<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Deskooled]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leading the fight against woke indoctrination. Promoting free thought, free markets, and deschooling. ]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!134x!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc98f7e31-e3b5-4d91-8aab-42fccd03a7d9_558x558.png</url><title>Deskooled</title><link>https://www.deskooled.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:16:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.deskooled.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Unskool]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[deskooled@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[deskooled@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Unskool]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Unskool]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[deskooled@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[deskooled@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Unskool]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[We Train Warriors. Harvard Trains Activists. Pete Hegseth Just Ended the Relationship]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you have been on the free list at Deskooled and have been meaning to upgrade, this story is exactly why this newsletter exists.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/we-train-warriors-harvard-trains</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/we-train-warriors-harvard-trains</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:03:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199016508/aa11d31538701d537a8c7b01a27bbbfd.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199016508&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199016508"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>If you have been on the free list at Deskooled and have been meaning to upgrade, this story is exactly why this newsletter exists. 35% off through September 1st. Now read this.</p><p>Pete Hegseth just cut off every military education, fellowship, and certificate program linked to Harvard University effective with the 2026 to 2027 school year.</p><p>His explanation was four words. </p><p>Harvard is woke. </p><p>The War Department is not.</p><p>For years the United States military sent its best officers to Harvard hoping they would gain skills and credibility that would benefit the fighting force. Instead Hegseth says they came back filled with globalist ideology that weakens military readiness. Professors who openly despise the military. A culture that silences dissent and replaces real debate with rigid ideological conformity. Insane tuition funded in part by American taxpayers.</p><p>Harvard takes billions in federal money while operating as what Hegseth called a hotspot for anti-America radicalism. The school that charges students $80,000 a year to attend spent the last decade producing graduates more comfortable with diversity statements than with the demands of actual warfare.</p><p>Hegseth&#8217;s position is simple. We train warriors not activists. If Harvard cannot serve that mission it does not get access to the men and women willing to die for this country.</p><p>The left is melting down. The same institutions that spent years demanding the military embrace their values are outraged that the military finally said no thank you.</p><p>This is what happens when someone who actually believes in the mission runs the War Department.</p><p>Deskooled covers the full war on education, from Harvard&#8217;s ideological capture to what is happening in your local school district. 35% off through September 1st.</p><p>Upgrade your subscription today and help us keep covering what the education establishment hopes you ignore.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199016508&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199016508"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Working Class Taxpayers Are Funding Gender Studies Degrees That Lead Nowhere. ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Matt Gaetz and Brandon Gill Want to Stop It]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/working-class-taxpayers-are-funding</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/working-class-taxpayers-are-funding</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:17:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199023052/4fbc2fb1de2bb5923c2102ba32a476de.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199023052&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199023052"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>If you have been on the free list at Deskooled and have been meaning to upgrade, now is a great time. 35% off through September 1st. Now read this.</p><p>Former Congressman Matt Gaetz and Representative Brandon Gill just said what millions of working Americans have been thinking for years.</p><p>Working class taxpayers should not have to foot the bill for woke degrees that provide no value to the economy. Cut funding for federally subsidized student loans and fix the broken education system.</p><p>That is not a radical position. That is basic accountability applied to an industry that has avoided it for decades.</p><p>Here is what the current system actually does. A teenager is handed access to tens of thousands of dollars in federal loans with no underwriting, no assessment of whether the degree they are pursuing will generate enough income to repay the debt, and no consequences for the institution if the graduate cannot find work. The university collects the tuition regardless. The student carries the debt for decades. The taxpayer backstops the whole arrangement.</p><p>Meanwhile the degrees being financed with that money increasingly have nothing to do with skills the economy actually needs. Gender studies. Diversity and inclusion administration. Social justice frameworks. Degrees that cost $80,000 and lead to jobs that either do not exist or pay less than a skilled trade that requires no college at all.</p><p>Pete Hegseth just cut Harvard off from military education funding because officers were coming back indoctrinated rather than trained. The One Big Beautiful Bill capped federal undergraduate borrowing at $50,000. Gaetz and Gill are pushing the argument further. Stop subsidizing the universities that are producing graduates who hate the country that educated them.</p><p>Konstantin Kisin said it perfectly. You spent 60 years lying to children about history and teaching them to despise their own civilization. The federal student loan system spent 60 years writing the check that made it possible.</p><p>DeSkooled covers the full war on American education from kindergarten through university. 35% off through September 1st.</p><p>Upgrade your subscription today and help us keep covering what the education establishment does not want working class families to figure out.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199023052&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199023052"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horseshoe Theory Before Our Very Eyes...]]></title><description><![CDATA[Deskooled Nails the Left-Right Convergence with Nick Fuentes]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/horseshoe-theory-before-our-very</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/horseshoe-theory-before-our-very</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 15:43:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!134x!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc98f7e31-e3b5-4d91-8aab-42fccd03a7d9_558x558.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q53f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff14b0381-badf-4af1-8d66-7b09e3942b57_617x288.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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As such, there has been an increasing tendency among them to adopt similar tactics in order to further their agendas. </p><p>For example, both groups have developed a strong aversion to free markets, and many advocates of both ideologies advocate for significant restrictions on freedom of expression. This trend has become so pronounced that even critics of socialism and fascism are now beginning to take notice.</p><h2>Deskooled is Highlighting the Theory in Action</h2><p>One critic, Deskooled, recently highlighted this phenomenon in an article on X. He specifically used Nick Fuentes as an example of someone who embodies the extreme right wing, yet also exhibits traits associated with socialism. </p><p>Deskooled explained that while Fuentes may appear to be promoting a very nationalist agenda, he ultimately seeks to impose his will on others in much the same way that socialists do.</p><p>According to Deskooled, both socialism and fascism are based upon the idea of imposing one&#8217;s values on society through coercion. While socialists often use economic means to achieve this goal, fascists typically rely on violence. </p><p>Regardless of which method is employed however, both ideologies aim to limit the freedoms of individuals in favor of establishing a highly centralized authority.</p><p>When students graduate from high school, they are given a wide range of options for continuing their education. However, the overwhelming majority of American students choose to attend four-year colleges. </p><p>What&#8217;s the problem? How does horsehoe theory play into it? The details are below for subscribers.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecticut Legislature's Sneaky Power Grab ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new bill exposes how public schools are battlegrounds for woke agendas, forcing parents to fight back with deschooling and unskooling]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/connecticut-legislatures-sneaky-power</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/connecticut-legislatures-sneaky-power</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 15:38:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TvZw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F99073e77-230c-43f1-9c31-0911a1575df5_1005x830.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png" width="619" height="230" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:230,&quot;width&quot;:619,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:18093,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/i/196226984?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8Ipw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F17b53eb9-5c56-4b86-a337-76498d230935_619x230.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Connecticut state legislators are willfully plotting to take away control of your child&#8217;s education completely out of your hands. I am not kidding. </p><p>In all seriousness, this is exactly what has happened with regard to the recent legislative assault on parental rights.</p><p>There is one bill that has been getting attention lately &#8212; thanks to education freedom warriors on X. This bill is attempting to clamp down further on parents who opt-out of the traditional public school system. </p><p>Specifically, the bill is seeking to establish additional regulations for homeschooling and other non-traditional educational options.</p><p>Why? So the government can shove every single kid back into classrooms filled with indoctrinated &#8220;woke&#8221; garbage.</p><p>It appears to be a desperate measure. After numerous years of parents pulling their children out of public schools due to mask mandates, critical race theory indoctrination, gender ideology creeping into classroom curriculum, etc., the powers that be are fighting back. </p><h2>Inside the Proposal</h2><p>Connecticut&#8217;s proposed legislation includes provisions for mandatory reporting requirements, evaluation procedures and compliance reviews. </p><p>These types of measures mirror those taken by governments in totalitarian regimes such as the former Soviet union regarding their citizens&#8217; family affairs.</p><p>There is a very serious concern that should keep every liberty loving parent awake. </p><p>When does the state start showing up at your door once this bill passes?</p><p>For those of you who are paid subscribers, you will find out the true potential of the proposed legislation below.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[They Gave Elmo a Racism Re-Education and Thought Nobody Would Notice]]></title><description><![CDATA[**They Gave Elmo a Racism Re-Education and Thought Nobody Would Notice.**]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/they-gave-elmo-a-racism-re-education</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/they-gave-elmo-a-racism-re-education</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 11:46:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199015008/6ea5bed2ff9c4afb978841cd81524ab9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199015008&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199015008"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>**They Gave Elmo a Racism Re-Education and Thought Nobody Would Notice.**</p><p>It was 2020. The fever was at its peak.</p><p>Sesame Workshop partnered with CNN to air a town hall called Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism. Elmo sat with his dad Louie while a grown man explained to a red puppet that people of color are being treated unfairly across the country because of how they look, their culture, race, and who they are.</p><p>Then they introduced two new Black Muppets specifically to teach toddlers the ABCs of Racial Literacy. Elmo asked why Wes had brown skin. The answer involved melanin, identity politics, and a song about being an upstander to racism.</p><p>Elmo was five years old. Fictional. Made of felt.</p><p>They gave him a racial justice curriculum anyway.</p><p>For more than fifty years Sesame Street taught children to read, count, and treat people with basic kindness. It was one of the few things in American culture that belonged to everyone regardless of politics. Then the same people who turned every other institution into an ideological vehicle decided Sesame Street was too valuable to leave alone.</p><p>The show that once taught the alphabet now teaches five year olds about systemic racism. The show that introduced generations to the joy of reading now partners with CNN to explain protest movements to toddlers. The show that belonged to childhood decided childhood itself needed to be politicized.</p><p>The fever broke. The woke era is retreating. But the executives who made those decisions are still running Sesame Workshop. The curriculum they built is still out there. And the instinct that produced it never went away.</p><p>This newsletter covers what happened to American education during those years and what is still happening now that most people have stopped paying attention.</p><p>35% off through September 1st because children deserve better than what the institutions supposedly serving them became.</p><p>Upgrade your subscription today and help us keep covering what the education establishment hopes you forget.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199015008&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=199015008"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do You Call Century-Old Babysitting Scams Crushing American Kids' Curiosity?]]></title><description><![CDATA[They are called secondary schools and reform is a must]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/what-do-you-call-century-old-babysitting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/what-do-you-call-century-old-babysitting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:05:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ElVb!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef948c2d-fae8-4cba-bfab-92e0818ed570_612x737.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Snuffed. That flame? Dead.</p><p>In the last 100 years this paradigm has been poisoning our society&#8217;s foundation. Curiosity &#8211; which drives innovative thinking and independent thought &#8211; is being substituted by robotic adherence. </p><p>When will an entire generation emerge devoid of the desire to truly learn?</p><p>Public schools promise education yet deliver compliance. As Unschooling.com states: compulsory schooling has stifled children&#8217;s natural love of learning. </p><p>Evolution wired children to question and experiment. The systems then grind it down using bells, desks and endless testing.</p><p>Mandatory attendance laws spread. The model hardened. Apprenticeships and family-led discovery were out; assembly-line instruction was in. Whether designed or drifted into being, schools became factories for future workers not thinking machines.</p><p>Societies pay the price. Creativity dies when curiosity atrophies. Critical thinking is dead underneath standardized curriculum that prioritizes uniformity over individuality. This degrades our nation and promotes dependence on government scripts rather than self-determination.</p><p>Can we blame institutions dying? Parents see this daily: kids zoning-out, dreadful to go to school like going to jail. Yet the machine keeps churning, funded with billions of tax dollars.</p><p>What&#8217;s the answer? It&#8217;s detailed below for subscribers.</p><p>Deschooling offers an antidote. Remove institutional restrictions from learning. Allow children to pursue interests at their own pace, driven by real world curiosity. </p>
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The strategy of how to maintain control is right before our eyes. </p><p>Public schools have been producing generations of students conditioned to be obedient rather than independent. And what has been pumped into all of our children&#8217;s minds through their public school education? </p><p>Woke indoctrination. Every lesson is taught using woke language. Gender fluidity is being forced upon young children. Students are being taught to believe that America was founded based on racism, not equality. </p><h2>Leftist States Fail the Education Test</h2><p>In 2021, California began teaching its youngest students (five-year-olds) about &#8220;the evil of oppression&#8221;. The public schools were teaching them that everyone in America today is oppressed because of someone else. </p><p>That was widely covered in national media outlets such as Fox News. Those public school curricula turned historical fact into guilt trips. They took away the time for children to learn basic math and reading.</p><p>However, there may be something worse. There could be an even bigger addiction problem that started much sooner than anyone realizes.</p><p>That addiction is one that helps elites grow stronger when you rely on screens, the lies that they feed you through their news networks, and their government welfare programs. </p><p>But we have a solution. </p><p>It&#8217;s detailed below for subscribers.</p>
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Parents throughout America are realizing this nightmare exists, and they&#8217;re fed up with participating. </p><p>While public schools were once engines of opportunity, today they churn out nothing but woke ideology much quicker than factual knowledge.</p><p>Statistics confirm the bleak situation. As noted in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading proficiency levels for 8th graders have reached an abysmal level of 31%, and math proficiency even lower at 26%. </p><p>And yet our public schools continue to focus on drag queen story hours and critical race theory instead of the fundamentals. How could things be allowed to become this way?</p><p>The blame lies squarely on the elites that took control. Teachers&#8217; unions, which receive money from large government entities, support and promote curriculum that divides children by race and identity. </p><p>Florida&#8217;s struggle with educational material showed specific examples of such content including graphic sexual depictions in school library books as well as anti-American diatribes. This explains why there has been such a dramatic decline in the amount of trust Americans place in public education.</p><p>However, here is what really makes this concept stop you dead in your tracks: What occurs when parents finally remove themselves and their children from the public education system?</p><p>What would happen? The answer is spelled out below for subscribers.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[She Was Suicidal and Calling Herself “Toby.” Last Night She Went to Prom... With a Boy]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been on the free list and want to support this newsletter, now is a good time.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/she-was-suicidal-and-calling-herself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/she-was-suicidal-and-calling-herself</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 12:35:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cUUn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6c41d7e0-fa1b-4ab8-ba6d-e84bea190cb3_859x1200.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194729443&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194729443"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve been on the free list and want to support this newsletter, now is a good time. 35% off paid subscriptions. Now read this:</p></blockquote><p>Erin for Parental Rights posted this on X last week. It got 60,000 likes.</p><p>Five years ago her little girl was secretly being groomed and transitioned at her public school without Erin&#8217;s knowledge. Four years ago her daughter was suicidal, lost in a dark cloud, identifying as a boy named Toby.</p><p>Last night she went to her first prom with her boyfriend, glowing with confidence and grace.</p><blockquote><p>Erin wrote: &#8220;What the enemy meant for evil, God is turning into good.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>60,000 people liked that post because millions of parents either lived it, know someone who lived it, or are terrified they are about to live it. This is not a fringe story. At least 6,000 public schools across the country have active policies facilitating secret social transitions without parental consent. Montgomery County Maryland just faced a federal complaint this week for a handbook instructing staff to hide transition information from parents deemed insufficiently supportive.</p><p>The same schools doing this are the ones Connecticut wants to make you ask permission to leave.</p><p>Erin&#8217;s daughter made it to prom. She is, as Erin said, one of the lucky ones.</p><p>This newsletter exists because parents deserve to know what is happening inside these buildings. Subscribe at 35% off before it's too late.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194729443&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194729443"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>*There is light on the other side. 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Feet]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/4-million-fewer-kids-in-public-schools</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/4-million-fewer-kids-in-public-schools</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:35:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N68B!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2872fef1-2c63-4beb-9923-a43a3db407b2_1168x784.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;ve been on the free list and want to support this newsletter, today is a good day. </p><p>35% off paid subscriptions for a few more week. Now back to the story.</p></blockquote><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194724229&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194724229"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>The numbers are in and the education establishment does not want to talk about them.</p><p>Public school enrollment peaked at 50.8 million students in 2019. The National Center for Education Statistics now projects it will fall to 46.9 million by 2031. That is nearly 4 million fewer children in a system that built its entire budget around keeping them there.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Deskooled is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Ten states have already seen declines of more than 5%. California alone is projected to lose nearly 1 million public school students by 2031. Oregon, Colorado, New York, Hawaii and New Mexico are all staring down double digit losses.</p><p>Meanwhile 150 Chicago schools are operating at half capacity. 47 more are at one third capacity. Districts across the country are closing buildings, cutting staff and begging state legislatures not to cut funding for students who already left.</p><p>The system spent decades telling parents there was no alternative. Then it spent a decade pushing DEI, gender ideology and critical race theory into classrooms while test scores collapsed. Parents found alternatives.</p><p>Gatto saw it coming. The institution was never designed to serve children. It was designed to produce a specific kind of adult. Parents figured that out and started leaving.</p><p>Connecticut wants to make them ask permission first. Texas just paid 274,000 of them to go.</p><p>This newsletter covers the collapse in real time. Subscribe at 35% off. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194724229&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194724229"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p><em>They built it. 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virginia’s “black joy” AP class is lowering standards so that no racial group has to feel like the only ones that can’t do it]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fairfax county public schools (fcps) in Virginia has proven that the soft bigotry of low expectations is not simply a theory; it is now official policy.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/virginias-black-joy-ap-class-is-lowering</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/virginias-black-joy-ap-class-is-lowering</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:07:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193209798/b91169c270076aea2e3df5d7761b9542.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After black students in Virginia found themselves unable to earn enough credits in demanding ap mathematics and science courses, fcps did not increase its commitment to providing additional tutoring, high standards, or true accountability. Rather, they came up with a workaround: an AP African American Studies class that will focus on topics such as &#8220;black joy.&#8221; in other words, black families having reunions, celebrating soul food holidays, engaging in culturally-themed community service activities, etc., rather than the traditional academic rigor that truly prepares students for higher education. The primary objective of the AP African American Studies course is to artificially inflate ap passing rates and the transcript grades of black students.</p><p>How progressive.</p><p>This is no fringe experiment. For many years, South County High School in Lorton, va has been pilot-testing the AP African American Studies course. As part of their coursework, students organize &#8220;black joy family reunions,&#8221; which include games, music, and conversations surrounding how macaroni and cheese represents cultural strength. The students&#8217; teacher, Sean Miller, describes the class as providing a &#8220;holistic&#8221; perspective. Translation: if the numbers do not appear to be strong in calculus then switch gears and provide an environment based on joy. The College Board released its national framework for AP African American Studies, and Virginia schools immediately implemented the program, including those identified by governor Youngkin&#8217;s executive order as teaching divisive concepts.</p><p>The message to every black student who is working diligently to achieve academic success in legitimate ap courses is that their academic excellence means nothing until all others are given a level playing field by artificially lowering the bar.</p><p>However, the affront to academic integrity does not stop here. This is the same system that spent years promoting critical race theory lite, implicit bias training, and affinity groups that divide children based upon their racial/ethnic backgrounds. For example, a Rhode Island district&#8217;s &#8220;african american studies&#8221; curriculum appears to be an activist&#8217;s playbook &#8212; outlining &#8220;white affinity groups&#8221; and &#8220;black affinity groups&#8221; for teachers. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that authentic learning is secondary. Public schools are not failing by mistake; they are failing by design.</p><p>What type of education teaches a child that his/her race allows them to have an easier road to academic success?</p><p>Further, when you consider the results of Decades of attempts at &#8220;fixing&#8221; inequities via so-called &#8220;equitable practices&#8221;, there has been no closing of the achievement gap in core subject areas. Naep scores, SAT results, graduation rates &#8211; all of these metrics reveal a picture that is both dismal and consistent. However, instead of identifying and fixing root cause problems &#8212; i.e., fatherless homes; cultural celebrations glorifying anti-intellectualism; the monopoly power held by teachers unions protecting poor quality educators &#8212; bureaucrats create participation-trophy advanced placement.</p><p>&#8220;Black joy&#8221; class is not empowering. It is a participation trophy with college credit attached.</p><p>Parents in Virginia have seen this coming. The state had previously evaluated the ap course due to concerns that it was another example of the same woke indoctrination that transformed history into grievance studies. Yet the class remained intact albeit with minor modifications. Why? Due to the fact that the education cartel places greater value on emotional gratifications than factual knowledge and racial bean counting over actual merit.</p><p>While Asian and white students continue to dominate the difficult ap courses (with no need for special racial accommodations), no One creates &#8220;Asian joy&#8221; electives to enhance their numbers. They remain competitive and succeed because they operate within the same parameters as all other students. The quiet racism inherent in the assumption that black students cannot compete unless provided with special racial accommodations is undeniable. That is not anti-racism. That is the new segregation.</p><p>Similar examples of &#8220;culturally responsive&#8221; curriculums can also be observed nationally, each being presented as a vehicle for justice yet ultimately producing mediocrity. Teacher colleges produce activist-instructors rather than teachers-instructors. Federal grants reward districts that meet diversity quotas related to ap enrollment, regardless of whether students learn anything academically challenging. Ultimately, a generation of students with impressive-sounding transcripts but little-to-no academic skills is produced.</p><p>This is not helping minority kids. It is destroying them. Employers and colleges recognize through the facade that a &#8220;black joy&#8221; ap credit signifies lower expectations than any standardized test score ever could. The students most targeted by this nonsense will become resentful; underprepared; trapped in cycles of failure from which real education could liberate them.</p><p>However, things take a darker turn when considering the motivations behind these programs. The architects of these programs understand exactly what they are doing. They are not confused about the data; they are not idealistic misguidedness. What they are creating throughout america&#8217;s public schools extends well beyond a single silly elective in Virginia; once you see the full blueprint followed by these programmers &#8212; you will never look at a school board meeting in the same way again.</p><p>There has always been a clear solution to address the issues described above. Remove the race-based shortcuts. Demand excellence from all students regardless of background. Return parental control through school choice options such as charter schools and home school options which work. Some push back has occurred in Virginia, but other states must follow suit.</p><p>Public education was supposed to be the great equalizer. Instead, it has become america&#8217;s great dumbing down machine &#8212; funded with your tax dollars &amp; protected by politicians afraid of being called racist when reporting truthfully on how bad things really are. Black kids deserve better than pity classes &amp; lowered bars. Every american kid does.</p><p>The &#8220;black joy&#8221; experiment is cute nothing else &#8212; condescending; divisive; deleterious. It&#8217;s time to call it what it truly is &#8212; educational malpractice disguised as virtue signaling &#8212; &amp; time for parents to fight harder before the joy brigade turns every classroom into a participation trophy factory</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homeschooled Kids Score 25 Percentile Points Higher Than Public School Kids]]></title><description><![CDATA[So Why Is Connecticut Trying to Stop Parents from Leaving?]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/homeschooled-kids-score-25-percentile</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/homeschooled-kids-score-25-percentile</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:03:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JoBY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcc3d8631-f25f-4fa5-ad87-56e388e0fbf5_1168x784.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194721010&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194721010"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>The National Home Education Research Institute has been tracking homeschool outcomes for decades. The data is not close.</p><p>Homeschooled students score 15 to 25 percentile points above public school peers on standardized tests. Consistently. Regardless of the parents&#8217; income or education level. They go to college at higher rates and graduate at higher rates.</p><p>There are now 3.4 million homeschooled students in America. That is 6% of all school age children and growing every year since the pandemic.</p><p>Meanwhile Connecticut just tried to force parents to notify child welfare agencies before pulling their kids from public schools. The system that is losing families by the millions wants permission slips before you can leave.</p><p>The public schools spending your tax dollars on DEI administrators and gender curricula are scoring around the 50th percentile. Homeschooled kids are scoring in the 65th to 80th percentile range. Without certified teachers. Without $19,000 per year in taxpayer funding. Without any of it.</p><p>John Taylor Gatto called it decades ago. The institution was never really about education.</p><p>This newsletter covers what the education establishment refuses to admit. 35% off paid subscriptions for just a few more weeks.</p><p>Subscribe now.</p><p><em>The results are in. 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AT WORK &#8212; AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU PAY FOR IT</p><blockquote><p>Horrifying, listen to three professors from Virginia public universities discuss taking down the United States through violence.</p><p>&#8220;We actually need to crash the US&#8212;We must stand with the armed resistance.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!troc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34ca9470-9d90-4a87-a2d1-bb83273b44ec_1007x1097.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!troc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34ca9470-9d90-4a87-a2d1-bb83273b44ec_1007x1097.png 424w, 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>University Of Virginia Professor Spends Class Time Glorifying Hamas Terrorists; Urges Students To Violently Overthrow America&#8217;s Government</p><p>A professor at the University of Virginia is telling college students that picking up a gun &#8220;sets you free.&#8221; Not metaphysically. Not historically. Literally. He teaches this way. That is where your tuition money goes.</p><p>Professor Khaled Abu El Fadl has identified himself publicly as a &#8220;guerrilla scholar,&#8221; and he was caught on video making an unmistakable recruiting pitch for violent revolution. He uses the writings of Frantz Fanon, the anti-colonial intellectual favorite among radicals on campuses across the United States, to explain why someone becomes &#8220;liberated&#8221; when they pick up a gun. His purpose in teaching is to instill that idea in the students before him.</p><p>If you have questions as to the extent of the decay in American higher education, paid subscribers may review our archives for answers.</p><p>He is not limited to abstract concepts. He relates them directly to contemporary events. He frames the October 7th attack by Hamas against over 1200 Israeli civilian lives as a &#8220;historic decisive blow,&#8221; and frames both Hezbollah and Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolution as misunderstood acts of resistance. Anybody who views Hamas as a terrorist organization is nothing but a product of imperialist disinformation, according to his teachings.</p><p>Therefore, what does he encourage students to do?</p><p>&#8220;We need to smash the U.S. settler-state,&#8221; he says matter-of-factly. Smash it. Not reform it. Not protest peacefully. Smash it. He tells his students and colleagues that they need to disrupt &#8220;the flow of arms to Zionists,&#8221; take a stand with &#8220;armed resistance,&#8221; and sacrifice themselves if necessary. He even states that the University of Virginia remains &#8220;a plantation&#8221; and admits that he has made an effort to try to &#8220;run down the wheels&#8221; on using the school&#8217;s institutional assets as long as possible.</p><p>His classes have been reported to his administration for their content. He responds with a shrug. He knows what kind of work he is doing. He intends to continue doing it. If getting fired would confirm that he is truly a guerrilla scholar, then that would only prove what he already knows.</p><p>What does it indicate about American Universities that he still has a job?</p><p>This is the logical conclusion of decades of ideologically driven capture in higher education. It did not occur suddenly. It occurred through a series of faculty hires, curriculum changes, development of Diversity Equity &amp; Inclusion (DEI) offices, and radical pedagogy conferences &#8212; until the institution became an instrument of promoting the same ideology that it was intended to critically evaluate. The professor is also a member of a Faculty for Justice in Palestine chapter and openly promotes spreading this course material into other professors&#8217; classrooms across the nation.</p><p>Campus First Amendment groups will claim this is simply one professor, or one video, or just one extreme example. They have said this for thirty years, while simultaneously allowing the extreme example become mainstream. Right now the anomaly is not the guerrilla scholar advocating for violent revolution. The anomaly is the professor who believes his role is to educate students on how to think rather than what to think.</p><p>Parents are taking out second mortgages so that their children graduate from college and are convinced that grabbing a firearm constitutes liberation. College graduates leave with $100K+ in student loan debt and believe their home country, which they pay taxes on, is a settler colony worthy of violent rebellion. The University promised students that they would learn critical thinking skills and instead provided students with radicalized indoctrination that included a degree upon graduation.</p><p>The professor concludes his comments stating that we are living in a historic moment &#8212; one where the question of violently overthrowing the world-wide imperialist system is being taken seriously for the first time ever. He is right &#8212; there is something major happening. However, the significance of this event is not what he believes it to be. More and more families are viewing what colleges offer for their financial investment and deciding it is not worth it.</p><p>The guerrilla scholar is running down the wheels on the institution. It appears that many people outside the institutions are perfectly happy watching that happen.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[274,000 Texas Families Just Voted Against Public Schools. With Their Feet]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texas launched its new Education Freedom Accounts program earlier this year.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/274000-texas-families-just-voted</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/274000-texas-families-just-voted</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:39:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zFyZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F402d8c6b-3989-4412-b7b3-f8097eef93f3_1168x784.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194718638&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194718638"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>Texas launched its new Education Freedom Accounts program earlier this year. More than 274,000 families applied. There are only about 90,000 spots available. </p><p>That is not demand for a program. That is a revolt.</p><p>On the very first day alone, 43,000 applications came in. </p><p>Nearly three times more families want out than the state can currently afford to help.</p><p>The same school system that spent the last decade pushing DEI curricula, gender ideology, and diversity administrators while test scores collapsed just watched 274,000 families say, <em>no thank you in writing.</em></p><p>John Taylor Gatto spent 30 years inside public education before writing that schools are designed to produce compliant citizens, not educated ones. Texas families just proved him right by overwhelming a $1 billion program on day one.</p><p>Connecticut is trying to stop parents from leaving. Texas is paying them to go.</p><p>Two states. Two visions. One very obvious winner.</p><p>This newsletter covers the war on your children&#8217;s minds. 35% off paid subscriptions for the next few weeks. </p><p>Subscribe now.</p><p><em>274,000 families can&#8217;t be wrong.</em> </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194718638&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194718638"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zFyZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F402d8c6b-3989-4412-b7b3-f8097eef93f3_1168x784.jpeg" 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Click on more ads. Eat trash. Skip the gym. Point to society. Stay small. Stay controlled.</p><p>It is designed to be a trap.</p><p>James Clear won&#8217;t play that game. In Atomic Habits: An Easy &amp; Proven Way to Build Good Habits &amp; Break Bad Ones, he outlines a systematic plan for regaining control of your life, a fraction at a time. No inspirational fluff. No waiting for inspiration. Just the bare-bones mechanisms that allow ordinary humans to develop the discipline necessary to achieve results while everyone else is complaining.</p><p>Clear begins with a very simple yet brutal fact: you do not grow to the level of your goals &#8212; you drop to the level of your systems. A large percentage of America is stuck in their lives because their everyday habits are being shaped by Big Tech notifications, processed food marketing, and a cultural paradigm that rewards instant gratification over delayed reward. The elites benefit when you&#8217;re preoccupied, fat, broke, and scrolling rather than developing.</p><p>Atomic Habits turns that model around.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;DISCOVER MORE&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts"><span>DISCOVER MORE</span></a></p><p>He reduces the four laws of behavioral change to: make it visible, make it appealing, make it effortless, make it rewarding. Want to read more books? Place the next book on your pillow each morning. Want to go to the gym? Lay out your workout gear the evening prior. Want to save money? Set up automatic transfers the moment your check hits your bank. Small changes. Huge compounding effects.</p><p>The math is unforgiving. If you improve by 1% each day, in a year you&#8217;ll be 37 times better off. If you decline by 1%, in the same time frame you&#8217;ll be almost useless.</p><p>Clear makes no bones about it &#8212; the majority of people opt for the decline because it feels good, and good feeling is the enemy of freedom.</p><p>The biggest hit comes from what he calls &#8220;identity&#8221;. You don&#8217;t build habits to get results. You build habits to create the type of person who achieves those results. Instead of saying &#8220;I am attempting to stop smoking&#8221;, start saying &#8220;I am not a smoker.&#8221; The words rewire your brain. The actions follow.</p><p>Clear pulls from biology, psychology, and neurology without making it a lecture. He demonstrates how cue, craving, response, reward loops drive everything from phone addiction to your morning coffee to procrastination. Once you understand the loop you&#8217;ve mastered yourself.</p><p>And to see how the same forces behind instant gratification are also the same forces behind big-government dependency, subscribe now for every raw expose on the war against self-sufficiency.</p><p>Liberty screams through every single page. Self-discipline is the greatest act of defiance against a culture that wants you weak and dependent. When you control your mornings, your money, your body, and your focus, you don&#8217;t need handouts, excuses, or saviors in Washington. You become a threat to the system &#8212; independent, capable, unbreakable.</p><p>Clear has no agenda for politics. There&#8217;s no need for him to. The message is clear: personal accountability translates to real power. Welfare states, victim narratives, non-stop distractions &#8212; they all flourish when people cannot support themselves.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;LEARN MORE&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts"><span>LEARN MORE</span></a></p><p>Here are some specific tools he offers to give you the ability to fight back:</p><p>Habit Stacking: After I pour my coffee, I will mediate for two minutes.<br>Environment Design: Remove the apps that waste your time. Stock your pantry with real foods.<br>The Two-Minute Rule: Take any habit and shrink it down to something so trivial you can&#8217;t say no &#8212; and then scale up.<br>Tracking: Never miss twice. One bad day doesn&#8217;t destroy your momentum; two consecutive days do.</p><p>No magic. Only mechanical tools that work.</p><p>The book became a huge success because it works for everyone &#8212; athletes, entrepreneurs, parents, students, veterans, and anyone fed up with broken promises to themselves. Clear rebuilt his life after a devastating baseball injury nearly ended his life. He did not wait for a miracle. He developed atomic habits.</p><p>In an age where the culture celebrates victimization and the government promotes dependency, this book is quietly counter-culture. It reminds us that freedom is both personal and political. The individual who develops the discipline to control his habits has the ability to control his destiny.</p><p>The elites do not fear your vote as much as they fear your discipline.</p><p>Get Atomic Habits. Read it. Implement one of the four laws today. Observe the compounding effect that transforms small successes into a life that is beyond reach of the system.</p><p>Because once enough Americans are this strong, the entire game changes.</p><p>No more excuses. No more waiting. Only results.</p><p>Clear gave you the playbook.</p><p>Execute now.</p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;BUY BOOK -- CHANGE YOUR LIFE&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://amzn.to/4spa8Ts"><span>BUY BOOK -- CHANGE YOUR LIFE</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecticut Just Tried to Make Parents Ask the Government’s Permission to Homeschool]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not kidding.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/connecticut-just-tried-to-make-parents</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/connecticut-just-tried-to-make-parents</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:22:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TwfP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8aa3cd08-c42e-4c8d-a151-4613dc336730_1024x1008.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194717628&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194717628"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p>Not kidding.</p><p>Democrats in Hartford drafted a bill requiring parents to notify child welfare agencies before pulling their kids from public school. Every homeschooling family automatically flagged to DCF. Guilty until proven innocent of wanting to teach your own child.</p><p>Parents showed up at 4 AM to testify against it. The backlash was so loud they had to rewrite the bill twice in one month.</p><p>The watered down version is still moving forward.</p><p>Meanwhile the same public schools these lawmakers are desperate to keep your kids locked inside are busy teaching gender ideology to third graders, hiring DEI administrators at six figure salaries, and graduating kids who can&#8217;t read at grade level.</p><p>They can&#8217;t run their own institutions. But they want to supervise yours.</p><p>John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year turned education dissident, put it plainly: &#8220;The truth is that schools don&#8217;t really teach anything except how to obey orders.&#8221;</p><p>C.S. Lewis saw it coming too. In The Abolition of Man he warned that the modern educator&#8217;s real job was producing people who could be easily led, not people who could actually think.</p><p>New Hampshire just eliminated nearly all homeschool regulations entirely. Same week. Two states. Two completely different ideas about who owns your kids.</p><p>The state never stops reaching.</p><p>This newsletter covers the reach. 35% off paid subscriptions for the next few weeks.</p><p>Subscribe now. Your state could be next. </p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194717628&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Get 35% off for 1 year&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.deskooled.com/subscribe?coupon=f43ecfe6&amp;utm_content=194717628"><span>Get 35% off for 1 year</span></a></p><p><em>Connecticut today. Your home tomorrow.</em></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TwfP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8aa3cd08-c42e-4c8d-a151-4613dc336730_1024x1008.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TwfP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8aa3cd08-c42e-4c8d-a151-4613dc336730_1024x1008.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TwfP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8aa3cd08-c42e-4c8d-a151-4613dc336730_1024x1008.jpeg 848w, 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To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Netflix is Poisoning Your Kids With Woke Trans Slop]]></title><description><![CDATA[The forces of evil have their sights on one target&#8230;our children.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/netflix-is-poisoning-your-kids-with</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/netflix-is-poisoning-your-kids-with</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Right Flank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:20:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190571770/2d6425f892ebb05a6f0d65abca7dfab9.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For years, they&#8217;ve been trying to indoctrinate young minds with dangerous ideologies. Why? Because the powers that be know that kids are still learning. Their minds are developing, which makes them susceptible to propaganda.</p><p>Even more insidious? They know that once children are successfully indoctrinated, undoing the damage isn&#8217;t easy. The bell can&#8217;t be un-rung.</p><p>That&#8217;s exactly what the woke trans mob is counting on. In classrooms, media, and other forums, our children get consistently targeted with gender ideology.</p><p>The latest culprit to join in? You guessed it&#8230;Netflix!</p><h2>It&#8217;s Time to Cancel Your Subscription</h2><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1406280817700526">Trans slop is consistently woven throughout Netflix&#8217;s children&#8217;s shows.</a> These are animated feature programs DIRECTLY targeted to young audiences, not just media that adults tune in to.</p><p>Make no mistake about it&#8230;this streaming service knows exactly what it&#8217;s doing. Netflix is just hoping that parents will shrug it off or not pay close attention.</p><p>That&#8217;s the most fatal error we could make.</p><p>Children are innocent. We have a duty to protect them. Under no circumstances can they be weaponized as tools by the gender ideology mob.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png" width="716" height="728" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:728,&quot;width&quot;:716,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KjPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F57b5d454-0ac3-41e2-bf55-c50ff808429a_716x728.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>First, they tried to force this slop into our kids&#8217; classrooms. Then, they put trans stuff in &#8220;family friendly&#8221; ads that children would see.</p><p>Now, the powers that be are stuffing it in Netflix shows. &#8220;Non binary&#8221; this. &#8220;Transitioning&#8221; to that. Enough is enough. Netflix thinks they&#8217;ll get away with it&#8230;but they shouldn&#8217;t make a penny more from feeding this to our children.</p><h2>The Propaganda is in Full Swing</h2><p>For YEARS, Americans have been attacked for standing against gender ideology&#8217;s delusions.</p><p>We&#8217;re called &#8220;hateful&#8221; and &#8220;bigoted&#8221; for refusing to lie about biological realities. The same talking points are now used against parents who don&#8217;t want our kids ingesting trans slop via Netflix.</p><p>We&#8217;re supposed to believe it&#8217;s &#8220;loving&#8221; for kids to be told they can change their gender. We&#8217;re supposed to accept that putting disordered ideologies into children&#8217;s media is acceptable.</p><p>Not a chance!</p><p>Americans have to push back against this. We can&#8217;t let Netflix throw out these buzzwords to silence us. As we come under attack for sharing the truth&#8230;we should only be speaking louder and more frequently.</p><p>Many folks don&#8217;t know what Netflix is up to. They think it&#8217;s just an innocent streaming service for families to enjoy entertainment.</p><p>THAT is the lie Netflix is counting on.</p><h2>Follow the Money</h2><p>The truth about Netflix can be found by simply looking at their majority shareholders. At the top of the list? The Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc.</p><p>Surprise, surprise! BOTH of these shareholders have long supported woke Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG). These metrics, radical by nature, are often used to determine how sustainable, ethical, and risky a company seems.</p><p>ESG is a nightmare, though.</p><p>Using this as a barometer consistently hurts free market capitalism. ESG also forces woke ideologies into business investments while distorting financial markets.</p><p>The Vanguard Group and BlackRock Inc.? They love ESG. All things considered, it&#8217;s no wonder that Netflix, on their watch, is pushing woke trans slop.</p><h2>It&#8217;s Not Just Netflix</h2><p>Unfortunately, this company is not alone in trying to indoctrinate your kids with gender ideology. Many other media platforms have the same agenda&#8230;they&#8217;re just a little more covert about it.</p><p>Moving forward, parents must take action accordingly. This means keeping our heads on a SWIVEL. We have to be careful and stay aware of what our kids are watching.</p><p>It&#8217;s not safe to just hand them a tablet so they can &#8220;have fun.&#8221; Now, more than ever, we have to be vigilant, make sacrifices, and do whatever it takes to save the children.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Infectious Ideas Are Spreading Like a Plague – And They’re Killing Free Thought]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gad Saad&#8217;s The Parasitic Mind Exposes the Anti-Reason Pathogens Infecting Our Universities, Media, and Culture &#8211; And Why We Need to Fight Back Hard]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/these-infectious-ideas-are-spreading</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/these-infectious-ideas-are-spreading</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[America Reborn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:56:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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The ownership, Lifetouch, comprises the same people named in the latest Epstein files.]]></description><link>https://www.deskooled.com/p/school-picture-day-supported-by-perverts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.deskooled.com/p/school-picture-day-supported-by-perverts</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Right Flank]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:17:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The companies that support your child&#8217;s school picture day may be using your kid&#8217;s yearbook photo to &#8220;shop&#8221; for <a href="https://x.com/Peeps1908/status/1649810123639132160?s=20">their next victim</a>. The ownership, Lifetouch, comprises the same people named in the latest Epstein files.</p><p>If it were just one company using school picture day to &#8220;catalog&#8221; your child, it would be less of a concern. You could simply fire them by demanding your school not use them or opt out of picture day, but it goes way deeper.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png" width="1188" height="260" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:260,&quot;width&quot;:1188,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!v0aD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd902ddbc-7ca2-4fd9-9678-6d48c76758d1_1188x260.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Lifetouch is Big</h2><p>Knowing that certain individuals might be cultivating a list of children to serve up to pedophiles is sick enough, but here&#8217;s what&#8217;s really concerning. Lifetouch is one of the largest school picture companies in the U.S. They take pictures of millions of students annually, and they specialize in yearbook photos, portraits, and other school-related pics. They&#8217;ve been in operation for decades.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png" width="1172" height="1106" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1106,&quot;width&quot;:1172,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tey0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F34d272c0-e5a8-42d5-917b-af0f75b4be05_1172x1106.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The company was acquired by Shutterfly in 2018. In 2019, Shutterfly, already in control of Lifetouch, was purchased by Apollo Global Management in a $2.7 billion deal. This is a private equity firm that doesn&#8217;t have direct involvement in Lifetouch&#8217;s daily operations, but</p><p>Why would they be so keen to purchase a photo company <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-13/the-leon-black-files-epstein-was-a-fixer-for-billionaire-s-deepest-secrets?embedded-checkout=true">for billions of dollars</a>?</p>
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