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I'm going to live forever!

Just the classy literature I encounter. Have to remind myself that spending $35 for this is unnecessary. Maybe I should have included a smutty book fund in my last internal grant application?

Just saw a medicine ad that including the words “may cause infection around the anus and genitals.” Around.

How denouncing Bad Bunny could give Gavin Newsom a much-needed Sister Souljah moment.

Don’t know who needs to hear this but one of the puppies on the Puppy Bowl this year is named Chappell Bone

Fuck you don’t see a shot that beautiful often.

I know how to party on Superb Owl Sunday ... by ordering 25 boxes of archival material for my Spring Break trip to LA.

I can almost remember the time when this logic suprised me but it doesn't even register anymore. Nebraska police chief threatened sellers to coerce them into removing Tropic because it would force kids to commit sex crimes.

Blown away by a virtual rally tonight for THE LIBRARIANS with THE Steven Pico. The man is a quote machine! “Book banners are very good at choosing excellent literature” “I’ve never thought book banning protects young people. It makes them defenseless.” @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

Review of Tropic of Cancer by SLC City Attorney:

Rupert helps me read a decade of group meeting minutes. He is very helpful and demands first authorship.

Found a great pamphlet on the greatest scourge of the 1950s: obscene mail!

"This is how men behave." I mean it certainly is but fuck you don't have to enthusiastically engage in it. Anyone who asked me how fuckable a student was would just find me cutting off communication and I'd let the student know and, if they were ok with it, release the info publicly.

I'm the person who laughs at the nerd in meetings trying to follow rules and take minutes who also then gets ridiculously excited at a decade of meeting minutes from a pro-censorship group in Utah.

Born the right kind of white made me giggle in a weird way.

It’s not like this is an example of “I was friends with x and he turned out to be a sex criminal.” These folks were hanging with him after that was known. Fuck Chomsky was giving PR advice in like 2019. That isn’t a moral panic, it’s a dude abetting a pedophile knowingly.

I've hit the part of the day where I am just looking through 1940s nudist magazines. I'm a serious political scientist folks!

Sometimes I think about making shirts from censorship quotes I find.

JUST IN: Texas A&M professor Melissa McCoul sues over firing linked to gender-related content in youth literature class. TX Gov. Abbott called for her firing. Among the defendants: former POLITICO owner & NOTUS founder, Robert Allbritton. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What every female academic I know would like to say but can’t ⬇️

REading a bunch of 1960s smut stories in Utah newspapers and it amuses me when censors complain about people not complaining enough or showing their support for censorship. Somehow they never treat that as evidence that the community standards were cool with smut.

In this piece for the New York Review of Books, I explain how today’s anti-trans agenda doesn’t just target trans people—it quietly (mostly quietly) dismantles the legal foundations that protect cis women from discrimination. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This probably speaks to the total lack of standards in this admin and the shit show of a DOJ that no one qualified wants to get near. The destruction of government capacity is going to be brutal to rebuild.

What the fuck.

In other words: "As we count votes, the numbers change. That's fraud! So just stop counting votes when we are ahead to be honest."

Damn right! Keep the valley pure - except for air quality, let business pollute the shit out the air. But we will die morally pure (from 1970)

Fucking nerds (1969 story)

Greg Rucka wrote a comic that is exactly this.

Hi readers!! Our annual Read-In is coming up!! We started this read-in as a way to protest the original book-banning bill--HB29. Through them we've found incredible community with all of you. We can't wait to see you there!! RSVP at the link in our bio.

Maybe the second best thing was getting access to the online ACLU collection thanks to a wonderful friend. It is magical, just found super obscure material that helps me on this paper project.

Never knew this, need to save for when I talk about video game censorship

What I love about this is that the big leaks have almost certainly come from justices or with their approval. The idea that a clerk is smuggling shit out is pretty laughable.

I can’t wait for unis to close college Republican groups. I mean pro Palestinian speech got so many eliminated.

I still have intro students who try to use the affordable care act as executive overreach and I just note “this was passed by Congress”

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

Complaint about "pornographers" in 1967. Otherwise known as capitalism.

From a Utah community censor in 1967. Love the idea of moral judgment shaming people. Also this is a lie because just above this the same dude argues that all obscenity ends up with minors eventually so restrictions on age aren't enough.

I've said it before but buying Newspapers .com subscription was the best research decision. So much great material in there.

Even Macy's isn't safe from dirty smut! (from 1932)

Watched Seized documenting the raid on the Marion County Record seeking to silence it. While it involves high principles, it is also delightfully grounded in the life of a small community with all the petty bullshit that comes with it. Dug it a lot, makes a great doc for press rights type classes.

I really should save this for all the times I lecture on Federalist 51.

Looks like I'm finally going to return to Syracuse this summer for 2 weeks because it has 1000+ boxes from Grove Press which published a lot of smutty kinds of things in the 1960s and racked up hundreds of obscenity charges. Excited, even if a little annoyed I didn't discover this when I lived there

The most charitable interpretation of this is that he wants a permanent underclass in American society that has no influence. But yeah he really just wants slaves.

Still have porn on the brain.

I for one am relieved. Break Salt Lake news from 1965:

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

This fucking hurts. What an amazing actress.

Jim Obergefell–the name you know from the SCOTUS case on LGBTQ+ marriage–has penned a hell of an editorial about the political battle over LGBTQ+ books in Ohio libraries. www.cleveland.com/opinion/2026...

Wow that is a hell of a scam. For this number to be true it averages out to a little over 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks. Literally not a day off. It’s so obviously fraud that it’s ludicrous.