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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4h

dude, i've been quietly, uh, mentally spiraling about this.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4h

OKAY so I'm still chewing this over. Back when we all had phones in our house, a kid could pick up the phone and dial it.

Now, in order for my kid to make a phone call outside of an emergency, she needs to know a password to open either my phone or my husband's.

So many steps.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 9h

It's the SCHOOL library.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13h

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Students are *banned from the school library* so officials can go ban books.

This is EXACTLY what advocates warned.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

At the bottom of the piece are action steps you can take. Among them? Sharing and signing a petition created by high schoolers who are furious that their favorite event is being impacted by bans like this with no explanation.

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

Eight books have been banned from an optional state-wide Reading Bowl in Georgia–an event meant to encourage young people to read. The steering committee pulled those titles with no reason, including a title about....the impact of book bans.

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

Are you considering seeking appointment or running for a seat on your local library board? Are you on the Left(s)? Apply to join FTP's Library Board Candidate cohort which will launch in Feb 2026: forms.gle/RuTxVLjvnX8K...

FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 12h

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?

New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 11h

It's sad that these folks do not have enough people in their real lives to get them the help they need.

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 12h

Either this action won’t face any public criticism or correction from the state (this is more likely to happen if the district leans conservative), or the state’s narrative will be to blame a few “political actors” that are deliberately denying students access to score political points.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13h

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Students are *banned from the school library* so officials can go ban books.

This is EXACTLY what advocates warned.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 12h

The thing I've been fixated with lately is all of the messaging around not wearing makeup and being "naturally beautiful," and how many hundreds of dollars folks then spend on skincare to attempt to achieve *that* goal. It's exchanging where the consumerism goes. It's still $$$ either way.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13h

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Students are *banned from the school library* so officials can go ban books.

This is EXACTLY what advocates warned.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13h

'Bout to drop something infuriating and also not in the least surprising.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Library folks -->

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d

Has your library banned Banned Books Week events/displays this year? I want to hear about it. I had thought I'd get 2-3 responses but, y'all, we're at over 20 at this point.

All anonymous. It will be used for a story in the near future. Survey closes 10/17.

docs.google.com/forms/d/1n65...

Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

At the bottom of the piece are action steps you can take. Among them? Sharing and signing a petition created by high schoolers who are furious that their favorite event is being impacted by bans like this with no explanation.

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

Eight books have been banned from an optional state-wide Reading Bowl in Georgia–an event meant to encourage young people to read. The steering committee pulled those titles with no reason, including a title about....the impact of book bans.

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

The Executive Director of Cache County (UT) has proposed completely defunding the Cache County Library system: www.hjnews.com/news/communi...

Cache County Library pleads for community’s help as potential defunding looms

The Cache County Library, led by Director Brynnan Sainsbury, took to social media Thursday evening, launching a series of pleas to “SAVE THE CACHE COUNTY LIBRARY,” following news of Cache

www.hjnews.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

This week, a panel just advanced this bill. There are some concessions–libraries can "only" be sued for $500, not $50,000, for example–but the meat is the same.

You know, so you can act. Don't sit back on it, *esp* if you're in Wyoming.

wyofile.com/panel-advanc...

Panel advances legislation restricting sexual content in Wyoming library books - WyoFile

The Judiciary Committee voted 11-2 in support of the measure, and the issue unified Wyoming Freedom Caucus lawmakers with Republicans not always aligned with them.

wyofile.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 16h

This summer, I wrote about a potential bill coming up in Wyoming that would absolutely devastate libraries statewide and would create some of the most restrictions on what could or couldn't be available for minors. Yes, there's also a "parents can sue" portion...

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Wyoming Proposes Extreme Anti-Library Bill

The proposed bill text would itself be deemed "sexually explicit" were it to be read by anyone under the age of 18.

buttondown.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17h

This is the best one.

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17h

Legit LOL.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17h

If you're in Ohio, you can point to what's happening at libraries in Indiana, Wyoming, and Missouri as a result of their states choosing this property tax cuts. The latest in the GOP's schemes to kill public goods.

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 17h

Plain Dealer Opinion
Ohio's Libraries and parks -- beloved by voters -- will be crushed if property taxes get abolished next year, losing most of their money, but the lawmakers who created the tax crisis refuse to take substantial steps to fix it.
www.cleveland.com/news/2025/10...

Ohio’s beloved parks and libraries face annihilation in Republican war on property taxes

How lawmakers shifted tax burdens to homeowners while giving billions to wealthy friends, now putting community institutions at risk

www.cleveland.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Solid point. She does know her full address, which apparently ISNT a thing she needs to know at 4.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl–an optional state-wide competition intended to get kids excited about reading–has banned 8 books from its teen competition this year.

Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.

What the hell is going on?

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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