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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I wrote about how to be human in an inhumane world (read more here: stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/bombs-bomb...)

"Let the bomb find you doing well," C.s. Lewis advised in his essay 'On Living in An Atomic Age.' Let the bomb find you doing well. I have been turning over these words in my mind for the last few weeks, and more rapidly still, the way that a washing machine doubles its pace at the end of its cycle, since Sunday, when the American president declared that he was seeking the destruction of an entire country and the genocide of millions.

Lewis wrote these words in 1948, three years after the bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of people; our most immoral invention. He thought that perhaps the bomb, so alive in recent memory, could serve as a critical wake-up call for us all, a reminder that death was always the outcome for us and everyone we love, whether it came by blast or blight or the breaking down of the body, and rather than hiding from this truth, we would choose to live alongside of it, using it to shepherd us into a more moral way of living.

Writing a hundred years before the bomb's creation, however, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel advanced a much bleaker outlook, stating that "what experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." It seems, in this moment, that points must be given to Hegel, as we stand once again on the precipice of mutually assured destruction, with an incredibly ill human being holding the wheel of the world in his small hands.

His small hands: I almost removed this insult, but I decided it was better to keep it in, for it gives me the chance to share a hard-
won lesson. These words of mine don't help -not the situation, nor anyone who is in the path of destruction, and not even me. In my fear, in my anger, in my sense that I am utterly powerlessness to prevent atrocity
around the world, I want to lash out at him. Have a taste of your own medicine and see how you like it.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

What we get wrong about good vs. evil:

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

One of the questions I'm most frequently asked goes along the lines of, "I'm just one person, what can I possibly do?" If that struggle is also familiar to you, here are some thoughts that might help you: substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

On Pluralistic Ignorance

You're not alone.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

haaretz.com

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war

Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’ve already raised 80k! Join in at www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

Publishing for Minnesota

I DONATED:
1) Help with your
nonfiction book proposal: a detailed review of your work and a Zoom to discuss
2) Help with your book launch plans: share ways to get the word out about your book (social media,
speaking, etc.) and help you strategize on a Zoom
to Publishing for Minnesota's fundraiser auction.

Link to website

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026

Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch

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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

theverge.com

I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Some publishing folks are running an auction to raise money for MN! I donated: 1) a review of your nonfiction proposal and 2) help with your book launch strategy & platform. But there are so many other amazing items available, I encourage you to check it out! www.32auctions.com/publishingfo...

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

To that end, USCIS declared flatly that the children of immigrants who are "unlawfully present" will "no longer be U.S. citizens at birth."
They will, instead, inherit the status of their parents, rendering them detainable and deportable as infants and throughout their lives.
There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Let the pain in—so the pain can move you to action—and so that action can change you—so that you can change others—so you and me and others can come together to build a world where this never, ever happens.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Your voice and your example matter more than you will ever know. The belief you voice or the action you take might be the very catalyst that someone else needs to take their next step. Be the evidence of goodness!

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s okay to be scared. And we can feel our fear and turn it into action.

Instead of a 2016 flashback, I'd recommend a 2036 flashforward.
Project yourself ahead ten years and think about what the world will look like should we remain on our current trajectory.
And once you have that picture in your head, think about what you might do to stop it. The actions that you can take every day, in your life and in your community, to protect and honor your values. Because the future is not yet written, and we have more power than we know, and we can come together and work towards a greater good.

The fascist regime's survival requires that you forget these truths; it wants you to succumb to the ease of denial rather than rise—in fear, yes; in discomfort, inevitably—to act with courage.
That denial ends when we confront the truth about what will happen—absolutely, without doubt—if we continue acting in this way: that in ten years, we will be looking back on 2026 as a paradise compared to what we have wrought since.
For there is still time, there are more of us, and goodness is on our side. All that remains is our choice to act.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm so sorry Rachel. I feel so sad this is our world. I'm really looking forward to reading @emendenhall.bsky.social's book.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The surprisingly simple secret to motivation:

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny

Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

4. Which undermines democracy! By failing to recognize this, so many writers who I used to admire have facilitated our slide into fascism. Because (I can't believe I have to write these words) it is absolutely unacceptable to treat any group of people's right to exist & flourish as UP FOR DEBATE.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

It’s not complicated: 1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence 2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable 3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

You, yes YOU, need to listen to this episode or Rare Earth from @helenczerski.bsky.social, about skyrocketing power demand from data centres. Particularly now that the UK govt is asking residents to use less water so it can cool the Slop Generator.

bbc.co.uk

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Powering Our Robot Overlords

The energy used by a simple internet search is increasing. Can we cut the cost?

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Not only is everything horrific right now, but we're also having to unlearn our ways of being (what I call Old Happy, or the ways that individualism/capitalism/domination have shaped us) and evolve into humans who are capable of making the new world we want. It's hard. Let's be kind to each other.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

this, and some of y'all used this as your blank justification to abandon masking and the common good, and refuse to see how that behavior led to where we are today

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I hope this piece helps you to understand more of the psychology behind the genocide and equips you with the language and tools to be able to address it stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...

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Moral entitlement, or the moral get-out-of-jail free card

Being a victim does not prevent someone from doing harm.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

That’s why I used the words “can” and “sometimes”

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Wild because I discovered them in an academic journal from several years ago :(

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Have you heard about the moral get-out-of-jail-free card?

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Please consider donating to the PCRF here: www.pcrf.net Send your receipt to hello@thenewhappy.com and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.

As Gaza is starved, we must ask ourselves: do we have the right to call ourselves humans if we have abandoned our humanity?

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NPR @npr.org · 20/07/2025

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance. By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

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Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.” Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged. Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

AND on top of all these excellent reasons, OpenAI is collaborating with the fascists and AI is a tool of authoritarianism. Stop using Empire’s tool to do what humans should be doing—making art—to fight against it!!!!

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Imagine being so craven that 5.4 million people show up to your anti-birthday party

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It’s only hopeless if we give up, because we are the hope.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/06/2025

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler." Finally, someone says it to their faces.

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