Every president releases their version of a call to action on the manufactured reading crisis which leads to more bad legislation producing even worse reading abilities.
The article underscores a new counterfeit solution called the “science of reading” and Texas is leading the way with a mediocre state curriculum called Texas Bluebonnet.
The system was broken on purpose.
Read Charlotte Iserbyt’s book. She worked for the US Department of Education under Ronald Reagan.
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I attended a luncheon a few weeks ago with @laralogan as the keynote speaker.
My friend commended her for talking about the massive #data centers in Texas
They are measuring and scoring character traits in @hpisdschools and #txed#txlege
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You’re breathing it right now. All of us are inhaling a dry blizzard of toxic atmospheric aerosol contaminants with every single breath we take, a plethora of heavy metal and polymer nanoparticles, a dry blizzard that is invisible during daylight hours. This isn't an isolated scenario. It's an everywhere scenario.
There's no place to hide. I filmed this during completely dry conditions, 20% humidity, no wind, and in a remote forested location, far from roads, towns, or industry. The saturation of nanoparticle pollution in our atmosphere is now so severe that recent science studies have concluded we are likely inhaling billions of nanoparticles in a single day. For perspective, 100,000 nanoparticles can fit across the width of a single human hair.
The smaller the particle, the more bioavailable and bioaccumulative it is. Aluminum, barium, strontium, manganese, surfactants, polymers, graphene, all are listed in climate engineering patents. Think this fallout isn't doing damage to virtually the entire web of life? Think again.
How long can you hold your breath?
Geoengineering is nothing less than weather warfare, do you object?
Follow for more: @DaneWigington@GeoengWatch
2) 🧵 The second testimony is a plea to DeSoto ISD residents to keep solutions LOCAL.
They need to fight back against the tyrannical TEA and their failed Lone Star Governance training and their failed conservators.
Politics is LOCAL. Stop the STATE and FEDERAL intrusion. RETURN to what works. Return to the BASICS.
How do you cover up corruption?
TEA vs Audit
🚩You don’t.
🚩You just rename it.
🚩You call it “process.”
🚩You call it “bipartisan consensus.”
🚩You call it “the way things have always worked.”
🚩You call it “protecting institutions.”
🚩You call it “not the right time.”
🚩You call it “moving forward.”
🚩You flood the zone with distractions, committee hearings that go nowhere, carefully worded press releases, and selective outrage.
🚩You punish the people who ask the right questions and reward the ones who look the other way.
👀⚠️You make the public so exhausted and cynical that they stop expecting better.
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Have you noticed how many districts are using the term “North Star” ⭐️?
Where did it originate?
The metaphor has historical origins. Polaris (the North Star) has been a trusted guide for travelers and sailors, helping them navigate through uncertainty.
It doesn’t move and provides a fixed point of direction in a changing environment.
“North Star” ⭐️ is a common business buzzword.
The Commit Partnership uses it often when they lobby to get all school districts to follow their pet reforms and steer funding to their network. 💫
The term gained traction in Silicon Valley where companies like Netflix started defining North Star Metrics—single metrics that reflect customer value and growth.
But its roots go back further, showing up in leadership, management, and books everyone in business is nudged to read like Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” or Jim Collins’ “Good to Great.”
The next time you hear your school district use “North Star” in conversations, remind them it came from the businessmen meddling in education and those who view children as investment vehicles. 💸
It’s not just a buzzword—it’s a powerful metaphor guiding school districts and drifting them into uncharted and unsafe waters.
They are leading us all to ONE place and ONE global education system.
The dirty books were bundled and sent to school districts “for free” with the purpose of setting up the “booby” trap where liberal librarians stuck them on the shelves without realizing they would be used to push vouchers.
GOP politicians feigned outrage to get rid of the books and liberal politicians dug their heels to keep them citing free speech!
Dialectic Danny keeps the circus acts in motion 🎪
Bad Book Bonnie goes around the state getting off on reading dirty excerpts in public to drive up the culture wars and illicit gasps from the boomers.
Meanwhile, kids are barely even reading books. They are on dirty, filthy chromebooks issued by the government.
Another hot take 🔥☀️🥵
ATTENTION: @DesotoIsd Parents and Teachers ⚠️
⚠️ There’s some shady $#_|+ going down in your district with @teainfo and Lone Star Governance Training.
⚠️ Since TEA got involved in 2020, your district went from a B rating to a C rating under compulsory state meddling.
⚠️ Just like @FortWorthISD and other districts trained by AJ Crabill/Airick West, they have declined under his failed leadership. @lmcgaughy
⚠️ Your current conservator Andrew B. Kim is being paid $14,000 per month by DeSoto ISD while he moonlights with:
➡️ SAMCO Capital Markets (a school bond advisory firm) as a licensed investment banker (series 52 + series 63)
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➡️ TNT 🧨 - Education consulting firm founded by DISD’s Michael Hinojosa
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➡️ Other ISDs like Beaumont ISD, Socorro ISD (a SAMCO client), Lake Worth, ISD, and others are also paying him massive fees, mileage, etc.
You are literally the worst.
You installed your little software geek at TEA and now you are using the backlash from parents who are against the excessive screen time imposed by the edtech vendors and the online STAAR test as your campaign strategy?
Dude.
You had a decade to say something about the technocracy in Texas.
With each biennium you helped accelerate the tech-heavy environment you are now criticizing.
That includes millions of government-issued student devices during Operation Connectivity, continued virtual-school options, and the statewide transition of STAAR testing to online.
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Corey Danglethis is a voucher lobbyist and former g@y p0rn actor.
The woman interviewing him is Marissa Streit who works for Dennis Prager.
She was born in the US but migrated to Israel and served in the Israeli army.
She was trained in the cyber and signal intelligence unit of the IDF/Unit 8200 and was sent back to the US.
She was a teacher in LA and is now paid to push:
✅ Government regulated school choice vouchers
✅ Edtech - PragerU Core Knowledge ® videos
✅ Texas Amplify CKLA (Core Knowledge ®) under HB1605
✅ Charter Schools (Gülen Islamic charters are the largest in U.S. and Texas)
They use the left-right paradigm to evoke outrage from conservatives.
They cite legitimate issues and the manufactured crisis in our public schools in order to usher in more TECHNOCRACY.
Remember, our Republican Party has been in power in Austin and over TEA and SBOE for decades starting with Bush.
Can’t make this up…
Texas uses Core Knowledge ® created by a Jewish socialist Democrat named E.D. Hirsch, a friend of Dennis Prager’s.
Hirsch was also credited for the original premise behind the Common Core State Standards championed by Bill Gates.
Common Core cannot legally be taught in Texas.
Core Knowledge ® undergirds Texas Amplify/Bluebonnet HB1605 state-owned curriculum.
The new faith portion of Texas Amplify/Bluebonnet was written by US Israel Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
Can it get any weirder???
Another example of how the world works, especially in Dallas.
For the Collins family, privatization is a Dallas tradition. They are masters at balancing an image of public servant while using progressive lingo as a signal that they are for the common man.
What’s that old saying?… “Sell to the masses, dine with the classes.”
Grandma Calvert was the first female on the Dallas City Council. Aunt is Ruth Altschuler.
Philanthropy is the gateway to power. #MadMen
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Most people see Collins’s former role at Communities Foundation of Texas @GiveWisely as a benevolent philanthropy driving Giving Tuesday.
It’s much more than that.
It is important to peel back the curtain and scrutinize these foundations. Are these foundations really moving the needle on poverty? Seems like charity has increased disparity.
Fauxlanthropy.
👀 Look at Kerri Briggs who also works at CFT’s Educate Texas and was Mike Miles’s Chief of Staff in Houston ISD for the state takeover. Briggs worked at the Dept of Education under Bush.
Collins’s family is deeply tied to Bush and Abbott’s education reform agenda and the privatization of public education through vouchers, charters and edtech (Istation).
Her sister Genevieve is traveling the state with Abbott for his new window-dressing property tax relief plan.
As a voucher lobbyist with the Koch-funded AFP, Genevieve cried to the legislature about kids not reading on grade level but failed to mention all major school districts in Texas including RISD and DISD piloted her daddy’s Istation reading software and used it for 20 years.
All of the districts that used Istation have declined in reading scores. Her solution is to give kids vouchers.
The ultimate goal of privatization is to collapse the traditional ISDs and shift the money to private hands.
Dick Collins is a Bush and Abbott donor. Shocker.
CFT’s @EducateTexas works directly with the Commit Cabal and has played a primary role in the portfolio model of privatization in Midland, Beaumont, Houston, etc. Gates is a major funder of CFT’s Educate Texas and @Commit2Dallas.
They push TEI/TIA merit pay for teachers which caused 10,100 teachers to flee DISD and a similar exodus in Houston.
So the public park lady Calvert Collins Bratton is going to work for a private park named after a billionaire’s kid where there’s a fountain funded by an education billionaire’s wife, Nancy Best???
See Randy Best’s role in driving online diploma mills and his ties to Bush and Voyager Learning software contracts in RISD and Texas.
Big D is for Donors.
Why am I voting for @GinaHinojosaTX after 30 years of voting for a Republican governor?
Because she can hear my voice.
@GregAbbott_TX doesn’t listen to women unless they are lobbyists for billionaires like @gcollinstx.
I’m a regular mom who does irregular things. I follow the money in Texas and
I have served as a career coach for an unemployment ministry for 15 years and the young (and old) people are having to piecemeal jobs together to make ends meet.
They do dog-walking, delivery, driving, etc.
The gig economy is the new normal. The FTE with benefits is getting more difficult to land.
Taxation in Texas is out of control under the Republican stronghold at the legislature and Democrat stronghold in our cities.
Social media cultivates the worst & lowest behavioral aspects of human beings. Interestingly, for many, the majority of the human lifeworld is mediated thru social media. This is precisely why an informed public politics cannot be successful. ... a part of why social media exists
The sad part is this industrial enrichment does not translate to the public or human level. It only sets us farther apart from eachother, from our personhood, our essences. The more connected the system the more disconnected we are. Here, liberty & social stability are impossible
I’ll believe it when I see it.
They just passed a $1.4B bond which included purchasing iPads for all students in all grades.
STAAR is online three times a year.
This is theater. 🎭
“According to its own privacy policy, Alpha conducts extensive biometric and surveillance data collection on children using sophisticated tracking to monitor student engagement and learning patterns. Despite promoting how 2-hour AI learning motivates children, Alpha employs continuous webcam video tracking eye contact, body language, focus issues, and environmental distractions, gathers keyboard and mouse activity to determine if a student is idle, and records screens to monitor activity and, ironically, prevent cheating. Alpha asserts it uses this data for providing feedback on focus and “productivity tracking” to manage leaderboards and rewards for students. Not surprisingly, reports have indicated this sensitive student data – including videos – has been stored on platforms accessible to individuals with links, posing serious security concerns.” @UndercoverMoth9@AlphaSchoolATX@mackenzieprice
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This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide