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Virginia Senate Committee Blocks Slew of Education Bills

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Madison Hirneisen | February 18, 2022 A panel of Virginia state Senate lawmakers defeated a torrent of Republican-backed education bills Thursday, including measures to require schools to maintain a catalog and identify library books with “graphic sexual content,” and prevent transgender students from participating in sports aligned with their gender identity.  The Democrat-majority Senate Committee

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Smearing a Hindu American Woman of Color as a ‘White Supremacist’

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Asra Nomani | February 18, 2023 (RealClearPolitics) — Right after 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 7, Democratic Virginia state Sen. Chap Petersen was walking up a hill to a session of the state legislature in Richmond when his phone rang. The caller was Rafi Ahmed, the Pakistan American cofounder of the Dar Al-Noor mosque in Manassas,

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