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Yes, EVERYTHING is political. Hopefully I can effectually and consistently make posts, I know this one is painfully wordy. by @moizcalia_

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”- Hannah Arednt

We are told not to believe what we see: the normalization of racism, the rewriting of history, the denial of atrocities, the celebration of cruelty as strength, and the use of “freedom” and “religious righteousness” to justify violence. Donald Trump and the MAGA movement that has consolidated around him have not created these forces, they have emboldened them, given them a louder platform, and rewarded those who wield them. It is the logic of a system that has always depended on exploitation. Bell hooks called it “eating the other” the consumption of marginalized cultures while continuing to erase, exploit, and demonize the people who created them. We celebrate Black culture while attacking Black communities. We consume Mexican culture while criminalizing Mexican people. We commercialize LGBTQ+ culture while legislating LGBTQ+ people out of public life. Culture is profitable; people, apparently, are disposable.
The fascism unfolding before us is not an aberration of capitalism—it is one of its symptoms. When wealth, hierarchy, and domination become moral virtues, democracy becomes disposable too. We are watching those closest to Trump’s administration, accumulate extraordinary wealth while working people are told to fear immigrants, trans people, educators, and anyone else convenient enough to become the next enemy. History is erased because memory is dangerous. Community is attacked because solidarity is dangerous. Truth is replaced with slogans because slogans are easier to weaponize than history. John Fea writes about the mythology of a “Christian America” and how that myth continues to shape today’s culture wars. It is easier to govern through carefully curated myths than through historical honesty. Nationalism wrapped in religious language has never been about protecting faith; it has always been about protecting power.
Fascism cannot survive where people choose one another over domination. Exploitation will not continue for those who embrace humanity. by @moizcalia_

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Erasure will not go unnoticed, a testifier related how CAIR (civil rights organization) “influenced” the social studies TEKs. Member Brandon Hall seeks not only to misrepresent my relation of how these TEKs are being influenced by money but he is pushing a white christian nationalist perspective onto the 5.5 million public school students, Member Kinsey cosigns this erasure and silencing of advocacy against big money influencing our social studies standards. $70k dollars was given to Don Frazier’s Schreiner university center, all while the TPPF plans to minimize and rewrite history and we see the reflections of it very clearly in these poorly written and honestly embarrassing standards. by @moizcalia_

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Historical revisionism can only be combatted with historical fact. The fight against erasure continues. by @moizcalia_

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Texans deserve to know who is influencing curriculum standards, who is funding that influence, and whether conflicts of interest are shaping what millions of students will be taught. No formal financial analysis has been publicly produced regarding implementation costs for these revised TEKS. None. And that omission is staggering.
When California adopted Common Core in 2013–2014, the state allocated roughly $700 million for instructional materials, retraining, and implementation support. Texas districts are already closing campuses, cutting programs, and citing financial instability just to remain operational. Yet somehow we are expected to believe that a massive statewide curriculum overhaul can occur without enormous retraining costs falling directly onto local districts already struggling to survive.
Informal analyses already estimate implementation costs ranging anywhere from $811 million to $1.65 billion. If those numbers are even remotely credible, then this Legislature has a responsibility to demand a formal, transparent fiscal impact study before a single mandate moves forward.
Because right now, districts are being asked to absorb the consequences of decisions they were barely allowed to help shape.
The current TEKS revision process was rushed through with only four days of direct input from classroom teachers and content experts. Four days. We are discussing standards expected to shape instruction through 2030, yet the people who actually teach Texas children were effectively sidelined from the process. by @moizcalia_

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Fiesta isn’t just a celebration—it’s a reminder of a history that many choose not to confront. Rooted in the late 1800s, Fiesta in San Antonio commemorates the “victory” at the Battle of San Jacinto, a turning point that led to the expansion of Anglo power and the dispossession of Mexican people from their own land. What gets celebrated as culture and tradition is also tied to colonial narratives that erased, marginalized, and subordinated Indigenous and Mexican communities. That history doesn’t disappear just because it’s wrapped in parades, medals, and parties.
At the same time, I’m holding deep gratitude. Grateful to have presented my film at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), a space that continues to uplift our voices, our stories, and our resistance. Grateful to have been welcomed with open arms into a community committed to truth and liberation. And grateful for the opportunity to testify at the Texas State Board of Education, speaking out against the ongoing indoctrination of students and the erasure of our histories.
But gratitude and awareness can coexist with urgency. Right now, we are witnessing devastating violence abroad—lives in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran being treated as disposable under a genocidal Israeli state. No human being’s worth should ever be determined by where they are born. And here at home, that same imperial logic persists—the dehumanization of immigrants, the disappearances, the language that strips people of their humanity.
They are not “illegals.” They are human beings. Fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grandparents. Not animals. We have to be willing to question what we celebrate, what we’re taught, and what we stay silent about. Immensely late post as well sorry!!!! #lol by @moizcalia_

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I testified today at the State Board of Education on the social studies TEKS revisions.

I didn’t come to politely disagree. I came because this proposal is a failure of responsibility dressed as curriculum.

The TEA and conservative advisors, under the SBOE Chair, have turned complex history into something sanitized and ideologically convenient:

- Cortés’ aggression is omitted. Moctezuma’s diplomacy is erased. The fall of the Aztecs is framed as a “defeat,” not a violent collapse driven by coercion, disease, and exploitation.

- The transatlantic slave trade is minimized—European demand downplayed, African resistance erased. The colonies are called the “smallest participants,” while the 4 million enslaved people in the U.S. are left out.

- Pocahontas is reduced to “cooperation.”

- 5th grade standards name 26 men. Only 2 women.

The structure is just as broken: kids are asked to define constitutional principles with no foundation, then face years-long gaps before being expected to master complex connections. That’s not rigor. That’s malpractice.

Context matters: Don Frazier—whose Schreiner University Texas Center got $70,000 from the Texas Public Policy Foundation—is helping shape these standards. Is this expertise or ideology?

My department at UTSA is being consolidated into silence for being “too woke” while partisan curriculum is forced onto kindergartners. Who’s playing politics with our kids?

After I testified, they claimed I mouthed threats to a board member and tried to get me kicked out. I did not.

Vote no on these disastrous, unteachable standards. by @moizcalia_

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📰 From @expressnews: Students and alumni on Friday protested plans to consolidate race and gender studies programs at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and vowed to take their concerns to the UT System Board of Regents in May.

Valentina Rivas Labarca, a UTSA sophomore studying political science, said the move is part of a statewide “domino effect” that could lead to elimination of ethnic and women’s studies.

She urged about 30 students attending the rally and others watching virtually to advocate for race and gender studies in Austin, where regents are expected to discuss the issue when they meet May 20-21. by @moizcalia_

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🚨 UTSA is trying to eliminate ethnic and gender studies. We are standing up for our culture! 🗣️ by @moizcalia_

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so grateful to be a part of NACCS Tejas FOCO this year. Houston was pretty cool i guess too.. by @moizcalia_

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The SS and the Gestapo didn’t begin with mass murder. They began with language. They labeled Jewish people as “vermin,” “criminal,” “illegals,” and “threats to national purity.” They used bureaucracy, propaganda, and law enforcement to normalize surveillance, detention, deportation, and disappearance. Dehumanization made cruelty feel procedural. It made violence feel justified. It made neighbors look away.
Fascism depends on stripping people of their humanity. It turns human beings into “problems.” It reframes kidnapping as “detainment.” It reframes camps as “processing centers.” It convinces the public that safety requires cruelty — and that questioning power is betrayal.
When ICE and federal law enforcement in America use rhetoric that paints migrants as “invaders,” “infestations,” or inherent criminals, when families are separated in the name of “law and order,” when detention centers are justified as necessary tools of national security, we should recognize the pattern. The language of enforcement becomes the language of fear. Bureaucracy shields brutality. Policy replaces empathy.
Dehumanization is not accidental — it is strategic. It creates an environment where people accept suffering as necessary and stop questioning the systems of governance that exploit them. When entire communities are framed as threats, it becomes easier to expand surveillance, policing powers, and state control — all while ordinary people are told it’s for their protection.
History doesn’t repeat itself exactly. But the mechanisms of oppression — propaganda, fear, bureaucratic language, and the erosion of empathy — are always recognizable.
Fascism survives when we stop seeing each other as human by @moizcalia_

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love my people!! by @moizcalia_

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