Hello, I Must Be Going
As expected, The Reframe is leaving Substack behind. Instructions for subscribers both free and paid. (Spoilers: please do nothing.)
Reframes
Weekly essays on politics and culture.
Lose The Debate
Getting tactical. A taxonomy of bad faith, Part 1 - on the fascist refusal to occupy a shared reality.
Best Candidates
To see the whole picture, find the frame. To get the whole story, remember the beginning and the end. A look at accusation, the next bully tactic of supremacists and other abusers.
Questions for Substack
Follow-up questions about Nazi "ideas" for Substack's founders, and contemplating the future of The Reframe.
No Beliefs, Just Intentions
Victims of abuse create language to name both abuse and abusers. Inevitably, abusers use that same language to deny what they're doing. Navigating false equivalence in an age of rising fascism.
Bully Tactics
Examining the traditional, foundational American spirit of supremacy through the lens of abusive narcissists' DARVO bully tactics.
It's Alive! It's Alive!
At the start of November, I tried an experiment. What happened next will amaze me.