Judi Moreillon, PhD
@judimoreillon.bsky.social
Author: Children's and YA Books and Professional Books for School Librarians, Advocate for Literacy, Libraries, Public School Education, and #FirstAmendment #RadicalSchoolLibrarianship #TLSky #EduSky #kidlit #mglit #yalit https://storytrail.com
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“Authoritarians gain power when citizens stop paying attention. Visit your local library, check out books, and keep reading. If we stay unified and informed, we can ensure reading w/out restriction remains the foundation of our democracy and a fundamental freedom for all.”
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Thank you @librarianjones.com & Suzette Baker for this @timemagemizu.bsky.social article. The gratitude of #librarians and #readers across the country must also go to Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social for her courage! Bravo for all who stand up for #FirstAmendment rights! #TLSky #EduSky
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“It feels like 38 million Americans in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have been thrown to the wolves.”
www.ftlf.org/2025/12/18/w...
www.ftlf.org/2025/12/18/w...
When the Supreme Court Looked Away, the Fight for the Freedom to Read Came Home - Freedom to Learn Foundation
By Leila Green Little Advisory Board Member, Freedom to Learn Foundation Last week, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Little v. Llano County—the case that bears my name and, more import...
www.ftlf.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“It feels like 38 million Americans in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi have been thrown to the wolves.”
www.ftlf.org/2025/12/18/w...
www.ftlf.org/2025/12/18/w...
Thank you @librarianjones.com & Suzette Baker for this @timemagemizu.bsky.social article. The gratitude of #librarians and #readers across the country must also go to Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social for her courage! Bravo for all who stand up for #FirstAmendment rights! #TLSky #EduSky
“Authoritarians gain power when citizens stop paying attention. Visit your local library, check out books, and keep reading. If we stay unified and informed, we can ensure reading w/out restriction remains the foundation of our democracy and a fundamental freedom for all.”
time.com/7341120/book...
time.com/7341120/book...
December 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Thank you @librarianjones.com & Suzette Baker for this @timemagemizu.bsky.social article. The gratitude of #librarians and #readers across the country must also go to Leila Green Little @ifightforbooks.bsky.social for her courage! Bravo for all who stand up for #FirstAmendment rights! #TLSky #EduSky
This cause is close to my heart - Southern #Arizona is home to many law-abiding immigrants, refugees, and visa holders. Our federal government should not be deploying troops in our cities - troops that end up sweeping up innocent people. Please read and sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Demand an investigation into the costs of Trump's troop deployments
Just about every day, courts are determining that Trump’s domestic troop deployments are as illegal as they are unpopular.
Trump has been forced to scale back his attempted takeover time and time agai...
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December 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This cause is close to my heart - Southern #Arizona is home to many law-abiding immigrants, refugees, and visa holders. Our federal government should not be deploying troops in our cities - troops that end up sweeping up innocent people. Please read and sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Once again, it's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries. #TLSky #EduSky please take time to complete the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social one-click opportunity to support #RightToReadAct, which will increase student access to fully staffed & resourced #schoollibraries. app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
Tell Congress to Show Up for School Libraries!
New legislation introduced in Congress has the potential to provide more resources to school libraries in every state. We need our elected officials to show ...
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December 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Once again, it's time to Show Up #ForOurLibraries. #TLSky #EduSky please take time to complete the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social one-click opportunity to support #RightToReadAct, which will increase student access to fully staffed & resourced #schoollibraries. app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
#TLSky #EduSky 12/12/25 @oif.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News includes link to strong statement from TX #Library Association re: Supreme Court decision not to hear Little v. Llano County #FirstAmendment case and more on #censorship, academic freedom, legislation www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom News 12/12/2025
ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...
www.oif.ala.org
December 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#TLSky #EduSky 12/12/25 @oif.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News includes link to strong statement from TX #Library Association re: Supreme Court decision not to hear Little v. Llano County #FirstAmendment case and more on #censorship, academic freedom, legislation www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
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Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
A Children’s Book, a Packed Library, and a Community Standing for the Right to Read
An eyewitness account on the recent Salado, Texas library board meeting.
www.txftrp.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Guest author, Miranda Williamson, provides an eyewitness account of the recent library board meeting in Salado, TX where the board voted to uphold the reconsideration committee recommendation to retain “When Aidan Became a Brother” by @kylelukoff.bsky.social
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
www.txftrp.org/salado_stand...
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Have you cast your VOTE FOR THE LIBRARIANS yet? Help us share our superheroes stories to an even wider audience and support the Freedom to Read movement by voting (or voting again) for us in the Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Award!
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Audience Choice Voting - Cinema Eye Honors
Audience Choice Voting Choose Your Favorite Film of this year
cinemaeyehonors.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Have you cast your VOTE FOR THE LIBRARIANS yet? Help us share our superheroes stories to an even wider audience and support the Freedom to Read movement by voting (or voting again) for us in the Cinema Eye Honors Audience Choice Award!
cinemaeyehonors.com/audience-cho...
cinemaeyehonors.com/audience-cho...
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We appreciate your support. Your donation helps protect the right to read for all.
It's #GivingTuesday! I gave to @teachingchange.bsky.social and @ftrf.bsky.social. #Education and #IntellectualFreedom go hand in hand. #TLSky #EduSky. Let's make sure the young people we serve experience their #FirstAmendment rights and are empowered to take action in their schools/communities!
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We appreciate your support. Your donation helps protect the right to read for all.
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New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
TY to #Arizona D-07 Rep @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social & Senator Jack Reed 4introducing Right to Read Act (12/4/25) to "close gaps in access" to #schoollibrary resources & "surge federal investment" to increase Ss literacy @aaslala.bsky.social #TLSky #EduSky grijalva.house.gov/media/press-releases
Press Releases | Representative Adelita Grijalva
grijalva.house.gov
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
TY to #Arizona D-07 Rep @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social & Senator Jack Reed 4introducing Right to Read Act (12/4/25) to "close gaps in access" to #schoollibrary resources & "surge federal investment" to increase Ss literacy @aaslala.bsky.social #TLSky #EduSky grijalva.house.gov/media/press-releases
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As reading scores decline worldwide, educators are focusing more on improving the "reading culture" in schools, especially at the secondary level. This article from the UK shares some great tips for encouraging students to read more
www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best...
#EduSky #TLSky
www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best...
#EduSky #TLSky
Building a strong reading culture in school: Seven lessons from Redhill Academy Trust - SecEd
Practical strategies to build a reading culture in schools. How Redhill Academy Trust doubled student reading engagement
www.sec-ed.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
As reading scores decline worldwide, educators are focusing more on improving the "reading culture" in schools, especially at the secondary level. This article from the UK shares some great tips for encouraging students to read more
www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best...
#EduSky #TLSky
www.sec-ed.co.uk/content/best...
#EduSky #TLSky
#TLSky #EduSky Read the 12/5/25 @oif.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News. A positive story: CA high school library retains books edsource.org/updates/scho.... Read more on #censorship, academic freedom/student speech, legislation, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social news. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
UPDATE: Board rejects requests to remove books from SLO County high school library
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#TLSky #EduSky Read the 12/5/25 @oif.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News. A positive story: CA high school library retains books edsource.org/updates/scho.... Read more on #censorship, academic freedom/student speech, legislation, @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social news. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The Institute of Museum and Library Services, the federal agency that provides funding for America's libraries, has announced it is reinstating all grants it had previously terminated, including those to libraries and library organizations across the U.S.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
Read more: https://bit.ly/4496W4V
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In Texas, many censorship challenges are brewing. Please keep showing up for your public and school libraries! We need community in Victoria, Salado, Hays, New Braunfels, Abilene, Seguin and more! Contact us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social to help!
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
In Texas, many censorship challenges are brewing. Please keep showing up for your public and school libraries! We need community in Victoria, Salado, Hays, New Braunfels, Abilene, Seguin and more! Contact us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social to help!
Read Freely Alabama and the EveryLibrary Institute presented a $42,230 check to the Friends of the Fairhope Public Library after the Alabama Public Library Service denied its funding. Bravo! #Libraries www.everylibraryinstitute.org/fairhope2025 follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries
We're Writing Checks and Keeping Libraries Open!
Read Freely Alabama and the EveryLibrary Institute presented a $42,230 check to the Friends of the Fairhope Public Library after the Alabama Public Library Service confirmed the library would lose at ...
www.everylibraryinstitute.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Read Freely Alabama and the EveryLibrary Institute presented a $42,230 check to the Friends of the Fairhope Public Library after the Alabama Public Library Service denied its funding. Bravo! #Libraries www.everylibraryinstitute.org/fairhope2025 follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to support libraries
It's #GivingTuesday! I gave to @teachingchange.bsky.social and @ftrf.bsky.social. #Education and #IntellectualFreedom go hand in hand. #TLSky #EduSky. Let's make sure the young people we serve experience their #FirstAmendment rights and are empowered to take action in their schools/communities!
December 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's #GivingTuesday! I gave to @teachingchange.bsky.social and @ftrf.bsky.social. #Education and #IntellectualFreedom go hand in hand. #TLSky #EduSky. Let's make sure the young people we serve experience their #FirstAmendment rights and are empowered to take action in their schools/communities!
Dear Readers (outside of the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), @facetpublishing.bsky.social is offering 50% off our book #RadicalSchoolLibrarianship: A Global Response. If you qualify for this offer, we hope you will take them up on it! #TLSky #EduSky facetpublishing.com/page/detail/...
December 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Dear Readers (outside of the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand), @facetpublishing.bsky.social is offering 50% off our book #RadicalSchoolLibrarianship: A Global Response. If you qualify for this offer, we hope you will take them up on it! #TLSky #EduSky facetpublishing.com/page/detail/...
On #GivingTuesday, please join me and support the work of the Freedom to Read Foundation (ftrf org). Let's celebrate their 10/21/25 #FirstAmendment victory shared w/ @aaslala.bsky.social. Texas HB900 aka READER Act book rating system was declared unconstitutional! #TLSky www.ftrf.org/news/713199/...
www.ftrf.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
On #GivingTuesday, please join me and support the work of the Freedom to Read Foundation (ftrf org). Let's celebrate their 10/21/25 #FirstAmendment victory shared w/ @aaslala.bsky.social. Texas HB900 aka READER Act book rating system was declared unconstitutional! #TLSky www.ftrf.org/news/713199/...
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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
Some good news: Massachusetts Senate is working on a bill to prevent #bookbans! #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read the 11/21/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
Intellectual Freedom News 11/21/2025
ALA actively advocates and educates in defense of intellectual freedom—the rights of library users to read, seek information, and speak freely as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Intellectual freedo...
www.oif.ala.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Some good news: Massachusetts Senate is working on a bill to prevent #bookbans! #TLSky #EduSky, pls make time to read the 11/21/25 @ifrt-ala.bsky.social #IntellectualFreedom News: #censorship, #1stAmendment /civil rights, academic freedom/student speech, legislation. www.oif.ala.org/intellectual...
If you live in #Arizona, I hope you will submit the @sosarizona.org one-click message to the AZ State Board of Education to ask them to vote "NO!" Our students/educators/families need #equity #diversity #inclusion to succeed. Stop the nonsense! sosarizona.org/stop-DEI-ove...
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If you live in #Arizona, I hope you will submit the @sosarizona.org one-click message to the AZ State Board of Education to ask them to vote "NO!" Our students/educators/families need #equity #diversity #inclusion to succeed. Stop the nonsense! sosarizona.org/stop-DEI-ove...
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There is nothing more American than standing up for the Constitution. And that's something Donald Trump will never understand.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
There is nothing more American than standing up for the Constitution. And that's something Donald Trump will never understand.
Congratulations @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social We applaud you for wasting no time in telling the country who you are and what you're in Washington to accomplish. Thank you for launching your Congressional career by speaking from your heart in your heritage language. #Tucson youtu.be/KC3UhCsea8U?...
Behind the scenes on Adelita Grijalva's first day in office
YouTube video by Arizona Agenda
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November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Congratulations @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social We applaud you for wasting no time in telling the country who you are and what you're in Washington to accomplish. Thank you for launching your Congressional career by speaking from your heart in your heritage language. #Tucson youtu.be/KC3UhCsea8U?...
I have set an email to @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov & Rep. Juan Ciscomani to ask them to support #libraries @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social because #librarians change lives thru literacy & workforce development & access to ideas & info! #TLSky app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I have set an email to @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov & Rep. Juan Ciscomani to ask them to support #libraries @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social because #librarians change lives thru literacy & workforce development & access to ideas & info! #TLSky app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-pag...
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AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The Most Dangerous AI Tool for Libraries Yet
How Class-Shelf Plus v3 quietly turns censorship into an automated workflow and why every librarian should be alarmed.
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AI is now being used to “flag” school library books.
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
The new CLCD tool, Class-Shelf Plus v3, may speed up censorship under the guise of efficiency.
This development should alarm every librarian and educator. #TLSky #EduSkyAi #libraries #censorship open.substack.com/pub/aischool...