Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions. bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...

State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened

Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

"Book Riot notes that there’s an active chapter of Moms For Liberty in Contra Costa County where San Ramon is located, which puts political pressure on public schools and libraries to censor topics on race, sexuality, and gender." sfist.com/2025/11/02/a...

A chapter in the new womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores creative #printmaking in protest, including in women's Civil Rights activism & zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....Art below left by LaToya Hobbs of Black Women of Print bookshop.org/beta-search?...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

"In her first appearance during a special-called meeting Oct. 30, former college swimmer Riley Gaines and the Sumner County Library Board could not move forward with a controversial ban on transgender books for all county-run libraries."

One of the reasons that The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is one the most banned books in the United States:

A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense Monday to return books about gender and race back to five school libraries on military bases.

Utah quietly bans it's 19th book from all state public schools. bookriot.com/utah-bans-th...

47 books removed. From a Texas public library. “Weeded.” Targeted for removal based on ideological complaints. So not “weeded.” Censored. Banned.

Knew it!

Texas HB 900 has been permanently enjoined and the part of the bill requiring booksellers to rate books has been overturned! @bookpeople www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Donald Trump just posted this video on Truth Social

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Propaganda for banning books in Wyoming

This was after the school district pulled 40 books that AI identified as "DEI."

Kansas librarian fired because he refused to give Trump the sword that was given to Eisenhower decades ago.

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

The former Wyoming library director was fired for not removing books with "sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes," but she was rewarded a $700,000 settlement.

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children." ` Nelson Mandela

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

Propaganda for book bans: Moms for Liberty "Top 10 Books Radicalizing the Left"

TikTok censorship and surveillance:

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

The more things change …, News from 1939 Germany from the archives of The New York Times www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

You’re not allowed to criticize Dear Leader. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Shira Perlmutter reinstated as copyright chief for the Library of Congress

The literacy nonprofit’s interactive Book Ban Map now includes the latest data on censored books at state and county levels, supplied by the ALA and PEN America, as well as the locations of its book-sharing boxes.

"Vicious compliance" 🤣

Here's something that is the opposite of tremendously shitty. A big win for libraries and the freedom to read in California!

The argument, as the White House makes it, is that Trump simply wants art to promote patriotic American values. But what the administration is really engaging in is censorship. And increasingly, the target is a familiar one: immigrants.

Alberta's government is attempting to rework a public school book ban to 'only' remove queer books.

a federal judge just called desantis’ book ban law what it is: unconstitutional. this isn’t about protecting kids — it’s about controlling what they’re allowed to think. how is this not authoritarianism in plain sight?

Alberta’s book ban is cultural vandalism. The Handmaid’s Tale, The Color Purple, 1984 — gone. This is the MAGA playbook in Canada: censor, control, erase. CBC exposed it. Without them, we’d be in the dark. 📖 Defend the right to read. 📺 Defend CBC. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

It's never been about protecting children.

We’re back to a time where fascist dictators remove art and other content from museums and ban art they find “degenerate”. Yet another page they’re following in the Nazi playbook. Book bans already in place, other media being controlled… www.npr.org/2025/08/24/n...

How about some GOOD NEWS to start your day? 😀 A Federal judge has smacked down Florida's book ban law "Don't Say Gay".

Do you know about how Norway's teachers stood up to Nazis? I talk about it in my new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers. You can preorder here: www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com

Judge Carlos Mendoza in Florida has sided with authors and publishers in a lawsuit against the state's book ban, determining that the law violates free speech protections. It was ruled that Florida's ban on books that "describe sexual conduct" is too broad.

Allowing students across the country access to banned books:

the scenario we all feared

Can America's students handle the truth about cats and dogs? Monroe County Schools in Tennessee doesn't think so. When the district banned nearly 600 books, The Complete Book of Cats was among them. Monroe County isn't alone in banning books about cats & dogs. Learn more: pen.org/why-ban-book...

Several more states passed Anti-Book Ban/Freedom to Read bills in 2025. Here's what they are, what they mean, and things we should be thinking about the future of such bills: bookriot.com/2025-anti-bo...

To please Great Leader, the Smithsonian has removed Trump from its Impeachment Exhibit. Now, only Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are shown as having been impeached. (Nixon resigned before the vote.) We are only minutes away from Barack Obama being removed from photographs à la Joseph Stalin.

Braille libraries and library services for the blind and print-disabled are vital sources of community across the country. Cuts to federal funding could curtail their work: www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Tell Congress to #FundLibraries: ala.org/fundlibraries #ForOurLibraries

#WyrdWednesday What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one...Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed...Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance

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