Jim Lardner
@jimlardner.bsky.social
Activist, journalist, podcast host - goodtroublepodcast.net
The Founders make their debut! Lady Liberty, Tom Paine, Geo. Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thos. Jefferson and Ben Franklin at yesterday's Remove the Regime rally. Accompanied by our wing-flappong, money-grubbing eagle. More to come!
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Founders make their debut! Lady Liberty, Tom Paine, Geo. Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thos. Jefferson and Ben Franklin at yesterday's Remove the Regime rally. Accompanied by our wing-flappong, money-grubbing eagle. More to come!
Has your life (or the life of someone you know) been up-ended by the Trump Administration? We’re building a collection of these stories. Tell us yours at weareyourneighbors.net/submit-your-.... Find out what others are going through at weareyourneighbors.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Has your life (or the life of someone you know) been up-ended by the Trump Administration? We’re building a collection of these stories. Tell us yours at weareyourneighbors.net/submit-your-.... Find out what others are going through at weareyourneighbors.net
A bunch of us took an eye-opening "Petrostate Tour" of Washington DC yesterday. Stops included the American Petroleum Institute (seen here), the American Gas Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association. Bastions all of the fossil-fuel industry's capture of our government and economy.
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A bunch of us took an eye-opening "Petrostate Tour" of Washington DC yesterday. Stops included the American Petroleum Institute (seen here), the American Gas Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association. Bastions all of the fossil-fuel industry's capture of our government and economy.
An inspiration to us all: the nameless four who projected this onto Windsor Castle. The culprits were charged with "malicious communications." We could use a little more of that on this side of the pond, methinks.
September 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
An inspiration to us all: the nameless four who projected this onto Windsor Castle. The culprits were charged with "malicious communications." We could use a little more of that on this side of the pond, methinks.
Just another petrostate - that's what the U.S. has turned into. And the road to anything like democracy will be a twisty one, says David McDermott Hughes. Listen at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m6naa-...
September 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just another petrostate - that's what the U.S. has turned into. And the road to anything like democracy will be a twisty one, says David McDermott Hughes. Listen at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m6naa-...
The 1960s and the 2020s: Michael Ansara on the Civil Rights struggle, the New Left, the anti-Vietnam-War movement, and what do we do now? jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-1960s-...
August 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The 1960s and the 2020s: Michael Ansara on the Civil Rights struggle, the New Left, the anti-Vietnam-War movement, and what do we do now? jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-1960s-...
jlardner.podbean.com/e/reconnecti... "Just as Trump has given us a gift... in showing Americans how government programs like Social Security, Medicaid and the VA undergird a stable middle-class life... Trump has also given us an incredible gift when it comes to imigration."
A Chance to Reconnect | Good Trouble
Joan Williams on the Left and the working class.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/reconnecti... "Just as Trump has given us a gift... in showing Americans how government programs like Social Security, Medicaid and the VA undergird a stable middle-class life... Trump has also given us an incredible gift when it comes to imigration."
jlardner.podbean.com/e/we-cant-go... Mark Blyth explores the lessons of MAGA - the lessons its opponents need to take in.
We Can't Go Back | Good Trouble
The country can't, says economist Mark Blyth. And the Democrats can't.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/we-cant-go... Mark Blyth explores the lessons of MAGA - the lessons its opponents need to take in.
jlardner.podbean.com/e/why-do-the... Out of methodical message-testing comes verbal pablum. "The math is fine," says Brian Beutler. "It's the design of the experiment that I question."
Why Do They Talk Mush? | Good Trouble
Democrats, that is. Brian Beutler looks under the hood of their rhetoric machine, and imagines a better model.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/why-do-the... Out of methodical message-testing comes verbal pablum. "The math is fine," says Brian Beutler. "It's the design of the experiment that I question."
jlardner.podbean.com/e/choosing-o... Harold First in a series of conversations about Resistance messaging: what can we do in our statements, our slogans, our placards, our chants – in the way we speak and present ourselves – to reach people who aren’t already in our camp?
Choosing Our Words | Good Trouble
Something too many Democrats, progressives and Resistors have in common: we talk fancy. Harold Meyerson has some language tips for us.
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June 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/choosing-o... Harold First in a series of conversations about Resistance messaging: what can we do in our statements, our slogans, our placards, our chants – in the way we speak and present ourselves – to reach people who aren’t already in our camp?
jlardner.podbean.com/e/crossing-t... Arlie Russell Hochschild is back in the prelude to a series of episodes on Resistance messaging: what can we do in our signs and chants and calls to action to reach at least some of the Americans not pre-disposed to agree with us?
Crossing the Divide | Good Trouble
Part two of a conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild about the “deep story” that animates a large segment of the Trump base.
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May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/crossing-t... Arlie Russell Hochschild is back in the prelude to a series of episodes on Resistance messaging: what can we do in our signs and chants and calls to action to reach at least some of the Americans not pre-disposed to agree with us?
In the latest episode of Good Trouble, Richard Kahlenberg looks at America's turn against racial preferences, and sees a promising development for progressives, Democrats and people of color.
On Beyond DEI | Good Trouble
The courts and the polls have said no to racial preferences. Richard Kahlenberg sees this as good news for Democrats, progressives and the cause of racial justice.
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May 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In the latest episode of Good Trouble, Richard Kahlenberg looks at America's turn against racial preferences, and sees a promising development for progressives, Democrats and people of color.
jlardner.podbean.com/e/billionair... Billionaires were already a source of trouble before Donald Trump named 13 of them to leading jobs in his admiistration. Chuck Collins tells the tale.
Billionaires! | Good Trouble
They’ve had a large hand in causing some of America's worst problems. And the world's worst problems, too. Chuck Collins connects some of those dots.
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April 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/billionair... Billionaires were already a source of trouble before Donald Trump named 13 of them to leading jobs in his admiistration. Chuck Collins tells the tale.
Born to play Wordle, it appears.
April 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Born to play Wordle, it appears.
George Lakey has been getting arrested for six decades. He's got tales to tell. And tips to offer. jlardner.podbean.com/e/how-we-win/
April 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
George Lakey has been getting arrested for six decades. He's got tales to tell. And tips to offer. jlardner.podbean.com/e/how-we-win/
Just a few of the tens of thousands of folks (and signs) in Washington DC today. Take heart! Press on!
April 6, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Just a few of the tens of thousands of folks (and signs) in Washington DC today. Take heart! Press on!
jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-modern... They don't use tanks anymore. They've learned, as Kim Lane Scheppele puts it, "to play the democracy game." Democracy's defenders need to adapt.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-modern... They don't use tanks anymore. They've learned, as Kim Lane Scheppele puts it, "to play the democracy game." Democracy's defenders need to adapt.
Tesla Takedowns getting bigger and better. Folks were singing and bopping around In Georgetown today, to a chorus of approving honks from passing cars and even a garbage truck and a Metrobus.
March 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Tesla Takedowns getting bigger and better. Folks were singing and bopping around In Georgetown today, to a chorus of approving honks from passing cars and even a garbage truck and a Metrobus.
Compared to 2017, today's actions are more numerous, more spread out and more creative, according to Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam in Waging Nonviolence. But we could learn a thing or two from Denmark in the 1940s or Czechoslovakia in 1968. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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March 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Compared to 2017, today's actions are more numerous, more spread out and more creative, according to Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam in Waging Nonviolence. But we could learn a thing or two from Denmark in the 1940s or Czechoslovakia in 1968. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...
Outstanding rally at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) this morning. Great spirit and camaraderie. High-quality signs (including mine.) Lots of honks of approval from drivers-by.
March 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Outstanding rally at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) this morning. Great spirit and camaraderie. High-quality signs (including mine.) Lots of honks of approval from drivers-by.