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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 5d

The skyrocketing price of Halloween costumes may not affect many Trump supporters as they favor their traditional evening garb of a simple white robe and a hood.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween store owner speaks out about the impact of Trump's tariffs on his business:

"This year has been particularly challenging. Most of the costumes and accessories all come from China... Some of the more exclusive or high-end costumes might be as much as $20-30 more."

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VPM News @vpm.org · 10d

BREAKING: The University of Virginia has become the fifth school to reject the "Compact for Academic Excellence" that was initially sent to nine universities.

UVA rejects Trump administration’s ‘Compact for Academic Excellence'

"We will continue to work to strengthen free expression and free inquiry in an increasingly polarized world."

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Deb B @debbc.bsky.social · 11d

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books from your TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky #diversebooksky

Young woman wearing green blouse standing in front of a pink background for cover of The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 12d

Seconding this and adding that it really is that bad in terms of the lack of marketing for BIPOC authors esp. And as bad as it is in adult, it's worse in YA and kidlit.

Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 12d

Novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia breaks down the slump in book sales, what this means for marginalized writers, & what we as readers can do: www.patreon.com/posts/boycot...

Boycott? Not likely | Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13d

New Braunfels Independent School District (TX) has just banned middle and high school students from using their school libraries. Why? So officials can go through the library and remove any books they deem inappropriate, per the state's SB 13 law.

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A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 12d

On this day in 1968, Black Olympic medalists Tommie Smith and John Carlos faced death threats and expulsion for protesting racial inequality.

Oct. 16, 1968 | Black Olympic Medalists Face Death Threats for Protesting Racial Inequality

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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R. Souissi @rsouissivibes.bsky.social · 13d

If you're in DC, ICE has set up a checkpoint on F street and H street.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18d

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.

Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.

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Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 18d

Thread. In short, after 15 years, t he ACA has joined Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as a bedrock law of the land they have to pretend to care about.

They’re still trying to gut it of course, but they can no longer pretend it’s a temporary anomaly.

Magdi Jacobs @magdi.bsky.social · 18d

John Thune is nervous. He just spread a bunch of lies on @pbsnewshour but I noticed one thing in particular: He reassured the audience that the underlying structure of ACA would be intact. He's lying. But I don't think I've heard a Republican make a promise about ACA like that before. Have you?

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Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @fashioningtheself.bsky.social · 18d

Kerry James Marshall’s Untitled (Underpainting) reimagines the museum as both subject and metaphor. Using a Renaissance technique of burnt umber underpainting, Marshall creates a glowing, unfinished surface that echoes William J. Wilson’s "Afric-American Picture Gallery."

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Deb B @debbc.bsky.social · 20d

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books from your TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Octavia E. Butler - The Last Interview and Other Conversations

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky #OctaviaEButler

Illustration of author Octavia E Butler against a green background for cover of Octavia E. Butler - The Last Interview and Other Conversations.

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Marlyn Beebe @marlynb.bsky.social · 20d

#booksky
#bannedbooksweek

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Book Ban Data

The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the United States, finding that challenges were nearly double that...

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Deb B @debbc.bsky.social · 20d

I've reread I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings over the years. It's crazy that this book as been challenged for decades. But seeing the type of people who ban books, not surprising.

Cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Aqua cover with cutout of birds, 2 green and brown trees, and a silhouette of a young girl.

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Crystal N. Dunivant @crystalndunivant.bsky.social · 20d

It is Banned Books Week.

The Bluest Eye was my first novel by Toni Morrison. It is beat up and the pages are yellow but still one of my all time favorites.

What is your best banned book?

#BlackBookSky
#BookSky

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison book cover with a pretty brown face wearing a brown hat, red cardigan sweater, and white dress. Toni at Random is at the top to the left.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 20d

Folks looking to talk about Banned Books and activism around protecting public institutions of democracy may want to join this chat tomorrow.

Going to gently insert that a state-level school librarian association did what we need to see more of: SUED over book bans.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

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She loves 🎶Music and Books 📚 @lanaebondreads.blacksky.app · 22d

Honoring civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer on her birthday. Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917, in Montgomery County, Mississippi.

She was a leader and outspoken advocate for the advancement of Black people. Below, she makes her famous speech.

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Fannie Lou Hamer's Powerful Testimony | Freedom Summer

Former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer's Congressional testimony is so powerful that President Johnson calls an impromptu press conference to get her off the air. But his plan backfires. Official…

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She loves 🎶Music and Books 📚 @lanaebondreads.blacksky.app · 21d

Banned Book Week: List of some books that have been banned by schools in the United States. This does not include all of the books. But most of these books are banned or have been banned in multiple states.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23d

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”