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To-wen Tseng

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✍🏻 MG & YA Author | 🍩 THE DONUT RESCUE TEAM (ABRAMS Amplify Award winner) | 🇺🇸🇹🇼 Education Columnist | 💬 Exploring food justice, family, & resilience #MomSky #BookSky #OwnVoices

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 28d

Back-to-school jitters hit harder when PTAs have to fill funding gaps. Our kids deserve more than bumper stickers—they deserve fully funded schools.
#MomSky
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On Top of All the Back-to-School Jitters

Back-to-school season brings both excitement and anxiety, but this year parents at my child’s school were asked to donate $350 per student—far more than in past years—to cover programs the district do...

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 21h

This is WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman!

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 21h

They detained WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman! Share far and wide, let’s wait and see who’s the bad guys 😡

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: ICE agents just abducted a press camera operator in Chicago.

WGN-TV’s Debbie Brockman was dragged to the ground, cuffed and bundled into a van - which then rammed her vehicle to escape.

What the hell is happening in America?

(🎥 Original footage via Josh Thomas/FB)

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 22h

I heard people who hate China cheer for this, praising Trump for being tough. But the reality is that Trump threatened Americans with new tariffs and countermeasures. We Americans are the ones who pay!

Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 1d

You better watch out...
tariff-clause is coming to town!

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 22h

#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Banned Books Week! 📚 I’m reading Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson—one of the most challenged books, according to PEN America. First published in 1999, it’s a modern classic that powerfully reminds us why we must listen to sexual assault survivors. My takeaway? Release the Epstein files. #booksky

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 4d

While recent studies confirm that rural voters in the U.S. lean Republican, the cruel Republican budget reconciliation bill is closing rural hospitals. Tell Republican leaders in Congress not to hurt their own supporters! #MomSky action.momsrising.org/sign/rural_s...

Quick signature: Tell Congress to prevent hospital closures!

Tell Congress to fix the health care crisis, prevent hospital closures, and reopen the federal government!

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 8d

U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... #BookSky

U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports

PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors. PEN found censorship increasingly routine; Florida, Te...

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 11d

Fall into Fall by Taking Action on Child Care & Head Start🍂
#MomSky
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SIGN NOW to Tell Congress: Support Child Care & Head Start!

Take action to keep up the drumbeat on child care by signing onto our letter to Congress

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 14d

I’m voting yes!

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 14d

Romans 8:31.

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 14d

Am voting yes!

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 15d

I started my career as a production intern at PBS North Carolina back in 2004. PBS has always had and will always have a special place in my heart. 💖
Please support your local PBS station!
#PBS #PBSKids #hopecore #misterrogers

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The secret ingredient is viewers like you. Don’t forget to support your local PBS station 💗 #pbs #pbskids #hopecore #misterrogers

TikTok video by PBS

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 19d

Disney won five Emmys for Andor, a show about resisting fascism, and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel for resisting fascism. Join me and tell Disney to really stand up for freedom of speech. #MomSky action.momsrising.org/sign/DisneyB...

Tell Disney: It’s Time to be Brave!

*Join us in telling: Disney, be brave and stand up for freedom of speech and our children’s rights!

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 24d

We need to stop pretending that Charlie Kirk was committed to free speech. He created professor watchlist, threatening academic staff members who criticized rightist propaganda. He advocated restrictions on what school teachers could teach. That’s not a champion of free speech.

Michelle Leopold 💙🦋🔵🩵 @michelle94904.bsky.social · 26d

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 25d

Democrats should issue another gun bill called The Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act.

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 26d

I will never trust Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but I still want to believe in public health.

DrH @drhaup.bsky.social · 28d

What you need to know about Covid vaccines in the US this fall.⬇️ "MA, NV, NM, CO, CT, MN, NY and PA have broadened Covid Vaccine access. CA, HI, OR and WA have formed West Coast Alliance to provide "immunizations to residents based on science, not politics."
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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What you need to know about Covid vaccines in the US this fall

In a move praised by RFK Jr, the FDA approved a new shot, but only for some people – here’s what to know about who can get them, and where

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 26d

True 🥲

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · 28d

Back-to-school jitters hit harder when PTAs have to fill funding gaps. Our kids deserve more than bumper stickers—they deserve fully funded schools.
#MomSky
www.momsrising.org/blog/on-top-...

On Top of All the Back-to-School Jitters

www.momsrising.org

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · Sep 5

“We wouldn't have to see the Epstein files if we as a nation actually believe women and believe survivors."—Join @momsrising.org to demand the release of the Epstein files. #BelieveSurvivors action.momsrising.org/sign/release...

DEMAND the release of the Epstein files

Survivors have told the truth about Epstein and his powerful friends for decades. The White House's response? Distractions & cover-ups. We see through the lies. It's time to stop the distractions and ...

action.momsrising.org

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · Sep 2

Finally reading The Handmaid’s Tale. What chills me most is the parallels. Gilead twists scripture to justify oppression—just as today’s MAGA movement frames leaders as God’s “chosen instruments,” excusing immorality while ignoring Jesus’s call to love our neighbors. #IReadBannedBooks

To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · Aug 27

So today, please join me and demand the protection of Schools, Hospitals, and Churches from ICE policing! SIGN NOW: via @momsrising.org action.momsrising.org/sign/sensiti...

SIGN NOW: Tell your Members of Congress to pass the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act

No child should have to worry that they or their friend will be taken by ICE when they are learning at school, worshiping in their faith community, or getting medical care.

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To-wen Tseng @twtseng.bsky.social · Aug 27

I want to share a TikTok video I made earlier this year to call for protection of schools from ICE criminalization. Usually my TikTok is all about pollinators and gardening, but we simply can’t have another school year that allow masked ICE agents into our school! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BQsotK/