Democracy in Chains. A few critical readings (books) permit more nuanced understanding of our contemporary social, economic, and political morass.https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113437776461706493Highly relevant to that Little Rock Nine news posthttps://mastodon.social/@persagen/116036244615446995is Nancy MacLean's superb / scholarly Democracy in Chains, which details white conservative backlash to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Chains

Aug 2025: Court documents detail months-long surveillance of Quebec terror suspectshttps://www.nsnews.com/national-news/court-documents-detail-months-long-surveillance-of-quebec-terror-suspects-11110287Court documents show how police spent months tracking 4 men accused in an alleged anti-government plot in Quebec.https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/former-members-of-military-facing-terrorism-charges-informant-9.7068700 (2026-01-30) names these ideologically-motivated violent extremists: #IMVE * far-right / accelerationist ideology• Simon Angers-Audet• Marc-Aurèle Chabot• Matthew Forbes• Raphaël Lagacé

@persagen Maga preys on the gullible and ignorant.