Why subscribe? One of my paid subscribers, Melissa, says it best: “I’ve sometimes really been frustrated by your posts—but I always come back to respecting you for dedicating so much of your time and energy to making it right. Even though we disagree on some things still, you seem open to changing your mind, and these days that feels like a rare quality.” Thank you, Melissa! Glad you’re on board. For as little as $5 a month, you get weekly live chats with Joe, a monthly shareable deep dive into critical issues, and, most importantly, you’ll be supporting our growing resistance movement across America! Man, I’m exhausted. How about you? I don’t know what it was about this past week, but I feel like I hit a big, unscalable mountain of despair. It’s very unlike me, but it does happen on occasion, and the folks at my live chat last night got to see it up close. How can it not happen, to all of us, under these conditions? We’re losing our democracy—actively, ruthlessly—to a psychopath. Yes, a psychopath. A man so mentally fucked-up, he is literally incapable of thinking about anything beyond himself and his own desires. But you know what? This isn’t on Donald Trump anymore…... Continue reading this post for free in the Substack app |