Eric Orts
@ericorts.bsky.social
Climate and Democracy Hawk. Professor at Wharton/Penn in Philadelphia, where ideals of freedom were born and persist.
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Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.
January 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.
My most recent blog here I January 6th: A Thin Blue (Broken) Line. Check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/ericorts...
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A Thin Blue (Broken) Line
January 6th and Its Aftermath
open.substack.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My most recent blog here I January 6th: A Thin Blue (Broken) Line. Check it out!
open.substack.com/pub/ericorts...
open.substack.com/pub/ericorts...
This NY Times retrospective is worth checking out. My comment also at Substack.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: The Last Word: Jimmy Carter
In a never-before-seen interview with The Times in 2006, Jimmy Carter reflects on his life and work as a Cold War leader, Middle East peace broker and post-presidential career as a citizen diplomat.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:44 PM
This NY Times retrospective is worth checking out. My comment also at Substack.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Trending on social media: reported response in Greenland to recent threats from Trump …
December 28, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Trending on social media: reported response in Greenland to recent threats from Trump …
Trying to get going here on Blue Sky. Here’s my update of Dickens: “A Christmas Carol at Mar-a-Lago.”
It’s fiction not a prediction.
But tis the season for dreams!
Please share if you like this.
ericorts.substack.com/p/a-christma...
It’s fiction not a prediction.
But tis the season for dreams!
Please share if you like this.
ericorts.substack.com/p/a-christma...
A Christmas Carol in Mar-a-Lago
A Dickensian Update of a Ghost Story of Christmas
ericorts.substack.com
December 25, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Trying to get going here on Blue Sky. Here’s my update of Dickens: “A Christmas Carol at Mar-a-Lago.”
It’s fiction not a prediction.
But tis the season for dreams!
Please share if you like this.
ericorts.substack.com/p/a-christma...
It’s fiction not a prediction.
But tis the season for dreams!
Please share if you like this.
ericorts.substack.com/p/a-christma...
In case you are tempted at time to think that freedom of speech and the right to protest don’t matter, take a moment to see and hear the reaction of the crowd in South Korea to news of the legislative vote of impeachment.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
South Korea’s President Impeached Over Martial Law Crisis
Celebrations broke out in Seoul after lawmakers voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol. He vowed to fight removal in the country’s Constitutional Court.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
In case you are tempted at time to think that freedom of speech and the right to protest don’t matter, take a moment to see and hear the reaction of the crowd in South Korea to news of the legislative vote of impeachment.
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...
With thousands of others, I’m migrating here from X — which now deserves a general boycott by all.
Musk’s use of X for political propaganda in the form of misinformation, flat-out lies, and conspiracy theories to elect Trump is unforgivable.
Tips for how to use Bluesky are welcome!
Musk’s use of X for political propaganda in the form of misinformation, flat-out lies, and conspiracy theories to elect Trump is unforgivable.
Tips for how to use Bluesky are welcome!
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
With thousands of others, I’m migrating here from X — which now deserves a general boycott by all.
Musk’s use of X for political propaganda in the form of misinformation, flat-out lies, and conspiracy theories to elect Trump is unforgivable.
Tips for how to use Bluesky are welcome!
Musk’s use of X for political propaganda in the form of misinformation, flat-out lies, and conspiracy theories to elect Trump is unforgivable.
Tips for how to use Bluesky are welcome!