The book banners in Davis School District (Utah) are mad that THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social was approved for high school curriculum. One lamented, “What happened to Shakespeare?” As with all things book banning, she’s so close. It’s right there in the title!

BOOK BAN BILL THREAD FOR JULY 27. The House is not currently in session. Representatives are spending the next month working in their own home districts. What does this mean? We won't see action on three of the federal-level book ban bills. That also means go see these people IRL if you can.

The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026. Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries. bookriot.com/tools-used-b...

The Tools Book Banners Are Using to Target Books in 2026: Book Censorship News, July 24, 2026

Get to know the National Book Rating Index, BookLens, RatedBooks, and more tools being used to ban books across US schools and libraries.

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1. School book bans are becoming so extreme in Florida, that one conservative school district is considering removing libraries altogether. Rodger Dailey, Clay County Chief Academic Officer, suggests replacing them with school stores, as literacy rates plummet. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Clay County School District In Florida Considers Getting Rid Of Libraries In Response To LGBTQ+ Books

The proposal is the latest in the book ban saga that continues across Florida.

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Whatever else happens, it’s already been a good day 😎

A “temporary” book removal can last months or even years. And when books are kept off shelves during delayed reviews, their circulation drops through no fault of student interest. Our newest article explains how this happens and why it matters. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/when_tempora...

When "Temporary" Becomes Permanent: How Delayed Reviews Turn Into Quiet Book Removals

Delayed book reviews manufacture low circulation, enabling controversial books to be quietly removed through routine weeding rather than transparent censorship.

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The GOP is obsessed with erasing trans people, their voices, and their stories. This is a FOUR ALARM fire, with the now fourth book banning bill introduced in Congress this year. If you're fighting about HR 7616 and HR 2616 and the CHARLIE Act, you need to know S 4925 is happening, too.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨🚨🚨 Republicans in the Senate have drafted S. 4925, their companion to the House's HR 7616 bill. This nationwide book banning bill shows the GOP's priorities during the quiet summer season. S. 4925 is already in the HELP subcommittee. bookriot.com/senate-bill-...

🚨🚨🚨 Republicans in the Senate have drafted S. 4925, their companion to the House's HR 7616 bill. This nationwide book banning bill shows the GOP's priorities during the quiet summer season. S. 4925 is already in the HELP subcommittee. bookriot.com/senate-bill-...

Republican Senators Introduce Nationwide Book Ban Companion Bill, S. 4925

Republican Senators have introduced a nationwide book ban bill in the Senate, S. 4925 and it's a warning of their summer plans.

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Found outside the kids’ bathroom. Pray for my soul.

Good morning, Utah banned its 36th book from all public schools this week. It's a Stephen King book. The state has banned more books in 2026 than any other since their new law was implemented–despite a lawsuit over this law. bookriot.com/utah-bans-it...

Utah Bans Its 36th Book From All Public Schools

Utah has banned more books from public schools in 2026 than any other year, and this week, they added their 36th title.

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Meanwhile, school library budgets are being slashed in one of Utah’s biggest school districts…

‘Wasteful and extravagant’: Here’s what Utah auditors found digging into the first year of school voucher spending

Utah auditors found several "wasteful and extravagant" purchases made through the state's school voucher program -- all funded by taxpayers.

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Books Unbanned responds to book censorship by making sure teens can read freely, even when access is restricted locally. The program supports teens’ rights to read what they choose, think critically, and engage with peers across the country who care about intellectual freedom. booksunbanned.com/card

Election season is here, and "Do you support book bans?" isn't the only question voters should be asking. Before you cast your ballot, learn what to ask and why the answers matter. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/beyond_do_yo... #FreedomToRead #BookBans #FirstAmendment #Libraries #Elections #Vote

Beyond "Do You Support Book Bans?" Questions Every Voter Should Ask Local Candidates

Local officials shape library and school policies, making it essential for voters to understand how candidates would protect the freedom to read and balance competing rights in their communities.

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SURE IS curious why and how one of the biggest book banning advocates in the state of Utah was allowed to volunteer to catalog books in a Davis School District library: www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

A Utah book-ban advocate was given access to a school library system with private student data. The district says there was ‘no breach.’

The advocate, Brooke Stephens, was one of three parent volunteers tapped to help enter “titles, authors, ISBN numbers, and the like into our system for a large number of newly purchased books,” the di...

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This article on Utah’s misogynistic court packing scheme is spot on. But one detail it missed is that Judge Michele Christiansen Forster, who was rejected in favor of all male nominees, has been a judge on Utah’s court of appeals longer than Stephen Dent has been a lawyer. #utpol

All men and mostly BYU grads: A new commission makes its picks for new Utah Supreme Court justices

The Utah Legislature passed a bill striking a bipartisan requirement for a commission that suggests Supreme Court candidates to the governor. The picks are now all men and mostly from BYU.

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As part of the fight against the national book bans, we've made candidate scorecards for the original sponsors of HR 7661. If any of these Representatives are running in a race in your district/state, you can use these cards to help inform your community. This is gonna be a big old thread...

There’s still time to tell the State Board of Education what you think about this. Info in thread. www.houstonpress.com/news/state-b...

State Board to Consider More Christianity in Classrooms - Houston Press

The State Board of Education meets later this month in Austin to consider revising social studies curriculum.

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When does library weeding become censorship by another name? Our latest article explores how controversial books can disappear through "routine" collection practices, why transparency matters, and how future librarians inherit the consequences. www.freedomtoreadproject.org/when_a_curat...

When a Curation Practice Becomes Censorship by Another Name

Weeding becomes censorship when controversial books are selectively removed under professional pretexts, undermining transparency, consistency, collection integrity, and trust.

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Read Trevor Lee claiming Utah could stop a representative from expressing support for queer people and had to write up a short post about how fucking stupid that is.

Bigotry and Free Speech in Utah — Adventures in Censorship

Utah Republicans have a real problem with free speech, well when the speech is something they dislike. You can see this today in an absurd fight over Centerville City Council member Cheylynn Hayman ...

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In the age of book bans, librarians being accused of grooming children, and libraries being defunded, it is wildly irresponsible of the Author's Guild to side with the fascists against libraries. We are defending your books and authors. We are your allies. I hope members will voice their concerns.

The only type of (tankless) shark I like to see in Utah 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

For the evening crowd! @letutahread.bsky.social is doing amazing work in the public records trenches!

Jessica Horton@jessicahorton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Crazy story about @letutahread.bsky.social’s records fight with one of the districts behind most of the statewide book bans in Utah. Washington County School District is removing books based on a *homeschool mom’s* objections without any sort of process. utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/06/09/w...

Crazy story about @letutahread.bsky.social’s records fight with one of the districts behind most of the statewide book bans in Utah. Washington County School District is removing books based on a *homeschool mom’s* objections without any sort of process. utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/06/09/w...

Crazy story about @letutahread.bsky.social’s records fight with one of the districts behind most of the statewide book bans in Utah. Washington County School District is removing books based on a *homeschool mom’s* objections without any sort of process. utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/06/09/w...

It also turns out that one of the Utah districts that's been behind nearly every single one of the bans required statewide may have failed to follow the state law, too. utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/06/09/w...

School district’s book bans may have flouted state law • Utah News Dispatch

Washington County School District officials allowed an "informal" book complaint process open to abuse by activists, records show.

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Fun little fact I learned: apparently, Utah's State Board of Education didn't bother telling the schools that they added LUCKY to their state-mandated ban list. This is outside of their normal process. bookriot.com/utah-has-ban...

Utah Has Banned Its 35th Book from All Public Schools

Utah has added yet another book to the list of titles that must be removed from all public schools statewide.

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Good morning. The state of Utah banned its 35th book from *all public schools statewide* on Friday. The book was published in 1999. Here's the story, why books are being banned, and where these state-sanctioned bans are coming from. bookriot.com/utah-has-ban...

Utah Has Banned Its 35th Book from All Public Schools

Utah has added yet another book to the list of titles that must be removed from all public schools statewide.

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Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

I read THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES by @katemessner.com with the kids over the weekend, then made the Wright, Algonquin, and Iroquois cookies. I love it when recipes in kids’ books are actually delicious! (I adore this book. It’s the 2nd time I’ve read it this year and it was even better as a reread.)

Here's a video explainer for the now THREE federal book banning bills that could impact EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THE NATION.