Authoritarianism vs public media, and other fights for the right to know
This lefty publisher is giving out censored books for free in Florida. We know that books in and of themselves don't change the world. But people reading together, learning together, organizing together; people coming together to know these ideas, and to think about how our side wins is actually dangerous.
Florida’s unapologetically racist governor, Ron DeSantis, has effectively declared war on the Black freedom movement.
Snowflake, Los Espookys, and other media breakthroughs you should know about
When objectivity is impossible, and other media mishugas
The fascists are moving from covert to overt
Reader Comments: Hearings and Republican Witnesses Show that Trump Planned Armed Coup; Supreme Court Rules Based on Lies, and Religion; Librarians and Books Under Attack; Starbucks Union Grows; Socialism 2022 Conference Labor Day weekend; more ....
Caustic fights over which books belong on the shelves have put librarians at the center of a bitter and widening culture war. Some of the conflicts have gotten so heated that community members have tried to seek criminal charges against librarians.
Rightist media set the stage for fascist violence
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