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RFK Jr. is indeed coming for the HPV vaccine. He has support from the religious right, so it may move fast. All genders can contract & spread it & all genders can receive the vaccine. Non-penetrative sexual contact can spread it-- so ya' know, the sex stuff young teens do. It can be given at age 9.

School hate crimes have sharply risen, quadrupling in some parts of the U.S. Anti-bullying programs fail to address discrimination at the root of peer targeting & Social Emotional Learning programs are under attack as indoctrination. We must start in the schools if we want to emerge from this.

Amid ICE Surge, Trump Admin Targets Minnesota Over Trans Student Athletes The move comes as the White House faces massive public backlash over ICE action in the state.

Amid ICE Surge, Trump Admin Targets Minnesota Over Trans Student Athletes

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

BREAKING: A bill that would ban ICE officers from becoming teachers has been introduced by California Assemblymember Anamarie Avila Farias.

This is a California-specific bill called the "MELT ICE Act,” AB1627.

This bill may be heard in committee February 26.

Yet Hate Crimes are rising.

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It’s shameful verging on collaborationist that universities slashed DEI rather than fighting the administration on this.

We Need Diverse Books launches Unbanned Book Network to fight school bans We Need Diverse Books has launched the Unbanned Book Network to counteract book bans in schools and libraries.

We Need Diverse Books has launched the Unbanned Book Network to counteract book bans in schools and libraries.

NYers: There are FOUR anti-trans education bills introduced in the 2026 NY State legislature already. All four are advancing. There are concrete things you can do: Call your state representatives, Assembly & Senate. Educate others & encourage them to call. Meet w your rep. It matters!!

“Education is the civil rights issue of our time” aged accurately. More than half of US kids now live in states where K12 discrimination is explicit and publicly financed.

Any Minnesotan teachers who can give me intel about ICE on school campuses? Will keep you anon.

Mrs.frazzled@gmail.com or text/leave a voicemail 202-847-6577

The university passed new rules to restrict discussions of sexual orientation & gender identity in classrooms, ban professors from straying from their approved syllabi, create a database for AI to crawl through in search of banned content, & set up a hotline for students to report course content.

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only scenario.

A Texas A&M professor was barred from teaching Plato. A student secretly recorded another professor discussing gender identity and complained.

Both incidents reflect a growing threat: Students acting as informants policing classrooms for political incorrectness. buff.ly/CSyg1ph

7 takeaways from Supreme Court arguments about bans on trans women and girls in sports

Here's what went down at the Supreme Court as the justices decide on two anti-trans state sports laws.

Conservative Californians ask SCOTUS to allow forced outing of transgender students

Parents and teachers represented by the Thomas More Society have filed an emergency appeal with the high court.

Op-Ed: With KOSA, Elizabeth Warren is Betraying the Trans Youth She Claims to Protect Evan Greer writes for EITM: "KOSA’s re-emergence comes during a moment of existential crisis for the Democratic party."

It appears that some members of the Democratic Party are supporting KOSA.

The act purports to be about protecting children, but it could weaponize Trump's FTC to target LGBTQ+ content on the internet.

Evan Greer writes for EITM in this latest op-ed.

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More than a third of states sue HHS over a move that could curtail youth gender-affirming care Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Secretary, Robert F.

No one should lose access to necessary health care because their federal government interfered in decisions that belong in doctors’ offices.

Washington State PAC Pushes for Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections The initiative has reportedly received enough signatures to be considered for a state ballot.

Washington State PAC Pushes for Trans Sports Ban With Genital Inspections

Maine School District Forced to Increase Police Presence After Approving Trans Inclusion “Myself, my business and my children have all been threatened by my decision to uphold the law I am bound to upholding.”

Maine School District Forced to Increase Police Presence After Approving Trans Inclusion

Live updates: Anger and outrage spill onto streets of Portland and Minneapolis after ICE shootings As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an ICE officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded.

BREAKING: The Minneapolis school system says it will offer families remote learning as federal officials carry out immigration enforcement in the city.

Minneapolis schools cancel classes after Border Patrol clash disrupts dismissal at Roosevelt Minneapolis schools closed for the week citing safety concerns after an encounter involving armed Border Patrol agents near Roosevelt High School.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

ICYMI: Genocide scholars are warning that the U.S. is in the process of genocide against transgender Americans.

“So it’s not so much ‘will genocide happen?’ as ‘we got to stop it from happening.’” — Dr. Henry Theriault, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2017-21)

And students are not required follow assignment guidelines nor meet the learning standards for the course. Another blow to higher education.

If schools wish to protect students, the next policy approach could require any staff disclosing gender identity inform the school prior to doing so, meet with the school counselor about best ways to handle the disclosure, and have a process for following up with the student over several months.

The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education In this time of moral and political crises, when too many schools have lost their way, it is the responsibility of America’s parents, educators, and policymakers to recommit ourselves to the central p...

A new education manifesto backed by Heritage, PragerU, Moms for Liberty, and multiple state officials lays out a plan to redirect public education toward religion, privatization, and “patriotic” loyalty.

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