It’s like the room just cleared of smoke I didn’t even want the heart you broke It’s yours to keep, you just might need one I finally found my real name I won’t be me, when you see me again No I won’t...

Stories billionaires tell, and how to change the script.

When we need radical change, we should all be radicals. Negotiating the discomforts and costs of disrepute.

People who care, people who don't. Un-realism and ignore-ance. If you aren’t comfortable now, why were you comfortable before?

M. Gessen and Rachel Louise Snyder on the parallels between authoritarianism and domestic violence.

The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.

The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.

What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.

Messaging for leaders who actually want to lead. Playing to Win - part of a series about directional alignment.

You can't get to where you need to be if you don't know what that is. Imagining the Best - a series about directional alignment.

It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.

And how to resist it

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