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Book Banning Across America In case you missed it, book banning is going national. On Tuesday, February 24, HR 7661 was introduced in the second session of the 119th Congress by Rep. Mary Miller, the representative from the 1…

A little more here on that samuelscohen.com/2026/02/27/b...

Book Banning Across America In case you missed it, book banning is going national. On Tuesday, February 24, HR 7661 was introduced in the second session of the 119th Congress by Rep. Mary Miller, the representative from the 1…

Also samuelscohen.com/2026/02/27/b...

Book Banning Across America In case you missed it, book banning is going national. On Tuesday, February 24, HR 7661 was introduced in the second session of the 119th Congress by Rep. Mary Miller, the representative from the 1…

On HR 7661 samuelscohen.com/2026/02/27/b...

Banning Books in America This is a book about banned books in the U.S. - about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.Banning Books…

Anyway, in sheer, baldfaced disgust, I offer this www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...

Let's all pause and respect the sheer, baldfaced, bigoted moxie it takes to use that "or" at the end of (i)

and it's the best unit i bet

Glad to learn there's a Congressional Canon now

Good thing the federal government is weighing in on depictions of dancing

What they're trying to add to Section 8526 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

In case you missed it, book bans are going national

You'll be right at least once a week, minimum

I can't do better than "bigoted book banning bullshit," but I've got a new book that's unfortunately more timely than ever www.bloomsbury.com/us/banning-b...

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

hey I wonder if everyone -- very much not least our elite media -- should have taken more seriously Donald Trump's repeated praise for Victor Orban & Kim Jong Un and other clear indications he viewed them as role models

In an alarming nutshell:

How Orbán systematically suffocated the Hungarian media over the past 15 years Viktor Orbán has also pledged, in his annual address earlier this month, to “clear out” after the April elections media and civil society organisations deemed to threaten “sovereignty.” Fidesz already...

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior Netflix is ditching a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount to be superior.

This really feels like an Orban/Erdogan situation in which the aspiring dictator is making sure his friendly oligarchs control as much media as possible

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/w...

As one IT specialist put it:

“By giving Companion AI their Canvas credentials, students are granting to an unvetted start-up what amounts to ‘God-mode’ access to their academic identity, which for most students is practicably their whole identity. This opens the door to total data compromise.”

This reference is outside my knowledge but I'm getting a football feeling

😂

Wait for it

Mazel tov

Sorry I'm in a Zoom meeting

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