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It’s a hoax to mobilize conservative voters because the PAC men are worried Dems are winning 🌊
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lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
Look at all the Gates grants in Texas.
Grants are bribes, y,all. 🤠
🚨Is "education" becoming the infrastructure for a social credit system?
For 25 years, the Gates Foundation has poured billions into redesigning schools, curricula, standards, and assessments -- and data systems that track all of it.
The foundation has now pledged at least another $1 BILLION to AI over two years, with 40% of it for education.
You could be forgiven for thinking "competency" means reading, writing, and arithmetic. But OECD and UNESCO frameworks include attitudes and VALUES.
When personal character is tracked as data, the implications for AI are staggering.
Who decides which values are coded as correct?
Will holding certain values open doors? Close them?
🎥 My video traces 25 years of Gates education & workforce grants in just over 3 minutes. Follow the money, state by state, year by year.
📖 PRE-ORDER my new broadside, The Human Cost of Artificial Education. The video shows how one foundation deployed its capital. The broadside asks what the ecosystem is building. (👇🏼Link in first reply.)
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
🚨Is "education" becoming the infrastructure for a social credit system?
For 25 years, the Gates Foundation has poured billions into redesigning schools, curricula, standards, and assessments -- and data systems that track all of it.
The foundation has now pledged at least another $1 BILLION to AI over two years, with 40% of it for education.
You could be forgiven for thinking "competency" means reading, writing, and arithmetic. But OECD and UNESCO frameworks include attitudes and VALUES.
When personal character is tracked as data, the implications for AI are staggering.
Who decides which values are coded as correct?
Will holding certain values open doors? Close them?
🎥 My video traces 25 years of Gates education & workforce grants in just over 3 minutes. Follow the money, state by state, year by year.
📖 PRE-ORDER my new broadside, The Human Cost of Artificial Education. The video shows how one foundation deployed its capital. The broadside asks what the ecosystem is building. (👇🏼Link in first reply.)
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: Texas Tech University is 101 years old today, on account of it was Sept. 30, 1925 that Texas Technological College opened in Lubbock, with 914 students in four schools: Agriculture, Engineering, Home Economics, and Liberal Arts. Naturally, this being Texas and all, a bit of chicanery was involved.
The push to establish a college in West Texas began before 1900, almost as soon as settlers began putting down roots on the plains. Their efforts appeared to pay off in 1917, when the Texas Legislature approved the creation of West Texas A&M College as a branch of Texas A&M. But the victory was short-lived. The law was repealed at the next legislative session after it was discovered that Governor James E. Ferguson had falsely reported Abilene as the choice of the committee charged with selecting the college site.
Naturally, Ferguson's deception got everybody's dander up and stiffened the resolve of West Texans. With the West Texas Chamber of Commerce helping lead the campaign, supporters continued pressing Austin for a college of their own. Their persistence finally paid off in 1923, when the Legislature approved a compromise bill written by State Senator William H. Bledsoe of Lubbock and State Representative Lewis Carpenter of Dallas.
Competition for the new school was fierce. Thirty-seven West Texas towns submitted proposals, and the locating board visited every one of them before choosing Lubbock. A local steering committee purchased 2,008 acres just west of town and sold the land to the state for the new campus.
So ....Guns up, Red Raiders!
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In case you missed it (or wanted to watch it again) 👀
Here is @TTUGoinBand’s halftime light show!
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👮♂️Polk County, Georgia Deputy Shoots Baby Donkey HeeHaw 🫏
❓Will you help us make sure HeeHaw’s death isn’t just another ignored story?
🚨Shared for 'Elsberry Riding & Farm'
"PLEASE SHARE! Polk county deputy KILLED my baby donkey!
At 12:45am cops entered my pasture searching for a missing person WITHOUT permission or warning and shot and killed my bottle raised BABY donkey.
They claimed he ran up to them braying and they thought they were in danger and shot and killed him after trying to taze him.
HeeHaw was raised in the house and did petting zoos he never knew a stranger. And was shot and killed in his OWN pasture for doing what donkeys do. Alerting to a stranger. There is no way this is legal! I will be taking legal action.
Share this everywhere and get justice for HeeHaw. We are heart broken 💔 he was my son!"
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❓Why did they shoot him after the taser instead of backing out of his pasture?
❓How do you get justice when they kill an animal that trusted people?
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
This is a data center developer giving $500k to globalist @GregAbbott_TX.
This is one reason why Abbott prioritizes data center installation over Texans.
Abbott’s “audit” is theatre.
Do you really think government will prioritize Texans during water or power shortages?
Do you think they will care when light or noise pollution drives you out of town and your property value down?
Do you think they will care about your whining when the Flocks are flocking, the drones are droning and governments from bottom to top are watching, tracking and cataloguing your every move?
Do you have $500k a year to make them care?
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
So we’re all clear:
This budget request from @GregAbbott_TX more than doubles the $1 billion, taxpayer-funded VOUCHER next year.
New: @GregAbbott_TX, @DanPatrick, and @Burrows4TX issue a joint statement on priorities for the 2028-29 biennial budget. #txlege
Full LAR guidance: gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/…
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Cost of Vouchers
Vouchers are protected against the 3% cut the rest of Texas will absorb.
Are they cutting the budget to pay ~ $5B in biennium for vouchers?
Inquiring minds want to know … Texas GOP leaders order state agencies to cut spending by 3% texastribune.org/2026/07/15/…
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
Texas promised children with disabilities up to $30K vouchers. Fewer than 30 got the full amount. houstonchronicle.com/news/ho… via @houstonchron
Just exactly as we all predicted.
But they shoved their voucher scam down our throats anyway.
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
The womb-to-tomb workforce requires groundwork laid by Abbott which he has done here:
🌎 Adopt global curriculum aligned with WEF and UNESCO - Texas Bluebonnet OER
🌎 Universal school choice subsidies for private and homeschool kids to fold all into the system
🌎 STAAR test to narrow the curriculum for a dumbed down generation of low-wage earners denied true academic learning
🌎 Pass workforce training onto taxpayer-funded public schools instead of the corporations
🌎 Use the public schools to create the pipeline of narrowly skilled kids to be exploited and slotted for jobs
🌎 Create longitudinal data systems for tracking and sorting students for the global workforce led by appointed Commissioner Technocrat Mike Morath
🌎 Take a delegation of Texas businessmen like the GreenLight Credentials founder to India to help build the Texas Metaverse
🌎 Partner with GreenLight Credentials founders to store student vaccine history, transcripts, academic records, mental health and physical fitness data on Blockchain wallets called Life Lockers
🌎 Give massive tax breaks to his corporate cronies while building his $100M war chest against his own party
🌎 Appoint a Democrat data harvester named Todd Williams whose nonprofit Commit is funded by TEA and Bill Gates and put him on FOUR education boards & commissions to create the womb-to-tomb system
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
There’s a game being played by Republican Party politicians @ShelleyLutherTX @AngelaPaxtonTX @JaredLPatterson @GregAbbott_TX @FairlyForTexas where they celebrate big wins against BigTech and #edtech apps while voting for the expansion of technology in the classroom.
They all have this in common:
💻 They support Texas Bluebonnet under HB 1605 which is digital common core and bribes ISDs with grant money to adopt a state-owned curriculum aligned with UNESCO and WEF.
💻 They supported the cell phone ban for devices issued by parents with no mention of Chromebooks and iPads issued by the government to all students using bond debt.
💻 They support the new tripled STAAR which is online and increases testing from one test a year to three days of online testing on devices where massive amounts of data are collected on our kids and AI is used to grade them.
💻 They support Morath, @GregAbbott_TX’s appointed commissioner of TEA, who is a software entrepreneur and major driver of data harvesting through @Commit2Dallas, edtech vendors, consultants, P3s like Educate Texas, and online testing companies like Pearson and Cambium.
💻 They support voucher subsidies which will align all recipients with government regulations, including access to private school and home school children while driving up virtual school enrollment and harvesting data on private school teachers and students.
💻 Their feigned outrage regarding digital apps and BigTech is an empty platitude.
💻 Republicans are the biggest drivers of BigTech and edtech with 30 years of power in Texas. (see also NCLB and Istation rider)
💻 Texas has mined more student data than any other state and education is THE MOST data mineable industry to date.
Every click can be monetized. And it is….
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Here’s the well in November 2024. It’s been leaking toxic brine into the ground for over 18 months. Now it’s also flowing oil. Chevron doesn’t care. The Texas Railroad Commission doesn’t care either.
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Red Raiders come on down get some Wade Fishing in ! As I do every year you show me a donation to the Red Raider club or Matador Club I’ll take 150$ off your trip if you book .
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The greatest Texas Easter photo of all time or the greatest photo ever taken in Texas? The pure, unabashed joy on San Antonio farmer Sam Smith's face as he celebrates rain on Easter Sunday after a prolonged drought in 1951 takes me to my happy place every Easter. Taken by Harvey Belgin and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Dr. Meryl Nass is sounding the alarm.
Bayer is fighting at every level of our government—the Supreme Court, the states, and Congress—for a pesticide liability shield right now.
And if just one of their attempts works, they win.
“Monsanto-Bayer set up a system where any one of the mechanisms they tried, if even one works, they get a liability shield.”
“If the states give it to them, if the Supreme Court gives it to them, if Congress [gives it to them] in the Farm Bill… if any of those go through, Bayer will get its liability shield.”
@Heritage @NassMeryl
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Zen Honeycutt just delivered an ultimatum to Republicans:
Eliminate pesticide immunity from the Farm Bill, or they will face a MAHA revolt in the midterms.
“This Farm Bill does not focus on farmers first.”
“This focuses on pesticide companies first.”
House Republicans plan to hand pesticide companies total immunity to mass poison Americans in the 2026 Farm Bill.
“We need to stop this.”
“Americans will be harmed by this.”
But we’re fighting back.
We are mobilizing MAHA to demand that Republicans strike Sections 10205, 10206, 10207 and portions of 10201 from the Farm Bill.
And we need your help to make our demands clear.
Use the link below for a step-by-step guide to call on House Republicans to stand with MAHA and refuse Big Ag’s lobbying for a liability shield:🧵
@zenhoneycutt @momsacross @feds4freedomusa
lance lawrence 🌵 retweeted
Thomas Massie is sounding the alarm.
Congress is on the brink of passing a liability shield for pesticide companies, like Bayer, who give Americans cancer.
Bayer is a foreign company, but Congress wants to give them total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate.
“This is not to grant farmers’ immunity.”
“This is to grant the corporations immunity.”
“If farmers contract a form of cancer or non-Hodgson’s lymphoma from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue for that.”
This liability shield would be a complete betrayal of the MAHA movement.
But House Republicans are on the brink of passing it anyway, and President Trump is urging them to do it.
There is still time to fight back.
We need all hands on deck to stop this.
Here’s how you can take action:
Use the link below for a step-by-step guide to urge Congress to remove Sections 10205, 10206, 10207 and portions of 10201 from the Farm Bill in order to preserve Americans’ right to sue pesticide companies when their products poison us:🧵
@RepThomasMassie