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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 08/02/2025

If hosting the #VelshiBannedBookClub taught me anything, it’s that the fight against censorship needs all hands on deck. Take it from the band of teens/authors/a library/publishers challenging a de facto blanket book ban in Idaho. Jerrick Edwardsen, student plaintiff, joins me at 11aET on #Velshi

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itsjan.bsky.social @itsjan.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Enjoyed the show this morning. Thank you for keeping the spotlight on banned book efforts. It's important. We need to keep books on the shelf.

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Marjie Podzielinski @marjiepodge.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thank you !

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Katie Whittemore✊🏻💙 @katiewhittemore22.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hi Ali! Can you help us spread the word about these protest movements: ❌ ECONOMIC BLACKOUT 2/28 ❌ TOTAL SHUTDOWN 3/15 #blackout228 #shutdown315

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Dawn @dawnpaints.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The world is on our side. Keep fighting! www.instagram.com/reel/DFZHYw3...

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lorraine-downing.bsky.social @lorraine-downing.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am collecting copies of as many banned books as I can for my personal library. (Nothing wrong with a grandmother encouraging her grandchildren and their friends to come to her house to read. 😉)

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Sir Isaac Lime @sirisaaclime.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

How about the destroyed website club? How soon until all of the websites that were taken down are replaced with false information?

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Lisa @azlisa.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I have followed your #VelshiBannedBookClub for a long time because I've read MANY of these books and think they should be required reading in our schools as they once were. The loss of this education deprives our children of vital civil and ethical knowledge as they go out into the world. #Velshi

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Karen E Lewis @karenelewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The list of banned books looks to me like it covers most if not all of the books we were assigned in English classes in the 1970s. From many of them we learned about man's inhumanity to fellow man.

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Jukea @jukea.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Canada misses you! So glad you are on the air on weekends!

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Joseph Figueroa Delgado @jfigueroadelgado.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Love to listen to your reasoning, compassion and depth of thought. I also cherish your articulate delivery free of filer "like" and without upspeak, as if everything were a question. Your colleagues could learn a thing or two from you!

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Dare_l @dare50.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Great story on the Idaho book ban. Trust librarians. The only thing harmful about books is banning them. Appreciate all you do!

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Mary @author24me.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I keep buying banned books. Every chance I get.

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sunshine3031.bsky.social @sunshine3031.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I am already following you. The young man in the lawsuit, maybe highlight his self published books one day so we know where to find them, what inspired them. Glad he joined b/c there is abdifference. He has a goal to be an author. The school paper does beed to research. Great show as always.

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sulovesblue.bsky.social @sulovesblue.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Thank you for your #VelshiBannedBookClub! You are such a gifted journalist & an ally for women & LGBTQ+. I appreciate you so much.

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Concerned boomer he’s back @ohmyyeah.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Back in the day, Betty Davis made a movie called Storm Center, the whole movie was about banning books from the library good movie! I just wanted to say that .

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Cinzia Perrin @saneplanet.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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"Americans need to get over their 'Dictator' phobia" ~J.D. Vance's political guru, Curtis Yarvin who calls for Trump to be given total power—no checks/balances. @gilduran.com: "This is a powerful tech cult with a plan to destroy democracy, freedom, and reality." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Watch: Rachel Maddow lays out why you should care about JD Vance's real agenda

Rachel Maddow shows JD Vance explaining in his own words his lack of faith that democracy can deliver on his conservative ideals, and shows the influences behind Vance's preference that the United Sta...

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Cinzia Perrin @saneplanet.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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DEI hire JD Vance picked by anti-democracy, pro-dictators to carry out agenda to dismantle US Constitution. "Americans need to get over their 'Dictator' phobia" ~Vance's political guru, Curtis Yarvin, calls for Trump to be given total power—no checks/balances. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRNy...

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Rachel Maddow exposes the real reason JD Vance was chosen to be Trump's running mate

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Cinzia Perrin @saneplanet.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

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In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government. He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

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Bev Bafus @bevbafus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So awesome! Jerrick is from Lewiston.

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marecell.bsky.social @marecell.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

It was a great segment today

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Laura G @guruduck.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

That was a great interview! Also, I had the same album art on my walls when I was 17.

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Ravenna @ravenna321.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Book burning is coming

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Jeff @jefflee65.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I smell a nazi...

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Pizzolog @pizzolog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

7 Dear Rachel Maddow . . Please call on the 50 other sovereign governments to arrest all the TREASONOUS FELONS harming and violating states rights of the citizens of their sovereign state. Putin may never have calculated on the other 50 sovereign governments.

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Pizzolog @pizzolog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

6 When Pam Bondi and Russell Vough commit state felonies, they too can be arrested on state felony charges. They have no legal protection under the United States Constitution to commit felonies while doing their work.

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Pizzolog @pizzolog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

5 The 50 sovereign governors are a line in the defense against the TREASON occurring now in America.

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Pizzolog @pizzolog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

2 ELON MUSK is out on his own committing felonies and has no constitutional authority to do so in his line of work for the u.s. president, either through the Constitution document itself or through the authority of the presidency.

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Pizzolog @pizzolog.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Ali Velshi . . PLEASE LISTEN Mr. Velshi, I wrote the following to Rachel Maddow, and I’m writing this to you, please. The United States Constitution does not authorize the U.S. President to tell anyone to go out and commit a felony, and to do so behind the mask of the federal government.

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Susan Mullan Furey, Ed.D. @sfurey.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hi Ali, Would you please do me a favor and read the Facebook DM I sent you? It addresses another innovative & creative way to addres the banned book issues. Thanks! Btw, I live outside Philly in Montco.

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Alicia @santagam.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

What a terrific interview. I look forward to the Banned Book Club every week and I make it a point to buy at least one banned book every month at my Indie bookstore!

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Allison @ad108.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So glad we can still count on you Ali

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kweersaintsnbabas.bsky.social @kweersaintsnbabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Could it be true?! -Allen Ginsberg chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-empire...

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The Empire Self-Destructs

We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.

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James(jim) @jamesa7289.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

THESE DEMS WHINING& COMPLAINING SHOULD BE FILING COURT CASES INJUNCTIONS AGAINST THESE EXECUTIVE ACTIONS HURTING ALL CONSTITUENTS INSTEAD WE GET THIS WHINING THEN CAMPAIGNING FOR MONEY PUT UP OR SHUT UP ON SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE NEEDING MEDS & MONEY .. NOT campaigning I am on SS & MEDICARE ILL

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