Tennessee moves to keep kids ignorant . . . producing good Republican voters . . . pulls 3,000 library books
3000 Tennessee library books pulled: topics of slavery, the Holocaust, menstruation, ancient history, unclothed animals
Library books on slavery, Holocaust pulled in Rutherford County
Books featuring topics of slavery, the Holocaust, menstruation, ancient history, unclothed animals were flagged as potential violations of state and federal legal standards.
Books were flagged by librarians for possible violations such as:
“unclothed anthropomorphic animals, violence”
“Adam and Eve nude in the Garden of Eden; Violence”
“underpants shown during cartwheel”
“An image capturing an affectionate gesture where a girl gives a boy a kiss on the cheek on the school bus during Valentine’s Day.”
“Fictional male rabbits get married”
“Civil War Hero, Mary, dresses in pants, history of undergarments present and modeled by chickens”
“Kissing”
“Words “ass” appears for donkey and “cock” for rooster”
“2 male neighbors speaking to one another, one has a rainbow and his produce bag**”**
“LGBTQIA+ rights”
“implied breastfeeding”
“nude mummified body”
“classroom discussion of book bans and censorship”
“discussion of teen getting period”
“woke”
Popular titles flagged and pulled include Aesop’s Fables, two Magic Treehouse books by Mary Pope Osborne, multiple Harry Potter books by J.K Rowling, and a Charlie Brown book by Charles Schultz.
Key Points
A letter from Secretary of State Tre Hargett prompting public libraries across the state to submit a review of their collections has led to the removal of nearly 3,000 books in one county.
The letter asked public libraries to complete a review of their entire juvenile collections within 60 days and provide a report to Hargett’s office to avoid the risk of losing funding.
The letter sent libraries across the state scrambling over the holiday season, even as state officials deny it was ever an order.
Books on slavery, racism and the Holocaust are among the nearly 3,000 pulled from public library shelves across Rutherford County following a letter from State Secretary Tre Hargett prompting a review of juvenile collections across nearly all state public libraries.
Four Anne Frank biographies, more than 30 books focused on the Bible, five books on women’s history and suffrage and numerous books on ancient civilizations were among those removed for review.
Gestapo chief Bovino pulled out of Minnesota
Hitler wannabee Bovino escorted out of Minnesota, back to his home base in California. Reportedly he will retire.
Here is an article from The Atlantic describing Bovino’s firing.
Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.
Bovino’s sudden demotion is the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration is reconsidering its most aggressive tactics after the killing Saturday of 37-year-old Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents under Bovino’s command.
Earlier today, President Trump appeared to signal in a series of social-media posts a tactical shift in the administration’s mass-deportation campaign. Trump wrote that he spoke with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz—whom the White House has blamed for inciting violence—and the two men are now on “a similar wavelength.” Tom Homan, the former ICE chief whom Trump has designated “border czar,” will head to Minnesota to assume command of the federal mobilization there, Trump said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her close adviser Corey Lewandowski, who were Bovino’s biggest backers at DHS, are also at risk of losing their jobs, two of the people told me.
For the past seven months, Bovino has been the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats. Noem and other Trump officials gave Bovino the “commander” title and sent him and his masked border agents to Chicago, Charlotte, New Orleans, and then Minneapolis. Bovino became a MAGA social-media star as he traveled the country with his own film crew and used social media to hit back at Democratic politicians and random critics online. Veteran ICE and CBP officials grew more and more uneasy as Bovino worked outside his agency’s chain of command and appeared to relish his role as a political actor.
In Minneapolis, the Trump administration used Bovino as its lead spokesperson, scheduling daily press conferences where he defended agents’ rough tactics and cast blame on protesters and local officials. Border Patrol commanders typically avoid engaging in political arguments with elected officials.
Bovino’s fall comes two days after Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis fatally shot Pretti, an intensive-care nurse who worked with veterans. Hours after the shooting, Bovino appeared at a press conference and echoed statements by the Department of Homeland Security alleging Pretti sought to “massacre” the federal agents. Bovino repeatedly claimed that Border Patrol agents, not Pretti, were the victims.
Videos of the encounter showed no evidence for his claims. Pretti, who was licensed to carry a concealed weapon, did not draw a firearm or attack the agents. The videos show one agent disarming Pretti in the moments just before another agent shot him in the back.
DHS and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials did not immediately respond to questions about Bovino’s departure from Minnesota and his current role. Asked about Bovino and Noem, a White House spokesperson referred to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s statement today that Noem has the president’s “utmost confidence and trust.”
In another post, Trump said he also spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “Lots of progress is being made!” the president wrote. “Tom Homan will be meeting with him tomorrow in order to continue the discussion.”
COMMENT
Of course, the problem is not Bovino, Homan, Noem, or Patel.
The problem is TRUMP and his mob consiglieri Stephen MILLER — the fish rots from the head and at the head the Trump administration is rotten.
Remember when these assholes took firearms to a demonstration?
I’ve been hearing a lot about how citizen observers should refrain from “interfering” with law enforcement
and more startlingly, that if the law enforcement officers decide that they are “interfering,” then those citizens have nobody but themselves to blame if they are shot dead in the street.
I thought it might be instructive to remember how the people who are now cheering on the murder of U.S. citizens by federal agents — citizens who are exercising their First and Second Amendment rights by simply filming agents in the street, or legally carrying a firearm with a permit — were behaving when Barack Obama was president.
In 2014, the Bureau of Land Management finally decided to crack down on Cliven Bundy’s illegal cattle-grazing in Nevada. He had been allowing his cattle to graze on federal land, which is against the law, for 20 years. Here’s what happened, according to the SPLC:
The standoff very nearly ended in bloodshed, as large numbers of Bundy supporters pointed their weapons at law enforcement officials, a felony that is now under investigation by the FBI. The BLM wisely withdrew, avoiding possible violence.
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The scariest incident happened in Utah, where two men pointed a handgun at a BLM worker in a marked federal vehicle while holding up a sign that said, “You need to die.”
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For those harboring deep hatred of the federal government, the BLM pullout was seen as a dramatic victory, one instance where the armed radicals of the right stared through their own gunsights at the gun barrels of law enforcement officials and won. Rather than being condemned, their actions garnered the support of numerous politicians, including the governor of Nevada and commentators like Fox News’ Sean Hannity — a truly repulsive spectacle.
Renee Good was shot in the face for trying to get away from an ICE agent who was attempting to violently force open the door of her car. At the time, she was committing a minor traffic offense. Alex Pretti was pepper sprayed and assaulted for filming ICE agents and trying to help up a woman who had been shoved to the ground. When ICE agents found that he was carrying a firearm — for which he had a permit, and which he never brandished — they removed it from him and then shot him in the back.
For this, both Good and Pretti were branded domestic terrorists by high-ranking members of the U.S. government.
Meanwhile, Cliven Bundy was in the process of committing a crime, and the Bureau of Land Management officers had come to stop him. The people at Bundy Ranch were not bystanders protesting, or filming the proceedings — they were friends of Bundy who directly prevented law enforcement from carrying out their duties. They did this by pointing loaded weapons at the officers, some from sniper positions, and making threatening statements.
For this, the people brandishing their weapons and threatening federal agents were celebrated by the same people who support the current regime.
Do we really need any more proof that these so-called freedom-lovers have always just been rank hypocrites who care less about the country than they do about inflicting violence on people who disagree with them politically?
We have known this for a long time
To many of us it has been clear for a long time that the people at the top of our federal government are scheming, lying, monsters without morals – Trump, Vance, Miller, Bondi, Noem, Patel, Bovino and many more.
It is equally obvious that ICE is filled with sadistic thugs, many of them recruited from the dregs and low-lifes of society who were rejected by police and sheriff departments and the military.
Finally, it is equally obvious that Republicans are too cowardly to admit the truth and to do something about it.
Don’t you feel sorry for ICE agents? No one likes them, long hours, out in the cold . . .
Morale is “plummeting” among federal law enforcement officers tasked with carrying out the Trump administration’s aggressive anti-immigration operation, as they complained that long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, according to reports.
While officers at Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, overseen by the Department of Homeland Security, said they supported the administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown “disillusioned” with the tactics being implemented by leadership.
More than 20 current and former immigration officials told The New York Times of their discontent in the hours following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti by a federal agent in Minneapolis. It was the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen carried out by a federal agent in weeks, as officers clashed with protesters following intense public anger over the violence in Minneapolis.
“You’re not addressing the problem by throwing a 500-pound gorilla into these inner cities,” Oscar Hagelsieb, a former immigration officer and special agent, told the Times. “They’re causing chaos, and unfortunately it’s costing lives.”
COMMENT
” . . . long hours, ambitious arrest quotas and hatred from the public, . . . ”
Well, I’m just heartbroken. Or not. How about you take your $50,000 sign-up bonus and your health insurance and pension then STFD and STFU. Or you could quit and get a real job.
Feds to you: “Don’t believe your own eyes.”
“You cannot bring a firearm to a demonstration . . . ‘ Kash Patel
Kash Patel, Director of FBI:
“You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It’s that simple. You don’t have a right to break the law.”
Oh, really?
PRO-TRUMP DEMONSTRATORS, ARIZONA, NOV 2020
KYLE RITTENHOUSE JUST BEFORE HE MURDERED THREE PEOPLE
“VIRGINIA CITIZENS DEFENSE LEAGUE” THUGS DEMONSTRATE IN RICHMOND
ARMEDD THUGS AT THE “UNITE THE RIGHT” RALLY, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA
So far in 2026, ICE has murdered NINE PEOPLE. Let’s see — 2026 is 26 days old. That’s roughly one person every third day. With 365 days in the year, that’s about 122 people that ICE will kill this year.
By comparison, New York City records fewer than 20 police killings annually.
Here’s a letter to Attorney General Bondi
Dear Ms. Bondi:
I thought you might want to know that some asshole signed your name to a letter that was sent to Minnesota Governor Walz telling him that ICE would be withdrawn from Minnesota if he would provide you with the Minnesota voter rolls.
I am certain that neither you nor anyone working for you is that goddam stupid.
Signed,
Their final words
