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Some Tennessee Libraries Shut Down For “Emergency Closure” Over Transgender Books It is unclear how many other libraries have or may need to temporarily shut their doors in order to cull their children’s sections for gender-subversive content.

Regional library systems across the state are now tasked with determining the compliance of books with Tennessee’s “age-appropriateness” laws, as well as federal law and President Donald Trump’s slate of anti-trans executive orders.

What's in the anti-book ban bill the Mass. Senate is expected to pass The Massachusetts Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would set statewide rules for removing material from school libraries. Here's a look at the details.

The Massachusetts Senate is expected to pass a bill today that would set statewide rules for removing material from school libraries.

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Roxane Gay is spot on:

Advocacy Update: November 5, 2025 Advocacy Update for the week of October 30 to November 5.

Election Roundup: A Good Night for the Freedom to Read

Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025 A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.

Last month, it was teenagers who got 8 books banned in a statewide Georgia reading bowl back into the competition. These literary heroes deserve recognition–get to meet three of these rad book-loving intellectual freedom champions.

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State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened Maryland’s school board is reversing Harford County’s decision remove a book from public school libraries — the first time the state has intervened in a local decision about what’s appropriate...

State school board says Harford County’s book ban shouldn’t have happened

The Normalization of Book Banning This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Authors in Bay Area on Tour for Kids’ Book About Censorship Told Not to Discuss Banned, Queer Books In an ironic twist indicative of our times, authors Joanna Ho and Caroline Kusin-Pritchard were about to go on stage to discuss their new kids’ book 'The Day the Books Disappeared' at a San Ramon elem...

"Book Riot notes that there’s an active chapter of Moms For Liberty in Contra Costa County where San Ramon is located, which puts political pressure on public schools and libraries to censor topics on race, sexuality, and gender."

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Print featuring featuring the upper half of a Black woman wearing a green patterned jacket and pale green top, looking outwards

A chapter in the new womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores creative #printmaking in protest, including in women's Civil Rights activism & zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....Art below left by LaToya Hobbs of Black Women of Print bookshop.org/beta-search?...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

"In her first appearance during a special-called meeting Oct. 30, former college swimmer Riley Gaines and the Sumner County Library Board could not move forward with a controversial ban on transgender books for all county-run libraries."

One of the reasons that The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is one the most banned books in the United States:

Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when off...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense Monday to return books about gender and race back to five school libraries on military bases.

Utah Quietly Bans Its 19th Book from All State Public Schools Utah just quietly banned THIRTEEN REASONS WHY from all public schools across the state. It's their 19th state-sanctioned book ban.

Utah quietly bans it's 19th book from all state public schools.

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Screen shot of books removed from Victoria Public Library

Screen shot of books removed and relocated in Victoria Public Library

Screen shot of someone claiming books about racism and gender are “perverse filth.”

47 books removed. From a Texas public library. “Weeded.” Targeted for removal based on ideological complaints. So not “weeded.” Censored. Banned.

Knew it!

Federal judge blocks Texas ban on ‘sexually explicit’ books in schools A Trump-appointed federal judge wrote that a 2023 Texas law's requirements for library book ratings are "subjective, confusing and unworkable."

Texas HB 900 has been permanently enjoined and the part of the bill requiring booksellers to rate books has been overturned! @bookpeople www.expressnews.com/politics/art...

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Donald Trump just posted this video on Truth Social

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

"In unison."

Amen.

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Lucas: Legislation designed to keep sexually explicit materials away from kids Censorship is so 1984.

Propaganda for banning books in Wyoming

Leander ISD returns dozens of books to classrooms after review of compliance with new state law The district said it reinstated 36 of the 40 books it pulled from classrooms with "revisions to curriculum materials."

This was after the school district pulled 40 books that AI identified as "DEI."

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword The former director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas, said on Thursday that he was told to “resign or be fired.”

Kansas librarian fired because he refused to give Trump the sword that was given to Eisenhower decades ago.

Abortion Providers Say Missouri's Attorney General Is Trying to Get Patient Records The fight over subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

Wyoming library director fired amid book dispute wins $700,000 settlement A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes on youth shelves has reached a $700,000 settlement with her former employer.

The former Wyoming library director was fired for not removing books with "sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes," but she was rewarded a $700,000 settlement.

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"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats it's children."
` Nelson Mandela

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

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