CROSS-POSTS
> 2025
December 3, 2025
The Liberal Death Wish.
FRANK SCHAEFFER – IT HAS TO BE SAID.
“What a valuable read this is. As we struggle to understand why anyone would vote for Trump, everyone chews on a few popular ideas, but this one is a great addition to add to the collection. And the value isn’t only for the idea, but for the good writing by Frank Schaeffer.”
November 27, 2025
What to Be Thankful For
GEOFFREY DEIHL – SANE THOUGHTS FOR INSANE TIMES
“I haven’t written my gratitude list, and, if I had, I doubt I could have delivered anything as lovely as this. It’s from my go-to person about the polycrisis, that includes global warming, that threatens humanity’s survival, because he not only delivers from a great mind but also from a great heart.”
November 25, 2025
What We Burn to Speak to Machines
JUSTIN MCAFFEE – COLLAPSE CURRICULUM
“THIS IS ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING. CAN IT BE A FULL-PAGE AD IN ALL NEWSPAPERS? Can we find a billionaire to finance that? It is a revolutionary document! Everyone needs to know what’s in it. We are plunging our unstoppable selves out of existence, and you get it reading this insightful roadmap to the near future to get us working together on having a long-term one.”
November 24, 2025
I Tried To Write This, But Couldn’t…
AVA DUVERNAY – ONWARD WITH AVA DUVERNAY
“I am in love with Ava. You probably don’t need me sending this, because it is so brilliant that I bet it’s being seen by everyone as one of the most important posts ever made. But, if it’s news to you, it’s a big gift. I talk about flooding the net with Pep Talks for Humanity, and there couldn’t be a better one. “
November 15, 2025
Metabolizing the Files
ANARCASPER
“Every time I read anarcasper, whomever she/he may be, I recognize a kindred soul, to whom I have given shout-outs before, and here’s another great take on where we should be focused that’s deeper than where most analyses go. A big BUT is that what’s proposed I can’t see as doable without massive funding, but hey, my last post was about getting ourselves a billionaire, for whom this could be another project.”
November 5, 2025
My Papaw’s Democrats Dominated
CORBIN TRENT AND AMERICA’S UNDOING
“I suggest everyone subscribe. This young guy is a clear communicator with these positions I don’t see anyone else holding: “We stopped being a country that builds and became a country that extracts.” (It’s basic. Do read this. I linked to it earlier, where I said, “If I ran the world, what Corbin has been posting would be required reading. There’s objective reporting and there’s perceptive reporting, and his perceptions ring my bells.”) and “This is why my cohort model isn’t about having more things. It’s about visible, organized power: 50 candidates running together on a binding pledge, coordinating resources, primarying corporate Democrats, backing each other up. That looks like something powerful enough to overcome the system.””
November 2, 2025
The Noise Is the Signal: A Behavioral Reading of Media Collapse
JOHAN
“This is a second post by Johan that I’m passing along — after this one a couple of weeks ago: “Part III: The Economic Fallout – When Unpredictability Becomes Policy.” That was about us losing the footing where the world can count on us. This is basic smarts about what’s in the air at this time. There’s a sweep of history from what is deeply embedded within us, and Johan has the tracking. Please read this, it’s built on a concept I haven’t heard elsewhere but matches the feeling in my bones about what is going on at the deepest level. In my next post, Tuesday, I’m reframing some basic ideas and positions of mine that dovetail with this. It is so wonderful to be discovering Johan!”
October 26, 2025
The Republic on Fire
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
“Here’s another one. In fact, everything that Mark McKinerney writes is worth passing along. Not only is he right on in his observations, but his writing, where I’ve called him the poet laureate of Substack, is delicious to read. He has not been promoted by the powers that be, but he should be. If Substack took a stance to save humanity, they’d get everyone subscribing to Smoke Signals.”
October 26, 2025
Waking Up From Our Consensus Trance
MAYA FROST – COLLAPSE INTO JOY
“Maya recommended me so I checked her out. She says, “I truly feel an accelerated shift happening these last few days. You, too?” Yes! So much so it’s too much for me to do justice to the rich communications coming through by just reporting on them, so I’m going to cross-post more of them, like this one. Thank you, subscribers, many of whom are new, that I’m so grateful for as I harbor the wish that we can be an Island of Coherence to get humanity on a winning path.”
October 15, 2025
Part III: The Economic Fallout – When Unpredictability Becomes Policy
JOHAN
“This is the best description of what is happening to us that I have seen. I would make it required reading.”
October 8, 2025
The Greta Thunberg of Substack
RONALD LOGAN – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
“I wondered who the Greta Thunberg on Substack could be, and what an interesting development to discover who it is. Read the comments for more. Ronald is on my list of people getting an official invite going to people with smarts about how serious overshoot is, to come up with how to get all of humanity tuned into it being life or death to deal with, so wars stop and creativity about what to do takes over.”
October 7, 2025
Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood
PATTY SMITH – Supernuclear
“I know a good idea when I see one, and I couldn’t wait for my next Substack to pass it along. Thanks to Medacrisis Diplomats’ “What to do in these times.” for the link. It relates to a prizewinning essay in a contest I had last year, https://suespeaks.org/essay-contest, for ideas about how to change the world. Any magazine publishers out there for Benches and Snacks?”
September 19, 2025
LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“No notes, no hesitation, straight from the heart via a brilliant brain, Marianne Williamson could be the most compelling voice speaking today! My Marianne playlist.”
August 26, 2025
How to Respond When the World Unravels
AKHIL – HOW SHALL WE LIVE?
“After more than two years on Substack, I’m finding some people, like Akhil, echoing what I see about the bigger picture. With what’s next on my agenda being getting everyone wised up to what’s going on, the kindred soul and very good writer that Akhil is may be making what I see clearer than I do. After you read what he wrote, look at the comments to see what I’ve said.”
August 26, 2025
The Little Discussed Secret to Trump’s Ruination of America
NEAL GABLER – FAREWELL, AMERICA
“Wonderful. wonderful, wonderful. Who would have thought there are things to say about understanding Trump that haven’t been said before? What does a full page ad for the readers who are left of The New York Times cost?”
August 23, 2025
PLANETARY HOSPICE 2025
THAM ZHIWA – THE DHARMA BEAT
“Uh oh, this is the piece I meant to send, where in the great learning going on this is a master class: “I read a lot of pundits and I get well-informed, and then I read a brilliant writer and it makes me think in the bigger perspectives I gravitate to about what is causal to what’s going on which is key to changing things. You don’t have to know Joanna Macy’s work to understand what Tham Zhiwa says, but for a little framework Chat DPT gave me a sentence: ‘The Work That Reconnects is a journey that moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and Going Forth, guiding people from awareness to empowered action for life on Earth.’””
August 23, 2025
Grieving the Great Griever
THAM ZHIWA – THE DHARMA BEAT
“This tribute to Joanna Macy is from a writer who says so many things I say and better than I say them. I read a lot of pundits and I get well-informed, and then I read a brilliant writer and it makes me think in the bigger perspectives I gravitate to about what is causal to what’s going on which is key to changing things. You don’t have to know Joanna Macy’s work to understand what Tham Zhiwa says, but for a little framework Chat DPT gave me a sentence: “The Work That Reconnects is a journey that moves through Gratitude, Honoring Our Pain for the World, Seeing with New Eyes, and Going Forth, guiding people from awareness to empowered action for life on Earth.” I hooked up with this after finding Zhiwa’s best takedown of trump I have seen.”
August 23, 2025
The Headline Overload Assault on America
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
“There’s reporting on what happens and there’s brilliant writing about what happens. If Substack had a contest for the best writing, this piece could win in!”
July 11, 2025
The Fire Is Here. So We Build What Comes After.
ANARCASPER
“This, plus David Suzuki from the link that it starts with, are the best TUNE-INS TO REALITY. We need that. Suzuki is a hero, a pioneer about consciousness, and if I were a genie I’d use my magic power to tune you into him. See the comment I made.”
July 05, 2025
From Within, We Rise
CHRISTY SHAVER – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
“This is what I’ve been saying. Change how people see themselves, not as primordial sinners supplicating to an external god, but as divine creatures in a sacred universe serving Earth. Till now, Marianne Williamson has been the only person I’ve found coming from this perspective. Now there are three of us!”
May 26, 2025
On this Memorial Day
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
“As much as I’d like people to read what I write, I am equally high — and want to play matchmaker again — on Mark McInerney’s SMOKE SCREEN. I think Mark may be the best writer on Substack, who is new here so not so many people are reading what he writes. This is one of the best things I have ever read and I hope that you subscribers have ways to get it posted elsewhere.”
May 19, 2025
“The most important book you’ve never read” made me an anti-capitalist
ELIZABETH LUKEHART – THE SUBURBAN WILDERNESS
“Read this brilliant piece before reading the Substack you’ll get from me tomorrow. I can’t find many writers on Substack who come from this deeply transformative understanding, and I’m on the lookout for them for a conversation!”
May 9, 2025
A More Perfect Union
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
“My comment: This is such a beautiful call to the world we could be in. I hope he can spark a conversation — how to get to that world is where I’d chime in — but that still is a challenge. Look at how few responses he got. This is the comment I left: “Now there’s two of us. And add Jesus to the pep talkers. He said who followed would be greater. So far, no one has been as good, but the time is now, when apocalypse lurks, to awaken to what we were designed to be, loving creatures in an altruistic zeitgeist. So, what next? This morning I was thinking of going after the billionaires. New game. Go to where the power is. Even just think of doing what the world does. Advertise. Have them fund a massive worldwide ad campaign for us to become our better angels!?”
Mar 26, 2025
The Trump Moment
FRANK SCHAEFFER – IT HAS TO BE SAID.
“Speaking about Pep Talks, I’d like to see flooding the net, get this one out there!!!”
Mar 6, 2025
RADICAL AVAILABILITY
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“Listen to Marianne. Especially what starts at 2:18: “We’re showing up within ourselves….go us.” I have the vision that as Marianne keeps speaking the Beloved Community grows to be our reality, and it is to-the-rescue in these warped and dangerous times.”
Feb 7, 2025
The Dangerous Truth About Denying Your Child’s Success
THOM HARTMANN – ADHD: HUNTER IN A FARMER’S WORLD WITH THOM HARTMANN
“While being intent on how to save ourselves from the evil force loose in our land, where Thom Hartmann is a must-read, I keep thinking about how valuable this piece of his is for creating the psychologically healthy children who would populate the world we’d want to be in.”
> 2024
Nov 14, 2024
Fear and Loathing in the USA
GEOFFREY DEIHL – SANE THOUGHTS FOR INSANE TIMES
“Please, dear readers, support Geoffrey with your subscriptions. Even think of it as what you would give me, but I don’t need money and Geoffrey does. I would be beyond heartsick if I couldn’t rest in the sanity he delivers with such eloquence. So many quotable things here, where this is the root of what has to be ripped out for civilized life to continue: “…the Democrats have also been complicit in the rise of oligarchy that is destroying our world and our future. As I have pointed out numerous times, what we have in reality is class warfare, an eternal game and the terms “liberal” and “conservative” are used to keep us fighting each other against our common interests that most fundamentally start with preserving an inhabitable planet.”
Nov 13, 2024
The Crisis Report – 96
RICHARD CRIM – THE CRISIS REPORT
“I haven’t studied these charts, but I’ve gotten the big picture, and as a responsible person who is in touch with other human beings I feel it is incumbent upon me to give you a look at this. We need to be in reality to change anything as this is as real as it gets. Geoffrey Deihl, who I trust with my planet, said this: Richard, there is much to digest here. As you know, I am hardly on the hopium side of this issue, and always come down hard on the side that we are in the process of exterminating ourselves without radical action. This election has essentially extinguished remaining hope for me, but your predictions for deaths by 2050 I will need to study further. That shocks even me, a person who would be labeled as a crazy by the denial/hopium crowd. As always, I appreciate your work.”
Nov 7, 2024
The Great Dismantling: Trump’s Coming Attack on America’s Economic
Backbone
THOM HARTMANN – THE HARTMANN REPORT
“Today is a day for getting wised up. Thom is so good. All fodder for getting we-the-people united to figure out what to do.”
Nov 7, 2024
Worse days are ahead. So are better ones
STEVE SCHIMIDT – THE WARNING WITH STEVE SCHIMIDT
“This is the perfect follow-up to what I just sent this morning. It is so very very good.”
Nov 6, 2024
REFLECTIONS ON ELECTION NIGHT
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“Draft Marianne to collect us. I say sign-ups for making MLK Jr.’s Beloved Community real. Get it bigger than the Dems and Republicans and not political. A massive force for the good!!!!! I wrote about that here: “Let’s do something already to turn the world around/How about the Beloved Community?“
Nov 5, 2024
Will the Corporatocracy Stand?
GEOFFREY DEIHL – SANE THOUGHTS FOR INSANE TIMES
“Geoffrey Deihl is deeply on my wavelength — his ideas and the being thinking them. When you read this, I’d trust you’dn’t need much encouragement to subscribe to his Substack. That the corporations and the billionaires are what have us stuck, and that degrowth is essential for our survival, are his pillars. Forces beyond us civilians have to deal with the oligarchy, but for degrowth we need a cooperative humanity, and looking to become that is my addition to the soup we all are in together.”
Oct 23, 2024
‘you want lies with that?’
JEFF TIEDRICH – EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO MY OWN OPINION
“This is so delicious. The title is what first got me, but that was just the beginning of the pleasure from one of the best pieces I’ve ever read. Enjoy!!!!”
Oct 1, 2024
It Was Unthinkable. Then It Happened.
JESSICA – THE SENTINEL-INTELLIGENCE
“It’s essential for us to get real if we are going to change anything. This piece couldn’t be any realer. My comment: “Since 2022, combined aid to these countries has exceeded $200 billion. Compare that to FEMA’s annual budget of barely $20 billion…” Since money talks in our self-serving, sub-conscious world, the deprivation to us from where our money goes could be fodder for getting people pissed about how badly we are doing things.”
Sep 27, 2024
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Was Incomplete
MATT ORSAGH – DEGROWTH IS THE ANSWER
“To my subscribers as substantiation for how significant our creation story is. There are arguments that a story is like a fantasy but I argue it’s the most determinative thing for how we think and thus how we act. Please please please read this clear explanation of what I am talking about. Also read the comments. @GeoffreyDeihl, whom I’ve been asking you to subscribe to, has a wonderful one.”
Sep 19, 2024
Alternative Cultures Are Beautiful and Important. They’re Also Not Enough.
MAX WILBERT – BIOCENTRIC
“My comment on this: My heart kept beating faster as I read this for what you posted as “the need for organizing and direct action.” I have a standing offer of $100 to point me to any auspice scheming about how, in a timely fashion, like now, to bring about system change from rugged individualism to a mutuality where we care about each other as much as we care about ourselves. I loved what you wrote, saying yes yes yes to this: “You can’t make a new way without observing what has come before.” But then there was no scheming , but a mentorship program. What are you teaching people in a world where we are stuck and don’t know how to get out of it? You’re mentoring, and I’m “Looking for a committee to think with.”
Sep 11, 2024
The Harris Trump “Debate”
GEOFFREY DEIHL – SANE THOUGHTS FOR INSANE TIMES
“It’s not because this post is especially brilliant that I’m passing along today’s fine Substack from Geoffrey Deihl, but that all his posts are the closest expressions I’ve found to what I think. To boot, he is deliciously articulate and very clever, where you not only get wised up but you also get charmed by a very good writer. Now look, you guys, I don’t charge for my Substack because I am lucky enough not to need this money, but Geoffrey does and I’m making a pitch to be a paying subscriber of his. This how he puts it: “Desperately need paid supporters to continue three years of hard work. That’s like a party size bag of Doritos. Come on people.”
Aug 26, 2024
Gov on the Rocks
DAVE PELL – NEXTDRAFT
“You all should subscribe to this newcomer to Substack who hasn’t been discovered yet. He’s guaranteed to charm any thinking person with the important and sometimes little-known highlights of the day that he posts and the clever way he presents everything. Just the best!”
Aug 20, 2024
ISRAEL, PALESTINE and CHICAGO
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“This is the comment I left: Marianne, you are awesome. You couldn’t be better. You are so real, so present, so comfortable delivering intelligent answers to a good interviewer about a critical issue. Get her enrolled in getting the interview with Kamala? How I long for Kamala to tune into you. You would change the world. Someone with clout, do something to hook these two up!!!”
Aug 14, 2024
BOOK CLUB STARTS TOMORROW!
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“Recommended! This will be beautiful. This is so astute, from the first chapter of Marianne’s new book: “Our society calls it a mental health crisis, but in fact it’s a spiritual one.” Kamala would change the world with this understanding!!!!”
Aug 3, 2024
Blue Angels/Pocket charger/Compliment Me
KEVIN KELLY, MARK FRAUENFELDER AND CLAUDIA DAWSON – RECOMENDO
“I look forward to new treats every Friday – a little of this, a little of that. This week, I used the AI bot I found here to lament about how Marianne Williamson gets treated. This was Marianne’s response to what the bot said: “Kind of unbelievable isn’t it?? What’s so scary is it’s sort of right lol.””
July 17, 2024
The Courage to Step Aside
MARC RANDOLPH
“My comment: This is so wonderful. It makes me cry. And so valuable to be heard. I’m going to cross connect it so it gets to my several thousand subscribers. Boy oh boy, all cans of worms wiggling around on this issue. But rest assured that for those with ears to hear your clarity is spot on!”
July 28, 2024
WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?
SAYMOUR HERSH
“It isn’t an argument. Biden can’t run. It wasn’t a bad performance; it was his diminished capacity. The leader of the free world was lost, mumbling little pecks at a raging lion. Evil vs. feeble someone said. How to get attention on Tim Shriver, the only person who could be guaranteed to win in a landslide?“
Feb 19, 2024
DON’T JUST ABANDON WHAT IS…
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“This is so beautiful. It will melt your heart. She is the real deal. This may be her best platform. No striving. Just sharing. So very very good.”
Feb 9, 2024
Biden’s brain, Trump’s brain
ROBERT REICH
“In this battle of the elders, where we’d be better off if neither of them ran, since we have what we have, this is a very good counter to the disgusting critique Robert K. Hur just made of Biden.”
Feb 7, 2024
MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR
TRANSFORM WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
“The beauty here is a reflection of all of what Marianne has been gracing us with. Can you imagine such a person running this country? Many people don’t know how it was with Marianne in L.A. where for years she spoke nightly. No notes, always making sense. Names were called up before her lectures, to put in her prayer at the end where she remembered them verbatim — Aunt Bessie in Minnesota who broke her leg sort of thing. She performed what looked like mentalists’ tricks, but it was her incredible mental capacity. People who lined up at the mikes gushed appreciations for what she meant to them. See my Marianne posts for more.“
> 2023
May 13, 2023
Sammy Goes to School
CHRIS HEDGES – THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT
“This important piece is testimonial for why we should emulate Norway’s prison system.“
May 13, 2023
With apologies to Ukraine and the world, Biden is the leader of War not Peace
BARRY J KAUFMAN DO – BARRY KAUFMAN’S VIEW FROM THE BOTTON
“An exhaustive analysis of a perspective we don’t get of the assault we make on the world. This should be a must-read if only to get us a more profound conversation about what we do and what we could do.”