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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

It's important to understand that even in the regime's pettiest acts of rewriting history, we can find clear evidence of their authoritarian, Christian nationalist intentions. When they attack trans history, it's because they're trying to erase the existence of trans ppl; whether you believe that ends in denying medical care and driving trans folks out of public life or genocide is largely irrelevant (I believe one leads to the other, and history agrees with me) - the intention is clear. When they erase the achievements of women in our national record, they're trying to craft a future where a woman's role in society doesn't include things like scientific discovery, political activism, or breaking gender barriers in new fields of achievement. This ultimately is why no erasure, no reconstruction of our collective history along white nationalist principles, is too small, or too petty for these fascists to undertake. Every action has a reason - even if that reasoning seems far-fetched to you, a relatively normal person who is not a nazi that obsesses daily about how to force everyone else to adopt their worldview to justify and sustain a permanent Christian Nationalist dictatorship.

Given that, the administration's decision to erase or minimize the involvement of Harriet Tubman, deny the struggles of enslaved Black people to liberate themselves from a society organized to keep them in racialized bondage, and stress the idea that emancipation was the result of white ppl GRANTING liberation to Black ppl in America, has to be understood as something beyond cruelty or a desire to protect white feelings. This assault on Black history and in particular, the shameful history surrounding racialized chattel slavery in America, is clearly part of a larger project to restore and entrench a white nationalist order.

cnn.com/2025/04/06/us/national

"The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor”, a comparison on the Wayback Machine between the webpage on January 21 and March 19 shows. Both the quote and an image of Tubman have since been removed, along with several references to “enslaved” people and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

The Washington Post first reported on the changes. The webpage now leads with commemorative stamps of various civil rights leaders with text including the phrase “Black/White Cooperation.” Whereas previously, the article started with a description of enslaved peoples’ efforts to free themselves and the organization of the Underground Railroad after the Fugitive Slave Act, the article now starts with two paragraphs that emphasize the “American ideals of liberty and freedom” and do not specifically mention slavery."

I don't think it's a secret that crackers in America hate the symbol of Black liberation that Harriet Tubman represents; we are after all talking about a woman who escaped slavery, lead dozens of other enslaved people to freedom, and helped John Brown plan and recruit for his raid on Harper's Ferry that some (myself included) would argue ultimately made the Civil War inevitable (which was a good thing.) Afterwards, she served as a scout in the Union army during the Civil War where she is credited with helping to liberate hundreds more enslaved people. After the war, Tubman's struggles to get recognized or compensated for her services to the government made it very clear how serious of a threat the white ruling class order of the day considered her. Towards the end of her life, she was also actively involved in the struggle for women's suffrage. So when modern day cracker fascists toss their spaghetti over Tubman potentially appearing on currency, or try to erase her from the story of abolition and emancipation, you have to understand that this has not only been a longstanding, important ideological goal for white nationalists, but also a question of destroying a symbol whose life encapsulates multiple aspects of the struggle against white supremacy and patriarchy; and Tubman didn't just struggle, she often won - that's not the kind of example a Christian Nationalist order wants to highlight as it imposes its will to fully restore sanctioned white supremacy as the official history and policy of the USA.

Speaking more broadly, the modern study of Critical Race Theory and thus the ongoing struggle for equality in the face of white supremacy by African Americans, rises out of the historical study of institutional slavery, discrimination, and exploitation of Black ppl by a white supremacist ruling order in America. If you change the story of slavery to credit white ppl for granting African Americans liberty, you knock out the evidentiary supporting plank and origin for the MODERN study of white supremacy, discrimination, and exploitation of Black ppl in America too.

CNN · National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpageBy Zoe Sottile
#Fascism#Trump#History
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rob499

Came to the conclusion that, some modern flat #Led backlit screens that meet this criteria: (mine being one of the #Vizio #smartcast tvs)

a. atleast 40inches,

b. have the "surround sound audio setting tuned on" (without an additional speaker connected in.)

c. have the bass set to -1 (out of -12 to 0 to -12)

d. and the balance set to -2

it sounds almost comparable to an older crt audio quality I kid you not and is probably using half the energy of an older #crt #tv to achieve that.

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Levka

#education #censorship #DEI #CRT #Texas #SchoolBoards

"In 2022, conservative groups celebrated a 'great victory' over 'wokeified' curriculum when the Texas State Board of Education squashed proposed social studies requirements for schools that included teaching kindergartners how Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez 'advocated for positive change.'

Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 'radical environmental agenda' because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.

By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.

But the Republican-led state education board had not gone far enough for the conservative majority on the school board for Texas’ third-largest school district.

At the tail end of a school board meeting in May of last year, Natalie Blasingame, a board member in suburban Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, proposed stripping more than a dozen chapters from five textbooks that had been approved by the state board and were recommended by a district committee of teachers and staffers.

The chapters, Blasingame said, were inappropriate for students because they discussed 'vaccines and polio,' touched on 'topics of depopulation,' had 'an agenda out of the United Nations' and included 'a perspective that humans are bad.'

In a less-publicized move, Blasingame, a former bilingual educator, proposed omitting several chapters from a textbook for aspiring educators titled 'Teaching.' One of those chapters focuses on how to understand and educate diverse learners and states that it 'is up to schools and teachers to help every student feel comfortable, accepted and valued,' and that 'when schools view diversity as a positive force, it can enhance learning and prepare students to work effectively in a diverse society.'"

propublica.org/article/texas-c

ProPublicaA Texas School Board Cut State-Approved Textbook Chapters About Diversity. A Board Member Says Material Violated the Law
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Bobbing Boat

The Macclesfield Canal has broken through its bank. This is called a breech. Or is it spelled breach?

It's pants either way.

(That's a pun only Brits and Aussies will understand. Breeches are a type of trousers. The expression "it's pants" means "it's unpleasant". A breach is a rupture.)

For comparison, last year's Lancaster breach cost £1,600,000 to repair.

CRT will update us today:
canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices

canalrivertrust.org.ukNavigation and Towpath Closure: Between Crowholt Bridge 52 and Locketts Bridge 53, Macclesfield CanlDue to a leak in the canal bed, we have closed navigation and the towpath between Bridge 52 Crowholt Bridge and Bridge 53 Locketts Bridge on the Macclesfield Canal.Our teams are currently on-site installing stop planks to enable a thorough inspection of the leak. We are also contacting customers moored in the affected area.We will provide a further update on Monday, 31st March.
#CanalLife#canal#breach
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My name is Gordo (not really)

It''s always wild to me when I see regular everyday CRT TVs being sold for real actual money on Marketplace, with "TRINITRON" in all caps in the title. People are actually spending $100+ on the kinds of TVs that were in a large chunk of living rooms as recently as when the PS3 dropped.

I have to assume these are younger people getting into vintage gaming, reading online about how Trinitrons are the be-all-end-all of CRT TVs, but somebody really needs to tell them that these aren't the Kirby's Adventure of CRT technology; they were the best from the late 60s to the very end, and many are still kicking in basements and play rooms, ready to be given away for free to the first person who offers to carry them up the stairs.

If you are determining the value of an item from eBay listings, you are going to have a bad time. I promise you they made more than 12 copies of MUSHA back in the day. I'd be willing to bet they even mass produced them for a time.

#vintagegaming#trinitron#crt
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump2 executive order "Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History" 🤔
npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-53429

* directs Vice President JD Vance to eliminate "divisive race-centered ideology" f. Smithsonian museums, educational & research centers, & National Zoo

Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History
whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

#TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #JDVance #fascism #censorship #HistoricalRevisionism #whiteSupremacism #antiCRT #CRT #history #revisionism #antiLGBTQ #transgenocide

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Blake Patterson

I bought the requisite switchbox about 13 years ago, and finally today found and ordered a clean looking SM124 paper-white monochrome CRT monitor for the Atari 520ST, from eBay. (Shipping in original box with original foam, so it seems possible it will survive the trip across the U.S.) (Knock on wood)

It looks like there's JUST enough room atop this A520 STation to fit them both, if I move the HxX2001 into one of the (disconnected) drives' spots in the stand.

I had both an SC1224 and an SM124 on my original 520ST setup back in 1987.

Will post some pics when it's all setup.

Photo of an Atari 520STm computer setup with SC1224 color monitor, and Apple IIe seen just to the right of it on the same desk
#Atari#AtariST#SM124
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