Opinion | What Happens on the Subway Doesn’t Stay on the Subway (Gift Article)

“The defining political emotion of the age may be the sense that power, and with it the ability to push back on what bears down on you, is somewhere other than where you are, that you are unheard and unseen, that you are acted on but lack the means to act.”

Worth reading.

Whatever your view of the relationship between government and governed at all levels of American society, this will challenge it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Ever hear of thecleannewdeal.org ? The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Powerful article and insight by @anandwrites.bsky.social “No one wants to associate the forms of D.I.Y. action that they find acceptable with those they reject.” Echos @visualizingbroadway.com’s recent piece “Structures of Alliance” on developing empathy. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

“A country in which we keep failing to hear the rhymes in our different cries of pain, in which our experiences of desertion are turned into competition rather than common cause, is better at producing avengers than answers.”

No One Is Coming to Save Us www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... Gift/no paywall Encapsulates this moment

“That new city hasn’t come to pass, though. A country in which we keep failing to hear the rhymes in our different cries of pain, in which our experiences of desertion are turned into competition rather than common cause is better at producing avengers than answers” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Is #abandonment our shared experience, #USA? Can we #unite around this shared despair, despite our other differences? #Hope so! ❤️‍🩹🇺🇸❤️‍🩹🌏

This book on vigilante killing of Jordan Neely looks promising; I hope it goes deep into why Neely left the alternative-to-prison facility he had been sentenced to. Was that place a hellhole? Did he go off his meds and flee? Would more budget help it retain patients? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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"Beneath so many disparate political phenomena — the Epstein files, A.I. doom, immigration, prices, housing, weak leadership — is that feeling of being undefended." "we keep failing to hear the rhymes in our different cries of pain" - from a subway incident to Luigi, the contrast & the commonality.

No One Is Coming to Save Us www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o... This is subtle and thoughtful piece

"Beneath so many disparate political phenomena — the Epstein files, A.I. doom, immigration, prices, housing, weak leadership — is that feeling of being undefended." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Fascinating OpEd here. Got me thinking on two points. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o.... So the "system" is not doing its job to protect the public of all colors. So when do we hear more "castle doctrine" arguments of "I could not flee and had no choice to defend?" 1/2.....

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

This takes an interesting and thoughtful turn... Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

“For many Americans, public authority has come to feel impossibly erratic. Such authority is experienced by citizens as a strange mix of over-controlling and unhelpful, too strong where a lighter hand would do and too weak where more is needed.

The System Is Rigged. The Cavalry Is Not Coming. We’re on Our Own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Good article, tough issue. Sympathetic to arguments on both sides, so, rare occassion, I won't opine. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

No One Is Coming to Save Us www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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No One Is Coming to Save Us www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Insightful - and somehow disorienting - worthwhile read.

What Happens on the Subway Doesn’t Stay on the Subway

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

Feeling this — the core is gone, can the structure hold….? @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

No One Is Coming to Save Us www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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