, it does not stop there. now we are seeing a very familiar kind of conservative wave of suppression, cloaked in concerned about the children. this is happening all across the country by that is not going unchecked. texas governor greg abbott last year ordered education officials to develop statewide standards to prevent the presence of pornography and obscene content in texas public schools, including libraries. some texas districts have taken th...

Think that two years, even if we had done everything perfectly for them to go away. this is really just a continuation of whats always been there. im happy that the public discourse is including these issues loud and clear, so its a step in the right direction. >> new york state recently published guidelines for prioritizing potentially life-saving covid treatments for non-white people in an effort to address disproportionate rates of risk. last week a cornell law professor filed a federal lawsu...

Transmitted cases of the virus, five. this is a handful of cases. were talking about zero covid china at the time of the beijing games. mass testing is underway. 2 million people in the district of beijing are undergoing mandatory covid testing right now. snap lockdowns, thats happening. a number of people in the district following 13 residential buildings have been sealed off. theyre not allowed to leave their homes for 21 days. beijing officials have issued a curious directive telling all peop...

Police could be called in immediately. and i will say that our secretary of state jocelyn benson did make an effort to issue a directive that would ban open carry at the polls. we were so worried about voters being intimidated and threatened and deterred from their fundamental right to vote. fortunately, we didnt see any of that on election day, but we had a 24-hour hotline that was open at my department just in case we saw that occur. what we ended up seeing was actually, you know, more concern...

All these people rather than receiving subpoenas have gotten letters that are quite solicitous from the committee. its also worth noting that at least as far as publicly known none of those people have responded to that politeness by agreeing to cooperate with what the committee is doing. so at some point theyre going to have to decide what do they do when asking nicely is not enough. another thing thats notable about this detailed letter, the directive to ivanka trump, is it talks about the way...

In part, an organization can only function if it is collaborative and works well. in his lawsuit, brian flores claimed there is more to the story. in his first season as head coach, flores says in his lawsuit, he refused his owners directive to tank for the first pick in the draft. >> tanking is when a coach goes out and deliberately loses games in order to get a better draft pick in next years draft. because teams with the lowest records get to pick first. flores goes on to claim that during th...

Interfering with elections. it is criminal to try to conduct fraud in elections. of course it is curious here, fraud is a pretext for why you have the clawing back of so many voting rights in this country because of perceptions of fraud. well, if thats the guard rail that needs to be put up some say then what about the guard rails in terms of accountability for those who endeavor to commit an act of fraud? it has to be dealt with. of course it just reminds people over and over again, don, just h...