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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Mary Beth Tinker is an inspiration not only to us but to generations of student activists who have fought for their rights inside and outside schools! #StudentActivism #YouthRights #StudentVoices #YouthEmpowerment #ActivistInspiration
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/07/2026
Tell the Senate to reject Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence. Clayton just subpoenaed four @nytimes.com journalists over their reporting on the Air Force One plane Qatar gifted to President Trump. Someone who targets reporters shouldn’t be DNI.
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📣 Take Action: Write a letter opposing Jay Clayton’s confirmation as director of national intelligence
Make an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NCAC proudly welcomes Don't Delete Art to its Arts and Culture Advocacy! Thanks to all collaborators for six years of impactful work! 🎨 #DontDeleteArt #ArtsAdvocacy #ArtCensorship
Three hands holding megaphones around text announcing Don't Delete Art joining the National Coalition Against Censorship's arts advocacy.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
We are excited to reflect on our remarkable 50th anniversary Gala, in preparation for our Gala on November 18th, presented by Sourcebooks. Floyd Abrams delivered a powerful and inspiring acceptance speech about the importance of standing up for the First Amendment.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
By restricting press access to the Pentagon, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is preventing the free flow of information that allows for a free press, which has served the American people faithfully since its founding. NCAC supports those who stand against this overreach!
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Join NCAC’s 7th Curatorial Workshop for curators & cultural leaders! Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1b3JEHohNVs…
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7th Annual NCAC Curatorial Workshop Application (2025)
Curating in Challenging Times presented by NCAC's Arts & Culture Advocacy Program and Creative Time Workshop date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 (approx. 10am-5:00pm) Location: Lower Manhattan, in person. Address to be shared upon acceptance into the workshop This event is in-person in New York City. Application process: The workshop is open to practicing curators and artistic directors, whether they work independently or within institutions. The workshop is limited to 20 participants. Application Deadline: Sunday, November 2, 2025, 11:59pm EDT Acceptance into the workshop will be...
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Join #BannedBooksWeek and prepare for the #AmericanRevolution250 by participating in the @ncacensorship.bsky.social read-ins of historical fiction "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social Host an event or find one near you. Read: www.righttoreadnight.com www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...
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Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2010. 336 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of an enslaved teenager during the Revolutionary War.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Public threats by the Government to punish free speech is all the more dangerous in a moment when the administration is using speech as a pretext to crackdown on political dissent. The only remedy is for people to stand up to the censors. This isn’t a partisan issue; it’s an American issue.
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FOLCS @folcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Ever feel like your voice is being hidden online? 🕵️‍♀️ Join @folcs.bsky.social @92ndstreety.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social Sept 30 at 7 PM ET for "Shadowbanned & Shutdown: Censorship in the Digital Public Square" a Conversation on the future of free speech. www.92ny.org/event/shadow...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Political violence is a poison to our democracy. The National Coalition Against Censorship unequivocally condemns the shooting of political activist Charlie Kirk. Using violence as a political tactic isn't just criminal, it's profoundly un-American.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“In an autocracy there is no safety: deals struck with power undermine credibility, only to be revoked at whim. Under such conditions, cultural leaders can stand by their principles, and the values that make an open culture (and democracy) possible in the first place.” shorturl.at/Re5ns
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Comment | Trump's 100 days should remind us to be brave—because in an autocracy there is no safety
The Trump administration has taken aim at numerous arts bodies. Elizabeth Larison, the director of the Arts and Culture Advocacy Program at the National Coalition Against Censorship, argues they need ...
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
No idea is illegal. It is breathtakingly absurd and outrageous to even suggest that ideas need to be policed. And that the promise of the First Amendment--the freedom to think freely--is the bedrock of American values. This post subverts everything our constitution stands for.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Join us for a powerful conversation on how social media platforms impact artistic expression! Hosted by Lawyers for the Creative Arts with Saper Law & @dontdeleteart.bsky.social 🗓 April 3 ⏰ 12-1:30 PM CT Register for free by visiting law-arts.org/event/social....
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Social Media & Art Censorship - Lawyers for the Creative Arts
If you’re an artist who wants to share your creations with a wider audience, you know how important it is to post your work on social media. Just as important
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Emma Shapiro @exshaps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I'll be speaking alongside @ncacensorship.bsky.social and Lawyers for the Creative Arts at this event to discuss the legal rights artists *really* have when confronting social media and digital spaces -- join us (it's free!)
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Honored to shepherd this these brilliant, original pieces on the impacts of censorship through the publication process. And Volume 2 will publish this fall. @katywithwine.bsky.social @ncte.org @ncacensorship.bsky.social
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are in the editorial process on a forthcoming Special Issue of The Political Librarian, which will be devoted to discussions and analyses of what the results of the 2024 election may indicate for the future of library work. Stay posted for more information. journals.library.wustl.edu/pollib/
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Public Knowledge @publicknowledge.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🚨 Today, @publicknowledge.bsky.social joined 17 other public interest, trade associations, & civil liberties groups in a letter urging Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr to defend free speech and media freedom, expressing “deep concern” regarding recent actions taken by the agency.
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Erica Lauren Ortiz (she/her) @ericalaurenortiz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Today @dramatistsguild.bsky.social @ncacensorship.bsky.social @artistsatrisk.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social and others expressed deep concern over the Trump Administration’s recent moves to impose ideological control over federally funded cultural programs: #theatresky #artssky #advocacy
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National Free Speech and Art Organizations Warn of a “Golden Age” of Propaganda and a “Starvation Age” for Culture
Related Posts Free SpeechI didn't want just the students opinion on Free speech in School (Does it Exist?)… Free SpeechMy experimental film is about the students that try to make themselves known and ...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“These efforts to make federally-funded arts programs the mouthpiece of the presidential administration should be concerning not just to artists, creatives, cultural organizations, and scholars, but to all Americans—regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum or their taste in art,”
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National Free Speech and Art Organizations Warn of a “Golden Age” of Propaganda and a “Starvation Age” for Culture
Related Posts Free SpeechI didn't want just the students opinion on Free speech in School (Does it Exist?)… Free SpeechMy experimental film is about the students that try to make themselves known and ...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"Publicity stunts like this one—in which artworks that have been shown and discussed for over 30 years are suddenly the focus of an unfounded ‘investigation’—do nothing to protect victims of child abuse...
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Let Utah Read @letutahread.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We're almost completely full! Grab your seat for this free pre-release screening of the documentary, Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship. This Thurs, Feb 13 at 6:30 at Salt Lake City PL. (Two hours free parking!) www.fightforthefirst.org/events/free-...
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Free! Screening of Banned Together Documentary - Feb 13, 6:30 at Salt Lake City PL
Celebrate the Freedom to Read by joining Let Utah Read for a special, free, pre-release screening of the new documentary film Banned Together. When: Thursday, February 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM Where: Salt...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“Forced patriotism is indoctrination, those words are synonyms,” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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In Trump’s Washington, a War of Wordplay Takes Hold
The previous administration’s progressive lexicon has been swept away, replaced by a new official language of a bureaucracy under fire from its own president.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
As the National Endowment for the Arts recalibrates its granting guidelines, we’ll be watching to ensure that they do not discriminate against artists or projects that offer critical or complex perspectives about the Declaration of Independence, its history, and/or the Federal Government.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Yesterday, NCAC joined over 40 other organizations in condemning the Trump administration's Executive Order targeting transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming Americans. NCAC will always stand and fight tooth and nail for those who the government seeks to bully and silence.
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News Literacy Project @newslit.org · 05/02/2025
🏈 Join us tomorrow at 1pm ET! We'll be chatting with Jeanne Marie Laskas, who wrote the groundbreaking investigative journalism story in 2009 about the connection between playing football & brain injuries. Register for FREE: bit.ly/6Feb2025nlp #NewsLiteracyWeek #SuperBowl
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Header: HARD HITS, HIDDEN TRUTHS: How investigative journalism tackled the NFL's concussion problem

THURSDAY, FEB. 6
1 P.M. ET/10 A.M. PT

Newsroom to Classroom
Free webinar for students and educators
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We are dismayed by the news of the premature removal of an art billboard that is part of a temporary project with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, shortly after Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed called for its deinstallation. ncac.org/news/ncac-al...
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NCAC Alarmed by Mayoral Order to Censor an Art Billboard Associated With Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts - National Coalition Against Censorship
The National Coalition Against Censorship is dismayed by the news of the premature removal of an art billboard that is part of a temporary project with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, shortly afte...
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Beauty & Disarray @beautyanddisarray.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@ncacensorship.bsky.social let’s get this petition out there! Stop the censorship and demand the data be restored! Add your name: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Stop the Censorship—Restore Vital Public Health Data Now!
Erasing Scientific Data Puts Lives at Risk. The youth mental health crisis was identified and tracked using the very survey data that is now being erased. Data saves lives. Researchers, doctors, and...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Books bring knowledge, and knowledge is power. 💡 Join the fight against book bans with the Right to Read Network. Learn more: ncac.org/rrn #RightToRead #StopBookBans
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Great event by a great organization!!
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Orwellian Censorship in Schools? The Trump administration is pushing an Executive Order that bans teaching about race, gender & systemic injustice. This is an attack on free thought, free speech, and democracy itself.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Maybe... just maybe... banning interesting books could be a factor in this as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...
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American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The U.S. Department of Education dismissing book bans as a “hoax” is a dangerous denial of reality.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Remember, when they say bullshit phrases like "...restoring fundamental rights of parents" or "defending parental rights," they don't mean all parents. Just the ones they agree with.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Rebuild school libraries with us! The Gotham Group is collecting books for K-12 students impacted by fires in LAUSD. ✨ Picture Books ✨ Chapter Books ✨ YA, Middle Grade & Classics Drop-off: 1041 N Formosa Ave, West Hollywood, CA bookdrive@gotham-group.com Let’s give students their libraries back!
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Freedom of speech as long as it's approved... www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...
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CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Yesterday, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and section 301 of title 3, United
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Take action against book bans in the United States at www.bookbanpetition.us
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We're sure that they will apply this same level of scrutiny to US-based social media platforms & data brokers that do the same thing...
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
We're still reviewing SCOTUS' TikTok decision, but two things have stuck out. 1) The court says this isn’t targeted at specific content or viewpoints - but legislators’ motivations/statements belie that and make plain this was about shutting down disfavored speech, particularly of youth voices.
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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
📚 Heading to a board meeting to defend the freedom to read? Bring along some #UniteAgainstBookBans book résumés to inform decision makers and the public of a book's significance and educational value, and why it should be kept on library shelves: bookresumes.uniteagainstbookbans.org
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Unite Against Book Bans Book Résumés
A new free resource to support librarians, educators, parents, students, and other community advocates in their efforts to keep frequently challenged books on shelves.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Somewhat incredibly, Texas does permit under its law its older minors to engage in actual sex but not to seek out information about how to engage in that legal activity safely... www.courthousenews.com/texas-anti-p...
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Texas anti-porn law puts future of online speech on Supreme Court docket
Over two dozen states have passed age-verification laws that free speech advocates say serve as a gateway for the government to suppress disfavored speech.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 13/01/2025
WE’RE HIRING! The Knight Institute seeks a Policy Fellow, Research & Policy Program Coordinator, and Administrative Coordinator. Think you’d be a fit? Read this 🧵 and our website for more info & application instructions. knightcolumbia.org/page/work-wi...
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Salty AF @saltylungs.medsky.social · 13/01/2025
All LA public libraries have free N95 masks if needed! #lafires
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 14/01/2025
As we wait for a ruling on the #TikTok ban, LISTEN to “The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok.” Guests discuss the govt’s lack of evidence that TikTok poses a natl security threat & the need to rein in the rapacious surveillance practices of U.S. platforms, too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Speech & the Border E5: The Free Speech Costs of Banning TikTok
Podcast Episode · Views on First · 12/18/2024 · 34m
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The recent resurgence and application of mask bans has largely occurred in reaction to people peaceably exercising their constitutionally protected right to engage in anonymous speech and protest in public spaces, particularly in an era of increasing technological surveillance.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
As a nonpartisan organization committed to free expression principles, we welcome Meta’s shift from centralized fact-checkers to a more transparent system in which users are trusted to react to and learn from each other.
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The National Coalition Against Censorship @ncacensorship.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Photos of naked children do not automatically constitute child abuse or pornography. Full Stop.
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