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Barack Obama appears to be mobilizing the “next wave.” He said the “heart” of his Presidential Center will be “the music studio where kids are learning how to tell stories” and podcast rooms. Not the archives. Not the presidential papers. The studios. He called it “kind of a Social Change University.” He said it will “build a community of activists.” He said visitors, including young people who don’t see themselves as activists, should leave asking, “What can I do?” and then be given “all kinds of ways” to connect with local organizations and “get active.” He framed it as a place to figure out “how do we push back.” And in that same conversation, he pointed to activists in places like Minneapolis, saying the work they’re doing matters and that it’s important to keep that energy going. Put that together. A former president builds a permanent campus. 🔴Says the heart of it is media studios for kids. 🔴 Says the goal is to build activists. 🔴 Says visitors will be plugged into organizing networks. 🔴 Says it’s about learning how to push back. 🔴 Praises ongoing activist movements and stresses the importance of continuing that work. That is not a neutral presidential library. That is an organizing hub with exhibits attached. This is NOT about preserving history! @DataRepublican
11 YEARS AGO TODAY… the world watched men in orange kneel on a shoreline… hands bound… heads bowed… while masked extremists stood behind them with blades ready. 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. Not soldiers. Not politicians. Not militants. Laborers. Fathers. Brothers. Sons. Their crime was simple and absolute… they refused to deny Christ. The sea turned red because faith was stronger than fear. Witnesses reported their final words were prayers… calling on Jesus even as death approached. No bargaining. No compromise. No surrender of belief. And yet look at the silence that followed. No global outrage campaigns. No endless celebrity marches. No weeks of wall-to-wall moral hysteria. Just a brief headline… then quiet. This image is not just history… it is a mirror showing selective outrage and selective memory. When Christians are slaughtered for their faith, the noise fades fast. The cameras move on. The world shrugs. But courage does not disappear because attention does. Those men faced the blade with conviction most people will never understand. Faith under absolute pressure. Conviction without retreat. Testimony written in blood. Remember them. Remember what they stood for. Remember how quickly the world forgot. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove
