Within my first days on BlueSky I found a sense of community with many users. I've seen a ton of book recommendations, but none have entranced me like one friend's posts about On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Lobstah Grl has posted brief summaries of each chapter, and by lesson 3 I made plans for a trip to the library because I HAD to check this book out. As the title suggests, it's a book of lessons we learned about tyranny in the 20th Century. It's a relevant topic, as we see a shift towards fascism across the world, but particularly here in the United States. What better way to learn than from history? And how better to learn than together? This begins a series of posts outlining the lessons from this book with my own commentary and ties to our current political landscape.