It's not too late to register for tomorrow's town hall, "Book Bans and the Art of Protecting Authors," with guests @angiethomas.bsky.social, Jas Perry, and @philomena.bsky.social!

www.publishingprofessionalsagainstbookbans.com/events

Good evening #BookSky Well, #BannedBooksWeek may be wrapping up but the fight for the right to read continues. Here's a quick thread of things you can do all year to help...

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

Jim Davis thinks we’re all stupid. Garfield first appeared in 1978. The normal lifespan of a cat is 13-20 years. He’s replaced Garfield, probably multiple times.

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging:
1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal.
2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

More of this please

So has this place started to suck yet, or are we one step ahead still?

I’m late to this, but can someone explain to me why the lovely, snappy dialogue of “Red, White, & Royal Blue” was replaced with hacky cliches? I swear to god I’m not usually a “not like the book” girl but this is killing me

The New York Times is seriously out here like, "Hey, upset about the SCOTUS decision? Don't worry, we've got some helpful tips. Have you considered just dying?" Pretty dark! https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/business/student-loan-debt-forgiveness.html