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TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

Idea stolen from @sbagley.bsky.social

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social was talking to a friend of mine about “privacy” internet laws “protecting kids” and thought you’d also appreciate it

Once showing us why he is the worst Chris.

Photo of Wut Yi Aung, Text in Burmese reads Wut Yi Aung Central Executive, Dagon University Students' Union Arrested violently on September 14, 2021 REST IN POWER, SISTER!

Ma Wut Yee Aung, a 25 year old, executive member of the Dagon University Students’ Union, died today (July 20, 2025) in Insein Prison, as a result of torture during interrogation & denial of medical care while imprisoned by the Junta in Myanmar.

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#FreeOurFriends

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

🧵1/ In Puerto Rico, the evangelical/Pentecostal movement has shaped a conservative political landscape—emphasizing traditional gender roles and hierarchical structures.
Source: El Nuevo Día www.elnuevodia.com/politica

6/ The Breakdown of Public Education
After Hurricane María, Puerto Rico closed over 280 public schools while expanding charter schools & private education—a tactic later used in New Orleans post-Katrina. The goal? Destroy public education & force privatization.

5/ The blueprint for austerity in PR? Detroit & Flint, Michigan. Cut funding, privatize public resources, and push out working-class people. Puerto Rico was used as a case study to normalize economic violence against marginalized communities before expanding it further.

4/ Disaster Capitalism & Economic Collapse
The U.S. destroyed Puerto Rico’s economy through laws like the Jones Act, forcing the island to import goods at higher prices than anywhere else in the U.S. Then, Congress imposed a fiscal control board (La Junta) that gutted public services.

3/ Puerto Rican women were told the sterilization procedure was reversible (it wasn’t). This was part of a larger eugenics movement to control “undesirable” populations—aka poor, brown, & Black communities. Sound familiar? The same ideology is behind today’s abortion bans.

2/ Forced Sterilization & Reproductive Control
Between the 1930s-1970s, the U.S. government sterilized over one-third of Puerto Rican women—without their full knowledge or consent. They tested birth control pills on Puerto Rican women before bringing them to the mainland.

🧵 1/ Puerto Rico has long been a testing ground for policies the U.S. government eventually brings to the mainland. From forced sterilizations to economic collapse & school privatization, the island is the canary in the coal mine for what’s coming. ⬇️

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sources tell WIRED that NOAA employees were ordered to give an engineer from Elon Musk's DOGE task force access to all NOAA Google sites by the end of business Wednesday.

NEW: Sources tell WIRED that NOAA* employees were ordered to give a Musk engineer (Nikhil Rajpal) editor access to all NOAA's Google sites by EOD.

*monitors oceans/atmosphere & forecasts long-term effects of climate change.

By @timmarchman.bsky.social & @hudsongiles.bsky.social:

Department Of Interior Bans Unlikely Animal Friendships WASHINGTON—Fulfilling a campaign promise made by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Wednesday that it was enacting a ban on unlikely animal friendships, effective im...

"At press time, Burgum denounced reports that his own pet golden retriever was friends with a local squirrel as 'more lies from the left-wing media.'"

Just learned about this through this post

Trump vuelve a la Casa Blanca reforzado y dispuesto a poner en marcha una batería de políticas neoliberales, tanto nacionales como internacionales, contra la clase trabajadora

Trump vuelve a la Casa Blanca reforzado y dispuesto a poner en marcha una batería de políticas neoliberales, tanto nacionales como internacionales, contra la clase trabajadora

A lot more people need to start loudly pointing out that algorithmic media platforms are fundamentally hostile to the truth

The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...

Having ordinary civil servants turn against one another is a critical aspect of the authoritarian project.

Again, the gateway is racism.

I have no idea what I meant by “pele.” I was tired lmao

Asperger’s isn’t real. It’s just part of the autism spectrum. That term is antiquated and rejected nowadays (ironically enough cause the man Asperger’s I believe was a Nazi)

These pele sound like the “tankie” that follows Caleb Maupin

Hashtags not hidden by the "issue":

#antifascism
#blacklivesmatter
#donald
#freej6ers
#gop
#j6patriots
#musk
#prolife
#redwave
#republican
#rnc
#stopthesteal
#trump
#trump2024
#trumpvance
#vance
#votered
#whitelivesmatter
#wlm

So, while there are indeed right-leaning hashtags that were hidden (e.g. #alllivesmatter), the vast majority were left leaning.

Here's a table showing the contrast (again, not exhaustive):

Everything Meta has changed in the last week in its shift to the right A lot has happened with Meta in the past week. Here are the notable changes.

Strikes me as incredibly coincidental that an undefined "issue" disproportionately affected left-leaning hashtags w/in 24 hours of the inauguration, especially given recent changes implemented by Zuckerberg steering Meta to the right

www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

@ Musk defenders

🇵🇸 El genocidio en #Palestina continúa, la solidaridad también.

❗️Mientras no cese la ocupación y el apartheid que perpetra el sionismo estaremos al lado del pueblo palestino

✊Nos vemos en la manifestación este sábado:

📍Cibeles-Plaza de España 18 de enero/18h

#FreePalestine