Outrage became the product. Truth became a market share. And the man who promised to “make America great again” lit the fuse. 🎧 WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #Myth #Media #Reagan #Trump #NoShortcutsToNow

“Beware the Blabberwock — the jaws that lie, the claws that hate.” From Reagan’s deregulation to Rush’s rage, the airwaves caught fire. 🎧 WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... © Joe Hoover (Myotus), CC BY-SA 4.0

“Beware the Blabberwock — the jaws that lie, the claws that hate.” From Reagan’s deregulation to Rush’s rage, the airwaves caught fire. 🎧 WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... © Joe Hoover (Myotus), CC BY-SA 4.0

Outrage became the product. Truth became a market share. And the man who promised to “make America great again” lit the fuse. 🎧 WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #Myth #Media #Reagan #Trump #NoShortcutsToNow

Before Trump. Before Fox. Before “fake news.” Reagan uncorked the belch that still rattles our airwaves. 🎧 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & Outrage Media 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #History #Politics #Media #Reagan #Limbaugh #Trump #NoShortcutsToNow ⸻

Like Johnny Cash before him, Zach Bryan shows what it means to have a spine. www.youtube.com/shorts/QA-JW...

Before Trump. Before Fox. Before “fake news.” Reagan uncorked the belch that still rattles our airwaves. 🎧 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & Outrage Media 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #History #Politics #Media #Reagan #Limbaugh #Trump #NoShortcutsToNow ⸻

A butterfly outlasts an empire. A volcano remembers what we forget. Follow the trail from Lassen to Pompeii — from ash and heather to gods and ghosts — to see what traces we leave in digital dust. WP 3.1 — The Iron Key noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/the-iron-k... #Myth #History #NoShortcutsToNow

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny": Listen for dangerous words.

Trump gave Limbaugh the nation’s highest honor. The real medal was Reagan’s: killing the Fairness Doctrine & fueling the outrage machine. 📻💥 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... When did you first notice outrage being sold as entertainment?

Outrage didn’t just appear — it was engineered. Reagan promised a new morning in America, but his sun rose a little east of Eden. WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & the Birth of Outrage Media noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #Media #Politics #Democracy #NoShortcutsToNow

Outrage didn’t just appear — it was engineered. Reagan promised a new morning in America, but his sun rose a little east of Eden. WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & the Birth of Outrage Media noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #Media #Politics #Democracy #NoShortcutsToNow

Trump gave Limbaugh the nation’s highest honor. The real medal was Reagan’s: killing the Fairness Doctrine & fueling the outrage machine. 📻💥 Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... When did you first notice outrage being sold as entertainment?

Rush once bragged: “I don’t need scientific proof.” That certainty was the point—and the product. Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch Reagan’s revolution, Rush’s rise, and the birth of outrage media → noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #TalkRadio #Propaganda #PostTruth

Reagan uncorked the belch that still rattles our airwaves. 📻💥 WP 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... How outrage became the product — and why we’re still paying the price. #Reagan #TalkRadio #PostTruth #CultureWar

Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... From Rush to Trump, outrage became the product. This is where it started. #Reagan #TalkRadio #PostTruth #CultureWar

🐸 “They’re turning the freakin’ frogs woke!” Or… maybe they’re just singing about rainbows. 🎧 Field Note 3¾ — The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You Think On frogs, flytraps & the enchanted fog of misinformation. 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note...

We the People are with Chicago in demanding and end to ICE terrorism! Live-stream via @statuscoupnews.bsky.social. #Broadview #Chicago

Authoritarians weaponize words. Twist grammar until it breaks. Hide behind phantoms. 🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #Politics #Language #Podcast

The Lord of The Flies, Chapter 8: Simon has his insight.

ICE detains superintendent: youtube.com/shorts/d9rKG...

Authoritarians twist language until it wounds us. That’s the danger of “they.” 🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #Language #Authoritarianism #Trauma #Podcast #Democracy

“And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense…” — Macbeth On trauma, language, and the phantom pronoun, “they.” 🎧 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #Macbeth #Authoritarianism #Podcast

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, voices rushed to blame “them.” But who is this "they"? When pronouns become weapons, truth itself grows pale. 🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun: noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #Media #Propaganda #Fascism #Podcast

After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, voices rushed to blame “them.” But who is this "they"? When pronouns become weapons, truth itself grows pale. 🎧 Field Note 3.1 — The Phantom Pronoun: noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #Media #Propaganda #Fascism #Podcast

“The Greeks saw the butterfly as psyche — soul itself. In one myth, that soul took the form of a maiden whose love was tested by fire.” 🦋 Waypoint 2.3 — The Birth of Pleasure A lyrical retelling of Psyche & Cupid. noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-2... #Myth #Philosophy #Feminism

“Breath is spirit. All living things breathe, or re-spire. And when we die? We release a final breath — we ex-pire.” 🦋 Waypoint 2.2 — Of Wings, Words & Sacrificial Hearts Myth, breath, butterflies, and cultural rebirth. noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/of-wings-w... #Myth #Philosophy #Migration

“Breath is spirit. All living things breathe, or re-spire. And when we die? We release a final breath — we ex-pire.” 🦋 Waypoint 2.2 — Of Wings, Words & Sacrificial Hearts Myth, breath, butterflies, and cultural rebirth. noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/of-wings-w... #Myth #Philosophy #Migration

Cowards. Cowards all. Also the blonde bitch who is getting off on beating on the unarmed lady is the poster child for what Trump, Noem, & Hegseth call a great patriot with the warrior ethos. This is fascism. We are a failed state

ICE & borders recall this: “California’s air carries more than corvids and butterflies. It carries the layered spirit of its many histories.” 🎧 Waypoint 2.1 — To Gain the Wider View: Wind, Spirit & Rising Over Borders noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-2... #Myth #History #Migration #Podcast

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

Cancel culture, Roman edition: Caligula outlawed goat jokes. He was balding, and goats’ bare foreheads hit too close to home. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

Authoritarianism thrives on a phantom: the word 'they.' “And so the phantom pronoun ‘they’ — like a bubble from the witches’ brew — popped, leaving not a horde of enemies, but a single boy, radicalized and alone.” 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #fallacies #politics #JasonStanley

This isn’t just about Jimmy Kimmel. When Putin seized Russia’s media, he didn’t start with tanks. He started with silencing the comedians, then the critics, then the press. That’s how it works. 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #JimmyKimmel #Censorship #Resist

Authoritarianism thrives on a phantom: the word 'they.' “And so the phantom pronoun ‘they’ — like a bubble from the witches’ brew — popped, leaving not a horde of enemies, but a single boy, radicalized and alone.” 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #fallacies #politics #JasonStanley

“The phantom pronoun ‘they’ popped, leaving not a horde of enemies, but a single boy, radicalized and alone.” On Charlie Kirk, the Groypers, and what @jasonstanley.org calls the politics of Us vs. Them. Read → noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #politics #fallacies #democracy #writing

“The phantom pronoun ‘they’ popped, leaving not a horde of enemies, but a single boy, radicalized and alone.” On Charlie Kirk, the Groypers, and what @jasonstanley.org calls the politics of Us vs. Them. Read → noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/field-note... #politics #fallacies #democracy #writing

If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.

The scum that murdered Kirk leveled his weapon against all of us. Kirk's right to speak is our right to speak. If our opponent cannot speak freely, our freedom of speech is an illusion, because it runs out exactly where our agreement with power ends.

Pompeii’s walls still whisper: "POSPHORVS HIC FVTVIT" or “Posphorus f-d here.” 2,000 years later, we still overhear the joke in the ash. Memory survives in the strangest traces. 👉 Waypoint 3.1 — The Iron Key 🌋 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3...

Ambition can make a man king. But as Macbeth — and Pompeii — remind us, it can also make him dust. 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3... #Pompeii #Tyranny #History #Myth

Pompeii froze a city in stone. Macbeth’s ambition turned the future to ash. The lesson? Live immediately. 🎧 WP 3.1 — The Iron Key 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-3...

“And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.” — Macbeth, Act V, Scene 8 #Macbeth #Propaganda #Disinformation

⛰️ Every trail has a first step. No Shortcuts to Now began in lockdown, when DJT said the storm would “just go away.” It’s now a serialized book weaving myth, Stoicism, memory & rebellion. 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/begin-here... #Philosophy #Stoicism #Myth #WritingCommunity

⛰️ Every trail has a first step. No Shortcuts to Now began in lockdown, when DJT said the storm would “just go away.” It’s now a serialized book weaving myth, Stoicism, memory & rebellion. 👉 noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/begin-here... #Philosophy #Stoicism #Myth #WritingCommunity

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

“And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.” — Macbeth, Act V, Scene 8 #Macbeth #Propaganda #Disinformation

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers