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Low-tech human *slowly learning new terrain on this platform. Grateful heart appreciating beauty wherever I can find it. "Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished." ~ Mary Oliver
MAGA didn’t rise out of nowhere. This essay traces how real anger became political fuel—and how Trump turned pain into blame, leaving the system that caused it untouched. #Neoliberalism #DebtPolitics #Trumpism #Scapegoating #Anthropology #PublicGoods #SubstackWriters #CivicImagination
Power doesn’t just come from laws and leaders. It flows through banks, screens, stores, and supply chains. To fight authoritarianism, we have to pull the plug from below. #PoliticalEcology #Oligarchy #MutualAid #Resistance #SolidarityEconomy #PublicPower
The 2025 budget isn’t about restraint—it’s about control. It guts care, expands enforcement, and turns public funds into tools of loyalty and punishment. This is how democracy gets hollowed out. #2025Budget #Authoritarianism #Oligarchy #TrumpAgenda #PoliticalEcology
We don’t need to imagine an authoritarian future. We’re living through its gradual construction—under Trump, but not by him alone. This isn’t a coup. It’s a reconfiguration of state power. To resist it, we must first see it clearly. #Authoritarianism #Trumpism #Project2025 #Democracy
Trump didn’t build the system. He took it over. What he commands now is bigger than politics—an ecosystem of privatized power and manufactured dependence. We fight back not just by opposing him, but by confronting the system beneath him.
#Democracy #Resistance #Oligarchy #MutualAid
Double Rainbow after the storm blew through at Nauset Light Beach
~ Robert Neal, Cape Cod Photography
To bear witness is not a passive act but an act of conscience and consequence.
~ Terry Tempest Williams ~
Beauty break
The Architecture of Fear: How Detention Becomes a Template for Control
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If humanity saw itself as an interdependent and sacred member of creation and a compassionate, co-operative steward of life instead of separate from nature and a consumer of resources and/or world dominator...
The Nerd Reich is a cult of interconnected tech billionaires who have decided that democracy is not the preferred operating system for the world, and that they have a better plan to install a new form of government...corporate autocracy...the idea is techno-feudalism.
www.youtube.com/live/w35Ugsd...
A federal judge just ordered intensive expedited discovery into Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Garcia. The latest:
“This is not incarceration; it is liquidation. Incarceration is a penal act. It is controlled by laws. Liquidation is a political act. It is arbitrary, opaque, and unappealable. This is why Donald Trump cannot allow Kilmar Abrego Garcia to return to the U.S.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/bring-him-...
“The old American order is dead. It ended on April 14, 2025, when a Latin American strongman sat in the Oval Office and discussed sending U.S. citizens to foreign concentration camps with the American president while they jointly defied the Supreme Court.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
bsky.app/profile/step...
Yes!
Cory Booker just earned the leadership of the Senate. The only truly important skill right now is the ability for political leaders to speak truth in a powerful and mobilizing way. He's showing the American people how to rise up.
