SafeLibraries®: March 2026

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

IMLS is the Latest Target of American Library Association with Kelly Jensen Smearing It As Doo Doo

Kelly Jensen does doo doo smear on IMLS

Kelly Jensen uses hate and projection to smear IMLS (United States Institute for Museum and Library Services). IMLS gets smeared like doo doo, because this is one underhanded, disgusting technique ALA uses to push its efforts to indoctrinate children in schools and libraries using the taxpaying public's money to do so.

Kelly Jensen's doo doo references, themselves a form of projection, start right in the title of her latest IMLS hit job, the first significant word:

"The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do; Nearly a Year After the Institute of Museum and Library Services was Dismantled, What's Happening At the Agency? What Can We Do to Help Out?," by Kelly Jensen, Book Riot, 2 March 2026.

Oh look, she censored the word in the title by using an asterisk, but it's spelled out right there in the URL. So it's okay for kids and URLs but not for Book Riot by Riot New Media:

https://bookriot.com/the-enshittification-of-the-imls/

In fairness, she did use the word in the text, in one of many efforts to smear IMLS:

"further enshittifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry."

And these people are supposedly "trusted experts" for children, set into law by ALA's "Freedom to Read Act" that ALA is spreading across America and the federal government.

School librarians are not trusted experts. If anything, they represent the "ensh*ttification" of public education throughout America, and the scatological reference is just more projection.

Trusted expert Kelly Jensen is an awarded hero of American Library Association with a Presidential Commendation from ALA's American Association of School Librarians (AASL). That means she's a trusted expert for ALA itself. ALA librarians award each other, like they award books they want kids to read, like Gender Queer. Awards are given to people and books for the most kids harmed or the best potential to harm kids. This is sort of like "Library Girl" Kendra Sunderland won multiple awards from the adult entertainment industry.

School librarians generally are not trusted experts for school children, given they are trained no book is ever inappropriate for any child and given the vocal ones are uniformly opposed to America and capitalism, like the one suing me who published on Bluesky, "THE REVOLUTION IS OVERDUE," but I digress. So many other cases, other librarians, I should write a separate story about it.

Back to Kelly Jensen, here is the doo doo level of her AASL Presidential Commendation arguments against IMLS:

the perfect encapsulation of how the Trump Vance administration is hellbent on destroying an agency dedicated to sharing and protecting truth, facts, and information
the regime's obsession with and dedication to AI is about bowing to technocrats and further ensh[*]ttifying democracy, rather than serving the American citizenry
The Trump Vance regime
No one in the current regime
IMLS is an arm of propaganda for the Trump-Vance regime
The IMLS Freedom Trucks stole over $14,000,000 from U.S. taxpayers, intended to serve public libraries and museums, and funneled it directly into the pockets of the right-wing private corporation PragerU
the Freedom Trucks, which the regime claims celebrate America’s shared cultural history in honor of the country’s 250th anniversary

Maybe if she keeps saying "regime" often enough it will become the truth? She's a "trusted expert" after all, with a Presidential Commendation. She writes "regime" 20 times in her one screed. Here's more:

a history and philosophy of whitewashing history
It is infuriating to see that states with lower literacy levels, where schools have become the most targeted by partisan politics (past and present), where books and texts filled with facts and history have been yanked off the shelves "to protect the kids," and where money is being stolen from public schools to fund the private education of the already-wealthy are the ones getting the "treat" of Freedom Trucks
These Trucks further lie to some of the most vulnerable about this country’s history and further the propaganda that the regime hopes they’ll continue to swallow down without question

Here's where she calls everyone stupid if they allegedly lack "critical" skills:

Too many of those who will hop aboard the trucks lack the critical literacy skills (of all kinds) to ask questions.

This gutter level of argument and projection goes on and on for the remainder of the hit piece. I'll skip it now.

Contrast that writing with real journalism, real reporting, presenting many of the same issues, but without the hate and projection:

"Top Library Advocate: Backing Drag Queen Story Hour Supports Parental Choice," by Susan Crabtree, RCP Staff, RealClear Politics, 3 March 2026.

🚨NEW: American Library Association President Sam Helmick (they/them) Says Backing Drag Queen Happy Hour Supports Parental Choice.

Helmick’s statement comes amid a fierce debate over the rights of parents to opt children out of sexual lessons or material in schools and the… pic.twitter.com/yYCna3fSuh
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) March 3, 2026

Also, Kelly Jensen takes a victory lap that she supposedly forced IMLS to change its home page. She writes on Bluesky:

Yes, indeed, the IMLS home page is back to what it was before they spit out AI slop on it last week.

Guess what works? Exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back.

Pure propaganda. First, IMLS likely corrected things on its own. Second, Kelly taking a victory lap is a joke. Last year she wrote an article that had absolutely zero effect on IMLS. She leaves that out of her fakery. Last year she wrote "The Latest From IMLS and What You Need to Prepare For Right Now," and all that exposing, amplifying, shaming, and pushing back made no difference. Though back then she used administration 4 times and no regimes. Now that she's using 20 regimes, that made the difference. She's a trusted expert on her own delusions of self worth.

Besides, how good is Kelly as a "trusted expert" on IMLS if she brags about and recommends other librarians block federal government accounts on Bluesky?