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Jim Lardner

@jimlardner.bsky.social
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Activist, journalist, founder of We Are Your Neighbors project - weareyourneighbors.net

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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How some of us in Washington celebrated the semiquincentennial. #DustbinOfHistory drive.google.com/file/d/1aRoW...
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Den of thieves.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The 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!
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Has 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
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
A 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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
An 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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Just 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-...
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The 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-...
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
jlardner.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."
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A Chance to Reconnect | Good Trouble
Joan Williams on the Left and the working class.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
jlardner.podbean.com/e/we-cant-go... Mark Blyth explores the lessons of MAGA - the lessons its opponents need to take in.
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We Can't Go Back | Good Trouble
The country can't, says economist Mark Blyth. And the Democrats can't.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
jlardner.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."
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Why Do They Talk Mush? | Good Trouble
Democrats, that is. Brian Beutler looks under the hood of their rhetoric machine, and imagines a better model.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
jlardner.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?
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Choosing Our Words | Good Trouble
Something too many Democrats, progressives and Resistors have in common: we talk fancy. Harold Meyerson has some language tips for us.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
jlardner.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?
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Crossing the Divide | Good Trouble
Part two of a conversation with Arlie Russell Hochschild about the “deep story” that animates a large segment of the Trump base.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In 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.
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On Beyond DEI | Good Trouble
The 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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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The Language of Trump Country | Good Trouble
Arlie 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...
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
jlardner.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.
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Billionaires! | Good Trouble
They’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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Born to play Wordle, it appears.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
George 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/
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Just a few of the tens of thousands of folks (and signs) in Washington DC today. Take heart! Press on!
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
jlardner.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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tesla 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.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Compared 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...
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Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
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Jim Lardner @jimlardner.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Outstanding 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.
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