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Thursday, June 12, 2025

Popular.info reports on the ongoing push to ban books in Florida's schools: "In a chilling meeting of the Florida State Board of Education last week, a school district superintendent was publicly browbeaten and repeatedly threatened with criminal prosecution."

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Florida is a failed experiment.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-12 08:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Desantis and his appointees ar trying to drag Florida back to 1955! Most or all of these books have been assigned reading in public schools for decades. America needs to wake up to the threat of Republican religious assh***es who want to force their rligious beliefs down the throats of the rest of us! This is turning into a major culture war and the GQP has been taken over by right wing fanatics.

#2 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-12 08:18 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

What's wrong Danni, can't sell you condo? Thought you would be gone from this red GD state already.

#3 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-06-12 08:36 AM | Reply

#3 | Posted by gracieamazed

You sound defensive.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-12 08:40 AM | Reply

Typical loser attitude.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-12 09:20 AM | Reply

"What's wrong Danni, can't sell you condo? Thought you would be gone from this red GD state already."

Qite the contrary, Realtors call me all the time saying they have buyers with cash ready and waiting if I ever choose to sell. But why would I want to, the place is perfect for me with a beautiful park less than 100 yards away where my little dog Joey and I go to three times on most days. I've got lovely, nice neighbors in a small building with a goos team as officers on the association so we haven't been hit with assessments like so many other condos here in zsouth Florida. I will probably live here for the rest of my life, very happily and content.

#6 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-12 10:45 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

#6 Wow. I guess you forgot your rant about selling your condo and moving out of this god dammed red state. Bless your heart.

#7 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2025-06-12 11:01 AM | Reply

this god dammed red state.

#7 | POSTED BY GRACIEAMAZED

Pretty good description.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-12 11:08 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

What's wrong Danni, can't sell you condo? Thought you would be gone from this red GD state already.

#3 | Posted by gracieamazed

What's wrong Gracie, can't defend the book burners? Thought you would support free speech.

#9 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-12 11:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

"These books include sexual content and other mature themes. But they are not smut or pornography. "

Again, if you can't make a good argument, just argue semantics. It's so sad that the root of almost every social issue in this country is just based on opinion, and neither side is ever willing to just accept it as opinion and move on. When your party is in power, feel free to define "smut and pornography" and have all the books you want in grade schools. Just because someone else sees sexual content and says it is pornography doesn't mean your inverse opinion is any more or less legit.

#10 | Posted by humtake at 2025-06-12 12:06 PM | Reply

When your party is in power, feel free to define "smut and pornography" and have all the books you want in grade schools.

Hey --------. The party in power does not get to reinvent the constitution. If your state wants to allow the lowest common denominator in your state to decide what everyone else's children can read have at it. Leave the rest of us out of it.

And don't try to normalize your love of tyranny with us.

No one here is buying your book burner nonsense.

Fahrenheit 451

#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-06-12 12:14 PM | Reply

The Sunshine State is governed by a double Ivy League graduate. Hmph.

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-12 12:22 PM | Reply

Clambake seeks to be as big an imbecilic drooling clot as Ballwasher.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-12 03:44 PM | Reply

"When your party is in power, feel free to define "smut and pornography" and have all the books you want in grade schools."ndkids should be denied access to information deemed to be

So, you want to politicize science and books that discuss sexuality in a matter-of-fact way instead of the way right wing religious nuts prefer then my kids or grandchildren should be denied access to matter-of-fact information about sexuality? Sorry you keep your religious beliefs out of thr punlic schools. The Consstitution says we will not have a state religion and, let's face it, that's what all you --------- want. But freedom is worth fighting for and we will be out in the streets Saturday while Orange Hitler holds his 100 nillion dollar birthday party! I'm quite sure there will be "NoKings" demonstrations at the obscene waste of taxpayer dollars while we tell sick kids "Sorry, kid you'll just have to die, The richest country on the planet can't afford healthcare for sick kids; we got big egos thst require big stupid parades to pay for! " America with Trump as President has sold its soul to honor an egomaniac on his birthday!

#14 | Posted by danni at 2025-06-12 05:45 PM | Reply

THEY ARE NOT BANNING BOOKS....THEY'RE NOT EVEN REMOVING SOME OF THEM
YOU'RE LYING...

-- last week I saw a clip of a lady gop representative who started reading a book available to 2n graders.
--when she got to the part talking about her "p*** and then using the word "D".....she got was politely BUT STILL STRONGLY TOLD that that language was not appropriate
--FOR THE ADULTS IN THE ROOM.
then the clip went on to add....some of the books were going to be relocated to a more appropriate age group.

--you can call that 'banning" if you want...but you're the same people who said that biden was sharp as a tack AND that jesse smolett was attacked by two white guys out for a sandwich at 3 am in a city that I KNOW FROM Experience.....is the coldest mthr humper this side of the Arctic.

#15 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-12 05:53 PM | Reply

Hitler holds his 100 nillion dollar birthday party! I'm quite sure there will be "NoKings" demonstrations at the obscene waste of taxpayer dollars while we tell sick kids "Sorry, kid you'll just have to die, The richest country on the planet can't afford healthcare for sick kids; we got big egos thst require big stupid parades to pay for! " America with Trump as President has sold its soul to honor an egomaniac on his birthday!

#14 | Posted by danni

I JUST LOVE READING ABOUT HITLER AND Germany in the 30's from illiterate people who apparently love it when a Jewish couple is " exterminated ,"
and Jewish kids are afraid to walk across campus AND want the ILLEGAL who SET JEWS ON FIRE be let go ..... 2 faced ---- godam hypocrites.

#16 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-12 05:58 PM | Reply

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