“We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal healthcare and fact-based politics might apply.”
"Increasingly, political commentators have compared the Democrats of 2025 to the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government in second-world-war France."
We need more stories like this one about Kingsolver: stories about effective local action to help others in need; and, of course, stories about the power of the humanities and literature to make change.
I haven't listened to this song in years and years. So good to hear it again, relevant and new again.
Go ahead, scroll past, because the point is we're probably not going back. I'm waking up to this new reality. How about you? How do we live now? I'm all ears. It's not a rhetorical question. All practical comments welcome.
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”—Judith Butler in @elpais.com
Greetings, Bluesky. I saw you during a recent winter walk in the woods.
