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June 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Oct 1
Ask your state and federal legislators to codify the freedom to read into law.

Let them know we will not accept blatant viewpoint discrimination in our publicly-funded libraries and schools under the guise of “government speech.”

Libraries belong to the people.
October 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Mar 27
Please call or email the Florida Senators in the PreK-12 Education Committee ahead of their 4pm meeting on 3/31/25.

Tell them to vote “NO” on SB 1692!

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CALL TO ACTION: SB 1692 IS HEADING TO COMMITTEE CONTACT SENATORS ON THE PREK-12 EDUCATION COMMITTEE 1. GO TO FLSENATE.GOV. 2. FIND THE PREK-12 EDUCATION COMMITTEE. 3. CLICK ON A COMMITTEE MEMBER'S NAME. 4. CLICK "EMAIL THE SENATOR" OR CALL THE OFFICE. 5. TELL THEM TO OPPOSE SB 1692. EXPLAIN IT WOULD FORCE THE CENSORSHIP OF PROTECTED SPEECH IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO CONSIDER WORKS AS A WHOLE FOR LITERARY, ARTISTIC, SCIENTIFIC, OR POLITICAL VALUE. 6. REPEAT FOR ALL MEMBERS. 7. SHARE THIS CALL TO PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ WITH FELLOW FLORIDIANS BEFORE 3/31/25.
March 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Jul 29
For more context, here is the lawsuit the amicus brief is responding to:
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“It is essential in public education that students be exposed to a variety of viewpoints and ideas that broaden their understanding of the world around them.”
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT South Carolina public school employees and parents of students in South Carolina public schools file this action to challenge the budget proviso labeled "SDE: Partisanship Curriculum" in section 1.79 of the 2024-2025 South Carolina Appropriations Bill, ' as well as identical versions of the proviso included in South Carolina budgets enacted in 2021, 2022, and 2023* (collectively, "Budget Proviso"). Education is crucial to the well-being of our democracy. It ensures that individuals develop the necessary skills and knowledge to be productive in the workforce, promotes social mobility by positioning citizens to contribute meaningfully to society, and provides the next generation with the critical thinking skills necessary to participate in a government of, by, and for the people. A free and diverse classroom, in turn, is the backbone of a quality education. It is essential in public education that students be exposed to a variety of viewpoints and ideas that broaden their understanding of the world around them. The ability to explore and openly question one's assumptions challenges students to think critically about their beliefs. Any attempt to suppress certain ideas or information must be rejected as harming students' ability to think independently and engage meaningfully in constructive debate.
July 29, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Same Vicki…

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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 10d
Here’s one that wasn’t on the “informal objections” spreadsheet, but when we looked at the catalogs of all K5 schools in the district, the book could not be found.

Is this what the state leaders meant by working with districts “offline” to remove “inappropriate” books? A picture book autobiography?
A screenshot of an email from Vicki Baggett to Santa Rosa leaders and includes Member Foganholi as a recipient. The email names “Sharice’s Big Voice” (an autobiographical picture book about Sharice David becoming the first Native American woman in Congress and the first lesbian representative from Kansas) among two others that were tracked as removed and restricted from certain schools/grades as a result of this informal objection.
September 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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News from Desantisstan. The Commissariat for Popular Enlightenment continues to work on its program for he indoctrination of junior cadres of the Florida GOP. bsky.app/profile/flfr...
flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Oct 22
Florida’s Social Studies standards are getting another update next month.

No, those terrible African American History standards will stay, but there’s a huge update to our Anti-Communism education.

This is just one page.
FLORIDA'S STATE ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR SOCIAL STUDIES SS.912.HC.9.3 Describe the emergence of modern Marxist thought in education and media. Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes the influence of the Frankfurt School on the modern education system (c.g. Critical Theory). Clarification 2: Instruction includes Antonio Gramsci, Paulo Freire and Howard Zinn and their work (e.g., the oppressor vs. oppressed dichotomy, historical revisionism). Clarification 3: Instruction includes the repackaging of Marxist ideology using modern terminology and concepts to disguise the underlying Marxism (e.g., Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States as a recasting of William Z. Foster's history books, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me). Clarification 4: Instruction includes the dangers of pro-communist propaganda in entertainment and media industries. SS.912,HC.9,4 Identify propaganda and defamation utilized to delegitimize anti-communists and anti-communist movements. Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes campaigns to shut down the House Committee on Un-American Activities by communists and communist sympathizers, including protests in San Francisco in 1960 to. disrupt the meeting. Clarification 2: Instruction includes a change in policy by President John F. Kennedy's administration, forbidding explicitly anti-communist speeches in the military. Clarification 3: Instruction includes using "McCarthyism" as an insult and shorthand for all anti-communism. Clarification 4: Instruction includes slander against anti-communists, such as red-baiter and Red Scare.
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Far Left and Far Right: Biden was obviously suffering from dementia.

Everyone else: And Trump?

FLFR: Never heard of him.
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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🍦New updated date! 🍦

Get your dose of FLFR & catch us this Sunday at 5pm EST for the games! 🤍🤎🩷

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January 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Floofs & Frequencies (@coppertfox.bsky.social) x Interlopr for @lirodon.bsky.social's birthday!

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January 28, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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January 25, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Da's het beste dat ik voorlopig kan vinden.
(Verwacht er niet te veel van.)
Aankomst rond 3h41min.

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February 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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The view from inside a Fort Lauderdale Fire Department engine as it rolls past the crowd celebrating the Florida Panthers' 2nd Stanley Cup at the iconic Elbo Room.

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June 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Jun 3
Last night, Hillsborough County Public Schools held its first school board meeting since letters from state officials ordered books off shelves.

Two parents made particularly poignant statements that must be heard.

You can watch the whole meeting here: www.hillsboroughschools.org/Page/6365
June 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Jun 3
Last night, Hillsborough County Public Schools held its first school board meeting since letters from state officials ordered books off shelves.

Two parents made particularly poignant statements that must be heard.

You can watch the whole meeting here: www.hillsboroughschools.org/Page/6365
June 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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November 25, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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It's time for our annual winter meet! Get ready for snacin' and craftin'!
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January 21, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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Turns out that downtown NPR is a great place to host meets! We're going to host another meet here shortly!

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September 15, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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In 2004 Bill Buckley wrote a trollish piece calling Langston Hughes a communist. It was reprinted in the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade's newsletter.
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Langston Hughes' "Goodbye Christ" by William F. Buckley, Jr. John Kerry has been in search of a line or two of American poetry to suggest the challenge ahead. His staff finally came up with what they were looking for. According to Kathleen Hall Jamieson, "an expert on political messages" quoted by the New York Times, the line the Kerry campaign was searching for had to have resonance with Americans who believe the country is being taken in the wrong direction. As Ms. Jamieson analyzes the line, "It suggests someone's hijacked the country, without being a frontal attack." The line was first tried out by Kerry in Topeka on the 50* anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and it seemed to glimmer on the candidate's lips, auguring a robust future. The line is, "Let America be America again." That phrase has something going for it. It was written by an American Negro poet, Langston Hughes (1902-1967). It is thought, in Kerryland, to be at once celebratory, poignant, and galvanizing. But research on the phrase is not enjoined for the community that will sing it forth. The reason is that Langston Hughes wrote the poem "Let America Be America Again" in 1938, and it is not easy to summon to mind which America he was calling on his countrymen to restore. There was little about America for the American Negro to celebrate in 1938 unless you are willing to accept the proposition of George Washington Carver. Mr. Carver, scientist and philosopher, the son of a slave, said that American blacks had this to celebrate: that they had been plucked from African forests, brought to America, and baptized into the liberating faith of Christianity, which was the springboard for their emancipation. But Carver is not widely hailed by black Democratic progressives, the judgment on him being that he was too submissive to a culture that still practiced Jim Crow. Langston Hughes, if he is to emerge as the poet of the Democratic party, will have to be bowdlerized. "Let America 5 THE SCHWARZ REPORT / AUGUST 2004 be America again" is a line from one poem Hughes wrote, America should travel: and its vagueness is useful. But Hughes was not vague. And Goodbye, Christ Jesus Lord God Jehovah, Beat it on away from here now. Listen, Christ, Make way for a new guy with no religion at all You did alright in your day, A real guy named I reckon- Marx Communist Lenin Peasant But that day's gone now. Stalin Worker ME. They ghosted you up a swell Story, too, Called it Bible But it's dead now. That exegesis of Langston Hughes would puzzle Democratic delegates in Boston in July, vibrant with life and mis-sion. And it wasn't just that Hughes had had a one-night stand with skepticism. No, Hughes had a very specific view about history and on the question of which historical road Langston Hughes was asking America to "be America again," meaning, not an America that history had known and chronicled, but an America realizable in a new and different vision. The land of Marx and Lenin and Stalin. Mr. Kerry's campaign team is going to have serious homework to do before introducing Langston Hughes as the poet laureate of the Democratic party in 2004. —National Review, June 28, 2004, p. 54, 55
October 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Firefighters save dog from burning apartment in Fort Lauderdale (Courtesy: FLFR)

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Firefighters save dog from burning apartment in Fort Lauderdale (Courtesy: FLFR)
A dog is safe after firefighters rescued her from a smoke-filled apartment during a fire in Fort Lauderdale Wednesday morning.READ MORE HERE:LOCAL 10 ON SOCI...
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October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Here’s an example of a lesson created by the Lou Frey Institute at UCF to comply with the Civics standard 7.1.1

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flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Nov 15
If you’re a parent of a student in Florida that has not yet completed seventh grade Civics, and you value the separation of church and state, you may want to review the approved lesson on the influences of the “Judeo-Christian tradition” on our rule of law:

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SS 7 CG 1 1 BC 3 BC 4 Part II Analyze the influences of ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the Judeo C
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January 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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And all when hardly any parents are restricting library services (which we already knew, because parents have ALWAYS had the option to opt out of library services) as usual, the GOP are wasting our money on something NOBODY wanted (because they hate democracy): bsky.app/profile/flfr...
flfreedomread.bsky.social Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Oct 15
Update: Even fewer restrictions

We had to update this graphic because of a miscalculation based on an average instead of actual.

Out of approximately 174,500 students, there were only 38 with parental restrictions. That’s far lower than the number you get when using the 0.01% average.
October 17, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Fort Lauderdale city commissioners approved a Whole Blood Exchange Program, allowing paramedics to administer life-saving blood transfusions to trauma patients in the ambulance before reaching the hospital, with the program set to launch by March.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM