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Tamara

@tamdoe.bsky.social
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25 yrs teaching HS English in VERY RED district in FL. 2 AMAZING daughters. Empty-nester. Passionate about books, bees, & a better world. My dad and I build neighborhood libraries to spread literacy and build community. www.litInspired.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Map of Sinclair stations
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨
Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy”
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
It sure seems like men are too emotional to run the most powerful country on earth!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:
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4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care
In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Her stats line up with CDC data…
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Al (not ai) GDad1x7 @gdad1x7.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Why are ICE agents masked to begin with? Our law enforcement officers shouldn’t be anonymous. Ever.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Ok. This is all over news everywhere. But WHAT? How does he get held accountable. Who is handcuffing him?
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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I have been advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia & now it's time to also put our attention onto Andry Hernandez Romero. trump condemned him to CECOT, in El Salvador. He came here as a gay man to seek asylum; he committed no crime in the U.S. and has followed all the steps here to seek asylum.
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Editorial: We must all advocate for Andry’s release
Gay makeup artist Andry Jose Hernández Romero sits in a notorious prison in El Salvador for no good reason.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
After all the news of Kilmar I was deep diving yesterday about this young man. I was wondering what happened to the outcry for him. They originally said 75% of them were unlawfully taken. What do we know about the others?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There we go.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Bluesky, please make this go viral. This beloved teacher in my FL district is losing her job for using a student's preferred name. Students are protesting & started these petitions. Please share & sign. (Read my pinned post on @litinspired.bsky.social and see how red and awful this county is.)
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My district — beloved teacher losing her job because she called student by their preferred name. www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2...
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Satellite High teacher loses job after using student's preferred name: What we know
The high school teacher's annual contract was not renewed after calling a student by their preferred name without parental consent.
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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I would have liked to believe that the Dodgers, the organization that broke the color barrier & has the most diverse team in baseball, would have known enough not to go to this White House. Shame on them.
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Librarian's Husband's Book Club @lhbookclub.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The public library is one of the most powerful ideas ever. Walk in with nothing—walk out with a world of knowledge. That kind of freedom is priceless. On Right to Read Day, let’s remind everyone that libraries are worth fighting for. #NationalLibraryWeek #BookSky 💙📚 #TLSky
Colorful illustrated poster showing people walking into a public library under a banner reading "Drawn to Freedom." Above the library, images representing knowledge and freedom—like books, music, cooking, voting, technology, peace, and invention—float in a cloud. The bottom text reads: “I LOVE MY LIBRARY – RIGHT TO READ DAY – APRIL 7, 2025.” Hashtags include #RightToReadDay and #DrawnToFreedom. The poster is by Unite Against Book Bans, with artwork by Nate Powell.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 07/04/2025
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
And the dismissiveness of their students.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I don’t get it. I’m in the district of FL where the CO founder of moms for liberty was my school board member. I’m a teacher and so many colleagues voted for him. 🤬 But when the special ed teacher said she’s happy he’s gutting DOE my mouth dropped.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yes Brevard! Even our super red county…the one that birthed Moms for Liberty cofounder, housed the horrible Randy Fine, and home to countless J6 criminals, showed up! @maddow.msnbc.com
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sure it. I find it hard to believe any of these a-holes get elected but here we are...
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"I'm your Huckleberry" still gets me 🫠 but my young girl era grew up on "Real Genius" 🫦 and "Top Secret." 😄 RIP Val Kilmer.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Yesterday I pinned a lengthy post about how I partnered with my dad to start putting neighborhood libraries everywhere. I explained how red my county is. Forgot to even mention, this is where Randy Fine started his political career.🤮Thought Trump was bad? Randy Fine is worse. More vile & vindictive.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Agreed. I switched to CSPAN when they did that.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.” A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cory-bo...
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Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Loved that line, too.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Do you know who laid the foundation for the FDA? President Theodore Roosevelt. Do you know why? Because he read a great piece of literature that exposed the mistreatment of immigrant workers and the disgusting, unsanitary practices in meatpacking plants… The book is called “The Jungle.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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Shadow61 @shadow61.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
@nanagale.bsky.social thank you for sharing this with us!!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2025
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
My sentiments exactly…👇 WTAF?!
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No need to burn them then, I guess.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They screwed up and they learned their lesson.🙄 These people wanted Hillary’s head on a stick, had hundreds of people chanting “lock her up” at every single rally.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Ok. In all the daily chaos this one got by me. So, wait, WHAT? Because you f'd up with our hard-working immigrant population, now we want to send our 14 year olds to work overnight shifts on school nights. Makes sense. WTF! I know for a fact I will have students that will have to do this. 🤬
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The dumb is really dumbing. So their argument is that they have a guy on the chat who is their enemy—a terrible journalist. Ok but um, he was still on the chat so that’s actually WORSE. 🙄🤬 My high school students would understand the faulty reasoning in this argument.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
😂😂😂
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hey journalists Take note. She did great at not letting him deflect. She stayed the course.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Oh man! "Maybe this is exactly what the end conclusion of dismantling education and American democracy is, because this is ridiculous." I love Rep. Melanie Stansbury. This is magnificent. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
He had the AUDACITY to say he hyperbolized the issue… Hillary’s emails much?
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Kathy Gori @kathygori.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
So, if they're defunding USAID, VOA, VA, Medicaid, libraries, museums, public education, FEMA. Screwing with ACA, PBS, FDIC, SS, and Medicare or whatever else is on their shortlist. What are we paying taxes for? It's not like they're doing anything to help us, just taking stuff away.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My dad (retired carpenter) & myself (HS Lit teacher) started building neighborhood libraries after the election. Needed to redirect our anger & sadness--wanted to do something positive using our 💙and🤝. We're starting to grow. Today we finished HIS library (he loves Dr. Seuss). Look at this talent.
A Dr. Seuss library with whimsical designs. Red and yellow striped post. Green library box with red door and purple roof and trim. Dr. Suess sayings and characters. Posted in a planterA Dr. Seuss library with whimsical designs with door open and showing books filling the library. A Dr. Seuss library with whimsical designs. Red and yellow striped post. Green library box with red door and purple roof and trim. Dr. Suess sayings and characters. This shows the back of it with Horton the elephant and fish from Dr. Seuss books.Side shot of the Dr. Seuss library with whimsical designs. Red and yellow striped post. Green library box with red door and purple roof and trim. Dr. Suess sayings and characters. This is an image of the Lorax with a saying from the book.
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Ellen Oh @ellenoh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
If you actively seek to tear down libraries that provide books, internet, and other resources to all people; public schools that provide education to all children; public housing and food for poor people; health care and equal rights for everyone - you are a bad person.
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
amen
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Tamara @tamdoe.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Thanks so much for the shout out and 💙!
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Paul 'Professor Detective' Richeson @profdet529.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Give them a follow, folks. Some of the very few people in power still trying to fix this mess. @ocasio-cortez.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov @repjasmine.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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