Index to Nat's essays on civics
(mostly post 5Nov24)
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Nat’s essays on civics (introduction), 6 November 2024
Abortion / women’s rights
Health care for women is inferior in red states - why live there? 4 June 2025
Living in antiabortion states is dangerous to women and girls, 30 April 2025
Dangerous state advisory for women and girls - Georgia, 29 March 2025
Dangerous state advisory - Louisiana, 13 February 2025
Conservatives Want to End 'Exceptions' for Women’s Lives, 25 November 2024
Antiabortion states decide not to take the temperature, 11 December 2024
Activism - what you can do
Tomorrow is No Kings Day - Attend a Protest but Keep Your Eyes Open, 13 June 2025
How I Boycott Billionaire Companies, 2 June 2025
Your favorite federal government program may disappear tomorrow and it's probably your fault, 14 May 2025
Activism alert on Medicaid cuts, 27 April 2025
Courage is contagious, 25 April 2025
Defending Core Democratic Values For Everyone, 20 April 2025
How to support medical research cut by Trump and Musk, 19 April 2025
Letter to the President of the University of Michigan, 18 April 2025
Make every day count, 17 April 2025
Deportation, disinformation, martial law and being targeted by Trump, 15 April 2025
No Kings! Rally, 15 April 2025
Tips for activists and those trying to make the world a better place, 5 April 2025
Pro democracy momentum and Senator Slotkin, 3 April 2025
The resistance rises, 1 April 2025
Pro-democracy activities for you, 31 March 2025
Is it better to live with integrity or die as a coward? 28 March 2025
Think about what YOU should do, not what others should do, 26 March 2025
Senator Bernie Sanders speaks, 24 March 2025
These are truly scary and rough times, 16 March 2025
I am cutting ties to Amazon and Twitter / X, 13 March 2025
What you can do to oppose the Trump / Musk dictatorship, 12 March 2025
How to live our lives - lessons from President Carter, 2 March 2025
Today is economic boycott day, 28 February 2025
Make America great again by resisting the greedy, 26 February 2025
Economic blackout day, protest NIH cuts, protect abortion rights in Wisconsin, 24 February 2025
Courage, 22 February 2025
Friday, 28 February 2025 is economic blackout day, 15 February 2025
It’s your fault, 14 February 2025
Why I am ditching X and Tesla, 29 January 2025
Will ketchup be part of the Trump resistance? 27 January 2025
How to hope in a near hopeless time?, 16 December 2024
We should change what we buy and watch and increase our political activity, 16 December 2024
How to be effective as a political activist - what you do NOT need to do, 14 December 2024
What will you do? And other essays, 19 November 2024
What blogs I follow, 17 November 2024
How to fight evil (financially), 12 November 2024
Business
Why I am not selling my business, 23 May 2025
Manufacturing and tariffs, 21 May 2025
How to support small businesses, 29 April 2025
Cut your ties to Trump and Musk for your own safety, 21 April 2025
Capitulation is a doomed strategy - do not capitulate to Trump, 10 April 2025
Tariffs - Trump's latest deranged policy, 3 April 2025
America’s reputation is shot, 17 March 2025
What big businesses should we patronize? 10 March 2025
Are contracts with Trump, Musk or their companies voidable due to changed circumstances? 11 February 2025
Lying should be grounds for termination, 8 February 2025
Integrity versus profits, 22 January 2025
What Musk cannot buy, 20 December 2024
The bad drive out the good, 2 December 2024
Remote employees - our philosophy, 28 July 2023
Employees are the heart and soul of your business, 7 March 2023
Economy
The Cowboy Myth, 8 January 2025
Prepare for the Trump recession, 21 November 2024
Globalization under Donald Trump, 13 November 2024
Freedom
The Contrarian, 14 January 2025
The importance of a free press, by Hannah Arendt, 16 November 2024
Government
Diversity makes us stronger, 13 May 2025
The first 100 days, 2 May 2025
The rich are not paying their fair share, 8 April 2025
Federal employees should be prepared to quit, 7 April 2025
Of, By and For the Billionaires, 21 January 2025
Michigan is my country now, 28 November 2024
People get the government they deserve, 9 November 2024
Health and science
Deaths due to Trump, 16 June 2025
Adopt a federal agency or researcher, 23 April 2025
What America is losing, 11 April 2025
How to stay out of the emergency room, 23 February 2025
Creating government departments "in exile", beginning with the CDC, 31 January 2025
America's anti-vaccine killers, 9 January 2025
COVID is still killing people, but less than before. 2 January 2025
The Lancet: The perils of RFK Junior's anti-vaccine leadership for public health, 30 December 2024
Take It From a Scientist. Facts Matter, and They Don’t Care How You Feel, 22 September 2024
Middle East / Antisemitism
Two posts from Ilan Goldenberg about antisemitism plus Pro-Palestinian protest chants used to target Jews, 29 May 2025
Understanding Free Speech and the Limits of Protest, 9 May 2025
Are Palestinians interested in establishing a nonterrorist country that coexists with Israel? 6 April 2025
Next steps for Israel and the Palestinians, 22 March 2025
Principles on Israel we can mostly agree on, 19 February 2025
Middle East peace, 1 January 2025
Why don't Palestinians and their supporters give a damn about Palestinian lives in Gaza? 17 December 2024
Genocide, 13 December 2024
The Regional Organization for Peace, Economics & Security, 29 November 2024
The Palestinians in Gaza need better friends, 18 November 2024
Miscellaneous
Cybersecurity tips, 9 June 2025
When an old, dear friend passes, 31 May 2025
Employees at the federal Department of Justice or ICE should consider resigning, 1 May 2025
Every ethical lawyer should condemn those who are threatening Judges and refusing to follow Court Orders, 19 March 2025
Daily wellness checks for seniors and others who are frail, 9 March 2025
We love you Canada! 8 March 2025
What's In and Out for 2025-2026, 5 March 2025
How Black History Month Began, 1 February 2025
Heroes, 20 January 2025
Thoughts from Japan: RESPECT, 31 December 2024
Ralph Waldo Emerson: On Love, Beauty and the Purpose of Life, 24 December 2024
The history of the Thanksgiving holiday was not what you think it was, 29 November 2024
How to be successful, 19 October 2024
It's tough to be an expert, 17 October 2024
Trust your senses - don't be intimidated, 9 October 2024
Why I write, 29 August 2024
Looking for work, 18 June 2024
Trash to treasure, 14 June 2024
How I get my news, 7 June 2024
Why politicians don't want to leave, 26 May 2024
My superpowers, 14 May 2024
Tips re mobile phones and passports, 2 May 2024
National Women's Month: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, 1 April 2024
Passing a new voting rights act to deal with our shameful history on African-American voter suppression, 7 March 2024
Thanksgiving 2023, 23 November 2023
If I had more time, I would make it shorter, 3 October 2023
Be a principled consumer, 2 October 2023
Nat's online dating tips, 29 September 2023
Prayer applicable to everyone from Yom Kippur, 26 September 2023
My most popular posts in 2021-2023, 15 September 2023
Darkness and light, 13 September 2023
How to solve difficult problems, 6 September 2023
Are you happy and confident with your life? 28 June 2023
Reducing our burden on friends and family as we age, 23 June 2023
Stay away from evil, Part 1, 12 June 2023
Poetry ban - "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman, 26May23
Have you decided to Ditch the Lawn? 5May23
Politics
It's not that hard for public servants to avoid corruption, 8 June 2025
A Pragmatic Approach to Controversial Federal and State Policies, 4 May 2025
I am a liberal, 12 February 2025
If You’re Worried About the Future of Our Country, Do Something About It, 27 December 2024
Every vote matters, 27 November 2024
Election related essays by others, 7 November 2024
Politics - Voter challenge
The Ferndale Community Concert Band receives a check for $250 for the 2024 Voter Challenge, 28 May 2025
Huntington Woods receives a check for $1,000 for the 2024 Voter Challenge, 20 February 2025
Berkley / Huntington Woods Youth Assistance receives a check for $500 for the 2024 Voter Challenge, 30 January 2025
Ferncare receives a check for the 2024 Voter Challenge, 15 January 2025
2024 Voter Challenge results, 26 November 2024
The 2024 Voter challenge has begun for 8 Michigan communities, 12 June 2024
Charities selected for the 2022 Voter challenge, 2 January 2023
Voter Challenge Winners for 2022, 18 November 2022
2020 Voter challenge results, 1 January 2023
Scholarships and prizes
Free community college in Michigan, 2 August 2024
Congratulations to Berkley High School Scholarship winners, 29 July 2024
Charitable giving, 10 November 2023
Supporting Detroit Public Schools, 21 August 2023
Awarding excellence in Detroit Public Schools, 12 July 2023
Congratulations to Berkley High School Graduates, 14 June 2023
Wayne State University scholarships, 10 April 2023
Terrorism
Reject terrorism or expect to die, 10 November 2024
Trump
Deaths due to Trump, 16 June 2025
Why is Donald J. Trump so insecure? 11 June 2025
Attend a No Kings rally this Saturday, June 14, 2025, 10 June 2025
Three Well Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat, 3 June 2025
Controlling the narrative, 19 May 2025
June 14 is No Kings Day, 18 May 2025
A judge demolishes Trump’s assault on law firms, 6 May 2025
Donald J. Trump - possibly the greatest of all time - at getting lawyers to violate their oaths of office, 26 April 2025
Yes, we are in a constitutional crisis. It's time to act, 22 April 2025
Fit for Office? The Record Says No, 18 April 2025
Donald J. Trump is impotent, 14 April 2025
A ticker tape parade for Donald J. Trump on New York's Fifth Avenue, 4 April 2025
We cannot trust the judgment of Trump supporters regarding anything that Trump deals with, 27 March 2025
Why you should be optimistic, 23 March 2025
Donald J. Trump and The Mule, 20 March 2025
More voices about Donald J. Trump, 18 March 2025
Donald J. Trump is (still) deranged, if not insane, 14 March 2025
Stand up to Donald J. Trump, the bully, 7 March 2025
Trump's economic trainwreck, 6 March 2025
Trump’s raw deal, 3 March 2025
Should the military remove Trump from the Presidency? 27 February 2025
A sane American speaks to the world, 21 February 2025
Planning for the post-Trump era, 18 February 2025
Is it safe to deal with Trump or Musk related companies? 17 February 2025
Are contracts with Trump, Musk or their companies voidable due to changed circumstances? 11 February 2025
Lying should be grounds for termination, 8 February 2025
Trump and brilliance (they are not related), 6 February 2025
A primer on the Trump resistance, 2 February 2025
The U.S. military is declining under Trump, 28 January 2025
Why Americans like Trump, 26 January 2025
The Lost Decades, 23 January 2025
My predictions for 2025, 17 January 2025
Donald J. Trump is insane, 11 January 2025
6 January 2021, part 2, 7 January 2025
6 January 2021, four years later, 5 January 2025
The end of the Trump era, 3 January 2025
Yes, you can be like Donald J. Trump in one easy step! 28 December 2024
Our President-elect is a simpleton, 25 December 2024
Loyalty vs. subservience, 6 December 2024
Preparing for a police state, 15 November 2024
The major dangers from Trump #47, 8 November 2024
Trump voters - you're being conned, 14 November 2024
Ukraine
I stand with Ukraine and condemn Trump and Vance, 1 March 2025