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Tune out the idiots. Call out the charlatans.
🚨 Today’s Spotlight: 📚 ‘Patriotic Education’ Grants Try to Standardize Viewpoint & Whitewash History — read the full story in “What Matters”

🔎 What’s an Idiot? What’s a Charlatan?

Idiots are distractions — people or stories that steal attention from the issues that actually matter. Whether intentional or ignorant, they’re always off-track.

Charlatans are worse. They deceive, manipulate, or exploit others to erode democracy, dignity, truth, or justice — what we call our nonnegotiables.

This website points out the Idiots so we can all focus on the Charlatans.

Charlatans (What Matters)

  • 📚 ‘Patriotic Education’ Grants Try to Standardize Viewpoint & Whitewash History
  • ♻️ Trump DoJ Moves to Kill Vermont’s Climate Superfund Law
  • 🗽Poll: American Jews Say Trump’s Campus “Antisemitism” Drive Is a Pretext to Muzzle Dissent

Idiots (Ignore These)

  • America’s Got a New “War Department” — Just for Show
  • Moonshot Madness: Duffy’s Lunar Nuclear Dream Ignores the Republican-Led Collapse of U.S. Science
  • Idiot Alert: MTG Thinks the Government Controls the Weather
  • Turbulence in the Headlines — Not in the Sky

Courage

  • ♻️ Trump DoJ Moves to Kill Vermont’s Climate Superfund Law
  • 🗽 UC Coalition Sues to Stop White House Coercion and Funding Freezes
  • 🌎 England’s Channel 4 to Air Video of Trump Lies on a Loop During his UK Visit

Boo These Leaders

  • 🤝 Texas A&M Regents Cave: Univ. President Pushed Out After ‘Gender Ideology’ Flare-Up
  • 🗳️ Disney-ABC Caves: Jimmy Kimmel Live! Yanked After Trump/FCC pressure
  • 🗳️ Fealty to Trump Reaches New Lows – But What Does It Really Mean?
  • 🤝 At First, Admin Officials Blamed DC Crash on DEI – Last Week They Admitted It Was Something Else

ActNow

  • ♻️ Fridays for Future – Climate Justice Mobilization
  • 🗳️ “Rage Against the Regime” – Pushback Against Various Trump Admin Policies
  • 🤝 Netroots Nation – Conference on Social Justice and Advocacy

Support These Groups

  • 🗳️ League of Women Voters
  • 🌎 Democracy without Borders
  • 📢 Reporters without Borders
  • 🗽 ACLU Free Speech Project
  • 🗽 PEN America
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