Ethan Nichtern
@ethannichtern.com
Author: Confidence (Release May 21, 2024), The Road Home, The Dharma of the Princess Bride, Host of The Road Home podcast, Buddhist Student & Teacher
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Ethan Nichtern
@ethannichtern.com
· Jan 22
From Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life’s Eight Worldly Winds.
Cancel Spotify. Tidal a good alternative.
The goal of Spotify’s algorithm isn’t to help you discover new music, its goal is simply to keep you listening for as long as possible. It serves up the safest songs possible to keep you from pressing stop.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Cancel Spotify. Tidal a good alternative.
This is the one angle of the cave that intrigues me.
Whatever will Trump do? Ending the shutdown means bringing back the House for a vote on the Epstein files.
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This is the one angle of the cave that intrigues me.
If it turns out Chuck Schumer is really just Mitch McConnell smirking under a mask, it wouldn't surprise me one little bit.
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
If it turns out Chuck Schumer is really just Mitch McConnell smirking under a mask, it wouldn't surprise me one little bit.
They're all about to find out, and it's not going to be predictable what happens next (except it's a situation perfectly designed for more leaders like Mamdani and AOC to emerge all over the map).
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
They're all about to find out, and it's not going to be predictable what happens next (except it's a situation perfectly designed for more leaders like Mamdani and AOC to emerge all over the map).
Siri, show me a video of a guy no one should ever capitulate to.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Siri, show me a video of a guy no one should ever capitulate to.
My support is going to be on a candidate-by-candidate basis going forward, and will be based on you not taking money from corporate super PACs or AIPAC.
Feels utterly useless to give you either my time or money if theirs is going to matter to you more.
Feels utterly useless to give you either my time or money if theirs is going to matter to you more.
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
My support is going to be on a candidate-by-candidate basis going forward, and will be based on you not taking money from corporate super PACs or AIPAC.
Feels utterly useless to give you either my time or money if theirs is going to matter to you more.
Feels utterly useless to give you either my time or money if theirs is going to matter to you more.
in my dream scenario, they all get primaried and lose while we also empower the working families party to become a true third party that speaks for the people.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
in my dream scenario, they all get primaried and lose while we also empower the working families party to become a true third party that speaks for the people.
A tee-shirt that says Fuck Chuck in Mamdani campaign font will instantly become the bestselling t-shirt in nyc history.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
A tee-shirt that says Fuck Chuck in Mamdani campaign font will instantly become the bestselling t-shirt in nyc history.
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These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Personally, I’ve lost the ability to believe the incompetence of Democratic Party leadership is unintentional.
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Personally, I’ve lost the ability to believe the incompetence of Democratic Party leadership is unintentional.
At the very least, we all understand how the Democratic Party lost the country to a far-right political movement peddling policies that only ever appealed to a small minority of people.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
At the very least, we all understand how the Democratic Party lost the country to a far-right political movement peddling policies that only ever appealed to a small minority of people.
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
French Revolution Vibes.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
French Revolution Vibes.
I feel like if you put in all this work to get someone elected to represent you, and then you *still* have to call them every time they are about to do something incredibly foolish to beg them not to...maybe that wasn't the right person (or party) to represent you from the start.
November 9, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I feel like if you put in all this work to get someone elected to represent you, and then you *still* have to call them every time they are about to do something incredibly foolish to beg them not to...maybe that wasn't the right person (or party) to represent you from the start.
The nightmare since 2015 for me hasn't been trump. There'll always be sociopaths like him.
It's been the structures that were supposed to protect us from him—the news media and the opposition party leadership top the list—that have turned out to be so very complicit.
That's the nightmare.
It's been the structures that were supposed to protect us from him—the news media and the opposition party leadership top the list—that have turned out to be so very complicit.
That's the nightmare.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The nightmare since 2015 for me hasn't been trump. There'll always be sociopaths like him.
It's been the structures that were supposed to protect us from him—the news media and the opposition party leadership top the list—that have turned out to be so very complicit.
That's the nightmare.
It's been the structures that were supposed to protect us from him—the news media and the opposition party leadership top the list—that have turned out to be so very complicit.
That's the nightmare.
Called Schumer and Gillibrand. Left polite, succinct messages.
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224
King (ME) 202 224-5344
Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324
Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451
Masto (NV) 202 224-3542
Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Called Schumer and Gillibrand. Left polite, succinct messages.
My third grade daughter negotiates more intelligently for five more minutes of screen time than Chuck Schumer negotiates for incredibly popular policy positions.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My third grade daughter negotiates more intelligently for five more minutes of screen time than Chuck Schumer negotiates for incredibly popular policy positions.
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🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
If you have 1-2 Democratic Senators, ESPECIALLY any of these eight (and Schumer, who needs to retire yesterday), please CALL THEIR OFFICE tonight and tell them not to cave.
I called and left VM - mine stood strong but I asked them to talk to their colleagues.
Shaheen isn’t even running for re-election- she’s shitting on her colleagues and letting them clean up the mess.
Shaheen isn’t even running for re-election- she’s shitting on her colleagues and letting them clean up the mess.
November 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If you have 1-2 Democratic Senators, ESPECIALLY any of these eight (and Schumer, who needs to retire yesterday), please CALL THEIR OFFICE tonight and tell them not to cave.
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Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
I want history to stop being all about the psychologically disordered actions of a few dudes that end of endangering millions of other lives.
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I want history to stop being all about the psychologically disordered actions of a few dudes that end of endangering millions of other lives.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Chicagoans never stop. I was just watching a live stream of a press conference held by community members in front of FBI headquarters. In the rain in the dark. Umbrellas at hand they are calling for the release of 6 people taken by ICE, 3 also arrested by CPD. They never stop fighting.
My future is Buddhist slogans but in the font of the Mamdani campaign.
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My future is Buddhist slogans but in the font of the Mamdani campaign.
French Revolution vibes…
According to Abigail Disney, Sean Duffy could cut 12% of air travel by grounding private planes. Commercial air travel would be fine. Let that sink in.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
French Revolution vibes…