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Sandra Parks
@sleeparks.bsky.social
Retired librarian, censorship fighter, cyclist, photographer. And I play oldtime string band music.
To add insult to injury, the person who wrote the email firing Dr. Carla Hayden from her position as Librarian of Congress addressed her by her first name.
May 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here’s the Rockingham County Republicans … I can’t even figure out where they got this figure?
April 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Some pictures break your heart. Harrisonburg, Virginia #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
At the center of the labyrinth
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
New entry in my substack on local censorship issues and beyond freadomva.substack.com/p/libraries-...
#bookbanning #censorship #libraries
March 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Those kids in the White House with Trump dismantling the Department of Ed were Moms for Liberty kids.
March 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The letter I just got from VA 6th district congressman Ben Cline : he’s all for rewriting the constitution by executive order.
February 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Harrisonburg, VA #NoKings #50501movement
February 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
VA06 District Congressman Ben Cline posts different info on Twitter than he does on Facebook, coming up to a different crowd. Here’s he’s expressing his disregard for the judiciary and for research funding.
February 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The news is dire. But there is still something beautiful within each day.
February 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
republican attorney general of Virginia miyares promptly threatening hospitals offering gender affirming care.
January 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Harrisonburg, VA superintendent:
January 31, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Benefit of having a dog: if I am running errands with him we always stop someplace pretty for a walk. #dogs #shenandoahvalley
January 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I used this image in a presentation on evaluating information, the Confirmation Bias band at Clifftop. It reminded me I needed to address that topic, got audience attention, and I think they remembered that confirmation bias is not a band.
January 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
My latest substack offering on the local censorship in Rockingham County and Virginia freadomva.substack.com/p/a-wee-bit-...

#bookbanning #censorship #advocacy
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This book and 28 others remain banned in Rockingham County (VA) Schools. The RCPS School Board removed it and 55 other books in January 2024 based on anonymous unspecified complaints, and these 28 have not undergone any review — and yet remain banned.
More info below.
#bannedbooks #censorship
January 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Keeping up the local pressure. Harrisonburg (VA) Daily News Record. Right below another letter entitled “Prepare for the end times.” #bannedbooks #censorship
December 26, 2024 at 2:16 PM
My update on censorship in Rockingham County VA, and elsewhere in the Shenandoah Valley. #censorship #bannedbooks freadomva.substack.com/p/still-no-v...
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
My substack mainly chronicles the outrageous censorship where I live, Rockingham County VA. Today's substack talks about the attack on Warren County VA's Samuels Library. (For the best update on censorship news nationally, follow @heykellyjensen.bsky.social freadomva.substack.com/p/no-news-in...
December 1, 2024 at 5:01 PM
On a cold frosty morning
November 26, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Sometimes on a gray November bike ride, a field of sunflowers will surprise you.
November 20, 2024 at 6:55 AM
I don’t know what the rest of the day is going to be like, but for a moment at least, it was beautiful. And I’m going to hold on to that thought. #sunrise
November 18, 2024 at 12:21 PM