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Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff, your weekly reminder that whenever

bad stuff is happening, people are out there trying to do good stuff in response.

And this week is a special cool people is you week.

Maybe this will happen more, I don't know.

But you're the cool people this week because the history we're talking about this week

is the history that we are living through.

And we are, I don't know, I think it's important, position ourselves as the people acting, whenever

possible action is the antidote to despair. And we call the right-wing reactionaries because they are

by and large reacting to the things that we do. They were reacting negatively to progress.

And even though we're looking at them in power right now,

we still need to understand that this is a reaction to the work that we have done

to try to make this world better and fairer and cooler and better.

I already said better, but that's okay. I have a podcast with the word cool in the title twice, so I can be repetitive in a way that would make my fourth grade teacher sad, who always got mad at, not mad at, but would tell students not to use words like cool and good and nice when trying to describe good things, but to be more

specific. But here we are. I don't know why I'm talking about this. The piece that I'm going to

read today is a piece that appeared on crimethink.com last week and this very audio version that you're listening to, the recording of it,

I volunteered to record it for them. So that's appeared as well. And I thought to run it here as well,

because I think it's worth hearing and understanding. And I know I do a lot more audio processing than written processing. I

mostly read for work. I listen to a lot of audiobooks. I listen to a lot of podcasts. Clearly, I like the

audio format. And so do you, unless this is your very first time listening to a podcast, in which case,

this is a strange one. This is not what

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