Kara Spaulding
@krspaulding.bsky.social
A person who still observes observable things. (Thanks, A.R.)
“…you need to understand the positive space to understand the negative space, and you have to understand the negative space to understand where the positive space ought to be. You have to it all to see the picture.” www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“…you need to understand the positive space to understand the negative space, and you have to understand the negative space to understand where the positive space ought to be. You have to it all to see the picture.” www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
What comes next? “…[I]t’s up to me and you.”
I wrote about attending No Kings, opposing visions of America, what hating those visions says about those who hate them, the importance being earnest, and the necessity of finding the next step.
www.the-reframe.com/america-hate...
www.the-reframe.com/america-hate...
America Haters
No Kings was a week ago. What did it mean?
www.the-reframe.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What comes next? “…[I]t’s up to me and you.”
“…antisemitic Leftists are violently holding signs. Every day, you have cruel eighteen-year-old Democrats…shoving their cruel views down the throats of eighteen-year-old conservatives—defenseless little toddlers, green shoots fresh out of the Garden of Eden.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
Young Republican Kids Say the Darndest Things
“Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery, and rape…. Vice President JD Vance downplayed [the] bi...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
“…antisemitic Leftists are violently holding signs. Every day, you have cruel eighteen-year-old Democrats…shoving their cruel views down the throats of eighteen-year-old conservatives—defenseless little toddlers, green shoots fresh out of the Garden of Eden.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...
“To be a Republican in 2025 is to be in favor of this. You can stop anytime, and yet you don't. It is what it is. You are what you are. We can all see it.” www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
October 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“To be a Republican in 2025 is to be in favor of this. You can stop anytime, and yet you don't. It is what it is. You are what you are. We can all see it.” www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
“This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about…”
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
www.the-reframe.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“This is the grain of sand at the center of the pearl of my ire, because ‘we are going to have to live here with each other’ is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree with any of us about…”
“…even if I cannot cite every relevant date or confrontation throughout history, we are witnessing a live-streamed genocide.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...
On Being Wrong
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“…even if I cannot cite every relevant date or confrontation throughout history, we are witnessing a live-streamed genocide.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...
“Russia did not say why the plant was targeted.”
Russian airstrikes hit a U.S. factory in western Ukraine
Two Russian cruise missiles hit a U.S. electronics plant in the far west of Ukraine. The strike was part of an overnight barrage of more than 600 drones and missiles.
www.npr.org
August 21, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“Russia did not say why the plant was targeted.”
“‘Texans don’t run from a fight,’ [Gov. Greg Abbott] said.”
First of all, fuck you. Secondly, the orders you and all your nazi buddies are following from leiber anführer doesn’t amount to a fight. You’d know that if you weren’t a sociopath.
First of all, fuck you. Secondly, the orders you and all your nazi buddies are following from leiber anführer doesn’t amount to a fight. You’d know that if you weren’t a sociopath.
Democrats prevent Texas House from moving forward with Trump-backed congressional map
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he will begin trying to remove Democratic lawmakers if they don’t return after dozens of them left the state in a last-resort attempt to block redrawn U.S. House...
apnews.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“‘Texans don’t run from a fight,’ [Gov. Greg Abbott] said.”
First of all, fuck you. Secondly, the orders you and all your nazi buddies are following from leiber anführer doesn’t amount to a fight. You’d know that if you weren’t a sociopath.
First of all, fuck you. Secondly, the orders you and all your nazi buddies are following from leiber anführer doesn’t amount to a fight. You’d know that if you weren’t a sociopath.
“I believe we have been captured by a human spirit that has convinced us of terrible foundational lies. Our society believes that profit is the highest moral value. It believes that people must earn life. It believes we don't belong to each other.”
I wrote about the debate with the Jubilee fascists, the overall idea of the utility of debate and the alleged need for it in order to arrive at truth, and the malicious and corrosive effect this false idea actually has upon the discourse and society.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
www.the-reframe.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“I believe we have been captured by a human spirit that has convinced us of terrible foundational lies. Our society believes that profit is the highest moral value. It believes that people must earn life. It believes we don't belong to each other.”
“Members of Congress who believe Trump is a danger to democracy should impeach him every day of his natural life.”
Impeachment is a Duty
The importance of telling a consistent and accurate story on matters of fire.
www.the-reframe.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Members of Congress who believe Trump is a danger to democracy should impeach him every day of his natural life.”
My niece Shay at Shay scribbles published her first coloring book! If you’re into that kinda thing, give it a look. 😊🖍️🎨
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July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My niece Shay at Shay scribbles published her first coloring book! If you’re into that kinda thing, give it a look. 😊🖍️🎨
a.co/d/fWmdeUf
a.co/d/fWmdeUf
No. Bad. Isolation. Insularity. Do not like.
Exclusive: TikTok prepares US app with its own algorithm and user data
TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the groundwork for a potential sale orchestrated by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
July 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
No. Bad. Isolation. Insularity. Do not like.
For those of you who support Trump and also believe in that old building block of Christian eschatology “the mark of the beast,” isn’t it crazy how ya boy is bringing this all about? Curiouser and curiouser…
Palantir employees spill the tea.
Thirteen former Palantir staffers signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration.
Thirteen former Palantir staffers signed a letter urging the company to cut ties with the Trump administration.
July 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
For those of you who support Trump and also believe in that old building block of Christian eschatology “the mark of the beast,” isn’t it crazy how ya boy is bringing this all about? Curiouser and curiouser…
“It almost seems as if they'd rather have white supremacy than life.”
On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
www.the-reframe.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
“It almost seems as if they'd rather have white supremacy than life.”
“We humans are the universe observing itself.”
I wrote about life, the universe, and everything, and how how present fascist nightmare is the result of an unnaturally submerged life.
What is the purpose of humanity? We are beings of awareness, not efficiency. Let's start there as see where it takes us.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
What is the purpose of humanity? We are beings of awareness, not efficiency. Let's start there as see where it takes us.
www.the-reframe.com/the-everythi...
The Everything & The Submarine
Fighting our present fascist nightmare by leaving the submerged life, and pondering the idle and foolish question of what the meaning of life is, anyway.
www.the-reframe.com
May 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
“We humans are the universe observing itself.”
“It's time to un-kidnap our minds. It's time to become something other than efficient, which is a wonderful thing for a machine or a system to be, and can be a wonderful tool for a human to harness, but is a terrible and enslaving purpose for a life.”
I wrote about our Kidnapping & Enslavement forces, the traditional notions that government is made for profit and human beings are meant for efficiency, and the ways these notions inevitably lead to enslavement.
The profit we gain from society IS society.
www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...
The profit we gain from society IS society.
www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...
Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency
Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.
www.the-reframe.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“It's time to un-kidnap our minds. It's time to become something other than efficient, which is a wonderful thing for a machine or a system to be, and can be a wonderful tool for a human to harness, but is a terrible and enslaving purpose for a life.”
Don't—don't—don't—don't—
look at what's in front of you
look at what's in front of you
TikTok video by Andr3w
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May 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Don't—don't—don't—don't—
look at what's in front of you
look at what's in front of you
The heart wants what it wants.
I’m the Imaginary Migrant Who Crossed the Darién Gap to Vote in the United States
“The Darién Gap, a stretch of nearly impenetrable rainforest along the border with Colombia, was transformed into a migratory highway in recent yea...
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The heart wants what it wants.
“Similes are like ideological gateway drugs—soft at first, then suddenly your kid’s in a black box theater whispering monologues about late-stage capitalism instead of doing something important, like fracking.”
Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding
“Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...
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May 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“Similes are like ideological gateway drugs—soft at first, then suddenly your kid’s in a black box theater whispering monologues about late-stage capitalism instead of doing something important, like fracking.”
“ . . . we have to understand that we are dealing with the worst people in the world and their cultish followers, who are not the worst people in the world because they are inhuman, but because they are humans who have rejected humanity in favor of inhuman lies.”
I wrote about the pervasive societal impulse to extend the benefit of the doubt to those who've proved themselves unworthy of any, and the importance of establishing a human framing in the fight against fascism before you can even begin the fight, much less win it.
www.the-reframe.com/the-reframe/
www.the-reframe.com/the-reframe/
The Reframe
If you stay in their frame, you'll always be in their picture. On the fine art of not handing it to them.
www.the-reframe.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“ . . . we have to understand that we are dealing with the worst people in the world and their cultish followers, who are not the worst people in the world because they are inhuman, but because they are humans who have rejected humanity in favor of inhuman lies.”
A Trump-appointed judge, no less.
Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, judge rules
President Donald Trump's administration exceeded the scope of an 18th-century wartime law in using it to deport some Venezuelan migrants, a federal judge in Texas said on Thursday in barring the administration from using it to speed up deportations.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A Trump-appointed judge, no less.
This is disgusting. Holding them hostage by denying assistance in the war with Russia until the Ukraine capitulates is anti-American.
Ukraine poised to sign much anticipated mineral resources deal with the US on Wednesday
Ukraine is prepared to sign a landmark mineral resources agreement with the United States in Washington.
apnews.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is disgusting. Holding them hostage by denying assistance in the war with Russia until the Ukraine capitulates is anti-American.