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@pantone151c @DefiantLs Good question. I know she isn't a DISD employee, but she could very well be working at another school. She was Payal Modi and an art teacher. Rumor is that she changed her name after the incident and firing.

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@dlbeard @BTN_Aggie88 @DefiantLs Oh, let's be honest. This was 100% pure performative. Maybe a student took it, but this was no secret recording. She was proud of what she was doing at the time. I'd guess not so much now though.

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@Sofia50020Sofia No lie... Texas star and five shots with no misses at like 7 years old? I'm impressed.

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@SarahisCensored Can't we just put the devil in the closet for 15 minutes? WTF

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We already punish for both, but doing it intentionally gets you a worse punishment. As the saying goes, ignorance of the law isn't a defense.

You punish those that are ignorant less, but it's lesser so they can become aware without the full weight of doing it knowingly.

You don't punish those aware for "having" awareness, you punish those aware more harshly because they know better. Those that didn't know better soon learn to know better. It's a single time ignorance safety net.

"So if we punish people more for having awareness, the natural incentive is for people to avoid becoming aware!" is a ridiculous statement on it's face because you'd have to be aware enough to know to become unaware first.

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@D_Tarczynski I was going to get some, but the shipping cost, jeez.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨

I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.

I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.

Here's the primer:

USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.

Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.

You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.

Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.

This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.

In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.

Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.

DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.

Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.

The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.

Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.

In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."

Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."

Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.

The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.

Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.

Who decides when your government is legitimate?

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

.@metpoliceuk, this looks like a good way to blow your co-worker’s legs off.
1. Make sure your finger is on the trigger.
2. Make sure you are pointing the gun at someone.

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@bofrench You've got my vote.

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@atkinsmike1 @AndrewKolvet Except the locals took the nets they were given and used them to fish. The tiny mesh caught all the minnows that used to escape normal nets and decimated the fish population and breeding cycle.
Malaria is awful, but starving to death by using the malaria "solution" isn't better.

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@RedmondBarry7 I'd say that a 3.9 at a world class institution vs a 3.8 at a failing poor neighborhood school aren't even close to the same GPA or preparation for more rigorous studies. It isn't the kid's fault, but the GPAs aren't the same baseline.

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@macworld Apparently I'm shipment 1 and it was pre-pre-ordered in the Apple Store app and a finalized order within 60 seconds after launch, so maybe just the in-store are the October 23rd ones.

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

FOUR MINUTES of Candace Owens DENYING she said things she's on record CLEARLY SAYING.

AKA LYING.

[Jaden Williams @JadenJTW]

The Majority Are Red

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If you use the term problematic, you’re problematic.

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@wcdispatch Even by SNL past spicy monologue standards this was pretty mild. I don't get the ire.

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@FrancisChartra3 @TheBrancaShow Ah

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Supporters of Jane Doe-
-Jane couldn't consent
-Mothers aren't responsible for strangling their children
-250,000 girls raped by rape gangs... not news
-Vigilantes are cool if against corporation members
and on and on and on... zero constancy or moral foundation