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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.

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Kris Sargent, MD Apr 12, 2023

@dangillmor I can't find the link at present, but I saw this recently equated to when public pools were ordered to be de-segregated and the white southerners just... got rid of public pools.

Seems accurate to my thinking.

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Kris Sargent, MD

@dangillmor ...and it could be a lasting damage, as implied by this from National Geographic in 2021.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/public-swimming-pools-still-haunted-by-segregation-legacy