The Bifurcatio that could have been worse

We could have turned the other way, but we managed to choose this road, and the turn makes a difference.
We still don’t know what’s down this road. We didn’t leave covid behind, the climate is still in collapse, the corporate state is still in charge, and the president’s followers are glumly trapped on the bus with us… and they might bring guns. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride. I hope you don’t worry that we picked the wrong road.

The Dawn After the Election Storm… Really

Choose Democracy: the case for a Nonviolent Version of the Story [Look for “All You Fascists Bound to Lose” at the end of this post] Every day we’re waking up to something scary.  Our scale for rating scary keeps adding more numbers to the top of the graph as we come to terms with the… Continue reading The Dawn After the Election Storm… Really

1000 Americans showed up last night to stop a coup

Many things may go wrong around the election next month.  One that’s the hovering over our heads like a carrion bird is that one candidate says he’ll refuse to leave office no matter what the election result is.  And evidence mounts that he’s taken steps to put that idea into action. Waging Nonviolence is a… Continue reading 1000 Americans showed up last night to stop a coup

Where’s Gandalf?

Or, are progressives in NWA nervous about their neighbors? This week I got an email from an Omni friend who lives on Beaver Lake.  Boaters for Trump have taken over the quiet cove where she lives, and since her yard has one of the few “Biden-Harris” signs in the neighborhood, they focus a lot of… Continue reading Where’s Gandalf?