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@tamdoe.bsky.social
25 yrs teaching HS English in VERY RED district in FL. 2 AMAZING daughters. Empty-nester. Passionate about books, bees, & a better world. My dad and I build neighborhood libraries to spread literacy and build community. www.litInspired.com
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨
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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:
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I have been advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia & now it's time to also put our attention onto Andry Hernandez Romero. trump condemned him to CECOT, in El Salvador. He came here as a gay man to seek asylum; he committed no crime in the U.S. and has followed all the steps here to seek asylum.
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Bluesky, please make this go viral. This beloved teacher in my FL district is losing her job for using a student's preferred name. Students are protesting & started these petitions. Please share & sign. (Read my pinned post on @litinspired.bsky.social and see how red and awful this county is.)
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-...
My district — beloved teacher losing her job because she called student by their preferred name. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...
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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
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
Yesterday I pinned a lengthy post about how I partnered with my dad to start putting neighborhood libraries everywhere. I explained how red my county is. Forgot to even mention, this is where Randy Fine started his political career.🤮Thought Trump was bad? Randy Fine is worse. More vile & vindictive.
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In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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No need to burn them then, I guess.
Learned from a newspaper ad woman in upstate NY and a bookshop owner in Montreal what this trade war could do to words. Much or most newsprint comes from Canada, soon subject to U.S. tariffs. & Canada is putting 25% on U.S. books. Which includes, get this, Handmaid’s Tale.
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Ok. In all the daily chaos this one got by me. So, wait, WHAT? Because you f'd up with our hard-working immigrant population, now we want to send our 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights. Makes sense. WTF! I know for a fact I will have students that will have to do this. 🤬
Hey journalists Take note. She did great at not letting him deflect. She stayed the course.
KEILAR: Will you investigate? MAST: If they start deleting 30k emails- K: The texts are set to delete M: They're not deleting while under investigation K: You're not investigating M: They're not trying to delete K: How do you know? M: That's what's required K: It was also required of HRC
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Replying to @jessecox.bsky.social
Give them a follow, folks. Some of the very few people in power still trying to fix this mess. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov @repjasmine.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov
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A real battle. I love my students and they are some pretty smart cookies, but there is SO much they do not know. I am generalizing here but I would guess that most govt & history teachers at our schools (here in FL) are MAGA. As an Eng teacher when I try to teach something outside of "literature" ..
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
A real battle. I love my students and they are some pretty smart cookies, but there is SO much they do not know. I am generalizing here but I would guess that most govt & history teachers at our schools (here in FL) are MAGA. As an Eng teacher when I try to teach something outside of "literature" ..
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.