wanderingzia.bsky.social
@wanderingzia.bsky.social
The bread is expensive. But the circus has never been cheaper.
December 8, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The bread is expensive. But the circus has never been cheaper.
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Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just thinking about how fucked up mega-rich people must be, because they can't even enjoy their money properly, because the most enjoyable thing to do with money is to use it to fix people's problems.
@juliusgoat.bsky.social makes the point that we should, to slightly change a well worn phrase, impeach early and impeach often.
Or for those of us not elected to Congress, that we should, daily, make our elected officials acutely aware they should do so or face challenges at the ballot box
Or for those of us not elected to Congress, that we should, daily, make our elected officials acutely aware they should do so or face challenges at the ballot box
July 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
@juliusgoat.bsky.social makes the point that we should, to slightly change a well worn phrase, impeach early and impeach often.
Or for those of us not elected to Congress, that we should, daily, make our elected officials acutely aware they should do so or face challenges at the ballot box
Or for those of us not elected to Congress, that we should, daily, make our elected officials acutely aware they should do so or face challenges at the ballot box
@juliusgoat.bsky.social makes some great points and things that should make us all stop and think rather than just reacting.
July 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@juliusgoat.bsky.social makes some great points and things that should make us all stop and think rather than just reacting.
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Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
“…those who have the power to do something also have the obligation not to look away.”
And if we’re not looking away, what do we do with what we learn? Nothing? Something? I hope the latter.
And if we’re not looking away, what do we do with what we learn? Nothing? Something? I hope the latter.
Yes, overwhelm is the point, but it’s not the only point. The cruelty is the point. The lies. The destruction of our Constitutional order. These things are also the point.
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Let's be honest
Taking stock of where we are
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
“…those who have the power to do something also have the obligation not to look away.”
And if we’re not looking away, what do we do with what we learn? Nothing? Something? I hope the latter.
And if we’re not looking away, what do we do with what we learn? Nothing? Something? I hope the latter.
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Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
March 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Just a reminder: having a functional moral compass right now is going to make you feel bad all the time; don’t mistakenly hate yourself for that.
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A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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I hope this is the race, and I hope we win.
The alternative is that there is no hardship white conservatives will not endure in order to see women & children owned as property by white men, and all the many targets of their bigotry murdered by the millions, and that they'll keep voting regardless.
The alternative is that there is no hardship white conservatives will not endure in order to see women & children owned as property by white men, and all the many targets of their bigotry murdered by the millions, and that they'll keep voting regardless.
We're in a race between how fast the public will feel the effects of the GOP destruction of the social safety net & modern regulatory state that has come into existence since the 1930s & made life more livable for non-rich people...and how fast the GOP can secure an election-proof monopoly on power.
February 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I hope this is the race, and I hope we win.
The alternative is that there is no hardship white conservatives will not endure in order to see women & children owned as property by white men, and all the many targets of their bigotry murdered by the millions, and that they'll keep voting regardless.
The alternative is that there is no hardship white conservatives will not endure in order to see women & children owned as property by white men, and all the many targets of their bigotry murdered by the millions, and that they'll keep voting regardless.
“We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken.”
I wrote about the fascist nightmare of recent weeks, the entirely insufficient response by those who should be in opposition, and how I think we can be our own leaders. Embracing a diversity of oppositional method to face down a gang of thugs who hate all diversity. www.the-reframe.com/its/
It's The Fascism, Stupid
Five directional thoughts to align ourselves for the fight ahead. Notice direction, fight upward, ladders downward, look inward, grow outward.
www.the-reframe.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“We're going to have to be our own leaders now. The ones we hired are broken.”
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I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
February 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad.
There’s not.
There’s not.
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Looking ahead…
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Resolute
Out with the old...
open.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Looking ahead…
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...