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Defending our Public Libraries and the Freedom to Read. Reporting on Book Bans and Other Bullshit. #library #BookSky #librarySky #bookbans #bannedbooks
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Join us for a new series of free online workshops, “Defending the Freedom to Read 101: Workshops for Organizers and Authors.” Our first four sessions cover digital safety and disinformation - learn more and register: pen.org/defending-th...

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This is the half-wit, high as a kite man-child running our government.

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This is the Huntington Beach Central Library. This is the beloved library that @chriswarcraft.bsky.social was supporting when he was arrested on Tuesday night. The library is NOT responsible for the MAGA plaque. Let the HB City Council know how you feel at [email protected]

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Not just the highly educated. Welsh miners formed study groups to read Austen and Dickens. Scottish shepherds built lending libraries. Watchmakers & cabinetmakers taught themselves Greek and Latin. The loss of working-class autodidact culture is one of history's great tragedies.

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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

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You just can't make this stuff up. #bookban #bannedbooks #resist

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There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

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This is true. And they voted for him anyway. #shitshow #stopthecoup

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Well, here's some good news. Support your library, get a library card, fight book bans. #librarysky '2024 marked significant milestones. More than 9.1 million people installed the Libby app, and over 118.9 million new users joined library systems globally.'

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📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

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Hello Bluesky!!! We've made the move and we're happy to be here! We are a new, award-winning feature doc about book bans, censorship and the fight for intellectual freedom. We have a lot to say - and we hope you'll give us a follow. Thank you! Watch our trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_BQ...

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Help public libraries today by: ✅ Downloading an ebook ✅ Registering for a program ✅ Sharing a post from your library ✅ Emailing staff and thanking them ✅ Mark your calendar to attend the next library board of control meeting ✅ Ask 5 friends to do the same

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'Freckleface Strawberry' a book by actress Julianne Moore about a girl accepting her freckles has been banned from Pentagon schools. Yes, really. #bookban

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A new way for the public to support libraries, help protect library funding, defend the right to read, and keep libraries thriving for future generations. Please spread the word to your library-loving friends & family! #ForOurLibraries

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