Category: Current events
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250 years of independence
This year we celebrate 250 years since America’s founders declared independence from a distant, abusive empire to the east. West Coast states are in a similar position today. Let’s use the occasion of our semiquincentennial to consider all our options. I’ve been writing about how we seem to be an…
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This is not normal
One of the challenges of navigating our present moment is maintaining perspective on the tsunami of law-breaking and norm-breaking actions flooding our public zone. For many of us paying attention, current events violate all our sensibilities about How Things Are Supposed to Work. Yet around us (most of us), life…
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The Sociopathy of Elon Musk
Imagine being the richest man on the planet, with more wealth than any other human has ever had before. What would you do with that much wealth?
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The war on accountability
One of the biggest throughlines of the new administration is to destroy all mechanisms of accountability. The felon-in-chief is famous for avoiding accountability himself. In a just world, he would now be in prison for inciting insurrection, stealing US classified documents, and trying to overturn a national election by various…
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Legalized bigotry
And so it begins. Just because gut-punches are expected doesn’t make them less painful. Withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. “Drill, baby, drill” will be the new national energy policy. Asylum seekers in desperate need will be turned away. People doing nothing wrong will be deported. Ending birthright citizenship (this…
freelansing in Seattle 