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Steve Silberman@stevesilberman.bsky.social |
This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.
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Owen
@oweniverson.bsky.social
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LESS GOVERNMENT!!! MORE FREEDOM!!!
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Cwnidog 🍉🇵🇸
@cwnidog.bsky.social
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The Right *knows* that books are dangerous - they promote thought.
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StevenMatheson.bsky.social
@stevenmatheson.bsky.social
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So, what is an unrestricted Library card?
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morb
@meson.ninja
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this is dumb and I hope everyone involved is promptly removed from governance
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Daniel Roberts
@drobertsimg.bsky.social
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You gotta zig when others zag. While the rest of the world is doing crazy things like teaching their children stuff, America bravely stands alone and says “nah.”
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jazz teeth
@palefacecloud.bsky.social
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Pretty sure it’s FAKE my guy. You going to apologize and delete?
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Blue Spook
@tiborm.bsky.social
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Mon petit sharia.
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Johnny Brown
@ainteefa44.bsky.social
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In Idaho they don’t want you being educated.
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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬
@kategodart.bsky.social
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living in idaho from '22-'23 was fucking surreal i'm kinda glad i made the decision for us to leave after our roommate lost his fucking mind worse than any roommate i've ever had anywhere else it's such a pretty state and the mountain folk are neat, this is just like shit smeared on a nice plate
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Rita, antifascist🏴
@oldsquida.bsky.social
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as a naturalized citizen i must show my passport when flying between states as who knew in 1963 upon our immigration that changing my name from Małgorzata Rudczenko to better appease my new neighbors would eventually land me here.
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Flint Hills Human
@jimbeasley.bsky.social
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I’m going to hate being ruled by Idaho.
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Mayor of Nowheresville
@thekasey.bsky.social
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Shit this scares me and I’m a damn adult.
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Hawaiian-ish Kelly🌺
@hawaiian-ishkelly.bsky.social
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At a library!! My god!
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Peter
@cgblue.bsky.social
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The library is holding peep shows now?
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Shpeep
@shpeep.bsky.social
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A place where people can freely learn is dangerous to fascists.
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Joelle Maslak
@jmaslak.bsky.social
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You want to see a book? Banned without your papers checked. Carrying a concealed weapon (or, often, openly carrying) into the library for most adults with no permit or ID requirements: Legal in Idaho.
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@bityz.bsky.social
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Here is the best explanation I've seen:
www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/...
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Harry Browne
@hbrowne.bsky.social
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Being given the electric chair for using my fake ID to look up “breasts” in a 1987 edition of encyclopedia Britannica
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Irontuna
@irontuna.bsky.social
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Fucking Idaho
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Nigel Tufnel
@misterrora.bsky.social
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“Small government” was never about budget or size.
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Stew Shearer
@stewshearer.bsky.social
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As way of contrast, Vermont recently passed laws strengthening libraries. We actually just received an email from our local library, informing us that since our oldest is turning 12, they no longer need to let us see what books they take out anymore and can opt out of us getting parent emails.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Point: Sign seems ok!! Counter point: GO FUCK YOURSELF!
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Ian Miles Schlong
@tedcruznipples.com
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a..affidavit?
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jybarralis
@jean-yves.bsky.social
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Maybe it could a trick to get kids to read. Like Mozart’s father buying a piano bur forbidding his son to touch it.
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Ralf Haring
@ralfharing.bsky.social
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alternately, they've been slowly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow for the past 45 years
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Nika⁷ not a bot
@nika2023.bsky.social
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The land of the...free?
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Nika⁷ not a bot
@nika2023.bsky.social
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The land of the....
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Kathleen Lenihan
@kathleenlenihan.bsky.social
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Is this...at a library?
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Rare 90s Grunge Band
@scobo68.bsky.social
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#Amerifail ... guessing drugs are easier to get than books in Idaho.
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Paula Morgan
@squirrelygirl.bsky.social
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Omg. I feel sick.
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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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🌙🥀Ithewin🍂✨
@sladeofyaupon.bsky.social
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At my local library in Texas I see kids there all the time just hanging out after school, doing homework, meeting tutors, reading by themselves… if rightwing psychos come and try to take away their freedom I am going to make them regret it
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David (he, him)
@davidmt.bsky.social
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OMG
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Bote Man
@boteball.bsky.social
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While everyone was hyper-focused on "Biden is old" the local and state gummints were yanking the rug out from under us. All politics are local.
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Tinselfire
@tinselfire.bsky.social
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I'm not sure I understand what is going on in this picture. Why is there mention of a library card? Is this outside a library?
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Fox Paws
@fox-paws.bsky.social
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Conservatism is a cancer destroying this nation. The entire party ought to be dissolved.
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LynneofBayArea
@lynneofbayarea.bsky.social
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what’s an “unrestricted library card”?
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jdrch
@jdrch.bsky.social
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Is that for library entry or entry to specific part of the library?
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Mary Grace
@emgeekay.bsky.social
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It isn't even grammatical which is why people need to be able to read even if it's just to write fascist signs.
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tofu & tesla! (& krisko) 🍉 ♿
@krisko.bsky.social
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can't just let kids get books, they might accidentally learn something and grow as a person
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SurlyITJesus
@surlyitjesus.bsky.social
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You know what happens when kids read....they get dangerous ideas.
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Public Universal Ally
@returnofmccarthy.bsky.social
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and they're not even in charge
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Ellen E Kjellman
@ellkjell.bsky.social
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😳
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Well, apparently bsky.app/profile/numb...
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Rachel
@slightlycaustic.bsky.social
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What the hell? This is real?!
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Matt Walker
@mattwalker.bsky.social
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6(a) of that statute includes the language: "Appeals to the prurient interest of minors as judged by the average person, applying contemporary community standards;", in case anyone was wondering how broadly this can be applied.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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jfc
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Andrea Torti
@andreatorti90.bsky.social
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The Land of the Free
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Username Taken
@sloppysteaks.bsky.social
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The surgeon general has long warned that smoking books could lead to literacy, lung, and other forms of cancer.
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Dabo Girl
@dabogirl.bsky.social
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Wtf
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khwalz
@khwalz.bsky.social
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Time to storm the libraries!
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Sue
@taxon-rascal.bsky.social
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Seriously, you can’t go to the library if you’re under 18?
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Derek Writes Stuff
@derekwrites.bsky.social
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Kids can't go to the library anymore?
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Kim D
@kimilatad.bsky.social
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The library was an every day safe space for me as a bullied kid. This breaks my heart.
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Jessica Mulein
@jessicamulein.bsky.social
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How long until a child is arrested under some interpretation of an old law for entering the adult restricted area and exposing themselves to "pornography".
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Nessa Carson
@supersciencegrl.co.uk
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That can't be real. Is it it?!!!
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WAP
@wetasspword.bsky.social
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This doesn't crack the top 100 horrible things america has done this week
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chadzia dax 🖖🏻 😷 🔞
@m00psy.bsky.social
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an affidavit………… 🤦🏼
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Ghost Bear ☮
@ghostbear077.bsky.social
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And the Democratic party has absolutely NO intentions of stopping them! THEY are just as much the problem!
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Reiner Rusch
@ruschhour.bsky.social
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VScS...
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Katherine 🐑
@katvanzan.bsky.social
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I hate to have to tell @Darth.bsky.social, but we are going to have to organize an Idaho potato ban.
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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I recognize it, but it looks like Berlin 1933 :(
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Gerard Cunningham
@faduda.bsky.social
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More checks to read a book than buy an AR...
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StormRider @ #SGDQ2024
@stormrider.tv
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FREEDOM :eyeroll:
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Map of the Moon
@mapofthemoon.bsky.social
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This, among many reasons, is why I am leaving Idaho after 6.5 years. No more of this fucking shit. I already have a target on my back here as a member of a sexual minority. Slowly watching Idaho get more and more craven has been terrifying. So long, Gem State.
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NOYJ
@noyj.bsky.social
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This is outside a fucking library?! They might as well raze it to the ground and go to sleep feeling more authentic.
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patrick
@ptpower.bsky.social
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Basically making the library a place no one will want to go so that they can be closed from non-use. Then the tax money that supports them can be shoveled to the people with almost all the money.
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Jessica Zellers
@stellagarp.bsky.social
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Hi everyone! One *extremely meaningful* thing you can do to fight back is to join library boards. Usually this is an appointed position, not elected. The time commitment for most public library board members is 1-2 hours monthly. I'm a former library director. Ask me anything.
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Jessica Zellers
@stellagarp.bsky.social
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Titan
@titanwolf.bsky.social
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I would say, to date, that 90% of my trips to the public library in my life were made when I was a minor.
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Joseph O
@josepho.bsky.social
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I’m sure they see this as legislative synergy with the rise of more permissive child labor. I can see the campaign slogan already: Children Belong in the Mines Not in the Library.
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@mherringe.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, the kids are surfing porn on the internet.
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Paula
@dentonitis.bsky.social
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This is a library????
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jace cavacini
@dysamoria.com
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They couldn’t even get the grammar correct. What the fuck.
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💤arleck from Space
@zarleckazpa.bsky.social
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What kind of nanny state shit is this?
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It's ME(Jaime)
@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social
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"The Internet Archive is appealing a judgment that threatens the future of all libraries. Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership & control of digital books, opening new paths for digital book bans & dangerous surveillance."
Multiple actions to take! ⏬
www.battleforlibraries.com
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JThomasAlbert
@jthomasalbert.bsky.social
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Remember the story of the Princess who was cursed to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and die so her parents tried to destroy all spinning wheels in the kingdom but missed one and the princess found it and because she didn't know what it was she touched it and pricked her finger? (cont)
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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My God.
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@rocketjcat2.bsky.social
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😢
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Zuuldaff's Pizzeria
@zuuldaffs-pizzeria.bsky.social
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One of my favourite things as a kid was when we went to the public library in the small town where I grew up. To me, it was a magical place.
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QuestioningEspecialy 🍉
@questioning.bsky.social
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so only kids with a stay at home parent will be at libraries now
great 🙄
nevermind the photo ID requirement
#antitrans
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Rufus T. Firefly
@rufustfirefly.bsky.social
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Fortunately, Democrats have taken regular, timely, effective action at the national level to forestall such things.
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coreload
@coreload.bsky.social
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Institutionalized ignorance.
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Father John Chungus
@sorocchungus.bsky.social
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what the fuck
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Ashley Hankins Illustration 🌙
@ashleydoesartstuff.com
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oh what the fresh hell....
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The 984
@the984.bsky.social
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Sign a fucking affidavit?
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Matt Salomone
@matthematics.com
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There's America, and then there's the new "American Redoubt" where this fits right in
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Mary50shadesofWTF
@kapdoll.bsky.social
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Doom_371 🔰
@371doom.bsky.social
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We were warned WAAAY too many times, and now it's here. Good job, team 👏🙄
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Chelsea9
@chelsea9.bsky.social
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And yet....
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mav
@mav.wtf
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Is this at the library in Donnelly?
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Periwinkle Pachyderm
@periwinklep.bsky.social
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I don't have words to Adequately express how upsetting this is
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@bleuchat.bsky.social
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INFRICKINGCREDIBLE FRICKITYDOODAHFRUCKIN BULLSHITE, even for Idahoe
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Rokkaholisti
@richheart.bsky.social
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When you let cultists run the government…
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Jeremy
@jmegraw.bsky.social
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Waiting for the counter campaign that says go to the library
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Virginia Sapiro
@vsapiro.bsky.social
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That's a sign on a LIBRARY????
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Michael D
@saltymichael.bsky.social
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This is Idaho under Republicans’ thumbs.
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wombat walker and stargazer
@wisdomofwombats.bsky.social
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Was gonna post some "restricted books section"-harry potter gif but honestly this is just way too disheartening.
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@calizaybak.bsky.social
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They have made youth getting a gun in Idaho a bit easier than going to a library.
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Willow By The River
@geometer.bsky.social
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Is this real?
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Andrew D Wilson
@adw.bsky.social
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I mean, this is just odd. What a weird sign to have to put up
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Richard Sales
@theblueacorn.bsky.social
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What State did you grow up in? Idunno
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Richard Sales
@theblueacorn.bsky.social
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Just addressed a school assembly yesterday in London to promote our Summer Reading Challenge and what unthinking joy I took in saying ‘Everybody is welcome’
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Elfie
@elfgrove.bsky.social
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The new law is certainly real and concerning, but what is the source on this specific image? I keep seeing it reposted, but it looks a bit odd like the specific sign might be faked, and despite looking at multiple news articles I haven't found where this particular photo came from.
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Ellery
@biknmusicmama.bsky.social
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But Idaho is so affordable!
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@casualobserver.bsky.social
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jfc
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Professor Furious
@professorfurious.bsky.social
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Can the firemen be far behind?
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John Shirley
@johnshirley2024.bsky.social
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Fahrenheit 451 is next
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Jason B.
@jdb820.bsky.social
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Republicans are the cause of all of America's problems.
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@helchose.bsky.social
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Is this posted at a certain section of the library, or at the front entrance?
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Johanna Taylor @ 🏠👻
@johannamation.bsky.social
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Ah yes, my favorite part of libraries is the parents being made to sign affidavits every fifteen feet lest their child accidentally see a book with a gay person in it 😑
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bonque, ben
@kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social
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I can only find this in Reddit followed by social media posts. There's a different version on FB from last December with similar language, but it's from Tennessee. Idk
www.facebook.com/100086790285...
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