TRUMP’S MISSING MILLIONS

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3JT8_Mev1g4 

 

Friendly Atheist News Roundup 8/6/2026: Anti-LGBTQ Food Bank Leader Rejects Gay Food (VIDEO Podcast Ep. 647)

0:00 Intro
0:55 Annoying "Sky Evangelist" kicked off airline after scaring everyone with her preaching.
13:03 West Virginia pastor rejects food over LGBTQ support. Now his food bank is empty.
24:46 Missouri Republicans threaten to defund library over books about a rainbow dinosaur and a wig.
34:48 Florida AG threatens to defund Catholic schools unless they loosen vaccination rules.
46:20 Three Texas moms cite "religious freedom" to strike down state's Ten Commandments law.

Interview: 

• Without Jessica: https://www.youtube.com/live/jHndS3begSU?si=fpOLaZtWfmtQkhyx

• With Jessica: https://youtu.be/OhU8Gyz2fdE?si=6BWuqDsivi-OLYS8

TRUMP "LIBRARY/MUSEUM/HOTEL/LEGACY 2030 (AI satire)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZmXD3k_zdI

 

How To Get To Your Library Folder On a Mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE836YY5Uvc

 

The Destruction of the Great Library of King Ashurbanipal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0V6tMUq4E

Texas book ban law causes a school district to remove Bible from libraries

Some parents and elected officials protested the removal of the religious text. In a 9 December school board meeting, Canyon ISD parent Regina Kiehne said: "It seems absurd to me that the Good Book was thrown out with the bad books." 

"It just makes sense to have the Word of God in our school library," she continued. "After all, it is the book of wisdom. It is the bestselling book of all time; it is historically accurate, scientifically sound, and most importantly, life-changing."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/texas-book-ban-law-bible

Texas library board wrongly labels Wampanoag history book as fiction

If government officials can dismiss a well-researched, factual account of history as fiction, then what other truths will they try to silence?

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/texas-library-censorship-wampanoag-rcna175926

Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers | Texas | The Guardian

Critics condemn superintendent Mike Miles's 'new education system' that removes students' access to books…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/29/houston-school-district-libraries-book

Texas county to keep libraries open after book ban ruling | The Hill

"This is a ringing victory for democracy," the plaintiffs' attorney Ellen Leonida said in a statement earlier this month. "The government cannot tell citizens what they can or can't read. Our nation was founded on the free exchange of ideas, and banning books you disagree with is a direct attack on our most basic liberties."

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3950560-texas-county-to-keep-libraries-open-after-book-ban-ruling/

The Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library - The Verge

The Internet Archive says it will continue acting as a library in other ways, despite the decision. "This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books," writes Freeland...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23655804/internet-archive-hatchette-publisher-ebook-library-lawsuit

Conservatives join liberals in 'quiet and polite' Idaho protest to protect their library from book-banners - CNN

"They've come into our community with their standards and their agenda and they're determined they're going to force it on us," says Klaniecki. "They carry guns to library board meetings and school board meetings. Carry guns! We don't need that. This country doesn't need that."… 

 … And who are these newcomers she speaks of? Well, we reached out to a number of the people pushing the recall and demanding that books be banned. None of them would talk to us. But they have made their feelings known at library board meetings. 

"Things need to change," one man told the board at a meeting in late August. "Otherwise, you bring curses upon yourselves. Period. From the Most High."…

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/us/idaho-bonners-ferry-library-books/index.html

Idaho librarian resigns over ‘atmosphere of extremism’ and ‘intimidation tactics’ | LGBTQ+ rights | The Guardian

"Nothing in my background could have prepared me for the political atmosphere of extremism, militant Christian fundamentalism, intimidation tactics, and threatening behavior currently being employed in the community," Glidden wrote in her announcement, the Spokesman-Review reported...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/idaho-librarian-resigns-ban-books-lgbtq

A Michigan town voted to defund its library. The fight started with Gender Queer: a Memoir - The Washington Post

People in this western Michigan farming town said the Patmos Library was "grooming" children and, according to fliers that one group printed, promoting an "LGBTQ ideology." They said bookshelves meant for young readers featured same-sex pornography. They called the staff pedophiles, McLaughlin said. Then one August morning, they voted to defund Jamestown's only public library, jeopardizing the institution's future as neighbors clashed over who gets to decide free speech in this deep-red corner of America...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/24/michigan-library-defunded-gender-queer/

US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We will not ban the books’

Residents of Jamestown, Michigan, voted this week to shut down town's library rather than tolerate certain LGBTQ books…

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/05/michigan-library-book-bans-lgbtq-authors

OK Bill Would Pay Parents $10K Each Day Their Nominated Banned Books Remain in Libraries

…The violating books in question would be any items relating to "the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature," according to the bill's text...

https://www.newsweek.com/ok-bill-would-pay-parents-10k-each-day-their-nominated-banned-books-remain-libraries-1663511

Amazon’s monopoly is squeezing your public library, too - The Washington Post

Its monopoly is stopping public libraries from lending e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Trevor Noah, Andy Weir, Michael Pollan and a whole lot more...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly/

Inside A Secret Library In Syria (The 1A)

In a small Syrian town called Darayya, residents found refuge from the country’s civil war in an unlikely place: a secret library.

Amid 2016’s violence, a group scavenged dilapidated buildings, risking their lives to collect books to build underground library from scratch.

Anas Ahmad, one of the founders of the library, told BBC reporter Mike Thomson:

“In many cases we get books from bomb or shell-damaged homes. The majority of these places are near the front line, so collecting them is very dangerous.”

The library represents a community clinging to hope and investing in the future even when it feels out of sight.

We’ll speak to Thomson about his book, “Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege,” and the state of the library today.
Interview:
https://the1a.org/segments/inside-a-secret-library-in-syria/

Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to Students and the Public | Internet Archive Blogs

To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.4 million (and growing) books in our lending library by creating a National Emergency Library to serve the nation’s displaced learners. This suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/

Right-wing ‘Review Boards’ in Missouri would pave way for arresting librarians over books deemed ‘inappropriate’ – Raw Story

The Missouri Library Association says it is monitoring a bill put forward in the state House by a Republican lawmaker, which, if passed, could create committees across the state with the power to jail librarians for distributing material the panels deem “inappropriate.” https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/right-wing-review-boards-in-missouri-would-pave-way-for-arresting-librarians-over-books-deemed-inappropriate/

CarPlay now works with audiobooks borrowed from your local library - 9to5Mac

Libby, a popular ebook and audiobook iOS app that works with 90% of public libraries in North America has been updated today with support for CarPlay. ....
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/15/carplay-free-audiobooks/