Am I Still in the Resistance If I'm Buying a Turkey? When the parking lot is festive and the news is horrifying, the dissonance you feel is accurate perception. Here's how to stay in it without breaking.

Buying the turkey doesn’t make you complicit. Refusing to feel the wrongness would.

The paradox you’re carrying into the grocery store is the sign you’re still awake. You don’t have to resolve it to move through it. Stay in it. That’s the work this week.

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Trump Wants to Break Us. Naming the Harms Helps Us Resist and Stay Human Trump weaponizes chaos to exhaust our capacity for resistance. Recognizing the patterns of harm in our daily lives helps us protect our humanity and reclaim our strategic power.

Care is strategy. Understanding how harm lands and using that in discussions with others to short circuit self-blame and identify what needs protecting is one way we care for each other and cultivate our capacity to fight back.
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Oligarchy and Authoritarianism Rely on Our Trauma Responses - Here’s the Interrupt When oligarchic or authoritarian extraction triggers old trauma patterns, we risk doing their work for them. Pattern recognition before the cascade fully activates—that's where agency lives.

If you have a history of trauma—oligarchic extraction might be triggering something deeper than political outrage. It’s reactivating old survival patterns. We can interrupt those patterns

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Resisting Authoritarianism for Those Over 60: An FAQ for Making Contributions When Everything Is Changing Fast Organizing tools have changed, the pace has accelerated, and you're not sure where your experience fits. But what if the clarity and courage that come at our age are exactly what's needed now?

Movements need people who’ve seen fuckery like this before and can say: “This is dangerous, but it’s not unstoppable. Here’s what endurance looks like.” You’re that person.

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Stay Free: 80 Tiny Moves to Resist Systems That Drain You Trump’s authoritarianism, platform manipulation, and the modern workplace share a common ‘grammar of extraction.’ Learn to see it anywhere to become more resilient everywhere.

Extraction is deep code programmed into the operating system running beneath modern authoritarianism, digital capitalism, and workplace culture

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The intensity of their psychological warfare is evidence of your potential power to change things

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No Kings Field Kit: Staying Human Under Occupation (October, 2025) They want fear to keep you home—or make you so reactive you play into their hands. This field kit helps you choose your stance, pace yourself, and refuse to let occupation break you.

This administration is counting on exhaustion to do their work for them. Every time you show up weary and refuse to quit, you’re proving them wrong.

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MAGA fragility is brittleness performing as strength. Defiance is refusing to comply with the demand to accept gaslighting, even just in your own head. Protect your conscience and clarity fiercely. #MoralClarity #Resistance

Hopelessness is manufactured by tyrants who need you to believe the future is closed. When despair is a goal of oppression, choosing hope is a radical act of rebellion

Protect your attention like it's classified information. Spinning in outrage and anxiety doesn't make you more prepared. It just makes you less useful

MAGA Fragility Is Hurting Us - Here’s How To Handle It The injury isn't just the policies—it's being forced to endure the relentless firehose of hypocrisy and coercive gaslighting. Here's how to step outside their frame and stay strategically grounded.

My new piece on MAGA Fragility

“The very slogan of the movement is a fragility machine. “Make America Great Again” begins with a wound: the suggestion that greatness has already been lost, that something precious has been stolen.”

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MAGA Fragility Is Hurting Us - Here’s How To Handle It The injury isn't just the policies—it's being forced to endure the relentless firehose of hypocrisy and coercive gaslighting. Here's how to step outside their frame and stay strategically grounded.

Great piece about Miller. See also my related piece on MAGA Fragility

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Great piece about Miller. See also my related piece on MAGA Fragility

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MAGA Fragility Is Hurting Us - Here’s How To Handle It The injury isn't just the policies—it's being forced to endure the relentless firehose of hypocrisy and coercive gaslighting. Here's how to step outside their frame and stay strategically grounded.

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MAGA Fragility Is Hurting Us - Here’s How To Handle It The injury isn't just the policies—it's being forced to endure the relentless firehose of hypocrisy and coercive gaslighting. Here's how to step outside their frame and stay strategically grounded.

Love the Kirby move. Wrote about it here: paultshattuck.substack.com/p/maga-fragi...

I Refuse to Shame Myself: Meeting Engineered Chaos With Self-Mercy Listen now (12 min.) | When your nervous system is under constant assault, shame and self-judgment only make you more vulnerable. Learn to name what you're experiencing and respond with self-mercy

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Strategic Mindfulness for Resistance: 16 Mindful States For Defying Trumpism Authoritarians rely on your exhaustion, distraction, and collapse to succeed. This is your missing toolkit for staying human while fighting back.

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Trump's Goal Is to Break You. Here’s How to Stay Whole and Effective. Cycling between overwhelm, cynicism, and scattered activism is exactly what Trump wants you to do. Here's how to recognize you're stuck and then move from reactivity to strategic engagement.

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Resisting Authoritarianism for Introverts: An FAQ for Staying Human in Loud Times A lot of resistance advice sounds like it's meant for someone louder. But what if your strength lives in quiet — and that's exactly what this moment needs?

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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

They Want Experts to Go Quietly. Don’t. This isn’t just job loss—it’s a strategic attack on truth and accountability. Experts have been purged before, and they’ve fought back before.

They’re purging experts from government, slashing research, and gutting public health and disability policy. They want you to go quietly. Don’t. Here’s how displaced experts can fight back—together.

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I don’t see these as just ‘cuts’—they’re a deliberate strategy to weaken public infrastructure and movements. That calls for a response beyond policy fights: broad, proactive coalition-building

Unprecedented Blitz Against People With Disabilities Requires New Strategies Key Takeaways – Why This Matters Everything we have today — Medicaid, disability rights, public education — exists because past movements fought and won. This isn’t just the usual budget cuts, it’s a ...

The attacks on disability rights aren’t just policy cuts - they’re a strategy to weaken movements. We need a new approach. Read the latest post & join the conversation

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The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise What happens when democracy's defenders - career civil servants, public health scientists, professors, community program leaders - become targets? And how do we preserve their essential expertise and ...

The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise

by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social

“When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.”

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