On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 06:54:18PM -0500, Eric Hellman via socialmedia wrote:

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/ Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral 404media.co

That's one of my favorite PG books which I have quoted often in academic settings when petty bureaucrats are sabotaging forward progress - in fact I'd previously saved a copy of the text from p. 28 that the article shows. Confidentially: I've received a couple of requests from individuals who thought maybe we shouldn't offer that book. I've referred the requesters to our collection development policy. In the event this gets covered in our social media, a link to the policy would be a good idea. The ALA's Freedom to Read statement is a powerful response to attempts at censorship. As the article points out, it's not a mystery why some people are suddenly interested in the book's topic. Also FYI, at the very start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the book spiked for a few days to #1 in the Top 100 list. I didn't notice any media coverage of that, at the time, and FYI PG does not keep server logs more than 30 days so we could not and cannot report on where it was downloaded from except for the most recent period. And I won't be reporting on that (or even checking for my own curiosity) unless forced to. ~ Greg