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1:1 therapy, groups, and Catharsis Theater for Loss & Grief Relief.
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🌎 In the Age of Grief, all loss matters.
❤️ Facing the hurt together.
1:1 therapy, groups, and Catharsis Theater for Loss & Grief Relief.
💻 Virtual + in-person | www.caligrief.com
🌎 In the Age of Grief, all loss matters.
❤️ Facing the hurt together.
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Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
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🕯️ When grief gets dark, companionship brings light.
This week’s Grief Wave explores what sustains us when loss feels endless — connection, courage, and care.
Read: The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Dark
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#Grief #Healing #Help #Bluesky #Love #Loss
🕯️ When grief gets dark, companionship brings light.
This week’s Grief Wave explores what sustains us when loss feels endless — connection, courage, and care.
Read: The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Dark
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
#Grief #Healing #Help #Bluesky #Love #Loss
The Grief Wave – November 4, 2025 | When Grief Gets Dark
How we find light, connection, and courage when loss feels endless
caligrief.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness.
This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy.
💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com
#Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave
When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness.
This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy.
💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com
#Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave
The Grief Wave | Brian Stefan | Substack
✍️ Exploring grief, healing, and humanity in all its tangled beauty. Click to read The Grief Wave, by Brian Stefan, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.
caligrief.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness.
This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy.
💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com
#Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave
When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness.
This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy.
💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com
#Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave
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When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔
This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊
Read: When Grief Gets Stuck
🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
#Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave
When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔
This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊
Read: When Grief Gets Stuck
🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
#Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 24, 2025 | When Grief Gets Stuck
How love, memory, and movement help us find our way through what feels unmoving.
caligrief.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔
This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊
Read: When Grief Gets Stuck
🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
#Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave
When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔
This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊
Read: When Grief Gets Stuck
🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
#Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave
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🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals
Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening.
A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection.
This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains.
🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...
#TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing
🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals
Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening.
A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection.
This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains.
🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...
#TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 17, 2025 | Where What Hurts Meets What Heals + Catharsis Theater for Loss (10/18)
From loss to renewal, this week’s stories trace how memory, language, and community help us heal what still aches.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals
Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening.
A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection.
This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains.
🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...
#TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing
🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals
Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening.
A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection.
This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains.
🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie...
#TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing
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HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care.
Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care.
Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 14, 2025
The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.
open.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care.
Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care.
Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination.
Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A reminder: architecture tells our national story.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination.
Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A reminder: architecture tells our national story.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 13, 2025
Last Tuesday, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination.
Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A reminder: architecture tells our national story.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
A proposed Triumphal Arch—gold winged statue and all—rises from the Potomac in Trump’s imagination.
Facing Lincoln’s Memorial, it casts a shadow not of triumph but of forgetting.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
A reminder: architecture tells our national story.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself.
Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself.
Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself.
Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History isn’t a monument—it’s a mirror.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when leaders rewrite the past to sanctify power, they set fire to truth itself.
Today’s proclamation about Columbus reveals not reverence, but revision.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror.
Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.”
Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror.
Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.”
Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 10, 2025
All of President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror.
Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.”
Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History, HCR reminds us, is not an archive but a mirror.
Today’s reflection shows power turning inward, silencing truth-tellers and calling dissent “hate.”
Democracy feels like an organ under siege—wounded, yet still alive.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 9, 2025
Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
HCR’s Oct 9 essay feels like watching a storm gather over the republic—each gust an abuse of power, each flash a warning of what’s at stake when truth becomes partisan.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Democracy, she reminds us, isn’t won once—it’s defended daily.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 9, 2025
Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History bends like a river, and today’s current is swift and dangerous. Heather Cox Richardson reminds us that when justice is bent into a tool of revenge, democracy itself trembles.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 8, 2025
Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.
open.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
History bends in moments like this. National Guard troops on Illinois soil against the governor’s will. A president invoking the Insurrection Act’s shadow. What HCR calls out is not just politics—it’s democracy’s breaking point.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025).
A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025).
A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jonathan Lear (1948–2025)
A life that proved patience could be revolutionary, transforming our understanding of what it means to be human by first understanding what it means to be chimpanzee.
caligrief.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025).
A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings honors Jonathan Lear (1948–2025).
A philosopher & psychoanalyst, he showed us that wisdom is not in avoiding pain but in facing it with courage. His work on Radical Hope and mourning helps us imagine how to live when futures collapse.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
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History is not only memory, it is warning.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
History is not only memory, it is warning.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
October 7, 2025
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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History is not only memory, it is warning.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
History is not only memory, it is warning.
Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: power abandoned by elected leaders does not vanish, it seeps into the hands of unelected actors. ⚖️
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025
Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️
This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025
Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️
This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 7, 2025 | Threads of Grief, Threads of Care + Catharsis Theater for Loss and Healing
Reflections, resources, and events for navigating grief
caligrief.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025
Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️
This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
🍂 The Grief Wave — Oct 7, 2025
Grief is never loss. It is also a lantern — casting light on memory, presence, and the path forward in one another’s company. 🌊🕯️
This week’s edition: honoring a leader, supporting children, new laws, & healing gatherings.
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
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📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 6, 2025
If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 HCR’s latest essay: a map of America at the edge of memory and meaning. Project 2025 is no longer a plan in the shadows. It is becoming a lived reality. The question is not just politics but survival of democracy itself.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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🌊 New from The Grief Wave
Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2)
How do we talk to kids about death without overwhelming them—or leaving them in confusion? This piece explores practical, compassionate ways forward.
📖 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...
🌊 New from The Grief Wave
Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2)
How do we talk to kids about death without overwhelming them—or leaving them in confusion? This piece explores practical, compassionate ways forward.
📖 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...
Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2)
Practical strategies for supporting young hearts through loss
caligrief.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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🌊 New from The Grief Wave
Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2)
How do we talk to kids about death without overwhelming them—or leaving them in confusion? This piece explores practical, compassionate ways forward.
📖 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...
🌊 New from The Grief Wave
Grief 101: When Children Grieve (Part 2)
How do we talk to kids about death without overwhelming them—or leaving them in confusion? This piece explores practical, compassionate ways forward.
📖 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/grief-101-...
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📰 Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: America is at a crossroads where perception collides with reality.
Leaders invoke war zones that do not exist, and the grief of a nation deepens when power bends truth into fear.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: America is at a crossroads where perception collides with reality.
Leaders invoke war zones that do not exist, and the grief of a nation deepens when power bends truth into fear.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 5, 2025
On Friday the Minnesota Star Tribune reported a conversation on the messaging app Signal between one of Stephen Miller’s top deputies, Anthony Salisbury, and a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense P...
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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📰 Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: America is at a crossroads where perception collides with reality.
Leaders invoke war zones that do not exist, and the grief of a nation deepens when power bends truth into fear.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 Heather Cox Richardson reminds us: America is at a crossroads where perception collides with reality.
Leaders invoke war zones that do not exist, and the grief of a nation deepens when power bends truth into fear.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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📰 HCR's essay feels like a mirror to America.
Trump’s absence is replaced with AI grim reapers, zombies, and mockery of democracy.
The question is no longer politics. It’s: what happens when power feeds on fear?
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 HCR's essay feels like a mirror to America.
Trump’s absence is replaced with AI grim reapers, zombies, and mockery of democracy.
The question is no longer politics. It’s: what happens when power feeds on fear?
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 3, 2025
Although President Donald J.
open.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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📰 HCR's essay feels like a mirror to America.
Trump’s absence is replaced with AI grim reapers, zombies, and mockery of democracy.
The question is no longer politics. It’s: what happens when power feeds on fear?
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📰 HCR's essay feels like a mirror to America.
Trump’s absence is replaced with AI grim reapers, zombies, and mockery of democracy.
The question is no longer politics. It’s: what happens when power feeds on fear?
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
(1/5)
🕯️ The Grief Wave (Oct 3, 2025) | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral
Grief is not only about loss. It is also about resilience, meaning, and community.
This week’s edition explores justice, science, memory & connection.
👉 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
🕯️ The Grief Wave (Oct 3, 2025) | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral
Grief is not only about loss. It is also about resilience, meaning, and community.
This week’s edition explores justice, science, memory & connection.
👉 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 3, 2025 | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral (October)
Exploring how memory, resilience, and community carry us forward
caligrief.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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🕯️ The Grief Wave (Oct 3, 2025) | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral
Grief is not only about loss. It is also about resilience, meaning, and community.
This week’s edition explores justice, science, memory & connection.
👉 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
🕯️ The Grief Wave (Oct 3, 2025) | Echoes & Renewal + The Second Funeral
Grief is not only about loss. It is also about resilience, meaning, and community.
This week’s edition explores justice, science, memory & connection.
👉 Read: caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-...
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🕯️ In Chicago, a raid tore through homes in the dark of night. Families zip-tied, children crying, neighbors calling it an “invasion by our own military.” HCR traces how these actions connect to a larger authoritarian push.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
🕯️ In Chicago, a raid tore through homes in the dark of night. Families zip-tied, children crying, neighbors calling it an “invasion by our own military.” HCR traces how these actions connect to a larger authoritarian push.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 2, 2025
At about 1:00 on Tuesday morning, federal agents from Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) raided an apartment b...
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October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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🕯️ In Chicago, a raid tore through homes in the dark of night. Families zip-tied, children crying, neighbors calling it an “invasion by our own military.” HCR traces how these actions connect to a larger authoritarian push.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
🕯️ In Chicago, a raid tore through homes in the dark of night. Families zip-tied, children crying, neighbors calling it an “invasion by our own military.” HCR traces how these actions connect to a larger authoritarian push.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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🌊 New essay on The Grief Wave:
The Tangled Net #14 — The Weaponization of Nostalgia
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle...
From Brexit to MAGA to Modi, nostalgia has become the most powerful political force of our time. But what it’s really tapping into is something deeper: grief.
🌊 New essay on The Grief Wave:
The Tangled Net #14 — The Weaponization of Nostalgia
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle...
From Brexit to MAGA to Modi, nostalgia has become the most powerful political force of our time. But what it’s really tapping into is something deeper: grief.
The Tangled Net #14: The Weaponization of Nostalgia
When longing for "home" became the most powerful political force of our age
caligrief.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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🌊 New essay on The Grief Wave:
The Tangled Net #14 — The Weaponization of Nostalgia
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle...
From Brexit to MAGA to Modi, nostalgia has become the most powerful political force of our time. But what it’s really tapping into is something deeper: grief.
🌊 New essay on The Grief Wave:
The Tangled Net #14 — The Weaponization of Nostalgia
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-tangle...
From Brexit to MAGA to Modi, nostalgia has become the most powerful political force of our time. But what it’s really tapping into is something deeper: grief.
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A nation’s stage is set. While millions brace for a shutdown, the president plays with doctored videos like a jester in a collapsing court.
HCR reminds us: history records not just policy, but the spirit in which power is wielded.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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A nation’s stage is set. While millions brace for a shutdown, the president plays with doctored videos like a jester in a collapsing court.
HCR reminds us: history records not just policy, but the spirit in which power is wielded.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 1, 2025
Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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A nation’s stage is set. While millions brace for a shutdown, the president plays with doctored videos like a jester in a collapsing court.
HCR reminds us: history records not just policy, but the spirit in which power is wielded.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
A nation’s stage is set. While millions brace for a shutdown, the president plays with doctored videos like a jester in a collapsing court.
HCR reminds us: history records not just policy, but the spirit in which power is wielded.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
She showed the world that patience could be revolutionary—that empathy belongs in science and that every life, human or chimpanzee, has meaning.
Full tribute here:
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
She showed the world that patience could be revolutionary—that empathy belongs in science and that every life, human or chimpanzee, has meaning.
Full tribute here:
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
A life that proved patience could be revolutionary, transforming our understanding of what it means to be human by first understanding what it means to be chimpanzee.
caligrief.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
She showed the world that patience could be revolutionary—that empathy belongs in science and that every life, human or chimpanzee, has meaning.
Full tribute here:
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
🕯️ Echoes & Endings | Jane Goodall (1934–2025)
She showed the world that patience could be revolutionary—that empathy belongs in science and that every life, human or chimpanzee, has meaning.
Full tribute here:
👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/echoes-and...
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A stage set at Quantico: 800 military leaders rushed to D.C., only to watch a theater of bluster. A flag backdrop, speeches echoing Patton, but silence told its own truth. History’s pen records both words spoken and words withheld.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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A stage set at Quantico: 800 military leaders rushed to D.C., only to watch a theater of bluster. A flag backdrop, speeches echoing Patton, but silence told its own truth. History’s pen records both words spoken and words withheld.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
September 30, 2025
Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...
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October 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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A stage set at Quantico: 800 military leaders rushed to D.C., only to watch a theater of bluster. A flag backdrop, speeches echoing Patton, but silence told its own truth. History’s pen records both words spoken and words withheld.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
A stage set at Quantico: 800 military leaders rushed to D.C., only to watch a theater of bluster. A flag backdrop, speeches echoing Patton, but silence told its own truth. History’s pen records both words spoken and words withheld.
🔗 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social