#Celebrity news is mostly stupid because, like us, most #celebrities are stupid. But a few, like us, are awesome

#DuaLipa you're fucking awesome

"Dua Lipa Opening Physical #Library for #Banned and #Censored #Books"

“Here you will find one hundred books that ask questions, or have been questioned. Some have been banned by #school districts for themes of #race or #sexuality. Others, written for #LGBTQIA+ readers, have been restricted from display"

https://consequence.net/2026/06/dua-lipa-manifesto-library/

#Portugal #Music

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Dua Lipa holding books by Margaret Atwood

Read about it while it lasts folks.

"Over the years, I collected a handful of favorites that not only drew the #kids into #Jewish worlds but also merged Jewish experiences into the #American #story. This 250th-anniversary-friendly list includes #books with Jewish takes on American life going back to the #Pilgrims and the #AmericanRevolution, and Jewish holidays entwining themselves with what’s most American about #America, whether it’s baseball, boxing or welcoming (or being) the stranger. Some of the books are old and hard to find, while others came along recently, after my #school-#reading days were long past. All carry the message that #Jews are deeply enmeshed in the American story and are also part of what moves that story forward."

https://momentmag.com/american-jewish-childrens-books/

Yesterday I read hundreds of internet comments complaining about Jews being perpetual victims and making antisemitic shit up under just a couple of Jewish IG posts.

"An 8th-grade #Colorado #Jewish #student was called a 'stupid k***' while being strangled by a laptop charging cord, in one of many #antisemitic #assaults by other #students described in a #TitleVI complaint to #Boulder Valley Public #School District.

The #ADL (the #AntiDefamationLeague) has filed a federal #civilrights complaint with the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, alleging that Jewish Student A was subjected to repeated antisemitic #bullying, slurs, and physical assault by multiple fellow students at Southern Hills Middle School (#SHMS) throughout 7th and 8th grade."

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-899834

Cool cool cool. Good times out here I guess... 😒

"When dozens of #Jewish girls emerged from a storm drain in #Nyack, #NewYork, Wednesday after becoming lost on a #school trip, local officials described the episode as a fortunate ending to a potentially dangerous situation.

On #socialmedia, however, the incident quickly drew a slew of #antisemitic comments.

“They can’t help it. Roaches and rats love the sewers,” wrote one #Facebook user on a post by the #Rockland Daily.

“Those tunnels were promised to them 3,000 years ago,” another user wrote, referencing the common online antisemitic phrase ridiculing the Jewish connection to #Israel.

Many of the comments also referenced the 2024 incident at the #Chabad-#Lubavitch movement’s world headquarters in #CrownHeights, #Brooklyn, in which a group from the movement attempted to dig an unauthorized tunnel beneath the building.

“From the tunnels in Brooklyn to the tunnels in nyack! The black coats never disappoint[...]"

https://www.jta.org/2026/06/11/united-states/after-dozens-of-jewish-girls-get-lost-in-ny-creek-tunnel-antisemitic-comments-follow-online

‘BusPatrol’ Put #AI #Cameras in Tens of Thousands of #School #Buses. Now They Want to Give #Cops #Access

source: 404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-c…
without paywall: archive.is/20260526155324/404m…

#BusPatrol is aware of the #controversy around #ALPR cameras, and particularly of the concern that #ICE may gain access to the data, according to the BusPatrol documents ...

The danger here, aside from the misuse of data, is above all that children grow up with this and come to see it as normal to be constantly monitored by cameras. A society under constant surveillance develops differently. It is more conformist, less critical, and very keen on blending into the crowd unnoticed and not standing out. This is exactly what the ruling elite wants: a society that silently endures everything because it fears #repression through the cameras.

#news #technology #children #security #cctv #surveillance #privacy #education #camera #society #future #politics #police #control #bigdata #bigtech #bigbrother #orwell #fear #kids #system #matrix #politics #economy #monitoring #tracking #abuse #video #danger #warning #humanity

"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy