Woke

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'Biden Remorse' ad blasts Democrats for woke agenda in schools (Washington Times)

Republicans seeking to flip state legislative seats are targeting Democrats over the woke education agenda in public schools.

“After their prolonged lockdowns weakened the educational and social development of an entire generation, Joe Biden and his state Democrat allies are determined to inflict even further harm on kids by wokifying schools and vilifying concerned parents,” RSLC Communications Director Andrew Romeo said. The spot concludes: “Democrats are shutting parents out of schools in order to push their far-left agenda on kids. The ad then shows President Biden saying, “They’re not someone else’s children.

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House GOP welcomes a new Chamber, declares war against the ... (Axios)

Behind the scenes: The Republican Study Committee lunch conversation turned into a bashing session against the U.S. Chamber and corporate ESG. RSC chairman Jim ...

The plant resumed production of EleCare and other specialty and metabolic formulas on June 4. - Barr told Branstad about his bill, the "Ensuring Sound Guidance (ESG) Act," which is part ofa broader GOP legislative assaultagainst green investing and other forms of socially responsible investment. But the country's largest lobbying group is now viewed with contempt across large swaths of the Republican Party. - Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) described the corporate ESG movement as a "threat" to America that is "undermining American competitiveness" and said the U.S. Chamber "has been corrupted by woke thinking." - The U.S. Chamber's executive vice president Neil Bradley is a former senior House GOP leadership staffer and executive director of the RSC. - Scalise's chief of staff, Brett Horton,said last yearhis office wanted nothing to do with the U.S. Chamber. "If the U.S. Chamber sent me a meeting request right now, I wouldn't even staff that meeting out to an intern, and I don't see that changing," Horton said. - Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) contended that the U.S. Chamber had opposed sufficiently securing the southern border and was "flooding our country with cheap labor ... basically taking jobs out of the hands of U.S. citizens." - In his introductory remarks, Banks said he was "increasingly frustrated with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for supporting woke policies and enriching China." Driving the news: The Republican Study Committee, the largest group of conservatives in the House, invited leaders of the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, to lunch at the Capitol. Between the lines: Woke is a term used to refer to an awareness of broad injustices in society that conservatives are increasingly using as a pejorative to criticize liberal ideals. House Republicans welcomed to the Capitol on Wednesday a new self-described "anti-woke" business lobbying group, amplifying their hostility toward the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and broader "environmental, social and corporate governance" (ESG) movement. Why it matters: The U.S. Chamber used to wield enormous power within the GOP as the representative of business interests.

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Letters to the Editor: Will Girl Scouts be next on Gov. Ron DeSantis ... (Palm Beach Post)

Girl Scouts' penchant for being nice and sweet runs counter with Gov. DeSantis and his anti-Woke movement.

The Palm Beach Post is committed to publishing a diversity of opinions. I remember how Goebbels controlled the Nazi news media to get people to believe his lies and his thought police. I find it horrifying that there are parents of small children who are more afraid of their children reading some books than they are of those same children being shot beyond recognition by an AR-15. Please don’t tell me that a massacre can’t happen in your school. I remember when the Nazis burned books that favored Jews, gays, gypsies and other "non-Arian" groups. Re Frank Cerabino’s column, Attention, Florida Girl Scouts": I couldn’t help but remember a quote from historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s introduction to her book, Strongmen – Mussolini to the Present. "From Mussolini through Putin, all of the strongmen featured in this book establish forms of personalist rule, which concentrates enormous power in one individual whose own political and financial interests prevail over national ones in shaping policy. If Gov. DeSantis ever becomes President DeSantis, I have no doubt that she will include him in an update to her book.

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