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Authors Against Book Bans Stands Against HR8705

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Statement of Opposition Re: HR 8705 “The CHARLIE ACT”. Authors Against Book Bans (AABB) strongly opposes H.R. 8705, aka the Civics and History Advancement to Restore Learning, Integrity, and Education (CHARLIE) Act. H.R. 8705 is the latest legislation in the GOP’s crusade to try to erase entire communities from the story of the United States, and it will have a suppressive and damaging effect on our schools and libraries.

Much like H.R. 2616, this bill seeks to amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to limit or withhold funding from schools whose American history and civics education programs teach “discriminatory equity ideology or gender ideology.” It is an attempt to codify Executive Order 14190 (“Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling”) and whitewash our nation’s history, leading to a loss of diverse stories and perspectives.

Teaching a full and honest picture of U.S. history is not indoctrination. Editing and sanitizing that history in favor of patriotic propaganda and white nationalist talking points, however, is.

H.R. 8705 will harm students’ education, critical thinking, and access to a diversity of books on their library shelves. In order to keep critical funding, public schools will be forced to preemptively pull thousands of books from their classrooms.

As a coalition of authors, illustrators, editors, and other book creators, we unequivocally support students’ right to read and access literature with diverse ideas and perspectives for their personal and educational development. We at AABB ask the U.S. House of Representatives to reject H.R. 8705 and protect students’ constitutional right to free speech and free expression. We stay committed to doing everything in our power to defend the freedom to read.

Sincerely and respectfully,

Authors Against Book Bans

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Em setembro, Campeonato JP 75 de Snooker Six Red reunirá os melhores atletas nacionais do esporte, na AABB-São Luís

Em setembro, Campeonato JP 75 de Snooker Six Red reunirá os melhores atletas nacionais do esporte, na AABB-São Luís

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a metre used in the songs of norway it looks quite simple, the lines are four, eh? with trochees, dactyls it's quite intense, you know this metre from somewhere else? (this metre is called nystev btw, curious to hear if you know similar metres)

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◡ – ◡ – ◡ ◡ – ◡ – ◡ a metre used in the songs of norway ◡ – ◡ – ◡ ◡ – ◡ – ◡ it looks quite simple, the lines are four, eh? ◡ – ◡ – ◡ ◡ – ◡ – with trochees, dactyls it's quite intense, ◡ – ◡ – ◡ ◡ – ◡ – you know this metre from somewhere else?

Fascinating! Is it trochees and dactyls or is it iambs and amphibrachs? How fixed is the form? Is it always ◡ – ◡ – ◡ ◡ – ◡ – (◡) ?

[rubyisrising]

Mother Gothel

i brush my hair before going to bed

and think about things we’ve done and said.

when i was two, my hair stayed down,

pinned back with clips green, purple and brown;

when i was four, i wore it long,

tied up, pushed back, in plaits i did wrong;

when i was six, i used to cry

when my mother brushed it, wet or dry;

when i was eight, i cut it short,

a haircut of a much better sort;

when i was ten, it had grown back,

tangling length - i feared the comb’s attack;

when i was twelve, i tried new styles

plait crowns, low bunches, bunched up in piles;

when fourteen, i went back to short,

partly for gender, partly for sport;

when sixteen, it was hidden by

a blue bandana, and bright pink dye;

when eighteen, bandana still worn,

though underneath hair was all shorn;

i’m twenty now, it’s growing out,

and knots without much moving about;

i brush my hair before going to bed,

and think about things we’ve done and said.

[mtuuyuyuuu]

[rubyisrising]

Ladybird

hey, little ladybird,

keep quiet as can be,

lest you give away

our place from miles away.

oh, little ladybird, as

lucky as can be,

you’ve given me

more than i can repay.

watch, little ladybird,

me imitate your flight

in some poor mockery

of how you shine-

oh, little ladybird

your spots are oh so sweet,

and it would fail me not to

tell you i am thine.

[ur-little-brother]

ii bapy skunk,,