February 1, 2023
Late Morning/Afternoon Update:
Jeff Cox of CNBC: "The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point and gave little indication that it is nearing the end of this hiking cycle. Aligning with market expectations, the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee boosted the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage point. That takes it to a target range of 4.5%-4.75%, the highest since October 2007. The move marked the eighth increase in a process that began in March 2022. By itself, the funds rate sets what banks charge each other for overnight borrowing, but it also spills through to many consumer debt products."
Yes, Massah. College Board Bows to DeSantolini. Anemona Hartocolis & Eliza Fawcet tof the New York Times: "After heavy criticism from Gov. Ron DeSantis, the College Board released on Wednesday an official curriculum for its new Advanced Placement course in African American Studies -- stripped of much of the subject matter that had angered the governor and other conservatives. The College Board purged the names of many Black writers and scholars associated with critical race theory, the queer experience and Black feminism. It ushered out some politically fraught topics, like Black Lives Matter, from the formal curriculum. And it added something new: 'Black conservatism' is now offered as an idea for a research project."
Kara Scannell of CNN: "A top executive of the Trump Organization is expected to appear Thursday before a Manhattan grand jury investigating ... Donald Trump's alleged role in a hush money payment scheme, people familiar with the matter said. The executive, Jeffrey McConney, the controller of the Trump Organization, is one of the highest-ranking financial officers at the company and has responsibility for its books and records. McConney's planned appearance comes as prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office are accelerating their investigation into the hush money scheme to stop adult film star Stormy Daniels from going public about a past affair with Trump just before the 2016 presidential election. (Trump has denied the affair.)"
Glenn Thrush, et al., of the New York Times: "The F.B.I. is conducting a search of President Biden's vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del., the president's personal lawyer said on Wednesday morning, as investigators continue looking into his possession of classified documents. The search, like at least two others conducted at locations associated with Mr. Biden, was undertaken with the cooperation of the president and his legal team. It was not clear whether any documents were recovered at the beach house." CNN's report is here. ~~~
~~~ Marie: Say, why aren't FBI agents searching mike pence's home? Or are they? ~~~
~~~ Update. Kevin Liptak, et al., CNN: "The FBI completed a search of President Joe Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and no documents with classified markings were found, Biden's personal attorney said Wednesday. Bob Bauer, Biden's attorney, did say the FBI took with them handwritten notes and some materials for further review. The search took three-and-a-half hours. 'The DOJ's planned search of the President's Rehoboth residences, conducted in coordination and cooperation with the Presiden's attorneys, has concluded,' Bauer said. 'The search was conducted from 8:30 AM to noon.... No documents with classified markings were found,' he said."
Waiting for Trump's Expiration Date. Meant to embed this earlier. Quite a good segment: ~~~
Marie's Sports Report. It's February 1, So Tom Brady Is Retiring Again. Mark Maske of the Washington Post: "Tom Brady, the legendary quarterback who established himself over more than two decades as the NFL's most prolific winner and arguably its greatest player, announced Wednesday that he is retiring. This time, he said, he will not change his mind. 'I'll get to the point right away: I'm retiring, for good,' Brady said in a 53-second video posted to social media. 'I know the process was a pretty big deal last time. So when I woke up this morning, I figured I'd just press record and let you guys know first. So I won't be long-winded. You only get one super-emotional retirement essay, and I used mine up last year.'" MB: At least he's quite gracious about it. He could have started an insurrection or something.
Australia. Annibelle Timsit & Bryan Pietsch of the Washington Post: "A tiny but dangerous radioactive capsule that sparked an urgent, days-long search after it went missing in Western Australia has been found, officials there said Wednesday.... Authorities said they did not believe anyone had come into contact with the capsule or been harmed by the toxic substance inside during the days it was lost in the remote Australian outback. The capsule -- which is less than a third of an inch long -- contains cesium-137, a radioactive material that the emergency services warned can 'cause radiation burns or radiation sickness.' 'This is an extraordinary result,' [Western Australia Emergency Services Minister Stephen] Dawson said, highlighting authorities' 'relentless search over the past six days' to find the capsule. 'The search group have quite literally found the needle in the haystack.'... Officials said they believe the capsule fell off the back of a truck while in transit. It was discovered Wednesday just 6½ feet from the northbound roadside edge of the Great Northern Highway...." CNN's report is here.
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Carol Leonnig of the Washington Post: "FBI agents searched President Biden's former office at the Penn Biden Center in mid-November, a little more than a week after the White House alerted federal officials that a Biden lawyer had found evidence of classified records at the D.C.-based think tank, according to one person familiar with the search.... Biden and his lawyers cooperated with the search, two people familiar with the effort said. It could not be determined whether FBI agents uncovered additional classified records or items." The CBS News story is here.
Alan Rappeport of the New York Times: "... Republicans have insisted that they want 'structural' fiscal changes in exchange for voting to raise the [debt ceiling], but they have so far declined to offer a cohesive plan outlining what programs they would cut. Internal divisions over how to reduce spending have been spilling into public view, underscoring the political challenge that Republicans face as they try to wield the specter of a default to extract concessions from President Biden and Democrats. In the meantime, the United States technically has already exceeded the $31.4 trillion debt limit.... Before [a scheduled] meeting [Wednesday], White House officials said that Mr. Biden would ask [Speaker Kevin] McCarthy to commit to the principle that the United States will never default on its financial obligations and press him about when House Republicans plan to release their budget.... Mr. McCarthy accused Mr. Biden of being irresponsible by suggesting that he was unwilling to seek common ground over the debt ceiling and said that the White House's refusal to bargain was 'childish.'" ~~~
~~~ Marie: Rappeport is too generous. The real reason Republicans "have so far declined to offer a cohesive plan&' is that their cohesive plan is to cut or eliminate every social safety program they can identify, and for some strange reason, that is not popular even among the most committed Republican voters who have been paying into some of these programs all of their adult lives.
The Mysterious Case of the Phantom Treasurer. Grace Ashford & Michael Gold of the New York Times: "The longtime campaign treasurer and trusted aide of embattled Representative George Santos has resigned, potentially exacerbating the congressman's already troubled finances. The treasurer, Nancy Marks, whose resignation was made public on Tuesday in letters filed with the Federal Election Commission, has been with from Mr. Santos since his first run for office, assisting with accounting and fund-raising and joining him in at least one for-profit business endeavor.... On Tuesday night, the Santos campaign filed a year-end report bearing the signature of a new treasurer, Andrew Olson. But the filings offered little detail beyond his name, and the campaign has not yet filed paperwork designating Mr. Olson in that role. Ms. Marks's letters said that she had resigned on Jan. 25 -- the same day that the Santos campaign committee, as well as several affiliated financial committees, filed paperwork stating that Ms. Marks was being replaced as treasurer by Thomas Datwyler. But Mr. Datwyler ... said that he had told Mr. Santos's team that he was not interested in assuming those duties.... Ms. Marks's signature was on various year-end campaign finance reports filed on Tuesday ... even though she said she had resigned as the committees' treasurer the week before." ~~~
~~~ Meryl Kornfield, et al., of the Washington Post: "Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) told House Republicans on Tuesday that he will step down temporarily from his committee assignments amid multiple investigations into his campaign finances after he lied about key aspects of his biography. Santos ... said in a closed-door meeting of House Republicans that he would remove himself from his assignments on the House Small Business Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee. Santos told the meeting he will step down because 'he's a distraction,' according to a Republican lawmaker who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting. The conversation comes one day after Santos met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Marie: But totally Santos' magnanimous idea, and I'm sure it had nothing to do with this:
~~~ Olivia Beavers & Sarah Ferris of Politico: "... even those lower-profile Santos assignments quickly became a political liability for Speaker Kevin McCarthy's conference, particularly as Republicans scrape for the votes they need to yank Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from the Foreign Affairs Committee." (Also linked yesterday.) ~~~
~~~ Get Out! Aaron Blake of the Washington Post: "In resisting calls to push out embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has insisted that it's up to the voters. Well, the voters have spoken, and they clearly want him out. In fact, they have expressed that preference by a rather historic margin. A Newsday/Siena College poll finds that 78 percent of voters in Santos's congressional district want him to resign.... His numbers come shy only of the 9 in 10 voters who wanted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) to resign in 2008 amid a corruption scandal that would later land him in prison."
~~~ Will Steakin of ABC News: "... multiple men have described to ABC News past relationships with ... [George Santos] -- some allegedly occurring when they were still teenagers -- that they said turned toxic due to a flood of lies that Santos told to try to manipulate and trap them.... 'He promised the world," [Leandro] Bis said of Santos, who Bis said at one point promised to marry him in order to help him secure U.S. citizenship.... [Pedro] Vilarva said [their year-long] relationship ended after he started searching online for information on the multiple names he noticed Santos had used over the course of their relationship."
Ken Dilanian & Ryan Reilly of NBC News: "The House Jan. 6 committee concluded that the FBI and other federal security agencies could have prevented a violent mob from overrunning the Capitol had they acted on the large volume of intelligence collected beforehand, the chief investigator told NBC News in an exclusive interview -- a judgment the committee left out of its televised hearings and final report. Former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy, the committee's chief investigative counsel, said that while he endorses the panel's main finding that ... Donald Trump sparked the riot by urging protesters to go to the Capitol, his probe documented how federal law enforcement failures contributed to the debacle."
Martin Pengelly of the Guardian: "Video released on Tuesday showed Donald Trump answering questions from the New York state attorney general, Letitia James, in a deposition in a civil fraud case late last summer. Questioned about his financial affairs, the former president repeatedly invoked his fifth-amendment right against self-incrimination -- part of a refusal to answer he repeated more than 400 times.... The footage was obtained and reported by CBS News." Includes brief video. ~~~
~~~ From the CBS News story by Graham Cates, linked above: "Once the preliminary questions wrapped up, Trump was given an opportunity to read a prepared statement into the record. He began with a familiar refrain: 'This is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country.' He called James 'a renegade and out of control prosecutor' and accused her of having political motives for her office's investigation into his financial practices." ~~~
~~~ CBS News posted a 37-minute YouTube video of excerpts from Trump's deposition. I heard on the teevee that the deposition ran about four hours. But if you'd like to torture someone, just replaying this 37-minutes video over & over again should outperform the infamous Chinese water torture. ~~~
~~~ Shayna Jacobs of the Washington Post: "Attorneys working under New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday asked a judge overseeing the office's $250 million fraud lawsuit to place sanctions on Trump parties and their attorneys for 'falsely' denying facts in recent court filings and rehashing 'frivolous' arguments." ~~~
~~~ Maggie Haberman of the New York Times: "The expanding legal threats facing ... Donald J. Trump are testing as never before his decades-old playbook for fending off prosecutors, regulators and other accusers and foes, with his trademark mix of defiance, counterattacks, bluffs and delays encountering a series of setbacks.... And he remains dedicated to the techniques for dealing with such threats -- tactics he learned from his former lawyer Roy M. Cohn, who favored attacking the legal system while trying to work insider connections.... "You can wear down a private party if they do not have the same resources as you, or you can settle a civil case and make it go away, but ... it is really rather difficult -- if not impossible -- to wear down federal prosecutors and the F.B.I. and make them go away.' [said former federal prosecutor Chuck Rosenberg.]"
The Merry Wives of Supremes. Steve Eder of the New York Times: "After Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court, his wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, gave up her career as a law firm partner to become a high-end legal recruiter in an effort to alleviate potential conflicts of interest.... Now, [Kendal Price,] a former colleague of Mrs. Roberts, has raised concerns that her recruiting work poses potential ethics issues for the chief justice. Seeking an inquiry, the ex-colleague has provided records to the Justice Department and Congress indicating Mrs. Roberts has been paid millions of dollars in commissions for placing lawyers at firms -- some of which have business before the Supreme Court.... Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and chairman of the Judiciary Committee..., said in a statement that his letter raised "troubling issues that once again demonstrate the need" for ethics reforms to 'begin the process of restoring faith in the Supreme Court.'" Politico's story is here (and it's pretty good).
Cruelty Is of the Essence of the Scheme. Camilo Montoya-Galvez of CBS News: "Nine Republican-controlled states asked a federal judge in Texas on Tuesday to shut down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in its entirety over two years, a move that would prevent nearly 600,000 immigrants known as 'Dreamers' from renewing their deportation protections and work permits.... For over a decade, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants lacking legal status who were brought to the U.S. as children to work and live in the country without fear of deportation.... The states that joined Texas' bid to terminate DACA were Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kansas and Mississippi." MB: What is the matter with these people? Do they blow up frogs for fun? Do they download the lesson plans from the Nazi school?
RNC Report: It's a Lie, It Was Disastrous, and We're Going with It Anyway. Amy Gardner & Isaac Arnsdorf of the Washington Post: "A new internal report prepared by the Republican National Committee proposes creating a permanent infrastructure in every state to ramp up 'election integrity' activities in response to perceptions within GOP ranks of widespread fraud and abuse in the way the country selects its leaders. The report, prepared by the RNC's 'National Election Integrity Team' and obtained by The Washington Post, reveals the degree to which Republicans continue to trade on ... Donald Trump's false claims that Democrats and their allies rigged his defeat in 2020.... Yet the report also acknowledges that the GOP's obsession with election fraud has cost the party.... But instead of combating misinformation about fraud, the report encourages the recruitment of staff and volunteers to monitor elections and the development of more aggressive legal strategies to 'hold election officials accountable for violating the law.'"
2024 Presidential Election. Stephanie Saul, et al., of the New York Times: "Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, as he positions himself for a run for president next year, has become an increasingly vocal culture warrior, vowing to take on liberal orthodoxy and its champions.... But his crusade has perhaps played out most dramatically in classrooms and on university campuses. He has banned instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in kindergarten through third grade, limited what schools and employers can teach about racism and other aspects of history and rejected math textbooks en masse for what the state called 'indoctrination.' Most recently, he banned the College Board's Advanced Placement courses in African American studies for high school students. On Tuesday, Governor DeSantis, a Republican, took his most aggressive swing yet at the education establishment, announcing a proposed overhaul of the state's higher education system that would eliminate what he called 'ideological conformity.' If enacted, courses in Western civilization would be mandated, diversity and equity programs would be eliminated, and the protections of tenure would be reduced.... He had already moved to overhaul the leadership of the New College of Florida...," which the ousted president called a hostile takeover. ~~~
~~~ Marie: Since I am not in the habit of torturing myself by listening to Gov. DeSantolini, I have seldom heard him speak. But the other day, I saw a clip on the teevee of his making a statement in which he affected sincerity. He is so bad at it that I think all but the most gullible voters would see through it. I'm not sure the Florida Fascist will be the popular candidate the media make him out to be.
Michael Scherer, et al., of the Washington Post: "Nikki Haley, a former United Nations ambassador and governor of South Carolina, is planning to announce that she will run for president -- positioning herself to be the first declared Republican challenger to Donald Trump at a time when other prospective candidates have slowed their moves." CNN's story is here: "Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is expected to announce she's running for president on February 15 in Charleston...."
Evan Halper of the Washington Post: "The country's largest oil companies made more money in 2022 than ever before, eclipsing windfalls of earlier years and making themselves a potential target for driver frustration as prices at the pump rise. ExxonMobil on Tuesday reported a record-smashing annual profit of $55.7 billion for 2022, soaring past its earlier record of $45 billion in 2008. The news comes just days after another American oil behemoth, Chevron, drew the ire of the White House when the company announced its biggest windfall ever, with $36.5 billion in profits for the year.... 'The only thing stopping Big Oil from increasing production is their decision to pay shareholders billions instead of reinvesting profits,' President Biden tweeted Tuesday night. 'Instead of demanding accountability, Republican officials are blaming us. I'm doing my part to lower prices, it's time Big Oil did theirs.'... The House on Friday passed a bill that would restrict the administration from further drawing down the nation's emergency reserve unless the federal government expands available leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands every time it is tapped. The measure is unlikely to advance in the Democratic-controlled Senate."
The Pandemic, Ctd. Jonathan Swan & Luke Broadwater of the New York Times: "Republicans on Tuesday pushed legislation through the House that would repeal vaccine mandates and declare the pandemic over, blowing past Democratic opposition in a broader drive to use the federal response to the coronavirus spread against President Biden and his party, stoking a culture war over a major public health challenge. The largely party-line votes ... were the start of a flurry of legislative activity by the G.O.P. this week that has virtually no chance of yielding any new laws, since the measures cannot make it through the Democratic-controlled Senate or to Mr. Biden's desk, where he would be all but certain to veto them.... Democrats are pushing back hard on the effort by painting Republicans as extremists who are rushing to repeal public health measures without proper planning." ~~~
~~~ Linda Qiu of the New York Times: "As the House debated for hours over pandemic measures, Republican lawmakers on Tuesday repeatedly misled about the efficacy of vaccines, the rationale behind vaccine mandates and their effects." Qiu fact-checks a few false statements.
Beyond the Beltway
New York. Rampant Prosecutorial Misconduct Causes Dismissal of Rampant Police Misconduct Case. Jonah Bromich & Maria Cramer of the New York Times: "After Joseph Franco was charged in 2019 with perjury and other crimes related to his decades as a New York Police Department narcotics detective, prosecutors lined up to dismiss cases in which he had been involved. But on Tuesday, one more prosecution was tossed: that of Mr. Franco himself. A New York State judge, Robert M. Mandelbaum, found that prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney's office had failed to turn over evidence to the detective's lawyers on three occasions, a major ethical violation, and dismissed the charges.... The prosecutor handling the case, Stephanie Minogue, was immediately removed as deputy chief of the Police Accountability Unit, which reports directly to the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg.... The two-week trial [of Franco] will be remembered as a highly public case of wrongdoing by prosecutors, one that all but ensures that the former detective will not face another jury."
Way Beyond
Haiti/U.S. Chris Cameron of the New York Times: "Three Haitian Americans and a Colombian national have been charged in the United States with involvement in the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The announcement of the charges from the federal government -- more than 18 months after the murder of Mr. Moïse -- outlined a sprawling conspiracy to murder the Haitian leader and seize power, supported by an unnamed former Haitian Supreme Court judge, Colombian mercenaries and an illegal arms shipment from the United States.... Three other men had already been charged in the United States in connection with the assassination plot.... The four newly charged men are scheduled to make their first appearance in court in Miami on Wednesday afternoon, after being transferred into U.S. custody on Tuesday. They were arrested in Haiti soon after Mr. Moïse's assassination and had been detained there since." The AP report is here.
Ukraine, et al. The Guardian's live updates of developments Wednesday is Russia's war on Ukraine are here.
News Lede
CNN: "Two emperor tamarin monkeys missing since Monday from the Dallas Zoo were found alive Tuesday in the closet of an abandoned Dallas-area home, officials said, and police say they still want to talk to a certain man in connection with the case. The monkeys' retrieval -- after officials said the animals were believed to have been stolen -- is part of just the latest in a string of suspicious incidents this month at the zoo, including what it said were 'unusual' circumstances surrounding a vulture's death last week. As for the monkeys: Investigators found them after receiving a tip they may be at an abandoned home in Lancaster, a city some 15 miles south of the zoo, Dallas police said. 'Dallas police, with Lancaster police, went to the home and the home was empty, and the monkeys were found in a closet,' Dallas police told CNN."
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Tomorrow is Ground Hog Day. If trump sees his shadow (how can he
miss with a body like that) does that mean we'll have 6 more weeks
of B.S.? And that don't stand for bad storms.
This from a friend in Mexico who has found the ideal spot for George
Devolder Santos if he gets ran out of DC.
https://visitguadalajara.com/lgtbq
They have dozens of drag show venues and dozens of gay bars, with
over 50 gay owned businesses. An international film festival. He can
make a film of his exciting life in his spare time.
And Gay Games 2023 will be held there, so his basketball skills will
come in handy. That is, if his knee replacements worked out.
All of us here have been gobsmacked by the idiocy of the people who follow Trump and believe in conspiracy theories or just plain crazy nut scenarios. Watch this clip of Jordan Klepper (who does this thing brilliantly) engage with the folks who are attending a Trump rally or "get together." Reminds me of young children who make up fantastic stories, believing they are absolutely correct.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jordan-klepper-trump-supporter-conspiracies_n_63d9d276e4b0c8e3fc81552b
I am really getting sick and tired reading about Sandy toes aka George the King of Spain (at one time)–––he's playing his game and he's getting all the attention he graves––-when he finally explodes he'll add this experience to his resume and move on to his next adventure leaving a black mark on the House floor to remind us of the incompetence of a party that's imploding.
Last night watched a PBS Frontline–-"Putin and Presidents"–-we go through Bush who looked deeply into Putin's eyes and saw his soul to Obama who didn't want to involve with him at all to Trump who became "Putin's puppet" not realizing that Putin thought him an idiot to Biden who as Vice president and then as president had his number from the get go. And Putin, this little man who swaggers like he's ten feet tall is like the greedy caterpillar who gobbles up anything in his way and then explodes from overeating. Putin, however, is not giving up until ....? What kind of implosion will it take? The fact that Putin used the Trump years as a free for all interfering with elections and other inroads and the insurrection was right up his ally.
"Do me a favor, though"≠≠≠the start of something big.
My Kevin sez the voters put Kitara in office and he won’t do anything without their say so.
Um, no. No one voted for this clown. They voted for the made up fantasy candidate who doesn’t exist.
The Evil Turtle started this “Let the voters decide” canard when he refused to allow Obama’s Supreme Court candidate a chance. But voters had already decided. They voted for Obama. The next election was a year away. However when it came time, again, to “Let the voters decide”, it was only weeks away from an election and the Turtle shelved that plan because Fatty was getting ready to appoint a religious fanatic.
“Let the voters decide” is confederate speak for “Fuck the voters. We do whatever the hell we want”.
THAT’S what My Kevin means.
Akhilleus,
Timing is everything, ain't it? And oh, yeah, for the R's, which voters, too.
For Ireland, today is the first day of spring, Imbolc. It's also St. Brigid's Day and this is the first year that St. Brigid has been a patron saint of Ireland, Patrick and Colum having been in the trade for some time longer. The Irish made a specific point that not having a female patron is unacceptable, so Bridey it is, and a happy (and clean) Irish Spring to you all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fZEvK2NaV8
DeSantis may be in trouble since rally size now determines who will be president according to the Right and those Klepper interviewees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/college-board-advanced-placement-african-american-studies.html
Who says losers can't win?
Pathetic.
What the College Board should have done is design a course specifically directed at states who wish their children to be ignorant.
Label it Not So Advanced Placement, perhaps...
@Ken Winkes: And they could require the kids to wear pointed white hoods when they come in to take the test. Shouldn't be a problem; likely Mom has some nicely-bleached, starched & ironed head-toppers in the top dresser drawer.
Gee…why didn’t the College Board finish the job racist fucks like DeSantolini started? How about an AP course in Steppinfetchit Uncle Tomism? Then darkies sho nuff have to bow to de massa and ask politely if deys can stick around to serve de white folks.
So it looks like the College Board's AP African American Studies will not be dealing much with contemporary black history (BLM), current day racism (CRT), black women, or the LGBTQ community. Though they will teach kids about giving cover for bigots with black conservativism. All to protect their lucrative cash cow, they made half a billion dollars in 2019 off the AP courses. At least it should be an easy course now that they cut out most of the real curriculum. I wonder if the college credits will transfer north of the Mason-Dixon line?
Why not AP courses in disinformation, gaslighting, white supremacy, voter disenfranchisement, violent overthrow of the government, virulent misogyny, tax breaks for the obscenely wealthy?
I’m sure DeSantolini and his fascist followers would give a great big Heinrich Himmler thumbs up for courses like that. After all, they don’t give a shit about real education. They care about indoctrination, hatred, and spreading moral turpitude like cream cheese on a (Christian) bagel.