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📷Now a leaked database shows how prominent leaders in these organizations, as well as the far-right legal group Alliance Defending Freedom and Sen. Tuberville’s office, strongly encouraged supporters to apply to be a part of Project 2025. 📷 https://t.co/TVr5RSCj5c
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“I heard about Project 2025 through my time interning in Senator Tuberville’s office,” wrote one applicant.
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📢We’ve shared before that Moms for Liberty, Eagle Forum, and Alabama Policy Institute are all official 2025 Coalition Partners. 📢
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2/2 Notice what is happening now that Ron Snider has voiced his concerns. Will he be the next to lose his seat for speaking up for integrity among the APLS board members, Alabama's libraries and the freedom to read? @ChairmanWahl @mintonfamily123 @GovernorKayIvey
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1/1 The last board member to question the troubling push for censorship due to the influence of extremist groups @moms4libertyAL and Clean Up Alabama was removed from the board at the very next meeting.
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The last board member to question the troubling push for censorship due to the influence of extremist groups @moms4libertyAL and @CleanUpAlabama was removed from the board at the very next meeting. 1/x
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Thank you @ACLUAlabama !
Organizations like @readfreelyal have worked hard to identify the books challenged in libraries across the state - and the trend is clear: opponents want to keep students from learning about our country and the diverse histories/people in them.
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Today we remember those who fought to hold the United States accountable to the ideals laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. Happy Fourth of July. #july4th2025
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@mintonfamily123 We find it unacceptable that extremists like Ms. Minton can weaponize APLS Executive Board against librarians and library boards who have their community’s best interests in mind.
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@mintonfamily123 It appears Minton and Moms For Liberty would prefer that teens, who would be considered by the state mature enough to give birth and be parents, are not considered mature enough to access basic sex education and biology materials.
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@mintonfamily123 We find it troubling that Ms. Minton is intent on keeping teens ignorant of factual information about sex and reproduction, including restricting education on how to protect themselves and how to make informed decisions.
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@mintonfamily123 Minton singles out a sex education book for teens titled “Doing It’, which gives frank and honest information to teens. The Fairhope Public Library Board found it to be age-appropriate for the young adult section.
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APLS Board Member and Moms For Liberty supporter @mintonfamily123, who challenged 30 inclusive books in her own local library, is demanding that the library move all fifteen of the targeted books despite the local board’s decision.
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Of the fifteen books, the Board made the decision to relocate 5 to the adult section, while the rest remain in the Young Adult section of the library. This shows how the review process for challenged books is meant to be conducted, but it seems the goalpost has been moved again.
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Last night, the Fairhope Public Library Board met to discuss their decision on the books challenged by local Moms for Liberty extremists that resulted in the library being stripped of its state funding. 1/x
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@mintonfamily123 @ChairmanWahl Read Freely Alabama encourages Alabama librarians to seek legal advice if any Alabama government official uses this case to justify removing books outside of a courtroom.
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@mintonfamily123 @ChairmanWahl In short, the decision is not binding for Alabama, nor does it support Clean Up Alabama and other anti-library extremists’ arguments for the Government Speech Doctrine.
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@mintonfamily123 @ChairmanWahl Just to note, this argument has been roundly rejected by every other judge in other cases across the nation, including the Eighth Circuit Court, when used as justification for removing and banning books.
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@mintonfamily123 @ChairmanWahl Seventeen judges make up the Fifth Circuit Court, and only seven agreed that the Government Speech Doctrine may be used to defend a library's viewpoint-based book removals.
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