Tim Regan-Porter

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Host, Local News Matters podcast (@lnmpod.com) CEO, Colorado Press Association (@coloradopress.bsky.social) Previously: @jskstanford.bsky.social, Center for Collaborative Journalism, @pastemagazine.bsky.social, IBM, McClatchy.

A world without Caesars
Seven years after the war, they looked back on Hitler’s prewar years as the best time of their lives. In Mayer’s account, human beings focus on their own lives and “the sights that meet them in their daily rounds.” Democratic norms can be undermined, and democracy can collapse, for just that reason.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, THE GREAT GATSBY
Turned away from it all like a blind man Sat on the fence but it don't work Keep comin' up with love but it's so slashed and torn Why, why, why? Love Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking Can't we give ourselves one more chance? Why can't we give love that one more chance? Why can't we give love, give love, give love, give love Give love, give love, give love, give love? 'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word And love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure