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Jen Sorensen@jensorensen.bsky.social |
A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.
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DW
@dustyworm.bsky.social
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Don't blame them - 'The Pen is mightier than the sword'.
If they don't nip this in the bud they (GOP) will lose a whole generation to education.
"The best reading, for the largest number, at the least cost."
www.ala.org/aboutala/nod...
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JR Gershen-Siegel
@jespah2.bsky.social
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I'm kinda glad my mother (she was a reference librarian in a public library + worked from when I was ~ 4 to when I was 34) isn't alive to see this BS. #SaveLibraries
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
@n5iln.bsky.social
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It all reduces to one simple question: who controls information.
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Kevin Korb
@kbkorb.bsky.social
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Naturally. The American Library Association is a leading terrorist organization, destroying innocent victims brains for decades.
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Sotenga
@sotenga.bsky.social
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Why does every single dystopian story we've ever read stop being fiction at some point? And why is it that no one can seemingly stop the likes of Fahrenheit 451 or "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman from becoming our future? I'm starting to hope I die from natural causes before it happens.
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Joanna Pegum
@londoner007.bsky.social
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Blimey
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Idea Smuggler
@starfishknits.bsky.social
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At my library it's the Friends group who pays for stuff like that, not the town, but this is extremely shitty. ESPECIALLY since no one has ever gone into library work for the money, and conferences are super expensive, so it might as well be a ban for a lot of people.
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Peter Josyph
@peterjosyph.bsky.social
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These Southern states are losing their minds, inching closer to the worst of Catholicism - the Spanish Inquisition - so it’s their own business if there is a newly fueled migration up to the North, leaving the crazies to do what together?
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Quaestor 🦇
@quaestor.bsky.social
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if you can leave the usa and never ever look back, may save your life (imho) oO
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marythetrainer🦋🐢🤷🏻♀️😏🌎
@marythetrainer.bsky.social
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I’ve said it before: the groups that ban books always end up in the wrong side of history. They’d know that if they ever read any history.
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Baby Yoda
@brianboruff.bsky.social
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#VoteBlueToStopTheStupid
#RepublicansCantGovern
#VoteBlueForWomensRights
#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#VoteBlue
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Colleenablue
@colleenablue.bsky.social
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Omg
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@mtxp35.bsky.social
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Gotta keep those kids working with no breaks.
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Babs...all day
@babsallday.bsky.social
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You know, there's a lot of competition, but Louisiana is really driving hard to the hoop of worst state in the union.
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John Kaprielian
@johnkaprielian.bsky.social
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If I wrote this into a piece of fiction, it would be criticized for being unrealistic. Hard labor or jail time? WTAF? "SEE THAT PILE OF BOOKS THERE, SON? YOU GOTTA BUST THEM UP (RATTLES MY LEG CHAIN). AND DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT ESCAPIN'!"
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@sarcoidsally.bsky.social
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This is just insane
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Mads
@bigmads.bsky.social
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As a Louisiana resident and reference librarian... this isn't even hyperbolic.
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Emerald Lavigne, subsumed by despair
@leftoidsadhu.bsky.social
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The United States is not a civilized country
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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤
@bunnylove403.bsky.social
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Infuriating!
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EnberLight - Comms Open!
@enberlight.bsky.social
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It amazes me that there are still people going "what fascism?" when it's been overtly blatant for a while now.
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Antje_G
@antjeg.bsky.social
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Very accurate, and the last one hits really hard...
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The Library Faery
@libraryfaery.bsky.social
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I made light - but hear me out on this - what about privately funded libraries? NO money from any government, just donors who can afford it, while still offering free book use to everyone and anyone? I mean, we've going backward on so many things, why not this too - but in a good way?
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The Library Faery
@libraryfaery.bsky.social
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Embrace your librarians; we are apparently becoming agents of chaos. I can't keep up with the stereotypes of what I'm supposed to be, so I think I'll just go with getting weird. Distract them that way. I make light because this is so damn exhausting to deal with every day.
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Nigel Bell
@nigel63.bsky.social
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As the GOP becomes the POT, the party of 'small government' becomes Germany, 1933, May 10th. (just wow. 🤯 )
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🏳️⚧️ Minority Report from my Right Boob 🏳️⚧️
@rowenagold.bsky.social
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Now we are living in a dystopia where lending books is a crime.
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Marcus Kramer
@marcuskramer.bsky.social
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What
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Byron Light
@byronlight.bsky.social
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Misandrosaurus Bex
@bexone.bsky.social
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I assume they’re defining a city or county librarian’s salary as “public funds” even after it’s passed through the payroll processor and been deposited into the individual’s bank account?
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@waterloo45.bsky.social
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Take their flag
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Greylace
@greylace.bsky.social
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Sarah Gailey, _Upright Women Wanted_
nlcblogs.nebraska.gov/nlcblog/2020...
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Micah
@themicah.bsky.social
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What if they agree to carry a gun at the conference? Surely that would make it ok!
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Diogenes of Snarkadia
@diogeneslamp.bsky.social
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Party of Small Government
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Crispycrise
@crispycrise.bsky.social
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How can we facilitate sending free books into LA, for the benefit of the kids harmed by this but with a nice side dish of pissing off the supporters of this bill?
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺
@codfather.bsky.social
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Are you being serious ?
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@waltricejr.bsky.social
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Prohibiting the use of public funds does not infringe on any rights whatsoever. The problem is unelected folks thinking they have the right to decide what the best use of taxpayer money is. We had a whole revolution about that.
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OrdinaryLunch.bsky.social
@ordinarylunch.bsky.social
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We aren’t coming back from this mindset in places like Louisiana (ie the rest of the “south”) without REDACTED
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@papango.bsky.social
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Once upon a time...
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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"Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the American Library Association?"
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ₚᴀɴᴺᴼᴺɪᴄₐ
@acinonnap.bsky.social
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Just straight-up insanity
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dbstewart_tn
@adavelikeanyother.bsky.social
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Congressional librarians just need to file the bill incorrectly. It'll never be found by folk who believe librarians have no value.
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Patience C
@crababy-7.bsky.social
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What?!!!!
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@mdit.bsky.social
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- Protect the children! I agree we should really do something about all these school massac-- - SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Siiiigh.
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moss 🍉
@mossen.bsky.social
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Something similar is happening in Alabama. Most of the Prattville library staff was fired recently. #ReadFreelyAlabama
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Asa West / Julia Glassman
@theredtailwitch.bsky.social
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The most insidious part of this bill is that it would punish librarians for anything from joining a committee to signing up for a webinar using work funds. The ALA is woven into the fabric of librarianship and it's almost impossible to avoid.
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@derfelif.bsky.social
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Next we will have to register the books we buy at book shows!
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Su Zi
@suzi00.bsky.social
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Don’t want them talking to other professionals in their field
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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
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I thought this would be a very reaching interpretation of some vague language, but, according to this article, it’s just right there in plain language. WTAF is their problem with a librarian organization???
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LeSurath
@lesurath.bsky.social
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This is not a joke??!!
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Che Bush
@cbushwrite.bsky.social
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This is such bullsh*t. I loathe people who want to take learning and fun and safety away from everyone. As a former library person, this offends my soul
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DomTDom
@domtdom.bsky.social
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😱
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@2btruthful.bsky.social
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What a messed up State
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@rist3902.bsky.social
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Information dealer and fact smuggler are the sort of messages I could see myself wearing adorned on a garment. Are there bots scraping bluesky looking for keywords to spew out loathsome merch? I have to assume there are.
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Ron Lewis
@ronzonola.bsky.social
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All gop. This is a preview of magaNation. Pay attention America.
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@garydem.bsky.social
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They talk about succeeding from the union. Maybe in Louisiana's case we throw them out instead.
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Jim Kosmicki
@jkosmicki.bsky.social
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more liberal states should pass similar laws not allowing public officials to go to CPAC or other such gatherings? swords cut both ways.
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Bodhi
@bodhizen.bsky.social
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What the fuck is wrong with people?
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Frank
@fmacskasy.bsky.social
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Wow, librarians are a threat to the Right? I thought that was just a 1930s/Germany thing?!
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Victoria McIntosh
@vmcntosh.bsky.social
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Basically they just want to do away with freedom to read and libraries entirely at this point.
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Ingeborg 👱🏻♀️ & Asper 🐩
@ingeborg.bsky.social
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*Me, a Norwegian: Haha I wonder what year this was from *googles* oh no
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Chad Farrenburg
@chadfarrenburg.bsky.social
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Does the humidity just bake their brains into jelly?
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Donatello @ HÖR BERLIN
@firebel.ly
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if they control the flow of information (assaulting books) it's much easier for the right to push the puritanical culture deeper into law. we are rapidly marching towards christofascism.
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Laura Odelius
@lauraodelius.bsky.social
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This is obviously meant to target school and public librarians but there are lots of other jobs in LA state (and local) govt that require library degrees and ALA is their professional org. Insanity.
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Bass Of Pj
@bassofpj.bsky.social
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But public funds can be used by cops and fed into their shitty PBAs, along with public money being used to send cops off to Killology/"Warrior Cop" seminars where they literally breed an "Us v Them" mentality between the cops and the public, but that's totally ok. So much for free association
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Dan Sohl
@dcsohl.bsky.social
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Every reading in Boston is a Mass. reading…
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞
@mary1kathy.bsky.social
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Just when you think the laws in the red states can't get any worse! Grrr...
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Shane H
@sparkthenight.bsky.social
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Lol the USA hates any form of union
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Lia Vandammit 2.0
@swimmingchicken.bsky.social
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I would donate the membership fee
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