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Dogpatch Press
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News from Texas: right after a ridiculous proposal to ban furries from schools, the governor is piling on by citing furries to remove funding from public schools to pay private ones. It's "just politics" until they carve up education to enrich their cronies and deprive the poorest students.

Dogpatch Press
@dogpatch.press

Texas is such a big state, they have bully power to lead pressure elsewhere. They're merging panic about trans athletes and the furry-litterbox hoax as pretextual propaganda for the tip of this spear.

Dogpatch Press
@dogpatch.press

"Woke" is the new "communist" boogeyman cooked up by the right wing to accuse of hiding under people's beds. Anti-woke paranoia is a tool to divide people so government can serve oligarchy. There's been a lot of astroturfed noise to try and make furries part of the same boogeyman for a few years.

Dogpatch Press
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The noise about furries made news about ridiculous Republican politicians who would spread fake rumors, and sometimes have to walk them back or get crushed in elections. I think there were a few D.O.A. publicity-stunt attempts to make laws (Oklahoma?) But now it's official, from a powerful governor.

Progressive Poet
@caligreg.bsky.social

PANIC: Kids Wearing Rabbit Ears Pretending litter boxes for kids exist, Students who meow will be dismissed. Measles or low test scores aren’t a worry. The big crisis in Texas is now “Furries”.