Deborah Diesen
@deborahdiesen
Children's book author of "Equality's Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America" (ill. Magdalena Mora) & "The Pout-Pout Fish" series (ill. Dan Hanna). she/her
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It's Friday, October 7, 2022! Time for my FANTASTIC 4 picks that you should get from your local library this weekend! 🦸🏿🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏾‍♀️🦸🏼‍♂️ These children's books are Fantastic 4 learning about voting!! 🗳️🙂 Henry Holt & Company #MargaretMcNamara Deborah Diesen #LaurieKrasnyBrown
Friends: these next few weeks through and perhaps after November 8 are going to be noisy, fueled with lies and misinformation and attempts to mislead voters. Don’t fall for it. Stay focused. Defend democracy. Vote. And do all you can to ensure everyone you know does the same. 👊🏼
And with that the three “American First” coalition of election denying Secretary of State candidates (MI, NV, AZ) have lost. This is a victory for truth, facts, & democracy. Just as in 2020, democracy has prevailed in 2022 against those trying to disrupt it from within. Onward.
The time for only thoughts and prayers is over. We are in a unique position to take action and save lives. And that’s exactly what we are going to do in the weeks ahead.  We're going to get this done for Arielle, Alexandria, and Brian. We’re going to get this done for Michigan.
NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today, Alex Reisner delivers. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
Allen Wells YVONNE CLARK 2025 @CarolineHuntoon Nancy Tillman Willa Whale is the star of her own spin-off series, inspired by the bestselling Pout-Pout Fish books from Deborah Diesen and Dan Hanna in THE WORRY-WORRY WHALE AND THE CLASSROOM JITTERS. In this story, Willa overcomes her fear of getting called on in class.bit.ly/3QzOV9c