Jennifer Parsons (she/her. Cry more, fash.)

Genuinely incredible that she's saying this with 2 accused rapists on either side of her

I've told this story before but I was in a taxi once and my driver, learning I was a writer, complained his young kid only wanted comic books. I told him to encourage that, because that was the kid's door into reading and the rest would come in time. I think it helped that advice came from a writer.

"Parental rights" means the directives of those appointed by Ron DeSantis. That's all.

You won't be shocked how unoriginal this list of "patently pornographic" books are, nor how absolutely slapdash it is.

Also mine. Every part of them is nutritious and edible. Their roots sink down and stay even when they are torn up. They will thrive the unlikeliest of places, where they “shouldn’t” be. They are brilliant and yellow and stand out and take up space.

Yeah. They’re my favorite flowers.

Sending in federal troops and taking over a city police department on an easily debunked lie, just curious if the it's-not-fascism people want to weigh in

Fearing Legal Action by the State, School Districts in Nine Florida Counties Remove Hundreds of Books from Libraries Ahead of the New School Year  - PEN America A new wave of hundreds of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with at least eight counties pulling titles from shelves, in response to a warning by the state Board of Education, which threaten...

Stephana Ferrell @flfreedomread.bsky.social: “Defending the freedom to read does not forfeit our right or responsibilities as parents to discuss and set boundaries with our own children, but it does work to protect against someone else or the government taking that opportunity away from us.”

I’m quoting this because it is a very fair point for which I have an answer: The first thing is to recognize that in a democracy there is no such thing as “ the majority.” Instead, there are many and multiple overlapping majorities that can be assembled from different parts of the whole.

Queer Authors Withdraw From Writing Prize En Masse Over Inclusion of Self-Proclaimed TERF — Assigned A UK LGBTQ+ writing prize seems to be crumbling as the queer community protests the inclusion of an anti-trans writer on the long list. Trans prisoners in Georgia accuse the state of cruel and unusual...

Figured I'd put my money where my mouth is - I just picked two of the authors who have withdrawn from the Polari longlist and ordered their books.

My story includes the names and links to the books by all of the authors standing up for trans people's place in the LGBTQ+ community.

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So why all the effort to block their release if it's all left wing people. Shouldn't be a problem then.

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

It's far simpler than this.

They don't want "local control" at ALL. That "local control" is really just authoritarians telling the local what it is they, the authoritarians, control.

I have a chronic condition. I also have health insurance.

One treatment is $3500. My portion is $2000. If I weren’t insured, the cash price for the procedure would be $1000. But, since I have insurance, I don’t qualify for the cash price.

Health insurance is a fucking scam.

Reality: that “extra revenue” is higher costs paid by regular American consumers & businesses, and the “tax relief” is going to the rich not you.

JD is pissing 💦 on your head and telling you it’s raining — and @marshablackburn is using this line also as she runs for governor.

Missouri Democratic lawmakers are in such a superminority that they don’t even need to show up for laws to be passed in this state.

An even sadder statement? A piece of legislation can go from the House to the Senate to becoming a law on the Governor’s desk while never being signed by a woman.

In 1949, Superman told schoolchildren “our country is made up of Americans of MANY different races, religions and national origins. So…

“…if YOU hear anybody talk against anyone else because of his religion, race or national origin — don’t wait: tell him THAT KIND OF TALK IS UN-AMERICAN.”

It's Easy to Sow Panic When You're Just Lying The lack of expertise or knowledge about children's literature is on full display when most of your new reviews are of adult books.

When "parental rights" groups add new books to their unprofessional book review/rating websites, they say more about themselves & their expertise than they think they do.

They also hint at what the next targets in public school libraries & public libraries will be.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

For no particular reason, I feel I ought to mention that NO ONE is born with 'egg-producing equipment'. Ovaries, and their full complement of all the eggs you're going to get in this lifetime, are made in the womb when you're still an embryo. Technically, if anything, you're born with egg-cartons.

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

Crime is down in DC. As with every other Trump authoritarian power grab, the entire justification for this is bullshit.

A screenshot on animation that is surely from some corporate presentation tool of a bunch of generic businesspeople labeled The Groomer Gang.

Art of bookshelves covered in prohibited signs.

Screenshot of a shady representative of EveryLibrary (which is a great org) paying bribes to the gang from the previous screenshot (outside of this fantasy they do not bribe people to care about books)

A screen warning people what librarians are supposedly forcing on kids.... sex with jesus! Child porn! Child rape! There was also one about grooming but it was hard to grab a screenshot with all four at once.

Oh lordy, it was not an isolated incident. There must be a coordinated effort for each of the book banning orgs to start making animated hitpieces on various library orgs. This one imagines that any of us who care about the freedom to read are secretly funded by EveryLibrary (who are slandered here)

Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

Look, doug wilson believing that women shouldn't be able to vote is bad, and it's bad that Hegseth is sharing that, but it's one of the less offensive things wilson believes. He believes in slavery. He believes in pedophilia.

All the same people who pretended to care about women's sports so they could target trans people are now cheering at dildos being thrown on court during WNBA games

A man who led a violent insurrection to overthrow the government, and has a history of allegedly raping children and sexually assaulting women, wants to "stop violent crime" where he lives by taking over the city.

The authoritarian takeover continues.

The appalling thing about the “LGB Without the T” gays isn’t just that they abandoned the most unfairly demonized people now when all of our support is so needed but that they still pat themselves on the back for being out-and-proud freedom fighters
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The Confederates always used "state's rights" when it was convenient and the feds to control the states when it wasn't.

We are still fighting the confederates...they weren't punished well enough and they never went away.

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.