Libs of TikTok Teacher Campaigns: Firings, Bomb Threats, and Lawsuits

Libs of TikTok, the X account run by Chaya Raichik, has made teachers a central target since 2021, reposting educators’ social media content to millions of followers with captions that label them groomers, predators, or threats to children. The pattern that follows is consistent: harassment campaigns against the teacher by name, hostile calls and emails to the school district, bomb threats against the school in many cases, administrative leave, and often resignation even when district investigations find no policy violation. The account has featured more than 200 individual teachers, schools, and districts, according to reporting by Them.¹

How the Targeting Works

Raichik reposts video or screenshots originally published by an educator, usually content related to LGBTQ+ students, Pride imagery, book displays, or the teacher’s own gender identity. The repost names the teacher and tags the school district, with commentary characterizing the educator as dangerous to children. Terms used across posts include “groomer,” “predator,” and “indoctrination.”²

Followers then flood the teacher and the district with messages. Teachers have been called “pedophile,” “pervert,” and “groomer” by strangers, and many have locked or deleted their social accounts.² The district typically places the teacher on administrative leave citing safety or an open review. Even when the review clears the teacher, resignation often follows under pressure from continued threats, security costs, or public backlash. The account has publicly taken credit for departures, describing its “tremendous impact” in follow-up posts.³

By 2025 the account had roughly 4.3 million followers on X, giving a single post a reach that most districts have no plan for.⁴

Teachers Who Lost Their Jobs

Rosie Sandri, Red Oak High School, Texas

Rosie Sandri, a 33-year-old English teacher, resigned on March 31, 2025, after Libs of TikTok posted a video in which she described student support during her gender transition. The post used her former legal name, misgendered her, and asked whether parents would be “comfortable with this person teaching your kid.”⁵ Texas State Representative Brian Harrison reshared it and demanded she be “immediately terminated.”⁶

Sandri received death threats, including an email to her school address telling her to “eat a bullet.”⁵ The district placed her on two days of administrative leave, found no policy violation, and reached a resignation agreement with her. Sandri said she left for her own safety and her students’ safety, and noted that colleagues and administrators had supported her during the seven months before the post. Libs of TikTok called her departure a “big win.”⁴ She has said she is considering legal action.⁶

Shane Murnan, Western Heights, Oklahoma

Shane Murnan was principal of John Glenn Elementary in Oklahoma City. On August 31, 2023, Libs of TikTok posted about his side work as a drag performer, and Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters called for his termination the same day.⁷ The district began receiving bomb threats in September 2023 and spent about $65,000 on added security.

Superintendent Brayden Savage told staff on December 15, 2023, that Murnan would not return. Murnan was placed on administrative leave in January 2024 and signed a resignation letter on January 26, 2024, after being told to resign or face termination.⁸ He had held the role just over five months. He rejected a non-disclosure clause in the resignation and told reporters, “they’ve destroyed me.”⁹ Murnan disputed the district’s claim of ongoing threats, saying they had stopped by around October 2023.

Rachmad Tjachyadi, Hebron High School, Texas

Tjachyadi, a science teacher in the Lewisville Independent School District, was targeted after Libs of TikTok posted video of him wearing a pink dress and hat during a Valentine’s Day spirit event in 2024. A follow-up post tagged the superintendent and asked why a male teacher was “cosplaying as a woman.”³ Texas Governor Greg Abbott reposted the content.¹⁰ The district placed him on leave the next day as “standard procedure,” then concluded he had not violated any district policies. He resigned anyway, citing “hateful comments on social media” and a wish to keep “external voices” from distracting the school. The account posted about its role in the resignation.

Tyler Wrynn, Owasso, Oklahoma

Wrynn, an English teacher at Will Rogers High School, was targeted after Raichik reposted a video in which he told students, “If your parents don’t accept you for who you are, f**k them. I’m your parents now.” He was placed on administrative leave for the rest of the school year and resigned.¹⁰ Nex Benedict, a nonbinary Owasso student who died in February 2024, was reportedly upset by the backlash Wrynn received.¹¹

Other Educators

Several other teachers followed similar paths after being featured:

Kristin Pitzen, an ESL teacher in California’s Newport Mesa School District, was targeted after posting about jokingly telling a student to pledge allegiance to a progress Pride flag; the district said she was “no longer in the classroom” pending investigation.¹⁰
Jenna Hall, a teacher at Renaissance Academy in Lehi, Utah, was placed on administrative leave after a video about her queer students was amplified by the account; she and the school director “mutually agreed to end” her employment.¹⁰
Elizabeth Hatline, a former Michigan teacher who had already left DeWitt Public Schools, was named and tagged in a repost about commonly banned books; she was labeled a “pedophile” and “groomer” in messages, and police were stationed at every school in the district the next morning in response to threats.¹²

Bomb Threats Against Schools

An NBC News investigation identified 33 instances between November 2020 and February 2024 in which people or institutions targeted by Libs of TikTok then received bomb threats or threats of violent intimidation. Twenty-one were bomb threats sent by email to schools, libraries, hospitals, and other institutions across 16 states, Washington, D.C., and Ontario, Canada.¹³

In a single September, at least 11 schools or districts received bomb threats shortly after being featured by the account, including districts in Oklahoma, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Illinois, California, Wisconsin, Washington, Colorado, and Oregon, along with Fresno State University.¹⁴ In August 2023, Union Public Schools in Tulsa received bomb threats for six consecutive days after Raichik posted a misleadingly edited video of a school librarian; Raichik had replaced the librarian’s original caption, in which she described her “woke agenda” as “teaching kids to love books and be kind.”¹⁵

Law enforcement in several jurisdictions connected the threats directly to the posts. A detective in Coralville, Iowa, wrote that a bomb threat against a junior high school “appears this all stems from a post made earlier this week by Chaya Raichik.”¹³ The FBI assisted in at least 13 jurisdictions. Charges were brought in only three of the 33 instances, and officials in four jurisdictions said some threats appeared to come from foreign IP addresses. None of the charging documents named Raichik or the account.

Raichik has denied responsibility, writing on X, “I don’t support threatening the subjects of my posts,” and dismissing the pattern as a “narrative” meant to discredit her.¹³

Teachers Who Have Sued

Killackey v. Walters, Oklahoma

Regan Killackey, an Edmond, Oklahoma, teacher, filed a defamation lawsuit against former State Superintendent Ryan Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education. The suit alleges Walters shared a Libs of TikTok post targeting Killackey and used social media to suggest the teacher “wanted to harm President Trump.” Killackey’s attorney called the conduct an intentional abuse of office aimed at damaging his client’s reputation and career.¹⁶

The state had moved to revoke Killackey’s teaching certificate, but the lawsuit alleges officials failed to provide proper notice and terminated a hearing officer after unfavorable rulings. After Walters resigned in September 2025, his successor, Superintendent Lindel Fields, dismissed the revocation attempt in October 2025.¹⁷ As of May 2026, the defamation suit was active, with Killackey seeking at least $75,000 in damages. His attorney said he planned to amend the petition to add First Amendment claims.¹⁸

Sciuto v. Libs of TikTok, Maryland

Alexa Sciuto, a Baltimore teacher, sued the operator of Libs of TikTok, members of Moms for Liberty, and four Republican state delegates, alleging a conspiracy to derail her career. The dispute began with a Sciuto post about a Moms for Liberty member that critics characterized as a threat and that Sciuto called “online political satire.” The named delegates had demanded her removal from county schools.¹⁹ As of June 2025, the suit was in its initial stages with no reported rulings or settlements. Members of the Maryland Freedom Caucus called it “frivolous.”²⁰

Where the Account Stands Now

Platform enforcement has slowed but not stopped the account. Twitter temporarily suspended it five times for “hateful conduct” and promoting violence or harassment. Facebook temporarily banned it twice, in August 2022 and January 2024. Instagram and TikTok have both deactivated the account temporarily, and TikTok imposed a permanent suspension.²¹ It remains active on X, where owner Elon Musk has praised Raichik’s “free speech.”

The account’s reach into school policy also persists. In January 2024, Ryan Walters appointed Raichik to the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s Library Media Advisory Committee, a volunteer body that reviews contested school library books. A department spokesperson, pressed on prior bomb threats against Oklahoma schools linked to the account, said, “The people who post bomb threats are the people who post bomb threats.”²² As of December 2025, after Walters resigned, Raichik remained the only publicly identified member of the committee, and the department said the full membership list was not accessible.²³ Raichik has publicly stated that teachers who come out as gay to students should be “fired on the spot” and has encouraged followers to run for local school boards.²⁴

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