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So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.

And this is what they called it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

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ICYMI: The mind-boggling list of hundreds of #bannedbooks in Tennessee now includes Calvin and Hobbes by cartoonist Bill Watterson, They Called Us Enemy by @georgetakei.bsky.social, and The Complete Book of Cats by Rosie Pilbeam. More at: pen.org/magic-tree-h... #Caturday #Censorship

Who are these awful people who choose this as a career and how are there so many of them? Who chooses to be an abductor and human trafficker? They clearly know it’s an awful job or they wouldn’t hide. This is disgusting!

Pritzker, Bashear, Buttigieg. Not Newsome!

Exactly this!

Image of a library book display labeled:
"It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual"
The books on display are:
'On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century'
'1984'
'A Handmaids Tale'
'Diary of Anne Frank'
'Parable of The Sower'
'Fahrenheit 451'
'Animal Farm'
'Brave New World'

Happy 50th Birthday to Albuquerque‘s Main Library! Across the country – our public libraries are vital to our communities and our democracy. As a bonafide bibliophile and lover of libraries, I am proud to be on the front lines defending these vital institutions.

Support your local public library!

Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally.

Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.

The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy.

www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

YouTube video by NBC Chicago FULL: Gov. Pritzker delivers Illinois State of the State Address 2025

youtu.be/KBOJhU2pLMo?...

Banned Books List 2025 - PEN America What books are banned in 2025? These are the 11 most banned books of the 2023-2024 school year. The banned books list for 2025 includes "Nineteen Minutes," by Jodi Picoult.

Read, share, and gift banned books. pen.org/banned-books...

Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves.

For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender.

A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984.

www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

Was about to say the same thing. No one thinks he’s qualified.

Arkansas book-censorship law ruled unconstitutional - Arkansas Times The book censorship law had already been put on temporary hold.

Early Christmas present from the Western District of Arkansas in favor of the first amendment and against the ARGOP’s book banning idiocy. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.