SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A WEEK IF THESE CUTS GO THROUGH!! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE TO TELL @NYCMAYOR #NOCUTSTOLIBRARIES AND SAVE THE LIBRARY.
Louisiana Bill 777 would criminalize any librarian who joins the American Library Association — here’s why you should care
(via archaicnoise on TikTok)
@POTUS So long as you continue to send weapons and military aid to continue this horrific violence, you are complicit in EVERY DEATH. So please, stop with the insincere expressions of “outrage” and “heartbreak.”
1. @Scholastic hosts 120K school book fairs annually
Facing pressure from the right, @Scholastic has created a collection of books w/LGBTQ characters or that discuss racism
Schools are then given the options of excluding these books
One librarian calls it a "bigot button"
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NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today, @_alexreisner delivers. https://t.co/usPOEMp19D
"Are we removing books from any school or media center, Prek-12 if a character has... two mothers or because there is a gay best friend or a main character is gay?" the librarians asked. Charlotte County Superintendent Mark Vianello answered, "Yes."
https://t.co/6ppOf3Mq7E
Greg Abbott has imitated a hostile takeover of the local school district in Houston, TX — taking control away from the local school board so that it’s now run by the state.
Parent and activist Lauren Ashley read the superintendent for FILTH
Regular reminder that libraries are much more than just books—although that would be valuable in itself. Libraries provide research databases, games, classes, clubs, movie screenings and a hundred other services.
A TikToker who works in a Florida school exposes the books being removed by the state for being "inappropriate." The banned books cover topics such as hate groups, Judaism, the Holocaust, Pocahontas, African Americans in aviation, and more.
This needs to go viral.
They tell us “we don’t want these books in school libraries” and “people can get them at public libraries”
Then it’s “we don’t want them in public libraries” and “people can get them at book stores”
Now they are going after the book stores
Ok - here we go. We were able to create a link to give to both Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.
The Republicans can kick them out, but they can't stop them from running in the special election.
Let's go!
https://t.co/pnL9sQLw9H
From @brotherjones_ on the ground in Nashville— the Tennessee legislator is planning to expel lawmakers who stood with gun control advocates today.
They have been stripped from committee assignments and their member ID’s have been shut off.
THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY.
We told you that gay people were next.
Texas SB1443 would ban from school libraries any books that have characters who are of the same sex in a relationship. It also bans trans characters.
It bans website access with the above too.
Don't think they'll stop with trans people.
This is a lie.
The video DeSantis claims is a hoax is accurate. The video shows that Mandarin Middle School removed THE ENTIRE FICTION SECTION from its library.
In Duval County more than 1.5 MILLION books have been taken out of circulation.
Receipts: https://t.co/ppvyQSe5g6
UPDATE: Brian Covey, a full-time substitute teacher in Duval County, Florida, was FIRED for posting a video of empty bookshelves.
This is the REAL STORY about why those shelves were empty and why Covey was let go
1. This high school English teacher is trying to ban 150 books from school libraries in Florida
I talked to her to find out why
Buckle up
This one gets a bit wild
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