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a children's book about a prince and a knight is under fire in Maine school libraries. the school board chair had to clarify that no, other parents don't get to decide what your kid reads. we are relitigating this. again. is there a floor?
catcher in the rye challenges kids to think critically and call out bullshit . that's why they want it banned. check out banned camp. new episodes every tuesday and thursday.
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5️⃣ salinger wrote this in 1951. it was banned because it made young people question authority and call out phoniness. that's still exactly why they hate it. moms for liberty is marching on capitol hill march 18th to make sure your kids never read it. they're not slowing down.
4️⃣ holden gets one real invitation all night. sits down with someone who actually wants his company. and leaves. because he can't stop being holden. trump can't stop being trump either. the hat stays on. fox news swaps in old footage. hegseth says iran targets civilians. the performance never stops.
3️⃣ holden tries all night to connect with someone real. cab driver. waiter. piano player. every single one either ignores him or says no. the loneliness isn't dramatic. it's just quiet and constant. that's what 2026 feels like for a lot of us right now.
2️⃣ holden watches everyone performing for each other all night. laughing at things that aren't funny. pretending to have a great time. nobody says what they actually mean. sound familiar? we've all been performing normalcy for two years while the country comes apart.
1️⃣ ernie is a piano player who used to be great. the crowd told him he was brilliant so many times he lost the ability to tell. now he plays badly and takes his bow and they go wild. he can't tell the difference anymore. trump stood at those caskets in a campaign hat. he thought it looked fine.
trump wore a hat to the caskets 🧵
on the new episode of banned camp (a comedy podcast where we read banned books and try to figure out why they were banned), we read chapter 12 of catcher in the rye. here are the five most interesting things we found that relate to what we're dealing with today...
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catcher in the rye ch. 12: 16 year-old holden spends all night trying to get one person to have a drink with him. when someone finally says yes, he leaves.
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margaret atwood addressed a pen congress while her own book was being banned. she called it the first canadian province-wide book ban attempt. 1984 and brave new world were also on the list. they really don't want kids thinking about dictatorships, huh?
margaretatwood.substack.com/p/handmaids-...
NEW - 3/10/26
you always knew Trump can't tell right from wrong anymore.
this chapter of catcher in the rye explains how applause replaces a conscience.
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if you refuse to let Trump gaslight you into silence, repost this.
house republicans introduced h.r. 7661 hours after the state of the union. it's called the "stop the sexualization of children act" and it would strip lgbtq books from public schools nationwide. 18 cosponsors. they're not even pretending anymore, are they?
I wonder how many listeners also went through a Holden Caulfield phase...we should ask on the show
Yes!! 💯
kristi noem got fired after she told congress trump approved a $220 million no-bid ad campaign. trump said he never knew anything about it. noem starred in the ads. on horseback. in front of mount rushmore. why're we still pretending any of this is governing?
www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...
wyoming's book ban bill died in the senate this week after passing the house. librarians, first amendment advocates, and the clock itself stopped it. a small win in a very long fight. how many of these close calls before one doesn't go our way?
congress introduced hr 7661 to withhold federal funds from any school library that carries "sexually-oriented material" — language broad enough to erase most lgbtq+ content from shelves entirely. the american booksellers association is alarmed.
utah just added 4 more books to its statewide school ban list bringing the total to 27… including the graphic novel version of the handmaid’s tale… get outta here how is banning more books helping kids learn exactly anyone wanna explain?
www.sltrib.com/news/educati...
so congress wants to pull federal money from schools if a library has books they decide are too sexual which apparently now includes anything mentioning lgbtq people… wtf is happening… seriously who thought this was a good idea and what am i missing?
book bans keep spreading across states and now distributors like baker & taylor are shutting down while schools freeze book orders… authors losing careers over politics, i’m pissed, how is wrecking the book industry helping anyone
www.npr.org/2025/12/29/n....
house republicans dropped a federal bill that could yank funding from schools if books mention lgbtq topics or gender identity… like seriously this is insane, nationwide book policing now? what exactly do they think kids are reading
people.com/new-bill-see...
76 stories about new bans but only 14 bills to undo them, censorship within censorship and i’m so done, how are we this deep in and still pretending it’s about protecting kids? what am i missing here
wisconsin supreme court candidate maria lazar sharing a stage with moms for liberty folks after local attempts to yank 30+ books, i can’t even, is this what judicial independence looks like now? who’s protecting students here
canadian libraries throwing banned books pajama parties and launching youth contests against censorship and holy crap it shouldn’t take this much hustle to protect a library card, anyone else inspired by this energy? lethbridgeherald.com/news/lethbri...
maxwell frost reintroduces the fight book bans act after nearly 7000 books got yanked last year and this is messed up, how did we let it get this bad? federal grants to help districts push back sounds wild but necessary, thoughts? www.quiverquant.com/news/Press+R...
rj may a former moms for liberty honoree just got 17.5 years in federal prison for child sex abuse material distribution and this is such bs the moral panic crowd can’t even police their own what are we supposed to do with this
thespacecoastrocket.com/rj-may-sente...
pen america says there’ve been 22000+ book ban instances since 2021 and authors are quitting kids lit over fear, holy crap how is silencing stories the new normal who thinks this helps anyone
utah just yanked stephen king’s bag of bones from every public school, 23 books gone and counting while 300 people show up to read in protest at the capitol like wtf is happening who’s scared of paperbacks now
www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/Scythe...
moms for liberty co-founder tied to a florida gop sex scandal mess and we’re supposed to take their moral panic seriously, get outta here. the hypocrisy is loud. how do they keep lecturing schools with this going on? www.aol.com/she-dangerou...
nc school board candidate bragged about a book ban that didn’t even happen and then had to walk it back, i can’t even. how are we this sloppy with facts about kids’ libraries? anyone else tired of this circus? www.wfdd.org/education/20...