September 23, 2024 by V Leigh

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision against the Internet Archive’s book scanning program, leaving only the Supreme Court left as recourse and suggesting that the case may finally wind down after years of contention.

Our story: A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision against the Internet Archive’s book scanning program, leaving only the Supreme Court left as recourse and suggesting that the case may finally wind down after years of contention. https://t.co/tCoZ83LrfU
— Publishers Weekly (@PublishersWkly) September 4, 2024

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It really does not bode well for our society that politicians and corporations keep trying to destroy both entire repositories of knowledge and culture and our access to them while also championing AI tools that consistently plagiarize and provide incorrect information https://t.co/LuhQA6RKAT
— Emmy Potter (@emmylanepotter) September 4, 2024

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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers 📚

More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers’ lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead

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— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) June 12, 2024

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Internet Archive hosts eight of the works that I’m using to research a project right now, including a book published 170 years ago. It’s hard to overstate how important it is for public access to information on the internet. https://t.co/zr70MYAkzM
— Brett Heinz (@brtthnz) March 25, 2023

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The removal of 500,000+ books from our digital lending library disproportionately impacts disadvantaged communities. Tell the publishers to restore access to these books so that everyone has equal access to information. ✍️ https://t.co/UORy8pcM0L #LetReadersRead pic.twitter.com/WepxrYJ3am
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) July 14, 2024

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September 4, 2024 by V Leigh

Elite US colleges see Black enrollment drop after affirmative action strike-down

Early data suggest that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to strike down affirmative action in college admissions—and none of the other admissions factors that give preferential treatment to wealthier White applicants like legacies and boosts for children of donors—has… pic.twitter.com/88MXA5DYFu
— Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk) September 1, 2024

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One of America’s top universities, MIT, is revealing how its student body has changed after the SCOTUS eliminated affirmative action from admission decisions, with Black and Hispanic students seeing the largest drops in admissions. @RehemaEllis reports. https://t.co/sGV1seOqzJ
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) September 2, 2024

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“The share of Black students at Amherst College for the incoming freshman class decreased by eight percentage points, from 11% last year to 3% this year, the data showed. The percentage of Hispanic students dropped from 12% to 8%.”https://t.co/DC98J3CsMK
— Global Black Studies at Duke (@DukeAAAS) September 3, 2024

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March 23, 2024 by V Leigh

There is an author, a library worker, and a reader behind each one of these numbers. Real people whose stories are worth sharing. Join us at @UABookBans to ensure that all Americans have the right to read without interference.

@UABookBans

I have A LOT to say about how attacks on librarians and teachers are a sign of dystopic collapse…. 🫠
— A.D. Boynton, II (@ADBoyntonII) February 24, 2024

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There is an author, a library worker, and a reader behind each one of these numbers. Real people whose stories are worth sharing.

Join us at @UABookBans to ensure that all Americans have the right to read without interference. https://t.co/xaf4XFUNrt
— Emily Drabinski (@edrabinski) March 14, 2024

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We are rapidly losing access to a wealth of knowledge available online at the same time they are banning books + defunding libraries.

We have to sift through endless ads, bots, fake AI photos, scammers and spammers all spitting out garbage.

We’re in the Misinformation Age. https://t.co/VaEjDS1E5y
— Ari (@arixanxim) February 23, 2024

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No, book bans don’t make the kids want to read the books. No, book bans don’t just impact schools. Those and other common myths and ideas about book bans. (Plus this week’s book censorship news roundup.)https://t.co/KOliqZ0YxL
— Book Riot (@BookRiot) March 22, 2024

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Prison book censorship and bans are arbitrary and capricious, and often function as forms of institutional racism. In NY, I could read every James Patterson novel but was denied a book on computer coding despite the fact that I had no computer and no internet access. https://t.co/uwxdug2jZt
— Dyjuan Tatro (@DyjuanTatro) March 14, 2024

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“The movement to stifle certain types of expression in K-12 schools is continuing to expand – and the laws go way beyond enabling book bans,” writes Madison Markham https://t.co/Kw1yZ4VuLz
— PEN America (@PENamerica) March 21, 2024

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to ensure that all Americans have the right to read without interference.

December 29, 2023 by V Leigh

Told y’all they weren’t just coming for CRT (which they don’t even understand). They want to ban all teaching about Black folk. Ultimately they want to roll back even the most basic progress of the past 1/2 century. MO school board bans black history.

Told y’all they weren’t just coming for CRT (which they don’t even understand). They want to ban all teaching about Black folk. Ultimately they want to roll back even the most basic progress of the past 1/2 century.

MO school board bans black history.https://t.co/7ytidiB1lG
— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) December 23, 2023

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The same people who don’t want to admit the Civil War was about slavery are the same people who want to ban Critical Race Theory and teaching African American Studies
— 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐩𝐞 (@exavierpope) December 29, 2023

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VP Harris criticized DeSantis over the language in the summer. DeSantis invited her to a debate over the curriculum, which she rejected.

“There is no roundtable— we will accept to debate an undeniable fact. There were no redeeming qualities of slavery.” https://t.co/wFHmX5K6cU
— aaron navarro (@aaronlarnavarro) December 28, 2023

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Nikki Haley defended not citing slavery as the cause of the Civil War during a campaign event in New Hampshire, saying that this was “a given” for people who grew up in the South: “To me, it was about freedom. It’s bigger than slavery.” https://t.co/srBkAo1OVR pic.twitter.com/GMPjLwZ8Qn
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 28, 2023

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Nikki Haley’s refusal to even acknowledge slavery reminds me of Malcolm X’s wisdom from 60+ years ago when asked if we’ve made “progress” on racial justice.

No! He responds. Because “They wont even admit the knife is there.”

How little has changed.😐pic.twitter.com/KiDdCB1T8E
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) December 28, 2023

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December 8, 2023 by V Leigh

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a months long standoff over dress code policy The student has already spent over 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom school racism

A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over dress code policy

The student has already spent over 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom https://t.co/FagUgXF8PL
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 5, 2023

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In a shocking hate crime at a Kansas HS, a white boy viciously attacked a Black girl student while yelling the N Word. The assault resulted in the Black girl’s nose being broken and her hospitalization. The school suspended the Black girl for 5 days. https://t.co/Xe1W4xV4tT
— The Kansas City Defender (@KCDefender) November 28, 2023

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Shawnee Mission East students demand change after racist attack | The Kansas City Star https://t.co/Zba5tqqDY5
— Kenny Akers (@KeneAkers) December 6, 2023

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A Texas woman is accusing her sons’ school district of failing to condemn racism after she says they were subjected to anti-Asian American taunts on the bus, and her older boy had a swastika drawn on his shirt last year. https://t.co/ysVROnsIJt
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 5, 2023

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My newest piece discussing algorithmic racism in AI + EdTech was just published in @theprogressive ! I discuss how anti-black infrastructures exacerbate educational inequity, automating the school to prison nexus via The New Jim Code (@ruha9)https://t.co/wGq2a8iY4W
— Dr. Tiera Chantè Tanksley (@DrTanksley) November 25, 2023

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Palestinian students are delgating and explaining their experiences with Anti Palestinian racism and Islamophobia in schools. The youngest speaker is 16, and says her principle told her Palestine will never be free. #HamOnt pic.twitter.com/JZCSkgvAdI
— Sarah Jama (@SarahJama_) December 5, 2023

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August 31, 2023 by V Leigh

Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports:

I wrote about the Classic Learning Test, which FL’s public colleges will likely soon accept as an SAT alternative. “I get called a woke influence on the classical education movement, and I get called right-wing by people outside of it,” the CEO told me. https://t.co/br3f8FPMg6
— Kiera Butler on Threads @kieraevebutler510 (@kieraevebutler) August 25, 2023

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When the NAACP declared “the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans” and issued a formal travel advisory, DeSantis’s office called it “nothing more than a stunt.”

That was May. Yesterday, a white supremacist murdered three Black people in a Florida store.
— Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 (@reneeygraham) August 27, 2023

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DeSantis booed at vigil for victims in Jacksonville shooting

Gov. Ron DeSantis was booed Sunday at a vigil in Jacksonville, Fla., following the fatal shooting of three Black people by a 21-year-old white man at a Dollar General store on Saturday.…
— Isabel Santos 🟧🟦🌊🌊🟦📙 (@Busyisaworkshop) August 31, 2023

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“His position on climate change is essentially vaccine denialism at civilizational scale. To Ron DeSantis this existential threat to the peninsula he represents is just another political debate,” says @chrislhayes on DeSantis rejecting federal climate benefits for Floridians. pic.twitter.com/asgvTQKTkQ
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) August 31, 2023

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Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports: https://t.co/XJK0gTuyKw
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 31, 2023

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August 21, 2023 by V Leigh

Activists and community members protested Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

There’s been much gaslighting & moderate justifying of the new Florida social studies standards, people stating the “clarifications” were designed to show Black resilience, or were just “facts.” So, I thought I’d compare the African-American history standards to the Holocaust’s.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 31, 2023

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Activists and community members protested Florida’s new education standards, which require middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” https://t.co/DiMktBAOrK
— CNN (@CNN) August 17, 2023

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DeSantis has imposed a speech code on Florida’s public schools that’s now taking effect. It compels trans teachers to convey the state’s message that their gender identity is “false.” They may be fired if they fail to promote this viewpoint through speech. https://t.co/SfcOYebhZU
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) August 8, 2023

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Given the undeniable suffering of enslaved Black people, you have to wonder why anyone would want to find a silver lining in such a dark history…@garrison_hayes takes us to school and debunks Florida’s slavery argument in 120 seconds. pic.twitter.com/X2zFyZmgas
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 11, 2023

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Florida’s Board of Education banned the 1619 Project from being taught in schools but approved PragerU. At least they’re not even pretending anymore. https://t.co/vPuvwl1hzz pic.twitter.com/e6c1FTwUBH
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) August 19, 2023

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July 31, 2023 by V Leigh

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into ‘discipline centers’ at 28 schools this upcoming year

The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into ‘discipline centers’ at 28 schools this upcoming yearhttps://t.co/PhO0TkEpBi
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 27, 2023

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What do we say to our children and our children’s children if we are silent on this?

How can we claim to want to interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and not see its rubrics here?

“HISD to eliminate librarians, turn libraries into discipline centers” https://t.co/yQ3abhIwsm
— Tracie D. Hall (@TracieDHall1) July 27, 2023

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— Danez (@Danez_Smif) July 28, 2023

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they said fuck a pipeline just make the school jail https://t.co/QQ2jbikzP8
— Glizztina Aguilera (@Lex_topia) July 27, 2023

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Removing libraries to better punish students!?!?

Is this really how we increase student achievement in America?

This is dystopian!

HISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers https://t.co/OEL9CjAbGw
— EveryLibrary (@EveryLibrary) July 27, 2023

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Closing libraries in schools to open up more spaces to discipline children should be an urgent wake up call for people to get involved in local political activity. They will hollow out everything that is good about collective life if you do not organize. https://t.co/amfydjgtLZ
— Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec) July 28, 2023

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July 25, 2023 by V Leigh

School administrators nixed a Black History Month program planned by Jamiyah Brown and other Black students at a high school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This censorship in Tuscaloosa is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern across the state.

School administrators nixed a Black History Month program planned by Jamiyah Brown and other Black students at a high school in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

This censorship in Tuscaloosa is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern across the state. https://t.co/NHFAtYX9lq
— Southern Poverty Law Center (@splcenter) July 15, 2023

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New Florida “Standards” Require Teachers To LIE https://t.co/hCcZzpjs4n via @YouTube
— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) July 24, 2023

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@lilmaverick3 #greenscreen History professor discusses pre-WWII propaganda #history #professor #jewishhistory ♬ original sound – LilmaverickProf🤓

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The point of attacking public schools with the gay and trans conspiracy theories was always to oppress vulnerable groups, but also to weaken public education and create a controlled market for ideology-driven curricula producers. https://t.co/6kKAMzmNTm
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 25, 2023

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Fox News is in a panic defending Florida’s offensive curriculum standards that teach that slavery offered benefits to the enslaved.

Greg Gutfeld not only called it a made-up story, which it is not, but he accused VP Kamala Harris of being drunk when she spoke against them. pic.twitter.com/1iUsYl1rGu
— David Heath (@davidhth) July 25, 2023

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“It’s inaccurate, insulting. It’s hurtful and prevents an honest account—an honest account—of our nation’s history.” Press Sec. @K_JeanPierre blasts Florida’s new history curriculum claim that slavery included “benefit” to Black Americans. pic.twitter.com/e3ATCZZMAR
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) July 24, 2023

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June 30, 2023 by V Leigh

The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission https://cnn.it/3r3akxr

The Supreme Court says colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for granting admission https://t.co/nrMV4MBQGt pic.twitter.com/g8hjjVBGjE
— CNN (@CNN) June 29, 2023

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BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared affirmative action unconstitutional, in a case involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. https://t.co/FzrJ9yz0ih
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 29, 2023

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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education. https://t.co/qCOtkgbxQO pic.twitter.com/jv4l1qxcyq
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 29, 2023

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Justice Jackson, dissenting: “Our country has never been colorblind. Given the lengthy history of state-sponsored race-based preferences in America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its… https://t.co/AUQlw5fR0o
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 29, 2023

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Sotomayor’s dissent: “Ignoring race will not equalize a society that is racially unequal. What was true in the 1860s, and again in 1954, is true today: Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality.” https://t.co/q7b25WE8OI
— Monica Torres (@monicatorrr) June 29, 2023

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What a terrible day for our country and for working people. America’s unions are deeply disappointed by today’s decision from the Supreme Court to reverse the longstanding precedent of affirmative action. https://t.co/w4PUpVDF4t
— AFL-CIO ✊ (@AFLCIO) June 29, 2023

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“Today, the Supreme Court upended 50 years of precedent to make access to higher education more difficult for students of color. Access to higher education is a labor issue.”https://t.co/E24dUc4z2X
— UAW (@UAW) June 29, 2023

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Today’s racist affirmative action decision by the Supreme Court is another nail in the coffin of this institution’s legitimacy. There is no such thing as a “race-neutral” admissions process. Plain and simple.
— The Debt Collective 🟥 (@StrikeDebt) June 29, 2023

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A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision against the Internet Archive’s book scanning program, leaving only the Supreme Court left as recourse and suggesting that the case may finally wind down after years of contention.

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Elite US colleges see Black enrollment drop after affirmative action strike-down

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Told y’all they weren’t just coming for CRT (which they don’t even understand). They want to ban all teaching about Black folk. Ultimately they want to roll back even the most basic progress of the past 1/2 century. MO school board bans black history.

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A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a months long standoff over dress code policy The student has already spent over 80% of his junior year outside of his regular classroom school racism

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Changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. @abbyvesoulis reports:

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The largest public school district in Texas is eliminating librarian positions and converting the libraries into ‘discipline centers’ at 28 schools this upcoming year

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