Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026How some of us in Washington celebrated the semiquincentennial. #DustbinOfHistory drive.google.com/file/d/1aRoW... 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025The Founders make their debut! Lady Liberty, Tom Paine, Geo. Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thos. Jefferson and Ben Franklin at yesterday's Remove the Regime rally. Accompanied by our wing-flappong, money-grubbing eagle. More to come! 020
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Has your life (or the life of someone you know) been up-ended by the Trump Administration? We’re building a collection of these stories. Tell us yours at weareyourneighbors.net/submit-your-.... Find out what others are going through at weareyourneighbors.net 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025A bunch of us took an eye-opening "Petrostate Tour" of Washington DC yesterday. Stops included the American Petroleum Institute (seen here), the American Gas Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association. Bastions all of the fossil-fuel industry's capture of our government and economy. 010
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025An inspiration to us all: the nameless four who projected this onto Windsor Castle. The culprits were charged with "malicious communications." We could use a little more of that on this side of the pond, methinks. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Just another petrostate - that's what the U.S. has turned into. And the road to anything like democracy will be a twisty one, says David McDermott Hughes. Listen at www.podbean.com/ew/pb-m6naa-... 001
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025The 1960s and the 2020s: Michael Ansara on the Civil Rights struggle, the New Left, the anti-Vietnam-War movement, and what do we do now? jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-1960s-... 155
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/reconnecti... "Just as Trump has given us a gift... in showing Americans how government programs like Social Security, Medicaid and the VA undergird a stable middle-class life... Trump has also given us an incredible gift when it comes to imigration."jlardner.podbean.comA Chance to Reconnect | Good TroubleJoan Williams on the Left and the working class. 010
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/we-cant-go... Mark Blyth explores the lessons of MAGA - the lessons its opponents need to take in.jlardner.podbean.comWe Can't Go Back | Good TroubleThe country can't, says economist Mark Blyth. And the Democrats can't. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/why-do-the... Out of methodical message-testing comes verbal pablum. "The math is fine," says Brian Beutler. "It's the design of the experiment that I question."jlardner.podbean.comWhy Do They Talk Mush? | Good TroubleDemocrats, that is. Brian Beutler looks under the hood of their rhetoric machine, and imagines a better model. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/choosing-o... Harold First in a series of conversations about Resistance messaging: what can we do in our statements, our slogans, our placards, our chants – in the way we speak and present ourselves – to reach people who aren’t already in our camp?jlardner.podbean.comChoosing Our Words | Good TroubleSomething too many Democrats, progressives and Resistors have in common: we talk fancy. Harold Meyerson has some language tips for us. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/crossing-t... Arlie Russell Hochschild is back in the prelude to a series of episodes on Resistance messaging: what can we do in our signs and chants and calls to action to reach at least some of the Americans not pre-disposed to agree with us?jlardner.podbean.comCrossing the Divide | Good TroublePart two of a conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild about the “deep story” that animates a large segment of the Trump base. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025In the latest episode of Good Trouble, Richard Kahlenberg looks at America's turn against racial preferences, and sees a promising development for progressives, Democrats and people of color.jlardner.podbean.comOn Beyond DEI | Good TroubleThe courts and the polls have said no to racial preferences. Richard Kahlenberg sees this as good news for Democrats, progressives and the cause of racial justice. 010
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-langua...jlardner.podbean.comThe Language of Trump Country | Good TroubleArlie Russell Hochschild has spent a stretch of her recent life in the reddest parts of two of America's reddest states. She helps us understand how people come to vote for Donald Trump without necess... 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/billionair... Billionaires were already a source of trouble before Donald Trump named 13 of them to leading jobs in his admiistration. Chuck Collins tells the tale.jlardner.podbean.comBillionaires! | Good TroubleThey’ve had a large hand in causing some of America's worst problems. And the world's worst problems, too. Chuck Collins connects some of those dots. 011
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025George Lakey has been getting arrested for six decades. He's got tales to tell. And tips to offer. jlardner.podbean.com/e/how-we-win/ 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Just a few of the tens of thousands of folks (and signs) in Washington DC today. Take heart! Press on! 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025jlardner.podbean.com/e/the-modern... They don't use tanks anymore. They've learned, as Kim Lane Scheppele puts it, "to play the democracy game." Democracy's defenders need to adapt. 010
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Tesla Takedowns getting bigger and better. Folks were singing and bopping around In Georgetown today, to a chorus of approving honks from passing cars and even a garbage truck and a Metrobus. 020
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Compared to 2017, today's actions are more numerous, more spread out and more creative, according to Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam in Waging Nonviolence. But we could learn a thing or two from Denmark in the 1940s or Czechoslovakia in 1968. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...wagingnonviolence.orgResistance is alive and well in the United StatesProtests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic. 000
Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Outstanding rally at NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) this morning. Great spirit and camaraderie. High-quality signs (including mine.) Lots of honks of approval from drivers-by. 030