ED has already been failing to fulfill its legal obligations. Losing 500 more employees will not help.

Sorry I lied, it's about chickens actually. Prairie chickens, to be exact:

Not the other Claire Woodcock forwarding me an email about turkeys, being like "I think this was meant for you" :')

Proud to be playing a small part in this!! #BannedBooksWeek

Picking up on a bunch of new things being ~engaged~, like how "fiance" autocorrects to "finance" on our messaging app, so now it's all "hey finance!" whenever either of us need anything.

Multiple outlets working on similar topics is actually a good thing for oversight and diversity of thought.

We need and want your help: If you know of specific book bans/orgs/local groups pushing for book bans and trying to get teachers fired etc, please let me know so I can request docs about what's going on / investigate further

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

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“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

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Fascinating story here.

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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When another outlet does the story I did a year ago

1. Vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ Oklahoma education superintendent is finally out as of yesterday.

He appointed Libs of TikTok to the library board, and constantly worked against LGBTQ+ students.

Now, local businesses are literally throwing parties that he is gone.

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i just wanna put it out there that if you hear people using terms like "transgenderism" or "trans ideology" it is your responsibility to shut that shit down, especially if you are cis.

these are literal dehumanizing terms invented to describe the fact of trans people existing as nefarious. stop it.

Thank you ☺️

This is it.

Back from our southern CO road trip, where we got engaged!!! @jasonics.bsky.social 💙

A good scammer knows when the weather has changed. Activism is over, we’ve gone back to Christianity.

love cannot be stopped it is the inertia of existence itself

White House executive orders and legislation in many states have targeted the rights and protections of trans people. For some, that has meant increased financial worry.

Civil rights attorneys say that people listed on the “Charlie’s Murderers” website—who were subject to death threats and in some cases lost their jobs—may have a case for defamation

Honestly, you can't watch that clip and not think, "Wow, Kimmel made Trump look really stupid."

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

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