Maggie Astor — "After taking office & examini...

Pretty remarkable, considering that on the right, CRT now means "anything presenting people of color in a favorable light."

15 May Maggie Astor

Or, y'know, "anything presenting white people in a bad light".

15 May bettybarcode

"the brainwashed right wing hack said the curriculum is fine, actually" is not super reassuring

15 May Maggie Astor

Incredible. It's like an Onion story!

15 May Maggie Astor

Leopard, face, etc etc

15 May Maggie Astor

This was somebody who took her job seriously diligently worked to find the truth. I think anybody who finds out their allies were shit is allowed to be surprised.

15 May Le Rouge, Zut Alors!!

You'd think they would examine the curriculum BEFORE taking office, but I guess that's expecting too much.

15 May Maggie Astor

🎶 It's too late to say "I'm sorry"
(How could I know? Why should I care?)
Please don't bother trying to find it.
It's not there. 🎶

15 May Maggie Astor

Zombies everywhere one looks these days.

15 May Jazz, Comics, and Baseball

Maybe it's just that time of the season.

16 May John Sundman

much like the border 'crisis'

15 May Maggie Astor

"School marshals escort her and her fellow board members to their cars to ensure no one accosts them.…a fellow trustee follows her in his car to make sure she gets home safely." These people are scary.

15 May Maggie Astor

Wait till you get to the guy who brought a gun to a board meeting.

15 May Adrenalyn

It sounds like there were no consequences for that guy because oopsies the police made a lil mistake?? Did I get that right?

15 May Sarah Thurmond

"...but because officers didn’t conclusively identify the weapon that night, and because Cliff Criswell declined to cooperate, prosecutors were unable to file charges, said Granbury police Deputy Chief Cliff Andrews." Based on this, it apparently is the way the law works. 🤷‍♀️

15 May Adrenalyn

CRT is only taught in like, law school. these people are as dense as dying stars

15 May Maggie Astor

Well, as a black man, I find it endlessly infuriating that the mere mention of race is still the easiest trigger. We’re not your fucking enemies. We have way more in common than the people doing the gaslighting.

15 May Maggie Astor

If she can't find wokeness, she must not be trying very hard. I've heard people say that Night of the Living Dead is woke because the Black guy is the one who defeats all the zombies.

15 May Maggie Astor

I mean to be fair, that is kinda true, it was pretty damn progressive for its time to show all of the white men being useless, not to mention how the protagonist gets callously screwed over in the end

15 May Isaac Rabinovitch

She made the mistake of looking at actual facts, something antithetical to the right-wing narrative.

15 May Maggie Astor

That, and refusing to obey orders when she was told to support an obviously fake narrative in order to further a political agenda that was antithetical to the things she'd originally run for office to support.

16 May Mike Soule

So her friends shunned her for telling the truth. THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY FOLKS. If you dare to not be a raging bigot/racist who believes their lies you are shunned or have your life threatened.

15 May Maggie Astor

15 May Maggie Astor

Texan here. there are plenty of us here who hate this line of thinking.

15 May Jaana Nystrom

She got fooled by being convinced into thinking the boogeyman was real.

15 May Maggie Astor

So you mean she decided to actually look into the bullshit she was spouting and found that it was, in fact, bullshit? It's amazing what a little critical thinking can do

15 May Maggie Astor

Scapegoating fascists will turn on their adherents as surely as they attack their opponents. Because it's about intimidation for control.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social

"After taking office & examining 100s of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found—and didn’t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist. Children were not being sexualized & she could find no examples" of CRT.

Former allies started threatening her.

A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrina…

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

www.texastribune.org

15 May

15 May Maggie Astor

You're either with the hate-fest or against it.

16 May web_rant

I got to the end and didn't see where she denounces and/or leaves the republican party

15 May Maggie Astor

In August 2023, she moved to censure Karen Lowery for violating a campus policy, rather than supporting a false narrative.

In the November 2023 election, she turned against the party candidates & endorsed the woman she'd previously ousted, Nancy Alana, as a way to redress the balance to the board.

16 May Kieran

The rare true believer convinced by evidence. Most of the time when they can't find the proofs they're looking for they assume it means the conspiracy is keeping it from them somehow.

15 May Maggie Astor

🤣

15 May Maggie Astor

Encouraging to see someone convinced by facts and not feelings

15 May Maggie Astor

And to think she could have just said "I've done it! I've excised all the bad literature!"

15 May Maggie Astor

BWAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂

15 May Maggie Astor

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall get you fired.

15 May Maggie Astor

"conservatives being haunted by demons of their own making, volume number 3716321"

15 May Maggie Astor

Most (all?) states publish them openly.

It shouldn’t take getting elected to read ‘em.

15 May Maggie Astor

The right wing view is that the publicly available records are doctored and censored to hide the truth.

Once she'd been elected Courtney went digging through the raw data that the reports were compiled from, to find the lies at their source, but came up with nothing.

16 May Tom

tell me more about the face eating leopards party

15 May Maggie Astor

She didn't understand the assignment

15 May Maggie Astor

That would be the assignment to spread false information and restrict her lines of communication only to the 'right people' so that she wouldn't be misled by liars..?

16 May Matrisiege

Threatening someone for reporting the truth and not the narrative they invented. Sounds about Right.

16 May Maggie Astor

And for listening to people other than the other zealots, since 'those people' were all liars trying to mislead her.

16 May Scott Gibbs

Reading is Fundamental

… to MAGA deconstruction

16 May Maggie Astor

lovely, her education comes at the expense of children's mental health. she campaigned on falsehoods and now all is good!

16 May Maggie Astor

I get the "I told you so" reaction, I felt it too. However, we should support people who are capable of changing their minds when presented with the facts and act on the newly discovered truth. It takes courage to go against the group you were part of and I respect that.

16 May Maggie Astor

DUH.

Did she also happen to notice the way we DO actually indoctrinate children in schools - to nationalism?

But props to her for actually checking at least. It's a start.

17 May Maggie Astor

Also, as a teacher, you know the number one reason I have to bring up 2SLGBTQIA+/BIPOC issues in my classroom? Because a kid said or did something bigoted. 🙄

17 May Maggie Astor