Frank Strong
@frankstrong.bsky.social
Teacher. Publisher of the Book-Loving Texan’s Guides to School Board Elections. Co-founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project.
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I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I don't know how to get people to read this article, but I really think many more should.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Texas Book Festival was soul-satisfying. So great talking to so many people who care about literature and value the free expression of ideas. @txfreedomread.sky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Texas Book Festival was soul-satisfying. So great talking to so many people who care about literature and value the free expression of ideas. @txfreedomread.sky.social
We’re out here @texasbookfest.bsky.social talking to Texans who love books about how to fight back against the wave of censorship and book bans that is battering our state. Come see us! @txfreedomread.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We’re out here @texasbookfest.bsky.social talking to Texans who love books about how to fight back against the wave of censorship and book bans that is battering our state. Come see us! @txfreedomread.bsky.social
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Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
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Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.” More than a third of teens believe journalists could improve by simply “Telling the truth,” “Fact checking,” and “Not lying.” buff.ly/7vgO0ci
“Biased,” “Boring,” “Chaotic,” and “Bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.
For years I’ve joked that if they’re going to ban dirty books from schools, they should start with The Canterbury Tales, because it is filthy with a capital F.
I’ll be damned if North East ISD in San Antonio didn’t go off and do it.
I’ll be damned if North East ISD in San Antonio didn’t go off and do it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 AM
For years I’ve joked that if they’re going to ban dirty books from schools, they should start with The Canterbury Tales, because it is filthy with a capital F.
I’ll be damned if North East ISD in San Antonio didn’t go off and do it.
I’ll be damned if North East ISD in San Antonio didn’t go off and do it.
I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!
This weekend, the Texas Book Festival, which will gather some 250 authors in a bibliophilic tent city out front of the state Capitol, ironically the launching pad of myriad political attacks on supposedly intolerable tomes and sinful librarians.
Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder
At the 2025 Texas Book Festival, authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction.
www.texasobserver.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I’ll be out there with @txfreedomread.bsky.social and @authorsabb.bsky.social raising awareness of those political attacks on books and recruiting book lovers to help fight back. Come see us!
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
Early results for Texas school board elections are starting to come in! Good start in Granbury ISD, where Christian Nationalist extremist Monica Brown is down 56-44! The rest of her slate is down early, too. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
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Princeton ISD numbers are finally coming in! Good news: Sonia Ledezma is in 1st, w/ a solid lead. Bad news: 2 book-banning incumbents behind her. Top 2 vote-getters win seats. Would love for both incumbents to lose their seats, but one is still an improvement.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Princeton ISD numbers are finally coming in! Good news: Sonia Ledezma is in 1st, w/ a solid lead. Bad news: 2 book-banning incumbents behind her. Top 2 vote-getters win seats. Would love for both incumbents to lose their seats, but one is still an improvement.
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An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
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Friends in Cy-Fair ISD are ecstatic. I cannot emphasize enough what an earthquake these results will be. This flips control of the board in a district, where books been banned, LGBTQ students maligned, & whole chapters of textbooks dealing w/ climate change & vaccines electronically censored. HUGE.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Friends in Cy-Fair ISD are ecstatic. I cannot emphasize enough what an earthquake these results will be. This flips control of the board in a district, where books been banned, LGBTQ students maligned, & whole chapters of textbooks dealing w/ climate change & vaccines electronically censored. HUGE.
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Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!
Early results for Texas school board elections are starting to come in! Good start in Granbury ISD, where Christian Nationalist extremist Monica Brown is down 56-44! The rest of her slate is down early, too. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Early results for Texas school board elections are starting to come in! Good start in Granbury ISD, where Christian Nationalist extremist Monica Brown is down 56-44! The rest of her slate is down early, too. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...
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Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
The Normalization of Book Banning
This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
pen.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.
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He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
He's right. Here's a guide for voting in today's school board elections in Texas: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Gee. If only someone had predicted this.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Gee. If only someone had predicted this.
This is accurate
the right wing wants to ban particular books and the technocrats want to ban…books in general?
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
This is accurate
Gee. If only someone had predicted this.
November 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Gee. If only someone had predicted this.
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If you're in Texas, do not miss @frankstrong.bsky.social's outstanding guide to some of the biggest and most consequential school board elections: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-book-l...
The Book-Loving Texan's Guide to the November School Board Election is HERE
(October's most anticipated release, with the possible exception of The Life of a Showgirl)
franklinstrong.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you're in Texas, do not miss @frankstrong.bsky.social's outstanding guide to some of the biggest and most consequential school board elections: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/the-book-l...
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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
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In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.
In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.
TikTok video by frankstrong3
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October 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.
Yep.
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Yep.