Once again, they mixup “banned books” with showing pornography in schools. The section they’re referring to is in the foreword of Project 2025, which calls for listing educators who purvey pornography as sex offenders. This is not what most people would consider “teaching banned books.”
You can see the document here, it’s not a secret they want people to read it:
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
I think they’re correct that there’s no first amendment issue with banning pornography in schools, but there would be for a blanket ban that imprisons adults for it. That would likely be struck down by the courts and for good reason; we don’t need an FBI or ATF for porn.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
