Here's my newest Substack essay.
I hope you get something out of it.
I know I did writing it.
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I am an adversity alchemist and writer. I transform life's challenges, pain, and struggles into something positive and valuable, like wisdom, strength, purpose, interconnectedness, compassion, and social justice. substack.com/@rodthorn
Here's my newest Substack essay.
I hope you get something out of it.
I know I did writing it.
open.substack.com/pub/rodthorn...
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30.11.2025 02:19 โ ๐ 142 ๐ 87 ๐ฌ 37 ๐ 19Thanks for posting this. I just followed everyone I wasโt already following. Lots of good people. I hope people follow me back.
30.11.2025 03:16 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Thanks to all for reading and subscribing and spreading the word about my publication. Now. . .EAT UP!
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Verizon announced theyโre firing 13K employees and fired their CEO.
But their new CEO has a base salary of $1.5M and potential performance-based equity awards of up to $59.5M.
Thatโs 2X as much as the prior CEO.
An economic system that punishes the many while rewarding the few is unsustainable.
Mobobby Dick
25.11.2025 21:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Yes, I am.
22.11.2025 10:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0That makes too much sense.
22.11.2025 10:19 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sure. Theyโll both believe anything.
22.11.2025 10:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wow
22.11.2025 10:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yep. From the gas inside it.
22.11.2025 10:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Maybe Bobby Kennedy Jr can handle this.
Dead Sperm Whale on Nantucket Is Too Big to Move, for Now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Let's talk turkey. With Thanksgiving coming up, I want my subscribers to know how grateful I am for their support. I'm grateful for anyone who reads my work, but none more so than the people who value my writing enough to subscribe. Thank you.
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Exactly.
18.11.2025 22:57 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโm concerned the Epstein files will be scrubbed clean of anything implicating Trump and his allies. This is about accountability. Everyone implicated needs to be held accountable. These women were children and didnโt have anyone to fight for them then. They do have people fighting for them now.
18.11.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was in a coffee shop with a friend today when I saw this small but mighty group of โNo Kingsโ protesters outside. They were getting a lot of support from people driving by.
16.11.2025 01:56 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Hereโs my new Wise Ash Substack post.
Iโm grateful for your likes, comments, re-stacks, recommendations to friends, and subscriptions. Especially your paid subscriptions, which help make it possible for me to write. Thank you
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I love the nights where my head hits the cool pillow and I think, โFor the next few hours I donโt have to be anything or do anything. Likely no one will ask anything of me and I wonโt be expected to give anything to anyone.โ
10.11.2025 03:40 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Teslaโs profit fell 37% in Q3 & theyโre firing 14K people, but Musk got a pay package worth $1 trillion.
$1T exceeds the GDP of many COUNTRIES, including Singapore, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, Argentina. In fact, itโs more than the GDP of 180 countries.ย
Our capitalistic system is broken.
Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." ๐คฃ
06.11.2025 18:29 โ ๐ 10363 ๐ 2103 ๐ฌ 777 ๐ 223The sandwich case was toast the minute she charged him.
07.11.2025 04:47 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mike Johnson, no doubt: โI havenโt seen or heard anything about it.โ
07.11.2025 01:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If only we could flip the Senate as well.
07.11.2025 01:38 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0If the U.S. had a good nationwide rail system Iโd never fly.
07.11.2025 01:28 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fantastic!
05.11.2025 04:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is great news!
05.11.2025 04:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0May the 4th be with you, sir! I look forward to calling you Mr. Mayor.
03.11.2025 19:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Pretzel nuts.
03.11.2025 19:45 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0