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Wisconsin student said teacher pressured her to publicly identify political party despite safety fears Wisconsin school district removes political display after student reported harassment concerns over mandatory party identification assignment at Middleton High School.

a wisconsin civics class asked students to name their political party. moms for liberty lost it.

maybe the assignment should’ve been on irony instead.

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Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

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you always knew they'd make caring feel like weakness.
this chapter of brave new world proves you were right.
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books like brave new world challenge us to think critically about control. that's exactly why they're banned. check out Banned Camp - new episodes drop every tues & thurs.

what's your favorite banned book, and why do you think it scares fascists so much?

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6️⃣ the old man climbing down the ladder slowly, carefully, living a real life into his 80s. meanwhile in the "perfect" society they die at 60. all that control and medical science and they die younger. authoritarianism always promises safety and delivers death.

5️⃣ bernard tries to show her that real intimate human connection matters. she can't even process it. she's been conditioned to see authentic life as dirty and wrong. this is why they're banning books - intimacy and authenticity are threats to fascism.

4️⃣ she sees mothers breastfeeding and she's disgusted. they've programmed her to be repulsed by the most natural human act. sound familiar? that's what book bans do - make you ashamed of being human. desantis is counting on your shame.

3️⃣ she brought soma everywhere to numb herself. until one day she forgot it. and facing reality without the drug was unbearable. that's exactly how they want you - scrolling, distracted, medicated on outrage until you can't remember what fighting back feels like.

2️⃣ lenina sees a naturally aging person for the first time and she's horrified. that's the entire authoritarian playbook - keep you so disconnected from reality that normal human existence becomes terrifying. trump needs you to forget what real looks like.

watching democracy die in real time 🧵

on the new episode of banned camp (a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned), we read chapter 7 of brave new world. here are the 5 most interesting things we found that relate to what we're dealing with today...

Book Bans Are ‘Common and Rampant.’ So Are Educators and Parents Fighting Them. | NEA Banned Books Week 2025 is Oct 5-11. Learn how to advocate for students’ right to read.

the trump administration just banned 600 books on military bases. nothing says “land of the free” like government-approved reading lists. someone unplug the country.

Republicans double down on trans issues as a wedge with independent voters - WTOP News It’s early on a Thursday evening and Winsome Earle-Sears, Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor, is in a familiar place. She’s standing outside of a school board meeting to call attention to…

a virginia candidate is headlining moms for liberty events to talk about “parental rights.” translation: turning fear into votes.

totally normal campaign strategy.

Banned Books Week 2025 | Anne Arundel County Public Library Banned Books Week takes place October 5 through October 11. Its purpose is to "draw national attention to the harms of censorship".

libraries are facing bomb threats for defending books about race and gender. the people calling this “protecting kids” are the ones teaching them fear.

maybe the real danger isn’t the books — it’s the silence.

Banned Books Week 2025, October 5-11 Read, and advocate for the freedom to read, diverse literature.

banned books week is here again — the one week we get to pretend freedom to read is still a thing.

maybe next year we’ll be “allowed” to celebrate quietly. progress, right?

That’s awesome

Wish we could have seen it. Was it recorded?

Beautiful

U.S. Faces ‘Expanded and Escalated’ Book Censorship, PEN America Reports PEN America has released its annual report on the book banning crisis in K–12 public schools, naming the top five most banned titles and authors. PEN found censorship increasingly routine; Florida,…

the top banned books this year include a clockwork orange, sold, and last night at the telegraph club. it’s the same cycle every year. someone unplug the country.

Just 3 states are responsible for 80% of known school book bans An annual report on book bans in U.S. schools finds that 80% of the nearly 7,000 books banned for the 2024-2025 school year took place in just three states.

80% of all book bans last year came from just 3 states: florida, texas, tennessee. that’s not “local control.”

that’s coordinated censorship. call it what it is.

Texas School Administrators Use A.I. To Ban Books Like TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Leander Independent School District's administrators tell educators to "pause" use of 40 books, including numerous classroom classics.

ah yes, nothing says “21st century education” like letting an algorithm decide which books your kids can’t read. totally normal, right?

Cassie Craven: Sorry Rod, I've Got More Hope In America This Week | Cowboy State Daily Columnist Cassie Craven writes: "I was polled for my friend Rod Miller’s analysis, of if the Bill of Rights would pass today. I answered as a maybe. But I…

moms for liberty co-sponsored a wyoming fundraiser with turning point usa. the sold-out event shows their strategy isn’t just school boards — it’s building power across the conservative movement.

Texas Public Libraries’ Ability To Remove Explicit Books Being Challenged | News Radio 1200 WOAI | San Antonio's First News Llano County is being sued for removing 17 books from the county library

texas courts say public libraries can remove “explicit” books. colorado courts may rule the opposite. both cases are likely headed for the supreme court.

the future of library shelves could soon be decided by nine justices.

Silent read-in to celebrate Banned Books Week - Salisbury Post SALISBURY — Banned Books Week will take place during the first week of October, and local readers can be part of the event with a silent read-in in downtown Salisbury. According to a press release,…

salisbury, nc will mark banned books week with a silent downtown read-in. residents gathering to publicly read books pulled from shelves. these books cover racism, lgbtq+ lives, and social justice.

when words are silenced, even silence can speak loudly.

Banned Books Week Event Calendar. Add an event or find one near you! BannedBooksWeek.org/events Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025

Are you hosting a Banned Books week event or display? Don't forget to add it to our free event calendar! bannedbooksweek.org/events/

Banned Camp This is Banned Camp - a comedy podcast where we read banned books and find out why they were banned in the first place.

Brave New World shows how they get us to police ourselves. they need us confused and compliant. We're reading Brave New World out-loud , chapter by chapter.

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What moment made YOU realize we're living in the dystopia?

6️⃣ the scariest part? nobody knows the real consequences until it's too late. just vibes and threats. exactly how fascism works. just keep everyone guessing until their compliance becomes automatic.

5️⃣ bernard laughs off the iceland threat because "people simply weren't transferred for things like that." we all said trump would never actually deploy troops in american cities. and here we are.

4️⃣ nobody's actually in charge. it's just "the disapproval of society itself." your maga neighbor reporting you. your boss firing you for pronouns. a thousand small fascists enforcing control.

3️⃣ bernard gets threatened with exile for being different. not arrested. not charged. just disappeared to iceland. miller's already building the camps for people who won't comply.