bad times

Finding each other, engaging in collective action, and creating formal and informal networks of mutual aid and support not just for the “bad times” but more generally are fundamental for a healthy society and social democracy.

“In good times, in bad times, the president enjoys taking a grenade out on a Saturday afternoon, throwing it on the floor and watching everybody react. … There’s no downside.”

Addressing last year's Republican National Convention, during which he recalled speaking to Trump in the aftermath of an assassination attempt, Witkoff called the other man his "true and dear friend... in good times and bad times".

I had been friends with the neighbor’s daughter before the bad times began.

In an interview with the Guardian, disability advocate Alice Wong offered this advice on navigating, surviving and successfully resisting the bad times now upon us: