February 12, 2023

"The book, Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is among the more than 1 million titles that 'have been covered or stored and paused for student use' in Florida, NBC News reported. The freeze follows the Florida 'Stop W.O.K.E. Act' that DeSantis signed in 2022."

"More than 1 million titles"...That's about half the size of the collection of Carnegie Library's Main branch in Pittsburgh. The scope of this fascistic measure underscores both the absurdity and the horror of modern authoritarianism: the industrial scale erasure of ideas, of history -- of people.

Ron DeSantis' culture war benches baseball great Roberto Clemente biography