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Who's to blame? Ranking and allocating responsibility for allowing the next Trump Co. regime (with diagrams where relevant)

Whenever things don't go your way, the instinct is to lay some blame somewhere. Following the re-election of Trump Co., the post-game analysis has been non-stop. Here's my offering on the hierarchy of responsibility.

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There is no more time for grief

The grieving period is now over. It wasn't that useful, anyway. Welcome to the five stages of resistance.

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There is no escape, only movement

After the news dropped that Donald Trump would be moving back into the White House, Google Trends showed that a lot of Americans started searching up how to get themselves out of the country. Here's some notes on doing that.

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Lists for the bad times

As people move through the various stages of grief, over what the U.S. did to itself this week, and speculation as to what it will do to the world next, there is no shortage of advice out there on how to do that.

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No predictions, only warnings

A short election night rant. I'm only putting it on semi-main. You've got to subscribe to see it and I make no promises of it being worth the trouble.

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Casting your ballot in bad times

There's been enough said about newspapers that are withholding editorial endorsements this election year, but when optimism isn't journalistically honest, how should an editorial section do its job?

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Insurrection is a value-neutral term

As we get ready for another election in the U.S., insurrection may became a left wing value again. That's fine.