Randy Ribay

Federal Judge Blocks Iowa Law Restricting Sexually Explicit School Books (Gift Article) The ruling is a victory for the publishers and free speech advocates who challenged the law, but the judge’s decision is far from final.

Good news out of Iowa! Big thank you & congratulations to the advocates who worked on this! It is abundantly clear these bans are unconstitutional, but that won't stop them from trying. We need to be just as organized & just as relentless. Good job team!

Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...

More info about actions you can take as an author to protect your work and fight back about the theft of your IP authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

INCREDIBLE Ruling!

Judge Reyes just ruled that transgender people have served honorably in the military, judges Trumps trans military ban - which states trans people are inherently dishonorable - as unconstitutional and motivated by animus.

Trans military members may continue to serve.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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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.

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ALA response to White House assault on IMLS To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities.  As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders.

Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

Telegraph Club Considered for Possible Statewide Ban in South Carolina — Malinda Lo I recently learned that my novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club , along with nine other books, has been challenged at the state level in South Carolina.

My novel Last Night at the Telegraph Club and 9 more books are under review for a statewide ban in South Carolina. There will be a hearing tomorrow 3/13. I'm not optimistic that LNATTC will survive this challenge, but it's still possible. Context here: www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/3/...

Good news out of Oklahoma! The extremely punitive SB593, which threatened jail time for writers, booksellers, etc WAS NOT HEARD IN COMMITTEE, effectively killing it for this session. Congratulations to everyone who organized against it!!!

BREAKING

Authorities in the Philippines have arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte.

This comes after the ICC issued a warrant related to Duterte’s role in crimes against humanity during his administration’s “war on drugs,” which resulted in thousands of deaths and many extrajudicial killings.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

I wrote on Instagram about erasure of women today: www.instagram.com/p/DG8aRVRAyc...

Finally, if you want to support the work I do uplifting mostly women Latinx voices, consider becoming a Patreon for as little as $2 a month: www.patreon.com/tomesandtext...

The people who read our books are kids. They don’t have money to spend. They don’t subscribe to publications that review books. They find us at the library. If the books aren’t there, it’s like they don’t exist. And that makes kids feel like *they* don’t exist.

🚨🚨🚨RED ALERT, Texas book lovers. This bill (SB13) will be heard in committee on Thursday. Now is the time to let lawmakers know how bad it is. #BookSky

Thanks for reading!

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Applications are now open for our inaugural Spring YA Workshop. Consisting of curated classes, lectures, generative exercises, & readings, this intimate weekend will also have plenty of time for mingling, sightseeing in PDX, and (of course) karaoke. #thya
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How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida. If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book pe…

Need some good news today? Authors Against Book Bans fought one conservative school district in FL and won!
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The Day the Books Disappeared

Cover Reveal: The Day the Books Disappeared by @joannahowrites.bsky.social, @carolinekpritchard.bsky.social , and @dansantat.bsky.social mrschureads.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Thanks for reading—glad you enjoyed!

First ***** read of 2025. ‘Everything We Never Had’ is so layered and thoughtful and soul-full, I’ll be thinking about these characters for a long time, and deepening my learning about the Philippines. Thank you @randyribay.bsky.social for sharing this work with the world.

Thanks for reading!

Everything We Never Had is a modern classic. I would pair this with excerpts from the Grapes of Wrath. Students need to hear all the stories and see themselves in literature. I love how the story is multi-generational. @randyribay.bsky.social

Donate to Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC, organized by Martha Brockenbrough You might know Jess Huang as Celeste Pewter—the tireless educator on how … Martha Brockenbrough needs your support for Back Jess's Path to a Fresh Start in DC

Hey all, I have a specific request this AM.

There's an urgent situation involving this (which Martha references in the original description), and the total needs to be doubled.

Martha's OOO so I don't want to bother her to change the amount, but I'm asking for your help.

gofund.me/505857f2

2024 Young Adult Fiction Winner

Everything We Never Had
by @randyribay.bsky.social
Kokila @penguin-usa.bsky.social
Nominated by: Richetta

#yalit #yafiction #booksky #cybils2024
@penguinschoollib.bsky.social

Ah, so honored! Thank you!

Ah, I’m honored! Hope they enjoy it!

The Batch is Back! 08.05.2025

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#starwars #thebadbatch

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day.

Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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