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Sarah Kendzior

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Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Mar 5

In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.

Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

The Last American Road Trip

The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1h

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4h

Oh I haven't even begun! I got a farmer to give me a ton of corn!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4h

We watch it as a family every year because it's so hilarious but this year I decided to recreate the entire movie on my lawn

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 5h

2. "I worry that when the gritty cities I love are the focus of attack — and let’s be clear, they have already been violated by ICE — they won’t get the same treatment [as Portland] because they’re not “nice,” even though their people are just as deserving of support."

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 5h

This piece contains a number of thoughts well worth pondering. Sharing just 2:
1. "How does one boycott & strike in a country where the government wants the economy to collapse?"

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6h

"About a decade ago, formerly feuding factions decided to overlook their differences in order to ruin the world."
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PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4h

He Who Walks Behind The Rows shall be pleased!

My Halloween decoration budget is possibly more than the actual prop budget of "Children of the Corn", but I did have five dollars...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4h

Having a productive morning over here

This is a Gatlin Nebraska sign, outlander!

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 6h

"About a decade ago, formerly feuding factions decided to overlook their differences in order to ruin the world."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

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andyaf @andyaf.bsky.social · 7h

If only more Americans in the $250k-$1m salary range understood they're on the chopping block too. The extreme job & tax cuts they voted for are designed to destroy not just the poor and middle class. Billionaire technobros want greater wealth consolidation and fewer humans in the way.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

Quotes from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon-artists-your-questions

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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 10h

“Email is the most reliable distribution method in the oligarch algorithm era”… resist the “regriftance”

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 10h

I know it is hard to think like a psychopath but it is very clear they want our economy to collapse. So what can we do? Educate more people. Even people who many would consider wealthy are poor compared to billionaires - they will suffer too! Follow independent media. Educate your friends & family

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11h

And Trump was mentored by the infamous 1980s corporate raider Carl Icahn, who then served briefly as an advisor in the first Trump administration

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 17h

lots of people still don’t believe Team Trump want to crash the economy, likely because it’s hard for normal people to think like sociopaths

Sarah Kendzior is smart to invoke memories of 1980s corporate raiders. That should give many Boomers and some Gen X food for thought. We remember that crap.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks!

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emanuelbrown.bsky.social @emanuelbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Excellent Q&A series. Highly recommended.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

Yup

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

Folks gotta figure out what actually hurts the oligarchs. Many people don't understand how unimportant money is to oligarchs compared to power. Musk never cared about losing tons of money on Twitter because the power gained in destroying community and communication was much more valuable.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

On strikes, boycotts, and rethinking leverage when the government WANTS the economy to collapse:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 21h

I want this portrait of Jock in my house! I read that Larry Hagman hung it up in his living room

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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love the way @sarahkendzior.bsky.social wields words like a scythe: cutting through the BS while revealing fresh insight.

"People pay to bypass the wall and land in a gated community of Stepford Pundits. These pseudo-resisters prey on fear for profit: they are the regriftance."
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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 1d

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social as always lyrically on target:

"The first step is admitting the scope of the crisis, and proceeding from there, finding points of leverage against oligarch assault. At the same time, build your own refuge. Refuge can become subterfuge when you’re up against the soulless."

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I don’t want any prizes, just folks to drop by the site

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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