Middle school librarian she/her/hers, dog-rescuer, #EFC, BA Drew University, MLIS Rutgers. Views my own.
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19 Sep 2024
I just made a donation to Texas Freedom to Read Project. Join me in supporting the freedom to read txftrp.org/donate?recruiter_…
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This week's NJ County Teacher of the Year spotlight goes to Joe Nappi! He is the 2024 NJ Teacher of the Year and a 2024 NEA Teacher of the Year finalist! 🌟🔦✨📣 Joe is a social studies teacher at Monmouth Regional High School in the Monmouth Regional School District. #WEareNJEA
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Beth Thomas retweeted
6 Jun 2024
Ready to support the NJ Freedom to Read bill A3446 @NJASL @njla @NJEA @EveryLibrary @ALALibrary
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6 Jun 2024
Great news. NJ A3446 was voted out of the Assembly Education Committee. Now unto the next step. Thanks to all the other members of the Committee who voted yes!!! And yes @GovMurphy reading books is better than banning books. @NJASL @njla @njea
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Beth Thomas retweeted
6 Jun 2024
Some of the witnesses at the "Freedom to Read" Act hearing stress that they don't oppose books because they have gay characters or authors but because of explicit images. But this woman was one of the witnesses x.com/MattFriedmanNJ/status/…
5 Jun 2024
"We CANNOT let Curtis Bashaw, a Never Trump Republican who donates to Democrats, win. Curtis is married to a man, and he is proud of it." — "parental rights" activist Victoria Jakelsky politico.com/newsletters/new…
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4 Apr 2024
Happy #SchoolLibrarianDay 🎉Loved seeing this video of my friend and @njasl President-Elect Karen Grant share who inspired her to become a #schoollibrarian youtu.be/_O_m5naQZ7w?si=VXLP… @ALALibrary @NJEA @NewJerseyDOE @njsba @NJPSA @AbbottElemABC @LisaAnnWalter @thesherylralph
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26 Oct 2023
Tweeting @CongressmanKean bc I want an actual reply to my email and not a canned one:
Dear Congressman Kean,
I was going to respond to this email when you sent it in May. I decided not to because I knew there would be another opportunity in the near future to send my response.
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26 Oct 2023
That opportunity happened yesterday in Maine. The entire state is under lockdown because of one person who had access to an assault weapon. We are now beyond the "Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners."
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26 Oct 2023
The answer is because our government refuses to take any meaningful action and continues to hide behind second amendment rights. A reminder that this amendment was written when citizens had access to muskets, not AR-15s.
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26 Oct 2023
I once again implore you to take a stand, to put country above party, and sign on to US HB698, a bill that calls for the regulation of assault weapons. A ten-year old who survived the massacre in Maine asked "Why do people do this?"
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3 Oct 2023
Bestselling author Jason Reynolds’ new children’s book was inspired by a photo of people dancing in a library, celebrating Langston Hughes.
He hopes the story encourages children to see the library as “a place for freedom.”
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Beth Thomas retweeted
3 Oct 2023
The loss of local coverage in New Jersey is getting more worrisome every day
3 Oct 2023
It's a sad day for local journalism: News 12 lays off 30 in the tri-state area and 8 in New Jersey.
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When books are banned, it restricts information and discourages freedom of thought. It also undermines one of the primary functions of education: teaching students how to think for themselves. Let's celebrate the freedom to read! 📚 #WeAreNJEA #BannedBooksWeek
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Beth Thomas retweeted
27 Sep 2023
“Ask the many NJ parents that are grieving … if they believe in this version of “Parental Rights”. Or would they have preferred parental freedom to send their child to a school that supports all the students when they have mental challenges.” insidernj.com/gops-parental-…
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Beth Thomas retweeted
27 Sep 2023
Here to report a theft. I spent three decades of my life to write my books. The Al large language models did not "ingest" or "scrape"
"data." Al companies stole my work, time, and creativity. They stole my stories. They stole a part of me.
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