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Susan Ert-ker

@susan-in-fl.bsky.social
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Public school advocate. Lover of civil debates. Retired C.P.A.

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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@openargs.bsky.social Could people who were deported make a claim for "government weaponization"? If you're not chosen, then you can sue for the policy not being viewpoint neutral. That's what this guy said on this podcast. www.npr.org/2026/05/20/n...
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The Justice Department gives Trump an unprecedented settlement : Fresh Air
D.O.J. gave President Trump and his family immunity from tax audits and set up a $1.8 billion fund for victims of "government weaponization." Former government lawyer Andrew Weissmann explains the set...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@openargs.bsky.social What do you think about what the Heritage Foundation says about the 2nd Amendment? Could the Heritage Foundation be charged for promoting taking up arms against a tyrannical government?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
@mjsdc.bsky.social If you cover this (and I hope you do), will you explain it for non-lawyers like me? Is the take away that the DOJ isn’t going to prosecute anyone for refusing to testify against Trump? Here’s the article about Steve Bannon and the Supreme Court: www.ms.now/deadline-whi...
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Supreme Court agrees to help Trump DOJ move to dismiss Steve Bannon’s contempt case
The Trump DOJ told the justices that dismissing the Trump ally’s criminal case is “in the interests of justice.”
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Religious freedom means not just for you, but for everyone. A moment of silence (rather than a sectarian prayer) before public meetings allows everyone, regardless of faith, to participate comfortably—whether through prayer, silent reflection, or contemplation. apnews.com/article/char...
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Duval School Board should stop inviting prayers, legal groups warn
Two national church-state advocacy groups are warning the Duval County School Board to end its practice of opening board meetings with prayer.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I was contemplating whether or not DCPS Board Chair Joyce labels herself a Christian Nationalist, defined as a Christian who wants to do away with religious freedom. The AP News recently published an article about the DCPS Board Chair: apnews.com/article/char...
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Duval School Board should stop inviting prayers, legal groups warn
Two national church-state advocacy groups are warning the Duval County School Board to end its practice of opening board meetings with prayer.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@julieingersoll.bsky.social I read this article that you wrote a couple of years ago: religionnews.com/2019/05/01/h...
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How to think about Christian terrorism
(RNS) — According to a manifesto posted online, the suspect in the attack on a synagogue near San Diego believed that hate is biblical — a view found in the teaching of the Orthodox Presbyterian Churc...
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We must lobby for a vision of a public school system where every neighborhood public school is plentiful in resources. We must lobby to assure that all publicly funded schools are safe and welcoming to every student. The wording is slightly altered from a quotation on this link: www.nea.org
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National Education Association | NEA
The National Education Association (NEA) is more than 3 million people—educators, students, activists, workers, parents, neighbors, friends—who believe in opportunity for all students and in the power...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
@neatoday.bsky.social Is the accurate? I saw this in an article: The ADL lobbies for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism. The below screenshot is from this link: holocaustremembrance.com/resources/wo...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Good question! Why didn’t SCOTUS just stay the injunction rather than the awful ruling that they issued?
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
By a 2–1 vote, the 11th Circuit holds that trans teachers in Florida have NO First Amendment right to use their preferred pronouns at school. I’m starting to wonder if conservative judges are applying the First Amendment fairly to our public school system … media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
NEWSOM, Circuit Judge:
Katie Wood is a transgender woman who teaches at a public high school in Florida. Two years ago, the state enacted Fla. Stat.
§ 1000.071(3), which, as applied to Wood, prohibits her from using the honorific "Ms." and the gendered pronouns "she," "her," and
"hers" in exchanges with students during class time. Wood sued to enjoin the enforcement of § 1000.071(3) against her. The district court granted Wood a preliminary injunction, finding it substantially likely that the law violates her First Amendment right to free speech.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
What Trump is doing to the Education Department, USAID, and the CFPB today can be done to DHS, ICE, CBP, and any other agency tomorrow. This is the blueprint. Defund, RIF, or shutter every agency the president dislikes. Executive authority now means unilateral power to restructure the government.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
A conservative Arizona Supreme Court justice is warning that the Trump administration is "doing violence" to the Constitution and publicly expressing his concerns about the emerging risk of "authoritarianism." www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
The Arizona Supreme Court justice and rock star of the political right stood before a crowd of lawyers recently and rebuked "deeply disturbing" attacks on the American justice system coming from senior Trump administration officials.

"It's almost dystopian. And when I think of people wrapping themselves in the Constitution while they are simultaneously doing violence to it ... it is really scary stuff," Bolick told those gathered at the May event hosted by Society for the Rule of Law, a right-of-center legal organization.

Though he didn't name names, the speech showed an extraordinary level of openness for a Supreme Court justice, as justices typically refrain from commenting on public affairs to avoid perceptions of bias.
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Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Here's a particularly wild exchange from yesterday's era-defining Board of Governors meeting in Florida, in which a bunch of political appointees rejected the appointment of former University of Michigan President Santa Ono as the new president at the University of Florida...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
How do you feel about religious prayers said out loud from the podium at school board meetings? Summary of what’s happening at DCPS under the leadership of Charlotte Joyce: fcfs.org/prayers-at-d...
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Prayers at Duval County Public School (DCPS) Board Meeting
DCPS policy 10.40 mirrors the “Florida Student  and School Personnel Religious Liberties Act,” statute 1002.06.  Here’s excerpts: Where student speakers are permitted, the District: Must …
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Charlotte Joyce invited a pastor to give the invocation at the school board meeting this evening which I’m fairly certain is unconstitutional. I put a clip of it on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/cEcVY...
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Prayer at DCPS Board Meeting
YouTube video by Susan Ertker
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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What you need to share about the “one big beautiful” ugly horrible bill
(Resending so you can share over email without my inadvertent notes after the “share” button)
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@mjsdc.bsky.social Have you changed your mind now that Trump is taking over these agencies?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A few photos from today’s rally
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A few clips from April 1st DCPS Board meeting youtu.be/3lDqStooOpw?...
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Clips from the April 1st DCPS Board meeting. It’s about book bans.
YouTube video by Susan Ertker
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It is sad that Senator Yarborough is promoting these horrible bills. open.substack.com/pub/sherryma...
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3 Key Questions
And the State of Florida Vision
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@miamiherald.com article excerpt: “I’m encouraged by the trend, because it means that the Legislature is asserting its independence,” he said. “It is long overdue.” Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
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Once DeSantis’ cheerleaders, Florida GOP puts his administration under scrutiny
Florida Republicans once catered to Ron DeSantis’ political agenda.
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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Forget all of the rhetoric about returning education to the states. The reason we need a federal voucher program is to get around Trump's own voters, especially the rurals with their *emotional* connections to local public schools
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Blowing Up The Ed Department open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
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Blowing Up The Ed Department
The executive order has finally been signed, and it clarifies...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
open.substack.com/pub/curmudgu...
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Blowing Up The Ed Department
The executive order has finally been signed, and it clarifies...
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Have You Heard @haveyouheard.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
In our latest episode, @jackschneider.bsky.social reaches out to voters who cast their ballots for Donald Trump. His ask? Stand up for the public good...even in these times when we are encouraged to believe that no such thing exists. soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...
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#194 Letter to a Trump Voter
Like just about everyone these days, our own Jack Schneider is troubled–make that frightened–by our political landscape. But however deep our divides may be, there’s one issue that can, if not bring u
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JenniferRevolution @jenniferrevolution.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
We shall participate in the postcard campaign #TheIdesOfTrump. On March 15th, mail postcards to: President (for now) D. J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
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Julie Ingersoll @julieingersoll.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So if it wasn't clear before it should be now: #Trump and #Musk are coming for #SocialSecurity Michelle Norris on #MSNBC just said: "go to the social security website and print out your earnings history." Given how they've been wiping websites, that's good advice
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@jesseschecker.bsky.social wrote about HB 123. Committee chairs can let this bill die by not putting it on their agenda. School Boards today buy property based on community growth and future needs; HB 123 would limit their ability to do that. It’s a horrible bill. floridapolitics.com/archives/724...
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Bill to ease charter school conversions, block public school districts from buying land clears first House hurdle
'This bill is fiscally responsible (and) focuses on a real-world problem.'
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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Also here’s an action alert that makes it easy. Ask DeSantis and Florida’s Attorney General to pull out of the lawsuit. actionnetwork.org/letters/flor...
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Florida joins a lawsuit that would eliminate federal protections for children with disabilities. Act now to stop them.
Your attorney general is part of the lawsuit that claims that Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act is unconstitutional. Ask your attorney general and Governor to drop out of the lawsuit....
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Do you agree that this article is an example of bad journalism?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@palan57.bsky.social @rbirds.bsky.social @grandgraffiti.bsky.social SB 140 proposed in Florida is the opposite of what we need. How do we amplify the problem of capital outlay funding charter school leases?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
When Trump (in term 1) changed a hurricane projection map with a sharpie, I argued that "Trump's silliest lies are the most important." What seems like lower stakes nonsense is actually the tip of the spear. You go along with it now, the baseline shifts, and you're more acculturated to acceptance.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Diversity and inclusion has a long history in the United States. Learning to get along is one of the goals of public schools, yes?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
@natemonroe.bsky.social I wish you’d write about this.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@natemonroe.bsky.social The building that houses this charter school is on the market for $2,950,000. You wrote about charter school leases. You tried to warn people. Will you write about this?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Please tell Congress this is not a game! Don’t allow Musk and Trump to fire federal employees. Here’s a one minute clip from this podcast about this issue:
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Can states enforce it since we may not be able to rely on Trump’s justice department?
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@openargs.bsky.social I laughed out loud. Listen to the latest podcast. It’s not all funny. Trump made us all genderless.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
He hypothesizes as to why the Executive Orders are vague: 2/3 It is vague because saying exactly what they have in mind would be so nakedly racist and hateful that they would face backlash
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Opening Arguments Podcast play some great clips from the confirmation hearing of Russell Vought to be Office of Management and Budget director. Give it a listen on your favorite podcast ap.
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Nate Monroe @natemonroe.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is a cool and rare opportunity to move the needle in local and state journalism, and I can’t wait to get started.
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Link to 30 minute video: zoom.us/rec/share/Bx...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It has begun. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/c...
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Susan Ert-ker @susan-in-fl.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Excerpt from a book I’m reading:
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