But Florida has a big head start. Rick Scott was governor before meatball. So there's that.

Just because you can read. Well, Texas...Florida had a head start and we got rid of books and competent teachers and our governors are drooling 🤤 idiots. Abbott had better pick up the pace or we'll remain #1 in the nazi race to the bottom forever.

My wife and I were thinking of buying or building there, but she said to me last week that Oklahoma scares her and we should wait. She works a second job there.

That means no one makes $$ from selling me a home or lot, no one makes $$ building a home for me and Mrs ArkD, no community benefits from my property tax and buying things in that community, OK doesn't get $$ for my vehicle plates and so on...

Your hate is costing you big bucks from everyone who is refusing to buy, OK realtors.

OK is NOT ok.

(CA Central Coast) to Tulsa to join a Senior co-housing community. She’s homesick, but needed to go to a lower cost of living place.

That said, she really likes Tulsa, and by nature of who is attracted to co-housing, they are all liberal so she lives in a liberal bubble. She did say though, that she would not live anywhere else in OK! Tulsa (she claims) is more purple than red.

Said there is a great arts community, The Gathering Place is an impressive park, and the Oklahomans she has met and befriended are lovely.

She is as dark blue as I am.

OKC doesn't feel progressive for a city that size.

Because the Reich wing in America wants to switch out public schools for CHRISTIAN MADRASSAS.

Same indoctrination, different book.

She sounds like a pretty awesome teacher. Illinois, or any other state, would be lucky to have her.

Even if they shut down the public internet, we've learned too much and can get our information out there.

We've used radio-frequency for decades and the technologies have improved incredibly. Frequency shifting and hopping and great error correcting. Sure, the latest Mein Diktator speech may not come through flawlessly, but for sharing information - we'll adapt.

...how many people really want to buy a military-grade hardware data scrambler to surf the Internet? Software-only encryption wouldn't be safe because the Christian Taliban would demand backdoors in it.

It's public info, all right. Virtually all public libraries have websites these days, and a large percentage of those have online searchable catalogs that anyone with internet access can freely browse.

I'd be willing to bet that most of today's high school kids are capable of figuring out how to access library catalogs all over this country and many outside of it, on their own phone, without any extra help. Good luck to Oklahoma with putting a stop to that!

As a former librarian with an undergrad degree in English, all this book banning garbage makes me both outraged and sick!

Then again, I did most of my reading at home. And neither my mother nor my grandmother would have stoped me from reading anything I wanted to read.

Amarillo, Texas. As far as I'm aware all of my instructors were far more conservative than my Mom's family. The one I had the biggest problem with was the tennis coach who taught world history. His tests were 80% multiple choice and 20% essay. He always gave me 0 on all of the essay questions. But he was a big tennis star. There was nothing to be done except keep my mouth shut. As far as sex education classes, nothing was taught. The area had, and still has extremely high teen pregnancy rates. And about a quarter of my graduating class didn't make it to 65.

for failing to remember my own white cis privilege. (At least I'm female.) Not to mention differences of environment. I grew up in California, in the same city that Stanford is in. For much of my childhood the district I lived in voted Republican, but that was not as damning a fact then as it would be now. I had sex education in junior high, bt I didn't really learn anything as my mother had given me a book when I was about 8. That may sound like a cop-out - but she knew I'd rather read than listen And it covered everything that was i the 9th grade class and more. But it didn't cover anything non-binary. But we did talk at home about Christine Jorgenson. So I at least knew that trans people existed and that they were just people who happened to have been born with a soul that didn't match their bodies. No big deal. Your chilhood and teens would have been) much worse. (BTW the address I gre up at is now in a district that is Democratic by 26 points.)

....they want to return to the 1250s!!

that figures............

the most barren "wasteland" of America, that's why they did the "Trail of Tears" to that state.......

Thank goodness they discovered oil, otherwise it would have been used as a depository for Hazardous Waste Materials for the entire nation.

It's just absurd to punish someone for something like this.

....... a multi-million-dollar $ jury settlement for winning her lawsuit against the school district.

It could fire up the student population to put political pressure on their families & communities to stop this 1A assault.

Teaching professionals fight to maintain high public school education standards beyond state minimums, especially when some states use their children as political footballs.

She's fought the good fight and lost, so her leaving would be OK's loss. Most states have reciprocal licensing and will welcome her.

I used to have good feelings about there and Texas.

They want to be sure to have oversight regarding what your kids could or might read in their schools, but won’t do SHIT about keeping them safe from guns in that very same building……… l

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.