Archive for Politics
Twain on freedom and revolution
What are the sanctions?
A schadenfreude of White-House-in-disarray articles
My first Rapid Response
Back in September, I attended a training to be an observer at ICE raids. I hadn’t heard anything from them...
SH Flashback: “Prisoners of Uqbaristan,” by Chris Nakashima-Brown
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Prisoners of Uqbaristan,” by Chris Nakashima-Brown A dizzying post-cyberpunk melange of media psyops,...
Agents of SHIELD political commentary
I've been really enjoying the current storyline in Agents of SHIELD. It's doing a virtual-reality take on a sort of...
Hold the line: How best to contact Congress
Long but fascinating article about the effectiveness of various means of contacting US members of Congress. It contradicts some things...
Day of Remembrance for the incarceration of Japanese Americans
Today is a Day of Remembrance: the 75th anniversary of FDR's executive order to incarcerate Japanese Americans. A bunch of...
Easy quick intro to contacting your members of Congress
Yesterday, I attended a really useful-to-me presentation titled "Activism 101: Finding your voice in government," about how to engage with...
“How Can We Sink When We Can Fly?”
I'm reading Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year from 1972, and most of the stories in it, although...
SH Flashback: “Rapture,” by Sally Gwylan
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective: “Rapture,” by Sally Gwylan A slow-building story of idealist leftist anarchists...