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A Florida School Banned a Disney Movie About Ruby Bridges. Here’s What That Really Means. by Charles M. Blow (The New York Times:)
This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans in 1960, because of a complaint lodged by a single parent who said she feared the film might teach children that white people hate Black people.
The school banned the film until it could be reviewed. So I decided to review the film myself.
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news announcement at @fediforum: #flipboard has launched their Mastodon integration on Android!

This means you can follow Mastodon posts via Flipboard, and add them to your magazine, or share articles from your magazines directly to Mastodon.

Even better, full #ActivityPub integration is coming for the coming months, so it can work with the full fediverse (Pixelfed, anyone?).

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/mastodon-on-android-flipboard-integration-is-here/

—@fediversereport

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Kentucky Republicans voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto –

This means republicans have effectively forced children to detransition while increasing their rates of suicide by 70%

No gender affirming care. No puberty blockers. No choice in which restroom to use

When a republican talks about protecting children…

They’re the party of child labor. The party of keeping child marriage. The party of demonizing certain children to force their agenda.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

—@flexghost

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The fact that it is 2023 and we still must use sighted people to fill out paper forms when they originated in soft copy is unacceptable. And the fact that these uneducated overly paid paper pushers send and expect it returned in print when someone is being sent braille because they can’t read said print is beyond ridiculous! It must take barely one working brain cell to work for the social insecurity administration. We’re not in the wrong here. They are.

—@amy0223