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i just found out that you were that you grew up in long island. you grew up at the home of colts spring harbor. oh, and most people don't know. that's the that's home of the eugenics movement, this country. but when we look at progressive policy, a lot of people don't understand that housing policy is school policy, that our housing policy that came out of the american economic association, where most of those individuals had these scientific scientific racism created community, is where people couldn't go to school together. it's what created segregation. they created these communities where people would not be able to get a quality education because everyone would be centered. all all the low economic would be centered all across the country in these neighborhoods. so our whole our whole country was built on these ideas. so now we know and i think, again, my friend in the blue jacket for saying what she said earlier, because it's not brain science was working kids arts saying math giving them quality music. i mean project zero has been out of ha
i just found out that you were that you grew up in long island. you grew up at the home of colts spring harbor. oh, and most people don't know. that's the that's home of the eugenics movement, this country. but when we look at progressive policy, a lot of people don't understand that housing policy is school policy, that our housing policy that came out of the american economic association, where most of those individuals had these scientific scientific racism created community, is where people...
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born and raised in the bronx, moved to central long island. watched last night to see was going on and now live in winter park, florida. i hope, my hope is that this gentleman that when the election is truly what he represented last night. we need democrats to start trying to work along with republicans rather than the vitriol spewing that we get from hakeem jeffries. ohif you watch mike johnson whos the speaker of the house, he is very calm. he doesn't, he speaks nicely. i don't hear yelling and screaming about everything. when you see y jeffrey, on the first thing out of his mouth is maga this, maga
born and raised in the bronx, moved to central long island. watched last night to see was going on and now live in winter park, florida. i hope, my hope is that this gentleman that when the election is truly what he represented last night. we need democrats to start trying to work along with republicans rather than the vitriol spewing that we get from hakeem jeffries. ohif you watch mike johnson whos the speaker of the house, he is very calm. he doesn't, he speaks nicely. i don't hear yelling...
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mom and dad on long island of you have probably lived that where the kids come home later in life and they try to make money by forming a newspaper called the great republic. this would be a national literary magazine, but it never takes off in 60. appleton okay. smith gets involved in working with the tammany democratic political machine in manhattan. and when the secession crisis he puts on rallies to try to fight for the union, he writes to new york senator, william seward, and says, will you join us in a bipartisan effort? but he asks seward to sign on to pro-slavery resolutions. and that's something that seward will not do. and seward simply ignores him. now, i mentioned that appleton flat broke living with mom and dad at this point, and he somehow gets with a fish oil factory owner, long island, and they they need whaling vessels to go out and hunt for whales to bring back whale oil, to use in the fish oil factory. now, many of you probably know the whaling industry had been very large in this country up until about 1859 and in 1859, patrol boom was discovered in titusville, pen
mom and dad on long island of you have probably lived that where the kids come home later in life and they try to make money by forming a newspaper called the great republic. this would be a national literary magazine, but it never takes off in 60. appleton okay. smith gets involved in working with the tammany democratic political machine in manhattan. and when the secession crisis he puts on rallies to try to fight for the union, he writes to new york senator, william seward, and says, will...
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island versus pico, which is another case that had to do with school censorship of school library books. and i encourage everyone to look at that case as well. so, yes, we do not want to violate the important cases that have ruled in favor of books, in favor of learning, and in favor of young people and teachers and those who care about the. thank you so much for having me. mary beth tinker thanks for your time on book tv and you're watching about books, a program and podcast produced by c-span's booktv. while each week dozens of new books are published, here's a few. reuters reporter ernest scheider takes a look at the worldwide competition for critical materials and minerals used in the development of devices such as cell phones and electric cars. that book is entitled the war below lithium, copper and the global battle to power our lives. and former new york city taxi driver turned comedian and fox news host jimmy failla is out with a new book that focuses on censorship. and it's titled cancel culture dictionary and a to z guide to winning the war on fun. and one review of a recent b
island versus pico, which is another case that had to do with school censorship of school library books. and i encourage everyone to look at that case as well. so, yes, we do not want to violate the important cases that have ruled in favor of books, in favor of learning, and in favor of young people and teachers and those who care about the. thank you so much for having me. mary beth tinker thanks for your time on book tv and you're watching about books, a program and podcast produced by...
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long islanders are not to the far left and not to the far right and they are not maga. they expect their elected officials to compromise, to cross the aisle and problem solve to get things done. tom suozzi as a centrist really tapped into that. he did what is essential in politics. he met voters where they are. you've got to do that in politics. you've got to meet them where they aren'tng try to bring them along and he did that first reminding them that he has a career of being a centrist in search of common ground and secondly s by affirming their anxieties over the issues that we discussed the immigration and crime. i hope that this is an example to members of congress particularly those on the extreme that if you want to win you haveyo got to be able to tak eabout common ground, not just good government that's going to get us to move us forward. it's a political strategy so i hope this is a signal to those who wantft to move further left and further right and expect a policy to constantly seek that common ground. you are going to get everything you want by the way. i
long islanders are not to the far left and not to the far right and they are not maga. they expect their elected officials to compromise, to cross the aisle and problem solve to get things done. tom suozzi as a centrist really tapped into that. he did what is essential in politics. he met voters where they are. you've got to do that in politics. you've got to meet them where they aren'tng try to bring them along and he did that first reminding them that he has a career of being a centrist in...
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so he asked me to come out to his house in long island. we talked it. i was only half done. i had i was it was 1999 and i didn't think it was until 2005. but he decided he wanted to get it and then he got an option. then it was on other movies and he keep calling me from whatever movie was on to say what, did lincoln do today? that was his relaxing. yeah, yeah, yeah, i can see that. and so then finally decided he wanted to get a scriptwriter start. so he had two scriptwriters work on it for some years, but they never quite got daniel day-lewis as what he wanted to be. daniel had said no to those first two scripts. he said, they're beautiful scripts, but they don't speak to me. finally he got tony kushner to do it. and i think, i partly persuaded tony like i persuaded daniel that when you study lincoln you're going to feel like you're a better person for living with him, which is what i certainly felt. and daniel day then became friend. i mean, he asked me immediately, as soon as daniel said yes. he said, please take them to springfield because he has to see the sites away. b
so he asked me to come out to his house in long island. we talked it. i was only half done. i had i was it was 1999 and i didn't think it was until 2005. but he decided he wanted to get it and then he got an option. then it was on other movies and he keep calling me from whatever movie was on to say what, did lincoln do today? that was his relaxing. yeah, yeah, yeah, i can see that. and so then finally decided he wanted to get a scriptwriter start. so he had two scriptwriters work on it for...
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for far too long, rhode island has had one of the lowest housing production rates in the nation. that's why our administration proposed -- and i'm grateful to the general assembly for approving over a quarter billion-dollar investment in housing in 2022. [applause] and an additional $71 million in housing in last year's budget. in sum, since i've been governor, we've allocated in some since i've been governor we've allocated nearly half a a billion dollars, and while building doesn't happen overnight, we've continued to see signs of progress. we've had a 1600 homes in the pipeline with more on their way andou thanks to the down payment assistance program, we are helping over 1500 first-time homebuyers like the cruz family who are with us tonight. [applause] their two suns moved into their home last year using a down payment assistance program. i was there to welcome them. their son gave me a little seashell, and we loved that because it meant something to him. he wanted to say thank you. he gave me a little gift tonight, so thank you so much. i want to congratulate them on their
for far too long, rhode island has had one of the lowest housing production rates in the nation. that's why our administration proposed -- and i'm grateful to the general assembly for approving over a quarter billion-dollar investment in housing in 2022. [applause] and an additional $71 million in housing in last year's budget. in sum, since i've been governor, we've allocated in some since i've been governor we've allocated nearly half a a billion dollars, and while building doesn't happen...
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schumer used to write this about an imaginary family in long island called the baileys. do you remember this? yeah. they were middle class. they were like second generation immigrant exist and they didn't exist. they were like this make believe family like espn anchors, emmys. i don't know if any of you. yeah they'd made up names. right. but but for schumer he would use them as this kind of like device to talk about what democrats should be doing. and it needs to be policies that the baileys and he discovered elizabeth warren in like literally physically me to see her one time up in the capitol right before the 2000 election because he thought that warren scholarship the two income trap like lint academic validity to his imaginary family like everything warren had studied and found out about bankrupt seen the stresses the economy and the american family like this woman had done. and i it was weird but i met warren who is, you know, instantly captivating, fluent, wonderful and talking to reporters. that's how i got to know her for the boston globe. right. and it kind of,
schumer used to write this about an imaginary family in long island called the baileys. do you remember this? yeah. they were middle class. they were like second generation immigrant exist and they didn't exist. they were like this make believe family like espn anchors, emmys. i don't know if any of you. yeah they'd made up names. right. but but for schumer he would use them as this kind of like device to talk about what democrats should be doing. and it needs to be policies that the baileys...
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born and raised in the bronx, moved to central long island. watched last night to see was going on and now live in winter park, florida. i hope, my hope is that this gentleman that when the election is truly what he represented last night. we need democrats to start trying to work along with republicans rather than the vitriol spewing that we get from hakeem jeffries. ohif you watch mike johnson whos the speaker of the house, he is very calm. he doesn't, he speaks nicely. i don't hear yelling and screaming about everything. when you see y jeffrey, on the first thing out of his mouth is maga this, maga vet, bad republicans, they are the problem, they don't want to worm with us. i'm over listening to jeffries. we need somebody that can get together with the people -- >> we're going to leave this program at this point but you can watch it in its entirety on a website c-span.org. take you live to hearing with former cia, , pentagon and state department officials testify on who's the threat to middle is to build and use interest. you are watching l
born and raised in the bronx, moved to central long island. watched last night to see was going on and now live in winter park, florida. i hope, my hope is that this gentleman that when the election is truly what he represented last night. we need democrats to start trying to work along with republicans rather than the vitriol spewing that we get from hakeem jeffries. ohif you watch mike johnson whos the speaker of the house, he is very calm. he doesn't, he speaks nicely. i don't hear yelling...
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island where you walk in places like cbs and walk in with your family and grab the little desk, people were taking those baskets filling them up with whatever it is that they wanted and walking right out the door why because of laws put in place on the other side of the aisle, there was really no repercussion and literally took the handcuffs out of law enforcement's tool belt and put the handcuffs on prosecutors. so what i'm asking here today is what can we do, i mean, what is it that members of congress, what can we do to work with local law enforcement agencies, besides changing the justice reform, what have you seen that is successful in your area that you can do to curtail from disasters that we are seeing? >> i think what you're doing here by example coming together around smart legislation which has bipartisan support is a test. for me in san diego whenever i'm fighting battles i emphasize that public safety, the safety of our children, communities small and large. that's a human issue, that's a human rights issue. nothing will thrive without safety. you take out our police, law
island where you walk in places like cbs and walk in with your family and grab the little desk, people were taking those baskets filling them up with whatever it is that they wanted and walking right out the door why because of laws put in place on the other side of the aisle, there was really no repercussion and literally took the handcuffs out of law enforcement's tool belt and put the handcuffs on prosecutors. so what i'm asking here today is what can we do, i mean, what is it that members...
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we still have a hostage, who lives on long island, who is a hostage. i want the hostages brought back. >> quickly, the way that some democrats, especially quite frankly on the left flank of the party is talking about the war is detrimental long-term? >> i want more people left, right or middle to understand what each population has been through. i think there's a fundamental lack of understanding, the fact that the holocaust deniers used to be some vestige from the far right extremists, crazy wing, and now there's people in our party who are questioning whether or not the holocaust happened, when i have met ten survivors in one meeting not long ago and they told me that they're seeing the signs-- this was before october 7th, this is scary. they were seeing the signs that they say their parents saw in germany with all the hate crimes and the anti-semitism on the rise in our own country. i had a forum on anti-semitism in our state in september to talk about what was happening already. so, i want people to understand. and i understand that feelings are de
we still have a hostage, who lives on long island, who is a hostage. i want the hostages brought back. >> quickly, the way that some democrats, especially quite frankly on the left flank of the party is talking about the war is detrimental long-term? >> i want more people left, right or middle to understand what each population has been through. i think there's a fundamental lack of understanding, the fact that the holocaust deniers used to be some vestige from the far right...
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i want to correct one thing that my friend from elder long island said earlier, which is we disagree about the situation at the border. we can get into semantics about secure, chaotic, but the bottom line is, and we've made this veryths now our system is broken and cannot handle the number of people who are coming to our border. we need to address that system and the asylum backlog and at te policies and resources that we have to deal with an unattainable situation at the border. you can spend the words and talk about the secure operational control, but the proof is in the pudding because right now i'm the president biden, senate democrats and secretary are in the midst of negotiating comprehensive border policy deals that would go further than any democratic proposal has ever gone before. my colleagues haven't seen it yet they have said it is dead on arrival. president trump, former president trump said it is dead and he will fight it to the end. he is not in government now, not one of the three government capacities so let's not fool ourselves to think this is a disagreement about
i want to correct one thing that my friend from elder long island said earlier, which is we disagree about the situation at the border. we can get into semantics about secure, chaotic, but the bottom line is, and we've made this veryths now our system is broken and cannot handle the number of people who are coming to our border. we need to address that system and the asylum backlog and at te policies and resources that we have to deal with an unattainable situation at the border. you can spend...
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martinique was the most important island for a long time. and then saint-domingue, which is haiti and bordeaux, was not involved in the slave trade on the same level, say not, but it was certainly involved with the slave trade. it was making much money though, from wine, other forms of trade. it didn't really get involved in, the slave trade until now on a large scale, until later in the century so again, in terms of the slave trade bordeaux certainly much important figure toward the end of the century, it was deporting three or 4000 africans to caribbean. at the end of was the 1789 1790, early on it was more like 500 or a thousand, but in total bordeaux deported. 150,000 africans to the new and some of the pacific colonies. well, so when you think about these numbers, again, asked about numbers, 150,000 people is, you know, one and a half times the total population in bordeaux. so bordeaux got involved. in this, you know, the 16, 17th century and, exported slaves into the 19th century. wow. so tell me if academicians took interest in this s
martinique was the most important island for a long time. and then saint-domingue, which is haiti and bordeaux, was not involved in the slave trade on the same level, say not, but it was certainly involved with the slave trade. it was making much money though, from wine, other forms of trade. it didn't really get involved in, the slave trade until now on a large scale, until later in the century so again, in terms of the slave trade bordeaux certainly much important figure toward the end of the...
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we should attack the islands. nimitz waited until everyone spoken. then he was quiet for a long, pregnant pause to make sure no else had anything to say. and he said, well, that's fine. well, attack quadrillion quadrillion. now that should have ended it. but spruance and turner continued to argue with them the volatile kelly turner even called nimitz's plan dangerous and reckless. and finally nimitz said to them look, this is it if you don't want to do it, i find people who will. ah, you willing to make this attack or not? well. okay. i guess that's saying that's fine. we'll take quadrillion. like some of the drama of -- the torpedoes. but it's the same sentiment. and like farragut decision at mobile bay, it was carefully calculus lighted. nimitz was convinced japanese did not intend to go all in to defend coagulant. they would not commit the fleet. and he was equally confident that the adjustments he made to the assault would compensate for the losses that had happened at tarawa. still he risked a great deal here in going ahead with an operation aga
we should attack the islands. nimitz waited until everyone spoken. then he was quiet for a long, pregnant pause to make sure no else had anything to say. and he said, well, that's fine. well, attack quadrillion quadrillion. now that should have ended it. but spruance and turner continued to argue with them the volatile kelly turner even called nimitz's plan dangerous and reckless. and finally nimitz said to them look, this is it if you don't want to do it, i find people who will. ah, you...
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and that is the story of the puerto rican parrot on the on island of puerto rico. and the fascinating thing about this parrot, i tell it's its long history, was that it was a very common bird on on the island of puerto rico prior to european colonization of the there were possibly estimates of being made of roughly a million a million of these parrots living on puerto rico. but as the colonists in they they chopped down more and more forests. and over the centuries the parrots were left the only place could breed was in a tiny little parrot patch of old growth rainforest, puerto rico, in heart of what's called the uk forest. nowadays. and it was a fascinating story because again, parrots like these are like the yellow hornbill that's on the screen now. actually let me let me pull up a picture of of of a of a puerto parrot. why don't we hold on one second. i'm six. this is all so much easier person, isn't it? anyway here's some puerto rican parrots. there are attractive birds, as you can see, this is a large amazon parrots. as you'll notice, these guys are a cage an
and that is the story of the puerto rican parrot on the on island of puerto rico. and the fascinating thing about this parrot, i tell it's its long history, was that it was a very common bird on on the island of puerto rico prior to european colonization of the there were possibly estimates of being made of roughly a million a million of these parrots living on puerto rico. but as the colonists in they they chopped down more and more forests. and over the centuries the parrots were left the...
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and this is partly think why we saw the turn of events in the solomon islands. it's also why we're seeing perhaps bad things playing out in the in papua new guinea. i like an independent is looking at the island but you have other places in the in the and central pacific where playing zone is not working to our advantage. the united states and australia need to integrate, approach and work more integrate in a more integrated fashion rather than playing regional. mike, you want to come in? i just i just want to make a point about the allies. it's a i think it's important that we keep in mind, thankfully, china keeps making own goals to scare the bejesus out of its near neighbors and making it easier for us to improve our relationships, our allies and them and they themselves improving their defense. but before we break our arm, patting ourselves on the back. it's important to keep in that. who's going to show up when the shooting starts and we don't that none of the countries that we're allied with and what have you there are actually have indicated perhaps japan
and this is partly think why we saw the turn of events in the solomon islands. it's also why we're seeing perhaps bad things playing out in the in papua new guinea. i like an independent is looking at the island but you have other places in the in the and central pacific where playing zone is not working to our advantage. the united states and australia need to integrate, approach and work more integrate in a more integrated fashion rather than playing regional. mike, you want to come in? i...
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alexander graham bell was to he attended that school first for whatever reason he didn't stay there very long and then went on to attend the american school for the deaf for years, i think seven or eight years after after that individual, we know that there were three other islander deaf individuals who attended the clark school. so and none that period who attended the american school for the deaf so yeah again the kind of wider movements in deaf education affected deaf individuals here on the island. think this was a fascinating and ear for color graph i think makes an excellent case that the people the hearing people in the community most to use of sign language to some degree though or family members or close relatives do you see any way of even ballpark in either the number of, non-family members in or moreover west tisbury who might have had some degree of facility with the language or ballpark? the degree of facility is there any way to get at that from? looking at other village sign language, perhaps exactly. yeah, that's a a yeah. thank you for that question. but so i can answer the
alexander graham bell was to he attended that school first for whatever reason he didn't stay there very long and then went on to attend the american school for the deaf for years, i think seven or eight years after after that individual, we know that there were three other islander deaf individuals who attended the clark school. so and none that period who attended the american school for the deaf so yeah again the kind of wider movements in deaf education affected deaf individuals here on the...
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residents as well time away from family, miss work and long hours in congestion. you noted in your testimony the role that the highway administration has played in supporting los angeles and philadelphia and repairing sections of their interstate. what can rhode island expect in collaboration with you to the address issue as expeditiously as possible. >> thank you, representative. our division administrator and staff are currently assessing what the options are. this is more of a failure of a 1960's bridge so it's not an emergency in the same way as tanker fire, or fire taken down but large federal eligibility to use funds to help repair the bridge. >> there's large federal eligibility for the -- >> through the bridge program that has provided for federal funds so we are working to figure out exactly how we can best support them. >> that's promising and we can certainly want the funding to support it. what about technical support to reduce the timeline to get it up and running? >> thank you, representative. it's my understanding that they are going to use one of t
residents as well time away from family, miss work and long hours in congestion. you noted in your testimony the role that the highway administration has played in supporting los angeles and philadelphia and repairing sections of their interstate. what can rhode island expect in collaboration with you to the address issue as expeditiously as possible. >> thank you, representative. our division administrator and staff are currently assessing what the options are. this is more of a failure...