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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Earlier this week, the ALA released their 2025 Most Challenged Books Report. Thought top books are the headline, this is the data point that stands out to me, "92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers" not parents or teachers.

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American Library Association releases 2025 Most Challenged Books List as National Library Week Begins

State of America’s Libraries Report reveals 4,235 unique titles challenged in 2025, marking the second-highest total on record

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Eastern Standard Time truly is the superlative time zone

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/10/2025

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14/10/2025

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Blood donation and Foreigner really need a collab... I want to hear "Type O Hero" blasted every time I check in

Carl from Aqua Teen, wearing the Foreigner Belt, hopefully blasting "Jukebox Hero"

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

This budget is such a corrupt pile of shit

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Only a gotdammed Frankenstein or Vampire or Creature from the Black Lagoon would dare to trespass on the literary range of Dalton Wilcox @showmanandydaly.bsky.social

Cover of The Cowboy Dictionary: The Chin Jaw Words & Whing-Ding Ways of the American West

Page 26 of The Cowboy Dictionary featuring the entries for bonanza, bone hunter, bone orchard, bone picker, bone pilgrim, and bones

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A beautiful essay from a wonderful coworker from years back

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

OH House Legislature put forward its version of the state budget, which guts funding for Ohio’s Public Libraries. This budget eliminates the Public Library Fund (PLF). It takes millions from OH's libraries Contact your state Reps to share what the libraries mean to you chpl.org/dont-cut-ohi...

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Tell the Ohio House Now: Don’t Cut My Library!

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library stands to lose $14.5 million of our state funding and we need your help. Use the links below…

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

#Columbus #Sb1 gathering at Ohio Statehouse on Monday, March 31. Join in!

Flyer for rally at Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on March 31, 2025 from 12 PM noon until 4 PM. Dress in mourning for education in Ohio by wearing grad robes, mortarboards or dark funeral attire

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm only surprised that it took this long to attack libraries. These fucks want America to be as ignorant, incurious, and bigoted as they are, so they will attempt to destroy anything that allows people to expand their perspectives and knowledge. Gotta channel that Ides of March energy... #booksky

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS
To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities. 
As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Another fine example of how problematic Dewey is. Dewey Decimal is so entrenched it'll be hard to correct, but it can be done! Hurrah for Dorothy B. Parker!

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This Cavs season has been so awesome! The only downside is not getting to hear @zachlowenba.bsky.social break down their offense #cavs

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Do me a kindness! Share this if you love and support your local library & librarians (and remember: that includes your school library & school librarian) 😊📚 Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

One glorious successful year of cat husbandry

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Tom M @tomamoose.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

You truly are the rock 'n roll president

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