If you’re in the Harrisonburg VA area, please join us! We will have signs for you (That you can then take home and put in your yard!) Sign up using the mobilize link. mobilize.us/s/UkVEJU
“Librarians, teachers & administrators are scared & intimidated. That fear affects not just libraries, but anything in schools that involves books.” Frank’s post conveys that fear, but to truly understand the dystopian depths of terror in Texas — the test lab for book banners — READ THE FULL REPORT.
It's the last day of Banned Books Week 2026 aka "Let Freedom Read Day" - a day of action to defend books & to stand up for librarians, library workers, educators, writers, publishers, & booksellers who make them available! Here are 6 ways to Defend the Freedom to Read - what action are you taking?
Good morning ppl! Important info below!
We stand with local immigrant rights leaders demanding Oscar Bergal's release, a full independent investigation, and immediate release of the body camera footage. And we join them in urging the public not to shop at Target until they stop letting DHS use their parking lot as staging sites for ICE!
On Monday, ~200 Border Patrol Agents invaded an anti-border camp in Lochiel, Arizona, made arrests and cut down the ancient Grandmother tree that campers had been protecting from construction on the double-border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico.
Full article: unicornriot.ninja/2026/histori...
Activists have launched a 'defendants union', likely the 1st project of its kind in the modern history of US political protest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@dnbrgr.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social @sdonziger.bsky.social
"Americans... have never, ever wanted this type of a system — we have a long history of explicitly preventing such a thing from being built here by our government — but it looks like Trump and Bessent are creating the foundation for it right in front of our eyes."
hartmannreport.com/p/is-trump-b...
Since I wrote this comic, the Senate introduced their own version of HR 7661, also called the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” with nearly identical text. Please add NO ON S 4925 to your calls to reps about these federal book ban bills www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... #bannedbooksweek
If you're featuring banned books online or in a display, PLEASE feature books by the living and breathing authors whose livelihoods are being deeply impacted by the nationwide challenges and bans. Highlighting banned classics is fine but it's not the full story.
At @cvilleweekly.bsky.social, we've got an update to our Sept. 16 story about the Greene County Sheriff's Office's failure to report dozens of traffic stops from its June 23 ICE raids, as the law requires. That data's up now. 1 in 4 drivers Greene stopped in June were Latino.
The next in @us.theguardian.com's series on Ice this summer.
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵
With just under one month to go until the next No Kings, there are already more than 1,000 events on the map.
That means October 17 will be the largest early vote activation in American history.
Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
People power becomes voter power when we make a plan and actually show up.
Know your options
Make your plan
Help somebody make theirs
Vote early
October 17 belongs to every eligible voter who refuses to let democracy become a spectator sport.
Find an event near you. social.demcast.com/s/v6K54iPg
