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The story of how - from 1976 to 1981 - Britain's Asian community stood tall against far-right violence and a rising tide of racist murders. [more inside]
posted by TheophileEscargot on Apr 9, 2024 - 2 comments

2045: In the backwoods of an America ruled by right wing militia groups, a small family of resistance fighters takes refuge in a remote house that may be more dangerous than the world outside.
posted by kittens for breakfast on Feb 24, 2024 - 6 comments

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience. [more inside]
posted by quatsch on Mar 13, 2023 - 2 comments

Set in the '30s, it follows three friends (Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, and John David Washington) who witness a murder, become suspects themselves, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history. [more inside]
posted by praemunire on Oct 7, 2022 - 7 comments

So, what's up in the world?

• "We begin with A Narcissistic, Unstable Man Who Just Might Kill Us All." In this case, that means Trump and Kim Jong-un, between whom tensions have been racheting up lately. Trump "sends" and "armada" to deter North Korea, although it turns out the weren't heading right there, but instead going to Austrailia.
• Turkey President Recep Erdoğan consolidates power with a referrendum that takes him closer to being a dictator.
• And Now: Cable News. (It's a lot of arguing and people talking over each over, sometimes up to 10 at once.)
• Main story: Trump's advisors and relatives Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, popularly regarded as moderating influences. LWT takes a closer look and notes that we we really know little about them, and what we do know suggests Ivanka is more about preserving the Trump brand, and Jared is an underachiever, extremely inexperienced, and is ludicrously in over his head. YouTube (22m)
• And Finally: Bill O'Reilly: A Life In Television.

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posted by JHarris on Apr 26, 2017 - 8 comments

It Can’t Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis’s later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily timeless look at how fascism could take hold in America. Written during the Great Depression, when the country was largely oblivious to Hitler’s aggression, it juxtaposes sharp political satire with the chillingly realistic rise of a president who becomes a dictator to save the nation from welfare cheats, sex, crime, and a liberal press. Called “a message to thinking Americans” by the Springfield Republican when it was published in 1935, It Can’t Happen Here is a shockingly prescient novel that remains as fresh and contemporary as today’s news. [more inside]
posted by chainsofreedom on Apr 20, 2017 - 1 comment

How one small village in France deals with fascist takeover in WWII. Tanks begin rolling into town. [more inside]
posted by cda on Apr 9, 2017 - 6 comments