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  1. Tavares, The Best of Tavares, 1977 on Capitol

    Wonderful collection of disco/soul/funk from the mid-seventies, including their biggest hits "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "It Only Takes a Minute." They ended up on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, doing "More Than A Woman." But even if you don't like disco, they are well worth checking out. They were from New Bedford MA / Providence Rhode Island, and Bernie Worrell briefly joined Tavares in 1968 while he was at the New England Conservatory of Music. My copy—via Bull Moose […]

    goatless.org/2026/05/24/tavare

  2. Tavares, The Best of Tavares, 1977 on Capitol

    Wonderful collection of disco/soul/funk from the mid-seventies, including their biggest hits "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "It Only Takes a Minute." They ended up on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, doing "More Than A Woman." But even if you don't like disco, they are well worth checking out. They were from New Bedford MA / Providence Rhode Island, and Bernie Worrell briefly joined Tavares in 1968 while he was at the New England Conservatory of Music. My copy—via Bull Moose […]

    goatless.org/2026/05/24/tavare

  3. Tavares, The Best of Tavares, 1977 on Capitol

    Wonderful collection of disco/soul/funk from the mid-seventies, including their biggest hits "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "It Only Takes a Minute." They ended up on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, doing "More Than A Woman." But even if you don't like disco, they are well worth checking out. They were from New Bedford MA / Providence Rhode Island, and Bernie Worrell briefly joined Tavares in 1968 while he was at the New England Conservatory of Music. My copy—via Bull Moose […]

    goatless.org/2026/05/24/tavare

  4. Tavares, The Best of Tavares, 1977 on Capitol

    Wonderful collection of disco/soul/funk from the mid-seventies, including their biggest hits "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "It Only Takes a Minute." They ended up on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, doing "More Than A Woman." But even if you don't like disco, they are well worth checking out. They were from New Bedford MA / Providence Rhode Island, and Bernie Worrell briefly joined Tavares in 1968 while he was at the New England Conservatory of Music. My copy—via Bull Moose […]

    goatless.org/2026/05/24/tavare

  5. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m. "The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its #website #news #releases about #criminal #cases related to the 6 January 2021 #Capitol #attack, calling the information about the #prosecutions 'partisan propaganda'. The purge... is the latest step by the #Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the #assault on the US Capitol... [& the] effort to halt the congressional certification of... 2020 #election [of]... #Democrat #JoeBiden."

  6. He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.

    But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.

    This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.

    He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.

    Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #USpol #trump #IAmDB

  7. He's going to pay his out of his new using .

    But he's not paying them for the storming of the back in 2021.

    This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November *this* year.

    He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.

    Top resigns as Trump, settlement announced
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

  8. He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.

    But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.

    This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.

    He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.

    Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #USpol #trump #IAmDB

  9. He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.

    But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.

    This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.

    He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.

    Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #USpol #trump #IAmDB

  10. He's going to pay his #maga #insurrectionists out of his new #AntiWeaponizationFund using #taxpayer #money.

    But he's not paying them for the #Jan6 storming of the #US #Capitol back in 2021.

    This is the down payment for storming the Capitol immediately after the November #Midterm #Elections *this* year.

    He's paying people to come back and finish the job they started five years ago.

    Top #Treasury #lawyer resigns as Trump, #IRS settlement announced
    thehill.com/homenews/administr

    #USpol #trump #IAmDB

  11. Die Hunger Games: eine Dystopie?

    2/2

    Panem heißt das Land, es ist der Rest der USA nach einem brutal niedergeschlagenen Aufstand.

    Die zwölf Distrikte müssen jährlich nach Losverfahren einen Jungen und ein Mädchen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren in die Hunger-Games-Arena bringen lassen, wo sie auf Leben und Tod kämpfen müssen, bis ein.e »Sieger.in« übrigbleibt.

    Panem wirkt wie ein vereinfachtes, aufs Wesentliche reduziertes Modell der Erde unter dem todbringenden Kapitalismus. Es ist eine Dystopie – über die Gegenwart.

    #HungerGames #DystopieGegenwart #DystopiaPresentTime #TributeVonPanem #Capitalism #Capitol #Capital #Überwachung #Surveillance #Ausbeutung #Exploitation #ChildSacrifice #Kinderopfer #War #Krieg

  12. Die Hunger Games: eine Dystopie?

    2/2

    Panem heißt das Land, es ist der Rest der USA nach einem brutal niedergeschlagenen Aufstand.

    Die zwölf Distrikte müssen jährlich nach Losverfahren einen Jungen und ein Mädchen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren in die Hunger-Games-Arena bringen lassen, wo sie auf Leben und Tod kämpfen müssen, bis ein.e »Sieger.in« übrigbleibt.

    Panem wirkt wie ein vereinfachtes, aufs Wesentliche reduziertes Modell der Erde unter dem todbringenden Kapitalismus. Es ist eine Dystopie – über die Gegenwart.

    #HungerGames #DystopieGegenwart #DystopiaPresentTime #TributeVonPanem #Capitalism #Capitol #Capital #Überwachung #Surveillance #Ausbeutung #Exploitation #ChildSacrifice #Kinderopfer #War #Krieg

  13. Die Hunger Games: eine Dystopie?

    2/2

    Panem heißt das Land, es ist der Rest der USA nach einem brutal niedergeschlagenen Aufstand.

    Die zwölf Distrikte müssen jährlich nach Losverfahren einen Jungen und ein Mädchen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren in die Hunger-Games-Arena bringen lassen, wo sie auf Leben und Tod kämpfen müssen, bis ein.e »Sieger.in« übrigbleibt.

    Panem wirkt wie ein vereinfachtes, aufs Wesentliche reduziertes Modell der Erde unter dem todbringenden Kapitalismus. Es ist eine Dystopie – über die Gegenwart.

    #HungerGames #DystopieGegenwart #DystopiaPresentTime #TributeVonPanem #Capitalism #Capitol #Capital #Überwachung #Surveillance #Ausbeutung #Exploitation #ChildSacrifice #Kinderopfer #War #Krieg

  14. Die Hunger Games: eine Dystopie?

    2/2

    Panem heißt das Land, es ist der Rest der USA nach einem brutal niedergeschlagenen Aufstand.

    Die zwölf Distrikte müssen jährlich nach Losverfahren einen Jungen und ein Mädchen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren in die Hunger-Games-Arena bringen lassen, wo sie auf Leben und Tod kämpfen müssen, bis ein.e »Sieger.in« übrigbleibt.

    Panem wirkt wie ein vereinfachtes, aufs Wesentliche reduziertes Modell der Erde unter dem todbringenden Kapitalismus. Es ist eine Dystopie – über die Gegenwart.

    #HungerGames #DystopieGegenwart #DystopiaPresentTime #TributeVonPanem #Capitalism #Capitol #Capital #Überwachung #Surveillance #Ausbeutung #Exploitation #ChildSacrifice #Kinderopfer #War #Krieg

  15. Die Hunger Games: eine Dystopie?

    2/2

    Panem heißt das Land, es ist der Rest der USA nach einem brutal niedergeschlagenen Aufstand.

    Die zwölf Distrikte müssen jährlich nach Losverfahren einen Jungen und ein Mädchen zwischen 12 und 18 Jahren in die Hunger-Games-Arena bringen lassen, wo sie auf Leben und Tod kämpfen müssen, bis ein.e »Sieger.in« übrigbleibt.

    Panem wirkt wie ein vereinfachtes, aufs Wesentliche reduziertes Modell der Erde unter dem todbringenden Kapitalismus. Es ist eine Dystopie – über die Gegenwart.

    #HungerGames #DystopieGegenwart #DystopiaPresentTime #TributeVonPanem #Capitalism #Capitol #Capital #Überwachung #Surveillance #Ausbeutung #Exploitation #ChildSacrifice #Kinderopfer #War #Krieg

  16. #CAPITOL #CENTRAL www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... Semantic SEO: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): aepiot.ro

    Perplexity

  17. #CAPITOL #CENTRAL www.perplexity.ai/search/new?q... Semantic SEO: The Bridge between Humans and Artificial Intelligence. AÉPIOT: INDEPENDENT SEMANTIC WEB 4.0 INFRASTRUCTURE (EST. 2009): aepiot.ro

    Perplexity

  18. Although it happened this past January, #QAnon Shaman, #JacobChansley has quit the #MAGA cult over his frustration regarding the EPSTEIN FILES not being released. Chansley spent approximately 27 months in federal custody (including time in jail and prison) after the #January6th, 2021, #Capitol riot

  19. Although it happened this past January, #QAnon Shaman, #JacobChansley has quit the #MAGA cult over his frustration regarding the EPSTEIN FILES not being released. Chansley spent approximately 27 months in federal custody (including time in jail and prison) after the #January6th, 2021, #Capitol riot

  20. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  21. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  22. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  23. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  24. Around 120 U.S. military veterans from About Face: Veterans Against the War staged a protest inside the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C., opposing the war in Iran. The demonstration included a flag-folding ceremony and banner display, with some participants expecting arrest. The protest reflects growing anti-war sentiment among veterans.
    #Veterans #Protest #handcuffed #capitol

  25. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  26. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  27. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  28. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  29. US-Justizministerium will Rechtsextreme freisprechen lassen!

    Im Zuge des von Donald Trump initiierten Sturms auf das Capitol 2021, wurden zahlreiche Rechtsextreme der Gruppierungen Proud Boys und Oath Keepers strafrechtlich verurteilt.

    US-Präsiden Trump hatte sie nach Amtsantritt 2025 begnadigt- aber damit gelten sie weiterhin als „verurteilt“. Nun fordert das Justizministerium in Berufungsanträgen die Aufhebung der Verurteilungen, das dies „in the interests of justice“, d.h. im Interesse der Gerechtigkeit, sei.

    Während also alles was nach Antifaschismus, nach Links oder auch Queer aussieht verfolgt, verleumdet, beschimpft oder gar als Terrorismus verfolgt wird, werden Rechtsextreme von der US-Regierung erst begnadigt und dann hofiert.

    Bericht aus „The Guardian“
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Berufungsantrag als PDF:
    storage.courtlistener.com/reca

    #uspol #usgov #trump #oath #oathkeepers #proud #proudboys #uspresident #potus #rightwing #rechtsextrem #rechtsextremismus #antifa #antifaschismus #doj #usdoj #deutschland #mittwoch #theguardian #capitol #conspiracy #siege #queer #antifacsist

  30. Sfântul Iustin Popovici: Citind Biblia, tu aduci drojdie la plămada sufletului și a trupului tău, care treptat crește și umple sufletul Lucrul cel mai de seamă este acela de a citi Biblia, cât mai mult cu putință. Atunci când mintea nu înțelege, inima va simți; iar dacă nici mintea nu înțelege și nici inima nu are simțire, citește-o din nou 👉 c.aparatorul.md/86r4j 👈 #îndatorire #Biblia #Biblie #capitol #citire #credinţă #CuvinteDuhovniceşti #dojană #drago...
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  31. The Canon for Sale: How Congress Handed Literature to a Homeschool Company

    On March 17, 2026, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed H.R. 7661, a bill that would strip federal education funding from any public school whose libraries contain “sexually oriented material.” The bill’s formal title is the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” and it was introduced by Representative Mary Miller of Illinois on February 24, 2026, days after the State of the Union address. Eighteen Republican cosponsors signed on. No Democratic members supported the bill. The legislation now awaits a vote on the full House floor.

    The mechanism is familiar. For nearly six years, state legislatures across the country have been passing laws that pull books from school shelves, fire librarians, and defund collections that contain material certain political actors find objectionable. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Iowa have led this effort, and the American Library Association counted 821 separate censorship attempts targeting 2,452 individual titles in calendar year 2024 alone. What H.R. 7661 does is federalize that local machinery. It amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary pipeline for federal aid to disadvantaged students and Title I schools, and conditions that funding on compliance with a vague, sweeping content prohibition.

    The word “oriented” in the bill does particular work. The sponsors chose “sexually oriented material” rather than “sexually explicit material,” and the distinction matters. “Explicit” has a legal history. It has been tested in courts, defined by statutes, and bounded by precedent. “Oriented” has no such grounding. It is a word that expands rather than constrains, and the bill exploits that expansion by including within its definition any material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” A book that mentions the existence of a transgender character, without depicting a single sexual act, falls within the bill’s scope. Health textbooks discussing puberty could fall within it. Biographies of trans public figures could fall within it. The vagueness is the point of the legislation.

    Here is where the bill does something that deserves more attention than it has received. H.R. 7661 includes a carve-out for “classic” works of art and literature. On its face, this seems like a reasonable safeguard. No one wants Michelangelo’s David removed from an art history curriculum. The bill appears to acknowledge that some works containing nudity or mature themes belong in schools. What matters is who decides what qualifies as “classic.”

    The bill answers that question by hard-coding references to two specific articles published on Compass Classroom, a commercial Christian homeschool curriculum company. The articles are “Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read” by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and “Classics Every High Schooler Should Read” by Mary Pierson Purifoy. The Purifoys founded Compass Classroom. Their company describes its mission as teaching “a Biblical worldview and critical thinking skills.” Its history courses apply “a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs throughout history.” Its catalog includes a course called “Is Genesis History?” and another built around Francis Schaeffer’s reformed theological framework. The company operates as a sectarian enterprise selling a theological product to a specific religious market.

    A federal bill has outsourced the definition of acceptable American literature to a company that sells Bible-based homeschool videos for $39 a month.

    Consider what that means in practice. Books on the Compass Classroom lists receive protection. Everything else receives none, and could cost a school district its federal funding. The entire weight of the American literary tradition, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Sandra Cisneros to Jhumpa Lahiri, is filtered through the theological preferences of a Tennessee homeschool company. The lists become the canon, and the canon becomes the law.

    This is the privatization of public literary authority. It is also the sectarianization of it. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exists precisely to prevent the federal government from privileging one religious viewpoint over others in the administration of public institutions. When Congress defines “classic literature” by reference to a company whose stated purpose is teaching a “Biblical worldview,” Congress has made a theological judgment about which stories are acceptable in American schools. That is an establishment of religion dressed in the language of child protection.

    The bill’s supporters will argue that the lists are merely illustrative, that schools can still teach other works, that the carve-out protects educational freedom. The argument collapses under the weight of the funding mechanism. Schools do not have the luxury of testing whether their collections comply with a vague federal standard. Administrators will do what administrators always do when funding is threatened: they will remove anything that might trigger a challenge. The chilling effect is the policy. Fear is the mechanism by which censorship operates without needing a single book to be formally banned.

    National Library Week begins on April 19, 2026. The ALA’s honorary chair this year is Mychal Threets, the librarian and author who now hosts “Reading Rainbow.” The irony requires no commentary. A country celebrating its libraries while its Congress advances legislation that would gut them is a country in active contradiction with itself.

    Some legal analysts, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have argued that H.R. 7661 is more campaign performance than viable legislation, a bill designed to generate headlines for its sponsors’ constituents rather than to survive judicial scrutiny. That assessment may be correct on the merits. The bill’s definition of “sexually oriented material” would face serious First Amendment challenges, and its Establishment Clause vulnerabilities are obvious. The danger of dismissing H.R. 7661 as political theater, however, is that political theater has a way of becoming law when no one is watching. State-level book bans followed the same trajectory: first a handful of performative bills in 2021, then coordinated legislative campaigns across twenty states by 2024. The precedent the bill sets matters even if the bill itself dies. It normalizes the idea that Congress can define acceptable literature by reference to a private, religious reading list.

    The deeper issue here extends beyond any single bill. H.R. 7661 is one expression of a broader pattern in which public institutions are hollowed out and their functions transferred to private, ideological actors. Public schools lose funding. Private alternatives gain market share. The definitions of knowledge, history, and literature are handed to commercial entities with theological commitments that a diverse democratic public does not share. This is how democratic infrastructure erodes: disassembled piece by piece, contract by contract, carve-out by carve-out, reading list by reading list.

    Authors, publishers, librarians, and citizens who care about the survival of a pluralistic literary culture need to understand what is happening in H.R. 7661. The bill reaches far past the removal of a handful of controversial titles from school libraries. It determines who gets to define what literature is, and the answer this bill provides is: a company in Tennessee that sells Bible-based curriculum to homeschooling families. If that answer becomes federal law, the consequences will be measured in decades and in the silences where stories used to be.

    The ALA urges citizens to call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask their representatives to oppose H.R. 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act (H.R. 6440 / S. 3365), which would fund well-resourced and well-staffed school libraries rather than threatening them.

    #art #books #canon #capitol #censorship #classics #congress #federal #homeschool #library #libraryWeek #literature #middleSchool #profit #reading #school #usa
  32. The Canon for Sale: How Congress Handed Literature to a Homeschool Company

    On March 17, 2026, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed H.R. 7661, a bill that would strip federal education funding from any public school whose libraries contain “sexually oriented material.” The bill’s formal title is the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” and it was introduced by Representative Mary Miller of Illinois on February 24, 2026, days after the State of the Union address. Eighteen Republican cosponsors signed on. No Democratic members supported the bill. The legislation now awaits a vote on the full House floor.

    The mechanism is familiar. For nearly six years, state legislatures across the country have been passing laws that pull books from school shelves, fire librarians, and defund collections that contain material certain political actors find objectionable. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Iowa have led this effort, and the American Library Association counted 821 separate censorship attempts targeting 2,452 individual titles in calendar year 2024 alone. What H.R. 7661 does is federalize that local machinery. It amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary pipeline for federal aid to disadvantaged students and Title I schools, and conditions that funding on compliance with a vague, sweeping content prohibition.

    The word “oriented” in the bill does particular work. The sponsors chose “sexually oriented material” rather than “sexually explicit material,” and the distinction matters. “Explicit” has a legal history. It has been tested in courts, defined by statutes, and bounded by precedent. “Oriented” has no such grounding. It is a word that expands rather than constrains, and the bill exploits that expansion by including within its definition any material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” A book that mentions the existence of a transgender character, without depicting a single sexual act, falls within the bill’s scope. Health textbooks discussing puberty could fall within it. Biographies of trans public figures could fall within it. The vagueness is the point of the legislation.

    Here is where the bill does something that deserves more attention than it has received. H.R. 7661 includes a carve-out for “classic” works of art and literature. On its face, this seems like a reasonable safeguard. No one wants Michelangelo’s David removed from an art history curriculum. The bill appears to acknowledge that some works containing nudity or mature themes belong in schools. What matters is who decides what qualifies as “classic.”

    The bill answers that question by hard-coding references to two specific articles published on Compass Classroom, a commercial Christian homeschool curriculum company. The articles are “Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read” by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and “Classics Every High Schooler Should Read” by Mary Pierson Purifoy. The Purifoys founded Compass Classroom. Their company describes its mission as teaching “a Biblical worldview and critical thinking skills.” Its history courses apply “a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs throughout history.” Its catalog includes a course called “Is Genesis History?” and another built around Francis Schaeffer’s reformed theological framework. The company operates as a sectarian enterprise selling a theological product to a specific religious market.

    A federal bill has outsourced the definition of acceptable American literature to a company that sells Bible-based homeschool videos for $39 a month.

    Consider what that means in practice. Books on the Compass Classroom lists receive protection. Everything else receives none, and could cost a school district its federal funding. The entire weight of the American literary tradition, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Sandra Cisneros to Jhumpa Lahiri, is filtered through the theological preferences of a Tennessee homeschool company. The lists become the canon, and the canon becomes the law.

    This is the privatization of public literary authority. It is also the sectarianization of it. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exists precisely to prevent the federal government from privileging one religious viewpoint over others in the administration of public institutions. When Congress defines “classic literature” by reference to a company whose stated purpose is teaching a “Biblical worldview,” Congress has made a theological judgment about which stories are acceptable in American schools. That is an establishment of religion dressed in the language of child protection.

    The bill’s supporters will argue that the lists are merely illustrative, that schools can still teach other works, that the carve-out protects educational freedom. The argument collapses under the weight of the funding mechanism. Schools do not have the luxury of testing whether their collections comply with a vague federal standard. Administrators will do what administrators always do when funding is threatened: they will remove anything that might trigger a challenge. The chilling effect is the policy. Fear is the mechanism by which censorship operates without needing a single book to be formally banned.

    National Library Week begins on April 19, 2026. The ALA’s honorary chair this year is Mychal Threets, the librarian and author who now hosts “Reading Rainbow.” The irony requires no commentary. A country celebrating its libraries while its Congress advances legislation that would gut them is a country in active contradiction with itself.

    Some legal analysts, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have argued that H.R. 7661 is more campaign performance than viable legislation, a bill designed to generate headlines for its sponsors’ constituents rather than to survive judicial scrutiny. That assessment may be correct on the merits. The bill’s definition of “sexually oriented material” would face serious First Amendment challenges, and its Establishment Clause vulnerabilities are obvious. The danger of dismissing H.R. 7661 as political theater, however, is that political theater has a way of becoming law when no one is watching. State-level book bans followed the same trajectory: first a handful of performative bills in 2021, then coordinated legislative campaigns across twenty states by 2024. The precedent the bill sets matters even if the bill itself dies. It normalizes the idea that Congress can define acceptable literature by reference to a private, religious reading list.

    The deeper issue here extends beyond any single bill. H.R. 7661 is one expression of a broader pattern in which public institutions are hollowed out and their functions transferred to private, ideological actors. Public schools lose funding. Private alternatives gain market share. The definitions of knowledge, history, and literature are handed to commercial entities with theological commitments that a diverse democratic public does not share. This is how democratic infrastructure erodes: disassembled piece by piece, contract by contract, carve-out by carve-out, reading list by reading list.

    Authors, publishers, librarians, and citizens who care about the survival of a pluralistic literary culture need to understand what is happening in H.R. 7661. The bill reaches far past the removal of a handful of controversial titles from school libraries. It determines who gets to define what literature is, and the answer this bill provides is: a company in Tennessee that sells Bible-based curriculum to homeschooling families. If that answer becomes federal law, the consequences will be measured in decades and in the silences where stories used to be.

    The ALA urges citizens to call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask their representatives to oppose H.R. 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act (H.R. 6440 / S. 3365), which would fund well-resourced and well-staffed school libraries rather than threatening them.

    #art #books #canon #capitol #censorship #classics #congress #federal #homeschool #library #libraryWeek #literature #middleSchool #profit #reading #school #usa
  33. The Canon for Sale: How Congress Handed Literature to a Homeschool Company

    On March 17, 2026, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed H.R. 7661, a bill that would strip federal education funding from any public school whose libraries contain “sexually oriented material.” The bill’s formal title is the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” and it was introduced by Representative Mary Miller of Illinois on February 24, 2026, days after the State of the Union address. Eighteen Republican cosponsors signed on. No Democratic members supported the bill. The legislation now awaits a vote on the full House floor.

    The mechanism is familiar. For nearly six years, state legislatures across the country have been passing laws that pull books from school shelves, fire librarians, and defund collections that contain material certain political actors find objectionable. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Iowa have led this effort, and the American Library Association counted 821 separate censorship attempts targeting 2,452 individual titles in calendar year 2024 alone. What H.R. 7661 does is federalize that local machinery. It amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary pipeline for federal aid to disadvantaged students and Title I schools, and conditions that funding on compliance with a vague, sweeping content prohibition.

    The word “oriented” in the bill does particular work. The sponsors chose “sexually oriented material” rather than “sexually explicit material,” and the distinction matters. “Explicit” has a legal history. It has been tested in courts, defined by statutes, and bounded by precedent. “Oriented” has no such grounding. It is a word that expands rather than constrains, and the bill exploits that expansion by including within its definition any material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” A book that mentions the existence of a transgender character, without depicting a single sexual act, falls within the bill’s scope. Health textbooks discussing puberty could fall within it. Biographies of trans public figures could fall within it. The vagueness is the point of the legislation.

    Here is where the bill does something that deserves more attention than it has received. H.R. 7661 includes a carve-out for “classic” works of art and literature. On its face, this seems like a reasonable safeguard. No one wants Michelangelo’s David removed from an art history curriculum. The bill appears to acknowledge that some works containing nudity or mature themes belong in schools. What matters is who decides what qualifies as “classic.”

    The bill answers that question by hard-coding references to two specific articles published on Compass Classroom, a commercial Christian homeschool curriculum company. The articles are “Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read” by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and “Classics Every High Schooler Should Read” by Mary Pierson Purifoy. The Purifoys founded Compass Classroom. Their company describes its mission as teaching “a Biblical worldview and critical thinking skills.” Its history courses apply “a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs throughout history.” Its catalog includes a course called “Is Genesis History?” and another built around Francis Schaeffer’s reformed theological framework. The company operates as a sectarian enterprise selling a theological product to a specific religious market.

    A federal bill has outsourced the definition of acceptable American literature to a company that sells Bible-based homeschool videos for $39 a month.

    Consider what that means in practice. Books on the Compass Classroom lists receive protection. Everything else receives none, and could cost a school district its federal funding. The entire weight of the American literary tradition, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Sandra Cisneros to Jhumpa Lahiri, is filtered through the theological preferences of a Tennessee homeschool company. The lists become the canon, and the canon becomes the law.

    This is the privatization of public literary authority. It is also the sectarianization of it. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exists precisely to prevent the federal government from privileging one religious viewpoint over others in the administration of public institutions. When Congress defines “classic literature” by reference to a company whose stated purpose is teaching a “Biblical worldview,” Congress has made a theological judgment about which stories are acceptable in American schools. That is an establishment of religion dressed in the language of child protection.

    The bill’s supporters will argue that the lists are merely illustrative, that schools can still teach other works, that the carve-out protects educational freedom. The argument collapses under the weight of the funding mechanism. Schools do not have the luxury of testing whether their collections comply with a vague federal standard. Administrators will do what administrators always do when funding is threatened: they will remove anything that might trigger a challenge. The chilling effect is the policy. Fear is the mechanism by which censorship operates without needing a single book to be formally banned.

    National Library Week begins on April 19, 2026. The ALA’s honorary chair this year is Mychal Threets, the librarian and author who now hosts “Reading Rainbow.” The irony requires no commentary. A country celebrating its libraries while its Congress advances legislation that would gut them is a country in active contradiction with itself.

    Some legal analysts, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have argued that H.R. 7661 is more campaign performance than viable legislation, a bill designed to generate headlines for its sponsors’ constituents rather than to survive judicial scrutiny. That assessment may be correct on the merits. The bill’s definition of “sexually oriented material” would face serious First Amendment challenges, and its Establishment Clause vulnerabilities are obvious. The danger of dismissing H.R. 7661 as political theater, however, is that political theater has a way of becoming law when no one is watching. State-level book bans followed the same trajectory: first a handful of performative bills in 2021, then coordinated legislative campaigns across twenty states by 2024. The precedent the bill sets matters even if the bill itself dies. It normalizes the idea that Congress can define acceptable literature by reference to a private, religious reading list.

    The deeper issue here extends beyond any single bill. H.R. 7661 is one expression of a broader pattern in which public institutions are hollowed out and their functions transferred to private, ideological actors. Public schools lose funding. Private alternatives gain market share. The definitions of knowledge, history, and literature are handed to commercial entities with theological commitments that a diverse democratic public does not share. This is how democratic infrastructure erodes: disassembled piece by piece, contract by contract, carve-out by carve-out, reading list by reading list.

    Authors, publishers, librarians, and citizens who care about the survival of a pluralistic literary culture need to understand what is happening in H.R. 7661. The bill reaches far past the removal of a handful of controversial titles from school libraries. It determines who gets to define what literature is, and the answer this bill provides is: a company in Tennessee that sells Bible-based curriculum to homeschooling families. If that answer becomes federal law, the consequences will be measured in decades and in the silences where stories used to be.

    The ALA urges citizens to call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask their representatives to oppose H.R. 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act (H.R. 6440 / S. 3365), which would fund well-resourced and well-staffed school libraries rather than threatening them.

    #art #books #canon #capitol #censorship #classics #congress #federal #homeschool #library #libraryWeek #literature #middleSchool #profit #reading #school #usa
  34. The Canon for Sale: How Congress Handed Literature to a Homeschool Company

    On March 17, 2026, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed H.R. 7661, a bill that would strip federal education funding from any public school whose libraries contain “sexually oriented material.” The bill’s formal title is the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act,” and it was introduced by Representative Mary Miller of Illinois on February 24, 2026, days after the State of the Union address. Eighteen Republican cosponsors signed on. No Democratic members supported the bill. The legislation now awaits a vote on the full House floor.

    The mechanism is familiar. For nearly six years, state legislatures across the country have been passing laws that pull books from school shelves, fire librarians, and defund collections that contain material certain political actors find objectionable. Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Utah, and Iowa have led this effort, and the American Library Association counted 821 separate censorship attempts targeting 2,452 individual titles in calendar year 2024 alone. What H.R. 7661 does is federalize that local machinery. It amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary pipeline for federal aid to disadvantaged students and Title I schools, and conditions that funding on compliance with a vague, sweeping content prohibition.

    The word “oriented” in the bill does particular work. The sponsors chose “sexually oriented material” rather than “sexually explicit material,” and the distinction matters. “Explicit” has a legal history. It has been tested in courts, defined by statutes, and bounded by precedent. “Oriented” has no such grounding. It is a word that expands rather than constrains, and the bill exploits that expansion by including within its definition any material that “involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” A book that mentions the existence of a transgender character, without depicting a single sexual act, falls within the bill’s scope. Health textbooks discussing puberty could fall within it. Biographies of trans public figures could fall within it. The vagueness is the point of the legislation.

    Here is where the bill does something that deserves more attention than it has received. H.R. 7661 includes a carve-out for “classic” works of art and literature. On its face, this seems like a reasonable safeguard. No one wants Michelangelo’s David removed from an art history curriculum. The bill appears to acknowledge that some works containing nudity or mature themes belong in schools. What matters is who decides what qualifies as “classic.”

    The bill answers that question by hard-coding references to two specific articles published on Compass Classroom, a commercial Christian homeschool curriculum company. The articles are “Classics Every Middle Schooler Should Read” by Thomas Purifoy, Jr. and “Classics Every High Schooler Should Read” by Mary Pierson Purifoy. The Purifoys founded Compass Classroom. Their company describes its mission as teaching “a Biblical worldview and critical thinking skills.” Its history courses apply “a Christian worldview to the characters, events, theology, literature, art, and religious beliefs throughout history.” Its catalog includes a course called “Is Genesis History?” and another built around Francis Schaeffer’s reformed theological framework. The company operates as a sectarian enterprise selling a theological product to a specific religious market.

    A federal bill has outsourced the definition of acceptable American literature to a company that sells Bible-based homeschool videos for $39 a month.

    Consider what that means in practice. Books on the Compass Classroom lists receive protection. Everything else receives none, and could cost a school district its federal funding. The entire weight of the American literary tradition, from Toni Morrison to James Baldwin to Sandra Cisneros to Jhumpa Lahiri, is filtered through the theological preferences of a Tennessee homeschool company. The lists become the canon, and the canon becomes the law.

    This is the privatization of public literary authority. It is also the sectarianization of it. The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exists precisely to prevent the federal government from privileging one religious viewpoint over others in the administration of public institutions. When Congress defines “classic literature” by reference to a company whose stated purpose is teaching a “Biblical worldview,” Congress has made a theological judgment about which stories are acceptable in American schools. That is an establishment of religion dressed in the language of child protection.

    The bill’s supporters will argue that the lists are merely illustrative, that schools can still teach other works, that the carve-out protects educational freedom. The argument collapses under the weight of the funding mechanism. Schools do not have the luxury of testing whether their collections comply with a vague federal standard. Administrators will do what administrators always do when funding is threatened: they will remove anything that might trigger a challenge. The chilling effect is the policy. Fear is the mechanism by which censorship operates without needing a single book to be formally banned.

    National Library Week begins on April 19, 2026. The ALA’s honorary chair this year is Mychal Threets, the librarian and author who now hosts “Reading Rainbow.” The irony requires no commentary. A country celebrating its libraries while its Congress advances legislation that would gut them is a country in active contradiction with itself.

    Some legal analysts, including the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, have argued that H.R. 7661 is more campaign performance than viable legislation, a bill designed to generate headlines for its sponsors’ constituents rather than to survive judicial scrutiny. That assessment may be correct on the merits. The bill’s definition of “sexually oriented material” would face serious First Amendment challenges, and its Establishment Clause vulnerabilities are obvious. The danger of dismissing H.R. 7661 as political theater, however, is that political theater has a way of becoming law when no one is watching. State-level book bans followed the same trajectory: first a handful of performative bills in 2021, then coordinated legislative campaigns across twenty states by 2024. The precedent the bill sets matters even if the bill itself dies. It normalizes the idea that Congress can define acceptable literature by reference to a private, religious reading list.

    The deeper issue here extends beyond any single bill. H.R. 7661 is one expression of a broader pattern in which public institutions are hollowed out and their functions transferred to private, ideological actors. Public schools lose funding. Private alternatives gain market share. The definitions of knowledge, history, and literature are handed to commercial entities with theological commitments that a diverse democratic public does not share. This is how democratic infrastructure erodes: disassembled piece by piece, contract by contract, carve-out by carve-out, reading list by reading list.

    Authors, publishers, librarians, and citizens who care about the survival of a pluralistic literary culture need to understand what is happening in H.R. 7661. The bill reaches far past the removal of a handful of controversial titles from school libraries. It determines who gets to define what literature is, and the answer this bill provides is: a company in Tennessee that sells Bible-based curriculum to homeschooling families. If that answer becomes federal law, the consequences will be measured in decades and in the silences where stories used to be.

    The ALA urges citizens to call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask their representatives to oppose H.R. 7661 and to support the Right to Read Act (H.R. 6440 / S. 3365), which would fund well-resourced and well-staffed school libraries rather than threatening them.

    #art #books #canon #capitol #censorship #classics #congress #federal #homeschool #library #libraryWeek #literature #middleSchool #profit #reading #school #usa
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    London, March 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Mike Nayler joins as Vice President of GTM, UK and Europe…
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