Paul Gordon

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Tony Award-nominated composer of JANE EYRE. Jeff Award for SENSE AND SENSIBILITY. Ovation Award for DADDY LONG LEGS. Co-founder of StreamingMusicals.com. Paulgordonmusic.com
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Blisteringly funny list of what shows may or may not be censored and why. But then maybe not so funny.

Opinion | Why your school board will object to your high school musical
#theatre #censorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/04/alexandra-petri-school-board-object-high-school-musical/

Why your school board will object to your high school musical

Just when you thought you had your finger on all the things subjected to unwelcome censorship, another pops up. This time, it’s high school theater.

The Washington Post

Ted Cruz didn't want the voters to decide.
Ted Cruz didn't want the House to decide.
Ted Cruz didn't want the Electoral College to decide.

Ted Cruz wanted a made-up "commission" to decide who the president would be.

@[email protected]:The reality of the “parents’ rights” movement is that it is meant to empower a conservative and reactionary minority of parents to dictate education and curriculums to the rest of the community. It is, in essence, an institutionalization of the heckler’s veto, in which a single parent — or any individual, really — can remove hundreds of books or shut down lessons on the basis of the political discomfort they feel. “Parents’ rights,” in other words, is when some parents have the right to dominate all the others. - Jamelle Bouie
The reality of the “parents’ rights” movement is that it is meant t...

The reality of the “parents’ rights” movement is that it is meant to empower a conservative and reactionary minority of parents to dictate education and curriculums to the rest of the community. It is, in essence, an institutionalization of the heckler’s veto, in which a single parent — or any individual, really — can remove hundreds of books or shut down lessons on the basis of the political discomfort they feel. “Parents’ rights,” in other words, is when some parents have the right to dominate all the others. - Jamelle Bouie

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The GOP. Saving our children by banning books and drag queens while protecting the rights of guns.
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My hero, Jamie Raskin: "It's amazing to me to see politicians who defend assault weapons after the massacres at Columbine, after Parkland, after Sandy Hook, after Uvalde, after Santa Fe, that they are going to keep America's children safe by banning The Handmaid’s Tale and 1984."

Said more Republicans should be “reading books and fewer should be censoring books.”

Reflecting on the start of the Iraq War 20 years later. I cannot overstate how appallingly one-sided the news coverage was in the US during the buildup to the invasion.