Texas worked hard to take the lead in book bans in 2025. I'm grateful @frankstrong.bsky.social and @txfreedomread.bsky.social work so hard to make these quiet bans public. And, even with all their work, this reckoning is a vast under-count. Primaries are in March. Are you registered to vote?

I love this story of real parents pushing back against out-of-town book banners in San Marcos, Texas. It also has a message on the power of persistence to bring into 2026. substack.com/@franklinstr...

Learn how one teeny, tiny, very specific line in SB 13 is helping SLACs vote to KEEP books in Texas schools. Despite the book banners best efforts.

Required reading for today. This whole thread. 👇🏻

ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5

2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, & Successes Over The Year. Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social bookriot.com/book-censors...

🎬 I recently attended a screening of @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social organized by @txnsdd.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social 📣 Everyone needs to watch this & challenge themselves to think critically about WHY this is happening!

2 steps you can take to support the fight for the freedom to read in Victoria, TX. 1) Show up & speak out to defend the freedom to read at the Victoria, TX City Council Meeting. Tuesday, December 16. 5PM. 2) Sign & share this this petition. www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/th...

Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...

Censorship strikes at the heart of who we want to be. YES. 💯💯💯

Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to take up Little v. Llano County, allowing the en-banc decision of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to stand. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Props to everyone who organized and showed up in Salado to defend the freedom to read on Monday. We heard attendees were kind & respectful (on both “sides”) & that the library board seemed genuinely responsive to the community. Well done! 💙📚 @kylelukoff.bsky.social 🫶 kdhnews.com/news/region/...

The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.

In Texas, many censorship challenges are brewing. Please keep showing up for your public and school libraries! We need community in Victoria, Salado, Hays, New Braunfels, Abilene, Seguin and more! Contact us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social to help!

Again, I’m begging @lastweektonight.com to give this story the full John Oliver treatment. It’s that crazy.

This is NOT normal. It's weird to read a book about a unicorn sitting in paint & make it sexual. The hyper-fixation on non existent genitals & sexualizing benign stories is harmful. The book isn't sexualizing unicorns or kids, the women on the committee are. THIS IS NOT HEALTHY.

You'll never guess what book got the Carroll ISD school library advisory committee to say "genitals" a dozen times in 20 minutes. @txfreedomread.bsky.social will have more on this story soon, but for now, you have to hear this audio. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...

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ATTN: Salado Public Library supporters- take note of this call to action to pack the upcoming board meeting on 12/1: 5pm. Voice *support for the library committee’s decision* to deny a patron’s request to remove the children’s book- When Aidan Became a Brother by @kylelukoff.bsky.social

We know him!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩 Congrats @frankstrong.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

2025 has lost the plot. Books are not a threat.

We know him!!!! 🤩🤩🤩 So proud of our cofounder, @frankstrong.bsky.social

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We are seeing a sudden flurry of censorship activity in smaller towns in central Texas. If you are a parent or librarian in this area, please reach out to us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social if you need support.

Also an excellent option!!! 👇🏻

Libraries do so much for our communities and families and we'd like to give back!  Please take time this coming week to send an email or postcard of appreciation for your library to your superintendent, school board/city council, county commissioners court- or to librarians themselves!

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Both male and female horses have eyelashes. Unicorns don't exist so this can't be scientifically verified. Valiant use of taxpayer money to micromanage the acceptable eyelash representation of fictional animals.

We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social

This thread is a MUST READ. Nothing I have read since 2021 better captures the complete insanity of the “parents rights” book-banning movement than the need to protect kids from unicorn eyelashes.

If you missed the Librarians Film at Tribfest, it is showing at the Alamo South Lamar Sat-Wed! #texastribfest

We have the newest casualty of the “parents rights," movement in Texas! And we can thank Sen. Angela Paxton’s “parental rights” school library bill (SB 13) for keeping Texas kids safe from Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn in Southlake, TX (Carroll ISD). @shannonhale.bsky.social

Can anybody in book world help these Houston friends out? 👇🏻

Congratulations to all of the communities who voted to reject book banning hysteria and to restore common sense, civility, and pro-public ed decision making to their Texas school boards last night. 💙📚🗳️

Tonight’s Texas school board election results continue to prove parents of public school students love our schools, hate book bans, and want leaders who will support educators and employees who serve our communities.

We really enjoyed reading Butt or Face and got our copy from the public library. [spoiler warning] The pearlfish one is a real thinker 🤯

I would also add that this is a pretty typical “Animal Facts” book that just has a fun googly eyes premise. Kids love animal facts!

Don’t sleep on this post by @rachaelreads.bsky.social AI in library and book world results in some crazy 💩 😱 Hallucinations of sexual content that doesn’t exist. 👀 Declaring books like To Kill a Mockingbird illegal. 🤯 Producing titles for books that don’t exist. www.txftrp.org/texas_school...

When the bar for “inappropriate” falls to animal butts, we have really lost the plot. Tuesday night a Seguin ISD trustee objected to the purchase of Butt or Face: Volume 3 by @karilavellewrites.bsky.social for elementary school libraries.

Using AI to “vet” & “review” library book purchase lists & collections for compliance with confusing, overly broad laws. What could go wrong? 🫠 Find out over on the @txfreedomread.bsky.social blog today in this guest post by TX school librarian Rachael Welsh. www.txftrp.org/texas_school...

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Banned in Katy ISD (Katy, TX), too. 😑

We are fighting this level of pearl-clutching stupidity in TX. Have people who question why a school librarian would want to purchase a nature book about animal butts ever met a child?! www.fayettecountyrecord.com/news/animal-...

No words. I mean, really, no words. If Texas keeps this up, that’s where we’ll be.

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Logical rebuttals don't work on book banners, so I'll try using their own language against them.

“iT’s nOt a BoOk BaN bEcaUse YoU cAn GeT iT fRoM thE pUbLiC LiBraRy!” So what is it called when you can no longer get from in the public library? 🤔 victoriaadvocate.com/2025/10/23/1...

What an utter waste of taxpayer dollars, spent defending a law that was blatantly and obviously unconstitutional out of the gate. Texas parents want politicians to stop wasting our money passing unconstitutional laws!!! www.keranews.org/news/2025-10...

‼️NEW BRAUNFELS ISD BOARD MEETING THURSDAY. 🗣️ Local folks- speak up to restore library access! ✅ Attend the NBISD board meeting Thursday at 6PM and speak in support of reopening secondary school libraries! 📍 1000 North Walnut Ave., New Braunfels, Texas 78130 nbisd.org/about-nbisd/...