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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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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The thing is, if you want to neutralize this, it's not enough to refute it and say furries are just regular people. They will always have more bullshit for the firehose. You have to get to know what they're doing to seize public education, and stop them there. www.sacurrent.com/news/greg-ab...

sacurrent.comGov. Greg Abbott falsely claims Texas schools providing litter boxes to student 'furries'Abbott's comments are his latest attempt to smear public schools as he pursues voucher legislation.
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I'm laughing and crying, because that's how cronyism really is... And the way janitors keep some kitty litter to clean up barf is the little seed of truth that fuels urban legends and hoaxes. They always make a little leap of plausibility to spark a fire of collective madness.

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Why the governor of Texas was spreading lies about furries, making a distraction with a mission to crush anyone under the tank treads while rolling this forward. bsky.app/profile/prop...

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The Texas House has approved a $1 billion private school voucher bill — the culmination of more than three decades of work by Christian conservative donors. @jschwartzreporter.bsky.social explains how we got to this moment (published 2024):

propublica.orgTexas Is the Largest GOP Stronghold Without Pro-School Voucher Legislation. Gov. Abbott Is on a Crusade to Change That.Greg Abbott has campaigned against members of his own party who do not support voucher programs. This fall, he may finally get the votes needed to pass a bill — a win for the Christian conservative do...