ALGOP chair Wahl says adults must protect children from ‘disturbing material’ in libraries — ‘Let’s get one thing straight, we are not talking about banning anything’ | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
FAIRHOPE — The day after the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) voted on a measure concerning inappropriate books in children and teen sections of libraries, board member John Wahl spoke in Fairhope about what he heard. Wahl, who also serves as the Alabama Republican Party chairman, spoke at the Eastern Shore Republican Women’s luncheon at […]
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Judge blocks Arkansas law that would allow librarians to be charged for loaning “obscene” books to minors
Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” or “obscene” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library […]
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U.S. Sen Amy Klobuchar to publish new memoir, “The Joy of Politics” | #alaska | #politics
Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is publishing another memoir. Driving the news: “The Joy of Politics: Surviving Cancer, a Campaign, a Pandemic, an Insurrection, and Life’s Other Unexpected Curveballs” will be released next May. Expect a “candid, honest, and at times bitingly funny” read with “insider stories” from the historic events of the last few […]
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Past is prologue in two new books that explore the Trump era | WFAE 90.7 | #alaska | #politics
Maggie Haberman’s biography “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America” has been among the most anticipated accounts of the 45th president’s impact on American politics. Robert Draper’s new book on the post-Trump state of Republican politics, “Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind,” has not had […]
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New Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown surveys the ‘realm’ in a helicopter before scrutinising the council books today
Sensitive files posted to the dark web, Auckland’s new mayor gets to work and police on the scene in Wattle Downs in the latest NZ Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald New Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has arrived at council headquarters and met the chief executive ahead of a financial briefing this morning. Brown arrived […]
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Valley News – Art Notes: Satirist Andy Borowitz sets sights on politics’ cult of ignorant personality | #alaska | #politics
During the second half of the Trump years, Andy Borowitz went on a comedy tour called “Make America Not Embarrassing Again.” If this sounds like a partisan enterprise, it kind of was. In his act, Borowitz, the celebrated name behind the satirical Borowitz Report, riffed on how Sarah Palin’s slipshod candidacy for vice president in […]
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Mark Leibovich Plumbs the Depths of the GOP’s Cultish, Cartoonish Devotion to Trump | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
I wrapped up my interview with Mark Leibovich with the requisite kicker asking if there was anything else he wanted to add about Thank You for Your Servitude, Leibovich’s new page-turner charting the “moral rout” of the modern Republican Party. “What’s been encouraging about the book is the people who have read it so far […]
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