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Most Texas faculty board candidates who help e-book bans misplaced their elections
I’ve zero-interest for woulda-shoulda election post-mortems, however excessive curiousity about points and ways that labored. In Texas, the place Democrats had a really tough cycle on the highest of the poll, it seems that the extra native world of college boards, issues weren’t fairly as dangerous. In reality, of the 15 faculty board members who opened campaigned on e-book banning and censorship as an excellent factor, 9 of them misplaced. Not precisely a wipeout, however typically according to opinion polls about these points. With their crew having received a national-stage trifecta, I ponder how a lot juice native thought cops have for persevering with their rapacious and dumb crusades in opposition to faculties and libraries having books with precise concepts and experiences in them.
The Onion wins Alex Jones’ Infowars in chapter public sale
If something has confirmed to be true during the last eight years, is that straight-forward reporting on MAGA’s retrograde circus strikes the needle a lot, a lot lower than one may hope. It appears plenty of extra this conflict is fought within the web demi-monde of message boards, social media memes, podcasts, and conspiracy concept. Maybe The Onion has it proper: struggle hearth with a clown-shooting seltzer.
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On the newest episode of The E book Riot Podcast, Rebecca and I make our picks for locks, likelies, and would-like-to-sees forward of the discharge on Nov twenty eighth of The New York Instances’s 100 Notable Books of the Yr listing (we’ve this date confirmed, btw).