On fire, grounded, accessible and pissed - John Lestrange instagram.com/p/DN5mY74jQxV/

Playing twister, dancing in puffy inflatables, and standing peacefully: "the violent, lunatic antifa" in a "war-torn" city wweek.com/culture/2025/1…

"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots...Look at the language. It begins in the language." - Joseph Brodsky meditationsinanemergency.com/categories-are…

The real threat is a quickly rising technocratic culture of death, i.e., a culture that regards human lives as cogs in economic machinery and mere data points in systems of surveillance and profit. - Adam Walker

“The only thing we should fear is that we will surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. That we will surrender, without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and that of our children.” - Alexei Navalny

Why We Protest - Tim Snyder snyder.substack.com/p/why-we-prote…

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’ msn.com/en-us/politics…

Portland’s protests are getting ridiculous. That’s the point fastcompany.com/91421423/portl…

On Scarcity youtube.com/shorts/ZY0zEJA…

The clarinetist was arrested while playing the theme from Ghostbusters. billmckibben.substack.com/p/ha-its-a-fro…

"This process has a familiar sequence. Cultural and intellectual change comes first—a new vision. Social movements come second. Political change comes last." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Nonviolent protests put authoritarian regimes in a lose-lose situation: Either cede the streets to the protesters, or crack down in ways that weaken your legitimacy. If a movement seeks only to please its own radicals, it fails. If it uses action... theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

"Republicans started this trip to hell, but no Democrat ever stopped it." Marianne Williamson

"The behemoth of unfettered corporate power ate America." Marianne Williamson

Another way mainstream media are failing us is by treating the most corrupt things we've ever seen in the history of the country as no big deal. - Rebecca Solnit

The people, it turns out, are far more courageous than their leaders. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Another Pissed Magistus Summation - Gauge my ignorance youtube.com/watch?v=6mu5v9…

Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism lit-hum.org/2025/10/fears-…

along the grapevine all the yellow flags waving wild mustard flowers #haiku #micropoetry

In the end, Hölderlin tells us, the wise move toward Beauty.