Nobody seems to like the San Francisco school boardâs renaming spree
February 2, 2021
The San Francisco Board of Education s announcement that dozens of schools, including those paying homage to Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), must be renamed hasn t been well-received. Writer Gary Kamiya argues in
The Atlantic that not only does the renaming spree provide fodder to right-wing critics, the vote was carried out without a robust and open public debate, draws attention and resources from more pressing issues like reopening schools, and is subject to historical inaccuracies.
The criticism expanded this week when the school district s arts department said it would change its name from the acronym VAPA because acronyms are a symptom of white supremacy culture.
Meatballs, f-bombs, vote fraud conspiracies: A Trump Oval Office meeting so insane, Giuliani was the voice of reason
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On Monday, The New York Times published the results of a massive investigation into Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the election.
Today comes the tragicomic conclusion: a report by Axios on an insane meeting that took place at the White House on Dec. 18 at which the conspiracy-addled lawyer Sidney Powell tried to get herself named a special counsel to investigate Dominion voting machines while Gen. Michael Flynn (he of the two guilty pleas) and the White House staff screamed profanities at each other.
The reporters are Jonathan Swan, who conducted a hard-hitting interview of Trump last year, and Zachary Basu. The whole thing is so crazy that it’s hard to pick any one excerpt, but this will do. Below, Byrne is Patrick Byrne, the chief executive of Overstock.com and a Trump backer. Herschmann is Eric Herschmann, a White House senior adviser. Patrick Cipollone was the White House counsel. Swain and Basu writ
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Good morning all. Did you sleep well? Splendid. Just thought you might like to know that we re all fcking lucky to be alive or, at least, the American republic is. A sample, from Axios:
At one point, with Flynn shouting, Byrne raised his hand to talk. He stood up and turned around to face Herschmann. You re a quitter, he said. You ve been interfering with everything. You ve been cutting us off. Do you even know who the fuck I am, you idiot? Herschmann snapped back. Yeah, you re Patrick Cipollone, Byrne said. Wrong! Wrong, you idiot!
By Ken MeyerFeb 2nd, 2021, 1:03 pm
Former Overstock CEO
Patrick Byrne reportedly took the chaos of the outgoing Trump administration to a new level when he participated in the former president’s meeting with
Sidney Powell back in December.
Axios reporter
Jonathan Swan and
Zachary Basu reported Tuesday on a wild Oval Office meeting in December in which Powell, accompanied by Byrne and
Michael Flynn, pushed a series of conspiracy theories about the election in an attempt to convince President Donald Trump to take drastic action to undo it. That group of outsiders clashed with White House lawyers and advisers, including
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