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Bookmark this. Print a copy and keep it handy. So many absolute gems:
“The freedom to read is a shared right, not a zero-sum game.”
“Censorship doesn’t happen all at once… it chips away at freedom, one title at a time.”
“The freedom to read is a shared right, not a zero-sum game.”
“Censorship doesn’t happen all at once… it chips away at freedom, one title at a time.”
Debunking the Myths: Responding to the Most Common Arguments for Book Censorship
Book censorship arguments often disguise efforts to erase diverse voices. Responding with facts, empathy, and First Amendment values helps protect everyone’s right to read.
www.freedomtoreadproject.org
July 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Bookmark this. Print a copy and keep it handy. So many absolute gems:
“The freedom to read is a shared right, not a zero-sum game.”
“Censorship doesn’t happen all at once… it chips away at freedom, one title at a time.”
“The freedom to read is a shared right, not a zero-sum game.”
“Censorship doesn’t happen all at once… it chips away at freedom, one title at a time.”
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This week, the ACLU was in court over the order that all US military schools remove "DEI" books from shelves. Here's how they got here, what's happening in these schools, and why military-housed books have been an easy target this year.
That + book censorship news.
bookriot.com/aclu-dodea-l...
That + book censorship news.
bookriot.com/aclu-dodea-l...
How The ACLU Is Responding to Book Bans in US Military Schools: Book Censorship News, June 6, 2025
Learn about the ACLU's lawsuit over book bans in US military schools. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This week, the ACLU was in court over the order that all US military schools remove "DEI" books from shelves. Here's how they got here, what's happening in these schools, and why military-housed books have been an easy target this year.
That + book censorship news.
bookriot.com/aclu-dodea-l...
That + book censorship news.
bookriot.com/aclu-dodea-l...
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"Having spent my childhood attending church 3 times a week, having never heard my parents utter a curse word in my life, I expected to be turned off by the book.
Rather, I really empathized with the main character of the book"
www.thesiuslawnews.com/opinion/lett...
Rather, I really empathized with the main character of the book"
www.thesiuslawnews.com/opinion/lett...
Letter to the Editor
I didn’t expect to be so moved by the book Flamer, recently banned by the school board.
www.thesiuslawnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Having spent my childhood attending church 3 times a week, having never heard my parents utter a curse word in my life, I expected to be turned off by the book.
Rather, I really empathized with the main character of the book"
www.thesiuslawnews.com/opinion/lett...
Rather, I really empathized with the main character of the book"
www.thesiuslawnews.com/opinion/lett...
The DOD schools are a test to see what they can get away with. Don't let it happen!
March 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The DOD schools are a test to see what they can get away with. Don't let it happen!
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Book banners have lost court case after court case.
Because they’re lying to you.
www.dailytrib.com/2025/03/28/e...
Because they’re lying to you.
www.dailytrib.com/2025/03/28/e...
Ex-librarian gets $225K settlement - DailyTrib.com
Former Kingsland head librarian Suzette Baker reached a $225,000 settlement with Llano County on March...
www.dailytrib.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Book banners have lost court case after court case.
Because they’re lying to you.
www.dailytrib.com/2025/03/28/e...
Because they’re lying to you.
www.dailytrib.com/2025/03/28/e...
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Minnesota: A student from St. Francis High School testified to her school board Monday about the restrictive policy that led to at least 47 books—including Beloved, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale— being banned in her district.
Read more at: pen.org/st-francis-m...
Read more at: pen.org/st-francis-m...
March 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Minnesota: A student from St. Francis High School testified to her school board Monday about the restrictive policy that led to at least 47 books—including Beloved, Brave New World, and The Handmaid's Tale— being banned in her district.
Read more at: pen.org/st-francis-m...
Read more at: pen.org/st-francis-m...
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this is what I mean when I say "roll up"
What is preventing more men from manifesting this type of masculinity?
March 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
this is what I mean when I say "roll up"
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“An effective school library is not just a room with books. It’s a tool that comes alive when librarians and community members tend to it and develop programming and relationships with students to model the joy books can bring us.” #MiSchoolLibraries
Brian Peck: Building a Library, Building a Legacy - TeachMichigan
Brian Peck never set out to be a teacher, let alone a school librarian. He studied sociology in college, considering careers in social work or even the priesthood. But everything changed when he took ...
teachmi.org
March 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“An effective school library is not just a room with books. It’s a tool that comes alive when librarians and community members tend to it and develop programming and relationships with students to model the joy books can bring us.” #MiSchoolLibraries
They are going to twist an institution that values freedom of information into a tool for misinformation.
The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now officially a propaganda department.
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
bookriot.com/imls-propaga...
The Institute for Museum and Library Services Is Now a Propaganda Machine: Book Censorship News, March 21, 2025
DOGE didn't dismantle the only federal agency supporting public libraries. It was instead turned into a propaganda machine. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
March 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
They are going to twist an institution that values freedom of information into a tool for misinformation.
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Today, we sent a letter warning the new Institute of Museum and Library Services acting director not to cut library programs required by federal law. www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
March 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Today, we sent a letter warning the new Institute of Museum and Library Services acting director not to cut library programs required by federal law. www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
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There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.
Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.
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In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
www.everylibrary.org
March 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
In a new executive order, Trump has targeted the federal agency charged with distributing congressionally approved funds to state libraries and to library, museum, and archives program grant recipients. www.everylibrary.org/statementiml...
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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.
Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
The book banners have returned in my school district, and all of my anger and frustration are back. This can't be healthy. I wonder if we can get a group rate on some therapy?
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The book banners have returned in my school district, and all of my anger and frustration are back. This can't be healthy. I wonder if we can get a group rate on some therapy?
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BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for threatening funding cuts to schools that engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
The federal government cannot force schools to follow their political agenda.
The federal government cannot force schools to follow their political agenda.
March 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for threatening funding cuts to schools that engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
The federal government cannot force schools to follow their political agenda.
The federal government cannot force schools to follow their political agenda.
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EveryLibrary strongly opposes the Trump administration’s censorship and political interference in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools.
www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...
Follow and support @everylibrary.bsky.social to help fight for libraries.
www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...
Follow and support @everylibrary.bsky.social to help fight for libraries.
EveryLibrary Statement on Censorship and Political Interference in Department of Defense K-12 Schools
EveryLibrary strongly opposes the Trump administration’s censorship and political interference in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools.
www.everylibrary.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
EveryLibrary strongly opposes the Trump administration’s censorship and political interference in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools.
www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...
Follow and support @everylibrary.bsky.social to help fight for libraries.
www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...
Follow and support @everylibrary.bsky.social to help fight for libraries.
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Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.
A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist.
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Say It’s a ‘Cautionary Tale’ For All Law Firms
The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
www.courtwatch.news
February 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.
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The first attack on books by Nazis started with LGBT and “un-German” books.
Bigotry and Nationalism Launched Nazi Book Burning
The first attack on books by Nazis started with LGBT and “un-German” books.
buff.ly
February 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The first attack on books by Nazis started with LGBT and “un-German” books.
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Please remember that DEI is really DEIA—A for Accessibility: “At another DoDEA school in Europe, all references to Disability Awareness Month have been ordered removed, and libraries are removing books that discuss immigration in a positive light, another source said”
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Please remember that DEI is really DEIA—A for Accessibility: “At another DoDEA school in Europe, all references to Disability Awareness Month have been ordered removed, and libraries are removing books that discuss immigration in a positive light, another source said”
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Members of the military are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home.
action.everylibrary.org/students_of_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
action.everylibrary.org/students_of_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Students of Military Parents Deserve the Freedom to Read
While fighting abroad, their children's freedoms are being eroded at home.
action.everylibrary.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Members of the military are fighting for our freedoms abroad, yet those same freedoms are being eroded in their children's schools at home.
action.everylibrary.org/students_of_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
action.everylibrary.org/students_of_... via @everylibrary.bsky.social
I am so proud of the middle school kids who walked out in protest of Hegseth's visit. They recognize that their rights are being infringed.
📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.
Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad
The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.
www.msnbc.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I am so proud of the middle school kids who walked out in protest of Hegseth's visit. They recognize that their rights are being infringed.
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Remember when Trump’s admin called book bans a hoax?
They’re the ones banning books.
This went out at one of the DODEA middle schools overseas.
Sign the petition against banned books at www.bookbanpetition.us
They’re the ones banning books.
This went out at one of the DODEA middle schools overseas.
Sign the petition against banned books at www.bookbanpetition.us
February 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Remember when Trump’s admin called book bans a hoax?
They’re the ones banning books.
This went out at one of the DODEA middle schools overseas.
Sign the petition against banned books at www.bookbanpetition.us
They’re the ones banning books.
This went out at one of the DODEA middle schools overseas.
Sign the petition against banned books at www.bookbanpetition.us