Choose Action Over Despair
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The progress we enjoy today, now under threat, was built by people who chose to turn despair into action, to do something instead of nothing. In these final days of winter, it's up to each of us to build an American spring.
Call the Congressional switchboard 202-224-3121 and demand that your reps fight for the full release of the Epstein files, justice for every survivor and those killed, and accountability for every predator and enabler. And tell them to stop another forever war in the Middle East before it unleashes yet another Pandora's box, like George W. Bush's Iraq invasion gave rise to ISIS.
For this week's bonus show, we're publishing the recording of this past Monday's salon early. It was an in-depth conversation during an extra-tense time, and we hope you'll find a moment to listen to it, and to take extra care with yourselves. None of this is easy, but we're keeping our eyes on the prize, planting seeds of change for a better world.
We begin by reminding ourselves: yes, it's possible. And we are the ones being called to do it.
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| 0:00.0 | It is not knowable if force will be used, but if it is to be used, it is not knowable how long that conflict would last. |
| 0:10.0 | It could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months. |
| 0:18.2 | Our opening clip was Skeletor, also known as Donald Rumsfeld, one of the four horsemen of |
| 0:27.3 | the apocalypse in unleashing George L. Bush's Iraq invasion. And he sounds a lot like our |
| 0:36.7 | blazing Christian nationalists today |
| 0:40.2 | who are taking us down yet another path like the black hole of Iraq, |
| 0:48.1 | which gave rise to ISIS. |
| 0:51.4 | It created this vacuum of power where Russia was allowed to take advantage of a distracted |
| 0:58.2 | Democratic president than Obama because they're busy fighting ISIS. So yes, what Trump is |
| 1:04.4 | unleashing the Pandora's box is going to have repercussions for many, many, many years to come. |
| 1:10.2 | And I know a lot of people are depressed. |
| 1:12.7 | If you're here in Brooklyn, it's very rainy and gray. |
| 1:15.1 | We're tired of winter. |
| 1:16.2 | We're tired of all the dirty snow piling up everywhere. |
| 1:19.9 | These are the hard days of winter as the world itself is in a winter. |
| 1:26.1 | And I keep clinging to the hand of my boyfriend, Albert Camus. |
| 1:30.8 | In the darkest winter, I remembered my inner spring. |
| 1:35.1 | Albert Camus was a Algerian French journalist of the French resistance who wrote fiery, fiery |
| 1:42.6 | articles for the French people |
| 1:44.9 | to keep their spirits up through the humiliation and terror |
| 1:48.3 | of not just occupation, but watching as their government, |
| 1:54.1 | their MAGA government, was openly helping the Nazis |
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