When they are not busy tormenting transgendered people, immigrants, or teachers (because heaven forbid their students should read books about real life), Florida Republicans are thinking up brand-new draconian laws to get them kids back to work like they...
I'm sorry, this isn't going to be gentle, but I've had it. On Tonight with Alex Wagner, she just went through the genesis of a very famous event of the civil rights era, Rosa Parks heroic refusal to give up...
‘It’s a conspiracy’ DeSantis appears to be saying in response to numerous press reports asserting that a biographical book about late, great beloved baseball player Roberto Clemente is being pulled from some school shelves. DeSantis, in his remarks, seems to...
At this point it must be challenging fro Marjorie Taylor Greene to keep coming up with more and more stupid things to say and yet, against all odds, she persists. A case in point would be from today’s House Oversight...
Talk about a breath of fresh air. Greg Sargent and Paul Waldman of the Washington Post have put together a terrific piece on the "backlash to the backlash," specifically the bat$hit anti-gay, book banning nonsense in the State of Florida....
We live in a world of book banning, book burning and smut-hunting illiterati stalking the halls of libraries that they would never have entered for the purpose of reading or study, but will to harass and censor. Yes, the...
A Dark and Cold Sunshiny Day He picked out his own clothes that morning wore his favorite yellow shirt with the red stripes his little-boy jeans and despite his protests the red jacket He looked up briefly from his morning cereal and grinned as his dad leaving to go to...
Realizing that the New Democratic composition of the Michigan Legislature would upend their plans to circumvent both the voters of Michigan and Governor Gretchen Whitmer, backers of the anti-public education/school voucher voter initiative Let MI Kids Learn chose to...
Shawn McBreairty is a member of the far right “Maine First Project” who made a name for himself (and garnered appearances on the Fox News shows of Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham) by being banned by the Bangor Maine...
Donald Trump has draconian ideas about how the nation's public schools should be run and how students should be taught. Oh, and he also has some bad ideas about how teachers should be credentialed. He said as much on Truth...

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