Tempest

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If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."

Reichstag Fire.

Watch out.

Fair.

I suppose it was harder to see the foundations than the bright shiny building on top.

Our democracy must really be flawed if it only took 3 months for a president to become a king.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

My evening thought is that I suspect a great many Americans, in the period after 1989, grew very used to a world in which it didn't matter *that* much who they elected (to them).

They had the rule of law, the most prosperous economy in human history, the long peace.

But it always mattered.

I hope I can keep up.

Hey.

Stop being so hard on yourself.
You are learning.

Don’t let your ego convince you that you are the only person facing uncertainty, doubt, exhaustion, fear, etc. You have people around you that care and are likely facing similar feelings.

We grow in community.

Oof, damn. Wish I had those. 😂

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I have loved ones (friends and family) in almost every letter of the acronym. They are all beautiful and special to me.

I go to therapy but like...it doesn't feel like it's enough.

I need double therapy...triple therapy???

So the worst genre is definitely dystopian nonfiction

Bro I just want healthcare.

what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines

Is it safe here?

Joined and followed.

World needs to ease up on like...everything.

I regularly have to resist the urge to text my dad at 3am because he's got a sleep schedule and I'm a weird gremlin who only remembers to text back late at night.

Embrace your inner sugar child.

The weather is just going to keep getting worse everywhere...unless we get rid of all the billionaires.

Warrior in Woolworth's
His roots are in today
Doesn't know no history
He threw the past away

Horror that it took me this long to realize it. 😭

The HORROR of realizing YEARS later that somebody who gave their phone # to you was flirting.