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.

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.

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.

Repost if your profile is LGBTQIA+ safe 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

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

Is it safe here?

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

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

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

I have this feeling that the Trump Regime are going to change their mind about gun rights as soon as they solidify power.

"The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.”

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