Soooo they've just abandoned LGBTQ+ books in the new court case. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

PRH Initiates New Phase of Iowa Book Ban Case

After almost three years of litigation, Penguin Random House and the rest of the Big Five, along with the Authors Guild, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Jodi Picoult, have filed an amended complaint to cha...

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"ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female sycophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on." A great read–note that it is on substack, if you're avoiding the platform. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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BRAVE Books and Kirk Cam3ron's "See You at the Library" right-wing, Christian nationalist storytime is coming back for the fourth year. This time, it lands in October–the pre-primary timing is intentional. bookriot.com/see-you-at-t...

Right Wing "See You at the Library" Event Back for 2026

BRAVE Books is once again coordinating its right-wing, Christian nationalist "See You at the Library" events this year on October 3.

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BRAVE Books and Kirk Cam3ron's "See You at the Library" right-wing, Christian nationalist storytime is coming back for the fourth year. This time, it lands in October–the pre-primary timing is intentional. bookriot.com/see-you-at-t...

Right Wing "See You at the Library" Event Back for 2026

BRAVE Books is once again coordinating its right-wing, Christian nationalist "See You at the Library" events this year on October 3.

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A friend moved to a new state for a job and was laid off after just three months. He's had a hard time of things for the last few years—please help me raise funds to help him through an extremely bad time. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Support for a Trans Librarian, organized by Violet Fox

Hello! My name is Violet Fox and I'm raising money for a friend, a trans librarian who rece… Violet Fox needs your support for Support for a Trans Librarian

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Okay, now all of the other states with tax cuts on your ballots, do like Missouri and absolutely demolish the latest tactic from the GOP to demolish public goods! www.stlpr.org/government-p...

Missouri voters reject Amendment 5, declining to eliminate state income tax for more sales tax

With Amendment 5’s failure, state lawmakers are now unable to expand sales and use taxes in order to eliminate the state income tax.

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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

Zillow cut 500 employees today. The stuff about AI in here – you know they were cut because of AI. www.geekwire.com/2026/zillow-...

Zillow cuts more than 500 jobs in its largest layoff of the year

Zillow Group laid off more than 500 employees Tuesday, about 7% of its workforce, one day before it reports second-quarter earnings. It's the company's second round of cuts this year.

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I know this is going to be shocking, but it's also private equity. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/b...

Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice. (Published 2025)

An American obsession is attracting investments in baseball fields, volleyball courts and football camps, intensifying the gap between families with means and those without.

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Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · yesterday

Youth sports were doomed when they got sucked into the hypercompetitive college admissions game. Soccer practice used to be a way to kill time after school until you could leave work to pick your kid up; now it's another thing your kid must excel at or they aren't getting into Yale.

Really fantastic reporting here centered on the messages exchanged between a mass shooter and ChatGPT. This was a message the chatbot spit back at the guy after he said he wanted to die. Stripped of that context, it feels like an apt summary of the risks chatbots pose with unstable users.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterday

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

I'd love to get my hygiene essentials list cleared for school. Please help out and share if you can. #clearthelist #backtoschool www.donorschoose.org/project/hygi...

Hygiene Help for High School, a project from Ms. Miles

Help me give my students hygeine essentials to help them maintain their dignity at school. High school is hard enough without worrying about whether you stink after gym practice or even if you'...

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Still obsessed with Jimothy? Of course you are. Use that momentum to dive into some speculative fiction featuring disabled characters and support some disabled human authors while you're at it. reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books With Disabled Characters - Reactor

A selection of novels and stories that highlight people with different disabilities in strange new worlds

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BREAKING: We're suing Texas A&M over the university system’s unconstitutional censorship policy. Administrators are canceling or restricting courses that discuss race, gender, and sexual orientation. Public universities are meant for sharing knowledge — not banning it.

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas. A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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State Property Tax Cuts Will Decimate Libraries. Up to 13 different US states are considering tax reforms that would decimate local public goods, including public libraries. bookriot.com/state-proper...

State Property Tax Cuts Will Decimate Libraries: Book Censorship News, July 31, 2026

Up to 13 different US states are considering tax reforms that would decimate local public goods, including public libraries.

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We’ve had a busy few days gathering support and finding our footing. Guest posts, action items, and more coming soon! There is also some merch (proceeds to Arkansas Library Association) with the possum logo available at: www.bonfire.com/store/arkans...

Arkansas Library Association | Official Merchandise | Bonfire

Show your support for libraries all over Arkansas with merchandise from the Arkansas Library Association.

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This this this. Following @arrighttoread.bsky.social to stay abreast of what's happening in AR and how to get involved.

Arkansas Right to Read@arrighttoread.bsky.social · 2d ago

Follow us here and sign up on the site to stay in the loop as we evaluate options. There are MANY fighters in Arkansas committed to providing access and upholding First Amendment rights. Join us!

Over at @bookriot.bsky.social, @heykellyjensen.bsky.social put together this fantastic piece with an extremely good analysis of how we got here and what dangers lay ahead: bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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ICYMI: I rounded up some of my favorite grief reads for @bookriot.bsky.social!

The way we mourn in America is deeply broken

s. e. smith, author of All My Dead Cats and Other Losses, recommends four must-read books about grief and mourning.

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my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

This is next week! If you haven't signed up for the three day virtual conference, you still can.

ThriveLib Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries@thrivelib.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're thrilled to share that @heykellyjensen.bsky.social is our 2026 Keynote speaker! Join us for “Pizza Parties Don’t Fit Burnout”: The State of Mental Health in the Library to kick off #thrivelib! #publibs thrivelib-2026.heysummit.com/talks/openin...

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

GOP itching to legalize what they already do for fun. Anyway, if you're in WA state, I know you're smarter than this.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Sure, and it costs victims not only tens of thousands of dollars and years of their life to even get to that point, but it destroys their career and livelihood in the process. Ask the dozens of folks in library land who've had to endure this absolute bullshit nonsense from the right.

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

bookriot.com

It isn't just AI that's caused the rise of data centers. It's also mass surveillance via Flock. While we (rightly!) fight about the first, it's a convenient way to let those in power continue getting away with shit since folks aren't pointing out this Flock–data center connection the same way.

Follow us here and sign up on the site to stay in the loop as we evaluate options. There are MANY fighters in Arkansas committed to providing access and upholding First Amendment rights. Join us!

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians. What to know, who is involved, and how you can act. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

bookriot.com

Sitting in a movie theater to watch the original Willy Wonka and am appalled that three tickets, two small sodas, one medium popcorn, and a bag of gummy snakes cost ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS.