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7 Nov 2022
A school board immediately revokes access to a long list of books in response to a thinly-supported objection, usually from 1 person.
Board members don't:
❎ read the books
❎ follow policies
❎ say how long these removals will last
It's called book banning.
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
24 Sep 2025
"With humor and humility, Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves last night," writes @jonfreadom.
"Kimmel’s return was in many ways a victory for free speech and its advocates, including PEN America, who had fiercely coalesced against his suspension." pen.org/jimmy-kimmel-returns…
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26 Sep 2025
A victory for free speech. Now let's hope, as @JimmyKimmelLive called for, people also raise their voices for other free speech, academic freedom, press freedom cases. For the ppl that don't have the same prominence. Lord knows there are enough of 'em! nytimes.com/2025/09/26/busin…
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26 Sep 2025
In fact, I wrote about this very thing earlier this week for @PENamerica .
share.google/KIuWf5NYq2mgPeJ…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
29 May 2025
ARC condemns the Whitney Museum’s cancellation of No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom, a vital performance mourning Palestinian lives. This act of censorship echoes the troubling trends we documented with @MuseumDirectors & @PENamerica.🧵👇
artistsatriskconnection.org/…
#ArtisticFreedom
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
28 May 2025
“This policy risks upending the long-standing place of the U.S. as a beacon for intellectual and cultural exchange with the world,” said PEN America's @jonfreadom as Trump administration halts scheduling of new visa interviews for international students apnews.com/article/internati…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
22 May 2025
PEN America: AI-Generated Fake Book List Seems Funny, but Reflects the Technology’s Danger to Journalism pen.org/ai-generated-fake-bo…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
22 May 2025
Five major U.S.-based press freedom organizations — @pressfreedom @FreedomofPress @IWMF @PENAmerica and @rcfp — announced today the launch of a network to provide legal and safety resources and training to journalists and newsrooms in the United States.
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
22 May 2025
Revoking Harvard's right to enroll international students is "a brazen escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the higher education sector... (that) reduces international students to pawns in a political game," says PEN America's @jonfreadom. pen.org/press-release/trump-…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
6 May 2025
PEN America: Decision to Cancel Kehlani Concert at NYC’s Central Park is “Cowardly” and Suppresses “Artistic Expression” pen.org/press-release/decisi…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
5 May 2025
“What we’re seeing now is very dangerous,” said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman (@jonfreadom). “When you attach these punitive potential actions to these concepts, you can comb through anything a university is doing and find fault.” nytimes.com/2025/05/05/arts/…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
5 May 2025
The decision in Alabama may have been the first time a local public library was targeted for defunding by a state government, said @jonfreadom, who directs U.S. free expression programs at the nonprofit PEN America. nytimes.com/2025/05/04/us/fa…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
22 Apr 2025
In response to a public records request from the @TXFreedomRead Project, a school district in Texas has acknowledged it removed the entry for "Virginia" from its online learning platform for violating the school board’s new policy against "frontal nudity."
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
23 Apr 2025
PEN America announces A Pledge to Our Democracy – a powerful call-to-action endorsed by more than 100 former college and university presidents and chancellors representing all sectors of higher education: pen.org/press-release/over-1…
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23 Apr 2025
There's still an adult in the room in North Dakota. Republican Gov Armstrong did the reasonable thing-
vetoed a bill that would censor libraries, saying it was a "misguided attempt to legislate morality through overreach and censorship". More of this 🙏
apnews.com/article/north-dak…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
16 Apr 2025
New pod: PEN's @jonfreadom is brilliant on the larger stakes of Trump war on Harvard.
"It's a game changer. It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for."
Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/1940…
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Harvard’s pushback against the Trump administration "is a game changer," @jonfreadom tells @GregTSargent. "It says to every institution that is feeling like they have to capitulate that there is something greater that they have to stand for."
Listen:
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Jonathan Friedman 📚 retweeted
5 Apr 2025
4 Apr 2025
The book the Naval Academy just banned from its library was an honors thesis written by one of its students in political science
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5 Apr 2025
The US Naval Academy is banning books from its library, including about the Holocaust.
Books are not the enemy; ignorance is the enemy.
apnews.com/article/navy-dei-…
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5 Apr 2025
381 books banned from the Naval Academy. College level library. Banning books. All about race, racism, gender.
List published by @nytimes.
#11 is Our Time is Now by @staceyabrams. Many others worth noting here. Attn: @MacmillanUSA @PENamerica
nytimes.com/interactive/2025…
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