ah yes, nothing says “21st century education” like letting an algorithm decide which books your kids can’t read. totally normal, right?

moms for liberty co-sponsored a wyoming fundraiser with turning point usa. the sold-out event shows their strategy isn’t just school boards — it’s building power across the conservative movement.

texas courts say public libraries can remove “explicit” books. colorado courts may rule the opposite. both cases are likely headed for the supreme court. the future of library shelves could soon be decided by nine justices.

salisbury, nc will mark banned books week with a silent downtown read-in. residents gathering to publicly read books pulled from shelves. these books cover racism, lgbtq+ lives, and social justice. when words are silenced, even silence can speak loudly.

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banned books week at syracuse and asu isn’t just readings — it’s simulations, panels, and george takei reminding us this fight is older than we are. how many banned books weeks do we have to host before the bans stop?

nikki haley, trump, desantis lining up with moms for liberty like it’s a prize fight against reality. we’re just okay with this now? do they even realize how obvious this is?

moms for liberty doubling down on library censorship. call it what it is: fascism dressed as “parental rights.” how long before they’re the ones writing our kids’ history books?

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dallas’ pan-african connection is fighting to keep books about black + queer lives on shelves. funny how “freedom” always stops at stories that aren’t white + straight. who benefits from this erasure?

steven pico — the guy who fought a school board ban in the 80s — still has to show up at banned books week to defend the same right. four decades later and we’re stuck in reruns.

west point faculty suing over speech + book restrictions. when even the military academy fears dissent, that’s not discipline — it’s censorship creep. how long until academic freedom is just a slogan?

a quiet liberal group is recruiting candidates to counter moms for liberty’s school board crusade. funny how it takes a shadow army just to stop book bans + bathroom panic.

george takei is leading banned books week this year. a man who survived internment camps + homophobia now has to rally us to protect libraries. wild that 2025 still needs this fight.

letters + social posts pouring in against moms for liberty. parents saying: stop deciding for everyone else. maybe the real parental right is to not be dragged into your culture war.

For the cheap seats… Antifa isn’t an organization. It’s an ideology and something MAGA heads use to label people they don’t like.

moms for liberty chair stripped at a school board meeting to protest trans kids. they say it’s about parental rights — looks more like a freak show for attention. how is this even considered activism?

penguin random house is rolling a literal banned wagon giving away challenged books for free. the villains make the list, the rest of us make the road trip. is that what resistance looks like now?

bounties on teachers. vague laws weaponized against classrooms. moms for liberty calls it “parental rights” — but it looks like intimidation with a smile. what happens to education when fear writes the lesson plan?

moms for liberty teaming up with trump’s ed secretary + tpusa to teach kids “patriotism.” translation: rewrite the past, scrub the present. how long before civics class looks like a campaign rally?

public school strong + banned books week are handing out the very titles censors are scared of. librarians doing the work politicians won’t. maybe the real revolution is just a library card and a banned book.

1,586 book bans in 26 states. whole swaths of stories about race, sexuality and grief yanked from kids’ shelves. but sure, this is about “protecting children.” how many more classics will vanish before someone blinks?

a new banned books club at trinity university is literally reading and protesting at the same time. is this what it takes now to keep books on shelves?

moms for liberty joined a federal civics initiative to “teach patriotism” in schools — the same group pushing book bans. what does that even teach our kids?

the national park service just banned books that “portray america negatively.” this is government censorship in plain sight. how far will they go to rewrite history?

artists making fiber art about banned books because words aren’t enough anymore. none of this is surprising anymore. how far does censorship have to go before we break?

moms for liberty keeps hauling giant posters of book pages to statehouses like it’s the 1950s. i’m so tired of this. how much longer do we let them run the show?

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escambia county wants to scrap its citizen book review committee and hand power to the superintendent. fewer voices, more bans, less sunlight. how is this still called democracy?

connecticut just did what florida won’t: passed a law requiring fair, transparent school library challenges. students win, censors lose. why is this such a radical idea in 2025?

escambia county wants to ditch citizen book review committees and hand it all to the superintendent. fewer eyes, less transparency, more power to pull books. how is this making kids safer?

florida now threatening librarians with criminal charges & calling them child abusers. totally normal, right? if they scare teachers into silence, who’s left for the kids?

one senate race in florida is basically moms for liberty vs everyone sick of them. it’s exhausting but at least people are fighting back. maybe this is the crack in the dam.

new doc “the librarians” frames book bans as civil rights crisis. apparently we need a movie to explain why censorship is bad. the credits shouldn’t roll on our rights.

the ala and interfaith groups keep showing up for libraries, fighting censorship while the rest of us scroll. maybe the boring part of democracy is just showing up. when’s the last time you went to a board meeting?

afghan women risk prison and worse just to read. thousands of books hidden in secret rooms. call it what it is: authoritarian terror crushing women’s minds. why do we act like censorship is ever harmless?

florida now threatens librarians with misconduct for having books by judy blume or george r.r. martin. totally normal behavior for a democracy, right? how long till they need secret police for school libraries?

llano county literally replaced its library board after book bans. cool cool cool. what’s next, background checks for checking out books?

moms for liberty keeps pushing bills to erase race and gender from classrooms. this isn’t “parental rights,” it’s book banning in a cardigan. how long are we supposed to watch this happen?

moms for liberty still pushing book removals, now demanding a city council president’s ouster in ohio. this isn’t “parental rights,” it’s a power grab. are we just going to watch?

alabama’s new proposal: ban books with positive transgender characters but leave the negative depictions. call it what it is: state-sponsored erasure. am i the only one pissed?

rockingham county banned rage, out of darkness, go ask alice & beloved. moved sex ed books to “adult” shelves. this is about erasing kids’ realities, not “protecting” them. seriously, how is this okay?

little free library + pen america built a map so you can find banned books near you. the aclu is hosting an “1984” discussion for banned books week. if the shelves are empty, the streets will become the library. will you show up?

tennessee quadrupled its book bans. texas still leads. now iowa’s on the rise. every map looks like a slow-motion blackout on libraries. what will be left to read if this is “normal”?

brooke weiss says she’s been targeted for exposing a gender support plan, fbi visits and all. moms for liberty loves to play victim while lobbying for policies that hurt kids. why does this always work on lawmakers?

maryland passed a freedom to read act. harford county banned a book anyway. laws on paper mean nothing if officials bend to pressure from loud parents. when will the state actually enforce its own rules?

another florida school board just banned two more books. over 600 gone since 2022. still pretending it’s about “protecting kids” while gutting libraries. how much more are we going to let them erase?

alberta’s still stalling on their school book ban “revisions.” translation: more censorship, just dressed up to sound reasonable. kids are learning bureaucracy instead of literature.