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Dan Gillmor Apr 12, 2023

Not content with banning reality and history from school and public libraries, the extremist right (aka Republican Party) is now looks to kill the libraries. See this from ever-more-retrograde Missouri: https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/#:~:text=Missouri%20House%20Republicans%20voted%20to,the%20GOP%2Dcontrolled%20state%20Senate

Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries

Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all of the state’s public libraries, in a proposed $45.6 billion state budget that will soon move to a vote in the GOP-controlled state Senate.

Heartland Signal

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@dangillmor in Montana they're getting the itch to just go straight to burning them:

https://dailymontanan.com/2023/04/10/opponents-ask-committee-to-kill-montana-obscenity-bill-as-backer-calls-for-book-burning/

Opponents ask committee to kill Montana ‘obscenity’ bill as backer calls for book burning – Daily Montanan

Backers of an obscenity bill that seeks to criminalize school staff told a Senate committee Friday afternoon the committee chair was censoring speech when a proponent tried to read passages from a book aloud, while another told lawmakers: “It looks like there needs to be some book burning.”

Daily Montanan