Kermit Lopez

It’s like the westerns where the bandits take the town over and the leader becomes sheriff

This…

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry Schmoozing the super-rich to fund a $300m ballroom while cutting food aid for those on low incomes threw the president’s architectural folly into sharp relief

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.

U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.

We are $38 trillion in debt, millions are about to go hungry, and he's busy building himself a gilded ballroom.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Heh...

#StarTrek

Immigration raids paralyze key California farm region as workers stay home Fear from raids are overwhelming food banks, churches and housing,

Immigration raids in California's Coachella Valley — a key source of the nation's produce — have upended daily life, keeping parents from fields, children from school and multiple families crowded into shared homes www.axios.com/2025/10/26/i... #immigration

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

9.2K views · 570 reactions | @xennialfarmer: The dumbing down of America is a real thing. #thisisamerica | J.M. Robinson @xennialfarmer: The dumbing down of America is a real thing. #thisisamerica

www.facebook.com/reel/1952322...

When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #Cibolero #booksky #historicalfiction

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/

When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #Cibolero #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/

Sirena is a prescient novel. Published in 2008, it tells the story of a New Mexico Hispanic family and the rise of a racist demagogic U.S. president. In the name of freedom, they destroyed freedom, the bright shining star imploding, devouring itself. #Sirena #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LRT8W/

Accompanied a friend to Target and saw the paperback of @stephenking.bsky.social’s You Like It Darker at the checkout. Then I read the top quote. My words on the cover of a King book. Kid me had a moment, y’all. Hah.

people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia

This really was one of my main takeaways

NEW RELEASE!

After a day and a half in the rolling hills of eastern Kansas, we made it to the Great Plains. The Lynns were all agog over the sight, and, I have to admit, I was always struck by it too. Grasslands as far as one could see.

books2read.com/HeartsFlush

#Romance #romancelandia #booksky

#BookSky don't miss out on this most excellent read

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

The banned books shelf is actually dangerous! Took a trip to the bookstore while my wife is at a professional conference. #booksky

#OctoberWorldbuilders #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #Booksky
Days 23 & 24
#Tirial

I'll just provide a map of a town called Ba Mors. In the novel, we don't actually visit the place but Umaryn mentions it. /1

"Well written and fully engrossing. Very highly recommended." ~ ReadersFavorite
⚔️ mybook.to/sagamanser... 

If you're searching for a series that transports you to other worlds and stirs your emotions, the Sagaman Series is waiting.

@maggiekirton.bsky.social
#FantasyBooks #fantasy 🩷🧙‍♂️⚔️
#booksky

Sirena is a prescient novel. Published in 2008, it tells the story of a New Mexico Hispanic family and the rise of a racist demagogic U.S. president. In the name of freedom, they destroyed freedom, the bright shining star imploding, devouring itself. #Sirena #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LRT8W/

When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #Cibolero #booksky

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/

When his daughter is kidnapped by a band of Texas Rangers after the Civil War, Antonio Baca tracks them across the plains of New Mexico and Texas using his skills as a former buffalo hunter. #Cibolero #booksky #historicalfiction

www.amazon.com/dp/B0791LTDST/

Robert Reich From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch. https://youtu.be/Nmq7QqqY4vo?si=-_IyB5RX1IeFYjHW

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings