‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans (pen.org)

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Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

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[-] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nazis

Arm yourselves.

This doesn’t end without millions dead

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

we should get credited trump's mishandling of a pandemic tho

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

he's going to get us to relive the sum total experience of two world wars in one generation yaaaaaaaaay

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