On the 5th of September, at a sparsely populated meeting of the Polk County, FL school board, book burners came out of the woodwork. They are working from a script by so-called “Moms4Liberty” in which they find a book with the most “pornographic” passage they can, and read it out of context in school board meetings seeking to get the books banned. One of them even whined about how Polk County is behind many other counties in banning books!

They were countered by LGBTQ speakers, one of whom called them out as the Nazis they are, warned of the danger posed by the GOP’s “Project 2025,” and called out school board member and felon Rick Nolte for his role in recent Fascist proposals before the Board