something to the classroom discussion, mr. heilemann? no, i just my karins is sounding like a leprechaun this morning. it s funny i think appealing. bill looks great, sounds great. really this is awkward can we see a picture of dublin, please, to get us segwayed out of this mess bill, thank you so much. great seeing ya. there you go let s have three seconds of silence, no heilemann. two, one, all right. chinese president xi jinping will visit russia next week. we ve learned that xi is expected to hold talks with vladimir putin according to china s foreign ministry the state visit is going to take place from monday to wednesday new this morning, big news, nato member slovakia is announcing its government approved a plan to give ukraine 13 soviet-era mig-29 fighter jets. it comes after poland announced it, too, will provide jets to ukraine, the first member of nato to do so.
than florida governor ron desantis. he signed a stop woke bill which restricted discussions of race in florida classrooms and workplaces. he signed a parental rights and education bill prohibiting classroom discussion on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. and this week florida lawmakers introduced a bill to expand a ban on gender identity education through eighth grade. the bill would also ban people from using pronouns that accurately describe their gender identity. to banning the new ap african american studies course, florida has become the model for restrictions that target minority groups and seek to rewind the clock on the way we teach american history and social studies. and nowhere is governor desantis campaign to overhaul american education, nowhere is
dccc know? they paid for this. did they get the information. both bacon ohio congressman zac nunn had their military records leaked and are calling for an investigation. they acquire the information without my consent. they used forms perpetrating myself or entity working on my behalf. the democratic congressional campaign committee has not responded to our requests for comment. fox is told the pentagon has promised an answer to the committees by march 17th, bret? all right, mike. thank you. florida governor ron desantis has signed a bill to reorganize the regulations allowing walt disney world to self-governor. the governor moved to strip disney of its status after the company publicly opposed the state s parental rights law preventing classroom discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in certain grade levels. desantis says disney s then ceo called him to complain about the pressure he faced during their showdown.
summer. you talk about this new trump path. one of the bricks in that path, if you would, is this war on ideas that we re seeing more and more measures to erase mentions of race, gender, oppression, so on in schools libraries with books being banned, ideas being censored. have we ever seen anything like this in america beyond the red scare? and what affect might this have? right. so there really isn t much that is certainly not at this scale. i mean, the two examples that people cite in american history was the red scare in the 50s, loyal deals demanded of teachers and university professors. then the anti-evolution laws that led to the monkey trial in the 1920s. but many more red states are moving to restrict the classroom discussion of race to make it easier for conservative critics to ban books than we saw in the 1920s. and this is part of a much broader development, whether
classroom discussion of race to make it easier for conservative critics to banned books than we saw in the 1920s. and this is part of a much broader development. whether we are talking about abortion rights, voting rights, lgbtq rights, book bans, the right to protest, with heightened penalties for public protests on a whole variety and of course the censorship of classroom teachers. you are seeing the red states with the support of the republican majority on the supreme court in many cases, looking to rollback a movement in the opposite direction, since the 1960s, since the 1960s the general direction of american life has been to nationalize more rights, and to reduce the ability of states to restrict those rights, and we are seeing a full-scale counterrevolution, of which abortion is the most powerful symbol and a one that may come back to bite republicans the most. but we are heading toward a world which is really unseen since the 1950s in america, in which your basic civil rights