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Frank recommended some great stuff!

If you still find yourself with US mythology Zinn's A People's History and Loewen's Lies my Teacher Told Me are a must. Keeping in mind they both at some level have anti-commie brainworms.

Continuing US history, Horne's Counter-revolution of 1776, Beard's Economic Interpretation of the US Constitution, and Davis's Women, Race, and Class. Should pretty much cement that most of what you were taught about US history and the revolution is bullshit.

Then you can get into foreign policy with Blackshirts and Reds, The Jakarta Method, Washington Bullets, Blowback Podcast.

If you want a primer on Neoliberalism and how it's taken over Frank's Listen Liberal, Mayer's Dark Money, and MacClean's Democracy in Chains has you covered by examining neoliberalism's rise in US political parties and media capture.

These are my key recommendations that helped me clean my brain out, excluding Feinberg and Fanon that Frank covered. Pick and choose as necessary, but the groups I have them in tend to compliment each other real well.

Oh, and it's fiction, but as a straight white guy myself I definitely recommend Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin. It's about Trans-people fighting against Terfs in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Some of the internal dialogue is heartbreaking but important to read, imo.