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Project 2025 is linked to “The Statement on Christian Nationalism” manifesto which seeks to implement a Scripture-based system of gov't whereby Christ-ordained “civil magistrates” exercise authority over the American public, reports @jennycohn1 . READ:
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In #BucksCounty @PennridgeSD , whose school board has had a far-right Moms for Liberty, book banning super majority, @PennridgeDems sweep tonight's election & take the board back. This sweep, like the @CBSDSchools sweep, sends a message to keep MAGA/M4L politics out of Public Ed.
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. @CBSDSchools forced a librarian to remove a quote from his door by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: “We must take sides.Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." BC of Policy 321 this isn't considered fair & balanced.
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Roger Stone and His Network Must Face Justice If We Want to Avoid Another Jan. 6 | @jennycohn1 continues her investigation into how Stone & his allies have fractured the U.S. using a combination of information warfare, physical intimidation, and violence.
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United In Purpose: The Shady Christian Nonprofit Tied to A Massive Voter Data Leak & The Big Lie | Ben Carson, who rallied for Doug Mastriano this week, is also part of this christo-fascist MAGA movement that threatens US democracy, writes @jennycohn1 .
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#BucksCounty @CBSDSchools Voters to MAGA millionaire Paul Martino: Democracy Is Not for Sale! @nu4cbsd swept the Central Bucks school board race, and with the whole nation watching. Martino dropped about 300K for this race. @SenSantarsiero made the announcement minutes earlier.
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1/ Moms for Liberty's Tiffany Justice speaking right now says "1 of the unique blessings of living in America is freedom of speech...M4L champions this and exemplifies it." Meanwhile at the conference they have blocked journalists from reporting on summit sessions. #M4L
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The "Take Our Border Back" convoy is propelled by religious extremists tied to disgraced retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn, a top proponent of the 2020 “Stop the Steal” movement, writes @jennycohn1 .
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Roger Stone Deserves More Scrutiny for His Role in Events Leading to #Jan6th | Stone incorporated violent extremist groups into “Stop the Steal” effort, which was itself a product of his warped political mind writes @jennycohn1 in 1st of a 3-part series.
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Newly Surfaced Video of Moms For Liberty Advisor Reveals Religious Extremist Agenda | Moms for Liberty is a re-branded lobbying group with underreported ties to Christian nationalism. Read @jennycohn1 's latest!
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Moms For Liberty & The Dominionist Assault On America’s ‘Education Mountain’ | The Seven Mountains mandate is a strategy used by Christian supremacists in order to achieve societal dominion for God. @jennycohn1 on the importance of school board elections.
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This happened in the lead up to #HolocaustMemorialDay . Thankfully because we shone a light on this, @CBSDSchools actually allowed this librarian at CB South High School to put Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's quote back up on his door. We will keep shining a light on #BucksCounty
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. @CBSDSchools forced a librarian to remove a quote from his door by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: “We must take sides.Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." BC of Policy 321 this isn't considered fair & balanced.
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Is There A ‘Stop The Steal’ Movement Brewing In @CBSDSchools ? | 13 petitions have been filed in the Court of Common Pleas challenging the election results for 3 new Democratic school board members. It’s pathetic, writes Editor @cmychalejko . #BucksCounty
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Jan 6 Committee Made a Mistake Leaving this Stone Unturned | Part 2 of @jennycohn1 3-part series exposing Roger Stone’s central role in creating the climate of hate, division, disinformation, & physical intimidation that culminated in the #J6 insurrection.
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Moms for Liberty has now banned our journalist @PatHLaMarche from attending smaller sessions being facilitated by their guest speakers. The same group that wants to ban books now wants to ban media from covering their joyful warriors and reporting their message.
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Doylestown Township Board of Supervisors is now controlled by a Democratic majority w/ the election of Jennifer Herring & Judy Dixon. This is the 1st time ever that Democrats control the board of this #BucksCounty municipality. @ConOHanlon told readers keep an eye on this race.
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Moms For Liberty’s ‘Joyful Warriors’ Actually Make Life Joyless for Communities With Their Hate & Rage | The group riles up right-wing parents with misinformation, fear-mongering & bigotry in order to weaponize them in its war on secular public education.
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Pastors for Doug Mastriano? Somebody Call the IRS | A leader from the Family Research Council (who @splcenter designates a "hate group") is training pastors in Philadelphia to skirt around tax law & work to elect Mastriano for governor. #Pennsylvania #PA01
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Trump & @GOP Blocked Election Security Bills, But ‘Stop The Steal' Made Everyone Forget | Roger Stone & his cabal of miscreants will flood the information space w/phony, distracting & inflammatory narratives about 2024 election. READ @jennycohn1 's latest:
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. @RepBrianFitz Votes Against Combatting White Supremacist & Neo-Nazi Activity in Military & Law Enforcement | The Pentagon has already raised alarms about white supremacist inroads into our armed forces. #PA01 ’s Republican congressman is unconcerned.
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Last night was also a bad night for #BucksCounty @RepBrianFitz . The self-anointed "moderate" endorsed three far-right MAGA/Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates who @CBSDSchools and @PennridgeSD voters overwhelmingly rejected. #PA01 may be ready for a change in 2024.
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3/4 Pastors For Doug Mastriano? Somebody Call The IRS | A leader from the Family Research Council is training pastors in Philadelphia to skirt around tax law and work to elect Mastriano for governor, reports @JennyStephens52
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#God Didn’t Want Doug Mastriano to Be Governor of #Pennsylvania , and Neither Did Voters | 55 percent of #PA voters declared the Christian Nationalist, anti-choice Republican too extreme for the Keystone State. #PA01 read our #Election2022 update here:
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A bad night for another #BucksCounty MAGA millionaire - Jim Worthington. He urged Newtown voters on his Facebook page to not vote for @elenfornewtown . Newtown voters did the opposite. Elen Snyder will keep her Newtown Township Supervisor seat (even as votes still come in).
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In #BucksCounty , MAGA millionaire Jim Worthington is telling his Facebook followers not to vote for @elenfornewtown for Newtown Township Supervisor. So that obviously means you should definitely Vote for Elen Snyder - and make sure your friends & neighbors do as well on Tuesday.
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Meet Three Of The Neighbors Who United To Defend Public Education In Central Bucks School District | Learn how people power defeated a Bucks County plutocrat – MAGA millionaire Paul Martino – and his Moms for Liberty-backed school board candidates. READ:
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Heather Boyd Wins in Delco, Democrats Keep Control of the Pennsylvania House | Voters in Delaware County’s 163rd District made their voices heard and they weren’t buying what Republicans were selling - an anti-choice, book banning, reactionary future.
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#Breaking #BucksCounty #PA01 Sources tell @BucksCoBeacon that @CBSDSchools Lenape Middle School in Doylestown Borough teacher was suspended after trying to support LGBTQ+ safety and rights in the school. Students and parents are outraged and concerned.
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. @CBSDSchools Voters Must Reject MAGA Millionaire Paul Martino’s Right-Wing Activist School Board Candidates. It’s really deceitful when candidates like Aarati Martino scrub social media of photos w/Trump & Kathy Barnette to hide their MAGA politics READ:
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"MSM fails to provide timely coverage of bad actors shredding US democracy from local level up. @BucksCoBeacon fulfills this vital function in #Pennsylvania . I write 4 them bc local politics have massive nat'l implications." @jennycohn1 says please donate:
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1/2 @KeithOlbermann told his national audience about the “small and investigative publication doing great and dangerous work: @BucksCoBeacon ...You cannot convince me that their work did not contribute to a victory earlier this month [in @CBSDSchools ]."
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It Takes A Village: Expelling Right-Wing Extremism From #BucksCounty School Districts | What we are seeing today in @CBSDSchools is just the latest chapter in the history of the right’s long war against public education – and progress in general.
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Moms for Liberty extremists want to label @BucksCoBeacon as "Opposition Press." We❤️that label. We are Opposed to the group's far-right agenda & War on Public Education. Join the "Opposition" & fund Resistance Media by becoming a monthly sustainer today!
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant! @CBSDSchools reversed course & is allowing the Elie Wiesel quote to be hung. But it shows what's capable of happening w/out oversight. Here is a statement from @ADLPhiladelphia 's Regional Director @AndrewGoretsk , who called Policy 321 "harmful"
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. @CBSDSchools forced a librarian to remove a quote from his door by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel: “We must take sides.Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." BC of Policy 321 this isn't considered fair & balanced.
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#BucksCounty GOPers are desperately recruiting "Talented Clappers" to support @PennridgeSD far-right school board majority, @Vermilion_Edu & newly proposed Hillsdale 1776 curriculum b/c they're all overwhelmingly unpopular. *And no worries if you don't have to live in district🤡*
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Sen. @JohnFetterman Courageously Seeks Help for Clinical Depression | “It’s not easy for anyone to be open about mental health challenges. But I am so proud of him for asking for help & taking steps to get the care he needs,” said @giselefetterman . READ:
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#Pennsylvania voters choose to protect voting rights, civil rights, and abortion rights by electing Daniel McCaffery as State Supreme Court Justice.
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1/3 Reporting Right included @jennycohn1 's reporting on the dangerous threat of the Christian Right @BucksCoBeacon on their list of Best Journalism of 2023! Congrats Jenny!
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Pennsylvania’s Prayer Warrior: Abby Abildness & Her Dominionist Crusade in PA | The New Apostolic Reformation wants to claim the “Seven Mountains” of society for God. It’s Abby’s job to conquer Pennsylvania’s government mountain, reports @jennycohn1 .
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“The vision I have for everyone is thousands of little brush fires all over the state,” said @FreedomWorks Carol Davis during #Pennsylvania 'Election Integrity' summit. “They can’t put them all out.” Leaked audio reveals @PAGOP plans to subvert #elections .
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1/ @CBSDSchools right-wing board majority @ last minute included on tonight's agenda a whopping $90,000 raise & contract extension for embattled Superintendent Lucabaugh which many in district see as a reward for him championing their agenda of banning books, pride flags & more
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Tonight @CBSDSchools board meeting, a Christian Nationalist parent implores right-wing majority school board to make Jesus lord of the classroom because it's either Christ or chaos. This is about anti- #LGBTQ Policy 321 which would ban Pride Flags & muzzle teachers. #BucksCounty
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#BucksCounty aspiring MAGA oligarch Paul Martino is already "gearing up for 2025." Ensure we're still here in 2025 reporting on right-wing extremists who want control of school boards & local gov't, while amplifying progressive voices & analysis. Support:
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In #BucksCounty @CouncilRockSD , Democrats didn't sweep like in @CBSDSchools & @Pennirdgesd , but they did flip the board and now have the majority (if reported results remain the same). A Huge Accomplishment! And another win for Democrats, students, and teachers.
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Christianity Will Fail If We Don’t Stop Christian Nationalism | We must resist Christian nationalists’ heretical form of religion, which parallels the “morality” of the Roman Empire that Jesus challenged.
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NAR apostle and self-declared Christian Nationalist Lance Wallnau campaigning with Doug Mastriano in #Pennsylvania today. For more on Wallnau and the growing Christian fascist threat read @jennycohn1 's latest @BucksCoBeacon column:
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OPINION: The Hypocrisy of Bucks County ‘Outsider’ Paul Martino | The MAGA millionaire thinks people need to “protect” Central Bucks School District from outsiders’ influence. Maybe it's his money and politics we need protecting from, writes @lela33 .
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Florida Teacher Shows #BucksCounty Educators How To Fight Back Against Book Banning | After ordered to take a Vonnegut classic off the shelves, this teacher raised over $25K to put “Slaughterhouse-Five” & other challenged books into the hands of students.
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Republicans Want To Defund Our Libraries | “Defund the Library” succinctly encompasses the GOP’s free-market agenda to destroy public funding of institutions that enlighten and educate, all under the disingenuous banner of “protecting children."
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Today, Tomorrow, and Yesterday as a Transgender Youth – In #BucksCounty and Across The Country | I'm a senior in high school, and living as a queer student in @CBSDSchools hasn't always been easy, writes student journalist Leo Burchell. READ:
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Mastriano Accuses Elementary School Teachers of Showing Students Porn, Pushing Them To Be Transgender | The QAnon-friendly #Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate's “vicious & dangerous lies,” as the @PSEA calls them, could get a teacher killed.
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2/ She also evokes Mao, Hitler and the Taliban to equate their totalitarian oppression with what students are facing here in the US. She says Moms for Liberty will come together to protect their children. A propaganda video w/fascist overtones now plays. Patriot mobile up next...
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Former GOP Congressman Jim Greenwood endorses Democrat @stoltzforpa . Why? Because she'll defend women's rights & reproductive freedoms and "will be a voice of reason for common sense gun safety legislation needed to keep our communities safe.” #BucksCounty
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#BREAKING @BucksGOP Committeewoman Sentenced for Her Role in #Jan6 Insurrection | #BucksCounty Republican Dawn Bancroft, who said, “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her," will only serve 2 months in prison.
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We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press? | More than a decade of media malpractice enabled January 6, writes @rickperlstein . Has the media learned its lesson?
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Doug Mastriano is holding an event Oct. 1 with Jack Posobiec, who has collaborated with neo-Nazis and spread antisemitism. The event is in #BucksCounty , #Pennsylvania at The Fuge in Warminster. #PA01
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Roughly 300 @PerkValleyHS students protested efforts to remove certain books from school libraries. “Censorship is the 1st step toward tyranny,” said sr Riya Shringari. "This what we can do when we stand together,” said jr Bella Day #Pennsylvania #FReadom
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Dominionism Is on The Ballot in November, But Most Voters Have Never Heard of It | @BucksCoBeacon columnist @jennycohn1 's latest deep dive into the movement that could usher in the "end of democracy as we’ve known it” #Election2022 #Pennsylvania #Mastriano
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This 3-minute comment by local mom Dr. Viswanathan to the @CBSDSchools right-wing majority school board and their marionette superintendent Abe Lucabaugh was absolute 🔥. Do yourself a favor today and listen #BucksCounty #PA01
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Not as well-known as the Koch Brothers, the arch-conservative Bradley Foundation is building a far-right infrastructure to undermine electoral democracy, dismantle separation of church & state, attack Public Ed & erode workers’ rights, reports @palan57 .
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An Open Letter to @GovernorShapiro : Fully and Fairly Fund Our Public Schools | Over 350 parents, educators, taxpayers & school board members from across PA also remind him that privatization schemes like vouchers are part of the problem, not the solution.
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The @BucksCoBeacon is inside the Moms for Liberty conference in Philadelphia this weekend to report and provide live updates. Moms for Liberty hired their own security for inside the summit. For a comprehensive report on M4L READ @palan57 's article:
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#BucksCounty Judge Rebukes @PennridgeSD for Acting in Bad Faith, Orders it to Produce Library Records & Pay Legal Fees | The precedent-setting decision should put other school districts, like @CBSDSchools , on notice: Don't violate RTK laws. #bookbans READ:
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FUND DRIVE! If “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” the @BucksCoBeacon has been shining a light on the extremism trying to kill it, and illuminating the local people, ideas & policies that seek to defend it & strengthen it. Become a SUSTAINER & SUPPORT our work!
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Teachers, Students & Central York Community Defeated a Racist #Book Ban in Their School District | Editor @cmychalejko interviewed teachers @benhodgestudios & @Treistan abt how to successfully fight right-wing assaults on public education. #BucksCounty :
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It's a New Day in #BucksCounty @CBSDSchools as Voters Banned Book Banners & Moms for Liberty in this school district. Board President Karen Smith & Vice President Dr. Mariam Mahmud will guide the new Democratic Majority and bring compassion & common sense back to policy making.
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Newly appointed Central Bucks Board President, Karen Smith, swearing in on a stack of banned/challenged books! 🔥🔥🔥
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The Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor is unfit for office, writes Bucks County military veteran Steve Nolan.
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Former US Senator Russ Feingold Calls @RepBrianFitz Resolution For A Constitutional Convention ‘Extremely Dangerous’ | #PA01 's Fitzpatrick joins Steve Bannon, Rick Santorum & Mark Levin as part of this far-right movement to re-write the Constitution. #vote
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1/ @CBSDSchools Teachers, students, parents protested outside CB East High School Tuesday against Policy 321 & Superintendent Lucabaugh's sham town halls w/teachers launched today to talk abt a policy that muzzles them & bans Pride flags. #PA01 BACKGROUND:
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#BucksCounty Moms for Liberty is destroying @PennridgeSD . 1st their board members shadow banned books by having staff check all copies out for entire year. Now they're getting rid of targeted books under the pretense of weeding out "old" & "obsolete" titles #m4lsummit23 #FReadom
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In @PennridgeSD , Books Once Shadow Banned Are Now in the Trash Can | A school board run by Moms for Liberty members has subverted the First Amendment and effectively banned books under the pretense of weeding out old, obsolete titles. READ:
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Project Veritas Faces Defamation Lawsuit in #Pennsylvania for ‘Fabricated’ Voter Fraud Accusations | The far-right political organization weaponized the “Big Lie” against a #PA postal worker. Ironically, he was actually a #Trump voter.
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Aarati Martino, @BucksGOP candidate for @CBSDSchools board, referred to public school kids in Calif as "gangsters." Which kids were they? Her husband Paul dropped over $600,000 in board races last election & helped elect QAnoners, bigots & book banners in #BucksCounty & across PA
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CBSD HS Seniors: Allow Us To Receive Our Diplomas From Alternate School Board Members | Students don't want to receive diplomas from School Board President Dana Hunter or Superintendent Lucabaugh because of their pro-book banning, anti-LGBTQ policies. READ
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A #BucksCounty @CBSDSchools Moms for Liberty @M4LBucksPA extremist posted a photo of a local journalist in her car, while also accusing another reporter online of wanting to show students porn. This is threatening & an incitement of violence. Read more:
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Voters Give @PennridgeDems a Mandate for Change in the School District | @PennridgeSD residents, parents & teachers from both parties voted overwhelmingly to oust extremism from the school board, reports @JennyStephens52 . READ:
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"There’s no reason to expect that they're going to stop with the LGBTQ+ community. And when you look at the library bans, it’s not just about orientation & identity. It’s also about race." Listen to @cmychalejko 's interview with @aclupa about @CBSDSchools .
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"It’s important for people to support independent media outlets like @BucksCoBeacon because the attack on our democracy is from the local level up," writes @jennycohn1 . Support the Beacon: Learn more about Jennifer Cohn & her work.
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Big Oil Spent $5.4 Million To Boost @DrOz in #Pennsylvania Senate Race | The oil and gas industry is betting on Trump-backed Oz to do their bidding – at the expense of the planet and a livable future. #PA01
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1/ We'll be live-tweeting the 1st @CBSDSchools board meeting since voters gave Democrats a mandate for change w/a sweeping victory & new board majority-& a humiliating defeat to aspiring oligarch Paul Martino's candidate slate & superintendent Lucabaugh's planned departure.
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Central Bucks Community Responds To Embattled Superintendent Abe Lucabaugh’s Planned Departure: Relieved | But outgoing GOP board majority plans to award him a golden parachute for his championing their Moms for Liberty-style agenda over last 2 years READ:
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Voters elected a new Democratic @CBSDSchools board majority to return to trusting teachers & librarians to protect students & preserve their intellectual freedom. Turning the page on restrictive book & resource policies is coming, writes @biattah . READ:
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@BucksCoBeacon
BucksCountyBeacon
2 years
1/4 We ran #BucksCounty #PA01 @CBSDSchools new policy draft to challenge (ban) books through a plagiarism checker Que Text & 48% of the text was lifted from from the Texas Education Association, from the state that bans more books than any other in the U.S. Here are some examples
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BucksCountyBeacon
6 months
The Frustration of a @PennridgeSD Parent | If you are unhappy, like I am, with the ideological actions of the #Pennridge school board and its lack of transparency and accountability, the election on November 7 is the only remedy, writes @DavidOD24 .
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BucksCountyBeacon
10 months
. @CBSDSchools Board Pres Dana Hunter, who MAGA millionaire @ahpah is bankrolling for another term, told @Reuters she contacted legal arm of far-right anti-LGBTQ Christian PA Family Institute to rewrite district's book challenge policy & kept it a secret:
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BucksCountyBeacon
6 months
. @CBSDSchools Outgoing @BucksGOP Board Majority’s Bloated Severance Package for Departing Superintendent May Actually Be Illegal | Legal counsel for 4 new school board members contends separation agreement w/Dr Lucabaugh is “unlawful, void & unenforceable”
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BucksCountyBeacon
5 months
Outgoing Republican @PennridgeSD Board Scheduled To (Finally) Terminate Vermilion Education Contract | After months of unanswered pleas from parents & teachers, it took a Democratic sweep on Election Day for the school board to finally get the message.
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BucksCountyBeacon
10 months
Leaked Audio Of Vermilion Education Head Jordan Adams’s Presentation To Moms For Liberty | "What I'm bringing to the table here is the inside information…the fox is in the henhouse,” said the education consultant hired by @PennridgeSD . Transcript included
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@BucksCoBeacon
BucksCountyBeacon
1 year
A @CBSDSchools HS student tonight: "I have not heard one student come up here and beg that you take down a Pride flag." She, like many others, opposes Policy 321, which seeks to ban #LGBTQ pride flags & free speech in the classroom. Background info:
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BucksCountyBeacon
1 year
Moms for Liberty #BucksCounty Leaders Think Public Schools Are Trying to Bring Pedophilia Into the Classrooms | The two chapter heads gave an interview last week about the “battle of good and evil” they are fighting, reports editor @cmychalejko . #PA01
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BucksCountyBeacon
3 months
How The Pennridge Community Came Together To Reject @Moms4Liberty , @Vermilion_Edu & Political Extremism | An interview with Dawn Curran, Emily Smith & Kevin Foster about their successful campaign to return responsible leadership to Pennridge school board.
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BucksCountyBeacon
1 year
. @PhillyInquirer on Paul Martino's attempt to buy school boards & fill 'em w/MAGA @BucksGOP . “We have not set any limits or targets on how much money will be spent" yet. His wife Aarati, a Kathy Barnette supporter, is shopping for a @CBSDSchools seat. READ
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BucksCountyBeacon
4 months
"This is a dangerous powder keg — a Right Wing Speaker who believes the Big Lie, an increasingly unhinged former President, and a Republican base that believes violence may be the only way to preserve America as they know it," writes @danpfeiffer .
@cmychalejko
Cyril Mychalejko
4 months
The Danger of Another Insurrection is Very Real, by @danpfeiffer #January6th
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BucksCountyBeacon
1 year
Editor @cmychalejko speaks w/ @JeffSharlet , author of newly published "The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War," & "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power." They talk his new book & the growing fascist threat in this country
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