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Lit Inspired
@litinspired.bsky.social
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Lover of literature and literacy. 25 yrs teaching HS English in Fl. A blue dot in a sea of red. My dad (retired carpenter) and I are making neighborhood libraries…using our hearts & hands to spread literacy. www.litinspired.com
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Lit Inspired @litinspired.bsky.social · Apr 1
Bluesky friends. I'm pinning this story here to share how this girl & her dad started a neighborhood library business as a direct result of Trump's agenda. I truly appreciate you taking the time to read our story. 💙
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #NeighborhoodLibraries #MakeART
man and woman standing on either side of a little library that is Dr. Suess style. It is bright colors and curvy shapes with Dr. Seuss sayings and characters on it. They are standing under a tent. A little library ( box with plexiglass front) set on a post by the road in front of a house. The side has a design that says Hello Spring and it is in bright yellow with flower design. Man and woman standing next to a little library from a side view. Woman in forefront. The side of the little library has an image of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s face with a quote. They are outside on the side of the street in what looks like a downtown area. Same man and woman next to a Dr. Seuss designed library in a pot outside of someone's house. The library is brightly colored in green, yellow, purple and red. The post is curvy.
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
This Is Embarrassing And Disturbing…
🇨🇦🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇰🇳🇱🇫🇷

Canada, Germany, England, Denmark, Netherlands, and France all have travel advisory warnings for visiting America.

Let that sink in.
May 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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kurtbusiek.bsky.social
Book concept: People start finding books in a Little Free Library that were never written or published in this world. Some are exactly what the "borrower" needs. Some are a delight. But some are dangerous. And the Little Free Library just might have a sinister agenda...
May 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
The saviors Easter message:
April 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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eliminatethegop.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
litinspired.bsky.social
The story never changes!!!
April 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
litinspired.bsky.social
#edusky #academicsky #teachers #bluedots
litinspired.bsky.social Lit Inspired @litinspired.bsky.social · Apr 11
PLEASE READ: This teacher in my district is being targeted--FIRST CASE in Fl but this will become national. If you read my pinned story I shared how our district is one of the reddest & most toxic. This is how. The students are fighting for her. Bluesky--please share.

www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
Sign the Petition
Reinstate Ms. Calhoun: Advocate for Respect and Student Rights
www.change.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
litinspired.bsky.social
PLEASE READ: This teacher in my district is being targeted--FIRST CASE in Fl but this will become national. If you read my pinned story I shared how our district is one of the reddest & most toxic. This is how. The students are fighting for her. Bluesky--please share.

www.change.org/p/reinstate-...
Sign the Petition
Reinstate Ms. Calhoun: Advocate for Respect and Student Rights
www.change.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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krissychula.bsky.social
This is high art
April 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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go.bsky.app/GsdVAwk
Thanks @yodamonkey2.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Where is our humanity?
April 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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larryhochman.bsky.social
I believe this is why they coined the phrase, “low hanging fruit.”
April 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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tamdoe.bsky.social
Yes Brevard! Even our super red county…the one that birthed Moms for Liberty cofounder, housed the horrible Randy Fine, and home to countless J6 criminals, showed up!
@maddow.msnbc.com
brevarddems.bsky.social brevarddems.bsky.social @brevarddems.bsky.social · Apr 5
Every corner at FL 520 & US1 is packed with regular Americans saying Hell No! HandsOff our democracy. Hands off our rights. Hands off our Medicaid. Hands of every damn thing Musk & Trump and the gutless GOP is trying to take frrom us! And this in deep red Brevard. #HandsOff
April 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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ejm0.bsky.social
Other side of the moat, French public broadcaster has been doing alright. I haven't dug into what they're putting out in writing, but they usually move beyond stenography.
youtu.be/avEtMcELaPU
'The most economically illiterate speech I have ever heard', analyst says • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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April 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
litinspired.bsky.social
Growing up with an artist grandma, I took it for granted. It wasn't until I was in my 40's-- yea, 40's--that I realized her true talent. I understood when I attended my first Painting with a Twist & tried to do my own landscape art😂. Here is just some of grandma Ruth's art (she's 96).
#art #booksky
Painting of snowy trail in the woods. Painting of green trees along a fence. Painting of snowy landscape with pond and tree in a valley. Painting of beach scene and dune.
April 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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atrupar.com
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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thatguyyouhate6111.bsky.social
Better late than never.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 1
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
litinspired.bsky.social
Bluesky friends. I'm pinning this story here to share how this girl & her dad started a neighborhood library business as a direct result of Trump's agenda. I truly appreciate you taking the time to read our story. 💙
#BookSky #ReadBannedBooks #NeighborhoodLibraries #MakeART
man and woman standing on either side of a little library that is Dr. Suess style. It is bright colors and curvy shapes with Dr. Seuss sayings and characters on it. They are standing under a tent. A little library ( box with plexiglass front) set on a post by the road in front of a house. The side has a design that says Hello Spring and it is in bright yellow with flower design. Man and woman standing next to a little library from a side view. Woman in forefront. The side of the little library has an image of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s face with a quote. They are outside on the side of the street in what looks like a downtown area. Same man and woman next to a Dr. Seuss designed library in a pot outside of someone's house. The library is brightly colored in green, yellow, purple and red. The post is curvy.
April 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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librarianjones.com
I know I’m probably biased because I’m in this film, but it’s just so well done. The editing, cinematography, directing…I could go on. Everyone featured pours their hearts into standing up for intellectual freedom and I’m so proud to be a small part of this. @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
texasobserver.org Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · Mar 31
Earlier: From Texas to Florida, Louisiana, and New Jersey, this film reveals how librarians across the country have become victims of a crisis manufactured by national organizations bent on infiltrating and disrupting local school boards.
These Librarians Won’t Let America’s Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.
www.texasobserver.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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beachnic.bsky.social
Florida considers easing child labor laws after pushing out immigrants.

A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Florida considers easing child labor laws after pushing out immigrants
A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.
www.msnbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jodydiperna.bsky.social
100% accurate right here:
chuckwendig.bsky.social Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 27
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
March 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
litinspired.bsky.social
Off to my favorite bookstore: @helloagainbooks.bsky.social (I need these 😉)
My school district just banned:
"Breathless" by Jennifer Niven
"Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
"Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo.
Anyone read these? What are your thoughts?
#readbannedbooks #booksky
March 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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crockett.house.gov
So let me get this straight—Trump’s nat sec adviser added a JOURNALIST to a group chat on classified Yemen strike plans?? This isn’t a group project, it’s national security.

They screamed “Lock her up” over emails, but leaking war plans is cool now? Make it make sense.
March 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically.
#UniteAgainstBookBans

www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...
Federal judge orders Colorado district to return banned books to school libraries
The order prohibits the school board from removing books “because the district disagrees with the views expressed therein or merely to further their preferred political or religious orthodoxy.”
www.denverpost.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM