2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and donors.
https://t.co/bqr2Dvxhc2
Ok @JoeNBC, let's talk college free speech & #CancelCulture, a thread:
1. @OleMiss fired Garrett Felber, a celebrated anti-racism history scholar who spoke up on UM leaders' relationships with 'powerful, racist donors' & ties to mass incarceration.
Read: https://t.co/0eDlpsUPq6
2. @OleMiss is trying to compel its ombudsman to turn over confidential communications in order to unmask the #UMemails whistleblowers who exposed a web of racism among UM officials and donors.
https://t.co/bqr2Dvxhc2
3. Faculty fear it's an effort to fire the ombudsman.
"People would be terrified of speaking up because people who speak up get hammered at this university. There is no place to go except the Ombuds office." https://t.co/bqr2Dvxhc2
4. UM's EORC, which enforces Title IX, is leading the effort to unmask the #UMEmails whistleblowers on "hostile work environment" allegations after they exposed a web of racism and sexism on campus. https://t.co/bqr2Dvxhc2
5. When someone at UM journalism school leaked an audio recording that could've revealed a wealthy donor was behind racist emails and photos, a "witch hunt" ensued to find the "treacherous" whistleblower.
https://t.co/5zO5Y8gsEg
6. After left-wing UM sociologist JT Thomas joined the #ScholarStrike to teach about systemic racism, State Auditor Shad White investigated & subpoenaed his class roster, communications & teaching materials.
https://t.co/vbv5hDcWDi
7. Chancellor Glenn Boyce not only did not stand up for Prof Thomas' 1st amendment rights, but turned over Thomas' teaching materials. White is now demanding Thomas pay $1912, saying his protest broke the law.
https://t.co/K7MO5V8MuL
8. In a letter to the chancellor, auditor White said Thomas could be fired for participating in the nationwide effort to focus attn on racial & policing injustice & to use Scholar Strike as a teaching tool. https://t.co/zVZb2rVEPq
9. Meanwhile, after j-school donor Ed Meek made public a racist Facebook post w pics of Black women in tight party clothes, UM journalism school dean Will Norton condemned him.
But guess who wasn't cancelled? https://t.co/K2yGQqYsgj
10. Wealthy businessman Blake Tartt was the donor who actually shot the photos Meek posted—& wrote in an email to Norton:
"Oxford & Ole Miss have real problems when Black hookers are working on Jackson Ave." https://t.co/K2yGQqYsgj
11. Norton not only didn't cancel Tartt, he kept his knowledge of the emails and that Tartt took the photos even as he publicly denounced Meek and called for his name to be removed from the j-school. In fact...
https://t.co/K2yGQqYsgj
12. Norton continued showering Tartt (who sent Norton other racist emails referring to Serena Williams using an 🦍 emoji) with praise for more than a year end a half after, hoping to procure a sizable donation. https://t.co/bhW3yfH2MO
13. Tartt's role in the controversy that took Ed Meek down was covered up.
Not only was Tartt not cancelled, but the next year, he served on the committee to find a new chancellor—and helped pick Boyce. https://t.co/bhW3yfH2MO
When whistleblowers made a public records request that uncovered the truth about the Ed Meek affair and the Tartt/Norton emails, Dean Norton resigned, hoping that the emails would stay secret. https://t.co/5zO5Y8gsEg
14. The emails also included the dean making homophobic comments about then-Fox News host & alum Shepard Smith.
Publicly, Norton said he wanted to return to teaching. https://t.co/5zO5Y8gsEg
15. As we worked on these stories, we found that even many tenured faculty were scared to death to speak publicly without anonymity. They feared professional retaliation—and an oppressive UM media policy. https://t.co/5zO5Y8gsEg
16. After our story came out & revealed the Norton/Tartt emails, was the ex dean cancelled?
No. He hasn't taught since resigning as dean in April, but continues to earn $18k monthly—his dean bonus pay intact. https://t.co/ZiOqq9XLhp
17. The whistleblowers who revealed the racist/sexist/homophobic emails? The UM Title IX organization is trying to unmask them & investigating them for "creating a hostile work environment...on basis of race."
https://t.co/ZiOqq9XLhp
18. When historian Garrett Felber (nationally known for mass incarceration scholarship) gets fired after criticizing campus ties to the private prisons & racist donors, where are campus free speech warriors? 🤔 https://t.co/0eDlpsUPq6
For some reason, these stories are never part of these "But college free speech!" discussions. Why? https://t.co/ZiOqq9XLhp
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3/3 ... 15-member Commission, explained his decision in favor of Hayes by saying that it was NOT the Commission's authority (NOR Congress's, from which the Commission derived its subsidiary power) to determine whether the state properly counted its popular vote. Instead, ...
4/4 ...it was the Commission's job to figure out which of the competing claims was correct concerning who had authority under state law to make the determination upon which the appointment of electors would be based. For Florida, Bradley ruled that the state's canvassing board...
5/5... had this authority at the time the electors voted & thus Congress was obligated to accept the votes cast by the electors that the canvassing board had appointed, and this was true even if the canvassing board's appointment was based on a mistake or even fraud affecting ...
Tomorrow is an important day. We have an obligation to protect the integrity of the election & our democratic system. That\u2019s why 10 of my colleagues & I are calling for an Electoral Commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit to examine voter fraud allegations. pic.twitter.com/fExTpxlmKl
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) January 6, 2021
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4/4 ...it was the Commission's job to figure out which of the competing claims was correct concerning who had authority under state law to make the determination upon which the appointment of electors would be based. For Florida, Bradley ruled that the state's canvassing board...
5/5... had this authority at the time the electors voted & thus Congress was obligated to accept the votes cast by the electors that the canvassing board had appointed, and this was true even if the canvassing board's appointment was based on a mistake or even fraud affecting ...
You want to know about Barockschloss Ludwigsburg? Too bad, I'm going to tell you some stuff about it, as it's my 'local'...
It all came about because Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württe.berg, decided in 1704 that he wanted a big old palace from which to be an absolutist Duke, and do absolutist things. So, picking an old hunting lodge, he started to extend it...
Thing is, though, to build a residential palace, you need a workforce. To gain a workforce, they needed somewhere to live. So, alongside the palace, he founded the town of Ludwigsburg, now adjacent to Stuttgart.
Ludwig resided at Ludwigsburg until 1733, when, childless, he kicked the bucket. Then Carl-Eugen, a relative, became Duke, and that's when things became lit.
See Carl Eugen had been raised in the court of Frederick the Great, and had been deprived of fun and female company - they were banned from the Prussian court.
So, he was essentially a big fat party animal from the get-go.
Ludwigsburg Residential Palace is often nicknamed the \u2018Versailles of Swabia\u2019! Take with our #DailyDrone a bird\u2019s-eye view of one of the largest Baroque palaces in Germany. pic.twitter.com/9nn8oY34HG
— DW Culture (@dw_culture) December 21, 2020
It all came about because Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württe.berg, decided in 1704 that he wanted a big old palace from which to be an absolutist Duke, and do absolutist things. So, picking an old hunting lodge, he started to extend it...
Thing is, though, to build a residential palace, you need a workforce. To gain a workforce, they needed somewhere to live. So, alongside the palace, he founded the town of Ludwigsburg, now adjacent to Stuttgart.
Ludwig resided at Ludwigsburg until 1733, when, childless, he kicked the bucket. Then Carl-Eugen, a relative, became Duke, and that's when things became lit.
See Carl Eugen had been raised in the court of Frederick the Great, and had been deprived of fun and female company - they were banned from the Prussian court.
So, he was essentially a big fat party animal from the get-go.
Durham County Council has upheld my complaint that Councillor David Boyes breached its Code of Conduct for communications in respect of Travellers. This would appear to be the first time in England that a councillor has been so held to account for such communications. [1/16]
The grounds for the complaint are already set out by me: https://t.co/0MDqO6dyja. In summary: on 7 May 2020, Cllr Boyes posted on a Facebook site he shared with another councillor a video of scorch damage from barbeque trays and littering on and around a picnic table.
[2/16]
The table was in a picnic area in a nature reserve in the Easington constituency which Cllr Boyes represents. The video was accompanied by a comment from Cllr Boyes linking the ‘state’ of the tables with Travellers. That post attracted a number of comments which he liked.
[3/16]
Those liked comments included:
▪️ ‘scum should be f**k*ng shot oxygen thieves’ [edited]
▪️ ‘And they wonder why many people do not welcome them’.
[4/16]
Cllr Boyes accepted at the hearing that he did not have proof that Travellers caused the damage and that it was wrong for him to so implicate Travellers.
[5/16]
The press are now also covering Durham's decision to hold the hearing into the complaint against Cllr Boyes behind closed doors. See this item by @JHarrisonLDR, which includes reference to representations by @GypsyTravellers for a public hearing.https://t.co/C6M4KR65cW https://t.co/LuS8jQ2moi
— Dermot Feenan (@dermotfeenan) December 15, 2020
The grounds for the complaint are already set out by me: https://t.co/0MDqO6dyja. In summary: on 7 May 2020, Cllr Boyes posted on a Facebook site he shared with another councillor a video of scorch damage from barbeque trays and littering on and around a picnic table.
[2/16]
For those unfamiliar with the details of this complaint, I set out the basis of the complaint in the following 7 images:
— Dermot Feenan (@dermotfeenan) November 11, 2020
[8/14] pic.twitter.com/wrU18mBlMa
The table was in a picnic area in a nature reserve in the Easington constituency which Cllr Boyes represents. The video was accompanied by a comment from Cllr Boyes linking the ‘state’ of the tables with Travellers. That post attracted a number of comments which he liked.
[3/16]
Those liked comments included:
▪️ ‘scum should be f**k*ng shot oxygen thieves’ [edited]
▪️ ‘And they wonder why many people do not welcome them’.
[4/16]
Cllr Boyes accepted at the hearing that he did not have proof that Travellers caused the damage and that it was wrong for him to so implicate Travellers.
[5/16]
To mark the occasion of @mtgreenee entering Congress, I’m going to delineate her history with QAnon, based on two livestream videos and her own tweets.
This thread will clarify why I believe it’s fair and accurate to describe Greene as a “QAnon follower” or “QAnon believer.”
This thread will clarify why I believe it’s fair and accurate to describe Greene as a “QAnon follower” or “QAnon believer.”
Earlier, I filmed new Congresswoman @mtgreenee.
— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) January 3, 2021
She is wearing a mask that says \u201cTrump Won.\u201d
(Photos of playback from my videocamera.) pic.twitter.com/YaWs3eXQCz
