Andrew Karre

Another school district just quietly removing over 500 (FIVE HUNDRED) books in the last year. This stuff is not slowing down

Poster for the 2025 Eleanor Roosevelt Banned Book Awards at The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, NY, featuring award honorees and their photos: Margaret Atwood, Malinda Lo, Peter Panell & Justin Richardson, Becky Calzada, Matthew A. Cherry & Vashti Harrison, John Green, Juno Dawson, and keynote speaker Jennifer Finney Boylan and various

Congratulations to @malindalo.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @vashtiharrison.bsky.social @matthewacherry.bsky.social @becalzada.bsky.social and all the honorees! Thank you for all you do.

Chronic insufficiency.

A political appointee tries to free an actual violent criminal while masked goons are indiscriminately kidnapping brown people and taking them to concentration camps.

There is no law in America.

Minneapolis officer who fatally shot Amir Locke heads MPD’s new use-of-force training Police chief Brian O’Hara said Sgt. Mark Hanneman, who’s been with MPD for nearly a decade,  is an “outstanding” trainer committed to bringing positive change to MPD. But Locke’s family and other comm...

The Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot Amir Locke during a no-knock raid in 2022 is the instructor responsible for leading the police department’s use-of-force training.

MSP, please come out and register for this great conference next month, featuring none other than the marvelous @kaokaliayang.bsky.social as keynote! 🙌🏽😍 Catch WHERE WE COME FROM authors @sunyungshin.bsky.social @johncoy23.bsky.social and I at a 2:45 pm breakout session. 👍🏽

I suspect the majority of young people who seek out and benefit from gender-related care do not identify as trans. This intentional terrorization of medical professionals will harm them too.

Once they’ve subpoenaed medical professionals, they’ll have lists of parents, not only of trans kids, but of cis and nonbinary kids who’ve had any sort of treatment for gender dysphoria. The scale of this violation is vast.

Justice Dept. Demands Patient Details From Trans Medicine Providers

They want trans kids dead.

The intent is horrific and perfectly clear. No science, no medical ethics, no “concern” leads a person to take these steps. You don’t do what this administration is doing to the most vulnerable Americans without murder in your heart.

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The Lorde’s-CD-is-too-clear-to-play-in-man-CD-players thing is making me feel impossibly old.

Q&A with Sara Ryan about their new middle grade novel, MOUNTAIN UPSIDE DOWN.
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My 13-year-old is currently being radicalized on reproductive justice by binge-watching Call the Midwife. Not a thing I had on my 2025 BINGO card, but it's pretty great.

Related: the rest of his media diet has made him rightly suspicious of the S4-6's Patsy-Delia arc. Still mad about that one.

I realize the National Review is not a serious publication and we should absolutely dunk on it, but I'm old enough to remember Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings so I'm also going to have to puke when I'm done laughing.

Nobody tell the National Review about the whole cakes we used to swipe from Mrs. E's back in 1999, okay?

(This is on the train home from Pride.)

This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.

The woman in a very Minnesota boomer straight married couple is trying to edit a Reel and her phone keeps blasting “Pink Pony Club.” Utterly delightful.

Followed by Jacob Frey so everyone could rest their voices after all the cheering. Smart.

Tim Walz marching in Minneapolis #Pride in a Melissa Hortman T-shirt. 🌈❤️

Everyone who went to school between Sandy Hook and today gets a free pass. No one over forty gets to tell you a damn thing about “back in my day.”

Adults spent over two decades “protecting” you from books and did less than dick to protect you from getting shot.

Have all the middle fingers.

Mahmoud v. Taylor is a lethal blow to inclusive, equitable, secular public education.

SCOTUS has handed religious bigots a near perfect weapon for gutting an institution they already despise. Book bans are quaint compared to the destructive potential of this ruling.

In a lot places, it’s going to be easier to have a gun in a classroom than a book with queer characters.

The Christian website that accidentally recommended The Story of Owen to their teen members in 2014 was appalled by a lot of things in that book, but one of the biggest things that "could upset or confuse" children?

That Hannah and Lottie were happy, and everyone liked them.

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark decision that gave gay and lesbian couples the right to marry.

Jim Obergefell fought for years to make the government recognize his marriage to his late husband. He won, and he brought millions of couples along with him.

oh interesting almost like some countries think that right-wing police are bad, huh

Update to this post–now a manager has been fired over this. The library closed for a few days to handle the staff disruption.

What an absolutely unnecessary mess, all facilitated by a handful of local bigots.

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Republicans overturned Roe v. Wade 3 years ago and it's been chaos ever since.

Women should not have to plead to get the medical care they need, and they should not be denied life-saving care just because a guy in a suit thinks it's wrong. Abortion bans kill women.

Huge uptick.

SC representative charged with distributing child sexual abuse material • SC Daily Gazette Rep. RJ May, a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, was arrested the day before and booked in the Lexington County jail.

This fellow is a Moms for Liberty legislator of the year in a state with some of the most sweeping book bans in the entire country.

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