“We don’t know why Mary didn’t trust science and doctors. According to social research, a person’s trust level is set by their mid twenties…Furthermore, the more you distrust people, social researchers say, the less civil you’re likely to act and behave toward others.

Isn’t it strange they think themselves more patriotic than I?
I who believes in the America that offers opportunity for all. Who believes in accessible health care, unbanned books, and freedom?
I mean real freedom.

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

“Human experience long ago taught us that if we allowed a man or a group of men autocratic power, they used that power to oppose or defraud the public.”
Ida Tarbell - 1903

“I once was foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.”
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Now that TikTok is gone, here’s a list of books I’ve read and find relevant to understanding our past and standing up to the next administration.

These Truths
1619 Project
Fahrenheit 451
Red Roulette
The Heat Will Kill Us First
How Civil Wars Start
American Radical
Caste
Citizen Reporters

Sound familiar?

“Caste”