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frankstrong.bsky.social
Added McKinney ISD and Liberty Hill ISD to the doc. Keller and Spring Branch ISD are on deck! Early voting starts on Tuesday--make sure you know who to vote for (and who to avoid at all costs!) in your Texas school board elections.
frankstrong.bsky.social Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · Apr 4
The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2025 School Board Elections is NOW LIVE! Please share & use this doc to inform yourself about these crucial races coming up in Tx! And, as always, follow me and check back--I'll be updating and adding races up to election day! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2025 School Board Elections
The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2025 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Contact: booklovingtexanvotes@gmail.co...
docs.google.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The University of California is actively cooperating with the government witch hunt against some 850 faculty members.

cucfa.org/2025/04/cucf...
At the University of California, the Office of the President (UCOP) disclosed last week the personal and demographic information of over 850 UC faculty members after being subpoenaed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as part of its investigation of antisemitism at UC campuses. The faculty who received these notices from UCOP were signatories of two letters addressed to university leadership. The first was an open letter to the UC Berkeley community expressing concern about “recent events in Israel and Gaza.” The second was a separate, multi-campus petition to the Regents accusing UC administrators of fomenting antisemitic hostilities toward Jewish faculty and students by not cracking down on pro-Palestinian protests.
April 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Go protest Trump this weekend, use hashtags:

#3E
#USprotest
#endimpunity
Cool little visual
January 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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jerryiannelli.bsky.social
One of the darkest, but less reported, aspects of Trump’s anti-trans order this week IMO is that he directed the DOJ to remove protections for trans prisoners from Prison Rape Elimination Act guidelines. Story at @theappeal.org today from @byadamrhodes.bsky.social: theappeal.org/trump-execut...
‘People Will Die’ from Trump’s Trans Prisoner Crackdown, Experts Warn
Trump's executive order eliminating transgender rights in prison will hurt or kill trans prisoners, experts warn.
theappeal.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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zackbeauchamp.bsky.social
So Ben Shapiro just retweeted a neo-Nazi cartoonist to defend Elon Musk from charges of...being a neo-Nazi
January 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
some reporters have been too loose with phrasing like DEI. makes it sound like it's all abt post-George Floyd murder stuff. As he notes, they're ditching anti-discrimination policies that go back to LBJ.
January 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The Snitch State: inform on your colleagues if they think of hiring people who aren’t white
A warning for workers: The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies. Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials will not tolerate efforts to “disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.”
January 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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freadomfighters.bsky.social
This is book banning happening on a whole other level in Utah

www.kuer.org/education/20...
Utah students can no longer bring personal copies of banned books to school
Updated guidance from Utah State Board of Education staff clarifies that students can’t bring to school their personal copies of books deemed “sensitive material.”
www.kuer.org
January 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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astra.bsky.social
Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders?

Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
www.teenvogue.com
January 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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samthielman.com
Please do not send your multivolume Sonic the Hedgehog mpreg fic to this email
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Jan 22
Note that anyone can email the snitch line, DEIAtruth@opm.gov. So if you’ve got any, uh, thoughts or information you’d like to share about this initiative, fire off that email today!
January 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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rebekahwriter.bsky.social
Know your rights when dealing with ICE.
January 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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hellgatenyc.com
As NYPD officials boasted of the resources expended finding the killer of a corporate CEO, another sidewalk murder the same week, of a migrant teen, has not received the same treatment. hellgatenyc.com/two-manhatta...
Two Very Different Manhattan Murder Investigations
The NYPD spent countless hours and resources searching for a CEO’s killer, but has made little evident progress on the fatal stabbing of a migrant teen.
hellgatenyc.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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mraleosays.bsky.social
My third Substack post is up! In this blog I parse the differences and tensions between what it means to “Do English” and “Do school” in secondary classrooms. Check it!

#edusky #academicsky #literacies

open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Doing English vs. Doing School
Parsing differences with the father of English Lit
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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txfreedomread.bsky.social
Hey #booksky - doing some holiday shopping for book lovers in your life?

Check out our Bonfire store for merch that helps support our work fighting for the freedom to read in TX.

Use promo code: THANKFUL10 to save 10% on your purchase through Sunday!

www.bonfire.com/store/texas-...
November 29, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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txfreedomread.bsky.social
There’s so much more to this story. These books aren’t being banned at random. They’re on a list of 676 titles being targeted by a group of traveling “pastor” activists terrorizing school districts throughout the state.

www.txftrp.org/katy_isd_ban...
November 28, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
Patients are already dying because of this extremist abortion ban - how many more will die as more doctors are forced to leave?
 
Important reporting by Stephania Taladrid on a window into this crisis in the Rio Grande Valley. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... 2/
The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
www.newyorker.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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mrneibauer.bsky.social
Once again, I’m grateful for @austinkleon.bsky.social’s Gratitude Zines. They make for the perfect pre-Thanksgiving activity with my students. #TeacherSky #EduSky

austinkleon.substack.com/p/a-gratitud...
November 26, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com
'Tis a wonderful time of year to help kids having a rough time feel the love. You can buy gifts for:

Children of incarcerated people: vat.angeltreetool.org/cc0893aa-581...

Foster kids: www.onesimplewish.org

Kids living on Pine Ridge Reservation: www.onespiritokini.org/okini-page/h...
November 25, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
I am finding it quite unbearable to watch Sarah McBride bear the grotesque attack of her colleagues with so much grace. I know it is what we have been taught to expect of trailblazers, but I am increasingly struggling to accept this.
Tweet from the first openly transgender member of congress.
November 19, 2024 at 2:55 PM
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hcodymiller.bsky.social
For #NCTE2024, @sheathescholar.bsky.social, @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social and I will be talking, processing, & grieving the last few weeks. Well discuss the hard, important work of building and embodying hope. And books! Please join us if you'd like on Friday from 9:30-10:45 in Room 157B. 💜
Title slide for the presentation, "Literacies for Broken Hearts: Grieving, Organizing, and Surviving while Reading and Teaching the World." A broken heart image is in the center of the slide. The background is black. The title of the presentation is written in white text.
November 18, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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technolibrary.bsky.social
Katy ISD is removing classic titles, including ironically, Slaughterhouse Five, the book at the center of the Supreme Court's Pico ruling barring censorship for the "ideas within." #txlege #bookbanning #bannedbooks #FReadom @maggietokudahall.bsky.social @oif.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social
txfreedomread.bsky.social Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · Nov 18
Hey Texas #booksky -Katy ISD added 14 titles to their list of “removed” (ie: banned) books last week- bringing the total books banned since August 2024 to 34.

Visit www.txftrp.org/katy_isd_ban... for the complete list, and action you can take to fight for the freedom to read in Katy ISD.
November 18, 2024 at 8:56 PM