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Gov. J.B. Pritzker stresses education in $49.6 billion budget proposal while blasting a ‘virulent strain of nationalism’ in national schools debate
SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker stressed added funding for education in his $49.6 billion spending budget proposal Wednesday though also working with the occasion to blast “a virulent strain of nationalism” that he explained has contaminated the nationwide discussion over school curricula and the content of library cabinets. “There is a virulent pressure of nationalism plaguing our country, led by demagogues who are pushing censorship, with a unique assault suitable now on college board associates and library trustees,” Pritzker stated. The remarks arrived as the Democratic governor delivered a merged finances and Point out of the State address, talking in the Illinois Household chamber to a entire joint session of…
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Pastor William Barber says Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy’
CNN — Left vs. right. Woke vs. the unwoke. Red State Jesus vs. Blue State Jesus. There are some leaders who see faith and politics strictly as an either/or competition: You win by turning out your side and crushing the opposition. But the Rev. William J. Barber II, who has been called “the closest person we have to MLK” in contemporary America, has refined a third mode of activism called “fusion politics.” It creates political coalitions that often transcend the conservative vs. progressive binary. Barber, a MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, says a coalition of the “rejected stones” of America—the poor, immigrants, working-class whites, religious minorities, people of color and members…