What we are witnessing is a return to a form of labor that can be manipulated for profit, control, and social order.

This is how the American dream ends — not with a bang, but with an envelope.

Libraries are the last bastion of the open mind. If we let these bullies win, we risk losing more than books. We risk losing our freedom.

The public trust is eroded daily, and the system is failing those it was meant to serve — the working people, the marginalized, the disenfranchised.

Protests of convenience — where the wealthy, the pampered, and the over-educated gather to show their feigned outrage — are nothing more than an indulgence. They are an affront to the ones who fight because they have no other choice.

It’s not about accountability. It’s about using gravestones to pave roads and flesh to make lampshades.