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Met with displaced teachers yesterday in Drohobych, outside Lviv. The stories are harrowing..teaching in occupied regions in basements, and keeping their voices low to avoid their Ukrainian being overheard by Russian troops who were not beyond torturing & killing civilians.

🚨Recent polls show that Charlie and I are statistically tied with Ron DeSantis! We are ready to defeat authoritarianism and make wannabe dictator DeSantis a one-term Governor. Can you please help spread our message by retweeting, following, and getting me to 35k?

@Florida_Today @VoteRandyFine @EricRogersFT He also verbally attacks women. Not sure "attack dog" is an admirable quality here.

Embracing his role as a fierce attack dog for DeSantis, Florida lawmaker Randy Fine picks a fight with Disney floridatoday.com/story/news/pol… @EricRogersFT

@MetaThor4 @AnnaForFlorida Sources?

@AnnaForFlorida But don’t look so hard that you see Anna is paid in dark money that likely comes from one of those billionaires 🤣

Now is a good time to look up the word “plutocracy” if you haven’t yet 😵‍💫

@SBrandowsky @AnnaForFlorida How is he helping humanity by buying Twitter?

@msbsullivann @AnnaForFlorida Having an opinion about a law isn't interfering with the business of legislature. 🙄

@AnnaForFlorida Referring to Disney trying to interfer in the business of the legislature?

@nathaliejacoby1 Me!

@DrFaithMiller @kcherman6 Grit drives me nuts. Define it for me, please. Then go to some of my Title 1 schools and tell me those don't have more grit than most adults.

@kcherman6 Yes! “Grit” and “growth mindset” have a similar flavor to me!

Unpopular take …”intrinsic” motivation is a perfect complement to pull yourself by your bootstraps thinking. If you are unsuccessful it’s because you didn’t want it hard enough or for the right reasons.

@CarlosGSmith @GovRonDeSantis Free as long as it aligns with his "values".

Floridians are ‘free’ to do as their told by @GovRonDeSantis. sun-sentinel.com/opinion/letter…

When your $100 annual raise hits your paycheck….

@BBDollFal @AnnaForFlorida We would love to have you down here to help us enact change, not all of Florida is small minded.

#DontSayGay bill passes the Florida House, but not without some Republicans voting NO with us. See the final vote below for the bipartisan opposition 👇

@RetrogradeRight @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith Kids talk to educators about these things. Just because you didn't doesn't mean that's the norm. Again, we don't want to teach them anything, we just don't want to be forced to "out" kids to parents who will beat them. It's not too much to ask.

@SPosey_SSP @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith I don't recall discussing my crush with the classroom or teacher for that matter.

“#DontSayGay singles our community out as a prohibited topic, as taboo, and as dangerous.” “Acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people is ALWAYS age- appropriate! Censoring it, banning it or telling schools they can’t #SayGay or can’t #SayTrans means we’re slowly being erased.”

@JohnJNJ1 @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith Definitely is! But legislators want to make that taboo somehow.

@SPosey_SSP @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith Fourth grade for me. I believe that is still considered elementary school.

@sambajennifer @lunam62 @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith When did you have your first crush? We don't want to "teach" anything, we simply want school to be a safe and accepting environment for feelings kids are already having.

@SPosey_SSP @lunam62 @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith Absolutely. It’s biology. Penis in vagina makes baby. What they want to teach will not produce a baby thus has no scientific reason to teach about. Lifestyle choices are individual and shouldn’t be involved in curriculum. Focus on math and communications.

@sambajennifer @lunam62 @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith You realize the baby making discussion happens in 5th grade in health class, right?

@lunam62 @ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith What do periods have to do with talking about sexual preferences in school? Traditional biology explains that. Why do teachers need to explain sexuality to children? Leave that conversation to the parents.

@ScottDistrict42 @CarlosGSmith When did you have your first crush? 5th grade? 6th? You know that's elementary school, right?

@CarlosGSmith You do know the bill is just refering to like little kids, right? Not teens or young adults.

@AnnaForFlorida I support this

In response to the #DontSayGay bill, I’m hearing that Legislative Offices are getting calls from people who are just saying the word “gay” and then hanging up. 🏳️‍🌈

@MichaelBonner_ The idea appears to be to dismantle public education altogether.

I'm praying for every teacher in Indiana right now. The expectation for someone to post year long lesson plans by June is utterly ridiculous. At this point, it seems as if people are creating ideas and laws to make teachers leave our profession.