@amybessyes.bsky.social
Writer, founder, and grizzled wine biz veteran now homesteading in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Bylines: Wine Enthusiast, SevenFifty Daily, Imbibe Magazine amybesscook.com buttercar.substack.com womanowned.wine
Intentional, calculated economic collapse 💰📛 neatly explained:
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
Useful thread.
In the past couple of years, I’ve been compulsively weaving to process a sense of general overwhelm. I’ve been attempting to write about it, too. Imagine my sense of validation, then, waking up to this exquisite essay. Thank you, Sarah 🙏
In which @sifill.bsky.social offers an attitude adjustment (along with some helpful links):
"To insist that nothing can be done is to surrender to the pull of inertia. To numb ourselves and settle for watching our country’s demise, rather than fight it."
What’s happening as a classic collective action problem. The majority of Americans oppose this coup. Even the majority of wealthy people oppose this coup. But right now no one is speaking out, so everyone is afraid to lead — including media, Congress, universities, civil servants.
I am in deep grief for my country.
Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
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I always imagined a coup would be really violent--but when faced with the absolute obliteration of the Constitution (never mind the abandonment of morals), our nation seems to have rolled over like a big, dumb, lazy animal.
WTF, y'all? Are we fighting this, or what?
Hi, I'm in WNC! Would love to participate.
I'd been looking for a comprehensive list of government web pages killed off by 47 + gang. I finally found it--and it's even more extensive than I imagined.
The removal of this info from the public sphere is outright theft of our country's intellectual property.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
An essential read for all of us witnessing the destruction of our nation 💔
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
My latest: "One could make the case that it’s an ideal time to remain sober, so we can focus on the hard work of fighting back. The fact is, throughout history, plenty of tenacious fighting — not to mention thinking — has been inspired by a good, stiff drink."
buttercar.substack.com/p/hard-times...
Remember that time the USA was under a cyber attack from the White House? And people rushed to save crucial scientific, educational, historical, arts, public health, and disaster preparedness information in multiple languages on the Wayback Machine web archive? That time is now. Go! web.archive.org
Seems like a good time to point out that you can download from the library of congress, and it would be worthwhile to download probably as much as you can while you can
A call for us to help one another slow down and keep perspective during what is basically a massive global sh*tstorm:
"This is an age of devastating tumult. It is an age of magnificent possibility. Much is breaking. Much is being born."
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I've been reckoning with this gnarly tangle of invasive wisteria vines in my backyard. Am making sense of the madness the best way I can. One strand at a time. Weaving patiently, till a form takes shape. Looking for beauty in the chaos. As we do in end times.
