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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3h

Read that again.

.01% of parents deny their children access to school libraries because it is literally .01% of parents creating the moral panic and spreading lies about books in school libraries.

Yet there are schools COMPLETELY BANNING LIBRARIES FROM THEIR ENTIRE STUDENT BODY.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 3h

Public school parents overwhelmingly trust the curation of library professionals.

When we enroll our children at a school, we assume the school will give them every opportunity to access the same resources available to other students without unnecessary barriers to entry.

We are still working on gathering data from across the state, but the trends that we saw the last three years don’t appear to have changed much regarding public school parents and their desire (or lack thereof) to restrict their children’s library access.

When the district assumes parents will want their children to access the library (most districts do), there’s usually less than 1% of parents choosing to set restrictions. While this data only reflects seven districts, six of seven (yes, we know what we did there) are “red” districts politically and the four with 100% access are very “red.”

Those that know that state well, also know that Sarasota and Hernando are also considered very “red” and they also have a lot of special interest activity and influence in their districts. These districts created a policy where they don’t want to assume to know what parents want, so the default denies students access to resources otherwise made available to the majority of students that have gained parent permission.

Sarasota’s form is part of the annual electronic paperwork that parents must complete, so they were able to retain 92.7% of returned forms. If parents completed the form in the past, the prior selection remains in the system until a parent makes a change. Hernando is a different story, and it’s why they only have 51.56% of forms turned in.

Denying library access until a form is turned in creates an unnecessary barrier to entry for students.

The truth cannot be denied: public school parents overwhelmingly trust the curation of library professionals. When we enroll our children at a school, we assume the school will give them every opportunity to access the same resources available to other students.

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 22h

Oh here’s an old She-Ra piece I never posted bc it’s wonky as hell but I still like that butt

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 3d

This is Trump's America

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/shot-in-th...

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 5d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 4d

All set up at A2CAF at the Ann Arbor District Library until 5pm— come say hi and get some books!

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Joe Schmidt @hsglobalhistory.bsky.social · 5d

@natepowell.bsky.social’s COMICS ARE READING poster is always a big hit at New York Comic Con!

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 6d

New batch of commissioned illustrations ready to send out!

I have 3 more to finish in this round, and have had a total blast doing these— I’ll open up more commissions early next year. Special thanks to the people requesting X-Men characters.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 6d

I finally hit the limit and cancelled my long-running WaPo subscription. I’ve done two opinion pieces and a full-length book review for em. But they’ve really shit the bed with their overt rightward embrace & outright purging of left-leaning and Black voices in their opinion & analysis.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 7d

Tonight I’ll be doing a live comics reading from my book FALL THROUGH as part of a benefit for @bamfzinefest.bsky.social — it’s at the Orbit Room (107 N. College, Bloomington) from 6-8pm with several other writers of all kinds. See you there!

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Ben Passmore @benpassmore.bsky.social · 8d

today is the day my book Black Arms To Hold You Up officially comes out. about 5-7 years of hard ass work finally in the world. i’m mfing terrified 😂

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 8d

Yes! 100% this.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 9d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10d

The history teacher is going to be stuck on “why didn’t the Biden admin punish sedition and why was a seditionist even allowed to run for president again” for a long, long time…Americans stopped believing they had a functional government long before they started believing they had a fascist one

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 10d

New MINOR ARCANA variant cover— issue & release date tbc!

Always a delight to contribute to any of Jeff Lemire’s creations— we’ve been making comics in a similar vein for the past two decades, and it’s wonderful to see him carve out a space for his vision & creative sensibility to thrive.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 10d

Happy birthday Mike!

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 11d

TMNT commission!

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you Mike! ✨

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 11d

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god
- Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table
- Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone
- Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you so much! 🥰

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 12d

Magik commission— Illyana, ruler of Limbo. Shoutout to the little acorn from her origin story! ⚔️👹⚔️

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