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Molly McCloy

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writer, comic, storyteller, happiest dyke on earth

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Molly McCloy

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North of the Gulf of America, the American press must now refer to the Oval Office as the Wingnut Woom.

February 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM

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Rebecca Solnit

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In this emergency, I think it likely that we are going to need to pitch a very big tent and invite everyone in who doesn't want to live in a dictatorship... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/big-tents-an...

Nobody wants an emergency, but perhaps we should want some of the remarkable things that can happen during them. On the top of my list of those things is how in the immediate aftermath of a hurricane, a fire, an earthquake, people take care of each other and work together without the kind of vetting and fretting whether they agree entirely about politics or religion or other matters. We are in an unprecedented emergency in the United States with fallout that poses threats to environments, economies, human rights and even survival beyond our borders, and we could use some of that energy. As political scientist Erica Chenoweth said in Saturday's Meditations in an Emergency interview, "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone."
Right now the courts are doing important business as they render verdict after verdict against Trump and Musk thanks to lawsuits brought by states, federal employees, and others with standing. Some of the Democrats in office are being amazing, and others in the opposition party are being waffles, milquetoasts, cookies that crumble, and other refined-carbohydrate items. As is now clear, the administrative branch of the federal government of the United States is engaging in a coup attempt against the legislative and judicial branches, against the law and constitution itself, and against your rights and mine and the security and stability of the world. They can be defeated and at a minimum held in check, and the sooner they are the more limited the damage. But as Chenoweth points out, it's up to us. Are we up to it?

February 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Molly McCloy

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The Super Bowl would be a great place to get on camera with a sign that says, "Deport President Musk."

February 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM

Molly McCloy

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I got on local NPR to talk about the word "dyke." Sam Dingman at KJZZ was a good sport and we had some laughs. Listen here: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...