🌊Cyndia BLUE
Feb 1, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Another recommended reading list courtesy of the Texas Taliban. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/t…
TX wants to ban "White Bird," a graphic novel about a Jewish teen living in France after Nazis seized power, because it's "biased" & could lead to the "skewing of a young child's mind."

"Biased" against Nazis and genocide.
"New Kid," a graphic novel about a Black seventh grader at a mostly white school, must be banned because it is "about critical race theory, which is forbidden by Texas law."
"Woke" is dangerous because a dad in a Dallas suburb says these poems by women of color on topics relating to social justice, activism & discrimination promote "terrorism."

Poems to raise awareness on injustice is "terrorism," but storming the capitol to scare senators is not.
A parent suggests replacing "How to be an Anti-Racist" with the Bible, a book that condones slavery.
An Eanes parent wants to ban "A Good Kind of Trouble, a novel about a 12-year-old girl who gets involved in the Black Lives Matter movement, because it might cause a white child to feel "confusion or distress."
"We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, an illustrated collection of poems and essays about overcoming prejudice & racism shouldn't be allowed in schools, an Eanes parent wrote, because it "promotes discrimination."

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Jul 6, 2023
Happy thread:

Reflecting on the random people in my 55 years who live in my memory forever for their routine kindnesses:

1) The elderly lady in my working-class Baltimore neighborhood whose entire tiny row house yard was flowers - every inch. No grass. She'd lean over her...
...chainlink fence when you - a complete stranger - walked by & offer a bouquet of flowers. I was a child & never knew her name, but still see her beaming face & her glorious garden decades later. My sister remembers her too. We both started gardens this year, thinking of her.
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If you think masks or learning about racism is traumatizing, try training to hide from a school shooter.

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It's a type of dream hallucination you experience as you fall asleep, often associated with sleep paralysis.
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If we do this, then I’m changing my stance on the wall.
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You are in the party of hate. Just look around you at your next Trump rally. Your fellow Republicans are now sporting swastika tattoos & carrying Confederate flags. You know what that stands for & it sure as hell isn’t “state’s rights” or “history.”
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Can he show classified docs to anyone? What if he decides to share w/ Putin?
What if we were to discover he shared classified info w/ Putin or MBS & received payment for it? Would that be under his presidential authority?

It's likely Kushner gave MBS classified intel to help him consolidate power even tho our intel says that was against US interests.
Then Kushner got 12 billion from the Saudis to invest for them. Tell me, PLEASE, that this is a crime because if this is covered by presidential authority, then we are more corrupt than all the countries we attack as corrupt.
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