You don't need to look to Nazi Germany to understand that the people firing professors who don't teach the "right" ideas & threatening librarians do not believe in democracy.

Democracy is grounded on debate, compromise, & electoral contests for power. And it's being savaged, step by step.

#democracy #authoritarianism #gop #education

Good morning.

Another Black person is dead, who should be alive, but who never will be alive again, a story so common that trying to deal with it feels like it carries the accumulated weight of all those that went before and all those who will surely come after.

The murdered person’s name was Tyre Nichols, and he lived in Memphis, and he should be alive, but he’s not, because he was murdered at the age of 29, robbed of about 50 years of his life

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/every-riot-is-a-police-riot