People have said that the MAGA Evangelical Church has hijacked Jesus but I don't believe that's true. They have hijacked the word "Christian." Jesus is of no use to them. johnpavlovitz.com/2022/04/10/a-f…

We are incredibly fortunate to have Shannon Watts in this world!!

Every time I read a book told by someone who has a different lived experience from mine, and it makes me uncomfortable, I realize how much I needed to read that book. Kids know this, too. Discomfort is good for you and necessary to growing.

HBD to READ Board Member Nadya Abu-Rish, who was recently interviewed about how she curates her classroom library. "It is important to Abu-Rish that all of her students see themselves in the books in their classroom library, their class books clubs, and daily read alouds."

Rolling back child labor laws. Gun culture out of control. Defunding public schools. Taking away free lunches. This was never about the children.

All of this!

This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep. It’s the fucking guns.

A life long friend from Scotland had planned to take his wife and 3 grand children on a 3 week US vacation: NYC for the adults and LA with a stop at Disney Land [Anaheim] for the kids. He just texted me that his wife insisted on canceling the trip: her reason in quotes

A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.

My mother was one of those nine souls. Nikki didn’t do a damn thing until she was forced or Charleston would have been burned down. She is so fake. Don’t use my people for your come up!#Emanuel9

If a Black woman shot and killed a white mother of four in front of the white woman’s 9 year old child, who allegedly had been called racial slurs by the Black woman, would an arrest still not have been made? Also: According to the latest statistics, in Stand Your Ground

The Human Rights Campaign has declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people living in the U.S. — the first time the organization has made such a warning in its 40-year history.

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Juneteenth is to be commemorated more than celebrated. I know media has coined “Happy Juneteenth”, but would we say “Happy End of the Holocaust” to Jewish people? Bc slavery was just that, a genocide torture camp that legally lasted for 246yrs, for context the holocaust was 4yrs

This perfection of shade makes my day!

You may have heard about the organization Moms for Liberty. It was founded in early 2021 with the initial purpose of advocating against COVID-era protections in schools, like vaccines and mask mandates. (thread)

Yes!!

Read it all for an exact pathway of chilling effect of censorship ,- but more important the massive fear and intimidation educators are struggling with. Also - this is coming your way. Listen. Get active now.

A wise person told me, a long time ago, "You can bind your children to you with love or with fear. They never outgrow love." Book bans are about parents who bind their children with fear instead of love. Lean on love, as this thoughtful young advocate does.

Dear RJ💙 When you were three a developmental pediatrician diagnosed you with autism and told you all the things that you would NEVER do or be. One of the things that she said is that you would never have meaningful employment and all we heard was basically that your life