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DrAnnD

@drannd.bsky.social

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Educator, intellectual freedom advocate, scholar, reader, writer, and lyricist. I knit, garden, and cook for instant gratification. Professor in title. Michigan expat in Texas. (Skeets my own.)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · Jun 18

Beginning in 1970, @ncte.org has worked with members to pass position statements and resolutions about students' right to read and the ways teachers can oppose censorship. A little summer project is going to be reading through these statements and following the paths they open up.

All Position Statements

NCTE position statements aims to support its members as they navigate changes that bring the latest thinking and research for best practices.

ncte.org

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 12h

#BannedBooksWeek

This is Anne Frank's story. It's been challenged and banned.

Fascism is all connected, so I work very hard in the lane I'm in, fighting censorship.

If you're not sure what to do, I've got lots of ideas and we'll take help. uniteagainstbookbans.org

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote a column with @katywithwine.bsky.social about censorship policies being a moral trap. Adhere to the policy, harm a kid. Give kids diverse books, lose your job, be threatened. Moral injury of teachers is so real. (It’s behind a paywall in English Journal, but I’ll send it to anyone!)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 20h

My kingdom for a Democrat who figures out how to run on education in a way that isn’t a neoliberal/economic augment.

40 million children go to public schools. They deserve our best and no politician seems willing to fight for that. (Also, that’s a lot of voters who are caregivers.)

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

They have no use for democracy and no use for a democratic education system, so ceding the framing of the purpose of public education to the party in power seems to me just as much buying into the consumer logic of a privatized education system as supporting a universal voucher program.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 20h

Love this so much.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

No.

There’s a phrase in semiotics, I think, for a sentence that scans, but doesn’t make sense. Like ‘Don’t drive dinosaurs on the wall’ is grammatically correct, but makes no sense. At least dinosaurs on the wall is kinda funny. Those words harken the end of higher ed.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Guadalupe, when you're in Austin
Nacogdoches, when you're in San Antonio

Cairo, in Illinois

Mackinac, anywhere, but especially on the island

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1d

One more time for the people in the back: Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico which is part of the United States making him…. Wait for it…. All American. 🇺🇸 🇵🇷 #badbunny

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 1d

🤣 Who?!

"Performers and event details coming soon."

Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA Sets 'All American Halftime Show' in Protest of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance - Variety

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Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA Sets 'All American Halftime Show' in Protest of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance — Variety

Because even music has turned into team sports, Turning Point USA has announced that it will be hosting its own Super Bowl halftime show in protest of the NFL's official headliner, Bad Bunny.

apple.news

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Right? (Check the alt text. I couldn’t resist.)

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Your moment of hope.

And, remember: hope means you have to work your ass off to have the future you want, not an excuse to assume it will all be fine. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/donald-t...

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence of the point that Trump is not doing well among Texans. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/donald-t...

A bar graph with the title Donald Trump Approval (August 2025).
28% Strongly approve, 17% Approve somewhat, 5% Neither, 7% Disapprove somewhat, 43% Approve strongly, 2% Don't know (who are you? And why did you answer a poll but don't know how you feel about Trump?)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Evidence of the point that Trump is not doing well among Texans. texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/donald-t...

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · Aug 27

"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times."

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, hey, check it out! That's me and my brilliant colleagues from all over the country.

(The preorder is a bit tricky: You need to be logged it and it's at the top of the page!)

TCTELA est. 1965 @tctela.bsky.social · 1d

We are incredibly TCTELA proud of our own @drannd.bsky.social for her critical work as a contributing editor on this vital resource. This book offers crucial research for all educators navigating intellectual freedom challenges in the classroom.

Preorder your copy today: my.ncte.org/s/product-de...

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

#BannedBooksWeek, Day 4, me on a podcast!

Censorship "is a move of the weak not the strong."

Parental fear is real "and has been co-opted by blatantly political people in search of power."

Listen to the whole thing for more thoughts, opinions, history lessons, research, and advocacy strategies.

Third Rail Classroom

Third Rail Classroom Third Rail Classroom Third Rail Classroom Education Education Education Education Grading Grading Grading Grading Grading Podcast Podcast

thirdrailclassroom.com

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 1d

“…enhance human creativity…”

Dubious claim at best.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

As an academic, there's nothing quite so sweet as: "Our decision is to: accept submission as is."

Isn't that right, @hcodymiller.bsky.social?

Stay tuned, y'all.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

Subaru Outback with 300k+

Never giving the car up.

Ever.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

Explaining to people why i won’t trade in a car with a quarter of a million miles on it <<<<

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

hahahahaha -- The ways that people can create causality from vibes is simply shocking.

DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

I’m also curious the rhetoric they’re using to say it just helps, scaffolds, aids, not takes away learning.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 2d

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

Can it do content beyond middle school? When I tested an early version it had no depth in bio, chem, calculator, or higher level English.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 7d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 3d

Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek

Book cover: last night at the telegraph club

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 5d

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.

Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.

https://www.ala.org/bbooks.

BANNED BOOKS WEEK Oct. 5-11, 2025. Censorship is so 1984 - Read for Your Rights. ala.org/bbooks. American Library Association

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 2d

#BannedBooksWeek, Day 3

@penamerica.bsky.social continues to gather essential data about book bans in public schools. Their newest report: pen.org/report/the-n...

Show up at a school board meeting, insist that teachers and librarians are the experts on book selection. All kids need diverse books.

Four stacks of books with the titles facing out, black bars are through the titles. The words above the stacks: 22,810 instances of books banned in US public schoosl, 2021-2025.

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