247 Comments
User's avatar
Lucius's avatar

Petition to label Christianity as harmful to minors and make it a felony for anyone to expose children to obviously harmful Christian material.

Expand full comment
Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Dok. As I've said before, the library was my safe space throughout childhood and adolescence. Thus, this sickens me.

Expand full comment
Viole Falusche's avatar

Scott London = malicious prosecution. Lock him up.

Expand full comment
Dina's avatar

Oh, that's awful!

Expand full comment
Mitchell S. Gillett's avatar

Yeah, this was after the Library Director resigned after yard signs on "grooming", and a van with a placard parked across the street for a month. Wish it could have gotten state and national attention...

Expand full comment
Dina's avatar

These people are actually the most horrible pieces of garbage on the planet...

Expand full comment
Notreelyhelping's avatar

Dear Writers:

This is a really, really fantastic time to write really, really filthy books about Republicans. Go wild! You couldn’t buy publicity this good, and THEY’LL pay for it!

You’re welcome.

Yrs,

Notreelyhelping

Expand full comment
Viole Falusche's avatar

Any filthy book about Republicans would probably be too icky to get near!

Expand full comment
Wookiee Monster's avatar

Where is Scrotie McBoogerballs when you need him?

https://youtu.be/WdSYLXp8N7g?si=7kTKv26_A1cUr6fQ

Expand full comment
Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

If they can take control, they will make sure that you can't get any of those books legally. They will make it illegal to mail pornography and they'll label everything pornography. Amazon will be bummed.

Expand full comment
oscarphile's avatar

Vindication of the Rights of Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, Michelle Obama's Becoming, E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. Doddering old white men, plus Thomas, will decide what you read.

Expand full comment
PRW's avatar

'penguin lust' I, too, remember 20th century newspaper comics!

Expand full comment
GiggleSnort's avatar

Sorta on this topic: Texas sues Biden administration to limit teenage access to birth control https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/texas-teenage-birth-control-lawsuit.

Expand full comment
Glennis Waterman's avatar

How does Texas have standing?

Expand full comment
Linda's Bitter Disappointment's avatar

Can't wait to go back to work. Just can't wait.

Goddamn, I gotta rertire.

Expand full comment
Owlftr13's avatar

I'm from PA and I don't get this whole CS thing. Our sheriffs do security at the county courthouse and office buildings. They transport prisoners from jail to court, serve warrants and a few other duties. They don't even write tickets.

Expand full comment
Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Constitutional Sheriffs are basically SovCits with badges and guns.

Expand full comment
GiggleSnort's avatar

They are way nutso. Also now not uncommon.

Expand full comment
RRJKR's avatar

From PA as well I believe our sheriff system is a bit unique as they only serve as officers of the Courts. Actual Law enforcement and criminal investigation is left to PSP and the wide variety of local yokels we enjoy so much

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

Constitutional Sheriffs? Man, that's a bizarre kink. They'll be the first to tell you that their entire plank is that they outrank everyone, including, and especially, the POTUS, who is their subordinate...according to them.

Expand full comment
Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

Out west, Sheriffs are usually the only LEOs for rural areas. This is true in Lane County, Oregon, and even more true in far more rural Eastern Oregon.

Expand full comment
Biff52, Safe from TX floods's avatar

I'm in a geographically large county in California. The Sheriff's Office is by far the biggest law enforcement agency in the county, but the Highway Patrol muscles themselves in wherever they want to. Then there's the law enforcement officers of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Forest Service, US Parks Service and probation/parole agents, all of whom have the power to red-light and arrest your ass. We're entirely too well policed.

Expand full comment
RRJKR's avatar

Public libraries should strive to have as complete a collection as they can obtain, without question! Giving the government the ability to ban one book gives them the ability to ban ANY book. I can understand public school libraries imposing some "age appropriate" standards, but that's really nothing new.

Expand full comment
Linoleum von Curmudgeon, Esq.'s avatar

""He reported purchasing each of the 11 titles named in Lowery and Brown’s police report and, over the course of a few months in 2022, read them in their entirety...""

Bullshit. He may have bought the books. He may even have skimmed the books. But there is no way on Crom's blasted planet he has ever read any book in it's entirety not mention ELEVEN whole books.

Absolutely he is lying about this.

Expand full comment
Glennis Waterman's avatar

Well, there were probably some passages he read over and over and over and over again.

Expand full comment
Caepan's avatar

Imagine how sore his index finger must have gotten!

Expand full comment
meh's avatar

"Dang, it's chafed. Damn sick book!"

"Honey, you don't get chafed from a book...."

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

Yeah, I had been meaning to say that also. This fool proably hasn't read 11 books in his entire life to date, unless you count "reading the pictures", as if it were some common presidential briefing.

Expand full comment
Lefty Wright's avatar

I bet some of this censorship crap has had a Streisand effect, with more children and adults reading books on the banned list just to see what the controversy is. And concluding "what are they whining about?"

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

We're not too many years away from the new age in which all the spawn of the Moms For Liberty types join forces to form the fiercest (most fierce?) drag house ever.

Expand full comment
Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

I for one have no doubt this is what has happened.

Expand full comment
ReSister For Life Callyson's avatar

And:

Washoe County libraries cancel drag story hour due to 'aggressive protesters'

Stacey Spain, executive director of Our Center, said a protester reportedly injured a librarian at an event...her biggest concern was that kids would learn that “bullies always win”

Drag queen haters = thugs. Fuckers injured a librarian FFCS.

Hope the program restarts soon:

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/2024/07/25/washoe-county-libraries-cancel-drag-story-hour-over-workplace-safety-concerns/74546452007/?utm_source=pren-DailyBriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-briefing&utm_term=hero&utm_content=1011GJ-E-NLETTER65

Expand full comment
meh's avatar

And the police can't comment, huh.

Bet if the aggressive people were dark-hued and in Reno, the police would provide a lot more commentary.

Expand full comment
TerseNurse's avatar

I clicked 'like' on this because I fucking HATE this. Yes, the bullies win. Meanwhile the Republican Congressman/Shitkicker Sherriff/Evangelical Pastor continues to molest little kids and then fucking blame them for the abuse. Excuse me, I must go take a shower and/or an Ativan.

Expand full comment
UVB-76's avatar

Why not both?

Expand full comment
TerseNurse's avatar

On it!

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

Hey, share is fair.

Important to note that I mean the Ativan, not the shower.

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

Ah yes, the "self-described First Amendment Auditor". Note that the article doesn't mention an arrest or charges, even though the "auditor" tried to force his way in physically and injured a librarian.

Note also, that these "operations" are ususally carried out by Washoe County Republicans. Funny how that works.

Expand full comment
SkeptiKC's avatar

Those assholes with cameras are among THE lowest forms of life.

Expand full comment
Villago Delenda Est 🇺🇦's avatar

𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙄𝙩 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘿𝙤𝙬𝙣. 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙣 𝙄𝙩 𝘿𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙏𝙤 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙

Everybody have fun tonight! Everybody Wang Chung tonight!

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

OMG. You have read my mind. That damn thing was earworming for me right before you posted.

Expand full comment
RRJKR's avatar

Wang Chung lives!!

Expand full comment
TerseNurse's avatar

This is NOT the America I learned about in my nice suburban liberal lilly white elementary school back in the late '70s/early '80s, where we all sang 'This Land Is Your Land' (possibly with some lyric modifications/verses skipped?) and 'Free to Be You and Me'. Fucking Fuck, you Fucking Fuckers!

Expand full comment
ReSister For Life Callyson's avatar

God damn it...I was told we were making progress when I was a kid. I want that fucking America back!

Expand full comment
SkeptiKC's avatar

The thing is that we DID make a helluva lot of progress there for a while. And then the Moral Majority and a few other well-$$$ conservaturd organizations determined that simply would NOT do.

It's been an uphill battle in too many places ever since.

Expand full comment
Craig Nixon's avatar

Me too. We were bamboozled. Hoodwinked.

Expand full comment