Benjamin Gorman

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

Ye gods I wish I had some spare money lying around at the moment, but alas!

Anyway #WritingCommunity here's an amazing opportunity to get one-on-one feedback from one of the living greats of #SFF.

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

Chrys and I in front of a sign that says, "You are nowhere."

@chryslaw.bsky.social and I have been lots of places together. So far: Happiest here. 🥰😁

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

I was so excited to pick up Chrys at the airport that I got all dressed up to greet her. Heading out today for our new new life in Portland. (For those of you saying, "Wait, what?!" you'll just have to listen to/watch/read the podcast over the next few weeks! 😁)

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

Suozzi voted for ICE funding last week and issued a preening self-congratulatory press release afterwards bragging about bucking the Dem Party on the vote. FAFO.

Everything I needed to know about authoritarianism I learned from feminism, or rather from feminism’s sharp eye when it comes to coercive control and male abusers. Sociologist and gender violence expert Evan Stark, in his book Coercive Control, defined the title term as one that subsumes domestic violence in a larger pattern of isolation, intimidation and control. (The book has been so influential that in the UK, coercive control is now recognised as a crime.) The violence matters, Stark writes, “but the primary harm abusive men inflict is political, not physical, and reflects the deprivation of rights and resources that are critical to personhood and citizenship”. This connects it directly to what dictators and totalitarian regimes do to the people under their rule – it’s only a matter of scale. And the agenda at all scales is to control not just practical matters, but fact, truth, history; who can speak and what can be said. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/25/feminism-men-putin-trump-abusive-men-dictators?

Been writing about this for a long time. 2022

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

America is a battered woman. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

It's all so "she made me do it" blaming the victim, and this iteration closely echoes a previous admin. one. Rhetoric justifies bloodshed in this frame, and his rhetoric uses the passive tense/vagueness to avoid saying 'we will shed blood.'

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

Republican Party = anti-Constitution Fascist Party

"Follow-up: Since your answer is such an obvious dodge, why should any American think he can carry out the most basic parts of his job when he endangers a duly elected member of Congress?"

Recommended wording for anyone in the White House press corp:

"President Trump has complained more about Representative Ilhan Omar than anyone else in Congress. In the wake of her being assaulted, is the President capable of taking any responsibility for the consequences of his rhetoric?"

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

On this episode of the show, @benjamingorman.bsky.social continues to release his new serial novel, TILTING AT WINDMILLS. Here’s Chapter 3: Charging Wind Turbines.
YouTube or podcast here: bit.ly/WNWHome or subscribe to Benjamin’s Patreon or Substack!

The Trump regime is an illegitimate, evil, corrupt, fascist enterprise.

Its supporters are hateful, cowardly, or deceived, but are all responsible.

I will speak out against the regime every single day until they are held accountable.

bit.ly/StandNow

a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud . ALT: a woman is covering her face with her hands while a crowd of people applaud .

Residents of wherever Greg Bovino retires, please remember: It's perfectly legal (and, in this case, morally justified) to loudly boo someone every single time you see them until the day they die.

That's -16 for my Celsius-employing friends. And it's -11F with windchill (-24C). I generally prefer cold to extreme heat, but this might be taking things too far.

This is the one where Rolando fights the giant! I had a lot of fun performing the voices this week.

Me holding a sign that says, "No, you're UNDER-reacting"

Still think we're overreacting?

A law without sanctions for transgressions is called "a bluff".