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Chino Valley Unified Smeared For Supposed Book ‘Ban’
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023
via California Globe (California)The school board of Chino Valley Unified School District has made headlines again as angry leftists take umbrage with another policy modification made by the board last week. During the board meeting…
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Century-overdue library book is finally returned in Minnesota
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via The Times (Indiana)A library book that is more than a century overdue has been returned to St. Paul Public Library in Minnesota.
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CMS superintendent overrules media committee on ‘explicit, graphic’ book’s removal
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)If parents want their children to read the book, it's available elsewhere, said Brooke Weiss, who challenged 'Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts).'
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Orange County schools says it will allow students to use preferred pronouns with parental permission
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via WESH (Florida)Officials go on to say that honoring parental rights to choose their child's pronouns will likely reduce bullying and risk of attempted suicide.
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Orange teachers likely to be allowed to use students’ preferred pronouns, with parental OK
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)Orange County educators have decided Florida's new law restricting the use of preferred pronouns in schools still allows public schools to honor parental requests to have transgender students refer…
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Jeff Landry spent at least $3.7 million with Trump political consultants
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via lailluminator.com (Louisiana)Gov.-elect Jeff Landry spent at least $3.7 million on political consultants who worked for former President Donald Trump while running for Louisiana governor over the past year.
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Teachers and students grapple with fears and confusion about new laws restricting pronoun use
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via The Associated Press (California)Laws enacted in at least 10 states prohibit or restrict students from using pronouns or names that don't match their sex assigned at birth.
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Instagram moms organize for gun control, abortion and democracy
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via Wisconsin Examiner (Wisconsin)Liberal-leaning suburban moms are organizing for democracy, abortion rights and gun control and they are doing it using their phones
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From anti-trans bills to attacks on education, gerrymandered Ohio lawmakers push more extremist laws
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via Ohio Capital Journal (Ohio)Ohioans are exhausted with politics under gerrymandered authoritarians, but the same scoundrels who tried to wrest majority rule from voters and played dirty and deceptive to crush majority will on…
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Hispanic conservatives defend Univision amid backlash over Trump interview
Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
via The Washington Post (Florida)Several prominent Hispanic conservatives are pushing back against the Congressional Hispanic Caucus's effort to seek a meeting with the Spanish-language network.
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Letters for Nov. 21: Democrats have lots of other priorities besides abortion, and Republicans should too
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via The Virginian-Pilot (Virginia)Letter writers express frustration over Republicans' focus on restricting abortion, oppose candidates who support former President Donald Trump, and urge Trump and President Joe Biden to step…
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The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via Miami Herald (Florida)PHILADELPHIA — Phillip Fisher Jr. is a pastor and former Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia's Moms for Liberty chapter.
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Letters: Book-banners wrong
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)As more books are pulled from Florida school libraries, a writer wonders if legislators are uneducated or just missing the point.
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Interim panel advances proposal that would give parents more power in education
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming)Lawmakers will consider new rules during the 2024 legislative session that would require school districts to report to parents if a student's "health or well-being' changes.
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Library supporters in Collinsville urge residents to support funding increase
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Missouri)Proposed roughly $8 increase per Collinsville household is debated by library trustees.
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A year after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub, community feels supported but says work remains
Monday, November 20th, 2023
via The Gazette - Colorado Springs (Colorado)After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen's birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its
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The beauty of democracy: Concessions of the vanquished
Sunday, November 19th, 2023
via The Times (Indiana)Parents
LGBTQ+ advocates say work remains as Colorado Springs marks …
Sunday, November 19th, 2023
via The Washington Post (Montana)After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen's birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people
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LGBTQ+ advocates say work remains as Colorado Springs marks anniversary of nightclub attack
Sunday, November 19th, 2023
via The Associated Press (Colorado)After the mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs that turned a drag queen's birthday celebration into a massacre, the conservative community was forced to reckon with its reputation for being unwelcoming to gay, lesbian and transgender people.
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