Among other things, fascism as a culture is a culture of playing make-believe. Social power and credibility in this culture derives from going along with the bit, and from developing more and more outrageous iterations of the bit, more and more extreme make-believes, as a perverse “yes, and” improv.

Look, he's a full-on white supremacist because he has dismantled the systems of accountability that used to keep such people under white hoods.

Weird to realize that the SEC and DOJ Antitrust Division were helping to keep Nazis at bay this whole time.

All great recs. As husband of an elementary librarian, I’d suggest to source them for ideas too and see what they have on hand. Can test the first book in a series before investing.

An estimated one-quarter of IRS tax evasion agents have been repurposed to immigration enforcement. Instead of tracking high-end tax evaders, they are looking for metro fare evaders. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.

They know what this is. They know it's happening here.

And generally anything Large is probably too big or too ill defined and should be broken out into multiple smaller works.