An increasing number of digital products that monitor childrens’ online behavior are being adopted by schools in association with Big Tech.
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Pro-Putin Republicans break ranks by heaping praise on Kremlin
Far-right lawmakers prompt outrage as US public opinion is overwhelmingly united in support of Ukraine
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When Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on conservative radio show Voice of Rural America this week, she launched a full-throated defence of Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“You see, Ukraine just kept poking the bear, and poking the bear, which is Russia, and Russia invaded,” the Georgia congresswoman said. “There is no win for Ukraine here. Russia is being successful in their invasion.”
It was hardly the first time Greene had courted controversy. The first-term congresswoman, who has fast emerged as one of the most polarising lawmakers on Capitol Hill, was stripped of her committee assignments last year over her endorsements of QAnon and September 11-related conspiracy theories.
But now Greene, along with a handful of other far-right members of Congress including North Carolina congressman Madison Cawthorn, has prompted fresh outrage by heaping praise on Putin at a time when the overwhelming majority of Americans support Kyiv over the Kremlin."
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The Latest Front in the Republican War on Democracy
While progressives have taken some comfort from the election and early months of the Biden presidency, Republicans have been hard at work on a well-documented campaign against democracy. If they cannot develop a political program to appeal to and persuade a majority of Americans to vote for them, Republicans seem determined to change election rules to ensure that those who turn out to vote will be tilted in their favor.
The latest front in this ever-expanding guerilla war on democracy involves efforts to limit voters’ ability to use the initiative and referendum process, which constitute key levers of direct democracy, for fear that they might enact policies that Republicans oppose.
On May 21, The New York Times reported that “so far in 2021, Republicans have introduced 144 bills to restrict the ballot initiative processes in 32 states…Of those bills, 19 have been signed into law by nine Republican governors. In three states, Republican lawmakers have asked voters to approve ballot initiatives that in fact limit their own right to bring and pass future ballot initiatives.”
https://verdict.justia.com/2021/05/24/the-latest-front-in-the-republican-war-on-democracy