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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Economists call it diminishing marginal utility. The first cannoli is heaven. By the sixth you feel sick. $298 million in ads in Ohio’s Senate race by mid-September, and at some point it’s just more shit on the wall. People stop looking. New Patreon post. www.patreon.com/stoicfemme/p...

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Too much | The Stoic Femme

There's an idea from economics I keep coming back to this week. Diminishing marginal utility. Fancy name, simple idea. The first cannoli is

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New on Patreon: hike photos from my son, a book proposal I'm scared to send, Rome on the horizon, and where a republic once argued about power and lost it anyway. Control what you can. Let the rest go. www.patreon.com/stoicfemme/p...

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The Company We Keep | The Stoic Femme

The countdown is on. Monday morning, coffee, still dark out, and soon we will be in Rome. I keep saying it out loud like that will make it f

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Slept in, almost didn't write. Ohio Mart with Mike yesterday, beautiful day. Then at Target, a self checkout with a whole order scanned and never paid for. People are feeding their kids however they can. I don't blame them one bit. New Patreon post is up. www.patreon.com/stoicfemme/p...

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I Don't Blame Them One Bit | The Stoic Femme

I almost didn't write this morning. It's Sunday, I slept in, and there was no good reason not to, so here I am. Mike and I went to Ohio Mart

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/07/2026

😳 Rep. Lieu explodes on Mike Waltz: "You don't even know how many US troops were wounded in this Iran War! Shame on you! You are the US ambassador and you don't even know how many US troops are wounded! You should be ashamed! You should resign!"

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I skipped the news yesterday and felt good about it. Then it hit me, the people getting the knock on the door can't log off. New on Patreon: the quiet that isn't really peace, and why I keep paying attention anyway. #Democracy #Stoicism #Ohio #Patreon www.patreon.com/stoicfemme/p...

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The Quiet That Isn't Peace | The Stoic Femme

I skipped the news yesterday and I felt good about it. That is the part I need to tell you. I was busy. Living my actual life. We had been t

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An eighty-year-old man standing in fifteen-degree weather told me we're all in a canoe at the edge of a waterfall. A canoe doesn't drift anywhere except toward the current. You don't escape by doing nothing. The last of the nine. The paddle is in your hands. open.substack.com/pub/inknotth...

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Conclusion

The Pilgrim

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

At the Dutch Resistance Museum I learned that the Nazis had studied American models when developing their racial ideology. Segregation law. Anti-miscegenation statutes. Citizenship rules. History is not a comfort. It's a mirror. open.substack.com/pub/inknotth...

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The Ancestors

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I drove to the post office and mailed citizenship applications for mychildren to Canada. I wrote nothing about it that day. The act had happened before the understanding caught up. New chapter: when does staying become complicity, and leaving become abandonment? open.substack.com/pub/inknotth...

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The Plan B

Chapter Eight

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Authoritarians need despair and exhaustion. They can't rise in communities of joy. The packed Tuesday night yoga class wasn't opting out. It was a room full of people who had decided, without coordinating it, not to be the citizen too tired to keep going. open.substack.com/pub/inknotth...

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The Tools

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Alone, the gap between what's happening and what you can do is a person at the base of a cliff with a teaspoon. In community, it becomes a project. The cliff is still there. The teaspoons are still teaspoons. But there are five hundred of them, and it’s moving dirt. open.substack.com/pub/inknotth...

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The Community

Chapter Six

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/07/2026

This is Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The fear is manufactured. Speak anyway. A new essay on the Stoic discipline of refusing a fear you were invited to carry on someone else's behalf. Marcus Aurelius understood how states use spectacle. So did Epictetus, who was born a slave. www.patreon.com/stoicfemme/p...

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The Fear Is Manufactured | The Stoic Femme

I have been thinking, this week, about fear. Specifically — about how fear works when it is not a natural response to an actual danger in fr

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The speaking is the democratic act. The reception is not required for the act to be real. New chapter up — on letters to the editor, calls to senators, and why I keep writing them into a silence that rarely answers back. inknotthealgorithm.substack.com/p/the-letters

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The Letters

Chapter Five

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My daughter is twenty-two. She called in February to say a professor had been misogynistic. The small, grinding, taken-for-granted kind. I asked if her face had gotten red. She said: No, Mom. If I'm going to be a lawyer, I need to learn to deal with people saying things I don't agree with.

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Cicero wrote De Officiis knowing Rome was lost. He wrote it anyway. New chapter on why participation isn't optional, what the SB1 petition failure taught me, and the Stoic concept that's been holding me up. inknotthealgorithm.substack.com/p/participat...

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Participation

Chapter Two

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New chapter: TRUTH. Democracy requires a shared reality. Tyrants always begin by claiming a monopoly on it. In the first week of 2025, the CDC, NIH, and FDA were ordered to stop issuing advisories. That was when I understood what kind of time we were entering. tracyinohio.substack.com/p/truth

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Truth

Democracy requires a shared reality.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Sooo...a bunch of veterans got arrested today while peacefully protesting Trump's war.

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

In January 2025, the CDC, NIH, and FDA were ordered to stop issuing health advisories. I wrote in my journal: “Just because they don't report it doesn't mean it's not happening.” The Introduction to the series is live. On truth, and what it costs to tell it. open.substack.com/pub/tracyino...

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Begin Again

Introduction

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TheAmericanPeopleVAnAutocrat @tracyinakron.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Democracy is not a condition. It is a practice. At a protest this winter, a man compared our democracy to a canoe at the edge of a waterfall. Stop paddling, he warned, and the current takes us. I've been writing about what it takes to keep going. New Substack. open.substack.com/pub/tracyino...

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A Note Before We Begin

We are in a canoe.

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

And this is all he had to replace Noem.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/03/2026

WHITEHOUSE: Can you explain this? NOEM: I'm looking at a picture of a bedroom W: Of an airplane. You're not familiar? NOEM: These photos are not accurate if you're referring to the airplanes DHS purchased. We're using them for command & control W: You didn't use it? N: I've been on it once

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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. www.learnliberty.org/blog/the-dec...

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The Declaration of Independence says we have the right to overthrow the government

The right to overthrow a government remains an important principle to uphold, as it serves as a check on government power. It is a reminder that governments ...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/03/2026

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

This is a terrifyingly non-specific and opaque word salad in response to an essential question: what are our objectives? The Pentagon appears to have zero clarity on what it is doing and why. Be afraid.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And a FOX flunky booze hound at the Pentagon. I curse every MAGA enabler...

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 02/03/2026

Spain refused military support for the US-Israel operation against Iran, prompting the Pentagon to withdraw a dozen KC-135 tanker aircraft from its bases at Morón and Rota, Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed. #Iran

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 02/03/2026

There was no imminent threat. The narrative keeps shifting. The nuclear claims are contradictory. So let’s start there. As we just saw in the Pentagon press-con, there is no clear strategy. This bipartisan Iran War Powers Resolution has been sitting with Speaker Johnson since June 2025. 🧵

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KennyMack1971 @kennymack1971.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Pentagon and Intelligence pros are making it clear this is all Trump, Hegseth and the rest of the sycophants idea and their operation. That’s why it is looking as fucked up, disorganized and chaotic as it is right now.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A fourth US service member has reportedly been killed in Trump’s illegal war And the Pentagon confirmed that three American F-15 fighter jets were shot down over Kuwait-apparently by friendly fire A despicable waste of life and resources in a wholly unnecessary conflict www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8x5atty/

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US Central Command said three of its F-15 jets "went down over Kuwait due to an apparent friendly fire incident". All six crew ejected safely and have been recovered, it added. #Kuwait #F15 #Jets #Ira...

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 02/03/2026

Fact Check: Trump DID start this war. The Pentagon confirmed there was no evidence Iran was going to attack the U.S. No imminent threat. No exit plan or strategy. Just more lies from this regime as they cost the lives of service members and innocent civilians.

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Something in my cold, dead heart melted when I saw 56-year-old Midori Ito skating. 🥹

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/02/2026

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 09/02/2026

Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH. Good god what a child

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

BREAKING: Fulton County, Georgia just filed a motion "seeking the return of all files from the 2020 Election that were confiscated by the FBI".

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2026

"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."

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Inside the resistance with Will Stancil

"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."

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