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"This is consistent with everything Trump and his allies have revealed about their views on science since January: that it is not a means to better understand objective reality, but a political weapon that they must guard against, or deploy themselves."

theatlantic.com/health/archive

The Atlantic · ‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’By Katherine J. Wu

#LGBTQ #Trans #VideoGames #PBS #Twitch

'According to director Jane Wagner, the executive producer and director of POV told her they were worried about the political repercussions of showing a film centered on a trans person after the recent threats to public media by legislators and the Trump administration.

Although PBS has since rescheduled the film to air in June, Wagner will debut Break the Game on Twitch streamer Trihex’s channel on Monday. '

polygon.com/gaming/561806/pbs-

A blonde girl in a hoodie with rainbow-striped arms holds a sword aloft in a wooded, sunlit glen in a 16-bit-style promotional image for the Legend of Zelda documentary film Break the Game
Polygon · Zelda speedrunner movie pulled from PBS will air on Twitch firstBy Tyler Colp

The recorded #queer #history in #Canada begins after the European colonization. From the mid-17th Century until 2025, Canada’s progress on 2SLGBTQ+ rights begins slowly, then accelerates, with several bumps in the road along the way.
medium.com/prismnpen/377-years

A close-up of two hands cradling a red tin mug that says, “Canada — Strong and Free — 1867” and has a stylized picture of mountains and a moose.
Prism & Pen · 377 Years of Queer History in Canada — 1648 to 2025By Esther Spurrill-Jones

That's all we've ever been allowed to teach. And the repression started well before Trump was elected.

Good luck teaching anything even remotely supportive of the Arab or Muslim experience. Forget anything that even mentions the word Palestine. And that's in the "liberal" San Francisco Bay Area.

There are already other places in the U.S., like Florida, where you can be fired simply for saying the word "Gay."

And who remembers hearing anything in school about Marx, socialism, anarchism, that wasn't completely negative? Anything about MLK's support of labor unions and opposition to the Vietnam War? General Strikes? The Tulsa pogrom? The Battle of Blair Mountain or the Great Train Strike of 1877 (the 2 largest insurrections and 2 largest labor uprisings in the U.S. since the Civil War)???

Dozens of books banned from school libraries and from the curriculum.