The InterMountain Education Service District is facing an interesting lawsuit brought by employee Rod Theis and his counsel, Alliance Defending Freedom, over an order to remove books deemed “transphobic” from his desk.
Another employee spotted books on Theis’s desk including “He is He,” “She is She,” and “Johnny the Walrus.” He used the covers as decorations in his workspace. Here are the covers that were included in the complaint:
As noted by College Fix, Amazon.com describes the book “She is She” as a work that “explores what it means to be female…and love it!
The appearance of the covers on his desk triggered a co-worker:
“an employee at one of Mr. Theis’ schools saw the covers of the Books and complained that they were “transphobic.” IMESD labeled the display as “a hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity” and ordered Mr. Theis to remove them. IMESD then warned him that “further conduct of this nature” may result in discipline, including termination of his employment. But Mr. Theis’ display of the Books caused no disruption. Indeed, not one student or school staff member had even commented about the Books to Mr. Theis since he began displaying them. The school principal even told Mr. Theis that he did not consider the Books to be offensive or inappropriate.”
The district defines “Bias incident” as a “person’s hostile expression of animus toward” another “person’s perceived … gender identity[.]”
However, the standard and underlying process of what constitutes such a violation is vague. There is no required showing of an impact on a group or any identifiable individual.
The district rules allow employees “to decorate their offices with personal items including paintings, photos, quotes, books, and even posters or statements that convey political messages.”
The complaint notes that other employees have decorated their spaces with political material as well as material supporting alternative views of gender. These include pride symbols and material. However, Theis was denied the same privilege.
This was the space and the covers that were found triggering and unacceptable:
The lawsuit claims that the district is maintaining a discriminatory Speech Policy that allows expression of support for alternative views of gender while forbidding express support for a biological view. The resulting censorship is being challenged under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Theis is seeking a preliminary injunction.
We have not heard from the district, so this is obviously only one side of the dispute. However, if true, this seems like a strong claim that could create a new and important precedent in favor of free speech.
“How about the Social Security Administration listing publicly to whom those fraudulent payments were made?”
Start with Act Blue and work your way back. That will be a bunch of them.
Fraudulent payments are the essence of unconstitutional Social Security.
There is no legal basis for governmental operation of a free enterprise in the free market retirement plan industry, aka Social Security, other than that inherent in Abraham Lincoln’s fellow traveler Karl Marx’s slogan, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” which translates to redistribution of wealth, a primary principle of communism.
Social Security is an absurd and nonviable Ponzi scheme.
Social Security, as a subset of the investment industry, may not be taxed for, funded, or regulated per Article 1, Section 8.
Social Security must have been struck down at the outset just as the Supreme Court struck down part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 in Marbury v. Madison and the Missouri Compromise in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Some additional information and background, School districts sued for banning books that teach sex is real, crucifix from educators’ offices
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/school-districts-sued-banning-books-teach-sex-real-crucifix-educators-offices
Young innocent minds should not be corrupted nor perverted. Their minds should evolve in a natural progression prior to being inducted or thrust into the cold, cruel world of adult reality.
Access to Books overall is disappearing. Pay-to-Read. It ‘s understood that it cost a good amount of money to: publish, distribute, pay the creators, artist, printer, etc. … ‘It’s a Business’.
People like Mark Zuckenberg whom single single-handedly shutdown Online Libraries like the Library Genesis project by scraping the website and scraping The Internet Archive Library to build Meta’s A.I. (Llama 4) Library database so to monetize the knowledge, and then turn around and sat quietly (as if he didn’t do anything wrong) as the four major publishing companies shut them down with lawsuits. Publishers; Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House sued the Archive in 2020, claiming that CDL violates their copyrights.
[ https://blog.archive.org/2022/07/08/internet-archive-seeks-summary-judgment-in-federal-lawsuit-filed-by-publishing-companies/ ]
The same happened years and years ago, when Lexus digitized the publicly funded library of Court Reporters (Case Laws & Rulings) into a digitized online library into a subscription service. Granted it cost money to run server farms and program I.T. systems to run these ‘services’.
But how many times do you have to pay for it? These Mega Corps make plenty of money from the Federal and State Government. Then turn around and make you pay them for Data that’s been payed for by You (Your Government).
There will come the day (again) when only the rich can afford to read. They have figured out how to; Digitize, Monetize, and Tokenize … KNOWLEDGE.
We are entering the Digital Middle Ages of Overlords and Surfs.
They will tell you: Book Distribution is more widely available than ever because of; Technology, The Internet of Things, and Smart Phones.
The reality is, All Roads Lead To Them, and You’re the one that must pay to Learn.
“when books are outlawed only the outlaws will have books.”
“when books are unaffordable only the rich will have books.”
Re:
The Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its broader Open Library program have faced legal challenges from publishers, primarily due to copyright infringement. The court rulings have led to significant changes in how the Internet Archive operates, impacting access to digitized books. Specifically, the court determined that the Internet Archive’s practice of scanning books and lending them out digitally, even with a one-to-one print-to-digital ratio, infringed on copyright laws. This has resulted in the removal of over 500,000 books from the Open Library.
Why the fate of LibGen, Internet Archive matters, and what it says about open knowledge
As the Internet Archive loses a critical appeal, and Library Genesis faces existential struggle, there is a lesson for us: We must address the inequities in the way knowledge is distributed
By: Nawaid Anjum ~ Sept. 9th., 2024
https://thefederal.com/category/features/why-the-fate-of-libgen-internet-archive-matters-and-what-it-says-about-open-knowledge-143743
You won’t need to read. You’ll be too busy milking goats and bartering and burning cow pies as fuel. You’ll like it. Back to nature will give your life meaning.
Speaking about yourself?
Such odd comments coming from you
“12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older ‘have now been marked as deceased… Social Security’s records were not very good, and that’s the source of fraud.’”
Upstate, funny how Democrats never found all these dead people, just like they never find dead voters. Biden got how many votes in 2020? Maybe DOGE should look at that, too.
Am I the only one who looked at the IMESD logo and immediately saw an erect penis next to a pair of boobs?
Ok 🆗👌… I didn’t see that 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀… 🥰
I see swans swimming up to eat a three-minute egg.
Cionnath,
I saw the swans too. The egg is a good one. I was thinking of a golf ball teed up.
😂
Going back 🔙 and looking at the district logo a second time, I see it now ✅✅✅
No. An erect penis, something that has emerged from it, and two shapely legs like in a women’s fashion magazine.
Yes.
It’s 2 whales noses in air playing basketball
Sex is binary: male and female. Gender is, too… two: masculine and feminine, sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation).
The transgender spectrum is homosexual, bisexual, gender simulated and queer. Transsocials (e.g. transvestites) are excluded from the proudly albinophobic parade. #HateLovesAbortion?
I recommend to the free speech community today’s short article by Roger Kimball in American Greatness. One sentence stood out: “A reluctance to speak the truth instills an unwillingness or even an inability to see the truth.” This is the greatest evil of left-wing propaganda: the destruction of the ability to even see the truth. See Kimball, “The Centenary of Buckley and the Crisis of Free Speech,” https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/25/334453/
Oregon the home state of ANTFA, and where test are not required.
What a mess
“to decorate their offices with personal items including paintings, photos, quotes, books, and even posters or statements that convey political messages.”
I can remember the only things in the class room a teacher could put up had to be educational related. They were allowed to have pictures of their family members on their desks. This policy seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
If I were Mr. Theis, I would put up a picture of Riley Gains, standing second place on the podium. Her and only her.
A guy at my workplace had two books, Cat is Cat and Toaster is Toaster. He got fired because everyone knows a cat can be a toaster if it feels like one inside.
OldManFromKS,
HA! Good one!
Sometimes I “identify” as a “convection oven” … 🙀🙀🙀
Why is the order to remove them not also “a hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity”?
Well it is. The gender confused believe their bad fate was caused by their marginalized status and by religions. They are trying to lemonade. Perhaps…
The left is always, out of ideological necessity, incapable of seeing their own bigotry. Nothing new in this story unless it leads to judges finally realizing that fact and shutting them down.
Hopefully, someone will ship a copy of those books to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson. She is the justice who will go down in history as being chosen by Biden solely because she is black and has a vagina.
Yet despite having her very own vagina, the Senate confirmed her to SCOTUS after she ridiculously swore under oath not know what a woman is. An obvious provable lie that got unanimous Democrat support and three spineless, Republican votes.
Maybe if Justice Jackson reads the children’s literature book, “She is She”, Jackson will finally learn what a woman is. Without having to consult a biologist! Then, perhaps, after she has learned from kiddie lit what a woman is, we can trust her to fairly and accurately provide opinions and legal reasoning to all the cases that come before her dealing with women.
Or not. A man can dream.
Her fate is a bad one. What she doesn’t understand are disorders. It’s all she’s ever known and all she will ever know. She’s nuts.
The first shall be last and the last first.
Poetry for upside down. Here we are!
It wouldn’t be so bad as the oppressed or disordered are honored in this play knowingly with good humor but the violence of the oppressed criminals went off the rails. The comedy has become a tragedy and the curtain must come down.
^^* The broken bowls
Something similar can be found in native American burial rituals. As the body of the deceased was taken to the final resting place the items owned by that person were taken there, too. Bowls, knives, tomahawk, bows, beads and skins were taken , too but the bowls made of granite were ritually broken. A chunk or notch was broken out at the rim of the bowl. Authentic bowls are are identified in this way. The bowl.symbolized the broken body as a vessel and the spirit has left.
I had such a bowl but alas stolen from.the garden.
It’s a time to honor the broken vessels. The vessels, the bodies that were born broken.
Waiting for Guffman
You have been duped if you think that Joe Biden selected Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court Justice.
Autopen selected her!
Ron Klain.
Her ultra-progressive ideology was baked in to her while still in uterine and, yet, she remains purposefully ignorant of the concept of woman-Ness for the reasons of ideology tinged with an obvious lust for power. Thank the dems for yet another harridan.
I may be at the norm here but I believe that Jackson is going to prove to be an excellent Justice. Not because she’s black or because she’s a woman but because of her background of being a public defender.
How many prosecutors are on the court, crackpot?
I’ll try to justify her behavior. She is an activist for minorities of any kind. She sees the law through the eyes of pedophiles or lgbt and others and interprets and applies the law to benefit them. It’s convoluted but goes something like that. She no longer defends them , she is in a position to alter the law in application.
It may not make sense
The basis of identity politics is to raise the preferences, choices, whims and feelings of anyone who perceives themself as a member of an aggrieved group above the rights and freedoms of those outside the group. Some of us are more equal than the rest.
It’s officially “feewings” now at OTs blog. No more feelings. Don’t huwt feewings here!
That’s not my dog.
This is a real head scratcher. Seems like they have a policy that is looking for a lawsuit. Obviously Mr Theis’ worksite is a hornet’s nest of rampant fascism (sarcasm). Probably could have been avoided had he just placed a big sign saying “Warning, something in this worksite might be triggering, please wear blinders to protect your mental health”.
I would suggest he place an even bigger picture of a snowflake melting right beside the mental health warning sign. But he must be careful. In this day and age there might be a triggered radical from Chicago on his way out to shoot him.
Of course you never know what is going to trigger the multigender radical progressives of today. Republican congressmen playing baseball, an executive walking down a street in New York, children in a religious school, a presidential candidate campaigning, a young couple attending a gala looking for peaceful pathways to build bridges.
And I have not even mentioned Federal District Court justices who have decided that illegal aliens (especially the criminal types) have squatters rights in the US. These Judges are turning the US into a Roach Motel “they may come in but then they never leave”.
Yep, time to play solitaire and watch out for the queen of diamonds. Time for martial law.
They are “fundamentally transforming” the United States from America to AfriMexiAsiArabia.
And actual Americans are falling for it.
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“Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.”
– Alexander Hamilton
GEB,
Well said. As more and more of this leftist violence continues, the Democrat party loses more and more.
Seattle — Antifa and Trantifa gathered to riot again at the site of the former CHAZ occupation, which led to people being killed in 2020. The May 24 riot was organized to violently shut down a Christian worship event. pic.twitter.com/7vzQAM6hJ6
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 25, 2025
The police did arrest some of the far leftists.
Although I don’t agree with every single United States District Court judge ruling or order, they’re all confirmed by the Senate. Don’t like them, then that’s the place to make your stand. Overall I think they are well vetted and do the best they can, certainly a decent job, especially when comparing them to the trash 🗑️ we have at the State Courts (pure straight up garbage), where it’s cronyism and nepotism in every “appointment” (I’m specifically calling out CA). And if you’re in the 10% minority who actually run and get “elected” for a state judgeship, the machine (Dem machine in CALIFORNIA) has a built in bias and hatred against that judge for taking away a judgeship that they feel they were “entitled” to for a “cronyism” appointment “…👍
Ya
They are “fundamentally transforming” the United States from America to AfriMexiAsiArabia.
And actual Americans are falling for it.
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“Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Next lawsuit will be brought against a math teacher displaying a book with the title 2+2 = 4
“We will not quit until all the best women are men!”
I want to be called Loretta.
As a man he has the right to be a woman.
The prejudice of the modern left toward anyone that thinks differently than them is akin to dark ages religious zealotry or how people used to be racist (no, modern young people have no idea what that was actually like). The irony is very much lost on them.
Our institutions of education and many of our young people are simply broken in the state they’re in, straight up. This is going to be a big, big problem over the next 10-15 years as the trickle into society becomes a deluge.
Meanwhile, people that don’t examine anything beyond the superficial honestly think something like this is an issue of homophobia. So many are so asleep. It’s madness.
Doesn’t take much to trigger a Leftie.
or a rightie like you.
Next, they will be trigger by hetero family photos. How dare we.
Wiseoldlawyer,
These would be the same people who lost it when a child chewed a Pop-Tart into the vague shape of a gun.
But then they applaud when one of their nutjobs stalks and shoots a man in the back.
The mentally ill are easily triggered.
The triggered Oregon progressive coworker feeds her trans kids organic hormone free milk, while pumping the same trans kids full of cross sex hormones and hormones blockers.
Trust the science
Anonymous 8:25 AM-Agree. Their trademark phrase should be “better living through chemistry”.sic.
Yeah, I just want my disability check and medicaid!
Well, there are no doctors anymore.
I don’t care. I still want my medicaid!
Thanks for the occasional laugh, you guys and gals. I’m not sure how you’ll keep the asylum up.and running. There are no sponsors anymore even if DJT is hitting up the Princes and Emirs now but how long can that last.
Two moving violations in one comment: DUI and texting while driving ^^^
Diogenes,
HA! Good one!!
No, but a good idea.
“After 11 weeks, Social Security has finished this major cleanup initiative,” DOGE wrote in a post on social media platform X, adding that some 12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older “have now been marked as deceased.”
DOGE also provided a portion of a screenshot that showed there were about 3.3 million people aged 120 to 129, 3.9 million aged 130 to 139, 3.5 million listed as age 140 to 149, 1.3 million listed as age 150 to 159, and around 124,000 listed as age 160 to 169, all of whom were marked as deceased in the Social Security system.
Social Security’s “records were not very good, and that’s the source of fraud.”
— Social Security Administrator Frank Bisignano
“12.3 million individuals listed as being aged 120 or older ‘have now been marked as deceased… Social Security’s records were not very good, and that’s the source of fraud.’”
Upstate, funny how Democrats never found all these dead people, just like they never find dead voters. Biden got how many votes in 2020? Maybe DOGE should look at that, too.
How about the Social Security Administration listing publicly to whom those fraudulent payments were made? Were those payments made to U.S. citizens or to foreign nationals and deposited in banks outside the U.S.? Why have there been no prosecutions?
“How about the Social Security Administration listing publicly to whom those fraudulent payments were made?”
Start with Act Blue and work your way back. That will be a bunch of them.
All paid to Hunter Biden. All 12.3 million.
They used the NY reserve bank? Non traceable?
States destroyed records.