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WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's give some specific advice about how to make meetings (or gatherings of any kind) better

Who are you going to believe?

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Shout out an activist/community building action that fills you with joy and hope right now

Subverting the Game: It's all made up, let's make up something kinder.

When the soldiers come to your town, this is what I'll say about you

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: When is a "community" not really a community?

Ezra Klein, have you considered just hosting a potluck?

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Give (or request) extremely specific advice!

Are you a Rock or a Rocket?

Whatever you can still do, you can still do

The Internet is killing us

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Please share a recent moment when other people have charmed/impressed/made you feel grateful

How do you respond when a famous person whose ideology you abhor is shot and killed?

Twenty ideas for populist political projects that you could start or join tomorrow that don't involve throwing vulnerable people under the bus

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Please share a really interesting article or essay that you think we should read

I passed the Oklahoma Anti-Woke Teacher Certification Test

If there was a political movement in this country truly committed to keeping every kid safe, I would lay down in front of a bus for it every single day

I would rather share in your earnest mistakes

Every place is a last best place

NOT QUITE A WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: I have a suggestion for something a bit different this week (will it work? only time will tell)

What the manosphere yappers won't tell you about the cure for male loneliness

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What would you share (if we gathered)?

Growing up Booksmart

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What do you wish somebody would show up at your house and offer you RIGHT NOW

"I don't know how to make other people care..."

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What's your all time favorite public gathering?

Morgan Wallen has a scold

Meet the new money, same as the old money

These are the only two things I'd say if I were running for office right now

Official statements from Elon Musk's newly founded "America Party,"ranked by whether they make any damned sense at all

What does it mean to be a neighbor? What does it mean to be a hero?

What do we do when our government says that it hates us and doesn't care if we die?

Why write (or draw or build or play or think) if a robot can do it for you?

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We're going to thank somebody (perhaps somebody we know, perhaps a stranger, perhaps a something rather than a somebody) here, in this space

Hot Earnestness Summer

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Presenting... the end of the week check-in!

I am so grateful for you all, and I want so desperately for us to keep going, so what better time than now to live that gratitude out loud

In a time of strongmen, a few words for tender-hearted dads

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Let's talk protests

If you need guns, tanks and propaganda to keep us from caring for our neighbors, you've already lost

Everybody's feelings, everywhere, all at once

Why try, if it feels like we're just walking in circles?

Weekly community discussion: Let's name some summer aspirations

After the explosion, before it’s too late

Weekly community discussion: Help choose this year's White Pages Summer Movie Series

I regret to inform the United States of America that it is stuck with me for the foreseeable future

Hey you all, I'd like to give you a t-shirt or a tote bag

You haven't actually failed

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Why aren't all these efforts at community building enough to turn the tide?

The Benevolent Order of Decent Neighbors Hanging Out Together And Building A Better World

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What do you wish people would ask you about more frequently?

Building community is a joy (except when you don't want to, or you're tired, or you're in your own head, or other people have let you down one too many times...)

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: The glorious return of "recommend anything"

Manning up (and bringing us all down)

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What are some legitimately lovely things about the place you live?

The day they put you on the plane

My weekly invoice as a paid protestor

Twenty questions for big-hearted, anxious builders (for when principled opposition to Trump is growing, but we're still worried that it won't be enough)...

Why the protests mattered...

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: How do we make sense of patriotism?

All the money in the world...

Get a load of all these stickers

The house always wins

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: What is a specific, kind thing that somebody has done for you recently

Every week, I fall a bit more in love with strangers

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: In this era of extremely large problems... this week, we're complaining about small, petty annoyances

There are two political movements in America right now

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: How are you balancing your attention/alarm/engagement in the midst of so much awfulness?

The state of the union is...

Your 2025 White Pages Guide To The Oscars

To all the Democratic Congresspeople who've emailed me before...

With friends like these...

Soon, there will be a spark

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: We're making small, specific recommendations for things that may not solve all the ills of the world but that are making your life a little bit better

If the despots can engage in magical thinking, then so can we

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Tell us about a kindness you've received/experienced in the past couple weeks

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important

What the ad peddlers know

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: So, what are the (good and bad) reasons why we don't host that event or show up to that group or text those friends back?

Nothing is inevitable and no men are Gods

How parents can support educators right now

The thing you need to remember about the government is that it helps a whole lot of people

What we don't talk about when we talk about the manosphere

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Our favorite folk heroes

The most powerful men in the world want you to shut up and let them do whatever they want

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Nominations are now open for the official White Pages "Least Cool CEO" award

Mark Zuckerberg will never understand why we don't love him

How do you love your neighbors when your houses are on fire?

Rigged to explode

WEEKLY COMMUNITY DISCUSSION: Decent things we've watched these last couple weeks