Off the Escalator
@offescalator.bsky.social
Relationship-related posts by Amy Gahran, author of "Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator." Unconventional relationships, chosen family, the power of community, and more!
This sounds brilliant! @vox.com, please please please offer a podcast edition of The Logoff, too!
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
Want a little less Donald Trump in your brain? Vox has a new newsletter that dials down the franticness
"A daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life."
www.niemanlab.org
January 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This sounds brilliant! @vox.com, please please please offer a podcast edition of The Logoff, too!
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/want...
"There are lessons to be learned from the past. We will have to speak to one another. People voted as they did for various reasons. ...We will have to get past arguing about the vote, and have conversations about what authoritarianism is really like. This post was meant to help those conversations."
Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strongman Fantasy (updated 11/24)
And dictatorship in real life
snyder.substack.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:56 PM
"There are lessons to be learned from the past. We will have to speak to one another. People voted as they did for various reasons. ...We will have to get past arguing about the vote, and have conversations about what authoritarianism is really like. This post was meant to help those conversations."