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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The National Archives is America's Library. "What is the purpose of the National Archives? The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent federal agency that preserves and shares with the public records that trace the story of our nation, government, and the American people."

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Trump dismisses head of the National Archives

Trump had vowed to dismiss national archivist Colleen Shogan last month.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There are a number of efforts from scientists, researchers, journalists, and advocacy groups to compile and save information that has been removed from federal websites (or is at risk). lifehacker.com/tech/find-de...

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Where to Find All Those Deleted Government Websites

In recent days—in response to directives from the Trump administration—thousands of federal agency web pages have been deleted or altered to remove research, reports, and references to everything from...

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Lisa Miller @lsmiller.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The administration says it will conduct a comprehensive review of grant recipients' political and social ideology before resuming any funding. www.everylibrary.org/statement_om... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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STATEMENT: Trump Freezes All Grant Funding to Libraries, Archives, and Museums

While this "pause" will negatively impact millions of Americans, it will also considerably impact libraries.

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

On Saturday Jan 18, we hosted a French TV news team to discuss the Library controversy in Llano. Here is the YouTube video. For a semi-decent translation, go to CC>Settings>Subtitles>Fr. to English

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Au Texas, la guerre des livres a commencé - Reportage C dans l'air 20.01.2025

YouTube video by C dans l'air - France Télévisions

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Lisa Miller @lsmiller.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I just watched 'Banned Together' and realized it was a project I had contributed to last year. It was SUPERB. Consider watching, its original one-day premier has been extended to tomorrow.

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Home | Banned Together

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A German citizen on Tiktok warns US users about the similarities between Hitler’s rise to power & Trump’s collision with Tiktok, goes viral, then when her prophecy comes true, the video is removed for community guidelines violation. Draw your own conclusions. I grabbed a screen recording. 👇👇

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Lisa Miller @lsmiller.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

NO, I won't even be opening FB today. I'll be here!

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We know that Trump's previous administration proposed cutting all federal library funding every year he was in office. But what does federal funding pay for, and why does it matter? You might be surprised! bit.ly/3WkmIWG via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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What Does Federal Funding for Libraries Pay For?

You'll be surprised!

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looking for something good to watch on Jan. 20? Here's just the thing! Watch it yourself or have a Watch Party!

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Home | Banned Together

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Banned Camp podcast @bannedcamp.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Who else is sick of these shit-stirrers? Moms for Liberty is banning books and suing schools. Why? To save kids from… what? Knowledge? Critical thinking? If ignorance is bliss, these "Klanned Karenhood" crusaders are downright euphoric. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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1,100 books purged from public school libraries in Tennessee as districts comply with the reactionary Age-Appropriate Materials Act

It is only one step from banning books to burning them, as the Nazis did.

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Fiction? Biography? True Crime? Romance? Western? Non-fiction? Audiobook? What are you reading this week?

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Bad book news out of Fort Bend ISD, near Houston. The district has added 24 books to its “Do not order” list, effectively banning them from the district. The list includes books by Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Haruki Murakami, & Nobel-Prize winner Jose Saramago. www.fortbendisd.com/Page/169441

Books on Fort Bend ISD’s “Do not order” list.

More books on FBISD’s Do Not Order list.

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Lisa Miller @lsmiller.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I have promised myself to read more this year and would like to keep a reading log. There are some online but I'd prefer that the file be mine.Google Forms may be a simple answer. You can easily use it from a computer or phone. And it results in a spreadsheet!

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Sample Book Log

Change It Up, Make It Yours! Copy this file and rename it.

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Kathy M @kathy34.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Yes!

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This is how it's done. In January 2022, the Llano County Commissioners Court, Cunningham and Commissioner Jerry Don Moss voted to dissolve the county's library advisory board and appoint 12 new members, all of whom were part of the community group pushing for book removals.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

YESSSSS

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Elmo has called on his followers to stop donating to Wikipedia which he derogatorily referred to as 'Wokepedia' due to its significant budget allocation for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. I went from a quarterly donation to a monthly donation.

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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 26/12/2024

I’m excited to announce I’ll be speaking at the NOLA Book Festival in March and I’m really looking forward to it! bookfest.tulane.edu/news/fourth-...

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Fourth Annual New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University unveils 2025 author lineup

New Orleans Book Festival News and Press Releases

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

In the case of Little et al vs. Llano County et al, one of the books removed from the library shelves was "They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group". And yet, the cover story was to 'root out pornography'. Liars, the far right is trying to root out our history.

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Dec. 24, 1865 | Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Me, using the library, oblivious to what’s going on in our world.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A *key* victory was handed down in Arkansas yesterday, where a federal judge held that two sections of Arkansas's anti-library bill Act 372 violated the First Amendment. A big win for libraries + for anti-book banning. Here's the ruling, plus potential implications. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Parts of Arkansas's Library Laws in Win for First Amendment

A key victory in the ongoing battle over First Amendment rights in public libraries and access to books from Arkansas this week.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

💯 No one has been more central to the publishing industry’s efforts to fight censorship than Skip Dye. Thank you to Skip and the entire PRH team for your generosity, expertise & tireless commitment to defending the freedom to read & supporting libraries. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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PW Notables 2024: Skip Dye

No one has been more central to the publishing industry’s efforts to defend the freedom to read than the Penguin Random House SVP.

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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Some rare good news out of Arkansas & a big L for Sarah Huckabee Slanders 👏👏👏

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 18/12/2024

The Library of Congress announced Tuesday the 25 films that made it into the National Film Registry this year. Started in 1989, the registry now includes around 900 movies, chosen for their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to preserving America's film heritage.

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The cultural significance of the movies just added to the National Film Registry

The Library of Congress announced the 25 films that made it into this year's National Film Registry. The registry, started in 1989, now includes some 900 movies, chosen for their cultural, historic…

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This is a great listen. I can’t speak for my colleagues at @txfreedomread.bsky.social, but this is why I fight so hard against censorship. The books these writers mention are absolutely at risk of being pulled from schools and public libraries in Texas. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

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The Books We Read in High School (Part 1)

Podcast Episode · Radio Atlantic · 12/19/2024 · 26m

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Fight for the First gave Save Llano Libraries the tools to power our petition and deliver it to the Llano County Commissioners Court last year. It is easy to use for YOUR Fight for the First. www.fightforthefirst.org/petitions/sa...

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Save Llano Libraries

Since it was established in 1904 by the Woman's Culture Club, the Llano Library System has served numerous needs of all Llano County citizens. The current efforts to further gut the system has nearly ...

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eugene @eugene290390.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The well regulated militias (2nd amendment) created to capture runaway slaves are the direct forerunners of modern day policing in the US. To serve and protect (the slave owners) is as true today as it was then, the slave owners only now being rebranded as captains of industry and innovation.

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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

EveryLibrary Institute proudly announces the publication of the Fall 2024 edition of The Political Librarian (Volume 7, Issue 2).

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Volume 7, Issue 2 - The Political Librarian - Fall 2024

EveryLibrary Institute is a 501c3 organization that supports library funding in the United States.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 16/12/2024

Dearest Gentle Readers, Christmas came early to the Jones household. Julia Quinn, one of my favorite authors, sent me these collector’s editions of her Bridgerton series. Each one is signed. Words fail to express how grateful I am to her and what this means to me. Thank you, Julia!

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Happened today at the Llano Library Meeting Room! Literary Yuletide (Jolabokaflod, a Norwegian tradition), a wonderful way to hang out with Bookish People and exchange BOOKS. Much appreciation to Becca Julienne and Gretchen Hinkle for putting it all together! drive.google.com/file/d/13UQB...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2024

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine

Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We know that in many cases it's not about sexuality. Some of the books removed from the shelves in Llano County were about American History.

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 12/12/2024

I am incredibly honored that my book That Librarian is a finalist for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing alongside some great other nonfiction books. www.williemorrisawards.org

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Willie Morris Awards

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

oooooooooooo, art and books! What could be better?

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 12/12/2024

By ourselves, we are just one person. Together, we are mighty force. To the librarians—Invictus.

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

LGBTQ+ people exist. The book ban movement has always been a means to an end that has very little to do with books. And everything to do with silencing, othering and erasing the people and stories reflected in the pages of the books. This is not what freedom feels like.

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Just for fun, and to remember this fight is for BOOKS, we'll be carrying over a tradition from the Save Llano Libraries Facebook page. Today is What Are You Reading Wednesday. Fiction? Biography? True Crime? Romance? Western? Non-fiction? Audiobook? What are you reading this week?

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The booking agent for the Traveling Pastors really miscalculated sending this circus show to the HISD board meeting tonight. The crowd of parents in the room could be heard shouting: “You don’t even go here!” “We have bigger fish to fry” “We don’t even have libraries”

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

@savellanolibraries.bsky.social Bonnie sighting over at the Houston ISD meeting … she got boo’d off the podium by the parents in the room tonight 😆

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Save Llano Libraries @savellanolibraries.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Bonnie Wallace, bringer of trouble to Llano, certainly is a busy little bee traveling around the state of Texas. She travels with various paid performers billing themselves as Book Banning Pastors, harassing School Boards statewide.

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