▪️This doesn’t bill doesn’t “outlaw book bans.” The first amendment does that, which is why there are no actual book bans. What the bill does is require libraries receiving state grants to adopt the American Library Association’s “Librarian Bill of Rights” which says material shouldn’t be removed for partisan reasons.
As the Illinois Sec of State admits:
🔹“We are not saying that every book should be in every single library. What this law does is it says, let’s trust our experience and education of our librarians to decide what books should be in circulation.”
https://apnews.com/article/book-ban-library-lgbtq-illinois-f5516941473e474712eaaafda084de76
▪️So instead of parents or local governments deciding which books are on the shelves, librarians will decide. Which might be a good or bad thing depending on your viewpoint, but someone is still making the editorial decision on what’s appropriate to include and “ban.”
▪️According to modern hysteria, any book removed or not included on a library shelf is “banned.” Which means librarians will now be in charge of banning books in Illinois, the only difference being they aren’t supposed to ban for partisan reasons, according to the Librarian Bill of Rights.
It’s bizarre to see them seesaw back and forth that Trump is totally clueless and aloof, just golfing all day, then all of a sudden he’s a dangerous king/dictator who’s diligently plotting to seize absolute power.
▪️This one is frustrating because, while it’s nice to see the vigor and speed that DOGE is acting with, they’re also sloppy with some of their findings. This is not some bombshell, millions of dead people’s SS numbers aren’t being paid out to fraudsters.
▪️This problem has been known for some time, you can read an inspector general’s report from 2015 about millions of names on the SS “numident” not being correctly annotated for deaths, even though they were older than 112 (the oldest known American at the time).
https://oig-files.ssa.gov/audits/full/A-06-14-34030_0.pdf
▪️There are innocent explanations for some of these. Expatriates that died outside the country, for example. Or immigrants given temporary work permit who returned to their country, people issued new numbers for various reasons, etc. However, most are simply due to the govt not diligently keeping track of deaths.
▪️It’s embarrassing that the govt has millions of numbers on the numident that are ...
