I think @ Melizmatic @mindysan33 first posted about this at Elsewhere:
https://www.itdidhappenherepodcast.com/
Great podcast. Still very relevant.
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(eta: correct attribution)
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It might have been her, but might have been me?
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It could have been, and if it was I apologize for the wrong attribution. I am a strong believer in giving appropriate credit.
I actually don’t remember where I first heard about it; I listened when I first came out in 2020. It was just so powerful it’s stuck in my mind since then, and the bonus episodes and episode on the black cross are excellent, too!
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No worries!
Yeah, it’s a great podcast and very well done history project, too. It’s a good reminder that punk wasn’t/isn’t just about having music, but had some real political importance in the 80s and 90s…
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AP News (excerpt): Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with a woman who says she is one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty…
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Nazi goes to a punk event and got what he should have expected. Nazis are stupid.
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Some lucky devil got to punch a nazi!
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Also posted in the GD merkin von bankrupt [mal]administration thread
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A group called “We’re Oklahoma Education,” or WOKE, is distributing a form letter that allows parents to opt-out of aspects of the new curriculum, including lessons on “discrepancies in 2020 elections results” and “Judeo-Christian concepts of ethics and government as the basis for American civilization.” The letter also allows parents to opt their children out of instruction created by right-wing groups, such as PragerU and Hillsdale College. Parents can also request that their child not have “[a]ny interaction with State Superintendent Ryan Walters in any capacity, including viewing any video or audio recording of Mr. Walters.”
WOKE Director Erica Watkins says the group created the opt-out form because they consider some lessons in the new curriculum “propaganda” that is not “appropriate to be taught in school.”
Ironically, WOKE is taking advantage of a law passed by the Republican-controlled Oklahoma legislature in 2024. The law allows “parents who object to any learning material or activity on the basis that it is harmful” to “withdraw their children from the activity or from the class or program in which the material is used.” The letter warns schools that if the opt-out requests are “not honored, or if our child experiences discrimination or any mistreatment, we will pursue any and all legal, equitable, and injunctive remedies available to us at law and equity.”
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But this is where they find out that those laws are applied judiciously, let us say. IOKIYAR, after all.
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