Which ones were banned?

NGL, I’ve been skeptical at times but this is encouraging!!! 💯💯💯🗣️🗣️🗣️

People who ban books aren’t big readers.

this is just part of their strategy. They know they will lose some, but as we react to the most extreme offenses, they are just pushing the boundaries further to their side.

From where will the public funds come Parades and golf trips have eaten into the budget...

Same as Target. Return to fair and equitable practices and we can go back to our former favorite store. Not as important as the Navy of course, but fair is fair.

Awesome 😎👍😎 I'm forwarding this to Stars and Stripes. We need good news for a change.

Jesus. This is our our America? We need to stand up and change things, now!!

Waste, fraud, and abuse.

Why only ALMOST?

Almost all???? I say all need to be brought back...

ALMOST all?

MAGA - the people who deleted references to the Enola Gay bomber, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb, because the name was too gay.

Can’t meet your quota when you say women, black and Hispanic need not to apply. You believed all those young white dude will stop playing video game war and do physical work? Sure, let’s see those numbers.

Here is the article… In the 3rd paragraph is a link to the “381 titles” (attached): Navy reverses course on DEI book ban after Pentagon review - ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

The 381 books banned, but almost all have been returned to the library by the Navy: media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...

I want this to be true. Is there some proof?

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

To be scared of books sums up the gop don’t you think?

This is why you couldn’t teach the slaves to read or write. They want us ignorant, poor, sick, and hopeless. I don’t know how long it’s going to take. But we will topple these bastards just like we’ve toppled every other evil regime.

That people actively chose this is beyond me.

Book bans should be criminalized, especially books for adults.

Just wait, Trump will change "Black Friday" to "White Friday" Because of #DEI.

Orange Friday.. 😄

No doubt! 😂

Why not ALL?

Trump does something Unconstitutional. Declares win. Courts reverse his unconstitutional order, forcing him to put things back the way they were. All MAGA remembers is the "win." Winning!

Thank goodness! There is still SOME common sense in the world. Now they've gotta fix their web site. Where's the history of the Enola Gay???

Very very small victory but small steps were exactly what Martin Luther King Jr did! ❤️🙏

An additional silver lining is that members of the military check out books and read them. If they didn't, the MAGA folks wouldn't care. Good for you, military personnel!

Yes! 🇺🇸

A strait jacket for Trump might work better though, plus some handcuffs for Johnson and Vance. 🤔

trump & hegseth aren't gonna like that !

At least the Navy still has thinkers.

I assume the real Navy heart and soul know what's what. But they have to follow orders first. I'm sure they saw the example of the Air Force colonel fired for speaking the truth. And a General fired for no reason. So a few books got sacrificed to the greater good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxib...

“I was just doing my job” doesn’t hold up in court.

1. Not what I said. 2. Yes it does (cops get away with following procedure to kill people regularly) 3. Military puts top value in "Following orders" and doing your job.

So, was doing that fraud, abuse, or waste? How much did that process cost taxpayers! The greatest example of fraud, waste, and abuse is Elon Musk and the DOGE and what the 🍊💩 is doing to our Constitution and government!

On a bright note, Hegseth will dumb them all down enough they won't be able to read in the future. OH.SO.MUCH.WINNING Fuck, I miss DEI

Push back is imperative!!!

Book removal should have not happened in the first place. Fearing those in the services might actually be enlightened?

Hopefully, now that they've brought attention to these works, more people will read them!

Navy refuses to sink DEI! Whatever floats our boat. Just accidentally dive a submarine while Hegseth is up top.

Go Navy! Semper Fidelis!

Books can teach us of the past, give us insight into the future and allow us to experience the present. Knowledge is very powerful and should be accessible.

Like to hear that

It was a show of strongarm tactics that went absolutely no place. The shock factor works for the short term.

Not to be a cynic, but it seems the GOP is allowing some small wins here and there to keep y'all distracted from the fact that he is stealing the last bit of unfettered power that he needs in his big bill. We know he/they love to flood the zone to keep everyone's head spinning instead of focusing

The bigger issues.

I would say “allowing” small wins, but “suffering” them. They do flood the zone - pushing for everything in order to get something. It’s explicitly detailed as part of Project 2025 strategy. So we need to push back on all fronts, everywhere, simultaneously.

Based on SCOTUS decision we need to up the protests against Elon. Apparently we hurt his little feelings when we went after him. Let's go for ALL his feelings going forward. Maybe he'll do us all a favor and disappear himself.

That said, we can’t all be everywhere at once all the time. Pick your issue, your hill to die on. Let others take the lead on other things. Have each others backs rather than undercutting other’s efforts.

My issue might be academic freedom. My friends might be Palestinian rights. Maybe yours is immigrant rights. They are all overlapping, but not identical. We’ll be more successful if we follow our passions, support each other, but divide and conquer at the same time.

That could be a possibility...

No the Pentagon is fighting back and other institutions are obeying in advance..... understand the difference!

I hope so, though there is very little evidence in the news to support this claim. Of course most are too afraid to stand against him. Hitler is proof that no man is invincible.

There isn't very little evidence 😂😂😂😂 please don't use Caucasian American Vernacular English on me to avoid accountability on things you don't even care to look up

www.meidasplus.com/p/pentagon-p...

Libraries are a source of knowledge and learning. Don't be detached and deceptive by withholding knowledge and depriving people of their right to information and to know.

If only people would access that store of knowledge. Case in point why Trump wants to defund libraries and strip them of anything that contradicts his/their agenda. He’s just a puppet of Putin and the authors of 2025 anyway.

While we fought & won this battle, they literally voted to take away medicaid and social security

Tear the system apart and put it back together so he can lie and say he made it better. Lol

But never forget that this near return to "the usual situation" was a battle — perhaps on to be fought again some day.

Imagine banning Maya Angelou, one of America's most popular and beloved poets. What a cowardly thing to do!

We need to make at least 15-20 calls to congress a day forcing them to start screaming loudly and forcefully that trumps are pocketing from every possible scam & breaking every ethical rule while in office. They must go on newsmax & Fox & force attention to this. This wimpy politicking must end!!

Yay! I think that people enrolled there are old enough for the books removed!

Which were not? Ban no books. None.

GO NAVY !!!!

Of course the Navy needs to waste time on such stupidity. Geeze whiz.

turns out removing the word gay just gets rid of the plane that dropped little boy

I’m willing to also bet most of these books were originally identified because they had select words and then DOD realized these books did not meet the intent of their DEI delusions or that there was actual application to the US Navy Mission.

Again with the memes. Does @georgetakei.bsky.social even have control of his account?

The Armed Forces may be the saviours here. Institutions may follow suit and Shitler aka 🍊💩 can’t get them all Disobedience is key… 👍🏽

I am so glad they didn't Full Nazi and burn all those books !! #GoNavy

@starsandstripes.bsky.social

🤔🤔doge is the largest government waste & fraud problem that should be removed

Wow! Thanks to whoever did that.

Wow, shocking.

But not ALL the books have been returned and there is talk that those deemed not returnable will be destroyed. Thrown in the dumpster or burned, it's still fascism.

Please take the time to add ALT text on images you post so ALL of your followers will have full context. Describe it as you would when speaking with a blind person. To help you remember, in Settings, Accessibility, you can turn on "Require alt text before posting." Thank you!

…and Right-wing stupidity doesn't…even if it temporarily gains the upper hand from time to time…

Now unease Harvey Milk’s name from his ship

Everything is a test to see what they can get away with. Old fascist playbook.

They just needed that big old orange Drag Queen Review.

How can anyone in this charade be believed? Administration officials are proven unapologetic liars, Sailors have orders not the truth, and ABC News surrendered to President Trump lawsuit. Imagine if no books were touched and 4 tweets created this much distraction.

Well done.

You want to ban 10 books, so ban 400. Then when everyone bitches say you will unban 390 and keep the 10 you wanted to ban at the very start. The public thinks they won. Don't ban any book anywhere.

What did the republicans want kept on the shelves? Art of the Deal and Mein Kampf

Yes. Every bit helps. We will be persistent and we will persevere. I wish our elected officials would wake up from thinking that it is NOT business is usual. They need to act accordingly. So far I give them a grade F. (With a few outliers.)

Excellent!!!

"Almost all.." ???

"How To Suck Dick, an LGBTQ guide to recreational sex" has been replaced by "How To Suck Dick, a soldier's guide to promotion."

Excellent !!

I'm happy to hear that 📖📚🤓

Goes to show that ot was all theater. MAGAts heard about book banning and felt satisfied even though the issue was DOGE getting OUR data. They won't "hear" about the return of books.

Like any of them are reading books🙄

They promote books with stories of gang rape, child prostitution and sex trafficking. It’s this book and many others like it that needs to be banned. I’m unaware of any other book to cause its readers to commit genocide, mass murders, in belief that a book gives them the right to do so. The Bible.

As an Army infantry vet, I say bully for Annapolis and the resisting midshipmen, heh heh, the fucking squids.

more like they couldnt justify keeping mien kampf in the library while removing everything else.

Your government is a club of deranged imbeciles without wisdom nor plan. Get rid of it as soon as you can! Otherwise your formerly splendid nation will derail completely.

Well, that "splendid" is contested. There is no "going back" to "normal" after Trump. The democrats' own approval rating is down. Someone needs to come up with a better (new) idea or plan. And it's not only happening in the US. The rest of us is just behind.

I am afraid you are right. So let’s fight for Europe. What would you say is the first step to take?

We need to radically question our "societies" (culture, (national) identity, politcs, economics, etc.) Why? Looking at history it is observable that innovation results in disruption. Often with warfare following. We are facing the most revolutionary technological "advancement" (?) in human history.

2 / The task is not simply transfering the analog content into the digital world. The fundamental structures and processes we developed in the past are also in question. They are outdated solutions for a time we were missing our new technologies.

1 / Just look at the smartphone (offering internet, AI, etc.). Mankind has NEVER held such a powerful communication device in its hands - from early childhood to the elderly. To think this would not change EVERYTHING, we know, is naive.

It may be too late.

Almost what was not~~

It helps to link to the article in question. I'm not about to believe a meme and I'm docking your grade for having to do your homework. abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

Implement outrageous policy. Walk it back. Rinse and repeat. In the meantime, prices are going up because of tariffs, planes are crashing because of supposed cost-saving Federal job cuts, infectious diseases are on the rise because of anti-vax BS, and this is what they focus on. Stunning!

Very good news! Such a stupid gesture to begin with, but it impressed the magats, which was probably its intention.

Ignore the man fool behind the curtain. The Constitution, Don’t tread on Me..

shut up twink

And suddenly the mightiest army in the world saw the little Harard University stand up against tyranny and they too wanted to be brave.

👏👏👏👏👏. It’s only Common sense. They are not DEI but stories of untold heroes.

DEI power works.

I think one of the best ways that things become popular is to ban them. I smoked pot for years. I didn't quit because it became legal, but I sort of laugh at the timing of it. I've always kinda wondered if that was part of the attraction. Maybe that's why Republicans like being criminals.

The problem is minority rule. Only a sliver of our elected officials mirror the wishes of their constituents. If a president fails to achieve at least 50% of the vote, how can he perform his duty? Keep running elections until consensus is achieved, I say.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=E6af...

Being so afraid of knowledge and ideas presented in print that you have to take them away is one of the weakest things I can imagine. It definitely wouldn't be a good look for our military.

'Almost' is pathetic. Getting back to the status quo is not enough. Mearly that this was allowed to happen is cause enough to justify reprisals. Fascists need to be made so afrade that they crawl back into the dirt for another hundred years, and this time we keep them out of our public offices.

The military is key to people's revolution. Trump is nothing without a standing army on his side. The military should protect the people, not the president's whims.

"Almost all" isn't the winning response we need.

Curious what did not make it back to the shelves

Excellent. Men and women of all ethnicities fought and died for the US. They must NOT be forgotten.

And how much did it cost to taxpayers to remove the books and now put them back?

Navy has always had its own standards

Well DOGE boys, wasn’t that an efficient use of time, energy & money?

Wonderful

do the US Military Academy and the US Air Force Academy each have a library? Why have I heard noting about books being taken off their shelves?

I think the Naval Academy got the headlines because they proactively pulled the books from shelves when ordered to conduct the review, while it appears, from what I can gather online, that the USMA and USAFA kept the books in the library pending review completion. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thank you. Wonder why such a discrepancy in actions.

Looks like each service secretary used their own internal memos to direct their respective service academies in implementing the memorandum, the result of which was a different interpretation by each service academy's respective Commandant. Typical Kegseth clusterfuck.

Go NAVY !!

Would public pressure help you use alt-text??

Oh fantastic, they won’t uphold their oaths to protect us and the constitution but at least they’ll have books about us to read!

I cannot imagine all the hard work it took for those cadets to get into the academy. and all the hard work and physical training it takes to stay there. and then to deal with all this BS coming from losers who have no regard for what it takes to be there.

Uh oh! They will all B fired, court-martialed & kicked out of the Military for being "Woke"& pro-DEI. That is 'Verboten!"We R now in a "merit based society."There is no more racism or sexism in America.We R"perfect."We don't need any government intrusion that only discriminates against white people.

Public Pressure Works!!

Thank the powers that be, the fear was temporary. The threat still looms howevet and we have got to stay strong and wary. It's rare that the nemesis is so comically obvious to most. Let's use this era to practice our resilience and demonatrate our follow-through correction.

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That... was about time!

Almost?

Finally! Some good news

In the meantime, they managed to get a lot of local libraries and private buyers to purchase copies of the books they had banned. "The Women with Silver Wings" is a fascinating read.

Thanks for the recommendation, just added it to my bookshop.org list!

Added to my list of books to read.

It will be time well spent!

That book sounds great. I’ll have to look for their list for more recommendations! 😁📚

""They don't know what they're doing. They're just pulling things apart,""

the dod are so very afraid of knowledge and history

Sure but how many were banned in the first place? And what are the new “standards” for new books?

Like the Pentagon or Military couldn't handle a little DEI. These people are nuts and good on you, whoever, got the books back. Should be in all libraries too. Readers decide to not read, not one person on a rampage to ban.

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Excellent 💯

There are no children at this library. Books are being taken out of reach of adults who have the constitutional right to choose for themselves what's appropriate to read.

Trump: The Great Embarrassment

We have 4 years of this and will be stronger than ever!

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Almost all? This is nothing to celebrate.

This is wonderful news!

OK!

Very Kwool democracy!

Yes Sir, public pressure works. But remember the funds and money wasted to undo the idiocy. Trumplicans ARE DANGEROUS AND MUST BE STOPPED.

This whole banning books sounds so russia or China or other communist dictatorship thing. Stupify USA 🤯

📚📚📚📚📚📘📗📕📔📖📖📖📗📘📙 and the books say> Hooray!!!!!!

Free countries dont ban books...or ideas.

No shining light, no beacon of hope here. Just white christian nationalists ripping our country apart in the name of donald trump. Not a free country anymore. So very sad.

Christian nationalists? Call them by their real name. ANTICHRIST-ians. White nationalists have chosen a golden idol over the original Christ.

is this in reference to Mithras, the warrior god?

No, it's in reference to the golden calf in the old testament, when Moses came down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments he found his people worshiping an idol... a golden calf. But the bull in the image? That's the bronze Wall Street bull. A symbol of capitalism.

Great!

"I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of Hypocrisy. And to the Republic for which it stands, without liberty and justice for all"

THIS is the best news I’ve read all month. 😌

Almost

Knowledge is power.

Did they wake up to the fact that dumb defense personnel are dead personnel?

These goons all need to be removed and banned

Hopefully this will be on major news media!!

The public shouldn’t have to those students should advocate for themselves, they are there to learn, we aren’t the only people living in this planet.

Disgusting segregationist Republicans believe including black people is discrimination & excluding them is not. Meanwhile, Democrats are terrified of becoming more diverse in hopes to gain some of their votes. They should instead double down on diversity to gain more diverse votes. It's how we win.

This administration is always making so much extra work for people, but I’ll bet the librarians happily reshelved those books.

Sounds like a very efficient process that wasted no-one’s time and no money 🙄.

They should all be returned. But good for them.

Did they have a parade when returning them? They should have.

Love you, George!

Yes!

Hold the line!

For maga to destroy history & truth is fascism & hate.

Hooray!

Great news, however that camouflage in the pic is rather ineffective

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Now they gotta get the young mids to actually read them…

#NowWithALT

Now if we could get them to stop playing Fox News at all military facilities all day long, that would be huge!

TRUMP LOVE UNEDUCATED PEOPLE LIKE HIM

we now have a 747 to store banned books in

Make the piggies wriggle and squeal.

I cannot understand how a man who ran from the sound of the guns got in charge. He now wants a parade and raps the flag around him. Err. Stolen valor...-

Read everything 📚 Go to the library and visit your friends

Good!

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At least someone at the Pentagon is paying attention.

What great news! 👏👏👏

Hegshit allowed this?

If you're afraid of DEI, that says an awful lot about who the snowflake really is. 💋

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Freedom is NOT banning books, controlling women’s reproductive health, dictating what consenting adults do in their bedrooms.

Yeah! Score for the books

Too many people (i.e. Republicans) are missing the parallels with Nazi Germany, a country that loved to ban books (and burn them). Why are the people who are screaming loudest about erasing history when a Confederate statue comes down are ignoring the history that's right in front of their face?

I’m reading “No Common Ground,” and it answers this question. It’s one of the 381 books on this list!

Because they like pleasant fiction more than reality.

Get reading sailors!

Reading is Fundamental!

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Thumbs up

"almost all"? which books didn't make it back?

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Excellent! A proverbial gut punch to the GOP!

Wonderful

What a waste of time and money.

Maybe they learned something by having to read all those books?

Yes, that is a positive take on it for sure! I agree!

Almost all. Is there a list of the ones that were not included?

That was my reaction too - which were not returned?

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Having been a researcher at USNA, I always knew the Navy was “woke”. Good on them for not following through with this book-banning nonsense.