Let me get this straight.
State level GOP leadership actual believes our kids are dressed up as cats during sch and are defecating in litter boxes while our teachers distribute porn.
Welcome to the 2023 legislative session.
Enough! Our kids and schools don’t deserve this.
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Every book ban is intended as a rejection of the patrons that might need that book.
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Republican playbook:
1) Run up the debt to give historic tax giveaways to billionaires and corporations
2) Complain about the debt you created when a Democrat becomes president
3) Falsely blame the debt on Social Security and Medicare, hold the economy hostage to force cuts
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public libraries do not have customers.
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I’m gonna talk about something that I’m not supposed to talk about.
I’m a 37 year old with dentures.
I was dirt poor for most of my adult life, and worked jobs that didn’t offer dental care (hospitality/serving). Small problems like cavities became BIG problems.
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So, my Twitter now has two tabs at the top. There is no explanation, but it looks like 'following' means people I follow, and 'for you' means people I follow plus a whole lot of right wing propaganda. No neutral, no left, just right wing. It's amazing. Facebook x 2.
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Really love this mood chart with words more specific than "good" for the question of "how are you feeling" from the KCPS behavior health team
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Let’s be clear. Lawmakers in Indiana—or anywhere else—who introduce or support legislation based on pure misinformation and fear mongering are an embarrassment to the legislative process. You know who you are. 1/3
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Nope, nothing creepy here
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Just saw a tweet with a right wing group crowing about getting a state to purge voter rolls. Which other rights do you lose if you don't use them often enough?
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Such a fraud.
's bullshit bill lets Pelosi and the rest of Congress just dump their stock into a fake blind trust or pass it on to family so they can keep getting richer. There isn't even a real punishment — normal people get jailed for insider trading!
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“Women are emotional, men are logical” is one of the most distorted stereotypes that we’ve collectively given space. It works against both parties. Plus, it’s not true
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What they say is they want to ban books with sex.
What they do is ban books with queer people.
What they want is to ban queer people.
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that was not the direction I expected it to go
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HEPL library board meeting tomorrow evening 1/26 at 6:15pm. They are reconsidering a children’s book by Taye Diggs titled “Why?”. No sexual content. They’re targeting a book discussing events related to inequality and injustice.
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Legislation being created by “parents rights” groups that regulates the books that parents can choose for their children is the exact opposite of parents’ rights.
That is exactly the government regulating books, not parents.
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I was so hopeful, for a second there, that I would get it in two.
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It will never not be funny how grown men are terrified of the city, and then you drive around, north and south, and see playgrounds with parents and children having the time of their lives on a pretty day.
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Stopped bringing your family to @Cardinals games because of crime? Stopped bringing your babies to @StLouisBlues because the city is unsafe? See so much potential in our historic, beautiful city go to waste as crime sours and elected leaders in the city turn a cheek? #moleg 1/2
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You know how you paid into Social Security all those years only to have politicians say it’s an “entitlement” they can take away? Now do school vouchers…once your public schools are gone, they aren’t coming back. When vouchers becomes an entitlement, K-12 ed will be on you.
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Apparently, late at night, when everyone I know has stopped tweeting, my feed is nothing but right-wing propaganda. The algorithm just fills all the empty spaces.
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""It's a scary thing to have elementary teachers have to worry about being charged with a third-degree felony because of trying to help students develop a love of reading," Barber said."
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Don't let anyone tell you that owning books is somehow snobbish or middle-class. I grew up destitute and read my way out of poverty. Books helped me to imagine better worlds than the one I lived in. Every book I owned was a treasure.
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Just got some Josh Hawley. At least he claims to be from Missouri. 🙄 But I still find it CURIOUS that only right wing fringe types are coming up as "popular in your area" when I live in the north end of St. Louis County!
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Just politely let your child's school librarian know if there are books you would like your child to avoid. They may be able to make a note on your child's account.
You can also TALK to your child.
#bookbans
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And piss off the GOP base so they'll vote. Most of the controversial bills I'm seeing are to stop largely imaginary things, or to use a rare concern to craft loosely worded legislation in order to ban a lot of reasonable things.
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If it seems like all of us in red states are fighting the same battles, it’s because we are. Our legislators don’t write their own bills, ALEC writes them. It’s hateful copy/paste legislation meant to benefit the wealthy and keep the rest of us fighting every day to wear us out.
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If it seems like all of us in red states are fighting the same battles, it’s because we are. Our legislators don’t write their own bills, ALEC writes them. It’s hateful copy/paste legislation meant to benefit the wealthy and keep the rest of us fighting every day to wear us out.
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What's amazing is the sheer disingenuousness of GOP congress critters nowadays. The GOP pols in my feed can't possibly believe half of what they say, & know full well they're misleading people.
(The few Dems I see are usually making position statements instead of spreading FUD.)
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Is it sufficient to have conservatives, or must they be book banners? Most cons used to support libraries and making many points of view available, but these new right wingers are book banners who want to erase all knowledge of LGBTQ+ and education about racism from the earth.
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As far as I can tell, there is no affordable office chair that sits high enough to be comfortable. They all max out so that I feel like I'm half squatting. I must have unusually long leg bones.
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The Boards must have ideological equality? By what measure and method does one make sure that the board members themselves fit the ideological requirements? How does one define ideological equality?
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So a new bill proposed in West Virginia demands "Library boards who make decisions on books must have ideological equality."
Read that again.
wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bi
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And now it's Sebastian f****** Gorka that is allegedly popular in my area. That dude's extremities all tingle with excitement whenever he hears the word fascist.
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The replies in this could be a field study for Dunning-Krueger effect 😂
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Genuinely don't understand how some guys don't think they can safely land an aircraft with air control literally telling them what to do
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Don’t be confused: School choice means those schools choose their students. Poor and disabled kids need not apply.
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The content available for free online has not significantly improved in the past 20 years. in many ways, it has degraded.
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I feel like the true hallmark of a failing nation is that I can no longer picture an event horrible enough that it would make our country pause and reflect.
Mass shootings? No. A pandemic killing a million people? No. An attempted coup? Nope.
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All of these are just opportunities, now. Each crisis provokes a response, an angle that can be taken to gain ground in the culture war. Nothing is unequivocally bad anymore.
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this one almost got away
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