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Video of the board explaining its decision to ban And Tango Makes Three: “The fascination is still on those two male penguins…so I’ll be voting to remove the book from our libraries.” https://t.co/C05vnWyafN — PolitiTweet.org

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10. According to the parent, the school principal responded by dismissing their concerns and saying that Baggett was "a good person" — PolitiTweet.org

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9. According to the parent, Baggett "stated she thinks homosexuals are DUMB/STUPID for wearing the rainbow and pink colors because, according to Mrs. Baggett, that is the way that Hitler marked homosexual males" https://t.co/fZGNFPY1mx — PolitiTweet.org

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8. A 2019 letter from a parent to the high school principal says that Baggett "has expressed her utter distaste for homosexuals to her students." — PolitiTweet.org

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7. After that article I heard directly from the student allegedly targeted by Baggett. She says that Baggett made similar comments to her directly. "She told me I was gay because I hadn't found the right man" And she reported another disturbing incident. https://t.co/9M0plYPY5n — PolitiTweet.org

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6. According to three former students, Baggett told a 10th-grade student that her sister, who had a girlfriend, was "faking being a lesbian for attention." Baggett allegedly said that "nobody's born that way." https://t.co/fZGNFPY1mx — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Vicki Baggett's former and current students tell Popular Information that Baggett openly promoted racist and homophobic beliefs in class. https://t.co/fZGNFPY1mx — PolitiTweet.org

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4. Baggett explained her objections to And Tango Makes Three in more detail: "I think what would happen is a second grader would read this book, and that idea would pop into the second grader's mind… that these are two people of the same sex that love each other." — PolitiTweet.org

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3. In an interview with Popular Information, Baggett said And Tango Makes Three exposes students to "alternate sexual ideologies" and contains "sexual innuendo" and K-3 students are "too young to even be concerned about sex." https://t.co/0bAI79Rbed — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The book was challenged by an English teacher in Escambia County, Vikki Baggett Baggett said the book promoted the "LGBTQ agenda using penguins" and the purpose of the book is "indoctrination." https://t.co/EKG2T7YSey — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING The school board in Escambia County, Florida just voted to BAN AND TANGO MAKES THREE, the true story of two male Penguins who lived in the Central Park Zoo The pair build a nest together and raise an adopted child, Tango There is no sexual content of any kind https://t.co/9JNNQhcYJ2 — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING The Escambia County School Board just voted 3-2 to BAN AND TANGO MAKES THREE, the true story of two male Penguins, Roy and Silo, who lived in the Central Park Zoo The pair build a nest together and raise an adopted child, Tango There is no sexual content of any kind https://t.co/bMeoGWEBNZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@emptywheel I haven’t put it together like that but I do have the info — PolitiTweet.org

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The only reason to give the footage exclusively to Tucker is McCarthy knows the footage will only reinforce the GOP’s preferred narrative if it is selectively released by an unrepentant manipulator and liar. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@CommunityNotes are supposed to be used to debunk MISLEADING tweets. Instead they are being used to discredit accurate Tweets that criticize Twitter or Musk https://t.co/KYjMsiX4AZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@SharylAttkisson I've actually done this reporting: https://t.co/CYllff9374 — PolitiTweet.org

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The premise of this thread is that the media is biased because they will (likely) pay more attention to a request to delete a tweet made on behalf of President Trump than a similar request made by former State Department staffer Mark Lenzi — PolitiTweet.org

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"The dean handed me an envelope and told me that my contract renewal is delayed pending an investigation into the material I use," Joeckel said. "I was told that the concern is that I’m indoctrinating students," he said. https://t.co/To3etX6Hc4 — PolitiTweet.org

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"Sam Joeckel has been an English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University for 21 years. On Wednesday, after a class where he discusses racial justice, he says the dean and the provost were waiting for him." — PolitiTweet.org

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It appears Covey was not fired for "misrepresentation" but for telling the truth. More to come. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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After @RonDeSantisFL accused Covey of promoting a "false narrative," Covey published another video accurately portraying what was happening at his middle school Three weeks later, most shelves still empty while a small number of books have been approved https://t.co/tsAJv8jlPU — PolitiTweet.org

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Duval County itself admitted it ordered the removal all non-vetted books from the shelves The County says there are now "6,000 book titles approved for classroom use" But there are 1.6 MILLION TITLES in Duval schools. Therefore, lots of empty shelves like in Covey's video — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: Duval County Schools tells @FCN2go that Covey was fired because of his "misrepresentation of the books available to students in the school’s library and the disruption this misrepresentation has caused" — PolitiTweet.org

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In his response to Covey's video, DeSantis said unless a book is something "99% of people realize is wrong," it won't be an issue. But in Duval, the head librarian classified Best Man, an innocuous book w/no sex but 2 LGBTQ characters, as "pornography" https://t.co/CYllff9AWC — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonDeSantisFL I spoke with Covey about his experience trying to inform people about what is really happening in Florida schools and how it cost him his job. I'll publish the full report soon. Sign up for Popular Information to receive it, free https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonDeSantisFL Covey tells https://t.co/JhoV1QDIJq that even though his video went viral after he posted it on January 27, he was never told that it violated the social media policy or that he should not post about school libraries until DeSantis was asked about his video — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonDeSantisFL DeSantis claimed that the shelves were empty because "they hadn't put the books out yet to begin with." That is a lie. The books were removed because teachers in Duval County were told to remove the books or risk violating Florida law https://t.co/9PW86z95Hy — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonDeSantisFL The teacher, Brian Covey, was informed Wednesday evening that he was being let go for violating the school's social media policy The call came one day after DeSantis was confronted about Covey's video and claimed it was a "fake narrative" and "not true" https://t.co/yZWLfPJKaK — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING: A Florida teacher who worked as a permanent substitute since October was FIRED for posting a video of empty bookshelves at his middle school He was fired the day after @RonDeSantisFL was asked about the viral video by the media and called it a "false narrative" https://t.co/j0zTWKQLFc — PolitiTweet.org