The Old Library in Dublin’s (16th century) Trinity College is decanting its books for cleaning and restoration. Visiting there means confronting empty bookshelves that should be full. With books in Alberta schools on the chopping block, it all felt a little too real. #banbookbanning

Your book is one of the finest graphic novels that I've read, and I've read quite a few. It is educational, thoughtful, moving, and entertaining. After the first time I read it, I thought it merited being part of a curriculum, as an accessible way to learn of a dark past. #banbookbanning

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Students sue Department of Defense for pulling ‘DEI’ books from its school libraries The lawsuit filed by the ACLU accuses the agency of violating the First Amendment rights of students by restricting lessons and library books related to race, gender and sexuality.

Thanks to @19thnews.org for highlighting #DoDSchool students' actions to protest removal of books the regime thinks inappropriate. Speaking of inappropriate - why have #SecDef 's tats not landed him in El Salvador? #BanBookBanning #LearningIsFundamentalToDefeatingFascism 19thnews.org/2025/04/aclu...

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Makes no sense to me either 🙄🙄🙄 #banbookbanning

The right to read freely is expected and should be promoted in a free country, in a democracy, in a country known as land of the free and the home of the brave.

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Diversity, free thought, and inclusion frightens book banners.

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Book bans are accelerating across the country amid right-wing pressure campaign | CNN Business America’s right-wing forces would have you believe that they are for free speech, but many of those same forces are behind a wave of book bans sweeping the US.

Books that belong in the fiction section: "Hillbilly Elegy" and "The Art of the Deal."

Or...in an ironic twist, we could simply ban or burn them, as their faux-authors would do to so much great, classic literature. #BanBookBanning
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I guess a book release would not be complete without book banning type comments like these. I chose to take the highroad and educate rather than argue and engage. #riseupagainsthate #speakup #banbookbanning #picturebooks #kidlit #kidlitart #ChildrensBooks #bookbanning