Could you explain show dissenting and unhappy populations help to overcome authoritarian regimes? Or do you have any reading you’d suggest for someone interested in finding some hope about one day overcoming this?

06.08.2025 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive."

Have shared this before, but will share it again as it is related to this point (and it has been helpful for keeping me motivated in these times).

24.02.2025 02:14 — 👍 639    🔁 149    💬 3    📌 7

No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them) I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really...

These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

16.02.2025 23:32 — 👍 946    🔁 261    💬 33    📌 41

Trump Can Be Stopped Other countries managed to fend off autocracy. By borrowing from their playbook, America can too.

If you do want to know how it works—and, specifically, how it can work in the US, here’s a thing I wrote: substack.com/home/post/p-...

16.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 1206    🔁 498    💬 54    📌 75

Batman holding an object labeled "despair" with an expression of determination. Transcribed Text: This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

Just remember

02.02.2025 02:31 — 👍 48    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0