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18 Nov, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Dear Brighton High students,
I live less than a mile from the high school where the school district is forcing librarians to remove books from shelves.

I own a little library. It will be stocked with every title the district is censoring. Stop by anytime.
ksl.com/article/502852…
@canyonsdistrict has an online submission form where you can let them know exactly what you think about the violation of their established policy in challenging books and hiding their censorship from the public.

canyonsdistrict.org/general-news/y…
Books being censored:
“The Bluest Eye" Toni Morrison
“Beyond Magenta" Susan Kuklin
“Monday's Not Coming" Tiffany Jackson
“Out of Darkness" Ashley Hope Perez
“The Opposite of Innocent" Sonya Sones
“Lawn Boy" Jonathan Evison
“Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
“Gender Queer" Maia Kobabe
I tell you what. If this doesn’t get resolved I will get hundreds of copies of these books & recruit high schoolers to leave them EVERYWHERE. In classrooms. In hallways. At bus stops.

We will paper this city with these books until you stop this fascist nonsense @canyonsdistrict
Lots of you have asked if you can send copies and I appreciate that. I have personally funded the first round out of sheer rage and will keep you posted. If they fly out of the library, I will set up an official fund.
For Brighton High students, our library looks like this. I’m sure you’ll recognize it if you’ve cruised around in the area.

If you’re still having trouble finding it, slide into my DMs.

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This morning we're asking what to do about the fact that so many Americans seem to be deeply entrenched in conspiracy theories.

As the pandemic took hold, QAnon seems to have infected more of the population. And the consequences may prove equally deadly.

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The good news is that crowd has been whittled down since the capitol riots.

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(3) The bad news it is still far too many people. And frankly, far too many Republicans. And they continue to be radicalized at an alarming rate.

The stunt in Dealey Plaza may have drawn plenty of jeers, but it's not an outlier.

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I was once at a concert with my 10 yr old son that I suspect was over capacity. We were being pushed from every direction & couldn’t breathe.

Then the lights went out and it was sheer pandemonium. I honestly wasn’t sure if we were going to make it out of there.
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He took us to a special section on the side stage that was reserved for security.
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This morning we're pondering what would need to happen to get rid of the filbuster.

If Dems could miraculously get Sinema and Manchin behind the effort, what are the steps to removing the filibuster?

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And given the ever-widening partisan divide, it's the source of a lot of gridlock in Washington.

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Currently the cloture rule doesn't apply to budget reconciliaton and nominations.

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Voting in my local elections is a frustrating exercise in figuring out which Republican isn’t QAnon that I can vote for. #RedStateProblems
Lots of replies don’t seem to understand what red states are like.
There are NO independents or Dems running in my local districts.

None. Zip. Nada.
The best use of my vote is to make sure extremists don’t get to hold office.
The funniest part is we moved to rank choice voting for some reason so I literally get to choose which flavor of Republican I find least objectionable on a weird gradient. Sigh.
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18 Oct
I’m seeing a lot of coverage of his fully vaccinated state without the context that Powell had multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells.

He would have been considered significantly immunocompromised.
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