Books

Hey, did everyone catch that the governor of Florida (Desantis) and his wife had a charity that took kick backs and was money laundering?

As DeSantis administration officials scrambled last year to craft a Medicaid overbilling settlement that diverted millions to the Hope Florida Foundation, lawyers for healthcare contractor Centene and the Florida Attorney General’s Office tried to distance their clients from the agreement, a trove of newly released records shows.

Over 22 days in September, then-Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard repeatedly removed references to his office in drafts of the settlement passed among negotiators.

Centene’s lawyers inserted language emphasizing that the company was “directed by the state” to donate $10 million of its $67 million settlement to the foundation. The attorneys insisted that Florida’s Office of Inspector General or attorney general be mentioned in the agreement.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311619075.html

The books taken off the school shelves included The Diary of Anne Frank

"We are literally Nazis but you aren't allowed to think it"

[ It just seems like a 100% unambiguous admisison, though I'm aware there were many many similar cases in the past years ]

In case you hadn’t noticed, conservatives are chipping away at public education bit by bit.

• poor teacher pay resulting in babysitters instead of teachers
• overcrowded classrooms
• killing the department of education
• killing the grants system
• starving PBS
• getting rid of school busses
• censorship to remove reading materials
• school vouchers to encourage private schooling

They want a class system of haves/have nots. If you don’t have the money for private schooling, they want your kids working in the fields and the meat processing plants.

That's sad, and frightening... Saying that as a non-US citizen, if that matters.

And that's another reason why it should be a top priority for parents to own actual books at home, have their own (and uncensored, by any party) library and not be entirely relying on public/school libraries (which should also be defended against censorship, obviously). And then, beside owning those books, they should also show their kids reading is an incredibly valuable activity by actually be reading those books in front of their kids. And do it regularly... I was about to write 'daily', but I thought maybe that would be asking too much ;)

This is a great opportunity for someone to open a small library across the street from a school that exclusively has books that have been banned.

Fly a rainbow flag out front and name it "banned books" and watch the money rain in

Anyone have the list? Guardian is annoying

Might be faster to list books that aren't banned