Bill Reich
@wreich
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Here are the facts: Crude oil prices are DOWN. And yet…gas prices are up. That’s because greedy oil companies are ripping you off. They are raking in record profits at your expense. I’m calling for a new tax on these corrupt oil companies to put money back in your pocket.
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Brian Kemp has shown you who he is. Give me the opportunity to show you who we can be.
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We're so tired of reading about corporations with excessive CEO pay who spend millions enriching shareholders but are now laying off thousands of employees. American workers need unions, protections, and better wages. #RaiseTheWage #UnionStrong
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And as if on cue, I coe across this @DianeRavitch post about Fordham's privatization efforts in Ohio. (Hey @DianeRavitch guess who is going to review the history standards in Virginia...) 5/ https://t.co/5L5HwJmBpr
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Stephen Dyer is a former state legislator in Ohio who writes frequently about the perils of school choice. In this post, he warns that the Thomas B. Fordham Institute (nominally based in Dayton but…
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I grow tired of saying it, so this will be the last time. Why are 70% of Americans allowing the outvoted 30% — to set national policy?
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Bob Shepherd: The Goal of the Reactionary Supreme Court
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Bob Shepherd, polymath and educator, predicts the truly extraordinary goal of the far-right extremist Supreme Court. It mainly consists of dismantling the federal government’s powers. This was proc…
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Virginia: Evangelical Church Plans to Open New School to Meet Alleged Demand
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In Virginia, an evangelical church announced plans to open a new school. They claim that demand for private Christian education has soared due to controversies over critical race theory (i.e., teac…
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Peter Greene: Chris Rufo’s Radical Plan to Eliminate Public Education
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A few months ago, Christopher Rufo gave a speech at Hillsdale College that he called “Laying Siege to the Institutions.” I listened and was appalled by his claim that society was in des…
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Reader: Why The Supreme Court Is Wrong About Abortion
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A reader who calls him/herself Quickwrit explains why the Supreme Court’s recent decision on abortion is wrong. The Bible is silent on abortion: The 9th Amendment gives Clarence Thomas the constitu…
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Ohio: Legislators Want to Compel Teaching of “Both Sides” of Holocaust, Slavery
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Ohio Republican legislators have drafted a bill to require teachers to teach “both sides” of controversial issues. The sponsor wants teachers to teach the Holocaust from the perspective of German s…
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Lies About the 10-Year-Old Child Who Was Raped in Ohio
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I had not planned to write anything more about the child who was raped in Ohio, became pregnant with the rapist’s semen, but had to go to Indiana for an abortion. But then someone wrote a comment h…
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Renaming the Supreme Court: The Supreme Christian Court
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After a consistent flow of decisions tearing down the wall of separation between church and state, readers have proposed that the U.S. Supreme Court should henceforth be known as the Supreme Christ…
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I just wrote a @Network4pubEd letter: Urgent: Don't Let Congress Overturn the Charter School Program Rules. Write one here:
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After years of hard work advocating for Charter School Program reform, the Network for Public Education scored an important victory for students, families, and taxpayers when the U.S. Department of...
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