"The day the book banners lost in #Pennsylvania's culture wars

A right-wing move to keep a young-adult climate change novel out of a Kutztown, Pa., middle school backfired in spectacular fashion.

The rise of book banning is a wake-up call about rising American fascism, but there's also good news in the way so many communities -- and so many teens -- are fighting back"
#Books

If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/book-banning-kutztown-climate-change-20230416.html#loaded

The GOP has yet to realize that running on an anti-abortion, pro-gun, anti-vaccine, pro book ban, anti-trans, pro-Russia platform isn’t going to win over new voters. It’s going to bring ruin upon their party.

And they will have deserved it.

When you have lost NPR, the most benign and fair member-funded news organization in the USA, you know you are making bad choices. Get off Twitter; save Tesla.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

BREAKING:
Billionaire Harlan Crow Bought Property From Clarence Thomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal.
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The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice.

The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

#ClarenceThomas #HarlanCrow #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #RealEstate #Savannah #Georgia

https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Texas judge’s abortion pill decision cites research based on anonymous blog posts, cherry picks stats that exaggerate the negative physical & psychological effects of mifepristone & ignores hundreds of scientific studies attesting to the drug’s safety.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/04/13/abortion-pill-safety/

How a news organization can respond to Twitter, rather than continue to pour resources, free content and ad dollars into it after their reporter gets banned

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label