It’s been a week since the MAHA EO was released. We haven’t covered it yet because there’s so much pseudoscience, biased statistics, and questionable content we needed time to wrap our head around it. Our criticism is twofold: data that are false/misleading, and policy driven by misinformation. 🧵

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.

For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.

A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜

The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.

Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

Hello friends. Let’s start this morning off with a pep talk.
The overwhelm, confusion, and fear you’re feeling is what they want you to feel. They want you helpless, hopeless, and paralyzed. Do not take their intimidation and do not give them your joy.

Foo Fighters July 25, 2024, Cincinnati, Ohio

So excited about these bundles I’ve added to the shop!!

They’re also great for you to use as booklists for the library if purchasing isn’t in the budget (books can all be purchased individually too!)

What topics are you needing books for?

#homeschool #decolonizeyourbookshelf #reading #kids #books