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Boom! MSBSD Faces Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Book Removals

Boom! MSBSD Faces Lawsuit Over Unconstitutional Book Removals

The Northern Justice Project, LLC, in concert with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Alaska, has filed a lawsuit against the Mat-Su Borough School District (MSBSD) for the removal of 56 books from school libraries that contained ideas that the Board desired to suppress. Today’s announcement of the

Alaska's Top Legal Eagle Warns Public Librarians About 'P0rN'

Alaska's Top Legal Eagle Warns Public Librarians About 'P0rN'

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, who offered to purchase movie tickets for state employees to see the QAnon-adjacent thriller Sound of Freedom, has sent a bizarre letter to public librarians throughout the state. In the letter to Alaska's public and school librarians, Taylor issued guidance about so-called obscene

Mat-Su Moms for Liberty's Impact on Candidate Wins: Not Even a Participation Trophy

Mat-Su Moms for Liberty's Impact on Candidate Wins: Not Even a Participation Trophy

The launch of extremist organization Moms for Liberty's Mat-Su chapter was strategically timed to coincide with this year's school board races. This wasn't because school board members Richard "Ole" Larson or Kathy McCollum needed any heavy lifting done to help propel them

Chairman of Mat-Su Freedom Alliance Comes Out in Support of Sign Vandalism

Chairman of Mat-Su Freedom Alliance Comes Out in Support of Sign Vandalism

In a move certain to shock...well...nobody, Brenden Strom, the zaftig California transplant cosplaying as chairman of the far-right Mat-Su Freedom Alliance, has shamelessly thrown his weight behind the repeated malicious destruction of MSBSD School Board candidate Diane Shibe's campaign signs, because fuck the very essence of

Right-Wing Radical Turns Night Prowler: Cowardly Vandal Targets School Board Candidate's Signs

Right-Wing Radical Turns Night Prowler: Cowardly Vandal Targets School Board Candidate's Signs

An uneducated, heterosexual male and avid Trump supporter living in the Mat-Su Valley seems to have fallen victim to the influence of right-wing pundits and far-right extremist groups like Moms for Liberty. Driven by the strength of his convictions and intoxicated by the fumes of right-wing propaganda propagated by Faux

Kathy McCollum's Moms for Liberty Ally Ousted from MSBSD Book-Banning Committee

Kathy McCollum's Moms for Liberty Ally Ousted from MSBSD Book-Banning Committee

Kali Ponder, a co-founder and current secretary of the extremist organization Moms for Liberty's Mat-Su chapter, has been removed from her seat on the school district's Library Citizens Advisory Committee. Ponder's ousting curiously follows a September exposé detailing that Parental Rights advocate and book-banning

Mat-Su Moms for Liberty Co-Founders Throw Cash at McCollum, Larson Lags

Mat-Su Moms for Liberty Co-Founders Throw Cash at McCollum, Larson Lags

You'd think Matanuska Susitna District School Board member Ole Larson would have raised a bit more cash for his re-election campaign than he has. According to his most recent filing with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Richard Ole Larson has raised a total of $9,472.49 over