The future US Republicans apparently want.

Writing books for kids is close to becoming a majority opinion among Supreme Court justices.

The trend reflects the justices' growing political celebrity status and the lucrative nature of book royalties, which are exempted from outside income limits. https://wapo.st/4tq95Up

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

Wondering if it will wind up the parent chat group enough to get me booted out if I put the article about long COVID and school grades in there... 👀

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'Sold' Tops the List of 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025 | School Library Journal According to the State of America's Libraries report, the American Library Association documented 4,235 unique titles challenged, 5,668 books banned, and an additional 920 titles restricted in 2025.

‘Sold’ Tops the List of 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025
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I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

School Vouchers Are What We Thought They Were The nascent "freedom accounts" program is, predictably, burdened by Republicans’ insistence on religious discrimination—and likely set to benefit those already outside the public school system.

Our top story: The vast majority of the students who are applying for vouchers are already enrolled in private schools, being homeschooled, or entering school for the first time. About 1% of the state's 5.5M public school students have applied.

Black text on a yellow background reads: “Authors Against Book Bans speak out” and “Ryan Estrada” accompanied by an image of a man wearing glasses and the cover of the book “Banned Book Club”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What’s your name and most challenged book?” “My name is Ryan Estrada. Ironically, my book Banned Book Club, which I wrote with my wife Kim Hyun Sook about her experiences smuggling illegal books under a dictator in 1980s Korea, has been banned in six different cities. My second most banned book is Occulted, about how my friend Amy Rose used banned books to escape a UFO death cult. I guess the book banners really don’t like to see that their tactics are the same as despots and cult leaders.”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What’s your experience with being banned?” “I thought I was writing about history. When we started writing in 2017, book banning was not a topic of discussion in the US. In fact, the reason we got our book deal was that the editor was SHOCKED at the idea that South Korea was only a few decades away from having state-banned books. By the time the book came out three years later, not only were books being banned by the hundreds, but our book quickly became one of them.”

Black text on a white background that reads, “What do you wish readers in general knew about book bans? It’s all a show. They claim to be a giant network of parents concerned about pornography in schools, but that’s all a lie. It’s like a dozen people, and I know all of them [...] None of them have children in the school districts they target. Many don’t even live in those districts and drive in from another state. They are political operatives, funded by organizations whose investments in private schools are benefited by making public schools worse, or whose campaigns benefit from damaging libraries.

We asked members of @authorsabb.bsky.social to share their experiences of being banned. Thank you @ryanestrada.com for sharing your story!

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I am so so sorry. Pictures and updates of Marvin Sprinkles had brightened this stranger’s day.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Banner parent company to buy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, staving off its closure The Venetoulis Institute will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, converting it to a nonprofit to prevent the historic paper’s closure.

The Baltimore Banner’s parent organization will buy the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a deal that will keep one of the country’s oldest newspapers open

Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections The Book-Loving Texan’s Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections (This is a mobilization tool. Use it to volunteer, donate, and organize in your community.) Election Day: Saturday, May 2 Early Vo...

The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the May 2026 School Board Elections is now LIVE! Please read it, share it, and bookmark it to help support anti-censorship candidates in Texas.

And check back frequently! As always, I'll be updating it until election day (May 2). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today’s edition of wtf is wrong with people?

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Congratulations!

Grossmont school district faces more lawsuits over alleged 'anti-LGBTQ' agenda Nine librarians and a special education administrator claim 'anti-LGBTQ' discrimination in Grossmont Union.

Nine librarians have sued Grossmont Union High School District (CA) for being directed to not share LGBTQ+ books or make the libraries LGBTQ+ welcoming spaces.

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The Citi Field scoreboard showed the Artemis II astronauts returning safely to Earth tonight 🪂

If you were cheering tonight or this week, call your Congresspeople.

The free speech warriors in the Idaho statehouse passed a law banning pride flags, meant to target flags at Boise’s city hall. So the Boise mayor took down the flags themselves but refashioned the flag *poles* to display rainbow colors idahonews.com/news/local/b...

This marketing is really insulting to the rest of us out here who’ve been writing for teens for a while. We’ve got censors on one side, colonization by adult Romantacy on the other and now these condescending “saviors” right in the middle telling us we’re dirty. This sucks.

My Books Save Lives Act makes it clear: discriminatory book bans are a violation of federal civil rights law.

I held a read-in at All She Wrote Books in Somerville to announce this bill to fight book bans and emphasize the importance of inclusive literature.

Doctors say that salmonella can kill you. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and cuts penises off dead raccoons says salmonella is good for you. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A win!

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

We need all hands on deck to stop H.R. 7661, the federal book banning bill.

Your voice matters. Congressional offices track every call—we CAN make a difference.

I hope you’ll join me in speaking out. There's a script you can follow here: action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661

@authorsabb.bsky.social

Today is #LocalNewsDay, a reminder that local newsrooms keep us informed about what’s happening in our schools, local governments, and communities. On this first Local News Day, PEN America stands with newsrooms across the country. Healthy communities depend on a free, independent press.

The Trump administration wants to sanitize George Washington’s role in slavery at President’s House The federal government uploaded digital renderings of 11 new panels that it was preparing to display at the President's House. They reframe George Washington's role in upholding slavery.

The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN

RESULT: Democrats have flipped this school board seat in Tulsa.

They ousted the conservative board member I wrote about here, who suggested that immigrant children endanger other kids.

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

Thank god. Christ.

But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

once again, I need someone to create the emoji that combines 😔 with😡 . Thank you to that former student for speaking.