Julie Thomas Brown

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While Trump wastes millions on a military parade in DC, we're mobilizing everywhere else to show that organized people power is stronger than his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/QNq3B7Rr

Glad you are safe. Scary times.

No bueno 😡

Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Fahrenheit 451’ by Ray Bradbury American dystopian classic “Fahrenheit 451” by the late Ray Bradbury encapsulates the dark realities of a society without books, intellectual curiosity, or critical thinking. “Fahrenheit 451” tells the story of Guy Montag, a fireman, whose job is to destroy the most dangerous item in their government-controlled society: books. It is a novel that pushes us, as readers, to consider our lives and our role in society. This is a novel that warns us of what our world would look like under total government control, softened by excess media consumption. The author of another celebrated dystopian classic, “The Giver”, and friend of the Velshi Banned Book Club, the legendary Lois Lowry and Jason Stanley, Yale University philosophy professor, author, and fascism expert joined us to discuss the late Bradbury’s magnum opus. The novel shows you “different ways you could have lived, different ways society could have gone,” says Stanley. Lowry agrees, “that's how we learn.”

‘Fahrenheit 451’ seemed like “fantasy” when author Lois Lowry read it at 17. Now, she finds it “chilling.” The often (and ironically) banned classic reveals to us “different ways you could have lived, different ways society could have gone,” says Yale’s Jason Stanley. #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

Here’s the real number of children receiving gender-affirming medical treatment New research reveals it's a fraction of a fraction.

Just 0.017 percent of youth were coded as trans and received puberty blockers. And just 0.037 percent were trans and accessed hormone therapy.

“There’s a lot of attention being spent on an issue that only affects a very, very, very tiny part of the population.”

SoCal friends:

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Another great book for lovers of historical fiction 👓

No but I want to miss it 😹

Great book for lovers of biographies and history!