X. Resistance Craft: Practical Tools for Difficult Times
"Movements aren't made of causes. They're made of people who need something to do with their hands."
Why Buyer’s Strikes Might Save Us is the economic resistance manual. It was the first piece I wrote for this Substack project.
The Suit Is the Lie is the tactical and theological case for the frog hat — because the suit has switched sides since 1965. When civil rights marchers wore their Sunday best, the suit was resistance. Now it’s camouflage for the people covering up Epstein’s files.
Breaking the Anvil makes the case for why authoritarians always misunderstand the frog, and why that misunderstanding is their classic blunder. The tactical piece that explains the theory behind the frivolity.
Rabid Badgers is my answer to the question the resistance pieces keep circling: what does fighting actually look like? Not strongly worded letters. Not symbolic gestures. We need actual infrastructure.
Revolution on a Budget is exactly what it sounds like - hot dogs, cheap dates, and making your money support your values.
Crafting a Revolution is the companion piece to the frog hat rally essay — not about what the hat meant, but what it meant that Lady T made it. The craftivism argument: movements aren’t made of causes, they’re made of people, and people need entry points that match their skills.
Playing on the Bridge is the one about Sonny Rollins, Martin Frobisher, and a hundred people in the rain in Logan, Utah. The difference between performing authority and practicing care — between loading boats with fool’s gold and playing saxophone until the music is true.
Every time the official story gets captured, the muckrakers rise again — it’s a pattern, not an accident. Across two parts the Mongoose traces that lineage, then hands over the toolkit: how the pamphleteer and the architect actually write a revolution. Less inspiration, more instruction manual.