Scott County Memories
Once, when I was living in Denver, my good friend Jon Pinnow became obsessed with the state of Kansas. . . . So we made plans to take a… More
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Introducing Higher Ed Autonomy Restrictions: a new tab on PEN America’s Index of Educational Gag Orders, our official tracker of all gag order bills introduced since 2021. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Tj5WQVBmB6SQg-zP_M8uZsQQGH09TxmBY73v23zpyr0/edit#gid=576660683
I was just live on CNN talking about the ban on Ruby Bridges at North Shore Elementary in dictator DeSantis’s Florida. She was over my shoulder the whole time.
"It's an overreaction but it's not surprising." "Ruby Bridges" screenwriter @toniannjohnson reacts to a parent complaining the film teaches racial slurs and calls for it not to be shown in younger students’ classrooms