Crossroads - The Rules - 1/25/26 The Rules By Lisa Rodriguez 1/25/26 Protect your money Protect your land Any who object should all be banned. Protect your power But not your soul. It’s already been sucked into a dark black hole. ...

@jumblejim.bsky.social Hi Jim, I think you’ll like this poem I wrote. If you do, please share. Your the only famous person I sort of know 😁
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bleak, dystopian illustration of a world in which people unquestioningly follow orders even when they are cruel, illegal, or immoral.

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Are You Ready to Meet Your Maker? © by Lisa Ann Rodriguez YouTube video by Battle of the Books Quiz Center

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He’ll never hold himself accountable for anything.

Here’s a screenshot from my Truth Social account with recent photos of me and my family enjoying our lives in Portland, playing in a park, walking around at NIGHT IN DOWNTOWN-Mr. Trump, please leave Portland in peace. Im so worried and distraught my stomach hurts.🙏🏻 #ilovepdx #portlandoregon #pdx

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I want to crawl into this picture! ❤️

Gerrymandering is the political equivalent of having your caddy drop your ball in a spot that gives you an advantage. Its all just different forms of cheating.

I’m retiring again!! I will still read and write quizzes, but after this year, I’m not going to pressure myself to finish all the OBOB titles each year. #battleofthebooks #homeschool #librariansofinstagram #obob #oregonbattleofthebooks #ťeachersofinstagram #aidenthomas
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Now on to finishing the high school quizzes!
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At the dentist's office on my ipad, a boy and girl with their mom talking with the receptionist. The girl came over and asked if I had art apps. Her brother drew this dragon. The moral of this story: you can take a teacher out of a classroom, but the kids are gonna find her in the dentist's office!

July is Differently-Abled Pride Month - Battle of the Books Quiz Center Differently-Abled Pride Month: Celebrating Inclusion, Empowerment, and Awareness What Is Disability Pride Month? Disability Pride Month is a celebration of people with disabilities and the contributio...

I stopped providing links to titles on Amazon because I don’t want to take business away from smaller bookstores or libraries. Most of the links in my blog to books are to LIBBY, the library app and website, so you can check them out for free. bit.ly/bobqc-disabledpride

Any day I expect them to start teaching kids to point and laugh at kids who are different from them. :-(

Written by my friend and former teaching colleague:

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Win a book contest!! July 14-18, I'll email 1 question daily on each book. Deadline to answer all questions-7/25/25. Readers who answer all 5 questions correctly entered into a raffle, one winner randomly chosen.
winners announced 7/31/25 (first name & last initial)
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This is one example of why I don’t buy the excuse some people make for old racists…that they were just a product of their era. Like they had no choice. Everyone has 3 choices: to support good, to support evil, or to be a coward and not stand for anything.
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This is a 2 minute 30 second video demo showing how to use Quizlet with the Battle of the Books Quiz Center quizzes.
I think it's a much more fun way to study, because it makes the quizzes into interactive games that can be played alone or in groups. I love Quizlet!! bit.ly/Quizletbob

Great (and needed) reminder. Sometimes it’s so hard to resist!

Bit.ly/cityofember14 - In Chapter 14 of The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, Doon and Lina make a thrilling discovery deep beneath the city.

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It makes me really ANGRY that some state governments are canceling Juneteenth celebrations. Why in the world would we NOT celebrate AMERICANS gaining their FREEDOM?!

Actually, Steve Hofstetter already got a great start to a new Oompa Loompa verse

😂 I think I’m going to write a new Oompa Loompa verse just for him! Stay tuned!

That’s exactly what narcissists say to people. I never thought of it this way, but fascism is the term for a group of narcissists the way a murder is a term for a group of crows.

I’m ordering the biggest dinosaur and the Oceans breathe ones to start out. I’m so excited to read them to my grandbabies!

My grandson will LOVE your books! He is four, and loves the Science for Babies books by Chris Ferrie. Have you seen those?