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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17h

Books Save Lives.

Find your courage.
Follow your moral compass.
Do not obey in advance.

Banning books for kids — for all humans — is a form of violence.

Books Save Lives.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 2d

An Important Video for Banned Books Week 2025.

Thank you to @mackidssl.bsky.social, @torbooks.bsky.social, and @fiercereads.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in this project.

Please consider watching and sharing with others.

Books Save Lives.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 2d

It's Banned Books Week 2025.

Celebrate (y)our freedom to read.
Honor (y)our freedom to read.

Books Save Lives.
Bad People Bad Books.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to @mackidssl.bsky.social for inviting me to be a part of this video.

Books save lives.

Bad people ban books.

Fierce Reads @fiercereads.bsky.social · 3d

We have a very important message for you this #BannedBooksWeek: Get involved! All week long we'll be sharing tips on books to read and how to join the fight for the freedom to read. ⁣
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#FreedomToRead #BooksNotBans #BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks!! Super exciting!!

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 3d

I get to share some super exciting news!

Last night, my picture book, GLENN BURKE, GAME CHANGER, illustrated by @danielostudios.bsky.social, won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Children’s Books!

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 6d

Gleeful
They are gleeful that humans are about to lose their healthcare.
They are gleeful that humans are about to lose their jobs.
Gleeful.

Hateful and cruel.
Do not believe their lies.
Do not believe this regime.
Hateful and cruel.

Resist.
They are monstrous evildoers.
Resist.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for helping to spread the word!

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 9d

Philadelphia Area Friends -- Come join us and please help spread the word!

An Activation of Hope -- Fighting Book Bans and Censorship

Next Tuesday evening October 7, @ellenoh.bsky.social and I will be at the Chestnut Hill Library for a special Banned Books Week program.

Books save lives.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 9d

Do not believe this regime.
Question everything they say.

Do not obey them in advance.
Resist.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 10d

Hitler and the Nazis banned books.

If you’re so offended being compared to Hitler and being called Nazis, it really is quite simple: Stop emulating and acting like Nazis.

The freedom to read is a human right.

Nazis ban books.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 11d

An Activation of Hope -- Fighting Book Bans and Censorship

Philadelphia area friends -- on Tuesday evening October , @ellenoh.bsky.social, and I will be at the Chestnut Hill Library for a special Banned Books Week program.

Learn how we ALL can play a part in the fight for the freedom to read.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 13d

It's time for ABC to take it to Nexstar and Sinclair!

Affiliates that refuse to air network programming may be breaching their affiliate agreements.

If they continue to refuse to air Jimmy Kimmel, then ABC should pull live sporting events... including SEC football and Monday Night Football.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 14d

This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social

"What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist"

Please consider letting others know that this exists.

pen.org/what-to-do-i...

What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist

We map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxing.

pen.org

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 15d

What about the people who can't afford to leave? That's the overwhelming majority of people, especially humans of color.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 16d

If you were to create a Venn Diagram of pro-censorship, anti-freedom-to-read book banners with Charlie Kirk idolators and deifiers who respond to all of his words and content of hate and cruelty with, “that’s taken out of context,” you’d have a pair of pretty much overlapping circles.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 16d

I still don’t think enough people realize just how dangerous this moment is.

Organize.
Not just online. In person.

Resist.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 16d

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17d

“The performative Conservative outpouring this week has nothing to do with their love for him and everything to do with their hatred of the people he hated.”

— John Pavlovitz

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17d

Liberals, progressives, and empathetic humans being targeted and losing their jobs for posting and sharing the words of Charlie Kirk is peak MAGA inanity.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 17d

This is a time for courageous empathy.

Resist this regime.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks for your helpful insight.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 18d

Capitulation is complicity.
Silence is complicity.

Do not obey in advance.
Resist this regime.

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 18d

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance."
-- Laurie Halse Anderson, @halseanderson.bsky.social

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 19d

An insignificant, not a insignificant. Slow down, hon.