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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

Abortion Providers Say Missouri's Attorney General Is Trying to Get Patient Records

The fight over subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 1d

The former Wyoming library director was fired for not removing books with "sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes," but she was rewarded a $700,000 settlement.

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute wins $700,000 settlement

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes on youth shelves has reached a $700,000 settlement with her former employer.

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 5d

Kansas librarian fired because he refused to give Trump the sword that was given to Eisenhower decades ago.

He was fired because he refused to give away a sword to Trump — the sword was given to President Eisenhower decades ago.

TikTok video by Jess Piper

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 6d

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 6d

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children."
` Nelson Mandela

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 6d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 8d

Propaganda for book bans:
Moms for Liberty "Top 10 Books Radicalizing the Left"

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 9d

Book ban in Leander, Texas that includes To Kill A Mockingbird

September 30, 2025 Texas school district Leander ISD pulls 40 books than an AI identified as “DEI” including To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Mis, and 21 books dealing with system racism. Leander ISD comm...

TikTok video by Tiffany 🧠📚🪴

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 13d

TikTok censorship and surveillance:

IwillNeverBeSilent @ctraveler.bsky.social · 15d

Censorship of TikTok was never about China or national security, it was always about Trump not getting his way.

It was always about silencing the voices on the left.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19d

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time

“While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'”

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Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

www.blackenterprise.com

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boomdrummer.bsky.social @boomdrummer.bsky.social · 22d

The more things change …,

News from 1939 Germany from the archives of The New York Times

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22d

You’re not allowed to criticize Dear Leader. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22d

Trump: When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump… They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that.

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · 26d

Shira Perlmutter reinstated as copyright chief for the Library of Congress

Appeals court, weighing Trump’s Library of Congress takeover, reinstates copyright chief

Shira Perlmutter sued the Trump administration following her May dismissal.

www.politico.com

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 27d

The literacy nonprofit’s interactive Book Ban Map now includes the latest data on censored books at state and county levels, supplied by the ALA and PEN America, as well as the locations of its book-sharing boxes.

As Censorship Escalates, Little Free Library Updates Interactive Book Ban Map

The literacy nonprofit’s interactive Book Ban Map now includes the latest data on censored books at state and county levels, supplied by the ALA and PEN America, as well as the locations of its…

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Vicious compliance" 🤣

Aleianjack @aleianjack.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hero Librarians Protest Book Ban By Obeying In Advance
www.wonkette.com/p/hero-libra...

Hero Librarians Protest Book Ban By Obeying In Advance

The United Conservative Party of Alberta has always been at war with the Edmonton Public School Board.

www.wonkette.com

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Here's something that is the opposite of tremendously shitty. A big win for libraries and the freedom to read in California!

We ❤️ HB Public Library! @supporthbpl.bsky.social · Sep 5

www.aclusocal.org/en/press-rel... We are thrilled by this outcome!

Court Rules Against Huntington Beach Censorship Scheme

HB ordinance called for “review of library materials containing sexual content”SANTA ANA — Today, in a win for the freedom to read, a state superior court issued a tentative ruling against the City

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 4

The argument, as the White House makes it, is that Trump simply wants art to promote patriotic American values. But what the administration is really engaging in is censorship. And increasingly, the target is a familiar one: immigrants.

Trump’s War on Latino Art

He doesn’t just want immigrants out, but also their history and culture erased.

www.thebulwark.com

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Mike Schnier @mikeschnier.bsky.social · Sep 4

Alberta's government is attempting to rework a public school book ban to 'only' remove queer books.

Canada: Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics

The province says it will review its controversial policy after outcry over removing beloved novels from classrooms

www.theguardian.com

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Banned Camp podcast @bannedcamp.bsky.social · Sep 3

a federal judge just called desantis’ book ban law what it is: unconstitutional. this isn’t about protecting kids — it’s about controlling what they’re allowed to think.

how is this not authoritarianism in plain sight?

Every Week Is Banned Book Week in Florida | Diane Roberts | FlaglerLive

Every day seems to bring another hissy fit from a state goon or “concerned” parent hell-bent on returning us to the glory days of censorship. We live in a state where librarians are called child…

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · Aug 30

Alberta’s book ban is cultural vandalism. The Handmaid’s Tale, The Color Purple, 1984 — gone.

This is the MAGA playbook in Canada: censor, control, erase.
CBC exposed it. Without them, we’d be in the dark.

📖 Defend the right to read.
📺 Defend CBC.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

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Scout Reads @scoutreads.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's never been about protecting children.

Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · Aug 28

Number of Books Banned By Schools In Each US State

Florida (4,500) and Iowa (3,600) recorded the highest number of book bans.

Do you think schools should ban books to protect children?

List of most banned books & authors: brilliantmaps.com/book-bans...

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Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re back to a time where fascist dictators remove art and other content from museums and ban art they find “degenerate”. Yet another page they’re following in the Nazi playbook. Book bans already in place, other media being controlled…

www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

www.npr.org

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LeftwardSwing 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · Aug 23

How about some GOOD NEWS to start your day? 😀

A Federal judge has smacked down Florida's book ban law "Don't Say Gay".

CHBstills @chbstills.bsky.social · Aug 22

Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Book Ban Law | Court rules Florida’s expanded “Don’t Say Gay” law is unconstitutionally vague, violating the First Amendment and censoring acclaimed books. | www.metroweekly.com/2025/08/flor...

Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida’s Book Ban Law

Court rules Florida’s expanded “Don’t Say Gay” law is unconstitutionally vague, violating the First Amendment and censoring acclaimed books.

www.metroweekly.com

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Aug 16

Do you know about how Norway's teachers stood up to Nazis? I talk about it in my new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers. You can preorder here: www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com

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Lyric Rivera | NeuroDivergent Rebel @neurodivergentrebel.substack.com · Aug 16

Judge Carlos Mendoza in Florida has sided with authors and publishers in a lawsuit against the state's book ban, determining that the law violates free speech protections.

It was ruled that Florida's ban on books that "describe sexual conduct" is too broad.

Florida judge strikes down state law used to ban books: 'None of these books are obscene

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