Darrin Bell

6 days ago | darrinbell.substack.com | Darrin Bell

On June 4, 1989, hope for democracy lived and died. In Poland, Solidarity defeated the communist party in a peaceful election, sparking a wave of mostly peaceful revolutions across the Eastern Bloc that would quickly lead to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But in China’s Tiananmen Square, the brutal communist government slaughtered students whose three-month-long pro-democracy protest had captured the world’s attention. I don’t know if the protests in China contributed to Poland’s revolution.

1 week ago | darrinbell.substack.com | Darrin Bell

The Bezos Post reported that the National Park Service had rewritten the history of the Underground Railroad to appease the white supremacist movement MAGA crowd and their leader, Grand Wizard President Donald Trump. For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman.

2 weeks ago | darrinbell.substack.com | Darrin Bell

Disobey in Advance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The stock market isn’t the only barometer of the country’s economic health, but it’s where Americans grow most of our retirement funds. Donald Trump doesn’t give a shit whether you’ll ever be able to retire.

3 weeks ago | darrinbell.substack.com | Darrin Bell

“The Dark Enlightenment” is an actual thing, brought to you (and all of us) by the same sort of tech bros who have infested the Trump 2.0 administration, and who are dismantling our society as we speak. Read more about it down below, after today’s super-sized cartoon. Disobey in Advance is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

1 month ago | darrinbell.substack.com | Darrin Bell

I’m half a century old. Old enough to remember when most of us watched TV over the air,and The Twilight Zone reruns were ubiquitous. More than a few of my social studies and civics teachers throughout junior high and high school used Twilight Zone episodes to help us truly understand what so many Americans have clearly now forgotten.