Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

For years I’ve joked that if they’re going to ban dirty books from schools, they should start with The Canterbury Tales, because it is filthy with a capital F. I’ll be damned if North East ISD in San Antonio didn’t go off and do it.

I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!

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

Princeton ISD numbers are finally coming in! Good news: Sonia Ledezma is in 1st, w/ a solid lead. Bad news: 2 book-banning incumbents behind her. Top 2 vote-getters win seats. Would love for both incumbents to lose their seats, but one is still an improvement.

An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night

Friends in Cy-Fair ISD are ecstatic. I cannot emphasize enough what an earthquake these results will be. This flips control of the board in a district, where books been banned, LGBTQ students maligned, & whole chapters of textbooks dealing w/ climate change & vaccines electronically censored. HUGE.

Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!

Early results for Texas school board elections are starting to come in! Good start in Granbury ISD, where Christian Nationalist extremist Monica Brown is down 56-44! The rest of her slate is down early, too. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

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

He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Gee. If only someone had predicted this.

This is accurate

Gee. If only someone had predicted this.

If you're in Texas, do not miss @frankstrong.bsky.social's outstanding guide to some of the biggest and most consequential school board elections: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-book-l...

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.

In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.

Yep.

Students like being taken seriously as scholars. That can't be said enough!

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-...

This is a big deal. Still lots of work to do, but it matters that the court has recognized that HB900 is utterly, finally, indisputably unconstitutional. Now we just need to get Texans and lawmakers to stop listening to the people who pushed this dumb law.

Read this whole thread. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

TEXAS! Do you want to do put your energy and inspiration from yesterday's protests to good use? Support school board candidates who will push back on book bans and attempts to limit our kids' education! This guide can show you how. EARLY VOTING STARTS TOMORROW, 10/20.

I'll be honest in saying I haven't seen enough anger about the closure of this school's libraries from the folks celebrating banned books week so loudly just days before.

“What a win for our children!!!!” Imagine writing that about the *closure* of libraries for middle and high school students across an entire district. New Braunfels ISD libraries could be closed for months while the district reviews every book in its collections.

“What a win for our children!!!!” Imagine writing that about the *closure* of libraries for middle and high school students across an entire district. New Braunfels ISD libraries could be closed for months while the district reviews every book in its collections.

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 ⬇️

“tHEre ArE nO bOok bAns in tHe uS. YoU cAn sTiLL gET aNy boOk aT a bOokstOre!” icv2.com/articles/new...

Mask-off moment for book banners. Libs of TikTok posted breathlessly that New Braunfels ISD still has books in its library dealing with racism & LGBTQ themes. Christin Bentley, who’s behind most of Texas’s anti-book laws, posts that our new law, SB13,can be used to remove many of them.

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

Mask-off moment for book banners. Libs of TikTok posted breathlessly that New Braunfels ISD still has books in its library dealing with racism & LGBTQ themes. Christin Bentley, who’s behind most of Texas’s anti-book laws, posts that our new law, SB13,can be used to remove many of them.

Hey Texas! Or people with friends or family in Texas! Dr. Strong taught us at @authorsabb.bsky.social how to get involved in school board elections. If you care about books bans you have to care about school boards. Dr. Strong is one of the best people to look to for example in this.

It's finally ready! October's most anticipated release, w/ the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl, is The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Elections. If you hate book bans, read this to know who to vote for and who to campaign against! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's finally ready! October's most anticipated release, w/ the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl, is The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Elections. If you hate book bans, read this to know who to vote for and who to campaign against! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's finally ready! October's most anticipated release, w/ the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl, is The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Elections. If you hate book bans, read this to know who to vote for and who to campaign against! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This development in Leander, Texas, follows a letter to the ISD from @ncacensorship.bsky.social, NCTE, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and more.

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!! From an email to teachers today:

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!! From an email to teachers today:

Come see me this afternoon, Austin! I’ll be there to teach about the books that are being forced off of shelves in Texas today, the threats to the freedom to read that Texans face next, and steps we can take to stop book banning in its tracks!

Come see me this afternoon, Austin! I’ll be there to teach about the books that are being forced off of shelves in Texas today, the threats to the freedom to read that Texans face next, and steps we can take to stop book banning in its tracks! library.austintexas.gov/event/celebrat…

So well deserved!!! Amanda is a hero 💛💛💛

Great write-up from Kelly Jensen on the disaster in Leander ISD, which "paused" the classroom use of To Kill a Mockingbird, The House on Mango Street, & The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass due to the climate of fear that exists around books in Texas right now: bookriot.com/leander-sb-13/

Removing To Kill a Mockingbird and The House on Mango Street from Texas classrooms does not protect Texas kids. The Texas GOP and Governor Abbott need to answer for this. Shameful. www.fox7austin.com/news/leander...

The Escambia Board is arguing that our libraries are “government speech” that can be restricted as elected officials choose. Also, they don’t believe they should be deposed to explain those decisions to the public and the court. www.wuwf.org/text/local-n...

This is such a huge honor! I’m so grateful to NCTE for all they do, and so touched to have been nominated for this award.