Little Free Banned Book Library

Just an old newspaper dispenser repurposed into a Little Free Banned Book Library. Lend a book! Borrow a book! Read a book! 🔥 📚 💜#bannedbooks #library

[Little Free Banned Book Library @LFBBLibrary]

How to make your own LFBB Library in 4 easy steps!

1. Find an old newspaper dispenser. (I was rescued from outside a neighborhood grocery.)
2. Clean it. (I feel so much better!)
3. Paint it!🔥 (Enlist a teenager.)
4. Add #bannedbooks & LOVE! 📚💜

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a crime to intervene in her miscarriage

Via @propublica: https://t.co/PUPaURIVm2

[Bob Libal https://bsky.app/profile/blibal.bsky.soc @blibal]

Fun fact. Austin’s murder rate reached its record high of 13.2/100k in 1984.

Last year our “blue ghetto” had a murder rate about half that (6.8 per 100k).

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

TEXAS: Another mother dead at the hands of these draconian GOP abortion bans, which Donald Trump brags about and takes credit for and says “everyone” wanted. #ForcedBirthNation
https://t.co/U7NdRZThu8

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is a complete falsehood. DOJ sued Alabama because its Secretary of State purged MULTIPLE US CITIZENS from the voter rolls less than 90 days before the election, in direct violation of a law which clearly bans any voter purges less than 90 days before an election.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

So far this morning J.D. Vance told Dana Bash to “shut up” on national TV and Trump tweeted that he hates Taylor Swift.

No wonder the guys who wrote their Project 2025 platform long for a time when women couldn’t vote.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Trump’s construct of “migrant crime” is a racist myth. This association—more immigrants = more crime—has been repeatedly disproven. If anything, studies and data suggest the opposite: more immigrants = less crime.

Let me explain.

Trump Republicans often assess “crime” levels using incarceration, arrest, and murder rates. Every year from 1870 to 2020, immigrants have been incarcerated at a lower rate compared to U.S. citizens. This gap has become even more pronounced since the 1960s. Today, immigrants are 60% less likely to be incarcerated than U.S. citizens. Immigrants are 30% less likely to be incarcerated than White Americans.

In Texas, U.S.-born citizens were between 2 and 4 times more likely to be arrested for violent, drug, and property crimes than undocumented immigrants, according to a study published in 2020.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. murder rate has decreased while the share of the foreign-born U.S. population has increased. While immigration rates declined significantly in 2020, homicide rates rose sharply. While immigration rates started rising in 2021 and 2022, homicide rates leveled out and then declined.

Trump and his political operatives can publicize and make up cases of individuals who happen to be immigrants engaging in violence. But don’t let them distract you for the fact that there’s no link between “migrant” and “crime.” It's a second Trump presidency––not immigrants––that poses a grave threat to the safety and well-being of Americans, of humanity.

Sources:
"Comparing Crime Rates Between Undocumented Immigrants, Legal Immigrants, and Native-born US Citizens in Texas." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(51), Dec 2020. https://t.co/X4OfScoO57

"Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1870–2020." National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2023. https://t.co/dEbzLbsgpg

"The Myth of Migrant Crime." The New York Times, July 2024. https://t.co/LOvW4LB8pg

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Haitian immigrants, here LEGALLY under temporary protected status, who fled their homeland under political and economic duress, being made to feel afraid by white Americans hooked into the racist white wing machine.

[Equal Justice Initiative @eji_org]

On this day in 1913, eight Black men at a Texas prison farm suffocated after they were placed in an underground cell as punishment for not picking cotton fast enough. https://t.co/S6kYcKZU8P

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

That's roughly $1,841 per person. By comparison, a bus ticket to New York costs about $215, while a flight costs about $350.

It would have WAY cheaper to just give migrants money for tickets. Abbott's effort not only made it a political stunt, it lined a contractor's pocket.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"Dictators want to destroy history, so that you'll never understand your place in it. Today the first draft of history -- journalism -- is being destroyed."

[Mendi Tackett @mentack]

@ShawnieT146 You know what else Maya Angelou said? “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”.

We believe you.

Thanks for confirming for everyone that the Republican Party is where people with bigoted views gather.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Sorry but this is an absurd take. Every analysis of mass deportations confirms that they would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, set off the worst recession in decades, and spike inflation.

You can’t remove 8+ million workers from an economy and think it’ll go well.

[Mendi Tackett @mentack]

SBOE member, Julie Pickren, admitting cash-strapped TX school districts will be bribed to adopt instructional materials that will indoctrinate students w/ biblical content.

Excerpt from AFT article

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

New! It seems likely that 16 states GOP AGs filed a lawsuit yesterday to block the Biden admin’s new Keeping Families Together program for undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens.

Theoretically possible this lawsuit is about something else, but I doubt it.

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

Palestinians will rebuild and return to their homes in Gaza. The siege will end. Palestinians will live in freedom and dignity in their own land.

While we demand an end to the Israeli government’s genocide and an embargo on sending US weapons to the Israeli military, we know that Palestinians will be the ones who free themselves. 🧵

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

To recap: Maria Bartiromo, a major Fox News personality, claimed that a wife of a friend saw tents outside multiple Texas DMVs registering hundreds of migrants to vote.

The local county GOP investigated and determined literally none of it was true. No tents, no lines, nothing.