People who never read books now in charge of books.
Jessica Goudeau
@jessicagoudeau.bsky.social
Author of AFTER THE LAST BORDER (2020) and WE WERE ILLEGAL (2024) and CNF prof at Wilkes University. Newsletter: The Injustice Report on Substack.
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
Marco Foster@marcofoster.bsky.social · last yr.HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
How do these guys go home and look at their children in the eye after tearing apart an entire family? The United States is an absolute despicable country. 😡 ICE is the American equivalent of Gestapo. #USA
You MUST watch this exchange from today’s Tx House debate on anti-library HB3225. “This is about your desire to make sure that children have access to sexually explicit materials,” says the bill’s author. “Rep Alders, do you know what I have done for a living?” Says @voteannjohnson.bsky.social
BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Fun fact: Under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. sec. 407, two copies of every copyrighted book must go to the Library of Congress. So she was dismissed because of the Copyright Act and the fact that not every book is appropriate for children. Got it, Klaus Barbie.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last yr.Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues
Pentagon directs military to pull library books that address diversity, anti-racism, gender issues
The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21.
apnews.com
Tomorrow night!!
Jack Wolflink@cubicdystopias.bsky.social · last yr.We're hosting a charity reading to assist one of my dear friends and writing community members with recovery from a devastating house fire. Readers include the wonderful @kyliu99.bsky.social, @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social, and @hickswriter.bsky.social.
If you are in Texas or know someone who is, and you love books and hate censorship, ACT TODAY to stop SB 13, which is in front of the Texas House Committee on Public Education, before it destroys our libraries and classrooms. injusticereport.substack.com/p/sb-13-in-t...
SB 13 in Texas Will Destroy Public Libraries
You can stop it TODAY.
injusticereport.substack.com
So much fun to talk with these amazing authors about their amazing books. @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social @genoways.bsky.social and Victoria Blanco. Thanks you @latimes.com
Thrilled to be moderating a Saturday panel @latimes.com Festival of Books. Come join me & @genoways.bsky.social & @jessicagoudeau.bsky.social & Victoria Blanco as we sleuth out these family histories.
My latest op-ed.The bill’s threat of a $10,000 fine per infraction will only create fear and lead to banning perfectly good books for people who happen to be minors. www.statesman.com/story/opinio... @frankstrong.bsky.social @technolibrary.bsky.social @becalzada.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
Librarians aren't bouncers. Texas teens shouldn't be carded to read serious books | Opinion
The bill’s threat of a $10,000 fine per infraction will only create fear and lead to banning perfectly good books for people who happen to be minors.
statesman.com
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case is about a pattern that goes all the way back to the earliest lynchings, and has profound implications for the US: False Urgency / Illegal Action / Story Change. open.substack.com/pub/injustic...
False Urgency / Illegal Action / Story Change
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is just the latest example of this very American pattern.
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The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US
The number of lies Trump, Bukele, and Stephen Miller are telling today about Zelenskyy (who didn't start the war, Russia did) and Abrego Garcia (who absolutely can and should be released immediately--the US government ADMITTED they falsely deported him) should be stunning. Should be.
Austin! Come see me in conversation with one of my very favorite authors, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, tomorrow night at Austin Central Public Library, presented by @bookpeople.bsky.social. I can't wait to talk about her exquisite new book, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. See you there!
@jessicagoudeau.bsky.social & Tim Hernandez at the San Antonio Book Festival THIS WEEKEND! April 12, 2025, 9am-5pm. So many amazing writers! Make your list. See you there.
“We cannot overstate what just happened. It took just 71 days for Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order... There is no going back... The Canadian prime minister declared the age of American leadership over. He was right.” @jvl.bsky.social
The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2y agoCarney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction
Israel invaded Syria in a ground incursion that is a frightening new escalation of the conflict—and I’ve been getting real time updates. As one friend told me, “Imagine: surviving the war for all those years, only to die now.” My latest for the Injustice Report: open.substack.com/pub/injustic...
War in Daraa, Syria—Again
“Imagine: surviving the war for all those years, only to die now.”
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Testimonies of survivors of the Coast massacre Documented by Rosa Yassin Hassan for Syria Untold 1. “To whom will I say good morning from now on?” syriauntold.com/2025/03/20/t...
“To whom will I say good morning from now on!” | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت
Beginning on Thursday, 6 March 2025, and lasting for six days, Alawite-majority areas along the Syrian coast were subjected to a coordinated attack that bore the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing. The ass...
syriauntold.com
This "error" means that this regime can pick up any American, anywhere, and ship them to a foreign prison without due process. We should grind this country to a halt over this.
The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2y agoDespite the “error,” the federal government says the courts can’t make them bring home the Maryland father they accidentally deported.
SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.
SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge
“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.
zeteo.com
Not only did they send emails to people revoking their visa -- something we have never heard done before -- the emails also said that those students can be deported to countries that are not their own. They're using the specter of El Salvadorian prisons to threaten our students.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2y agoHundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...
For the Injustice Report today, my colleague @olivalejandra.bsky.social wrote a jaw-dropping, must-read post: "Yes, the El Salvador 'Deportations' Are Really Bad' open.substack.com/pub/injustic...
Yes, the El Salvador “Deportations” are Really Bad
and not just for the innocent people who got deported
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