Susan DuFresne
@GetUpStandUp2
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Mixed Media Artist, Stencil Designer, Author, Illustrator, Retired Kindergarten Teacher, BLM, #VoteBlue💙 🌊🩵Block MAGAs + DMs from Weirdos
Washington State
Joined June 2011
Find me on BlueSky for a refreshing shift from Twitter. [I refuse to call this X‼️] #Follow #Followback #Followback4Blue #BlueCrew #UniteBlue #Resist #BlueskySocial #Bluesky 💙🌊🦋🗽❤️🩹🙏🏼.
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“When you are willing to be chained to a black woman in the front of the line, that is a measure of a man.” - Nina Turner . #NotMeUs #FeelTheBern #Bernie2020 #BernieInBrooklyn
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@nataliereed84 @CarinaHilbert I believed you AND wanted to read more. Thank you. I didn’t know this:. LGBTQ Institute in Germany Was Burned Down by Nazis | teenvogue
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I #LoveTeaching but I don't love an Education Secretary who wants to use public tax $s to "advance God's kingdom". @BetsyDeVosED
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Philando Castile’s Mom Presents $8,000 Donation To Help Clear Student Lunch Debts #PhilandoCastile #BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool cc: @JessedHagopian @shaunking #InstitutionalRacism.
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Today, @ShaunKing, introduced @BernieSanders at #BernieInBrooklyn, shared how Bernie is reluctant to highlight his personal story, his civil rights activism in Chicago. "It's his journey to this moment that makes me trust this man with our future." #NotMeUs #OurFuture #Bernie2020
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@ashishkjha Yes!! And the Navajo Nation. Many sovereign tribes are at nearly 100% vaccinated.
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"We don't have an educational problem. We have a societal inequality problem that politicians & privatizers dress up. " @johnkuhntx #WaLeg
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Why Plexiglass Barriers and Face Shields Are Dangerous — They give a false sense of security while drawing Covid-air towards the person trying to protect themselves. Scientific links in 🧵 below via @JimRosenthal4 @CorsIAQ @JoshuaCAgar + #CovidIsAirborne #tbats #Covid19Edu 🧵⤵️
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@AnandWrites I will likely have to work full time until I am in my 70’s, whereas my parents’ generation required one income to be middle class, had full pensions, Medicare, Social Security & could retire at age 62 comfortably. The wealth disparity discussion needs more focus on this. 3/3.
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“26 mil. people work from home at least part time & we think it’s being savvy. 3 million teachers have to do it during a pandemic & people want their pay cut since they think they’re not working. Teachers sure do put up w/a lot of crap just to educate our youth.” -@DrBradJohnson
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Educators: What do your classrooms look like for health & safety, ventilation, social distancing during #COVID19Edu? . This is my edu friend’s husband’s room. Those large windows do not open. He will have 5 classes of 30+ students, or 150+ per day in this tight space. #tbats
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@KatharineSmart America shouldn’t be sending unvaccinated kids #backtoschool. "Given everything we know about the Delta variant and long Covid in children, it is immoral to send unvaccinated kids, teachers, and staff into classrooms.” - @DataDrivenMD #ProtectOurKids
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@CarinaHilbert @nataliereed84 “Hirschfeld understood that LGBTQ people need research in order to better understand the ongoing struggles for liberation, & that research must come from within the community.” 1/2.
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Teachers, we must as a nation and profession, refuse to be armed. This is not a professional development that we are willing to participate in. #ArmMeWith ample funding and small class sizes, counselors and trauma therapists, behavior interventionists, healthy foods! #IRefuseGuns
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@kprather88 My nurse friend shows the correctly fit #N95 mask both on her face and the results after wearing it after her shift in a hospital in WA state. It has to fit tightly to be effective. She gave me permission to share these photos. See image 3 for more info: #COVIDisAirborne
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@DanRather America shouldn’t be sending unvaccinated kids #BacktoSchool! . “Given everything we know about the Delta variant and long Covid in children, it is immoral to send unvaccinated kids, teachers, and staff into classrooms.”— Dr Jorge A Caballero, M.D. #tbats
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix #BlackPanthersPBS
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We love you @BernieSanders! It's time to team up with #EduActivists for an #EdRevolution! cc: @SymoneDSanders
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@CarinaHilbert @nataliereed84 “The ability to dictate the terms of our own existence in the arenas of science & philosophy is vital to the path forward.” 2/2.
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“Things that don’t traumatize children: .- learning about systemic racism and teaching them about diversity .- wearing a mask .Things that do traumatize children: .- experiencing racism.- active shooter drills.- seeing someone they♥️get sick &/or die from Covid” @NicholasFerroni
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Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history @BadassTeachersA @DianeRavitch @AnthonyCody @KJeskey.
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Public health overrides a call for individual liberties. We have had vaccine mandates for children attending public school, traveling, the military and other situations for years. This has been politicized.
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@SecCardona “Things that don’t traumatize children: .- learning about systemic racism and teaching them about diversity .- wearing a mask .Things that do traumatize children: .- experiencing racism.- active shooter drills.- seeing someone they♥️get sick &/or die from Covid” @NicholasFerroni
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#whatif we promoted teachers thinking for themselves so they could teach kids to do the same? #revolt not #obey
http://t.co/G6cKlhQILv.
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@shaunking @BernieSanders Thank you to the Puyallup and Tulalip Tribes, along with all the BIPoC who came to the #TacomaDome to support #Bernie2020! Bernie & the people of Washington are in ♥️🌹#solidarity w/ #MMIW #MMIWG. #Bernie2020
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@BernieSanders When #DaddyLied the consequences were devastating to innocent civilians. They continue to be. @Liz_Cheney #NoOneCanTrustACheney #WMDs #IraqWar #PermanentWar.
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@NEAToday @JoeBiden Pulling my NEA PAC $. as are many friends. NEA had a chance to heal a divide within our union and instead forced another early endorsement. 🤦♀️ In the face of a pandemic that literally proves we need #MedicareForAll yet. Truly a poor move. All Joe has are Obama’s coattails.
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". everything that's made the world a better place. has come from people that choose love over hate." #LoveWins
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@_ericblanc @krystalball The only place you’re wrong Krystal is painting “older folks” as going with a moderate. I am an “older folk” and an educator and I am @BernieSanders all the way. Look at this crowd: #EducatorsForBernie #BoomersForBernie #AllAgesForBernie #Bernie2020.
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.@usedgov I would like to report #bullying. @realDonaldTrump meets all YOUR criteria. #StopBullying @lapham_katie
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@ShaunKing The humiliation you feel does not belong to you, nor your family. It belongs to the person/s who called and falsely reported lies. It also belongs to the agency/ies & individuals complicit who work for them that participate in maintaining #InstitutionalRacism.
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.@BernieSanders was welcomed by the @NEABATCaucus today. He loves our children. He loves our educators. He loves our public schools. He loves our laborers. Bernie loves unions. He loves our country. Bernie has changed the national conversation and.
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Only someone with something .to gain would want our elections .to be insecure. I have so much to gain!. #MoscowMitchMcTraitor . #MoscowMitch #MoscowMitchBillboards
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@TheStagmania @AMarch4OurLives @schoolwalkoutUS @DianeRavitch @BadassTeachersA @NRA @FedEx @Hertz @locktonaffinity Friends of the @nra “Industry Supprters” —> See here: #BoycottNRA and all affiliates!
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@dremilyportermd What has our world come to when we need assistance from strangers on Twitter to take care of patients in need of medical treatment? This is a failure of leadership in every way to throw away #publichealth like we have done. I hope you find help ❤️🩹 ASAP. #HCW, we support you.
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"Creativity is intelligence having fun." - Albert Einstein
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@PramilaJayapal @trekkerteach12 @BernieSanders I am tearing up with you! “We need more Latino teachers. We need more African American teachers.” This movement will win on #SuperTuesday! #NotMeUs #Bernie2020.
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@davidhogg111 “My friend just said ‘you saw how little they cared with adults dying- can you imagine how horrible it would be if a lot kids start dying from delta and basically no one cares’? All I could think was yeah, but I don’t have to imagine it.”.— @davidhogg111 #ProtectOurKids #tbats ❤️🩹
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Video shows officer pointing gun at kids during confrontation via @abc7chicago cc: @ShaunKing 🤨 #InstitutionalRacism.
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Teachers are creators. We are intellectuals. We don't need scripts & lockstep, nor do diverse urban children! #NPAF
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.@BadassTeachersA We, the undersigned, demand the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation divest from corporate ed reform http://t.co/PxT5eIsUiv.
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Public education should be kept at great distance from private militarization like Blackwater & pyramid schemes like Amway. #HoldTheFloor
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I wonder if @BetsyDeVosED is still waiting for someone to tell her what to do after she invited us to a #loveteaching chat? @BadassTeachersA
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@nataliereed84 Your tweet inspired this cisgender kindergarten educator, pronouns she/her, to do my homework tonight and research more about #TransHistory and #LGBTQIAHistory Thank you for the inspiration.
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@AnandWrites This boat, the #MorrisPearl is anchored in the Puget Sound just below my 770 square foot beach cabin - non waterfront - home. I am a 67 year old public school teacher with a middle class income that today requires 3 people in a family to work full time to make ends meet. 1/3
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#NotMyAbuela How many Abuelas'd close over 1/2 of our nation's public schools? @HillaryClinton would. #NotMyVote
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“Cancelling these loans will greatly stimulate the economy. Analysts estimate that cancelling student loans will ⬆️ GDP by over $100 billion for the next 10 years, but they don't account for increased borrowing that will enable people to buy homes, start businesses, etc.”.
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My husband and I are both Boomers - our son is 25 - a #Millennial. We all three voted for @BernieSanders in the #WAPrimary! #BernieSanders #Bernie2020 #2020election #BoomersForBernie #MillenialsForBernie #NotMeUs #EducatorsForBernie #FamiliesForBernie
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"Our schools are being starved into failure in order to justify mass privatization." - Timothy Meegan #ESEA #NOonHR5
http://t.co/cwXMrzodi7.
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“What we are witnessing across the world with basically the forced infection of children with a virus of unknown future consequences, with a vaccine already available and waiting approval, may go down as 1 of the greatest mistakes in the history of public health.”.@denise_dewald
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@emilyfavreau @teka21bat @IvankaTrump Is that staged from an old #TheApprentice show? #YourDadIsASuperspreader He just took the men and women who protect his life daily for granted, putting them at risk for a silly #FakeStrongman #PublicityStunt. We hope he survives long enough to see you all at Rikers.
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@cameron_kasky @ChristaAllan “But anyone who has ever tried to argue with adolescents knows that in the end they will have a thousand times more energy for that fight than you and a bottomless reservoir of moral rage that you burned out long ago.”
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.@NRA is being supported by these companies via @thinkprogress #BoycottNRA #BoycottVisa #BoycottFedEx #BoycottHertz @visa @hertz @MetLife @Avis @TrueCar @NortonOnline @Budget @Alamo @SimpliSafe @enterprisecares @Budget #Enough #NeverAgain #GunControlNow
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“My wife just pointed out the frustrating irony (or hypocrisy) of a school culture that publicly champions #STEM learning & opportunities while ignoring the health & safety measures that come through the very scientific, engineering, & medical advancements they aim to inspire.”
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@PramilaJayapal @NaomiAKlein @BernieSanders @ewarren I am a @BernieSanders, AND @ewarren did what NEEDED to be done last night and did it WELL. Congratulations, Liz! #Bernie2020 #NeverBloomberg #DemDebate.
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“In the Oklahoma primaries, the Republicans who voted against teachers were mostly beaten or forced into run offs. 50 teacher candidates advanced to the election. This is a stinking big deal.” - @MSGunderson #RedForEd #Janus #UnionStrong #1U #oklaed
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School failure is the biggest lie of all. School starvation to justify privatization is truth. http://t.co/uNfy6Pb3Pj
#ESEA #EqualFunding.
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“Load teachers’ classrooms 2 the max. Judge them by scores on invalid tests. Weaken their bargaining rights. Blame them 4, oh, just about everything. Make them 1 of the most depressed & over-stressed groups of people in the country. Give them guns. U see the problem.” #Enough
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@DianeRavitch If billionaires really wanted equality they'd have vision 4 class size of 12, arts, no emphasis on stand. testing. #NPE17CA.
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Teachers, we must as a nation and profession, refuse to be armed. This is not a professional development that we are willing to participate in. #ArmMeWith ample funding and small class sizes, counselors and trauma therapists, behavior interventionists, healthy foods! #IRefuseGuns
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Replacing the words “the economy” with “rich people’s yacht money”… . How can we forgive all student debt without sacrificing rich peoples’ yacht money? . #richpeoplesyachtmoney #CancelStudentDebtNow #CancelStudentDebt #MedicareForAll
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@TheHipsterRebbe @ninaturner @briebriejoy For ALL of us cheering Elizabeth Warren on for deftly and brilliantly attacking #Bloomberg in the #DemDebate last night - including me - consider that these deftly brilliant WoC were attacked for doing the exact same thing:. #NinaTurner #BriahanaJoyGray #DemDebate #BernieBros
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The Open Space on #Vashon is packed for the #DemCaucus #WAcaucus! #FeelTheBern #NotMeUs #ByThePeople #ForThePeople
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Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery & apartheid, it is man-made & can b removed by the actions of human beings.
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@ShaunKing I painted Emmitt Till last summer ad part of a 4’ x 45’ banner -The History of Institutional Racism in U.S. Public Schools. As an artist and educator, I noted how his eyes showed his innocence, intelligence, kindness, and curiosity. Such lost potential. #InstitutionalRacism
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@CBSNews @KidsNotMarkets Tell the rest of the story in your tweet: "I would respect what they are doing so that you don't get shot in the back of the head, but I would also be very mindful of the fact that as a nation, we have got to hold police officers accountable for the actions that they commit,".
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‘The teacher walkouts have already been going on for the last decade - we've just been calling them a “teacher shortage”’ - @palan57 #TBATs #TeacherStrikes #TeachersRising #OklahomaTeachersWalkout #oklaed #KYed #AZed #WVed
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@InsideEdition We have a #covidkitten. By that I mean we have been home almost all the time as she grew up. She is almost one year old, and was with us while I taught remotely. She is highly anxious when we leave home & sleeps on my pillow every night, has to be touching me. #CatsOfTwitter
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@DeansFineArt @marlene4719 Original work credit to @PaulleyTicks . I simply “painted” and “framed” it based on your title suggestion, #TheLastDump. 😹😹😹 There are quite the posts in “Pray for Trump”. Worth a peek! 🫣😹
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@cmkshama #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool because she truly understands Seattle needs housing, not a bigger police dept!
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“Delta continues to spike in children with no hint of slowing down. It’s all dry wood under age 12, and we knowingly put a match to it.”. — Dr. Denise Dewald, M.D. @denise_dewald .#COVID19Edu #CovidChildren #PublicHealth . #tbats cc: @POTUS @CDCDirector
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BREAKING NEWS: Seattle Teachers Vote UNANIMOUSLY to Strike! http://t.co/jEemH8Gcbr via @dianeravitch #SEAofRED
http://t.co/7K6urE2A7u.
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#whatif kindergarten children got to spend 90 minute blocks in the forest instead of 90 minute reading blocks? http://t.co/BhwoaWfJeX.
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@brothajitu "Trump didn't sell NJ kids down the river. Cory Booker did. We must transform the left to truly be on the left." #NPE17CA.
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#SeaEdSummit The future of Seattle public schools r at risk if we allow @MayorEdMurray to #BeLikeRahm! @DianeRavitch
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Charter schools put public dollars into private pockets. It’s simple in my view, if you need 2talk profits around educating our children. then you r morally corrupt, & should not be anywhere near our children, our public schools.-Jesse Turner #WeChoose #StoptheSchoolChoiceScam
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@DrBradJohnson Yes we do! Our state district just ADDED to our workloads. Many educators have families - caring & responsible for educating their own kids too - & many parents are still having to work. Parents say they’re overwhelmed. And students, omg! This is what some are saying: #COVID19
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Congratulations @brothajitu! Jitu Brown, .2018 NEA .Human and Civil Rights .Rosa Parks Memorial .Award Recipient . “The greatest weakness of any oppressor is that they always underestimate the .power of the oppressed.” - Jitu Brown #NEARA18 #NEAHCR2018 #EdJustice18 #TBATs
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@MarshallProj And a heavy dose of antiracism! Generational trauma from that shit is real for these folks, many of whom should not even be incarcerated in the 1st place.
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@PrezLives2022 There’s more we can do. We can organize and starve GOP supporting businesses. Using the Goods Unite Us app, which is free. Blue states can create real havoc for these companies in their states. Consumers can as well. And we can withhold our labor. If done as a group-powerful!
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.@facebook deleted 2 of my pages, entitled @EmperorBill [last year] and @EducatingGatesF [#WeChooseWeek]. Voltaire had something to say about that. Could it be that I posted #StoptheSchoolChoiceScam? #WeChoose #Dissent @democracynow #WeWillNotBeSilenced #TBATs
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Educators, please teach the meaning of these words to your children when you return to your classrooms in January. Read more here: #CDCBan #Teachers4Science #Science4Justice #NotMyScience #LGBTQ #WomensRights #WomensMarch #TBATs #CDC #Resist
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