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· 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.
Excellent read for the long weekend- describes exactly what we witnessed in Glendale, but could have been written about Redlands, Chino, Orange, Temecula or any of thousands districts nationwide who have been held hostage by radicalized reactionaries.
This is good! This is really good! Read this. Thanks, @dennycarter.bsky.social
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They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read
Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung
badfaithtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Excellent read for the long weekend- describes exactly what we witnessed in Glendale, but could have been written about Redlands, Chino, Orange, Temecula or any of thousands districts nationwide who have been held hostage by radicalized reactionaries.
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JOIN "WE AIN’T BUYING IT" NOV. 27TH - DEC. 1ST, 2025: Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration.
Let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations, most notably Target,Amazon, Home Depot.
Let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations, most notably Target,Amazon, Home Depot.
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
JOIN "WE AIN’T BUYING IT" NOV. 27TH - DEC. 1ST, 2025: Pause on shopping from major companies that are enabling this administration.
Let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations, most notably Target,Amazon, Home Depot.
Let’s make our dollars count. We’re asking Americans to hit pause on shopping from major corporations, most notably Target,Amazon, Home Depot.
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The next generation continues to scream to any pollster who will listen: we need transformative changes!
Who will carry this mantle in the 2028 Democratic primary? The opportunity is there.
Who will carry this mantle in the 2028 Democratic primary? The opportunity is there.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The next generation continues to scream to any pollster who will listen: we need transformative changes!
Who will carry this mantle in the 2028 Democratic primary? The opportunity is there.
Who will carry this mantle in the 2028 Democratic primary? The opportunity is there.
Wow. Huge win for our community!
Good news! Local reactionary group GUSD Parents Voices appears to have deactivated its Instagram account, which for 4yrs has targeted + harassed local teachers, parents, LGBTQ+ people +allies— often getting national attention via the right wing media ecosystem. X acct still exists but is inactive.
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wow. Huge win for our community!
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It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
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It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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BREAKING🚨🚨🚨: Judges strike down new Texas Congressional maps adopted at Trump's urging. Trump appointee Jeffrey Brown cites Chief Justice Roberts & finds process was driven by racial considerations urged by Trump DOJ. w/@kyledcheney @andrewjfhoward www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
In blow to Trump, federal judges block new Texas congressional map
The decision is a massive blow in the White House’s push to redistrict across the country.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BREAKING🚨🚨🚨: Judges strike down new Texas Congressional maps adopted at Trump's urging. Trump appointee Jeffrey Brown cites Chief Justice Roberts & finds process was driven by racial considerations urged by Trump DOJ. w/@kyledcheney @andrewjfhoward www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Imagine knowing what we know and paying tuition knowing your daughter could wind up in this man’s class.
Sex pest : i am retiring from public life
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
public : good fuck off
sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions
public : did we stutter
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
Emails revealed that Summers sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Imagine knowing what we know and paying tuition knowing your daughter could wind up in this man’s class.
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To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
Why We’re Running a Series About Access
Access is still treated as if it’s a privilege, a burden, or a form of special treatment.
web.archive.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
To add to the pile of Alice Wong's work (that we should continue reading for years and years to come), here's an archival link to an digital Bitch Media Access Issue that Alice co-edited back in 2021 (apologies for access issues on this archival link) web.archive.org/web/20211104...
We’re so excited for @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social ‘s candidacy!
Some exciting news from my hometown!! Alek Bartrosouf, a transit planner and community organizer, is running for Glendale, CA City Council!! @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Alek for Glendale - Campaign Launch
YouTube video by Alek Bartrosouf for Glendale
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We’re so excited for @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social ‘s candidacy!
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Some exciting news from my hometown!! Alek Bartrosouf, a transit planner and community organizer, is running for Glendale, CA City Council!! @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Alek for Glendale - Campaign Launch
YouTube video by Alek Bartrosouf for Glendale
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some exciting news from my hometown!! Alek Bartrosouf, a transit planner and community organizer, is running for Glendale, CA City Council!! @alekbartrosouf.bsky.social
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Campaign launch video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yu...
Great read from our friends @glendaleout.bsky.social and a reminder that you can just do things! Find your people, figure out what your community needs, and take action together.
While the silence of the "parental rights" and LOKA crowd around their anointed Pedophile on Chief continues, parents who actually care about kids, and all the aunties and uncles, are getting it done.
PROJECT:PRO+ECT.
voyagela.com/interview/li...
PROJECT:PRO+ECT.
voyagela.com/interview/li...
Life & Work with Grey James of Glendale
Today we’d like to introduce you to Grey James. Hi Grey, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?My name is Grey James, and I am a gay trans man in Glendale, California. I also am with the group glendaleOUT, the grass-roots organization dedicated to building, evolving, […]
voyagela.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Great read from our friends @glendaleout.bsky.social and a reminder that you can just do things! Find your people, figure out what your community needs, and take action together.
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The "best" part is these books are almost all about butts and farts.
the supreme court might decide if libraries can pull books just because officials don’t like them. totally normal, right? one ruling could rewrite public libraries nationwide.
how are we still arguing about basic rights in 2025?
how are we still arguing about basic rights in 2025?
Supreme Court Set to Decide Whether to Hear Key Texas Book Banning Case
The petition to the high court comes after the Fifth Circuit, in a shocking decision delivered in May, held there was no First Amendment right to receive information in libraries.
www.wordsandmoney.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
The "best" part is these books are almost all about butts and farts.
The people who’ve spent years vilifying and harassing public school teachers and LGBTQ+ people are working overtime to avoid talking about the overwhelming deluge of information connecting their president and many of his associates and supporters with a vast network of sex trafficking child abusers.
After 23k emails from the Epstein case reveal more details abt the sex trafficker’s relationships w/the president + a large cohort of wealthy, powerful men we keep checking to see if the “leave our kids alone” have anything to say about the kids who clearly were not left alone. Spoiler- they don’t.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The people who’ve spent years vilifying and harassing public school teachers and LGBTQ+ people are working overtime to avoid talking about the overwhelming deluge of information connecting their president and many of his associates and supporters with a vast network of sex trafficking child abusers.
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I don't know if this is a libertarian issue, this is basic understanding of the purpose of education issue.
The goal of testing, and thus grading, should be determining how well a person understands the material that has been taught, not how quickly one can read, write, or think.
The goal of testing, and thus grading, should be determining how well a person understands the material that has been taught, not how quickly one can read, write, or think.
November 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I don't know if this is a libertarian issue, this is basic understanding of the purpose of education issue.
The goal of testing, and thus grading, should be determining how well a person understands the material that has been taught, not how quickly one can read, write, or think.
The goal of testing, and thus grading, should be determining how well a person understands the material that has been taught, not how quickly one can read, write, or think.
Not least because the party pushing the coverup is the same that used the rhetoric of “protecting kids” to target civil rights and healthcare for trans people, and to attack inclusive curriculum in public schools. The hypocrisy is predictable but morality & sanity demand refusing to tolerate it.
made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow
The usual suspects are telling Dems that Epstein won’t win elections, get back to “affordability” and I think my head might explode. www.offmessage.net/p/force-a-re...
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Not least because the party pushing the coverup is the same that used the rhetoric of “protecting kids” to target civil rights and healthcare for trans people, and to attack inclusive curriculum in public schools. The hypocrisy is predictable but morality & sanity demand refusing to tolerate it.
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It’s hard to comprehend the amount of courage contained in Ruby Bridges’ six year-old frame 65 years ago today.
November 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s hard to comprehend the amount of courage contained in Ruby Bridges’ six year-old frame 65 years ago today.
Surprising no one, exactly none of the people who’ve spent years rampaging through SoCal school districts accusing teachers of grooming and trying to ban books have a word to say about the plague of powerful men abusing children, nor the propagandists willing to run cover for them.
It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Surprising no one, exactly none of the people who’ve spent years rampaging through SoCal school districts accusing teachers of grooming and trying to ban books have a word to say about the plague of powerful men abusing children, nor the propagandists willing to run cover for them.
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Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃
Always read @heykellyjensen.bsky.social! We’ve been tracking Phyllis Schlafly copycat Karen England & the activities of her linked orgs- Take Back the Classroom, The Kitchen Table Activist, & Capitol Resource Institute- & the CNP, the powerful dark money network. Lots here bsky.app/profile/gusd...
What is Take Back The Classroom? A deep dive into the project making its way into right-wing circles, aiding in book bans nationwide. Who is behind it? How does it work? How are they recruiting new cult members?
Know before it reaches your library.
bookriot.com/what-is-take...
Know before it reaches your library.
bookriot.com/what-is-take...
What Is Take Back The Classroom?: Book Censorship News, November 14, 2025
With the closure of BookLooks, we've seen the rise of Take Back the Classroom. But what is this website and how do their book "reviews" work?
bookriot.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Always read @heykellyjensen.bsky.social! We’ve been tracking Phyllis Schlafly copycat Karen England & the activities of her linked orgs- Take Back the Classroom, The Kitchen Table Activist, & Capitol Resource Institute- & the CNP, the powerful dark money network. Lots here bsky.app/profile/gusd...
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Really fascinating how they square this kind of thinking with how much they're worried about *books* for children.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Really fascinating how they square this kind of thinking with how much they're worried about *books* for children.