splakey.bsky.social
A little fish swimming with big ideas in Te Whanganui a Tara
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My wife this morning:
“Getting mansplained to by a woman in power. Does that count as progress?”
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This is what works: publicity funded alternative schools.
This one in Alaska is a great example of how indigenous and local leaders can partner to ensure educational access.
ydhs.juneauschools.org/en
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I saw this playbook unfold across 20 years in FL.
ACT is using charter schools as a reasonable sounding Trojan Horse to undermine public education and direct public funds into private coffers:
www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Slavery.
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“… he said when asked about the market as he left the White House to fly to one of his Florida golf clubs.”
This fucker really is going to fiddle as it all burns.
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No wonder ACT is so keen to dispense with Te Tiriti.
Not because anything will actually be taken away from its narrow minded constituency. Rather, as written, it is a barrier to the project of white nationalism, which requires severing nga tangata from te whenua.
#TinoRangatiratanga #nzpol
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"We don’t know when it might adapt to spread between people. It might be already happening, or it could happen, or it might not happen," @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social told me. But just waiting around "is going to result in quite a lot of failure".
Read part two here: newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/25/t...
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“But a clumsy, misguided effort like this didn’t just fail; it backfired. These half-truths and strategic deceptions made it easier for people with the worst motives to appear trustworthy while discrediting important institutions where many earnestly labor in the public interest.”
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From the article:
“[this] self-scrutiny is especially uncomfortable now, as an unvaccinated child has died of measles and anti-vaccine nonsense is being pumped out by the top of the federal government.”
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I’ve followed you now, and Happy Birthday!
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It is important to distinguish between good faith arguments about the limits of science as a method …
… and anti-science, which twists the notion of “Laws,” both human and scientific, into whatever form is necessary to support power.
#antiscience #dune