An authoritarian playbook in Florida Podcast Episode · Seeking Rents – The Podcast · 08/14/2025 · 31m

Bull$hl+ interpretations of the law? Judge Carlos Mendoza of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida says…
NO!

Kudos Judge Mendoza!

Read/listen at Seeking Rents podcast:

“Judge strikes down parts of a Florida law used to ban school library books”
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#NoBookBan

Survey shows most Albertans don’t want province setting standards for school library books, province going ahead Survey results from the Alberta government show the majority of respondents don't support the province setting standards for school library books.

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Survey shows most Albertans don’t want province setting standards for school library books, province going ahead

#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #survey #province #Standards
#library #books #NoBookBan #FireTheUCP #ban #FireSmith

Conservative activists gave Alberta government list of ‘inappropriate’ books in school libraries Alberta's education minister initially said he was approached by concerned parents. We now know he met with groups campaigning to remove books from libraries in Canada.

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Conservative activists gave Alberta government list of ‘inappropriate’ books in school libraries

#bookban #TheUCPLies #FireTheUCP #Alberta #FireSmith #Conservative #activists #Alberta #Government #inappropriate #books #NoBookBan

UCP - Youth shouldn’t be exposed to sexually graphic materials at any school age!

Reality - more than half of youth are exposed to being graphically sexually active by 14.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #Alberta #NoBookBan #Alberta #TheUCPLie #FireTheUCP #graphic #material #FireSmith #SexuallyActive

This is a small sample of the books that the "radical NDP activists" as the UCP call them want to keep in schools for K-9 students. LGBTQIA+ books!

#BookBan #Alberta #NDP #abpoli #ableg #FireTheUCP #NoBookBan #FireSmith #lgbtqiaplus #UCPCorruption #FuckTheUCP

A bookshelf, and the words Read, Write, Publish, Stock, and Distribute Banned Books.

Making a reading list of banned books. #Nobookban #indiepublishing #readinglist #books #independentbookpublishing

Happy to share the cover I illustrated for Same Page. Written by Elly Swartz. Huge thanks to Katrina Damkoehler and team at Random House. Published by Delacorte Press, Jan 14, 2025. 📚

#books #bookban #nobookban #mglit #kidlit #bookcover #cover #characters #illustration #kidlitillustration #booksky

Totally Not-Fun Facts: 13 of the 14 books banned by Utah's new book-banning legislation are written by women, and none of the books are pornography, despite "they contain pornographic material" being the justification for banning them. #booksky #librarians #bookban #nobookban