FREADom Fighter
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Wife, mother, photographer, school librarian, educator
❌👑 Millions of people have joined me across the country today to show the world: America has no kings! The power belongs to the people. #NoKings social.moveon.org/s/NiueM11F
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
❌👑 Millions of people have joined me across the country today to show the world: America has no kings! The power belongs to the people. #NoKings social.moveon.org/s/NiueM11F
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The attorneys filed a notice of appeal three days after Chief U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor ruled against authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and the student…
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Authors appeal ‘Tango Makes Three’ book ban ruling in federal court
Attorneys for the book’s authors and a student Friday quickly appealed a federal judge’s ruling that rejected a First Amendment challenge to a 2023 decision by the Escambia County School Board to remo...
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October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The attorneys filed a notice of appeal three days after Chief U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor ruled against authors Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and the student…
www.clickorlando.com/news/2025/10...
www.clickorlando.com/news/2025/10...
Guilty of working while Hispanic
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
www.theatlantic.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Guilty of working while Hispanic
The Right and the Left need to remember they are a part of the same damned American Eagle. Cooperate and we SOAR. Keep trying to annihilate the other wing, and we plummet into the ground and die. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, even those with whom we are diametrically opposed.
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Right and the Left need to remember they are a part of the same damned American Eagle. Cooperate and we SOAR. Keep trying to annihilate the other wing, and we plummet into the ground and die. WE ARE ALL AMERICANS, even those with whom we are diametrically opposed.
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Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…
You can’t understand U.S. history or democracy without knowing about social and protest movements past and present. Yet during the 2023-24 school year, over 650 books about dissent, protest and social movements were banned.
Read more—including 5 ways to protest book bans—at: pen.org/why-ban-book...
Read more—including 5 ways to protest book bans—at: pen.org/why-ban-book...
Dissent, Protest and Social Movements are Indelibly American. So Why Are Schools Banning Books on these Topics? - PEN America
Censoring history is unlikely to stop their core human urge to speak out against unfairness they may find in their own lives.
pen.org
August 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Good advice for #Florida's school board members "School districts caught in the state’s wrath need to ignore the drama, press for legal clarity if standoffs arise and refocus public attention on student needs and achievement." www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
Why the anger and threats over Florida’s schools? | Column
Another front in Tallahassee’s us versus them culture wars.
www.tampabay.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Good advice for #Florida's school board members "School districts caught in the state’s wrath need to ignore the drama, press for legal clarity if standoffs arise and refocus public attention on student needs and achievement." www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
Crooked game of politics will be over???
August 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Crooked game of politics will be over???
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A new wave of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library and classroom shelves.
“If censorship keeps spreading, silence won’t save us. Floridians must speak out now," says PEN America’s William Johnson.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“If censorship keeps spreading, silence won’t save us. Floridians must speak out now," says PEN America’s William Johnson.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts
Hundreds of titles are being pulled from library and classroom shelves in the Republican-dominated state
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A new wave of book bans has hit Florida school districts, with hundreds of titles being pulled from library and classroom shelves.
“If censorship keeps spreading, silence won’t save us. Floridians must speak out now," says PEN America’s William Johnson.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“If censorship keeps spreading, silence won’t save us. Floridians must speak out now," says PEN America’s William Johnson.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books
The 2023 law prompted educators to pull classic literature, popular novels and even children’s picture books from school shelves.
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
“It’s a complete knockout. There’s not a single issue that the court did not side with the plaintiffs on.”
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/13/j...
Bananas in my yard to brighten your day 💗 🍌
July 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Bananas in my yard to brighten your day 💗 🍌
Throwback Thursday www.instagram.com/p/B0OlmwBl9p...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
July 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
State BOE Member Byrd recommended districts skip the review process and go right to removing every title on their shelves that has appeared on the state’s annual removal lists.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
Well, it appears Volusia listened. Here are 10 of the disappeared titles we have been monitoring, now banned in Volusia.
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When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Texas Officials Blame Agency Gutted by Trump for Results of Deadly Storm
Experts warned for months about cuts to NWS and NOAA
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July 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
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“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
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“We are standing at a crossroads.”
From Moscow to Tallahassee: The Global Authoritarian Playbook is Being Executed - Turkey, Hungary, China, Russia, Egypt—and Florida increasingly speak the same language: authoritarian control over universities. cloakinginequity.com/2025/06/21/f... #Authoritarianism
From Moscow to Tallahassee: The Global Authoritarian Playbook is Being Executed
Turkey, Hungary, China, Russia, Egypt—and Florida. The names of these places might evoke different geographies, languages, and histories, but in one crucial area they increasingly speak the same la…
cloakinginequity.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“We are standing at a crossroads.”
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Podcaster & frequent Rogan guest Dave Smith on Trump’s Iran policy: “I supported him & apologize for doing so. He should be impeached & removed. His supporters should turn on him. It’s an absolute betrayal of everything he ran & campaigned on. He’ll lose his coalition on this.”
June 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Podcaster & frequent Rogan guest Dave Smith on Trump’s Iran policy: “I supported him & apologize for doing so. He should be impeached & removed. His supporters should turn on him. It’s an absolute betrayal of everything he ran & campaigned on. He’ll lose his coalition on this.”
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“In a scene reminiscent of McCarthy-era hearings, board members took turns criticizing Ayres and attacking the district’s media specialists, with some suggesting they be fired or face felony charges for making specific titles available to students.”
pen.org/floridas-hil...
pen.org/floridas-hil...
‘They’re Child Abusers’: Florida’s Hillsborough County Faces a Frightening State-Driven Censorship Campaign - PEN America
Books are being targeted and removed without meaningful review, and without regard for the input of local families or communities.
pen.org
June 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“In a scene reminiscent of McCarthy-era hearings, board members took turns criticizing Ayres and attacking the district’s media specialists, with some suggesting they be fired or face felony charges for making specific titles available to students.”
pen.org/floridas-hil...
pen.org/floridas-hil...
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Marines in LA.
Army tanks and howitzers in the streets of DC.
Donald Trump’s America. And he’s just getting started.
Army tanks and howitzers in the streets of DC.
Donald Trump’s America. And he’s just getting started.
June 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Marines in LA.
Army tanks and howitzers in the streets of DC.
Donald Trump’s America. And he’s just getting started.
Army tanks and howitzers in the streets of DC.
Donald Trump’s America. And he’s just getting started.
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This is precisely correct.
June 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is precisely correct.