If you are interested in tracking these issues, I’ve been doing a lot of reporting on book banning and other attacks on free expression in my newsletter
UPDATE: @Twitter informs me that it received a complaint about the tweet at the beginning of this thread, pursuant to German Law, but it will not be removed
@Twitter UPDATE: The author of Maus, Art Spiegelman, reacts to his book being banned
@Twitter UPDATE: @realchrisrufo, who has fueled anti-CRT hysteria, defends the decision to ban Maus from 8th grade classrooms.
Oddly says that banning the book from the classroom is not a ban.
Book banning is part of a larger strategy.
@Twitter@realchrisrufo Let's go over the facts. Rufo claims the book has been "swapped out." It has not. The board does not have a replacement and the result, according to the board, is the entire module on the Holocaust will be skipped because Maus is the "anchor text."
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3. The second part is key because the companies that provide phone services to prison kick back up to 50% of their revenue back to the prison operator.
This incentivizes prisons from signing up phone service providers with the highest rates and fees.
1. @amazon, @Verizon, and other major corporations have ended or reduced their support for Juneteenth celebrations this year, forcing events in major cities to be significantly scaled back, a Popular Information investigation reveals.
2. In Denver, the annual Juneteenth Music Festival was cut from two days to one day due to "a sharp decline in corporate sponsorships."
An archived version of the festival website reveals that @Verizon, a "Silver" sponsor of the 2024 event, was not listed as a sponsor this year.
@amazon @Verizon 3. Last month, @Verizon told FCC Chairman Brendan Carr that the company was "ending its DEI-related policies…effective immediately." It was part of @Verizon's effort to win approval from the FCC to acquire Frontier Communications, a broadband tech company, for $20 billion.
1. In 2024, Trump said he would deport every undocumented immigrant in the country. "I think you have to do it," Trump said. "They came in illegally."
He said "illegals" were "poisoning the blood of our country."
Then, for a few days, he abruptly reversed course.
Why? Let's follow the money
2. In a Truth Social post last week, Trump said his "very aggressive policy on immigration" was taking "very good, long time workers" away from the agricultural and hospitality industries. These workers, Trump said, are "almost impossible to replace." Therefore, "Changes are coming!
3. On June 12, a senior ICE official, Tatum King, sent a message to ICE staff formalizing the new policy: "Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels."
1. Starlink is turbocharging the operations of a lethal jihadist group operating in West Africa, JNIM
Elon Musk has the capability to limit or prevent the use of Starlink by groups like JNIM but has chosen not to, instead prioritizing growth
2. Before Starlink, JNIM often relied on couriers and paper maps.
Now, JNIM is "using real-time maps, encrypted messaging platforms, and even live streams to plan and secure attacks with incredible coordination," Dr. Obasesam Okoi told Musk Watch.
3. On May 11, JNIM carried out a coordinated attack in Burkina Faso "killing more than a hundred civilians, soldiers, and militia members, according to the International Crisis Group."
After the attack, JNIM "quickly shared videos on social media of its fighters looting the city's army base"