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This “context” or “fact check” of my story is INACCURATE. All books in classroom libraries ARE BEING a REMOVED or made inaccessible because they have not been vetted by a librarian.

https://popular.info/p/florida-teachers-told-to-remove-books

Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution

Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other "unvetted" book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The new policy is part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

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Judd Legum Jan 23, 2023

.@[email protected] is a public supporter of Ron DeSantis and has repeatedly encouraged Twitter users to vote Republican.

Now his website is appending inaccurate information to my reporting to defend DeSantis’ policies.

It’s outrageous.

Judd Legum Jan 23, 2023

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Judd Legum Jan 23, 2023

This fact check by its own terms, is incoherent.

“All books are not being removed”

“Only unvetted books are being removed”

As of today, all books are unvetted!

The policy to have librarians get all books was just announced!

Judd Legum Jan 23, 2023

Here is a message sent to teachers at a Manatee high school TODAY: “Remove or cover all classroom libraries until all materials can be reviewed"

Why is Twitter telling it’s readers that all books aren’t being removed?

@[email protected]

Judd Legum Jan 23, 2023

The linked article does not support the claim of the fact check

Derek 🌈Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum why are people still using Twitter?

Michael Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Anybody else hearing echoes of Nazi Germany’s Jewish Laws?

TQdemocrat Jan 24, 2023

@MPgh @juddlegum I am hearing a rise Nazism racism homophobia and misogyny

Susan Carroll Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum
As a Manatee County resident I fear the public libraries are next and will face the wrath of DeSantis.

cowvin Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum Well, they aren't being removed... they might be covered instead? I don't know.

WriteOrDie Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Quite the syllogism there. I guess Logic isn't on offer either.

Dirk Hohndel Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum cross posting from Twitter isn't always a good choice…

Dave Marshall Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum By "this website," do you mean Twitter? I'm reading this post on Mastodon.

Francis Regan Jan 23, 2023

@dkmarsh @juddlegum Same. Going to unfollow Judd for a while until he stops cross-posting from the bad place

🍑 gwen 🍑Jan 23, 2023

@dkmarsh i'd say he's pretty clearly talking about twitter, within the context of the thread?
@juddlegum

Dave Marshall Jan 23, 2023

@Lustyjustice @juddlegum Yes, I’d say so. I’m just not sure why this particular horse is being flogged on Mastodon, where AFAICT, nobody’s adding inaccurate context to any toots.

Not every Twitter thread needs to be crossposted here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

🍑 gwen 🍑Jan 24, 2023

@dkmarsh i mean, i found it helpful bc i've been out of the loop on this issue, so it was informative for me :/
@juddlegum

Keith Ivey Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Please remember that you're posting on Mastodon too.

Hughster Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Which website?

jen.. ( she/her )Jan 23, 2023

you are saying mastodon is not reliable info ?? or you saying twitter?

mark Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum continued use of Twitter requires a survival coping strategy. The abuse is going to be there. You choose to be there and handle the abuse, or choose to not be there. I'm happily subscribed to your newsletter because I switched to a direct model of info instead of the Twitter feed, because I don't feel like constantly fighting and dealing with the abuse.

Chance Jan 24, 2023

@ATLeagle @juddlegum Elon would be upset to hear that you’re skirting the (unhealthy) debate, or what I call fake news. Good for you!

mark Jan 24, 2023

@Chanceux99 @juddlegum I'm so broken that I had to re-read this comment about 6 times to figure out you weren't being mean. I'm jumpy and have to remind myself that everyone here isn't flinging venom

#2RR - 2 Ruote di Resistenza Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum What about starting crossposting from "here" to "there" and not vice versa? Let's bring the discourse here!

nadin brzezinski Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum @adamjcook Musk is an oligarch. Once you look at him this way…it makes sense.

Adam Cook Jan 23, 2023

@Nadinabbott @juddlegum As a long-time critic of the industrial/public safety record of #Tesla in particular… I can assure you that excessive, intentionally misleading “wordsmithing” is in Musk’s DNA and in the DNA of his acolytes.

I am not at all surprised that so-called “Community Notes” have adopted this approach, directly or indirectly.

Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦Jan 23, 2023

@Nadinabbott @juddlegum @adamjcook Didn't used to be, back when he shunned politics. But now that he's gotten really political, he's basically the dictionary definition of an oligarch.

nadin brzezinski Jan 23, 2023

@nafnlaus @juddlegum @adamjcook yes, yes he is

William B. Turner Jan 23, 2023

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Jagat Jan 23, 2023

Please don't take this wrong, but it then begs the question "Why are you still there?"

@juddlegum You mean Ron DeFascist, right?

🌊Ann Morris🐕🍀🌎🌊🌊Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Why are you still on Twitter?

DeeplyAware Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum you’re on Twitter what do you expect. Like going into a bathroom and complaining that it stinks.

Wendy MsGator 🐊Jan 24, 2023

Leave. Twitter is over. You're just paying his bills now.

Free Speech Abolitionist Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum so fucking leave the Nazi site then. The longer big accounts like you stay on Twitter, the more power you give Musk

Jeff Roh Jan 24, 2023

Amanda Carson Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum But wait, I've been repeatedly assured that Twitter appending fact check messages and/or misinfo notices to tweets is sensorship! Evil sensorship, I tell you!

toxtethogrady Jan 27, 2023

@juddlegum I wonder if you can sue them and claim the label is false.

Marie Bell Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum stop using Twitter. Your tweets give it value.

Wayne55 Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum Didn’t a group of narcissists do the same thing in 1930’s Germany? And here I thought that smart people usually learn from their past mistakes humans made.

Tex Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum wild that Elon’s suppressing free speech on a tweet about suppressing free speech

Goappstate Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum the irony is Twitter’s all about freedom of speech.

Margarete Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum saw later posts by you so not sure how real this is, but keeping the populace stupid makes it far easier to govern

ophiocephalic 🐍Jan 23, 2023

@juddlegum
Amazing that:

- Fascist-controlled twitter censors and mangles the work of journalists

- Journalists remain on twitter, imparting it value and legitimacy

- Journalists complain ineffectually about this state of affairs on twitter

- Ineffectual complaints are automatically cross-posted from twitter to a free and open forum upon which journalism could thrive, where our responses will never even be noticed by journalist-complainant who remains on twitter

@juddlegum
😮 Shocking I tell you.

#BoycottTwitter

Yaktuary Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum "we aren't banning books, we're just asking you to remove them until a government agency decides whether or not to ban them"

AmberWavesoFlame Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum the fact check seems to be gone now. Apparently enough people voted it down?

Melissa Milford Jan 24, 2023

@juddlegum@journa. How is it OK to groom children to be right wing extremistS?