2026
January 1, 2026
(VIDEO) Nine Dots Puzzle – Thinking Outside the Box, A Creativity Exercise
RAFAEL NELSON ABOGANDA
For the thinking outside the box that I’m urging, I fished around online for a presentation of what’s widely used as the classic example of it. If you ever wondered where drawing four consecutive straight lines that connect dots in a nine-dot square came from, this is a full report.
2025
December 30, 2025
An Unfamiliar America
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
Get your t-caps on for getting rid of Trump. Mark McInerney, my pick for Substack’s poet laureate, whose writing is so good that I read his versions to be able to stand the news of the day, just wrote this compelling advocacy for action now to get rid of this administration.
December 14, 2025
The World Ahead 2026: Part 1
JOHAN
Note what an active responder Johan is to comments people make, a la my current advocacy for people who write about the world to be responsive to comments so Substack is like a giant conversation that’s pulsing with the creative energy of we the people.
December 7, 2025
Dammit It’s Not Alzheimer’s! Here’s Why It’s A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario
FRANK GEORGE, PH.D. – THE GASLIGHT REPORT
Frank George is worth reading whatever he posts. Why aren’t we in a public disaster conversation? Situation dire; intervention needed. With the intelligence that’s pouring out of Substack now, how about a WHAT TO DO Movement?
December 5, 2025
How Real Change Begins
CHRISTY SHAVER – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
Hold the press. I just discovered something to pass along that’s emblematic of this idea I have for us relative nobodies to be creative with each other. I got a thrill being someone to pay attention to for an Awakening Movement. Crisis and Transition is several authors, building on each other. Christy Shaver talked about Ronald Logan’s How Do We Get There? (where there’s writing about me). Something seems so right about this pebbles in the pond rippling out that’s going on.
December 3, 2025
We Got Rich. Now What? The Question We’re Not Asking
JOHAN
Also read the comments on this great piece, where Johan is modeling the kind of responsiveness that creates exchanges that advance the action.
December 2, 2025
How Do We Get There?
RONALD LOGAN – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
From the piece: “This [popular mobilization] is the stage that Substack activist Suzanne Taylor has been urging Substack writers to step into. And it’s what motivated the Crisis and Transition Substack to put out the ‘Agenda for Economic Democracy’…Thought-leaders first need to build mass awareness and inspire mass engagement. What is needed…is an accelerated paradigm shift, a kind of revolution of consciousness, not in the sense of violence or force, but in the sense of clarity, coherence, and shared moral direction…Paradigm shift revolutions play out organically over time. But we don’t have time. Humanity’s situation is nearing Code Red as we face the growing intensity of the polycrisis…It needs to occur in the second sense of a ‘revolution’—as a sudden, complete, and radical change.”
November 17, 2025
(VIDEO) The Use of Spiritual Power to Override Authoritarianism
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Isn’t she wonderful?
November 13, 2025
The Shrinking Circle of Life
ERNESTO VAN PEBORGH
My dear readers, if I were as informed as Ernesto Van Peborgh is and if I were as brilliant a writer, this could have been mine. Christy Shaver sent it to me, saying, “I thought you might appreciate this post.” So why am I telling you that? As we are consumed by surface events, it’s causal realities that need to change, and some upwelling of the passion of us ordinary folks, dealing with each other, could do the job. We could be using the internet not just to rage at horrors, but for people with insight into what ails us to scheme with each other, like Christy sending me this piece, and my messaging it to Greg Olear to introduce him to Ernesto.
November 11, 2025
(VIDEO) The Human Energy Global Salon Series
RAJ SISODIA
“Every single thing we do in this life should come from love. Every action, every statement, even if you have to let somebody go, the hardest thing you have to do, can you do it with love and not anger, fear, greed? Most business decisions come from fear and greed. Can you make that exact same decision but from a place of love?”
This quote comes from this brilliant 7-minutes of what Raj Sisodia, a trainer for business executives, said, strung together from separate remarks he made on a meaning-of-life sort of panel.
November 3, 2025
11 Charts to Keep You Up Tonight
COLLAPSE 2050
The breakdown of our civilization, thanks to overshoot, is underway. This is from reports from authors who deal with different aspects of collapse. Getting the word out, of how it is life or death to avert what’s headed for us, would be the most likely thing, short of an unthinkably disastrous event, to get humanity to become cooperative.
October 23, 2025
(VIDEO) To Counteract American ICE Agents, Canada is Launching Its Own Special Force: NICE Agents
ROBIN WILDING
For a little cleanser from evil, that’s very much my style.
October 21, 2025
The #Liz48 Plan: This Is How We Remove Them – Legally, Quickly, and Nonviolently
GREG OLEAR – PREVAIL
The only thing I’ve seen for not going from Trump’s frying pan to Vance’s fire, in getting rid of this administration, is Greg Olear’s proposal, where, thanks to Greg’s participation, people are being creative with him and each other in his Comments. If all writers here were like Greg, Substack would be a hotbed for how to handle our world.
October 21, 2025
(VIDEO) Vienna Cello Ensemble 5+1 – Four Cellists, One Cello: Bolero
ART KOSEKOMA
And no no no. Never say there’s no chance humans will be able to make the world work!
October 19, 2025
How I Came To Believe That Civilization Is Unsustainable
THE HONEST SORCERER
As Geoffrey Deihl, a spiritually inclined person who is in despair about collapse, says, “Without a full grasp on the stakes, there isn’t enough urgency.” Get that grasp by reading what he restacked, saying, “Outstanding essay that covers all the bases. This may be the most thorough overview of collapse I have ever read.”
October 15, 2025
(VIDEO) A Progressive Christian’s Response to Christian Nationalism
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Marianne Williamson puts out a steady stream of videos, some with guests and some alone, that are inspirational. I loved this insightful conversation with Brian Recker, a convert from the evangelical and fundamentalist world.
October 14, 2025
(VIDEO) The Vocal Majority – I’m on My Way
BARBERSHOP HARMONY SOCIETY
From the time I lived in New York and had seen every Broadway show, this, from“Paint Your Wagon,” could be our theme song now.
October 10, 2025
Standing Up for Life
CHRISTY SHAVER – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
Christy Shaver followed up Ronald Logan’s post about my Greta Thunberg life. I am very touched by what they said!
October 7, 2025
The Greta Thunberg of Substack
RONALD LOGAN – CRISIS AND TRANSITION: A COMMON WAY FORWARD
Intro to what I’m up to.
October 2, 2025
(VIDEO) Global Kinship
HEATHER EATON – CREATION SPIRITUALITY COMMUNITIES
The new story of an ennobled humanity, which Brian Swimme tells so well, has competition as storyteller from Heather Eaton. She’s a Professor of Theology in Canada, and this is a great talk.
September 30, 2025
(VIDEO) What Do We Have to Do Now?
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
There are things we can do to turn ourselves around. We just need a little organizing. Like Pep Talks for Humanity could be coming from everywhere. I love this recent one, where Marianne Williamson is talking right to us, heart to heart.
September 20, 2025
(VIDEO) This is What Proves Trump’s Dementia: Psychologist
THE DAILY BEAST
In the ‘all praise to Allah but keep your camel tied’ department, what the military brass experienced, plus rundowns like this on Trump’s psychosis that are showing up, could be the beginning of the end to get us operating from power-for-the-good.
September 12, 2025
(VIDEO) This Boy Sings One of the Most Difficult Songs of All Time… What a Cover!
TOP TALENT
In the humanity-can-be-well-worth-saving department, this made me cry.
September 11, 2025
Millions of Gen Z’ers Don’t “Feel Bad” About Charlie Kirk’s Murder. Here’s Why.
KAHLIL GREENE – HISTORY CAN’T HIDE
Kahlil Greene has ideas here I haven’t seen elsewhere. This has 5,598 likes, 1,226 comments, and 1,150 restacks, and I encourage driving those numbers higher. My restack included this: “So well-argued for how to hold this killing, particularly as he addresses us, with all our leaders’ cookie-cuttering pleas for no more violence and all those hearts and minds offered in prayers that actually aren’t from minds but from mindlessness.’”
September 8, 2025
Growing Agricultural Failure
GEOFFREY DEIHL – SANE THOUGHTS FOR INSANE TIMES
I’ve been making rounds among the people with expertise about collapse conditions, who are anguished about humanity not getting how life-threatening our situation is. As I’ve been talking in their Comments, I’ve found that except for Geoffrey Deihl, my overshoot pal I keep running into, other people in the know aren’t engaging with each other. Aha. It occurred to me that Geoffrey and I might be onto what others could be doing, where it’s all about relationship.
September 4, 2025
(VIDEO) Who Do We Have To Be?
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Here’s Marianne in a category of Pep Talks for Humanity I’d like to see coming from everywhere. I think Marianne is the World Teacher now, where I’ve got my eggs in the basket of first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
August 20, 2025
Part 3: Madison Square Garden – The Night Everything Changed
CORBIN TRENT – AMERICA’S UNDOING
If I ran the world, what Corbin posts would be required reading. In this post, you can catch up on a particularly insightful series of his about where to from here, and you can sign up for what’s to come: This is Part 3 of a four-part series imagining how progressives could transform rhetoric into power. Part political analysis, part blueprint, part fever dream of what happens when leaders actually lead. Part 1: $300 Million in Progressive Fundraising | Part 2: Inside the Plan That Could Beat MAGA.
August 15-17, 2025
(VIDEO) Your Metaphysical Minute
(VIDEO) “Just Get Over It,” Say They.
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
There’s a big leap to make now to get beyond being seduced by dictatorial forces. It’s to become a cooperative species, hooking back into our roots as part of the Earth. In moving from caves to skyscrapers, the collective energy kept pressing on reality strongly enough for it to give way, and Marianne is the best cheerleader for humanity bursting through now.
August 15, 2025
(VIDEO) The End of FEMA, and the Briberization of our Emergency Response
GREG PALAST AND THOM HARTMANN
Greg Palast is our feistiest investigative reporter, who showed everyone how voter suppression has given us Republican presidents, and I don’t understand why he wasn’t able to save elections for the candidates who legitimately won them.
August 14, 2025
Abundance, Yes, But
CORBIN TRENT – AMERICA’S UNDOING
The great piece of Corbin’s I recommend reading all of.
August 13, 2025
(VIDEO) All Washed Away
GREG PALAST
Greg has an hour-long film that I have cued up to his talking about privatization as an aspect of private sector money-making that wastes the public’s funds.
August 9, 2025
A Tough Week For The Rule of Law
JOYCE VANCE – CIVIL DISCOURSE
Joyce Vance, who gets me feeling like ‘we’re in this together’ when I get to that sign-off she uses, in delivering news that would be hard for people to hear, said what I echo: “To resist what Trump is doing in our country, you need to be informed; you need to know what’s at stake.”
August 6, 2025
(VIDEO) A Good Book Should Read Like This
Get your mind blown seeing how, when it puts its mind on coordinating, humanity can do that job. What would a category be for awarding the equivalent of the Nobel Prize? How about a billionaire taking that on? Maybe Beyoncé: The Beyoncé Beyond the Beyond prize? Why not?
August 2, 2025
(VIDEO) The Most Dangerous Trick in the Trump Vegas Magic Extravaganza
TRUTH MATTERS
Martin McSweeney, a must-read person, says. “I find it impossible to articulate just how serious this is, my friends. The gravity of what could happen if he’s given the ability to falsify public statistics is beyond comprehension. It is impossible to overstate the potential for a catastrophic global economic meltdown if another Trumpian lie misrepresents the entire American economy.”
August 2, 2025
When Cancer Grows, it Doesn’t Happen in Plain Sight. Once it Metastasises, the Writing is on the Wall
TRUTH MATTERS
From Martin McSweeney, who’s good for substance and for style in dealing with what we’re being robbed of.
August 2, 2025
President Trump Courageously Plans Nuclear War to Prevent Release of Trump-Epstein Files
LAURA AND NORMAL ISLAND NEWS
For a satirical respite, here’s some gallows humor from Normal Island News: “TIME Magazine: Trump Escalates Nuclear Brinksmanship With Russia Over Social Media Spat: President Donald Trump on Friday told Russia he was ordering two U.S. nuclear submarines to change course in response to comments made on social media by Russia’s former president.”
August 1, 2025
The Powers That Were
JAMES FALLOWS – BREAKING THE NEWS
The great James Fallows, another must-read writer, says, “Now the institutions need our help…The democratic system, for all its well-known flaws, was intended to protect the people, and largely has. Now people need to save the system from Trump, who is everything that could be wrong with a human being.”
July 27, 2025
Strategic Hope: An Introduction
LEA BONHEIM
Lea Bonheim was brazen enough to put out a call to respond to: “Not to be confused with passive optimism, forced cheerfulness, or an inability to see what’s really going on, strategic hope can maximize our chances of creating a future when no future is in sight. The particular strain of hope that drives me is not an otherwise unqualified hope. There is another reason I am hopeful. And that’s you. Or us.”
July 19, 2025
Units of Survival: It Will Be So Much Worse Than We Think
KIRA THOMSEN-CHEEK – CLIMATE REVOLUTION NOW
From Kira: “Like it or not – and who the HELL would like this? – we’re staring down the apocalypse. We are looking barely a decade into the future and seeing the onrushing collapse. And unless we can scream louder and resist harder and get in more faces in real life, with revolutionary zeal, to get some assistance from government or NGOs or, I dunno, SOMEONE: we’re on our own. We are our own units of survival, indeed.”
July 19, 2025
Living on Borrowed Time
TRUTH MATTERS
Some terrific writing by Martin McSweeney, related to an upswing: “Many may not agree, but I now see Trump as a man overboard in shark-infested waters, which is an interesting analogy, given his previous discussions of he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark…While he still appears to have Republican legislators largely under control, the cracks are beginning to emerge. If it’s one thing you can take to the bank in politics, cracks can slowly lead to catastrophic structural failure.”
July 16, 2025
The Day the World Should Have Changed
PATRICK MAZZA – THE RAVEN
Patrick Mazza says: “This is about how all our movements can focus on furthering the goal of a peaceful world, how each can make its individual contribution to building peaceful societies. We need to rise above the conflicts of the moment, and our own disagreements, to ask the basic questions about how we arrived at this precipice, and how we can pull back.”
July 9, 2025
Units of Survival: We’re on Our Own
KIRA THOMSEN-CHEEK – CLIMATE REVOLUTION NOW
Rich with data about overshoot, Kira Thomsen-Cheek is another person seeing beneath the surface. We don’t yet have any organized way to deal with what to do, but first people have to recognize what’s going on.
July 7, 2025
Better Living Through Hatred?
BILL MILLER
From Bill Miller: “EVERY Trump-related policy is fundamentally based on hatred…Hatred may feel gratifying in the short term – especially to those who for decades have felt marginalized and disregarded by the current system. Yet hatred does not create. It does not build things. It only destroys.” It ends with “We simply need to apply our energy and resources toward creating the world we want rather than the one we fear.”
June 28, 2025
Ceremony for the Soul of America
STEPHEN DINAN
This Transmission from the Soul of America, delivered by AI, is a surprisingly insightful call. It’s in a post by Stephen Dinan, and I like it as much as I liked his automatic writing that I took more seriously than he did to raise a flagpole a Coalition for the Good could rally round, so there would be no human leader to turn us into followers.
June 14, 2025
(VIDEO) “We the People” are America’s Power
WILLIAM J. BARBER, II
PEP TALKS FOR HUMANITY could flood the Net, from well-known people and others who aren’t publicly known. Here’s a great one by Reverend William J. Barber II, on No Kings Day, where the pep talk starts at 4:56.
May 29, 2025
The Rise and Fall of Elon Musk
MARK MCINERNEY – SMOKE SIGNALS
Mark is a read-every-word writer so you don’t miss lines like these: “Elon Musk made his first fortune not by building cars or rockets, but by wiring the plumbing of internet commerce…Let’s not pretend this was public service. This was piracy…he did what every vandal does when handed the keys to a cathedral: he stripped the copper from the walls, pissed on the altar, and called it innovation…Musk didn’t just kill a program. He amputated the moral arm of American foreign policy and left millions to bleed out in the dirt. He didn’t just disrupt a government. He disfigured America’s soul…that nation now staggers under the shadow of a man who thought foreign aid was a rounding error.”
May 29, 2025
(VIDEO) What Would Happen if Donald Trump Drank Ayahuasca?
(VIDEO) The Transmutation of Elon Musk
ARIKUSCHNIR AND ALEXANDER BEINER
With ecstasy being a fast track to the heart, a caring and loving Trump arranged for chemists to get it into the water supply.
May 13, 2025
(VIDEO) Remembering and Reclaiming the Forgotten Feminine Aspect of the Divine
ANNE BARING
About her new book, “Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God,” which the tuned-in interviewer, Heather Ensworth, calls “truly a masterpiece.” It traces the arc of human history from when we honored the sacred feminine to our move into the patriarchy that made us supplicants to God. Read the comments on the unedited interview, Remembering and Reclaiming the Forgotten Feminine Aspect of the Divine, for accolades like this: “This is the best hour I have ever spent on YouTube.”
April 22, 2025
(VIDEO) I’m Breaking Down
STEPHANIE J. BLOCK
My favorite Broadway musical number. In a 2016 revival, “Falsettos at Lincoln Center,” the incomparable Stephanie J. Block sings when she finds out her husband has a boyfriend.
April 7, 2025
(VIDEO) Forging a New Political System, 2024 and Beyond
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
The historian and political commentator, Heather Cox Richardson, who at three million subscribers to “Letters from an American” has the most readers on Substack, in a timely conversation. That idea of “doing at least one thing” is in the air now. It’s like we go through stages in a march toward oneness. No leaders, gadflies everywhere, and yet a body with no head is figuring out what to do.
March 31, 2025
A Wider Perspective on Our Moment
STEPHEN DINAN
This was my response to the author: “Stephen – I am stupefied reading this. The things you are saying are what I’ve been saying and haven’t found anybody else saying. There’s a brilliance to what came through you, Stephen, that’s one of the most valuable things that could be circulated, a game-changer to get people to be forward-thinking. Also, focusing on the light makes it shine brighter, and vice versa. The despair is so deep now, and this is a life-giving vessel for transcending evil and birthing a next phase for humanity.”
March 29, 2025
(VIDEO) Spiritual/Political Musing
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
For attunement to over-riding forces, where Trump is no rival for the powers of the universe, please do yourselves the favor of listening to this new talk from Marianne Williamson. It is inspirational.
March 19, 2025
(VIDEO) An Even Greater Light
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Take strength from her. We must evolve. Do yourself a big favor and listen to what Marianne calls ‘a spiritual pep talk.
March 18, 2025
(VIDEO) Fish – A New Story for Humanity
SUE SPEAKS
A 3-minute animation to Brian Swimme’s voiceover, that I produced, about what we are doing here. It’s the answer a student fish would get from a philosopher fish from asking, ‘Water, what water?’”
March 4, 2025
(VIDEO) Jane Fonda Speech at The SAG Awards
How can we the people get ourselves united? I’ve been thinking about pep talks for humanity flooding the internet, inspiring us. An example is the end of Jane Fonda’s acceptance speech for her Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award.
February 18, 2025
(VIDEO) Yes, It’s Happening
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON
Marianne hasn’t let up on talking. She makes a lot of videos, does guest turns with other podcaster and streamers. and keeps writing pieces I see on Substack. This video has 75K Views and 1,575 Comments.
February 14, 2025
What Can I Do?
DAVID SPANGLER – LORIAN ASSOCIATION
There’s not much that gets talked about regarding the realm of subtle activism that should get attention in the scheme of things. Read about it in David Spangler’s article. I can’t praise it highly enough. It’s a teaching and it can change your life. In rereading it, I kept being touched by David’s sensitivity to the beauty road.
February 10, 2025
(VIDEO) Where Are Our Leaders
POLITICS GIRL
Where are the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens? It makes a mockery of our country’s greatness for presidents who were leading the free world to be indifferent about freedom. How can they be quiet? Why aren’t we clamoring for them to show up? See Politics Girl I posted before. WE NEED SPUNK!!!
February 5, 2025
(VIDEO) What Lies Ahead
GEORGIA LAMBERT – INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION
I got an understanding of the scheme of things, like Trump being here to crash our unworkable system, from Georgia Lambert, my very smart, accomplished teacher and ally from the wisdom tradition. She held court in my living room salon way back when, and she should be on the world stage now.
January 30, 2025
The Dangerous Truth About Denying Your Child’s Success
THOM HARTMANN
A life-lesson to get to everyone, that our super-pundit, Thom Hartmann, passed along, is a wising-up story about parenting teenagers.
January 28, 2025
Benches and Snacks
LEELA SINHA – SUE SPEAKS | ESSAY CONTEST WINNER
For Essays from 2050, when the world was working. How did we get there, starting with something you did?
January 21, 2025
Apocalypse. Restoration. Emergence.
ALEX EVANS – THE APOCALYPSE GUIDE
Alex Evans’s Good Apocalypse Guide Substack is very good about the bigger picture.
January 21, 2025
(VIDEO) Retrospective 2023-2024, Part Two
SUE SPEAKS
Excerpts from videos I’ve passed along. It delivers what is compelling to me now. Where to from here? Let’s see if anyone gets inspired about that from what you get from this!
January 12, 2025
Starting from Scratch
SAM HARRIS
The best thing to come out of this tragedy would be to unite us as one family. Our collective pain, felt all over the world, could be our collective salvation. See Sam Harris’s brilliant riff on billionaires. Our number one priority is for love to supersede money, and unifying us comes first.
January 7, 2025
(VIDEO) Retrospective 2023-2024, Part One
SUE SPEAKS
For the turn of the year, I’m sending a recap of segments from videos I’ve sent in my Substack posts. This gets some of my key thoughts in one place.
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