Paul T Shattuck
@ptshattuck.bsky.social
Stay human. Stay strategic. Shape tomorrow.
Insights, tools, and inspiration for living and leading under authoritarian siege
Substack: Progressive Strategy Now
https://paultshattuck.substack.com/
Insights, tools, and inspiration for living and leading under authoritarian siege
Substack: Progressive Strategy Now
https://paultshattuck.substack.com/
Buying the turkey doesn’t make you complicit. Refusing to feel the wrongness would.
The paradox you’re carrying into the grocery store is the sign you’re still awake. You don’t have to resolve it to move through it. Stay in it. That’s the work this week.
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The paradox you’re carrying into the grocery store is the sign you’re still awake. You don’t have to resolve it to move through it. Stay in it. That’s the work this week.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/am-i-still...
Am I Still in the Resistance If I'm Buying a Turkey?
When the parking lot is festive and the news is horrifying, the dissonance you feel is accurate perception. Here's how to stay in it without breaking.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Buying the turkey doesn’t make you complicit. Refusing to feel the wrongness would.
The paradox you’re carrying into the grocery store is the sign you’re still awake. You don’t have to resolve it to move through it. Stay in it. That’s the work this week.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/am-i-still...
The paradox you’re carrying into the grocery store is the sign you’re still awake. You don’t have to resolve it to move through it. Stay in it. That’s the work this week.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/am-i-still...
Care is strategy. Understanding how harm lands and using that in discussions with others to short circuit self-blame and identify what needs protecting is one way we care for each other and cultivate our capacity to fight back.
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Trump Wants to Break Us. Naming the Harms Helps Us Resist and Stay Human
Trump weaponizes chaos to exhaust our capacity for resistance. Recognizing the patterns of harm in our daily lives helps us protect our humanity and reclaim our strategic power.
paultshattuck.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Care is strategy. Understanding how harm lands and using that in discussions with others to short circuit self-blame and identify what needs protecting is one way we care for each other and cultivate our capacity to fight back.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/trump-want...
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/trump-want...
If you have a history of trauma—oligarchic extraction might be triggering something deeper than political outrage. It’s reactivating old survival patterns. We can interrupt those patterns
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Oligarchy and Authoritarianism Rely on Our Trauma Responses - Here’s the Interrupt
When oligarchic or authoritarian extraction triggers old trauma patterns, we risk doing their work for them. Pattern recognition before the cascade fully activates—that's where agency lives.
paultshattuck.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If you have a history of trauma—oligarchic extraction might be triggering something deeper than political outrage. It’s reactivating old survival patterns. We can interrupt those patterns
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/oligarchy-...
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/oligarchy-...
Movements need people who’ve seen fuckery like this before and can say: “This is dangerous, but it’s not unstoppable. Here’s what endurance looks like.” You’re that person.
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Resisting Authoritarianism for Those Over 60: An FAQ for Making Contributions When Everything Is Changing Fast
Organizing tools have changed, the pace has accelerated, and you're not sure where your experience fits. But what if the clarity and courage that come at our age are exactly what's needed now?
paultshattuck.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Movements need people who’ve seen fuckery like this before and can say: “This is dangerous, but it’s not unstoppable. Here’s what endurance looks like.” You’re that person.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/resisting-...
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/resisting-...
Extraction is deep code programmed into the operating system running beneath modern authoritarianism, digital capitalism, and workplace culture
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Stay Free: 80 Tiny Moves to Resist Systems That Drain You
Trump’s authoritarianism, platform manipulation, and the modern workplace share a common ‘grammar of extraction.’ Learn to see it anywhere to become more resilient everywhere.
paultshattuck.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Extraction is deep code programmed into the operating system running beneath modern authoritarianism, digital capitalism, and workplace culture
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/stay-free-...
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/stay-free-...
The intensity of their psychological warfare is evidence of your potential power to change things
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October 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The intensity of their psychological warfare is evidence of your potential power to change things
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This administration is counting on exhaustion to do their work for them. Every time you show up weary and refuse to quit, you’re proving them wrong.
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#authoritarianism #nokingsday #democracy #resistance
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#authoritarianism #nokingsday #democracy #resistance
No Kings Field Kit: Staying Human Under Occupation (October, 2025)
They want fear to keep you home—or make you so reactive you play into their hands. This field kit helps you choose your stance, pace yourself, and refuse to let occupation break you.
paultshattuck.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This administration is counting on exhaustion to do their work for them. Every time you show up weary and refuse to quit, you’re proving them wrong.
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/no-kings-f...
#authoritarianism #nokingsday #democracy #resistance
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#authoritarianism #nokingsday #democracy #resistance
MAGA fragility is brittleness performing as strength. Defiance is refusing to comply with the demand to accept gaslighting, even just in your own head. Protect your conscience and clarity fiercely. #MoralClarity #Resistance
October 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
MAGA fragility is brittleness performing as strength. Defiance is refusing to comply with the demand to accept gaslighting, even just in your own head. Protect your conscience and clarity fiercely. #MoralClarity #Resistance
Hopelessness is manufactured by tyrants who need you to believe the future is closed. When despair is a goal of oppression, choosing hope is a radical act of rebellion
October 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hopelessness is manufactured by tyrants who need you to believe the future is closed. When despair is a goal of oppression, choosing hope is a radical act of rebellion
Protect your attention like it's classified information. Spinning in outrage and anxiety doesn't make you more prepared. It just makes you less useful
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Protect your attention like it's classified information. Spinning in outrage and anxiety doesn't make you more prepared. It just makes you less useful
My new piece on MAGA Fragility
“The very slogan of the movement is a fragility machine. “Make America Great Again” begins with a wound: the suggestion that greatness has already been lost, that something precious has been stolen.”
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“The very slogan of the movement is a fragility machine. “Make America Great Again” begins with a wound: the suggestion that greatness has already been lost, that something precious has been stolen.”
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MAGA Fragility Is Hurting Us - Here’s How To Handle It
The injury isn't just the policies—it's being forced to endure the relentless firehose of hypocrisy and coercive gaslighting. Here's how to step outside their frame and stay strategically grounded.
paultshattuck.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
My new piece on MAGA Fragility
“The very slogan of the movement is a fragility machine. “Make America Great Again” begins with a wound: the suggestion that greatness has already been lost, that something precious has been stolen.”
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/maga-fragi...
“The very slogan of the movement is a fragility machine. “Make America Great Again” begins with a wound: the suggestion that greatness has already been lost, that something precious has been stolen.”
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/maga-fragi...
Great piece about Miller. See also my related piece on MAGA Fragility
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October 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Great piece about Miller. See also my related piece on MAGA Fragility
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/maga-fragi...
paultshattuck.substack.com/p/maga-fragi...
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
They’re purging experts from government, slashing research, and gutting public health and disability policy. They want you to go quietly. Don’t. Here’s how displaced experts can fight back—together.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-e...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-e...
They Want Experts to Go Quietly. Don’t.
This isn’t just job loss—it’s a strategic attack on truth and accountability. Experts have been purged before, and they’ve fought back before.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They’re purging experts from government, slashing research, and gutting public health and disability policy. They want you to go quietly. Don’t. Here’s how displaced experts can fight back—together.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-e...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/want-e...
The attacks on disability rights aren’t just policy cuts - they’re a strategy to weaken movements. We need a new approach. Read the latest post & join the conversation
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/unprec...
Unprecedented Blitz Against People With Disabilities Requires New Strategies
Key Takeaways – Why This Matters Everything we have today — Medicaid, disability rights, public education — exists because past movements fought and won. This isn’t just the usual budget cuts, it’s a ...
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March 3, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The attacks on disability rights aren’t just policy cuts - they’re a strategy to weaken movements. We need a new approach. Read the latest post & join the conversation
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www.linkedin.com/pulse/unprec...
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Reposted by Paul T Shattuck
The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise
by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social
“When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.”
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by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social
“When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming...
The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise
What happens when democracy's defenders - career civil servants, public health scientists, professors, community program leaders - become targets? And how do we preserve their essential expertise and ...
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November 27, 2024 at 2:15 AM
The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise
by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social
“When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming...
by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social
“When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.”
www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming...