GUSD Parents

GUSD Parents

@gusdforall.bsky.social

Public education is for everyone. We provide facts and resources to empower parents and guardians to advocate and support public education. https://linktr.ee/gusdparentsforpublicschools

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Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

One thing people don’t get with the “sports issue” is it is MADE UP WHOLE CLOTH by the SAME BILLIONAIRE FUNDED ORGS WHO FOUGHT TO ROLL BACK ROE V WADE and would like to overturn Brown V. board. They have gay marriage in their sights and speak openly about it. The media has completely ignored this!

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They use the same tactics as anti-abortion protestors (INCLUDING BOMB THREATS AGAINST CLINICS) and deploy operatives like candidate for state superintendent Sonia Shaw and paid activist Sophia Lorey to stalk and torment teenagers at their sporting events. The content they film winds up on Fox News.

Google Glendale school board riot. That violent spectacle was the explosion point of nearly 3 years of a tiny group of reactionaries filming their school board meeting public comments for amplification by the right’s viral media networks- everything from libsoftiktok to the daily wire to Fox News.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social

attracting media attention with "stunts" was literally the entire core of the civil rights movement. visuals of cops and other officials harassing, beating, killing organizers was pivotal. the civil rights movement would have gone wild for selfies and tweets.

That theater, all those “concerned parents” nationwide showing up to give impassioned speeches with the same talking points: “gender ideology!” “Inappropriate books” “teachers keeping secrets”— manufactured the illusion of a movement, propped up by billionaire $ via Heritage, TPUSA, Moms 4 Liberty

Just to showcase that the right LEARNED from their opposition and exploited new media and tech to create a hateful inverse of the civil rights movement. Spectacle designed not to shock the conscience but to trigger bias and bigotry and weaponize it in the project of undoing civil rights advances.

Protect the kids! Not from discrimination or campus sexual assault though apparently!

Jennifer Smith Richards@jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Trump's Office for Civil Rights stopped making pending school discrimination investigations public. So @propublica.org sued for the case data, and now we've made it available to all. www.propublica.org/article/civi...

Folks must read @kkdumez.bsky.social ‘s new Live Laugh Love on women of the Christian right, & of course her essential Jesus and John Wayne- key to understanding christian supremacy in the US (& check Allie Beth Stuckey’s pastel fascist Instagram to see how many “Christians” you know follow her).

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Elon Musk is a liar and, enabled by our tax dollars, responsible for the deaths of countless children. He is trying to buy our elections and end democracy. His assets should be seized and he should face trial at the ICC at the absolute minimum.

CNN@cnn.com

Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ

This is always where the anti-CRT panic was leading and we’ve been shouting it from the rooftops for years. The reactionary right has been organizing to re-implement state sanctioned segregation since Brown v Board and it would be nice if the media and liberal institutions would act like it.

Mike Sacks@mikesacks.bsky.social

SCOTUS making its first move to go after race-neutral high school admissions standards:

Meanwhile, according to an @trevorproject.bsky.social survey “14% of LGBTQ youth reported sleeping away from parents or caregivers because they were kicked out or abandoned due to their LGBTQ identity.” Anyone at the Wall Street Journal or NYT interviewing those kids???

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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Yes. The conservative scheme for education is a three-way split: high-priced academies for the children of the wealthy, religious instruction to brainwash the middle class, and a rump of prison-like public schools to discipline the lower class into obedience.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

the other thing is that conservatives resolutely do not see the purpose of education as providing social mobility but as reifying and deepening existing inequalities of status. they are as hostile to low income students getting admission to elite institutions as they are black ones.

An extension of the fight for “parental rights”- these are moral panics founded on the desperate demand for hierarchies of control & conformity. These parents see children as property they insist on forcing into strict binaries and submissive roles.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

Having advanced& laundered the narrative of “parental rights”— & led the charge w/ “just asking questions” pieces designed to erode support for LGBTQ+ kids— the same publications push fearmongering abt the logical end of parental authoritarianism— kids who reject those parents as soon as possible.

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Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

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ultimately it's shit like this that makes the decline of birth rates and resulting demographic skewing towards old people self-reinforcing. Greedy, wealthy retired people voting to destroy the funding for public services they relied on throughout their life now that they no longer need them

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

Inadequate property taxes are how you get the housing shortage, defunded schools, and the homelessness crisis of California. Prop 13 came out of its own astroturfed “taxpayer revolt”- we know what happens. The wealthy will privatize everything from schools to fire departments while the masses suffer

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

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Democrats need to be ready to hold hearings and inquiries into the assault that Musk, Zuckerberg and other tech bros are making against democratic institutions at home and abroad.

Anyone still on Facebook sees meta’s ideological alignment pushed daily- locally, despite one’s own liberal/left posting folks report seeing content from right wing media, hyping Sonja Shaw & Steve Hilton and even explicitly Nazi content- like this Camp of the Saints promo 1 local parent was served

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Common Dreams@commondreams.org

After another shooting and the raid on Ilhan Omar's home, Rep. Delia Ramirez says abolishing ICE isn't enough. She has introduced a bill to "dismantle" the entire Department of Homeland Security.

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Replying to @skyspider.bsky.social

Sonja Shaw asks the State of California to “ Sue me” over her forced outing policy at Chino Valley USD. It’s not Sonja who pays the bills. Her culture war stunts have cost the district over a million dollars.

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Candidate for state superintendent of education, Sonia, Shaw and candidate for state Attorney General Michael Gates did a press conference outside CIF board meeting at LAX Renaissance hotel. For gates, California is in crisis because of trans children it’s lawless anarchy. 🤡

Ossoff demonstrates the only way Dems should be talking about the Nazi infiltrated Republican Party . No “reaching across the aisle” to insurrectionists and white supremacists. If Karl Rove can speak clearly about current stakes every member of the “opposition” party should do it easily.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

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Replying to @prideatthepier.bsky.social

Come to the PATP press conference, stay for public comment. Tell the California Interscholastic Federation to follow the law and defend inclusive policies! 📅 : October 9th, 2026 📍: Renaissance LAX Hotel (9620 Airport Blvd, Los Angeles) 🕒 : 8:15 AM - Press Conference 10:00 AM - CIF Public Comment

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This one matters if you're available. 🙏🏻💖🏳️‍⚧️

CALL TO ACTION 🏳️‍⚧️ There’s an organized effort to attack the inclusion of the LGBTQ community in CA sport. Join Pride at the Pier at the Renaissance LAX Hotel on Oct 9 to show that CA supports ALL students athletes. Michael Gates and Sonja Shaw are promoting their attacks here - we have to speak up

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Of all the options on your ballots, Richard Barrera for State Superintendent of Public Instruction is who will keep your, our, all kids safe and represented. His MAGA opponent's only achievement is shrill, anti queer/trans rhetoric and attacking trans student athletes. Kids. Keep 'em safe 💖

GUSD Parents@gusdforall.bsky.social

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I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

Chris Rufo invented the moral panic about “CRT” to push increasingly segregationist aims amidst reactionary (mostly) white parents and his entire career is attempting to legitimize and launder anti-democratic illiberal goals.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers