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Gene Combs

@genecombs.bsky.social
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Narrative therapist, armchair poststructuralist, wannabe anarchist, very amateur guitarist, and roots music lover. shrinkrants.tumblr.com

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bacigalupe @bacigalupe.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival
Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Under capitalism, humanity exists to serve the interests of the corporation. We are all livestock; beasts of burden. Enjoyment of life has no value other than the extent to which it can be used to increase the net worth of the shareholders. www.patreon.com/caitlinjohns...
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The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine | Caitlin Johnstone
The Entire Human Species Has Been Turned Into A Profit-Generating Machine by Caitlin Johnstone on Patreon. Join Caitlin Johnstone's community for exclusive content and updates.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2025
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Heather Cox Richardson today - on the lies and hatred being spread by our current government. Scary stuff, we must resist. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The Great Robert Jay Lifton, Friend and Mentor, Has Passed Away One of the giants of our time, author of books on (to name just a few) Nazi doctors, Hiroshima survivors and nuclearism in America, Vietnam veterans and the war on terror, and the death penalty. gregmitchell.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great Robert Jay Lifton, Friend and Mentor, Has Passed Away
One of the giants of our time and author of books on (to name just a few) Nazi doctors, Hiroshima survivors and nuclearism in America, Vietnam veterans and the war on terror, and the death penalty.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Oy!
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I often think about this letter to the New Statesman. It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it. #PoliticsLive
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trump’s Dangerous Game: Protection, Provocation, and the Politics of Manufactured Crisis jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/trumps-dan...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
An apt story for our times, written by Rebecca Solnit in the wake of Katrina in New Orleans www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Resisting Rule by Fear - James B Greenberg jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/resisting-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Forgetting Authoritarianism. Today James Greenberg is talking about the return of dictatorship and fascism as we forget the past horrors jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/forgetting...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It's not just killing our dream--it's literally killing US!
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
I asked ChatGPT for help in articulating what we're working toward--so we can say what we're for as well as what we're against. Here's the result:
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
James B. Greenberg on the shock doctrine and authoritarian takeover jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-shock-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Living in the Shadow of the American Dream: Robert Reich shares a letter from a working family in the heartland robertreich.substack.com/p/life-in-th...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Movement Conservatism: a brief history. (Heather Cox Richardson) heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The Powell Memo is at the root of our current crisis in America. If you don't know of it, its history, and its continuing effects, read this overview by RR. If you want a deeper dive, check out "The Master Plan" podcast at levernews.com robertreich.substack.com/p/today-is-t...
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Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history
Friends,
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Scene on Radio rocks! Love John Biewen.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block www.patreon.com/posts/resist...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Shame. Utter cruelty.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Rebecca Solnit's on fire today. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surre...
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On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter)
There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.” But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people. Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.
When I was in college they taught me that capitalism means that there are capitalists, who own productive resources, like say factories, and they hire people to make stuff and then sell it. They can’t pay their workers so much that they don’t make a profit, but they have to pay them at least enough that they can afford to buy the stuff the factory produces.

Feudalism, in contrast, is when you just take your profits directly by charging rent, fees and dues, turning people into debt peons, or otherwise shaking them down.

Nowadays the vast majority of corporate profits don’t come from making or selling things but from “finance,” which is a euphemism for other peoples’ debts—charging rents, fees, interest and whatnot. It’s feudalism in the classic definition: “direct juro-political extraction” as they sometimes put it.

- David Graeber
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Is this AI generated?
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
The Big Lie: Fossil Fuels, Climate Denial, and the Politics of Delay jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-big-li...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Since taking office, Trump has halted or ended 1/3 of investigations and enforcement actions against Big Tech giants — including Meta, Tesla, and Google. These same tech companies have spent over $1.2B to influence Trump during and since the 2024 election. Everything is for sale.
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'Corporate Crime Pays' Under Trump as His Agencies Drop Enforcement Against 165 Companies | Common Dreams
"The Trump administration is protecting lawbreaking corporate insiders from accountability instead of protecting America
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A brief history of land enclosure and wealth extraction. Everyone should know this background. Please read it all. jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-ecolog...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Supporting Texas Democratic legislators in Chicago today
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Fake News, Invisible Power Why the stories that disappear from our screens shape our democracy more than the ones we see jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/fake-news-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Wise and urgent advice from RR. Get your senators and representatives to implement it. I wrote mine today. robertreich.substack.com/p/if-democra...
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If Democrats got off their asses, here’s what they’d be doing now
Nine critical steps
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
mobilize.us/s/vK2acL
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Fight the Trump Takeover · Indivisible Chicago
The outrageous Texas power grab by Donald Trump and his enablers is a political emergency with national implications. Through their brazen attempt to gerrymander 5 Congressional seats into the Republi...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Robert Reich on hope, and what's a winning strategy for the democratic party if they'd only wake up and stop cozying up to corporate donors robertreich.substack.com/p/bread-and-...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Please read this piece and think about what's happening. What doesn't make it into the news. How our whole national purpose and values are being shifted toward greed and wealth extraction and the raw use of power by a very few people. jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...
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The Quiet Path to a New Constitution
How the push for an Article V convention could lock in the most radical parts of the right-wing agenda—permanently.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
An inspiring history of the hard work and care that went into establishing a basic social safety net for each other. It inspires me in working to keep it and expand it as prideful, greedy bullies are ripping it to shreds. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-13-...
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August 13, 2025
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The response of citizens on the streets helps my hope and my dedication to resist grow.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Department of Homeland Security agents stopped cars on 14th St NW in DC last night “for seat belt violations and broken taillights” (via @washingtonpost.com)
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
More good stuff from James B. Greenberg-- jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/from-democ...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Weird, just way out weird.... How can a pre-adolescent have big balls???
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Chris Hoff interviewed me earlier this week. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-h8ycg-...
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The Art of Listening & The Past, Present and Future of Narrative Therapy w/ Gene Combs
In episode #138 of The Radical Therapist Podcast, Chris sits down with long-time narrative therapist Gene Combs for a conversation on the past, present, and future of narrative therapy. Gene shares hi...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Another valuable lesson in democracy from Heather Cox Richardson. The link will take you to a series of short videos. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Totalitarian Narratives: The War Against Memory, Knowledge, and Meaning
How authoritarian regimes dismantle the cultural and scientific systems that make truth, memory, and accountability possible.
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Gene Combs @genecombs.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
No excerpts today. Read Dr. Greenberg's whole essay. It is chilling, and vital to understanding our present situation. jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-americ...
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The American Right, and the Politics of Abandonment
How Malthusian logic, fascist ideology, and far-right governance converged to normalize suffering as policy.
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