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Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social |
Fuck this. Librarians are the best. I stand with librarians and against book banning now and forever.
www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...
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Lsleffel
@lsleffel3003.bsky.social
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I’d trust librarians before I’d trust politicians—especially W. Virginia politicians.
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Justin Eger
@fugitivecourier.bsky.social
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"[WV] State Code defines obscene matter as anything ... a reasonable person would find lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." And yet these are not reasonable people. These are deeply unwell people who fear anything they can't control.
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Mike Karabinos
@mkarabinoswrites.bsky.social
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Republicans have lost their minds.
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Stonelake
@stonelake.bsky.social
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Librarians are vital to a free society.
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ScottOinPompano
@scottoinpompano.bsky.social
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Hang on.... WEST VIRGINIA PEOPLE CAN READ?!?!😉
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Plastic Paddy
@paddyunidos.bsky.social
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A cop negligently kills a black man? Qualified immunity. A librarian lends a book that a zealot claims is pornography? Dismissal.
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Jared 🔶
@quantumjared.bsky.social
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“State Code defines obscene matter as […]; or anything a reasonable person would find lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” Sorry teachers - if you let Little Timmy pin his crayon scratchings on the corkboard, you’re going to jail.
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Lara T is a museum nerd
@museumlara1.bsky.social
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Omg. Not enough to drive teachers away from teaching, now they're after librarians?!? The world's insane.
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AriethNinja 🪡🧶 ko-fi is open
@ariethninja.bsky.social
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... So Someone wanted an Excuse to finally get the Bible out of Schools? Someone used pretty much that list to point out The Bible needed to be banned in their state
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Jimmy L 📚
@jimmylabe.bsky.social
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fetal librarians will be exempt.
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WhatAimeeWrites
@whataimeewrites.bsky.social
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West Virginia joining the list of fascist states wanting to close all public libraries. Because that's the logical end to all this.
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@5andman.bsky.social
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AmeriKKKa 😞
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Mark Shore
@markshore.bsky.social
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WV ranks right at the top of the list of states whose people been more badly failed by its legislators. But they keep electing them.
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Jeremy
@jeremysayz.bsky.social
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Key to me in this “reasonable person” in “anything a reasonable person would find lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value”. That’s not very easy to define.
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Ian Salavon
@salavonian.bsky.social
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"I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove 'em" -RATM
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Ian Salavon
@salavonian.bsky.social
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I'm reminded of the David cross joke. "Put cloth on that statue. Because a naked woman equals porn."
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5th wave Fremenist 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🐔
@droctorock.bsky.social
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Fuck this entirely
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LG
@thelostswede.com
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Please stop coming up with mitt stupid ideas, the Swedish government is copying all this crap and most of us don't want it. Thankyouverymuch.
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Samyann
@samyann.bsky.social
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Lots off WV librarians have quit their jobs today.
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Roberto
@robertodoyle.bsky.social
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America slipping further into the insanity of fascism. The UK not far behind.
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
@n5iln.bsky.social
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Maybe the West Virginia House needs a reminder: "Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off." ~ Spider Robinson
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LucieCatnip
@luciecatnip.bsky.social
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They'd better get rid of all of the Bibles. Lots of begatting going on in that book.
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@clggmf.bsky.social
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This goes back farther in WV than most people know. Look up "Kanawha County Textbook Controversy". I was a high school student in Kanawha County at the time. We were regularly evacuated because of bomb threats.
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Steven Robert
@threefour.bsky.social
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Such great patriots. God loves Republicans because they keep taking us one step closer to a closed, fascist society based on the Bible.
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On Standby
@sudbud.bsky.social
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The rapists are trying to ban books. Standard. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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Outlook Tower
@matt439miller.bsky.social
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And now you understand why philanthropic libraries are important.
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Retro Des
@retrodes.bsky.social
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I swear these fools are targeting librarians simply because the word begins with “lib”, which to them is a slur.
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@ear-rational.bsky.social
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I’m guessing all other critical and pressing issues in the state have been resolved so now they are tackling the less important non-issues?
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Alex F
@geddyleeroth80.bsky.social
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These MAGAts would lose their shit i Mein Kampf and Art of the Deal were burned.
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Ravenmark
@ravenmark.bsky.social
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Politicians thinking everyone should be some form of police.
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Holmskjell
@holmskjell.bsky.social
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85/12?! It wasn't even *close*?
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Tobias Carroll
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
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For fuck's sake. This is awful.
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Puffin
@johnhpage.bsky.social
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Compare and contrast with protections for police while doing their job. This is evil.
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Wendy-Lady Robb
@wendyzski.bsky.social
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As a lifelong reader married to a librarian, this makes me ill
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Walter Putschek
@putschek.bsky.social
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"State Code defines obscene matter as anything an average person believes depicts or describes sexually explicit conduct, nudity, sex or certain bodily functions" - you mean the same average person that requires bleach to be labeled with "do not drink "?
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officer balls
@sheberd.bsky.social
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west virginia’s house of delegates when librarians ensure that libraries have a numerous amount of books about many different topics (those topics include things they don’t like)
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Mommy Fortuna
@mommyfortuna.bsky.social
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WV MAGA are a disgrace to a state that's already disgraceful enough.
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Jess
@mirrorman.bsky.social
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West Virginia can fuck all the way off. Once it gets there it can circle back around and fuck all the way off again.
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The Library Faery
@libraryfaery.bsky.social
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I have been a history teacher, a museum docent and now a library director. They're going to come for me because I have a book a SINGLE person doesn't like? That could be anything from a Harlequin Romance to a kid's book about potty training. This has 1930s Germany vibes all over it, and EVIL.
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Thomas 🚀 SFF180
@sff180.bsky.social
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This is why, when people think of WV, they think of Deliverance.
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Bill
@awe3.bsky.social
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Can’t ban the books? Ban the librarians. Messed up.
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Jennifer Winch
@jlwinch1.bsky.social
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Very on-brand for the theocracy of West Virginia, which just gutted the University of West Virginia. "Death to Learning" should be the state motto. Republicans are unfit to govern. Republicans are theocrats bent on destroying democracy. Never let them run unopposed.
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Casey Lawrence
@caseylawrence.net
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We just need to get to a point where the people writing these bills lose the ability to spell and start writing libertarians
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@greenowl.bsky.social
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The librarians wouldn't go along with their bigoted, theocratic book banning, so now they're trying to threaten & jail the librarians. Most folk in West Virginia probably don't even know it's going on.
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@chuckles4ever.bsky.social
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Agreed
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ben
@benjernst.bsky.social
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Terrible. How do we think they define an “average person” or “reasonable person” ?
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Skip Montanaro
@smontanaro.bsky.social
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What's going on in West VA? Didn't they know #LibrariansRock?
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Korrek the Barbarian
@korrekthebarbarian.bsky.social
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Can we trade West Virginia for…I don’t know…Ontario?
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Doglett
@jamed.bsky.social
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America has gone very wrong hasn't it? More than usual I mean.
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Saturday Night Soup for the Soul🎵🎶
@saturdaynightsoup.bsky.social
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West Virginia is apparently entering into a state of psychosis.
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Luu
@itsmeluu.bsky.social
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Like these people ever go to the library
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Derek
@dmrma413.bsky.social
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Its like a war against Intelligence in general
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The Magdalen Writing
@nebroadwe.bsky.social
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Boy, I hope this is just one of those posturing bills that dies in the other house. BECAUSE IT’S STUPID AND WRONG.
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Wolfsbane
@wolfsb4ne.bsky.social
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These people really said "MUTE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME"
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Dog Mom Dale
@daleleeack.bsky.social
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These people are nuts! Whatever happened to the PARENTS' RESPONSIBILITY of teaching their kids??!!!
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Dustin
@dustinhare.bsky.social
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Does this mean 5 years in prison for depictions of Michelangelo's David?
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SurlyQueen
@surlyqueen.bsky.social
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"'This bill does not ban books or censor speech. These books can still be bought privately by people if they’re adults. We’re not saying they need to be taken off of the market,' said Del. Elliott Pritt, R-Fayette..." Not yet anyway.
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strange opera
@strangeopera.bsky.social
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first-draft.com/2024/02/15/w...
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@bluedotredsea.bsky.social
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This really pisses me off. The librarians I have known have been super vigilant about what my kids wanted to check out from the school library. One even called me when she was sure a book was too hard for my kid’s age, but, he was reading way above grade level.
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Rikki Strong
@rmstrong.bsky.social
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Idaho tried something similar last year. (Was vetoed by the Repub Governor! ❤️) Mom, who works at the library, said their only option would’ve been to remove all youth library cards and turn away any unaccompanied kids. Let’s just call this what it is: anti-intellectual & anti-curiosity.
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Jason Apple
@japple323.bsky.social
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Now do it for cops too.
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Shade Aurion
@shadeaurion.bsky.social
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Republicans are like if cartoon villains became audacious and annoying enough to fuck with your day to day life. That's not an opposition party. That's psychos that want to control you
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Starlit_Stella
@starlilstella.bsky.social
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West Virginia. Ranked worst state in the US. Highest state for Depression. Highest for Least educated, Highest numbers for Poorest income in the US. Highest Pollution Rates. But lets get rid of people who oversee Book depots. Libraries. Because THIS will fix everything. Stop. Voting. GOP.
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Gregg
@gregg-apfsds.bsky.social
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I would simply not allow anyone under 18 to check out a book if I were running a red state library. Which may be the point…
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samhain
@samhain.bsky.samhain.tech
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The exception for “works of artistic or cultural value” is doing a lot of lifting here so that they can sneak the Bible (which contains many accounts of sex and sexual assault) under the radar.
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Dan L
@leonarddaniels.bsky.social
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I know this isn't quite the point, but it's blowing my mind that this state code is an "or" not an "and". So *any* depiction of sex or nudity, no matter how tasteful or artistic, is obscene. And anything that is considered to have no merit is obscene even if it *doesn't* contain any sex or nudity?
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Andy Beaton
@aiabx.bsky.social
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I regard librarians the way conservatives pretend they regard The Troops
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Red Lori Bright Eyes
@redloribrighteyes.bsky.social
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the GOP read our survivor stories and wanted to stop us from learning things that could help us leave our abuse
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Paige 🏳️⚧️
@unwrittenpaige.bsky.social
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we're doing great* over here *not good
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Crowpotkin
@crowpotkin.bsky.social
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I'm sure this is going to do great things for the West Virginia educational system.
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Ken Walter
@kpwalter13.bsky.social
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This .. has to be 1st amendment challenged right?
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It's ME(Jaime)
@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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Reddit convo on same: www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/...
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Carlsbj
@carlsbj.bsky.social
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Land of the free and brave, my ass! Land of reactionary snowflakes is a better characteristic.
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Evo Daily
@evodaily.bsky.social
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This is another reason why State level voting is so crucial. We know what Trump and the GOP have planned for the federal level with Project 2025, but the GOP are already well under way implementing it in Red States.
www.project2025.org/policy/
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Ronnie Smart
@ronniesmart.bsky.social
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Shit man, this is grim news.
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BHeartsAid
@bleedinghearts.bsky.social
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Not intending to be insulting, but pragmatically: Doesn't WV have some of the lowest rates of post-secondary education? And, doesn't the state already struggle to retain people? Or, is that the point? The kids won't leave if they don't know better?
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Marion Deeds
@mariondeeds.bsky.social
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How nice of them to do this for National Library Lovers Month [/sarcasm].
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Just Call Me Frank
@justcallmefrank.bsky.social
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Clear First Amendment violation. Hopefully it ends up in a court that still respects the principles of the document.
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L.C.
@ssddftp.bsky.social
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"They don't gotta burn the books they just remove em"
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Saul Shapiro
@sauldk.bsky.social
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I started university in 1967, was subjected to a "preference test" ("would you rather have eternal happiness or a ham sandwich"). I came out either Lumberjack or Librarian. I have since been cook, translator, photographer, filmmaker, "gallerist", and a thousand other bits. Long live librarians!
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DoctorAtlantis.bsky.social
@doctoratlantis.bsky.social
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But West Virginia was so progressive up till this moment...
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Ookwee
@ookwee.bsky.social
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Phenobarbarella
@phenobarbarella.bsky.social
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H. Owlett
@hedwigowlett.bsky.social
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I see the librarians either dropping their jobs and doing something else, or en masse emigrating from that benighted state. Only - where would they go? Dark ages are upon us. Again.
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Lebanon Link 🌎 ✨ ❤
@lebanonlink.bsky.social
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Good fuckng god.
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Torr Leonard 🧵
@torrleonard.bsky.social
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“sending the bill to the state Senate.” … where it will die.
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Jeanine Finn
@jftitone.bsky.social
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These are some truly wild times for this profession.
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Phantomgurl
@phantomgurl26.bsky.social
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Sooooo who is gonna tell them the Bible is full of sexually explicit writings? Anyone?
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Phantomgurl
@phantomgurl26.bsky.social
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I live in Virginia & fully agree. Fuck this bullshit.
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Yotu Yeen
@intrepidyeen.bsky.social
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Slippery slope approaching...
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birdie
@idiocracy.bsky.social
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Prosecutions of librarians! Only in Amerika.
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Trey Bushart
@treybushart.bsky.social
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I was hoping they'd misspelled libertarians. Alas.
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AuthorLissa
@authorlissa.bsky.social
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It's scary they're even doing this. First schools, and now public libraries?
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Greg Smith
@lgsmith.bsky.social
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Well, there's one answer to, "How can we make West Virginia even dumber?" Hillbilly Fascists.
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Bo
@bodiva.bsky.social
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Do they import reasonable people? Because it’s WV.
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Frank
@fmacskasy.bsky.social
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Book burnings next? Torchlight marches, complete with snappy leather jack-boots, and stiff arm salutes? Damn, I could've sworn we won in 1945...
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Victoria McIntosh
@vmcntosh.bsky.social
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This is all kinds of messed up, and will effectively kill libraries in that state. Just what those bloodsuckers want.
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joan
@westvirginia.bsky.social
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i cannot give you any hope about this place. our skies and water poison us and even the ground has been hollowed. the people are quiescent and it is a custom to snuff out hope before it can fester and blossom. all i can ask is that you don’t cast us all as hicks
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ChiTheMonkey
@chithemonkey.bsky.social
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Thank you! That is very kind of you to say.
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Earnest Painter
@ratherearnest.bsky.social
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Just anything to whip up fear
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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇬🇧🇪🇺
@sirtom.bsky.social
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It might be better to ban smart phones.
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Sir Tom (never had a blue tick)🐧🇬🇧🇪🇺
@sirtom.bsky.social
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I used to work with Librarians. Honestly, don't f**k with Librarians. They are superheroes without capes.
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Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
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There's a longstanding tradition, across North America and parts of the wider world, of people leaving pornography in the woods, where it's found by kids. Is it time to start leaving literature in those traditional drop-off points, for kids who are lusting after an actual education?
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lovesdaryl 🌹🇺🇦🇪🇺
@lovesdaryl.bsky.social
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What the ever-loving f*ck is wrong with these people.
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TiBo M
@tbomin.bsky.social
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The fascists are winning… again… 😓
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David Carryer
@davidcarryer.com
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Oh what a dick move West Virginia. Serious dick vibes here.
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Andy Barnett
@hof1991.bsky.social
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There are no “unintended consequences “ here. It is intended to remove all material that the powerful find objectionable. It won’t apply to you if you find the Lost Cause objectionable.
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@rrohrberger.bsky.social
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Cop shoots and kills kid = immunity. Librarian allows kid to read Mause = no immunity.
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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It's an attack on our info systems
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@lfccinti.bsky.social
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Absolutely batshit! Who decides what obscene is? It sets up each librarian to be accountable for every word of every book. That simply isn’t based in reality.
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Brendan Deneen
@brendandeneen.bsky.social
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Insane.
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Evelyn Smiles 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@evelyn-smiles.com
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Geez. What's next? "Announcing National Burn Books Day" and "Bow to your favorite authoritarian ruler every morning, all hail!"
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Woman Screaming at Godzilla
@lilneanderthal.bsky.social
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I'm with you, Gabino.
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Chris in SF
@chrismsf.bsky.social
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Unless the courts are packed (it’s WV after all so, probably) this part might help: it asks for a “reasonable” person, and zealots, fundies, and con artists are not that. Yeah but pipe dream, probably.
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