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Pride at the Pier 🏳️‍🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 21h
Come to the PATP press conference, stay for public comment. Tell the California Interscholastic Federation to follow the law and defend inclusive policies! 📅 : October 9th, 2026 📍: Renaissance LAX Hotel (9620 Airport Blvd, Los Angeles) 🕒 : 8:15 AM - Press Conference 10:00 AM - CIF Public Comment
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PROJECT:PRO+ECT @glendaleout.bsky.social · 17h
This one matters if you're available. 🙏🏻💖🏳️‍⚧️
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17h
lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...
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KARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The 2025-26 school year saw nearly 12,000 book bans, most of them in two states, according to a new report. (Photo PEN America)
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School districts across the US banned a record amount of books during the 2025-26 school year, report says
The 2025-26 school year saw nearly 12,000 book bans, most of them in two states, according to a new report. (Photo PEN America)
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballot guide is here! Share widely and get those ballots in asap...
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Re-posting with corrected sheriff rec!
GUSD PARENTS
COUNTY SHERIFF
ROBERT LUNA (LESSER OF TWO EVILS)
U.S. Congress - 30th District
LAURA FRIEDMAN
U.S. Congress - 28th District
JUDY CHU
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oops that’s a mistake- downloaded the wrong slide from the primary recs! Thanks and fixing now.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
@clevertitle.bsky.social especially for you!
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Here, here!
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PROJECT:PRO+ECT @glendaleout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Of all the options on your ballots, Richard Barrera for State Superintendent of Public Instruction is who will keep your, our, all kids safe and represented. His MAGA opponent's only achievement is shrill, anti queer/trans rhetoric and attacking trans student athletes. Kids. Keep 'em safe 💖
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballot guide is here! Share widely and get those ballots in asap. gusdparents.org/blog/novembe...
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please show up to give public comment! Literally all you need to say is “Let All Kids Play.” Where: Renaissance Hotel - LAX When: Friday October 9th Time: Press Conference is at 8am. Meeting starts at 10. We need folks for both! Don’t let the goons win! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Via @prideatthepier.bsky.social
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CALL TO ACTION! Protect 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ trans kids! This Friday, MAGA Mother From Hell running for State Sup of Public Instruction, Sonja Shaw, MAGA dingdong running for AG, Michael Gates, & a designated hate group will be sending their crew to invade CIF to demand CA bar trans kids from sports.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Not yet, but it’s coming very soon!
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chris Rufo invented the moral panic about “CRT” to push increasingly segregationist aims amidst reactionary (mostly) white parents and his entire career is attempting to legitimize and launder anti-democratic illiberal goals.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There’s a familiar reactionary pattern in the new network of anti-screen time/anti-social media policy orgs, law firms, podcasts etc. Reasonable concerns about tech are being used as a recruitment/activation strategy to funnel educated liberals into the reactionary right project
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like it should be part of the "are phones ruining the kids" debate that every marker of teen mental health has improved since 2021 www.cdc.gov/yrbs/youth-h...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026
This shit is so infuriating. We should make these parents famous. Get their faces out there: "this is the couple that demanded the right to beat and intimidate their children without interference."
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UCLA just illegally fired their DEI Director (me) for speaking the truth about Charlie Kirk, nay, for posting truth via my private, Bluesky acct, clearly designated as personal. Hounds, Cats and I still need to raise $800 to pay rent due next week. We could use your help‼️ venmo.com/u/JohnathanPerk
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UCLA fires DEI director after social media posts on Charlie Kirk's death

Johnathan Perkins with his dogs, Rex, left, and Frankie, at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles after he was suspended and fired from his role as UCLA DEI director. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)

By Jaweed Kaleem

Staff Writer 
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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Conversations about K-12 ed would be much better if instead of operating as if most parents don’t care about their child and education, many would operate as if most parents do care and there are economic, social, political, and personal barriers making it hard for some to show/actualize that care.
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Sending your child to school when they are sick can spread illnesses to classmates and school staff, and these infections can have serious consequences for people who have underlying health conditions that raise their risk of complications." theconversation.com/does-my-kid-...
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Does my kid have COVID-19 or just a cold? A pediatric nurse explains how to tell – and why it matters
Keeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We should think abt the impact of tech on kids, but also pay attention when 1 of the main faces of a suddenly formed but also very well funded movement starts explicitly pushing a school model directly linked to a Christian nationalist who thinks slavery was fine and husbands should spank wives.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We’ve noted the familiar network of reactionary orgs and funders rallying around the screen time issue and the troubling overlap with christian nationalist entities and policy goals that will both restrict young people’s access to information and enable even more pervasive surveillance/data capture
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Essential reading. The Classical Education model (distinct from pre-existing Great Books programs which it borrows from) is a Trojan horse for a truly extreme Christian nationalist vision. Seeing “scrolling 2 death” podcast host/anti-screentime crusader Nikki Petrossi promoting it raised red flags
Screenshot of scrolling2death instagram with a blonde woman sitting in her car making a straight to camera video. Text caption reads “A plug for Classical Education”Screenshot of scrolling2death instagram with a blonde woman sitting in front seat  of her car making a straight to camera video. Text caption reads “Kudos to the Classical Education approach during a time when our kids are drowning in addictive tech.
Classical education is a traditional teaching method that focuses on forming the whole person-mind, character, and spirit-by using the liberal arts and great historical literature to match a child's natural developmental stages.” Tagged accounts include the “Tech-Safe Learning Coalition” which also includes the Christian nationalist app/company “protect young eyes” famously used by house speaker Mike Johnson to surveil him and his son to monitor their pornography use.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What we’ve been saying! No school system is perfect, but only fully funded PUBLIC education is required and equipped to meet the needs of ALL students.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If you’re engaged in a heated DNC vs DSA back and forth right now I cannot express how much you’re getting hung up in the wrong enemy
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We’ve heard this absurd claim from the professional transphobes funded & elevated by the right for years now. That this fringe and baseless perspective has been mainstreamed represents the total failure of mainstream media and everyone who’s legitimized obviously bad faith “concerns” abt trans kids.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Measles outbreaks are forcing immunocompromised children to reconsider in-person school because it isn't safe for them Public health is something "we're supposed to share across humanity. It's not supposed to be carried by one person" www.wired.com/story/measle...
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Measles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible Choices
With the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
wonkette.com
Whiny, Spoiled California Schoolchildren Denied Air Conditioners They’ve Been Demanding
Finally, someone is looking out for PG&E.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Kev - Vote 💙 no matter who! @57kev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The right are bound and determined to destroy what's left of our education system. What they would like is for right wing religion to take over educating our children. Because ignorant brainwashed people are easier to control. Real teachers and our children deserve better!
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'At a Breaking Point': Survey Shows Teachers Working Second Jobs, Spending Hundreds on Supplies | Common Dreams
A new union survey shows US teachers are struggling with underinvestment in schools and high prices under a Republican-controlled government.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Department of Justice now exists solely to prosecute the pathetic grievances of anti-trans bigots and people who thing “reverse racism” is real- extremely satisfying seeing it lose like this. Let all kids play!
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Gourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is why they coined the term "cancel culture" and attacked it so furiously. What they were calling cancel culture was actually the conscience of civil society, which is their enemy.
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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Now, we’re tracking increased funding support from Silicon Valley’s techno-fascists and collaboration between the oil barons and Christian nationalists who fantasize about apocalypse— or at least a future that’s essentially a return to feudal hierarchy.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
They can’t win voters by voicing their real goals— ongoing extraction of fossil fuels and increase of their own massive fortunes despite climate collapse and extreme income inequality— so they capture a media and manufacture fear about trans people, teachers unions, & life saving vaccines.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Every “culture war” issue you can think of & every org that makes it a political target has ties to these organized networks of non-profit policy orgs, legal “ministries” and media ranging from social media influencers to talk radio to Fox News- all funded substantially by fossil fuel fortunes.
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GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
On the ground groups like ours have been tracking for years now- reactionary attack orgs from TPUSA to Moms for Liberty to XX-XY ALL are backed by enormous amounts of oil $ (and more recently, Silicon Valley $) from the Kochs and Donor Advised Funds which anonymize billionaire contributions.
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The deranged former Levi’s / Nike exec who runs the company, Jennifer Sey, works on a variety of anti-trans measures across the US. AND, XX-XY uses pictures of minor trans children to sell their terrible shirts. XX-XY harasses the kids & profits from using their images.
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Organized, state-funded, industrial scale child abuse
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: ICE data released under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that more than half of all ICE arrests are now people with no criminal record; no prior convictions or pending charges. In the first week of August, 55% of all ICE arrests were of people with no criminal record.
Chart showing monthly ICE arrests by criminal record, January 2025 through July 2026. The chart shows total ICE arrests rising steadily from January 2025, then peaking and falling from January 2026 to February 2026, stabilizing, then rising again in June and July to record levels. Meanwhile, the composition of ICE arrests becomes more and more weighted towards people with no criminal record, and in July 2026, the majority are people with no criminal record.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Okay a few things. 1) homeless Angelenos are still Angelenos, your neighbors and constituents. 2) i have never seen a taco stand deter restaurant business. 3) tacos stands rule. 4) dont demonize vendors or unhoused people
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In 1933, 18-year-old Carrie Smith led two thousand Black women workers out of the Funsten nut processing factory in St. Louis and out onto the picket line. “Girls, we can’t lose!” she’d cried, waving a Bible in one hand and a brick in the other www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...
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Teens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor Movement
For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My latest for @teenvogue.com pays tribute to all the teenage girls who built the American house of labor www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...
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Teens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor Movement
For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
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