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Yep! Adam Vena, seen here lurking and filming the inaugural @glendaleout.bsky.social pride parade on June 27 of this year, is a GOP endorsed candidate for state assembly- warn your voting friend in district 41!
And Adam Vena, alleged domestic abuser, not allowed to see his child, linked to proud boys and other violent groups but running for CA assembly and endorsed by the CAGOP- meanwhile Dems ignore local races and spend against talented young people who think healthcare is a human right.
Huh so weird reactionary Svengali Chris Rufo is making slick content fearmongering about harm reduction sites in LA. Must be a coincidence! Definitely not a coordinated media/influencer/think tank driven moral panic like the wars on CRT/DEI/trans kids playing sports!
Glendale is the only city locally that doesn’t sponsor a Pride event of its own so volunteers make one happen together! It’s a truly joyful event every year and this was the biggest and best yet. So lucky for the community we continue to build here.
Such a wonderful weekend celebrating Pride with our friends @glendaleout.bsky.social at the 5th annual Pride Picnic in the Park- face painting, a piñata, amazing local artists, Free Mom Hugs, the Bookmobile, and all kinds of community resources, plus live music and straight husbands on the grill!
This Saturday marks 3 years since a mob of radicalized anti-LGBTQ+ reactionaries rioted outside a school board meeting (after many of the same people did the same just 4 days before at Saticoy Elementary School). We’re so pleased to be reclaiming the date with our friends @glendaleout.bsky.social
Ballots arriving as we speak & we’ve got the ballot guide you need. Governor will be added after this week’s CNN & Telemundo debates. If voting by mail, mail your ballot 1 WEEK before June 2nd or drop at an early voting center, ballot drop box or your polling place on Election Day.
Jill Simonian thinks AI John Adams saying “facts do not care about your feelings” is a good replacement for fully credentialed public school teachers.
Huge appreciation for local parents doing the work in so many ways- here’s an excellent letter to the editor published in CVWeekly this weekend emphasizing the importance of qualified, trustworthy school board candidates- another reason we’re supporting Kat Cross, Aileen Dinkjian and Ingrid Gunnell!
Occasional update with Glendale’s own PragerU propagandist Jill Simonian who hosted a “patriotic” story time at the Nixon Library this weekend. Truly, what better place to expose your kids to the real heart of American reactionary politics: racism and corruption!
Loved seeing this letter to the editor from two Adams Hill residents in support of Aileen Dinkjian for Area D! Local election is June 2 with ballots dropping the first week of May. Make sure your friends and neighbors know to vote all the way down the ballot, as early as possible.
Relieved @wearecta.bsky.social has suspended their endorsement of Eric Swalwell as longstanding rumors of sexual assault allegations are being confirmed via @sfchronicle.com.
The author here promotes the Bari Weiss founded reactionary org “FAIR”. We learned abt FAIR when a random man w/o kids in our schools started ranting @ school board mtgs abt CRT, demanding implementation of FAIR’s curriculum & starting a years long harassment campaign against schools/LGBTQ+ people.
Awful news in our community as ICE kidnapped a neighbor near multiple GUSD schools in the La Crescenta Montrose area. Grateful for clear communication and supportive messaging from school leadership.
Greg Krikorian served on GUSD’s board of ed for 22 years and wants to get re-elected this year. However we remember well his pandemic era clownery and disrespect of teachers. Here’s a reminder- vote Ingrid Gunnell for GUSD Area B!
Reading these two polar opposite messages and thinking about how both parties continue pushing fear-mongering rhetoric about the faith/political commitments of one of these men, while enabling/supporting/failing to take action against the one ranting deliriously about doing more war crimes.
The hardest working private school parent/propagandist in town, Jill Simonian, really wants you to bring your kids to story time at the Nixon Library- because nothing awakens the patriotic spirit like being surrounded by the ephemera of the second most dishonest, corrupt, racist president.
The same tiny group of transphobic radicals who drove extremist attacks on schools and trans kids in CA are connected to ongoing court battles. Media and legislators need to better cover Clare Erin Friday, whose disturbing obsession w/trans folks and abusive tactics we cover bsky.app/profile/gusd...
Federal court ordered CA to pay $4+ million in attorneys fees to the Thomas More Society- a legal non-profit that solely advances Christian supremacist goals & is backed by dark $ donors. They don’t have to pay taxes $ advance anti-democratic cases all to drain public funds and attack civil rights.
Glendale’s hardest working propagandist/private school parent, PragerU’s Jill Simonian continues the right’s escalating attacks on unions while vilifying LGBTQ+ representation. Someday these efforts will fail & we’ll make sure no one forgets who led the hate-fueled assaults on democracy.
The tracker is hosted by the ridiculously named “Defending Education”- formed to oppose factual teaching of racism in public schools, a vocal advocate for book and curriculum bans, restriction of trans rights. It receives huge sums from the Koch network and conservative groups tied to Leonard Leo.
Update on the new panic/attack manufactured by the same groups (funded by same democracy hating billionaires!) who came for “CRT” “DEI” trans people & unions: now tracking school districts where students protest against ICE, copying the TPUSA strategy targeting “woke” schools & teachers.
We trust these 3 candidates to serve our school district over the next 4 years: Aileen Dinkjian - Area D (SE Glendale up to Glenoaks Canyon) Kathleen Cross- Area C (Central Glendale/North to La Crescenta Ave down to Downtown) Ingrid Gunnell - Area B (NW Glendale down to Hoover/Keppel area).
Reminder; this case was brought by the Thomas More Society a Christian supremacist legal nonprofit founded to oppose abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. In 2020 TMS tried to overturn the presidential election with its “Amistad Project.” It also paid Justice Barrett who writes a concurrence in the decision.
Erin now claims she successfully forced her child to return to gender assigned at birth. In the 2021 article her take is different and mentions not believing the child when they agree to dress as Erin demands.
She does refer to her child running away and claiming abuse at home- perhaps THIS is why CPS became involved if in fact they did.
If Friday’s descriptions are true they are understandably upsetting. However nothing she describes can be reasonably credited as cause for a child’s identity- instead it reveals a troubled kid struggling and apparently without a trusted adult to monitor/ guide access to online/ social media spaces.