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NBA players' union says Orlando Magic donation to DeSantis super PAC 'alarming'

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1192167673/orlando-magic-desantis-donation-nbpa

This dangerous dimwit (billionaire Betsy DeVos):

[img] Dick & former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos watch courtside during game betw. Orlando Magic (owned by DeVos family) & Brooklyn Nets, 2023-03-26, Orlando FL.

#RichardDeVos #BetsyDeVos #transphobia #TransLivesMatter #DevosFamily #OrlandoMagic #DefundBillionaires #neofascism #CultureWars #DeSantis #GOP #ChristianRight

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/833/543/331/932/149/original/916f1b94e3816f34.webp

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https://persagen.com >> search: "betsy devos"

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Baseball Fans Are Starting to Realize That the Owners Are Not Their Friends

If you peel back the curtain of professional baseball, there’s a labor battle between players ^ owners that has been raging for more than a century.

And in recent years, fans have started to side more with the players

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/baseball-players-league-union-history-mlb-labor-movement/

#DefundBillionaires #baseball

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Those Trump administration era videos, particularly

https://files.persagen.com/01/The_many_controversies_of_Betsy_DeVos.mp4

publicly unveil GOP ideologies backed by far-right Christian billionaires & their foundations:

DeVos, Uihlein, Mercer, ... families - amplified in contemporary culture wars.

* historical revisionism (HBCU a choice)

* transphobia (wedge tactics; note also Roger Severino)

* erosion of public education: rescinding disability support; school vouchers (Christian education)

* eroding women's rights (sexual assault)