Ryan Thoreson

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...

Florida's threats to take Hillsborough County to court if the school district did not remove books due to sexual content have had a chilling affect. At least nine other counties have pulled books from school library shelves before the start of the school year, @PENAmerica reports.

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

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rolling from hot to go to shania twain feel like a woman is god tier wedding DJing actually

Me looking at the stack of novels I did not read this summer:

Jailed by Trump's ICE, Children's Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into 'Solitary' Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.

Brutal stuff from @swin24.bsky.social on the former children's hospital chaplain whose friends says he's been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him

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Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

She says Cincinnati Children's fired her after speaking to us about her former coworker, Ayman Soliman Lizzy Diop talked to us on July 14, one day after speaking with her friend. On Monday, July 21, Diop said she was fired for a media policy violation.

I missed this, Cincinnati Children's has fired chaplains for speaking out about one of their other chaplain's being grabbed by ICE. www.wcpo.com/news/local-n...

No Tim Cooks at Pride

Man who fled Jamaica after anti-gay hate crime rips ICE courthouse arrest Rickardo Anthony Kelly says he was shot 10 times for being gay. Now, he claims the U.S. government is trying to send him back to Jamaica where the hate crime happened.

New: NYC ICE agents arrested a Jamaican asylum-seeker who says he fled to the United States after being shot 10 times for being gay.

He claims they’re trying to send him back to Jamaica, where the hate crime happened.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

The full list of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, in video form.

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The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations U.S. delegates have objected to use of the word “gender” in U.N. documents during forums on topics as varied as women’s rights, science and technology, global health, toxic pollution and chemical wast...

At a United Nations meeting on pollution, the U.S. delegate said the U.S. has a "national position" on gender.

The position leaves no room for the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who face discrimination around the world.

My latest:

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stack of books with gender/fucking, the loves of my life, diaper free before 3, and Lincoln in the bardo

gay dad beach reading!

We were driving and couldn’t figure out what was happening - they were so loud they sounded like they were going off *in* our car.

a child carefully pulls the chocolate from a pain au chocolat

Nobody surgically dismembers a chocolate croissant quite like our daughter.

rated e for everyone

It emanates from the penumbra.

AFAIK, this is the first US jurisdiction overtly banning gender affirming care for adults - another very dangerous setback for everyone’s right to bodily autonomy.

Love Actually meme with man holding a sign that says “it was 190 degrees”

Me, silently, from the table behind him:

A guy in this cafe is using the McDonald’s coffee case to disparage lawyers to a group of students and it is taking EVERYTHING in my power not to intervene.

After months of being stubborn and cheap I finally got the shattered screen on my phone replaced today.

all anyone needs to do is tell him he didn't do a very good job with the drawing

“In the words of Demi Lovato,”

Haha - my mom is the same, this is 100% me working through my guilt

list of toddler translations

Making a guide for the grandparents really drives home how fun it is to parent a toddler.

Never thought I’d have occasion to say this but my heart really goes out to the Prime Minister of Bahrain.

Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.

Incredible news out of New Hampshire tonight: we pushed the Republican governor (who faces re-election every 2 years) to veto a book ban AND an anti-trans bathroom ban 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

I needed this good news today.