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Jeff Roush

@jeffroushwriting.bsky.social

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Parent, lawyer, writer, lexicological acrobat, and a guy working to find my way and make a difference as I go

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · Mar 10

Writing in general, and my limericks in particular, have always been an effort not to make money, but to make a difference. With that in mind, I’ve decided to donate 50% of my royalties each month for #FridayLimericks2024: Mistakes Were Made to a cause that matters to me. (Thread)

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, across the board for this!

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

As for the lynching at the end of the book, that story lives in the Deep South. Lynchings have never stopped. New targets evolve, but oppression and the drive for supremacism have never changed.

Thank you for sharing this insight with us. I enjoy learning from you.

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🌻🌻Konabec🌻🌻 @konabec.sheshed.rocks · 7h

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Thor @thorvalhallen.bsky.social · 8h

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 8h

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

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From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

I know Niles well. Fantastic!

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Pear 🍐 @purelypear.bsky.social · 8h

ignorance is contagious ... watch out!

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

a man is spraying something in a kitchen with the words box video downloader behind him

ALT: a man is spraying something in a kitchen with the words box video downloader behind him

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

That is really cool. What kind of work did he do there?

Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

As we look at current and recent book bans and restrictions, we see the same pattern: the pretense of deep morality proffered as an excuse to attack words and ideas—typically regarding LGBTQ books, characters, and ideas. Old story, new chapter. (3/3)

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Arrendale Library: Lillian Smith Studies: Author of Strange Fruit Shares Her Mail

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

In fact, the bans had much more to do with an interracial romance and an unflinching look at racist violence in the United States. The bans on Strange Fruit were a product of prejudice, wrapped in the comfortable blanket of appeals to morality and protecting youth. (2/3)

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 8h

This Banned Books Week Thursday, we’ll take a look at Strange Fruit. This book was published in 1944 and almost immediately banned in Boston and Detroit, on the basis of “obscenity.” That charge, ostensibly, was based on one profanity and a few lines of sexual content. (1/3)

Cover of Strange Fruit, a novel by Lillian Smith. The cover shows a black woman and a white Nan together, divided by flames from a small town.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 11h

My understanding is that FGM is a brutal practice. I’d in no way want to make light of that.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 12h

a baby is being fed with a spoon and has a surprised look on his face .

ALT: a baby is being fed with a spoon and has a surprised look on his face .

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago is standing strong against the incursion of tyranny. Get out and be heard on No Kings Day!

jessicabruno.bsky.social @jessicabruno.bsky.social · 13h

Ready to amplify your voice & connect with a community fighting against the fascist regime?

Join us at the biggest No Kings rally in the Chicago burbs!

RSVP: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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Large Turnout Prompts Venue Change For Upcoming ‘No Kings’ Rally - Journal & Topics Media Group

Due to a "massive" expected response, organizers have moved the Northwest Suburban No Kings rally from North School Park to the Recreation Park soccer field at 500 E. Miner St. in Arlington Heights.

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jessicabruno.bsky.social @jessicabruno.bsky.social · 13h

Large Turnout Prompts Venue Change For Upcoming ‘No Kings’ Rally - Journal & Topics Media Group

Due to a "massive" expected response, organizers have moved the Northwest Suburban No Kings rally from North School Park to the Recreation Park soccer field at 500 E. Miner St. in Arlington Heights.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 12h

Available evidence suggests overwhelmingly that people exposed to the rantings of RFK Jr. and/or Donald Trump have a highly elevated risk of developing ignorance.

Headline of USA Today article, October 9, 2025, by Bart Jansen:

Health Secretary Kennedy, Trump link circumcision to autism through Tylenol
Kennedy and Trump have warned pregnant women not to take Tylenol. But medical groups continue to recommend the pain reliever for lack of proof that it's active ingredient acetaminophen causes autism.

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🔥Harry Potter Resists Fascism🔥 @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 13h

Miller spilled the beans, then froze...
Explainer.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

What sweet nothings is Rubio whispering to Trump? 🤫

Wrong answers only.

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 17h

The media normalizes Trump and just because it’s the early stages of fascism doesn’t mean it’s not fascism. —

With all due respect, this you? Context is in tact, 2023.

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Samia Ali Salama @samiaalisalama.bsky.social · 1d

HYPOCRITE, LIAR, RACIST AND PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR
#MikeJohnson,

says Bad Bunny was a terrible decision by the NFL.

The only terrible decision was when Americans made a traitor the President,

and then the traitor made a bootlicking lowlife, the Speaker.

#ProudBlue #Pinks
#ResistanceUnited
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead. Johnson wants a whites only Super Bowl show www.mediaite.com/media/entert...

Mike Johnson Calls Bad Bunny Halftime Show a ‘Terrible Decision’ for NFL — Says Children Should Listen to 82-Year-Old Lee Greenwood Instead

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday the NFL choosing Bad Bunny as the Super Bowl halftime performer was a "terrible decision" and suggested Lee Greenwood instead.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Not another word is needed.
Stop Trump now.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of many areas where, despite clear First Amendment principles at stake, the only clear, direct remedy is broad, direct community involvement in support of students’ right to access to reading materials.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Despite this and a multitude of District and Appeals opinions upholding students’ right to receive information in library books, school districts continue to look for ways to limit that right—likely betting the odds of being sued carry less risk than pressure from outside groups.

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Brennan, writing for a plurality in the ruling against the board, wrote, “Local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books.”

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