Reposted by GUSD ParentsPride at the Pier 🏳️🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 21hCome 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 074
Reposted by GUSD ParentsPROJECT:PRO+ECT @glendaleout.bsky.social · 17hThis one matters if you're available. 🙏🏻💖🏳️⚧️ 031
Reposted by GUSD ParentsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17hlmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20... 831500176
Reposted by GUSD ParentsKARE 11 @kare11.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The 2025-26 school year saw nearly 12,000 book bans, most of them in two states, according to a new report. (Photo PEN America)kare11.comSchool districts across the US banned a record amount of books during the 2025-26 school year, report saysThe 2025-26 school year saw nearly 12,000 book bans, most of them in two states, according to a new report. (Photo PEN America) 1117
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ballot guide is here! Share widely and get those ballots in asap... 021
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oops that’s a mistake- downloaded the wrong slide from the primary recs! Thanks and fixing now. 010
Reposted by GUSD ParentsPROJECT:PRO+ECT @glendaleout.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Of 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 💖 121
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Ballot guide is here! Share widely and get those ballots in asap. gusdparents.org/blog/novembe... 230
Reposted by GUSD ParentsDaisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Please 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 051
Reposted by GUSD ParentsDaisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026CALL 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. 2108
Reposted by GUSD ParentsDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'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. 7938981134
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Chris 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. 020
Reposted by GUSD Parentsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026not 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.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 25561451144
Reposted by GUSD ParentsGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things 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 297113124106
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There’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 091
Reposted by GUSD ParentsMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Seems 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... 46895180
Reposted by GUSD ParentsDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/09/2026This 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." 7619159
Reposted by GUSD ParentsJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026UCLA 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 36631265
Reposted by GUSD ParentsMarcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Conversations 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. 16110
Reposted by GUSD ParentsIan 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-...theconversation.comDoes my kid have COVID-19 or just a cold? A pediatric nurse explains how to tell – and why it mattersKeeping children home from school if they have COVID-19 protects family and school community members at high risk of serious illness. 109936
Reposted by GUSD ParentsPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 383844881
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We 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. 010
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We’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 101
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Essential 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 111
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What 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. 010
Reposted by GUSD ParentsMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If 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 44971160
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026We’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. 081
Reposted by GUSD ParentsChantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Measles 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...wired.comMeasles Outbreaks Are Forcing Immunocompromised Kids to Make Impossible ChoicesWith the risk of infection rising, parents and young adults are facing agonizing choices about being out in public as school starts back up. 28134
Reposted by GUSD ParentsBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026wonkette.comWhiny, Spoiled California Schoolchildren Denied Air Conditioners They’ve Been DemandingFinally, someone is looking out for PG&E. 35514
Reposted by GUSD ParentsJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Gloria 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. 5851241738
Reposted by GUSD ParentsKev - Vote 💙 no matter who! @57kev.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The 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!commondreams.org'At a Breaking Point': Survey Shows Teachers Working Second Jobs, Spending Hundreds on Supplies | Common DreamsA new union survey shows US teachers are struggling with underinvestment in schools and high prices under a Republican-controlled government. 01412
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Department 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! 062
Reposted by GUSD ParentsGourdon P. Squash @dewterium2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This 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. 216547
Reposted by GUSD ParentsRoby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026To 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. 181256572
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Now, 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. 010
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026They 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. 110
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Every “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. 120
GUSD Parents @gusdforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026On 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. 160
Reposted by GUSD ParentsDaisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The 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. 22316
Reposted by GUSD ParentsNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Organized, state-funded, industrial scale child abuse 130377
Reposted by GUSD ParentsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026NEW: 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. 16766436
Reposted by GUSD ParentsAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly 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.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121535979
Reposted by GUSD Parentsjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery 8065871908
Reposted by GUSD ParentsNicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Okay 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 3349683
Reposted by GUSD ParentsKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026In 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-...teenvogue.comTeens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor MovementFor a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future. 110920
Reposted by GUSD ParentsKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2026My latest for @teenvogue.com pays tribute to all the teenage girls who built the American house of labor www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-...teenvogue.comTeens Have Always Been on the Front Lines of the Labor MovementFor a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future. 631599