This is a crazy one, y’all.
@jamestalarico.bsky.social can add (mis)fortune teller to his resume. 🫠
“Each time I stand up to speak at a school board meeting, my knees shake, my voice catches... It isn’t that I’m more afraid of public speaking than death; it is that public speaking feels like it could cause my death.”
And she does it anyway.
Kudos, Kalyn Gensic. 👏
At @txfreedomread.bsky.social, we’ve undertaken a massive project (with the help of some incredible volunteers) sending public info requests to school districts to see how new laws are affecting what books are available in Texas schools. Y’all, it’s a lot. Follow us for some upcoming bombshells.
Blue State Challenge! If you haven't seen it yet, here's how it works:
0: Be living in a Blue State.
1: Pick your most hated (or most loved) Red State.
2: Choose an issue you care about.
3: Find a group in that state working on that issue.
4: Support that group.
“Y’all, it’s a lot.”
Can’t wait for @txfreedomread.bsky.social to drop some bombshells. Who could have predicted SB13 would result in good books being banned?
Oh that’s right, we advocates did. Multiple times.
I can't explain it. 🤷♂️
Makes no sense.
Locura.
At @txfreedomread.bsky.social, we’ve undertaken a massive project (with the help of some incredible volunteers) sending public info requests to school districts to see how new laws are affecting what books are available in Texas schools. Y’all, it’s a lot. Follow us for some upcoming bombshells.
Important reminder!
“Some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children”
Sounds like these people shouldn’t be parents, not that they should dictate cinema standards for everyone else
I'm excited to share this interview I did with education researcher Jennifer Ervin about her work studying the impacts of educational gag orders and book bans on teachers. It gets right to the heart of how so many of us are feeling now--hypervisible, under attack. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
I am about to publish a blog for my small private about how we support diversity 100% and put lessons about it throughout our curriculum.
No way I would go on teaching anywhere that told me not to. But I can afford to be picky.
I talked to a high school teacher who has removed whole units from her nursing course because, she says, “There’s no way I’d get permission to teach them after SB12.”
A comment from the post ⬇️. The way these laws are restraining teachers from teaching the truth…
I'm excited to share this interview I did with education researcher Jennifer Ervin about her work studying the impacts of educational gag orders and book bans on teachers. It gets right to the heart of how so many of us are feeling now--hypervisible, under attack. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
This is what community looks like! Wyoming’s Book Banning Bill, HB10, FAILED to advance tonight after not being introduced by the deadline. I am so relieved and grateful. I hope this victory can give others a little hope in difficult times. We fight on, together. #fReadom
Call your reps about this. Every time a book ban has been overturned or shut down, it's because the vast majority of people who believe in the freedom to read spoke up.
Find your reps' info at reps.fyi.
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.
Two very specific things I love about Texas—in a truly personal way; I really mean the word “love” here—are UT and Big Bend National Park. Watching these incredible institutions get gutted by the people in power is making me incandescent with rage.
I’m bereft right now.
What???????????????/
it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric
