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Jarrett Dapier
@jarrettdapier.bsky.social
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Author of books for kids & teens, incl. MR. WATSON’S CHICKENS (NPR Best Book of ‘21), JAZZ FOR LUNCH!, and upcoming graphic novel, WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE. | Host, I’M WITH THE BANNED podcast about censorship | Librarian. Drummer. Union Member.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 6d
Episode #2 of my podcast I’m With the Banned feat YA author Randi Pink is available now. Randi discusses her book Angel of Greenwood set on the eve of the Tulsa Race Massacre, recent actions to remove her book from the 9th gr curriculum in PA, writing, and more.
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Podcast Episode · I'm With the Banned · 09/30/2025 · 1h 6m
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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · 1d
It's #BannedBooksWeek. @ala-booklist.bsky.social & @oif.bsky.social have a free workshop on Thur. 10/9 full of resources to help combat book challenges. Registration is free: bit.ly/3KlmknK

Stay tuned for our book panel feat. @jarrettdapier.bsky.social, @kellyyang.bsky.social, & Ashley Hope Pérez!
Promotional graphic for upcoming Booklist and OIF workshop: READ ON: TOOLS TO HELP YOU PREPARE FOR AND RESPOND TO BOOK CHALLENGES happening Thursday, October 9 at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 1d
This Thursday at 3p CST, I'll be speaking w/ @kellyyang.bsky.social (Front Desk, New From Here) & Ashley Hope Pérez (Out of Darkness) @ala-booklist.bsky.social & @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social's webinar, Read On: Tools to Prepare for & Respond to Book Challenges. ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Read On: Tools to Help You Prepare for and Respond to Book Challenges. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
According to data released by the American Library Association, there were 821 attempts to censor library books and materials in 2024 with a majority of these attempts originating from organized movem...
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 1d
This Wednesday at 8p CST/9p EST I'll be speaking w/ Ben Passmore (Your Black Friend and Other Strangers) and Rex Ogle (Punching Bag, Road Home) as part of the @everylibrary.bsky.social Banned Books program,
"Stories Under Fire: #Comics, #Censorship, and #Resistance."
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Stories Under Fire: Comics, Censorship, and Resistance with Jarrett Dapier and Ben Passmore
YouTube video by EveryLibrary
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 4d
One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d
*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4d
“They asked for a sword, and we said, ‘Well, we do have swords, but we can’t give them away because they’re museum artifacts,’” said Todd Arrington, forced to resign as head of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.”
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 5d
ICE Agents in #Chicago
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

It’s the most egregious abuse of our basic rights as Americans I've seen in a long time, maybe in my lifetime,” says Chris Hayes.
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 4d
My heart breaks over the gestapo raid in Chicago that ripped naked sleeping children from parents in the middle of the night. Pure evil. There is zero justification for this. None. The democratic world must sanction Stephen Miller, Noem, others. Investigate & prosecute their crimes against humanity
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 4d
If you're an American, you're working through the stages of grief. Accept that things really are that bad and it's going to take greater resilience and risk to right these wrongs.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 3d
It’s unbearable.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 3d
The Americans is an amazing show.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 3d
These are the same nowhere shits who gave R. Kelly a headlining slot at their fest in 2013 despite literally EVERYONE knowing what he was up to.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
I need to spend more time on my kayak. Last time I went, my son and I saw countless herons in the lagoon nearby. I was in heaven.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 6d
Director of the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness ⬇️
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Doug Schenkelberg @endhomeless.bsky.social · 6d
ICE has hit three homeless shelters in the last week. All shelters that were set up to serve migrants.

So they forced people to move to Chicago, Chicago stood up shelters to support migrants, and the feds use those shelters as targets for their kidnapping.

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Bronzeville Homeless Shelter Residents 'Traumatized' After Feds Chase, Arrest 4 People
The federal agents arrived in unmarked minivans and detained four people outside a shelter run by a local church's charity Wednesday.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
Oh, the sad sack Russian army that can’t do anything well? Got it.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
Thank you for sharing so many gorgeous images of my favorite bird. And you get such elegant, beautiful shots!
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
These Trump cultists have no souls, no principles, no moral compass whatsoever. They are half-people: dead eyed little dickless bottom feeders stumbling aimlessly towards a few dollar bills on a fish hook waving in front of their beady little eyes.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
So petty and small. And invasive AF. Also, the media message could easily be “republicans refused to compromise with democrats and the American people.” That the media isn’t running with the more accurate line is telling.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 5d
Couldn’t agree more.
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 6d
The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.
Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi
I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 6d
Episode #2 of my podcast I’m With the Banned feat YA author Randi Pink is available now. Randi discusses her book Angel of Greenwood set on the eve of the Tulsa Race Massacre, recent actions to remove her book from the 9th gr curriculum in PA, writing, and more.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Randi Pink
Podcast Episode · I'm With the Banned · 09/30/2025 · 1h 6m
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 7d
PEN America has released their latest report on the state of school book bans in 2024-2025.

They've found nearly 23,000 book bans since 2021, and there were 6,870 in 2024-2025.

This report is crucial reading for understanding the state of book censorship right now.

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23,000 Book Bans Since 2021: PEN America Releases Its Latest Report on the State of Literary Censorship
PEN America's latest report shows nearly 23,000 book bans in US public schools since 2021 and nearly 7,000 in the 2024-2025 year.
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Jarrett Dapier @jarrettdapier.bsky.social · 7d
Truly fucking sadistic and sick.
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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social · 8d
This is who this administration is. Taking KIDS playing in one of our most beloved parks, a park that draws tourists & locals, a park that shows the necessity & beauty of democratizing spaces in our cities. BP is choosing to terrorize people in spaces like this to make us all afraid. Grotesque.
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8d
8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...
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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 8d
Leander Independent School District (TX) administrators told educators to pull 40 books from their shelves, including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and LES MISERABLES. They got these titles from using AI.

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Texas School Administrators Use A.I. To Ban Books Like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
Leander Independent School District's administrators tell educators to "pause" use of 40 books, including numerous classroom classics.
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