@nancyseger.bsky.social
What is wealth for? Billionaires are not seeking simple luxuries, or even political influence. They want the power to abuse others with impunity. This is the supremacist rot at the core of capitalism.
Today I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power.
"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"
www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
"Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?"
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Where It Ends
Answering the enabler's constant question, and contemplating the depraved depths of the billionaire mindset.
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February 2, 2026 at 8:55 PM
What is wealth for? Billionaires are not seeking simple luxuries, or even political influence. They want the power to abuse others with impunity. This is the supremacist rot at the core of capitalism.
Let’s imagine real liberation and make it happen.
Today I wrote about a good man summarily executed on the streets by Republican death squads, and how, given the inevitable alternatives, even tyrants should hope for a people's liberation from tyranny. www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-n...
The Shovel Next Time
Liberation from tyranny is also liberation for the tyrants.
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January 25, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Let’s imagine real liberation and make it happen.
Same.
Things I would do to get ICE to leave my state: take in literally ANY of the "violent criminals" they have arrested during raids in my state, and allow them to live in my guest room indefinitely.
Things I would not do: hand over our elections to that cheating fraud Pam Bondi.
Things I would not do: hand over our elections to that cheating fraud Pam Bondi.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Same.
Absolutely correct: “If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.”
This weekend, I wrote about the state murder of Renee Good, and the fascist claim that her murderer enjoys absolute immunity, and a common-sense reversal of qualified immunity that protects civilians from authorities, rather than the other way around.
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Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Absolutely correct: “If our authorities exist for the protection of the people, then the laws should exist for the protection of the people, not the protection of authorities. If the law exists for the protection of authorities, then the authorities do not exist for the protection of the people.”
Nobody’s apologizing for being white and nobody’s asking for that. This abusive, criminal administration will never take responsibility for the harm they are causing unless we make them.
Today I wrote about our white supremacist political movement's perverse insistence that "we don't have to apologize for being white anymore."
Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
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Conservatives have been apologizing, apparently. Did you know? I had no idea. So I asked, and here's what I found.
www.the-reframe.com/apologies-fo...
Apologies For Being White
How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Nobody’s apologizing for being white and nobody’s asking for that. This abusive, criminal administration will never take responsibility for the harm they are causing unless we make them.
A.R. Moxon gets it. As a social worker, it’s sickening to see the abusive tactics I’ve seen in families at the micro level be deployed at the macro level.
I began answering the common question "How do we stop abuse without becoming abusive ourselves?"
Point 1: "What is it about stopping abuse that you think puts us in such danger of becoming abusive that it is the first question you ask in response to the call to do so?"
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Point 1: "What is it about stopping abuse that you think puts us in such danger of becoming abusive that it is the first question you ask in response to the call to do so?"
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Stories We Tell
Recognizing victims and villains is not creating victims and villains. A series on living in a culture of repair, against a culture of abuse.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A.R. Moxon gets it. As a social worker, it’s sickening to see the abusive tactics I’ve seen in families at the micro level be deployed at the macro level.
“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.”
I wrote about Nazism in a small Michigan town, and in a large North American country; about the uses of and limits of shame; and on the importance of holding shared standards. www.the-reframe.com/the-death-of...
The Death of Shame
Modern Nazis, careless people, and the offensive necessity of caring in a shameful age.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:20 AM
“In this shameful careless age, we can and should and must choose to not be careless people.”
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This is brilliant!
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is brilliant!
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I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
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The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
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October 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...
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I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something
On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I wrote about why the regrettable conclusions of Ezra Klein pissed me off so badly in the last couple weeks.
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
On moral cowardice in an era that calls for clarity, and a popular political instinct to try to solve divisions of abuse by ignoring causes. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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September 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
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But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
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Acceptable Losses
Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?
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September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.
But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
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But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."
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I wrote about the Third Way memo and its list of forbidden words. Comparing the alleged desire for simple persuasive talk and the way those who want it never seem to arrive at the simplest most persuasive "talk" there is: principled action.
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
Simple Talk
Want to move people? Focus on principles, not tactics. An essay about finding a real third way, using the simplest and most persuasive talk there is.
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September 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I wrote about the Third Way memo and its list of forbidden words. Comparing the alleged desire for simple persuasive talk and the way those who want it never seem to arrive at the simplest most persuasive "talk" there is: principled action.
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
www.the-reframe.com/simple-talk-2/
I am 100% here for “breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, and pursuing everything.”
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.
Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
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Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.
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There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
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August 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I am 100% here for “breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, and pursuing everything.”
“All people—all people—are unique and irreplaceable works of art carrying unsurpassable worth, who possess inherent dignity, and who deserve equal consideration under the law and access to basic human need, simply because they exist.”
This week I dug deep into the Paradox of Tolerance.
We might hope still to build a new house to replace the one abusive bullies are burning down, after centuries of decades of being enabled in the name of civility.
If we do, the new house will need new locks.
www.the-reframe.com/change-the-l...
We might hope still to build a new house to replace the one abusive bullies are burning down, after centuries of decades of being enabled in the name of civility.
If we do, the new house will need new locks.
www.the-reframe.com/change-the-l...
Change the Locks
A tale of two sisters; the narcissist's demand for reconciliation without reparation, and the lowest rung on justice's ladder
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August 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“All people—all people—are unique and irreplaceable works of art carrying unsurpassable worth, who possess inherent dignity, and who deserve equal consideration under the law and access to basic human need, simply because they exist.”
Thank you for this. I have been struggling with how to battle misinformation and preserve free speech at the same time, especially given our toxic profit-driven media environment. Your writing helps me stay grounded in the pursuit of justice. See also Rebecca Solnit. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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August 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thank you for this. I have been struggling with how to battle misinformation and preserve free speech at the same time, especially given our toxic profit-driven media environment. Your writing helps me stay grounded in the pursuit of justice. See also Rebecca Solnit. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...
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Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Boiling Water
The corrosive damage cause by forcing people to defend their own lives by debating ideas that have already been defeated.
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August 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Imagine you have a friend. Let’s call him Rick Reasonable.
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Now imagine you have an enemy. Let’s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater.
Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.
www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/
Buddha said, “Be a light unto yourself,” which is about all I’m capable of today.
On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
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Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
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So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Buddha said, “Be a light unto yourself,” which is about all I’m capable of today.
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If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that.
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Winning the Middle
What makes for a purity test? What makes for a big tent? Unpacking the apparently pragmatic demand that we Speak Low about fascists to beat fascism.
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June 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that.
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...
I want my life to to result in a profit of joy.
I wrote about our Kidnapping & Enslavement forces, the traditional notions that government is made for profit and human beings are meant for efficiency, and the ways these notions inevitably lead to enslavement.
The profit we gain from society IS society.
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The profit we gain from society IS society.
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Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency
Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.
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May 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I want my life to to result in a profit of joy.
Let’s quit accepting their frame.
I wrote about the pervasive societal impulse to extend the benefit of the doubt to those who've proved themselves unworthy of any, and the importance of establishing a human framing in the fight against fascism before you can even begin the fight, much less win it.
www.the-reframe.com/the-reframe/
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The Reframe
If you stay in their frame, you'll always be in their picture. On the fine art of not handing it to them.
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May 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Let’s quit accepting their frame.
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I wrote about leaders who don't (or won't) lead, the death of a political order unsuited for these dark times, what the new one should look like, and the importance of playing to win. New visions for a new and better America: Solidarity, leadership, reframing.
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The Beached Whale
Messaging for leaders who actually want to lead. Playing to Win - part of a series about directional alignment.
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March 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote about leaders who don't (or won't) lead, the death of a political order unsuited for these dark times, what the new one should look like, and the importance of playing to win. New visions for a new and better America: Solidarity, leadership, reframing.
www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...
www.the-reframe.com/the-beached-...
@sarah.posner.bsky.social just posted a thread about how “Republicans nominate and elect deeply ethically compromised candidates. Then people within their own party use their compromised positions to force them to bend to their will.” So the fear is a purposeful internal tactic of the GOP.
March 6, 2025 at 6:14 AM
@sarah.posner.bsky.social just posted a thread about how “Republicans nominate and elect deeply ethically compromised candidates. Then people within their own party use their compromised positions to force them to bend to their will.” So the fear is a purposeful internal tactic of the GOP.
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"Supremacy is our foundational culture; as such we are founded in it, too. If we want to counter the culture, we will need to be the counterculture. We'll need to build it."
Global human family before boundary.
Plenty before scarcity.
Justice before convenience"
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Global human family before boundary.
Plenty before scarcity.
Justice before convenience"
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Building Counterculture
You can't get to where you need to be if you don't know what that is.
Imagining the Best - a series about directional alignment.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Supremacy is our foundational culture; as such we are founded in it, too. If we want to counter the culture, we will need to be the counterculture. We'll need to build it."
Global human family before boundary.
Plenty before scarcity.
Justice before convenience"
www.the-reframe.com/building-cou...
Global human family before boundary.
Plenty before scarcity.
Justice before convenience"
www.the-reframe.com/building-cou...
What do you think about reports of Republicans voting to support Trump and his nominees out of fear for the safety of themselves and their families? I’m concerned these fears have compromised our legislative branch and the threats won’t be investigated. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...
“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
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February 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
What do you think about reports of Republicans voting to support Trump and his nominees out of fear for the safety of themselves and their families? I’m concerned these fears have compromised our legislative branch and the threats won’t be investigated. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...