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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.

The ridiculous furry ban proposal: bsky.app/profile/dogp...

"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.

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.

This has been getting a lot of news articles that point out how fake it is. www.reformaustin.org/texas-legisl...

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...

bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Just to underscore why this matters.

It's not a phase, and it won't just fizzle without organizing to resist. bsky.app/profile/cent...