This Is Just to Say I have trained the AI to read to our baby the one you were probably expecting me to interact with Calm down AI is awesome so sweet and so cold

🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃@viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 22h ago

this is so fucking sad

Same, but for Utah!

TX FReadom Fighters@freadomfighters.bsky.social · 3d ago

Should one person control every Texas library? We don't think so. Our latest Substack post. @penamerica.bsky.social @uabookbans.bsky.social txfreadomfighters.substack.com/p/should-one...

TODAY’S ACTION: Thank a librarian! Librarians do so much more than put books on shelves. Take a few minutes today to email, message, or stop by and thank a school or public librarian for the work they do. A little support can go a long way.

It's Banned Books Week. My fellow librarians, listen carefully: your book displays should be almost exclusively writers who are alive. Yes, I know classic literature is also being banned, but most of those authors are dead. They aren't suffering financially from bans and challenges.

If you only center inanimate objects in your conversations about censorship, you’re doing it wrong. #bannedbooksweek

I love that everyone’s excited about #bannedbooksweek, but please remember that there’s so much more to it than just buying or reading a banned book. Its also about people- librarians, educators, and readers- Kelly’s body of work is a starting point to understand this more.

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

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education. This is updated regularly!

Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛

I'd like to once again remind you for #BannedBooksWeek that Huckleberry Finn and Animal Farm don't need you to go out of your way to read them. Instead, support a book, and author, who a ban can actually hurt.

I really appreciated the framing of this article (and not just because it quotes @letutahread.bsky.social and me). This is an underreported part of the book banning story in Utah—especially since the governor’s wife has made literacy part of her platform.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6d ago

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has been making the rounds in national media recently, promoting his new book. And in 2024, the soon-to-be author signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws—a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him.

The state not knowing what’s happening with book bans is a feature, not a bug. Districts don’t keep complete records (e.g., they don’t follow their process (see Washington) or have deleted records (see Davis)), and USBE never verifies that districts actually follow policy before removing books.

Ben Winslow@benwinslow.bsky.social · last wk.

After a federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit over Utah's school book bans, the Utah Attorney General's Office gave its formal response to the litigation filed against the state by students/book authors. Let's just say it's 31 pages of "to the point." 😅 #utpol #Utah

Utah banned SEVEN more books from all public schools yesterday, bringing the total number of state-sanctioned bans in the state to 44. More than half of those bans happened in 2026.

kelly jensen@heykellyjensen.bsky.social · last wk.

Utah added SEVEN more books to its state-mandated book ban list. Six of those titles are by women. 44 are now banned. This comes the week after a judge permitted a lawsuit brought against their book banning law to proceed. It's the busiest banning year for the state. bookriot.com/utah-bans-44...

This song is everything! So grateful for Martha and all the other freedom to read champions who bring joy to this fight. Freedom to read people are the best people ❤️📚❤️

Martha Hickson@sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today in retirement: Had a blast participating in the nobookbans.org Show Up, Speak Up telethon! If you missed my contribution, here it is. Props to my rhythm section (my husband Doug) and to Tony Danza, who first inspired me to pick up the uke!

This is state-mandated book banning being perpetuated here. It is the Dan Patrick level "we're going to downgrade your school" banning from Texas, but in Florida. Thousands of books will be removed, and you'll probably never know about it.

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

“Weed On Purpose, Not Only After a Fight”: Florida's Commissioner of Education–newly appointed by the governor in June–is demanding all public schools begin proactively banning books or face punishment from the state. bookriot.com/florida-educ...

The veggie garden didn’t do so great this year, but at least my fruit quilting was on point! And of course, it wouldn’t be a quilt picture without Ham rushing over to model 😅😂

Utah friends! Let Davis Read, along with @letutahread.bsky.social, the Davis County Library, Davis Indivisible, and @utahlibraries.bsky.social, are hosting a screening of the The Librarians at the Clearfield Library on Tuesday, October 6 at 6:00 p.m. The event is free, but registration is required.

GREAT piece today from @heykellyjensen.bsky.social with collab from @sarahlamdan.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, and @tasslyn.bsky.social. Awesome quote from @maggietokudahall.bsky.social. Read it. It’s good. bookriot.com/book-censors...

“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read

Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.

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Proud of this work - and even prouder to work in collab with @heykellyjensen.bsky.social , @stephanaferrell.bsky.social @sarahlamdan.bsky.social and Arielle from @freedomreadproject.bsky.social! There are folks around the country doing amazing things - raise them up! bookriot.com/book-censors...

“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to Read

Advocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six.

bookriot.com

Anyone free in Boise today! Danny Caine is doing a workshop at the public library on how to write a public comment. Public comments are a relatively rare opportunity to speak directly to your leaders so you want to make the most of it.

Danny Caine Workshop: How to Write a Public Comment

There is an art to a good public testimony. You generally have two minutes to share your valid concerns and convince those in power to act in your interest. That puts a lot of...

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Texas Senate Bill 13 allows anyone (including Dan Patrick and Bonnie Wallace) to formally challenge books in the school district in which they live. Every district should respond to every request or demand to remove any library book, by following their EFB Local library materials policy.

Postcards are a simple but effective way to make elected officials hear your input. Here's a quick template to help you write your own or even host a postcard writing party!

How to write a postcard FTR campaign.docx

RHODE ISLAND FREEDOM TO READ ACT (S0238, H5726) POSTCARD CAMPAIGN You are invited to write a postcard to your state legislators to express your thoughts on the Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act…

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Huzzah! The ACLU’s lawsuit challenging Utah’s book banning law cleared the first hurdle! 🥳🥳🥳

Bryan Schott@schotthappens.com · 3w ago

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit from several authors challenging Utah's book-banning law can proceed. The judge didn't rule on whether the law violates the First Amendment, only that the authors have legal standing to sue. Read more ⬇️ utahpolitics.news/judge-allows...

USBE rejected our appeal of Fight Club today. Unfortunately, the motion to hold Davis School District accountable failed on a 7-8 vote.

An absolute waste of taxpayer time and money. Imagine if over the last many years of librarians telling them they've manufactured a panic instead... But then they wouldn't get to do state surveillance on those very librarians! www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

Are book vendors intentionally selling pornographic content to public schools? Utah is spending $60K to find out.

Utah is launching a $60,000 effort to take a closer look at how books get onto public school library shelves, including what role vendors play in the process.

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earnest request: if you have kids in your life ages 3-8 whose interest in STEM you'd like to encourage, by all means please consider preordering WHAT DO PEOPLE DO AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM. if you preorder by Monday I'll sign it for 'em. mrsdalloways.com/book/9781452...

What Do People Do at the Science Museum?

A fun, vibrantly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of a natural history museum and all the incredible people who work there! Welcome to the Science and Natural History Museum! H...

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Dolly and her Imagination Library making me cry on my kid’s birthday 🥲

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

[Exit Queen.]

Davis School District (UT) didn't follow procedure when they banned FIGHT CLUB. It'll be interesting to see this play out, given that they've been responsible for many of the state-wide bans. www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

This Utah school district didn’t talk about ‘Fight Club.’ Now, it could be in trouble with the state.

Davis School District’s decision to uphold a ban of the Chuck Palahniuk novel without discussion likely violated Utah procedure, state officials say.

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If you’re a parent in TX, please connect with @txfreedomread.bsky.social to make sure you’re informed as the impacts of this sorry attempt for attention and power continues to play out on the ground.

Texas Freedom to Read Project@txfreedomread.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and pearl-clutching pro-censorship political activist Bonnie Wallace held a press conference at the State Capitol yesterday, delivering an ultimatum to public school districts…

THIS! ⬇️ Texas librarians and advocates, please understand this and communicate it to your administrators and school boards if they’re pushing to censor books.

TX FReadom Fighters@freadomfighters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deja Vu all over again - revisiting book banning from 2021-now. txfreadomfighters.substack.com/p/deja-vu-pa...