Pritzker: "I sent a letter to Kristi Noem and to DHS leadership asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. I'm asking for basic human decency. I think their response will be revealing. Give the children and families of Illinois a break."

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

My dad sent me this

Halloween themed pseudoscience horror!

There’s a reason we don’t teach abstinence-only driver’s ed. Let’s talk about the harm Republicans are about to do to comprehensive sex ed 🧪 skepchick.org/2025/10/trum...

(CW: CSA) My mom answered questions as they arose (Which resulted in great moments like 2nd grader me asking 'What's a tampon?' in a Disneyworld bathroom) This approach proved important; about a week after I'd asked what oral sex was, a friend disclosed they were being routinely sexually abused

So when I was 4 or 5 my best friend's mom got pregnant with twins and I asked my mom how that happened. She explained in an age appropriate way using the book "Where Did I Come From", afterwards cautioning me not to go to school/daycare and tell all my friends as parents like to tell their kids.

#NowWatching Beetlejuice - the 1988 one Pray for Hulk #Halloween

SEXY MICROPLASTICS

#NowWatching Frankenstein 2025 #Halloween

#NowWatching The Nun Who doesn’t love a suspenseful cinematic horror movie with Romanian nuns? #Halloween

"How do we get back the men we lost to Trump, Andrew Tate, and the Proud Boys?" Please do not bring those weird ****ers over here. We have kids over here. I will call Child Services.

BLOCK ALL THESE FUCKERS

VALUE CONSENT. SHOW KIDS THAT “NO” SHOULD BE RESPECTED AND THAT THEIR CONSENT MATTERS

THEY SAID GAY PEOPLE WERE DISRESPECTING THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE BUT BOY HOWDY HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT STRAIGHT PEOPLE DO, ON TV?!

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THIS IS NOT THE CANON

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

OPT-IN IS NOT THE SAME AS OPT-OUT. ASKING PARENTS FOR A *PERMISSION SLIP* SHOWS A LACK OF COMMITMENT FROM THE SCHOOLS AND EXCLUDES THE KIDS THAT NEED IT MOST. #SEXEDSAVES

Two seminal vesicles diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the deferens.

We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.

Anyone else see a problem with a child molester and rapist telling others what to teach in Sex Ed in schools? #magavotedforthisidiot #wetriedtowarnyou #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles www.kwtx.com/2025/08/29/t...

#Anti-Theocracy Both grooming and censorship of sexual education both facilitate sex trafficking. Using religion to excuse censoring science based sex ed... Just grooms perpetrators and victims. It's about protecting the lack of accountability for normalized sex trafficking... i.e. Family values.

Trump's Dept of Health is threatening funding for 46 states/territories' sex ed programs for referencing the existence of trans people. Republicans say they want the federal gov't out of education—then they turn around & do this. "Hypocritical" doesn't even begin to cover it.

EXACTLY

gee i wonder why a bunch of conservative strangers want to detain your child for being trans. the same group of strangers that wants to get rid of sex ed so ur kids can’t recognize if they’ve been violated by an adult. its almost like conservatives want to abuse ur children w impunity 🤔

Only a pedophile would threaten to pull sex ed. funding from states. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory apple.news/AfepB-Ol4SKC...

don't throw away your old grocery bags you can use them for amazing arts and crafts projects like "bag full of other grocery bags", "lone grocery bag in the corner of the kitchen", and "what's that smell did you save the bag that had the meat in it"

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Make no mistake about this, lest anyone DARE misinterpret this. "Giving children the ability to consent" means giving them the ability to say no to anyone at any time for any reason, and be listened to. That is what meaningful consent means.

It won't change until we give children meaningful bodily autonomy, the ability to consent, and prioritize educating them about their bodies and relationships. You know, the exact things the "parents rights" advocates are against. Predators know how to isolate children. Don't fall for the bait.

So kids? Never trust any adult who tells you to keep secrets. It's okay to have adult friends and trusted people who aren't family. You deserve to be protected. Don't let them convince you that you misremembered. You have ownership of your own body and self. You can say no to anyone.

It has been proven that sex education doesn't just prevent harmful misunderstandings about sex that can cause problems later in life, it also directly impacts the rate of sexual assault, especially in younger kids, as they have the understanding and language to know when it's happening.

This is why every clinic and study on the subject recommends sex ed as young as 5, teaching them very basic information at the start and as they get older teaching them more and more. Of course this gets misconstrued by the right as "trying to show porn to children," but that's a lie as always.

ITS SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION SEASON! PAY ATTENTION DON’T LET THE FASCISTS ONTO THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE JUST BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WANTS THE JOB

HELL YEAH WE DO

Butterflies

Me: well, I gotta get going. Person: do you have plans? Me: no, why?

HULK ❤️ THIS

I don't think I appreciated King Of The Hill when it first came out, it wasn't as jokes per minute like The Simpsons, but watching the Sex Ed episode of season 1 was hilarious.

We are still feeling the effects of the nation having kowtowed to fascist abstinence-only anti-sex ed.

Not my stupid ass country removing sex ed from schools under the pretense of "we need to ask parents if they're OK with it cuz there's agendas in teaching sexuality" no we fucking don't. this isn't the 50s 😐 ya'll need to be put under a guillotine

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The collective scream of every sex educator of the last 30 years who worked their asses off for pennies, just to make accurate helpful sex information available to everyone online and off, and then people are like “what do you expect, there’s no progressive sex advice for men”

Right wing free speech crowd are the same people pulling books off library shelves.

the left-liberal advice for men on dating is “treat women like humans our culture pretends that’s not only the best advice but that it’s anti-advice, demonizing our poor little boys bc it doesn’t offer schemes to control women men don’t want advice, they want to be bolstered in their misogyny

CW: Psychological Abuse I grew up in an extremely sexually repressive household. I was told that *all* sex, whether if there was actual consent or not, was rape. I was 13 years old and that was the only 'birds and bees' talk I ever got growing up. I was removed from any and all sex ed classes.

Also, do you know what normalizing does when its something bad? It allows for actual conversation about it, and proper education to take place. This includes warning signs, preventative measures, and so much more. There's a reason predators want to remove sex Ed from schools.