“Librarians serve as defenders of democracy by protecting access, identity and inquiry in schools,” write Allison Cline and Amanda Kordeliski @aaslpres.bsky.social @aaslala.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social www.smartbrief.com/original/sch...

AI fueling library attacks www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Moderator Kara Yorio, Carolyn Foote, Tatanisha Love, and Amanda Jones, "Organizing For The Right To Read" 🎙️ #SLJSummit

They had significant losses in Texas and Pa!

The Tennessee Secretary of State handed public library boards that are eager to ban LGBTQ+ books–and particularly trans books–from their collections the biggest permission slip last week. Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books. bookriot.com/rutherford-c...

BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races. Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023. This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!

I can't keep the thread up, but suffice to say, PEOPLE VOTED TO PROTECT AND FUND LIBRARIES AND SO MANY SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS SUPPORTED PRO-EDUCATION, PRO-STUDENT CANDIDATES. People showed up. They didn't just buy banned books. They VOTED. And guess what? Voting made a difference.

Book banning is unpopular.

Congrats to all those organized for this (and a special shout out to @authorsabb.bsky.social Authors Against Book Bans)

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

We see that parents want reasonable school boards that care about the things that matter - literacy, libraries, and educational success.

Seeing good school board results around the country: PA, Co, Mn, even Texas! Local votes for reasonable school boards!

"History is protected by those who collect, preserve, and share the facts." by Rodney Freeman

@howdypolitics.bsky.social Why is Abbott talking about Elgin anyway?

‼️‼️‼️ @reptedlieu.bsky.social

Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.

“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...”

How great that Mission Telecom is reaching out to help provide Wifi to school districts and libraries affected by the FCC changes! www.route-fifty.com/digital-gove...

The First Amendment protects our right to joke — even if the federal government isn't laughing with us. In our latest installment of Press in Peril, we examine how the Trump administration's attempt to censor Jimmy Kimmel earlier this year threatens our right to freedom of expression.

"We'll probably be at maybe even $22 trillion in investments coming into our country by the end of the first year of my second term" -- Trump (The entire US GDP is $30 trillion, so no)

Vote for The Librarians film below!

If Mike Johnson was truly so uninformed about everything as he claims to be, shouldn’t he be canned? Also reporters should quit letting him say he just found out.

Here’s a recap of important Texas school board races! Elect freedom to read candidates. Share with friends! franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-book-l...

Read more about the amicus brief filed by the National Coalition Against Censorship and Steven Pico to the United States Supreme Court: https://bit.ly/NCACSupremeCourtBrief #INFREADOM #JoinTheMovement

Hmm I haven’t had any meaningful interactions with mine the past six weeks.

To complain to Apple about their donation of funds for the new "Ballroom" at the White House, and their donation for the destruction of the East Wing, submit a comment here: apple.navexone.com/intake. It can be anonymous.

Breaking news: censorship isn't just for banned books anymore. My musical Between the Lines was cancelled due to the comments of a single parent.

This whole thread!!! "This isn't about enrollment or fiscal responsibility. This is about a private university caving to political pressure while refusing to be transparent with its own faculty. And it's happening through a deliberate violation of shared governance principles."

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Sometimes to fight book bans you need to know what your officials are doing and sometimes they ah...don't want to tell you. Here's how to make a FOIA request in EVERY state docs.google.com/document/u/0...

🔁 ICYMI Here again is question #3 from tonight’s #TLSkyChat! More info about tonight’s chat can be found at tlskychat.com

🔁 ICYMI Here again is question #5 from tonight’s #TLSkyChat! More info about tonight’s chat can be found at tlskychat.com

💛📚 Q2: Now let’s chat about book awards and their potential role in reader’s advisory! Share your best ideas for using awards lists to connect your readers to potential books of their hearts. Drop A2 with #TLSkyChat. More info: tlskychat.com

📣 Let's GO! Join us THIS Wednesday at 8pm EST for #TLSkyChat - an educational chat for school librarians and the people who love them! 💻 Checkout this week's topic along with other goodies at tlskychat.com/schedule! 🌟💬📚❤️ #tlsky #edusky #librarians #skybrarians #libraries

www.statesman.com/news/educati... “Those who teach and study at UT Austin are worried,” the AAUP resolution on the compact stated. “The Compact reflects a grave threat to the mission of the University of Texas at Austin.”

Join us at #NCTE25 for a screening of The Librarians, then hear a special discussion with a producer and NCTE members featured in the film, @technolibrary.bsky.social and @becalzada.bsky.social#NCTE25 Not yet registered for our Annual Convention? Don't miss out: https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Turn your energy into action. Take a small action each day this week to defend the values you love or to donate to groups who are defending them.

“The findings were published in a new report from CDT, which surveyed 1,000 high school students, 1,000 parents, & around 800 sixth through 12th grade public school teachers. They echo a bevy of other studies showing how many teens are forming intense relationships with AIs.”

So excited! #FutureReadyLibs #AASL25

New Braunfels Independent School District (TX) has just banned middle and high school students from using their school libraries. Why? So officials can go through the library and remove any books they deem inappropriate, per the state's SB 13 law. bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library? New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists. bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

Do this ⬇️

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Your elected officials need to know book banners don't speak for everyone - or even the majority! Many censorship fights are happening at board and city council meetings. We're stronger TOGETHER. #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

5 minutes. That's all it takes to start fighting book bans. It's #LetFreedomReadDay. We're asking you to do at least one thing today to fight censorship. Then keep doing it! bit.ly/LetFreedomReadDay We're stronger TOGETHER. #CensorshipIsSo1984 #BannedBooksWeek

Check out the Global Youth Summit! events.ringcentral.com/events/cfc-g...