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  1. “In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”

    Lamdan told AP that activists circulate lists of targeted #books nationwide.

    #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #law #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  2. “In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”

    Lamdan told AP that activists circulate lists of targeted #books nationwide.

    #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #law #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  3. “In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”

    Lamdan told AP that activists circulate lists of targeted #books nationwide.

    #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #law #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  4. “In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”

    Lamdan told AP that activists circulate lists of targeted #books nationwide.

    #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #law #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  5. “In 2025, book bans were not sparked by concerned parents, & they were not the result of local grassroots efforts,” Sarah Lamdan, exec dir of #ALA’s Office for #Intellectual #Freedom, said in a statement. “They were part of a well-funded, politically-driven campaign.”

    Lamdan told AP that activists circulate lists of targeted #books nationwide.

    #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #law #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  6. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about #SexTrafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” & Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy favorite “Empire of Storms.”

    #books #BookBans #literature #access #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #law #USpol #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  7. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about #SexTrafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” & Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy favorite “Empire of Storms.”

    #books #BookBans #literature #access #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #law #USpol #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  8. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about #SexTrafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” & Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy favorite “Empire of Storms.”

    #books #BookBans #literature #access #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #law #USpol #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  9. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about #SexTrafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” & Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy favorite “Empire of Storms.”

    #books #BookBans #literature #access #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #law #USpol #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  10. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about #SexTrafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” & Sarah J. Maas’ romantasy favorite “Empire of Storms.”

    #books #BookBans #literature #access #education #censorship #indoctrination #Whitewashing #racism #misogyny #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #law #USpol #fascism #CultureWars #FarRight #extremism #Republicans

  11. NO KINGS: Not Alone!

    This past Saturday, I and about 40,000 other Philadelphians amassed at Ben Franklin Parkway here in Philadelphia for the 3rd No Kings Rally. Though I wanted to attend the first two, held in June and October of 2025, prior commitments prevented me from doing so. This time around, I was in town and available, so there was no way I was going to miss it. I wasn't sure what to expect at the rally, but what I experienced that day was something I didn't even realize I needed... These days, it's […]

    johnsworldblog.wordpress.com/2

  12. Take your #whitewashing BS - to a fucking laundromat. Those laundromat machines will care more about your BS white hurt feelings than I ever would.

    #AsianMastodon #POCVoices

  13. “The American people will have no patience” for any museum that is “uncomfortable conveying a *positive view of American history*,” wrote Domestic Policy Council director Vince Haley & White House budget director [#Project2025 architect] #RussVought.

    #Trump #extortion #law #art #history #Smithsonian #museums #Constitution #FirstAmendment #democracy #censorship #Revisionism #whitewashing #dictatorship #SevenMountainMandate

  14. The #NationalPortraitGallery removed a swath of text that mentioned Trump’s 2 #impeachments & the #Jan6, 2021, #insurrection as it swapped out a prominent photo of him this week.
    #Trump & the White House posted on social media Fri & Sat to highlight the updated portrait in the “America’s Presidents” exhibition, which now features a framed B&W photo by White House photographer Daniel Torok.

    #UShistory #whitewashing #revisionism #censorship #propaganda #dictatorship
    washingtonpost.com/entertainme

  15. Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

    My answer is no.

    And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

    • Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

    • FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

    Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un).

    It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

    Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

    • ‪ ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

    • ‪ ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-rig

    I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

    I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

    #FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

  16. Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

    My answer is no.

    And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

    • Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

    • FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

    Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un).

    It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

    Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

    • ‪ ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

    • ‪ ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-rig

    I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

    I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

    #FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

  17. Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

    My answer is no.

    And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

    • Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

    • FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

    Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un).

    It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

    Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

    • ‪ ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

    • ‪ ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-rig

    I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

    I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

    #FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

  18. Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

    My answer is no.

    And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

    • Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

    • FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

    Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un).

    It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

    Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

    • ‪ ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

    • ‪ ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-rig

    I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

    I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

    #FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

  19. Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

    My answer is no.

    And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

    • Social Web Foundation (socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

    • FOSDEM (fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

    Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un).

    It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

    Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

    • ‪ ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-a

    • ‪ ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-rig

    I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

    I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

    #FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

  20. The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    progressive.international/wire

    #FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11

  21. The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    progressive.international/wire

    #FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11

  22. The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    progressive.international/wire

    #FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11

  23. The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    progressive.international/wire

    #FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11

  24. The only flavour of decentralisation there’s no room for at FOSDEM is the kind that won’t speak at a conference that allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes, a surveillance capitalist like Google that is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

    progressive.international/wire

    #FOSDEM #Google #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #UN #BigTech #complicity #whitewashing #institutionalCorruption #PR #freeAsInGenocide mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11

  25. Outrageous. Expected. Despicable.

    #Trump has pardoned dozens of allies accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, including #RudyGiuliani, #MarkMeadows, #JeffreyClark & #SidneyPowell, a top #DOJ official said Monday.

    Trump, in a proclamation dated on Friday, said the move would end "a grave national injustice" & "continue the process of national reconciliation”

    #law #SeditiousConspiracy #insurrection #coup #propaganda #gaslighting #whitewashing #history
    reuters.com/legal/government/t

  26. Bro I am so calling it!!

    After the #RiyadhComedyFestival Bill Burr is gonna go perform at the Pyongyang Comedy Festival XD

    #billburr #whitewashing

  27. Watching #VladDuthiers tell #TonyDekopul, who was agreeing with the #Trump post about the #Smithsonian, that we shouldn’t be #whitewashing history while #GayleKing watches, was an interesting way to start the day. The #tension on set at #CBSMornings was palpable through the TV. Tony is also the resident mouthpiece at CBS for the #genocide in #Gaza.

    #FireTonyDekopul #RememberHistory #Journalism #Media #News #USPol #CBS

  28. The #Trump admin said on Tuesday that it would begin a wide-ranging review of current & planned exhibitions at the #Smithsonian Institution, scouring wall text, websites & social media “to assess tone, historical framing & alignment with American ideals.”

    #US #USpol #law #Constitution #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteWashing #revisionism #Belief #Values #USA #Classic #impeachment #Trump #UShistory #dictatorship

  29. According to internal documents reviewed by The New York Times, employees of the #NationalParkService have flagged descriptions & displays at scores of parks and historic sites for review in connection with #Trump’s directive to remove or cover up materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans.”

    #revisionism #whitewashing #AmericanHistory

  30. #CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.

    #whitewashing #censorship #WhiteSupremacy #USpol #AmericanHistory #slavery #JimCrow #segregation #RacialViolence

  31. Oh great - yet another retro #indie comp where *every single artist* is white.

    No #MonochromeSet or #ARKane or #Sandkings or #Lush or #Cornershop?

    The #whitewashing of a scene I grew up and played in never fails to amaze me.

    #IndieMusic #IndiePop #Racism #TheWhitestSceneAlive

  32. The new order seeks to *use* [twist] federal #CivilRights laws to force schools to come into compliance w/ #conservative views on both subjects.

    Fed #law allows the #Education Dept to withhold funds from any school that #discriminates based on #race or #sex.… #Trump & allies argue lessons about #SystemicRacism amount to #discrimination, because they presume certain things about people based on race, such as that White Americans enjoy certain privileges based on their race.

    #USpol #Whitewashing

  33. The Biden admin encouraged schools in the opposite direction, promoting #diversity & #equity initiatives & directing schools to #respect #transgender students’ rights, but it NEVER tried to CONDITION federal FUNDING on what was taught in #classrooms. The #Education Dept during #Trump’s first term also did not try to #dictate #curriculum, w/then-Secretary Betsy DeVos arguing that the curriculum should be decided at the local level.

    #law #USpol #Whitewashing #ReichEducationMinistry

  34. @kaarne @bestest Sille on jokin tarkasti harkittu käsite (jollain kielellä), kun hyviksi tarkoitettujen asioiden tai meta-hankkeiden nimiä otetaan vääristävään propagandistiseen käyttöön, mutta ei nyt tule mieleen enkä jaksa kaivaa.

    Kestävän kehityksen ja vihreän siirtymän kohdalla vaikuttaa melkein kuin jokin propagandatoimisto olisi vasiten miettinyt, miten termejä voi käyttää niitä keksineiden kiusaksi ja vastoin heidän tarkoituksiaan. "Vai haluatte vihreää siirtymää? No maistakaas tuosta, ja tuosta!" Ja 'kehitys' on muutenkin liikaa samastunut kulutukseen jonkin käsittämättömän talous-niskalenkin kautta. Viestinnän tutkijat hoi!

    #viestinta #propaganda #greenwashing #whitewashing #luonto #vihrea