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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · Aug 13

It’s a back to school unlike any other and we know that we are all responsible for helping keep each other safe in this frightening era- w/help from and inspired by the efforts of @utlanow.bsky.social we put together a shareable set of slides for school/community groups.

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PARENTS
• WE KEEP US SAFE BACK TO SCHOOL
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
PREPAREDNESS
GUSD
PARENTS

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR IF AN IMMIGRATION AGENT IS KNOCKING AT YOUR HOME. ONLY OPEN THE DOOR IF YOU SEE A JUDGE-SIGNED WARRANT SHOWING YOUR NAME.
DO NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS - YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. SAY ONLY "I AM INVOKING MY RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT UNTIL I SPEAK WITH A LAWYER."
DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST SPEAKING TO A LAWYER.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO AN ATTORNEY, BUT IMMIGRATION LAWYERS ARE NOT PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT. FIND TRUSTWORTHY NONPROFIT LEGAL SUPPORT: ILRC.ME/FINDHELP
IF STOPPED OUTSIDE YOUR HOME, ASK: "AM I FREE TO LEAVE?" IF THEY SAY YES, WALK AWAY CALMLY.

MAKE A CHILDCARE PLAN
CHOOSE AND ARRANGE YOUR CHILDCARE
PLAN IN ADVANCE
DESIGNATE A BACKUP CAREGIVER IF YOU'RE UNABLE TO CARE FOR YOUR CHILD. OPTIONS INCLUDE:
• VERBAL AGREEMENT: SIMPLE, BUT NOT LEGALLY BINDING FOR DECISIONS.
• CAREGIVER'S AUTHORIZATION AFFIDAVIT (CAA): LETS CAREGIVER DECIDE CERTAIN SCHOOL/MEDICAL MATTERS; YOU KEEP YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS.
• GUARDIANSHIP: COURT GRANTS CUSTODY. LEGAL ADVICE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
DISCUSS PLAN AND ROLES WITH FAMILY AND YOUR DESIGNATED CAREGIVER.
TELL SCHOOL/PROGRAMS YOUR BACKUP
PLAN IF YOU'RE UNAVAILABLE
• UPDATE EMERGENCY CONTACTS; MEMORIZE IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS.
• SHARE MEDICATIONS, ALLERGIES, INSURANCE, AND LEGAL INFORMATION WITH CAREGIVER.
• GET YOUR CHILD A PASSPORT. FOR U.S.-BORN CHILD, APPLY VISIT: TRAVEL.STATE.GOV.

FORM COMMUNITY DEFENSE/PATROL
• Organize with your neighbors and school community.
• Monitor school drop-off/pick-up for immigration enforcement activity.
• Distribute Know Your Rights materials.
• Volunteer to grocery shop or pick up school supplies for anyone who may be scared or vulnerable.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 15h

TPUSA linked propagandists dominated the “Antifa” roundtable- these people were recruited and trained to do agitprop, villifying public education, unions, LGBTQ+ people, pandemic safety measures and anything the right decided to target. None of them are “journalists.”

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17h

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house

(Left to Right)

Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee
Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador
Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee
Nick Sortor - Influencer
Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media
Nick Shirley - Influencer
Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group*
Brandi Kruse - Influencer
Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee
Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group*
Cam Higby - TPUSA employee

(Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 15h

This is an escalation and acceleration of the same attacks on education, academics, and left situated politics that has driven the right since they set their sights on “critical race theory” back in 2021.

GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 15h

Mark Bray is an academic who’s been swarmed by TPUSA led false claims, death threats & calls for his firing— simply because he teaches the history of antifascism. After yesterday’s WH roundtable, at which many of the featured speakers had ties to TPUSA, he/his family found their flights cancelled.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 20h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Dylan Park-Pettiford @dylanpark.com · 17h

Your daily reminder that protesting a tyrannical government and participating in acts of civil disobedience are the most American things you can do.

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

Correct. Look at how CNP members continuously create new orgs- both regular nonprofits & “action” arms as 501c4- so they can force multiple efforts through copycat lawsuits in different districts (to force their preferred suits to the Supreme Court faster) & push legislation across all states.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

🧵

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

When you listen to that roundtable & claims of organized networks of antifa funding, legal orgs etc, know they are projecting exactly the nature of their own movement. The Council for National Policy is an umbrella that includes the vast network of the right wing organizing, legal, policy machine.

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

Both orgs leadership are/were members of the Council for National Policy and share donors and staff from other orgs including the Bradley Impact Find, Koch Network, ALEC, donors Trust and other right wing, dark money channels. See links @exposedbycmd.bsky.social www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti...

Turning Point USA - SourceWatch

www.sourcewatch.org

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2d

“There is going to be infants skipping feeds. There is going to be pregnant women skipping meals so that they can feed their toddlers."
apnews.com/article/wic-...

Government shutdown threatens food aid program relied on by millions of families

Experts say a food aid program that helps 6 million low-income mothers and young children will run out of federal money unless the government shutdown ends within two weeks.

apnews.com

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

Why we need accurate history lessons: #1 Posobiec mentions German antifascists because he is a Nazi and recognizes they would have opposed him; #2: antifascists originally arose in the 1920s in Italy to oppose the rise of Mussolini. Everyone targeting antifascists is telling on themselves.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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The Advocate @advocate.com · 1d

LGBTQ+ people are moving states, switching jobs, and updating their documents under Trump 2.0.

57% of LGBTQ+ people have made major life changes since Donald Trump's election: report

LGBTQ+ people are moving states, switching jobs, and updating their documents under Trump 2.0.

bit.ly

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

Color us shocked that the same people who’ve been targeting our public schools, teachers, and LGBTQ+ community are all trying to prevent CA from redistricting in order to prevent Texas right wingers from forcing their backwards will on the whole country. YES ON 50.

Glendale Extremist Network @glendaleextremists.bsky.social · 1d

As CA moves toward a redistricting vote on 11/4 (VOTE YES ON 50) a reminder that the only people pushing a No vote are the Trump flunkies, insurrectionists, and book banning weirdos desperate to impose minority right wing rule on our diverse, progressive state. Unfortunately they’re well funded.

A screenshot showing CA GOP central committee member Elizabeth Barcohana floating about a $5 million donation to stop Prop 50. Cali.maga.Barbie comments: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥yesssss

A graphic with a CA sheriffs badge (Google sheriff gangs California) reading: 37 CALIFORNIA SHERIFFS
OPPOSE PROP 50!
Sheriff Wendell Anderson, Yuba County
Sheriff Matt Kendall, Mendocino County
Sheriff Brandon Barnes, Sutter County
Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue, Siskiyou County
Sheriff Don Barnes, Orange County
Sheriff Jeff Leikauf, El Dorado County
Sheriff Chad Bianco, Riverside County Sheriff Luke Bingham, Lake County
Sheriff Tom Lopez, Yolo County Sheriff John McGarva, Lassen County
Sheriff Mike Boudreaux, Tulare County Sheriff Jeremy Briese, Mariposa Count
Sheriff Fred Miramontes, Imperial County
Sheriff Shannon Dicus, San Bernardino Count)
Sheriff lan Parkinson, San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Tyson Pogue, Madera County
Sheriff Jeff Dirkse, Stanislaus County
Sheriff Gary Redman, Amador County
Sheriff William "Tex" Dowdy, Modoc Colf!
P. Sheriff Dave Robinson, Kings County
Sheriff Eddie Engram, Sonoma County.
Sheriff Tim Saxon, Trinity County
Sheriff Tom Ferrara, Solano County
Sheriff Garrett Scott, Del Norte County
Sheriff Mike Fisher, Sierra County
Sheriff Eric Taylor, San Benito County
Sheriff Joe Garofalo, Coluse County
Sheriff David Vasquez, Tuolumne County
Sheriff Justin Gibbs, Glenn County
Sheriff Vern Warnke, Merced County
Sheriff Kory Honea, Butte County
Sheriff Rachelle Whiting, Calaveras County
Sheriff William Honsal, Humboldt County
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Sheriff Donny Youngblood, Kern County
Sheriff John Zanoni, Fresno County
NO on PROP 50
#NoNewLines -
@lisa_4_losangeles

GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 1d

Vouchers rob public school systems in every single attempted case. The majority of vouchers go to families who were NEVER enrolled in public schools at all, yet want your tax funds to subsidize their private or home school choices.

Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 1d

Neighborhood schools are closing across Arizona. It’s because of vouchers.

"The math is simple: Arizona doesn’t provide enough funding to adequately fund one school system, much less two — a public system open to all and a selective private system." @azmirror.com

azmirror.com/2025/10/06/n...

Neighborhood schools are closing across Arizona. It's because of vouchers.

OPINION: Arizona's $1 billion voucher program is forcing public school closures while subsidizing wealthy families

azmirror.com

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 2d

Kristi Noem's goons raided a car wash in August and shattered a guy's leg. They then held him in custody under 24/7 supervision in a California hospital, hiding him using various fake names. They interrogated him but did not charge him. It took a judge's order to make ICE let him go.

What?

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/05/4...

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay - emptywheel

After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000...

www.emptywheel.net

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin canceled an annual report on hunger & food insecurity in America.

This comes AFTER they made historic cuts to food stamps.

They don’t want the public to know how much worse off American families are because of their policies

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2d

Mark Bray is a brilliant scholar and by all accounts a caring and wonderful educator, and is now moving to Europe because the fascists doxed him and his family

Feels pretty huge that he’s forced to do this—the harassment was bad in ‘16 but I don’t think he’s ever felt compelled to leave the country

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 3d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 3d

Three cheers for Audrey (librarian) and Kim (director) in this PBS News story about @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social!

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary

According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 school year. A new documentary, “The Librarians,” examines the experiences of sc...

www.pbs.org

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

"A free education is incompatible with fascism. Education is likely to be one of the great battlegrounds upon which is waged an intense and desperate struggle for power."

—John Dewey and Goodwin Watson, “The Forward View”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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