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Interesting audiobook that was clear, thought-provoking, and presented me with other material to read.

Birthday books 😁
Thank you Caroline and Barbara - look forward to getting to these! Very kind gifts 😘

#Bookspin November:
1. Beyond Survival
2. Cobalt Red
3. The Underground Girls of Kabul
4. Flesh and Blood so Cheap
5. Waiting to be Arrested
6. Cesar Chavez
7. Trailblazer
8. The Deviants‘ War
9. Some People Need Killing
10. Four Shots
11. Small Acts of Courage
12. Necessary Trouble
13. Buses are a‘Coming
14. Generation Revolution
15. Dorothy Day
16. Call Him Jack
17. Give Us The Ballot
18. Kids These Days
19. Salt Thief
20. American Midnight

I don't know that I would have read this in physical form, but after listening to the audio, there are definitely passages I would have liked to have been able to capture. This is a brilliant meditation on the Israel/Palatine conflict, the way language is manipulated to justify atrocities, and the other-ing of whomever those in power need to diminish to maintain power. Goddamn, humans suck!

While reading, I kept thinking, “A better example of this is actually…”, then, horrifically, realized this was published in 2018. Unfortunately, things have gotten worse, the strategy clearer, and our understanding of fascism is in real time. Ugh.

The electoral college has quite literally NEVER worked. This is a vitally important read. Every law maker should have to read this book, at every level of government. Every high school student should have to read this book. Every college student should have to read it again. The “American Experiment” failed when the first president was elected.
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The “founding fathers” had two basic views of having a single person in the presidency. Which do you think has worked out to be the most accurate, 239 years later?
#JesseWegman #LetThePeoplePickThePresident #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

Continuing with the scariest reading I can possibly imagine at the moment.
#JesseWegman #LetThePeoplePickThePresident #audiobook #ReadByTheAuthor

All this time I thought conservatives genuinely believed they were the majority. Turns out they are fully aware they are the minority and just believe that the minority should not be at the whim of the desires, concerns, and needs of the majority. So much for democracy. This even debunks the grand myth that the American constitution is this great document of democracy.
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🎩 hat‘s off to the author 👏 THIS IS SO GOOD! The audio is extremely well done.

#Oct2025 Book96