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Getting the Ghost
Getting the Ghost
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November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Getting the Ghost
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats • The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats
The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Weekend Edition: How we become 130M Democrats • The work of party building is always ongoing, but emerging from our current dysfunction to build something new requires a deep commitment to transform a party that has been stuck for...a while.
Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats • The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats
The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Weekend Edition: 130M Democrats • The cracks are the map. Passive. Disconnected. Condescending. Exclusionary. Neoliberal. All solvable if we go straight at each of these perceptions or failures of the Democratic Party.
An economics of value beyond wealth • Examining the relationship between wealth, self-esteem, and community value might help us unlock new paths to transforming our economy and reclaiming our civic life.
An economics of value beyond wealth
Examining the relationship between wealth, self-esteem, and community value might help us unlock new paths to transforming our economy and reclaiming our civic life.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
An economics of value beyond wealth • Examining the relationship between wealth, self-esteem, and community value might help us unlock new paths to transforming our economy and reclaiming our civic life.
Ready for another way • The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.
Ready for another way
The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ready for another way • The Democratic Party has been in the wilderness for a long time now. Perhaps the consequences are stark enough, the excuses flimsy enough that we can finally embrace real transformation.
The work ahead • If damage is the strategy, then the cracks are our guide to the work our democracy needs from us, win or lose.
The work ahead
If damage is the strategy, then the cracks are our guide to the work our democracy needs from us, win or lose.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The work ahead • If damage is the strategy, then the cracks are our guide to the work our democracy needs from us, win or lose.
Section 230 ... as intended? • Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
Section 230 ... as intended?
Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Section 230 ... as intended? • Our Federal courts may have accidentally turned Section 230 into the tool it was meant to be.
A real solution buried in a War Game • The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
A real solution buried in a War Game
The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A real solution buried in a War Game • The most important insight might not be anything that happens in the simulated Situation Room but what kept one of the characters from ending up on the wrong side of the "war".
A slow reflection in a fast moment • Slowing down might help us unlock the creativity and the kindness we desperately need right now.
A slow reflection in a fast moment
Slowing down might help us unlock the creativity and the kindness we desperately need right now.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A slow reflection in a fast moment • Slowing down might help us unlock the creativity and the kindness we desperately need right now.
Art as instigator or healer? • The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
Art as instigator or healer?
The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Art as instigator or healer? • The stories we share can transform us and our communities and our society. But artists must be willing to accept the responsibility that comes with those powers.
Old laws, new systems • As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
Old laws, new systems
As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Old laws, new systems • As Rishad Tobaccowala says sometimes "the future does not fit in the containers of the past." We need Congress to help us define new containers for information, culture, and community.
What if the means determine the ends? • Civilization's relentless focus on achievement and outcomes creates a more competitive worldview and makes us more vulnerable than we think.
What if the means determine the ends?
Civilization's relentless focus on achievement and outcomes creates a more competitive worldview and makes us more vulnerable than we think.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
What if the means determine the ends? • Civilization's relentless focus on achievement and outcomes creates a more competitive worldview and makes us more vulnerable than we think.
Mark Zuckerberg did not apologize
Mark Zuckerberg did not apologize
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November 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Mark Zuckerberg did not apologize
Pause and shift (if you can) • Ending a year of "difficult" to begin a year of "dread"? How we might enter this new year in a way that might could lead to rebuilding some of what feels lost.
Pause and shift (if you can)
Ending a year of "difficult" to begin a year of "dread"? How we might enter this new year in a way that might could lead to rebuilding some of what feels lost.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pause and shift (if you can) • Ending a year of "difficult" to begin a year of "dread"? How we might enter this new year in a way that might could lead to rebuilding some of what feels lost.
A Little Weekend Reading: "Always Show Up" • What an ancient text might have to offer us right now on how to show up in a relentless world.
A Little Weekend Reading: "Always Show Up"
What an ancient text might have to offer us right now on how to show up in a relentless world.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A Little Weekend Reading: "Always Show Up" • What an ancient text might have to offer us right now on how to show up in a relentless world.
Three months of writer's block
Three months of writer's block
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Three months of writer's block
"We can restore anything" • No matter how heavy and intractable and desperate things may feel, we are not lost. But we might need to shift where we are look for direction.
"We can restore anything"
No matter how heavy and intractable and desperate things may feel, we are not lost. But we might need to shift where we are look for direction.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"We can restore anything" • No matter how heavy and intractable and desperate things may feel, we are not lost. But we might need to shift where we are look for direction.
Wisdom from friends • Sharing the voices of others to help us get more of what we need right now
Wisdom from friends
Sharing the voices of others to help us get more of what we need right now
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Wisdom from friends • Sharing the voices of others to help us get more of what we need right now
Systemic fragility as a sign of possibility rather than collapse
Systemic fragility as a sign of possibility rather than collapse
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Systemic fragility as a sign of possibility rather than collapse
Spirit, Heart, Head, Hands • Approaching the world in the right order might be a key to rethinking our relationships and building a healthier society.
Spirit, Heart, Head, Hands
Approaching the world in the right order might be a key to rethinking our relationships and building a healthier society.
7bridges.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Spirit, Heart, Head, Hands • Approaching the world in the right order might be a key to rethinking our relationships and building a healthier society.