Izzy Imig identified herself as a veteran while fulfilling her political responsibilities for Rockwood schools. Izzy would have a Purple Heart if she had been wounded while serving in the US military. Yet no Islam Sabah listed
#StolenValor
@StLouisAmerican
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Schools, put out a video in June 2023 calling transgender students a threat to the physical safety of other students.
Now a non-binary student has been beaten to death in their high-school bathroom.
A child has now died.
Nex Benedict (they/them) was a nonbinary child. They were beaten, viciously in a high school bathroom of Owasso High School. They died the next day in the hospital.
Ryan Walters' rhetoric is contributing.
How it started: How it's Going:
Moms For Liberty backed candidate charged w/assaulting multiple teens during a party where she was drunk & supplying 16-17 year olds w/alcohol. Police said this is the 4th time they have been to her home for supplying alcohols to minors. There are recordings.
#BucksCounty
Clarice Schillinger, a leader in the far-right "parental rights" [anti-public ed] movement & former
@PAGOP
LT. Governor candidate charged with assault, giving teens alcohol. Paul Martino launched Back to School PAC with her, dropping 500K.
A STL Charter school is closing days before school is set to start. Where will these kids go? It’s too late for other schools to hire teachers & add classrooms.
Every dollar given to this charter was a waste of tax-payer money.
The letter "All of us at Hawthorn are deeply sorry for the DISRUPTION this closure will have on our students..."
🗣When they talk about "DISRUPTING SYSTEMS" this is what they mean. The business model they propose puts profits over people everytime and our community loses.
Arkansas police officer & school resource officer, Roy Mitchell, who was arrested in October for the rape of 2 children, has been arrested again for the rape of a child under the age of 14, while he was out on bond.
Greitens tied a woman up in his basement.
Hartzler would deny the woman an abortion.
Schmitt would sue the woman for talking about being tied up.
McCloskey would shoot the woman for being in the basement.
They are all the same trash.
Moms For Liberty lost the Bucks County, PA school board elections. Their Superintendent resigned & his cronies are giving him a $600k severance before their terms expire & locking the district into a NDA so past misdeeds can’t be investigated or discussed
@Yamiche
Schmitt used the court to abuse our public schools.
Hartzler used her abuse of the LGBTQIA community to start her political career.
Greitens abuses women.
Missouri isn’t winning with any of these abusers in the Senate.
@Debunk_the_Funk
Christine Maggiore & her husband killed Eliza Jane with their anti-science denialism and Eliza’s physicians were complicit in her death.
A good thread about what happened to Jess Piper. Someone made a $30 illegal contribution & she was fined $500 for not catching it.
Is the public figure whose name was on Piper’s MEC report part of the scam? We will never know because the scammers aren’t being held accountable.
On October 13, 2021, someone from Massachusetts went to Jess Piper's ActBlue account and fraudulently donated $30 using the name of a Missouri elected official.
But that scammer won't be held accountable.
Homeschool students should have to meet attendance & grade requirements to participate in clubs & activities. Plus public schools receive zero state $$ for homeschool students.
A bill to allow home-educated students to participate in public school activities is back for the upcoming legislative session — and has been coupled w/provisions rolling back state oversight of homeschooling families.
#moleg
#mogov
via
@AnneliseHanshaw
A cautionary college lesson: DeSantis took over a Liberal Arts College. 36 of the 100 professors left. The Neuroscience Dept went from 3 instructors to 1. Upper level science courses are canceled. Seniors either have to transfer schools or switch Majors.
Vouchers are expected to cost Missouri $1billion +. These kids aren’t currently accounted for in our education budget. Where is that money coming from?
In Arizona, universal vouchers exploded the budget and forced some districts to look at closing entire schools — as kids already in private schools take the coupons. Because why wouldn’t they?
“School choice” sounds good, but it leaves most kids behind.
#LeesVoucherScam
Far right religious extremists in St. Charles are trying to ban a book in the adult section of the public library.
I bet some of you actually thought book banning was about protecting kids. 🤣
@Esqueer_
Riley Gaines is a poor sport who lost to 4 other women. She’s a miserable person that I don’t care about. What I do care about is
@UWVolleyball
reportedly caving to the transphobic mob. Does
@UW
intend to put their core beliefs into practice or not.
#FabianMarta
was hosting “sugar” parties & is influential in the local GOP hate groups that call librarians groomers. He moved his sugar baby into our school district & got her elected to the Rockwood School Board. He was her treasurer & has a PAC to fund school board elections.
This is the guy pimping school choice in Missouri? Someone should drive him through Ladue, Frontenac, Clayton, Town and Country, Chesterfield, Wildwood, etc… his world appears to be pretty small.
Eldon Wolfgang Phelps, has been arrested for possessing videos of adult men raping little girls. He’s from Lebanon, Missouri.
#NotaDragQueen
#NotaLibrarian
Read that again: 70 parents out of 40,000+ students have requested their children have limited access to the school library. Book banners are not the majority.
Last night
@collierschools
officially announced they would no longer require parent permission to access the library.
Under this policy, 23% of students were being denied access due to parent inaction (failure to opt-in). 70 parents of 40,000+ students requested limited access.
🧵On the 1 year anniversary of the Dobbs ruling, MO Right To Life (anti-abortion org) gathered outside of Planned Parenthood StL to celebrate & pray.
@TravisCNews
reported live, but the interesting part happened once he & his crew packed up. A thread…
#MoLeg
@aclu_mo
I’m from Chesterfield. Sai Kandula’s rhetoric reflects that of our far-right politicians, on our local far-right radio station & from the members of our local (IMO) racist/homophobic hate group: Concerned Parents of the Rockwood School District.
Except Nex Benedict was following Oklahoma law by using the bathroom that fit the gender they were assigned at birth.
For those in the back: Christian nationalists do not have the right to kill people for not conforming to their narrowly defined gender expectations.
@peterbakernyt
@katierogers
Did you think to ask if the mother and her Trump attorneys are allowing the Bidens to see this child? Sounds like Hunter is taking care of his financial responsibilities at $750k over 4 years. Hopefully he will demand and be awarded 50% custody or regular visitation.
@Mike_Hixenbaugh
Hannah Buckingham is the Med student who complained to mommy about a well respected researcher that discussed Dan Patrick’s poor protocols for reducing opioid deaths. All hospitals should know this when evaluating her internship and residency application.
The Pennridge School District in Bucks County, PA is banning books by having employees & other adults check them out from the school library. They tried to conceal their actions by refusing to turn over the records.
Turns out that book banning, prager u & private school vouchers do not lead to better educational outcomes. Florida has some of the lowest ACT scores in the United States.
Test scores are but a partial snapshot of a complex larger picture. Yet if DeSantis is doing everything right by FL’s children, while woke, moderate, & non-voucher states do everything wrong, why are FL’s ACTs below the national average & falling? 1/
Politicians violating court orders & denying Missourians their constitutional rights should never be tolerated.
Bailey, Ashcroft & Fitzpatrick should be jailed for contempt of court. Bailey & Ashcroft should lose their law licenses.
@aclu_mo
@PPact
“This brazen admission of a plot to stall a statewide vote on abortion shows that conservatives know full well that abortion access is popular, even in red states, and they have to cheat to have any hope of prevailing.”
@SusanRinkunas
#MoLeg
This year Rockwood voters rejected the BS being peddled by Concerned Parents. They tried to define “conservative values” as racism, homophobia, book banning & hating teachers. Voters loudly replied, “NOPE!”
A Jefferson county man was found guilty of child porn & threatening social media companies, antifa, blm & the communist Dem party. He wanted to kill the children of Dems because they don’t run as fast.
Rhetoric demonizing POC, LGBTQIA & liberals is common in local hate groups.
The only way Nick’s kid is seeing a drag show is if he takes them. But it’s not about his kid, it’s about controlling what you do. Nick Schroer wraps his fake concern & homophobia in his warped version of Christianity.
Want better lawmakers? Elect better politicians.
Missourians are going to die because
@MissouriGOP
@RepSeitz156
@meaccoleman
refuse to believe that Abortion is used to treat:
-ectopic pregnancy
-incomplete miscarriages
-end a pregnancy w/abnormalities incompatible w/life
-save viable fetuses in a failing multi fetus pg
@utmbhealth
You allowed med student, Hannah Buckingham, to suppress discussion about Opioid addiction/deaths through her mother’s political connections. You owe it to your students, patients & medical community to allow honest, fact based discussions about public health policy.
This professor criticized Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in class.
A politically connected student told her mom.
Within two hours, Texas A&M’s chancellor was texting Dan Patrick directly to let him know the professor had been suspended pending an investigation.
@LauraAnnSTL
Ms. Onder punching down from her $1million private plane while flying off with her Senator husband to deprive 46% of Missourians political representation - right on brand.
@piper4missouri
Leaving the Bible in schools while removing books with far less problematic content opens the school district to discrimination lawsuits. The troll level on this is outstanding.
Mary Elizabeth Coleman, the anti-abortion/anti-mask/ anti- public school wing nut, allegedly had a late night, touchy feely Uber ride with Elijah Haar.
If she’s a good Catholic, MEC uses the rhythm method and won’t abort. But I bet the rules don’t apply to her.
🧵This thread is about who I met on January 21st, 2020, while moonlighting as an Uber driver. Jefferson City is a sleepy town on Tuesday nights but I signed into my driving app, knowing that I could always count on a few legislators needing a ride home from the bar.
#moleg
@DrJenGunter
I was sent home to miscarry in the toilet. No one prepared me for the massive amount of blood there would be. A week later needed a DNC because I had retained fetal tissue.
@MrJWallis
I hope you will speak to an attorney about your options against the district and individual parents.
Add this to reasons why rural districts can’t attract teachers.
@LauraAnnSTL
Rachel Home thinks high heels are too sexual to wear in a library. I’m beginning to think the Christofascists believe “Handmaids Tale” was an instruction manual.
@LauraAnnSTL
Book banning by Christian Nationalists isn’t just about racism & homophobia. Some of the books have been about kids being abused. Labeling them as “inappropriate” keeps kids from knowing that being abused by faith leaders & family members is not ok.
Fabian Marta has been involved in local GOP politics. Will the Chesterfield Township Republicans, Chesterfield GOP Township or Wildhorse Township Republicans condemn the kidnapping charges? Because they had no problem with the sugaring.
@KeneAkers
The 5 board members were endorsed by Moms For Liberty. The board president said Black History & Lit classes were canceled in retaliation for M4L being labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
It’s been a long day. Thank You to everyone who stood up today and spoke in support of public education.
@EnglishTeach07
@HeatherFSpeaks
are Rock Stars.
Another Moms For Liberty backed school board member is facing criminal charges. I guess it’s true that the far right aren’t shopping at Target, apparently they are stealing from it.
COLLIERVILLE, TN: Moms For Liberty-backed school board member Keri Blair resigns 13 months after being elected, following $728 worth of shoplifting charges from Target. (after 7 total offenses)
@BenjaminJS
@MelissaFoersch1
Moms For Liberty is a National hate group that targets POC & LGBTQIA. They are behind this. Sharyn Kerwin was on the committee.
@Imposter_Edits
These are transgender adults who advocated for denying transgender youth medical care & the right to play sports. They were shocked when Missouri Republicans screwed them over as well. “I really agree with all of it unless we aren’t grandfathered out…”
@piper4missouri
Fabian Marta is a member of the extremist groups who have been trying to take over MO schools & ban books. All involved knew about his ties to “sugaring” & didn’t care.
Tonight Rockwood parents, teachers & community members loudly sent a message that public education is important & supported!!!!
Prop 3 passed with 66.28% of the vote!!!
Missouri Dems
Sept 2023: Sarah and Elad are both great. We are lucky to have 2 amazing candidates for Attorney General.
Dec 2023: Not sure what’s going on, but Elad is great.
@MalekVivek
Vivek only wants private school kids prepared for college level History & Language Arts classes. He’s kneecapping our kids to give his kids an advantage.
@AngryBlackLady
@remax
@cjones2022
The real estate industry has a long history of discrimination that continues to this day. And it’s not just real estate agents. Wells Fargo was fined in 2012 for discriminatory lending practices & a class action lawsuit was filed in 2022 for more discrimination.
@MelissaEnchant
@trevorshowvan
@nolaboy96
@TableBoston
The business got screwed, but it was by the credit card company. The customer thinks they have travel insurance that honors their contracts & makes the business whole. They don’t.
The restaurant’s fault was the mis-directed anger. It should be at the credit card company.
It’s not ok for an armed police officer to intimidate a bus driver. It’s not ok to call police on teachers because your kid has to wear a mask. It is not ok to verbally abuse teachers/administrators/support staff.
All of that happened this week.
Deb Michaels is back on her BS with her propaganda blog. Deb Michaels is the private school parent who actively works to destroy the Rockwood School District. Private schools in MO pick their students, are not required to administer state tests & don’t have to report any stats.
Deb Michaels & Concerned Parents research black staff & call for their firing. This person was put on unpaid leave for allegations. All charges are resolved, no DWI. Who in Rockwood HR shared private employee info? Why was a black employee held to a different standard than white?
@DistillSocial
None of my business who consenting adults are having sex with - right up to the point where they claim Gay marriage is destroying family values & calling teachers & librarians pedophiles.
“8 in 10 American youth do not attend church, but 9 in 10 attend public school.” Extremist religious sects want to infiltrate publicly funded schools to indoctrinate our kids.
#EducationNotIndoctrination
This same church talked about teachers “indoctrinating” children before this woman spoke.
Every accusation is an admission. They want to evangelize public school children during school hours. That is the literal definition of indoctrination.
@NC5PhilWilliams
They removed the programs as a punishment for
@splcenter
calling Moms For Liberty a hate group.
@ksdknews
quoted the BOE President, Adam Bertrand saying that.
All 5 board members were endorsed by M4L.
Moms For Liberty school board members w/
@FrancisHowell
voted to remove Black History & Lit because
@splcenter
labeled M4L a hate group.
Adam Bertrand said he feels the national org "calls parents involved in education a hate group" & that's why he voted to remove the electives.
@LauraAnnSTL
He thinks the solutions for reducing poverty based gun crimes is word salad and doesn’t want to address the proliferation of guns from states with non existent gun laws.
Josh Ferguson, owner of
@Kaldis_Coffee
, held a fundraiser for Andrew Bailey. This is a conflict of interest as Ferguson’s marijuana business, Delta, is facing legal action by the MO Attorney General’s office.
This is what - 3 known conflicts for Bailey?
@Phil_Lewis_
“The board in December voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution banning CRT in the district's K-12 curriculum.” They then paid a contractor $15k for anti-CRT work.
Waiting to hear how much they will be paying out in civil rights lawsuits.
Public School is an incredibly popular institution in the United States. Today the radicalized extremists in Missouri are getting a reminder of that.
#SupportTeachers
#SupportPublicSchool
Riley Gaines used to be ok w/transgender athletes. “I am in full support of her & full support of her transition & her swimming career & everything like that because there’s no doubt that she works hard too.” She’s mad her 5th place trophy was mailed https:
As Missouri Senator Bob Onder flies to Jefferson City in his private jet, his fan club convoy has arrived for the rally to destroy democracy in Missouri. This is the look of a guy who can relate to the struggles of everyday Missourians, right?
The culture wars directed at LGBTQIA folks makes parenting harder. Sue Benedict was learning how to support her kid while being inundated w/messaging that her kid was a pedophile, crazy, a threat to other kids, etc…
This family needs space to grieve & a whole bunch of grace.
Did the women that Christian & Bridget Ziegler record themselves having sex with give consent to the recordings?
It’s a serious problem if they didn’t.
A SECOND sex video, this one featuring Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler & an unidentified woman, “has been recovered by police as part of the ongoing criminal investigation of a rape allegation” against Christian Ziegler. 12/22/23 1/
@LaneyHawes
@KellerISD
Sandi Walker & Micah Young aren’t going to resign. Your only option is to file a FERPA complaint against Keller ISD. It needs to be done within 180 days.
@ksdknews
Moms For Liberty backed candidates, Randy Cook, Adam Bertrand, Jane Puszkar, Mark Ponder & Randy Harmon voted to remove electives on Black History & Lit because
@splcenter
called M4L a hate group.
It’s Klan rule in
@FrancisHowell
schools.
The next generation: Growing up LGBTQ+ with a Moms For Liberty parent. Children of far-right extremists speak...and it goes just like you think it will. (🧵)