Don’t doomscroll. BLOOMSCROLL
The Ink's Sunday wrap-up for February 23, 2025
What’s the opposite of doomscrolling? Of thumbing through anxiety-inducing, oligarch-owned, algorithmically manipulated, contextless news shards in the wastelands of social media?
At The Ink, we believe the opposite of doomscrolling is…BLOOMSCROLLING.
And bloomscrolling is what we invite you to do here.
Bloomscrolling is reading and watching and listening to things in depth, so that ideas can germinate in you, instead of flying through a million posts an hour.
Bloomscrolling is not guzzling fear alerts but rather going deep into ideas that plant seeds of hope and possibility and action.
Bloomscrolling is about what can be, what can sprout, what beautiful tomorrows can flower, not just who or what unraveled today.
Bloomscrolling is health food for your mind that grows you, not junk food for your nerves that leaves you crashing.
If you want less doomscrolling and more bloomscrolling in your life, support our work and become a paying subscriber and become part of our community.
Week five of Trump II is in the books, and not only have we all gotten through it, but we’ve begun to see what real opposition to Trump and Musk’s hostile takeover of America looks like.
Leaders are speaking up, lawyers are busy trying to put the brakes on Trump’s illegal, unconstitutional executive orders and Musk’s chaotic firings of federal officials, and the American people are holding elected officials’ feet to the fire, getting out in the streets and making your voices heard.
And at The Ink, in keeping with our bloomscrolling mission, we’ve been digging deep into the issues, and talking to people like Senator Chris Murphy and messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio — people who have real advice on what needs to be done to fight fascism, and on how you can get started, right now.
Don’t doomscroll — bloomscroll! Read on below for links to all of the stories we’ve covered this week, and subscribe today to get access to all of our interviews, essays, and live conversations — and to stand up for independent, tell-it-like-it-is media that bends to no billionaire or tyrant. It’s readers like you who make The Ink possible. Join us!
A programming note: We’re going Live! (with a slight time change)
We have two Substack Live events coming up next week that you won’t want to miss: Tomorrow, Monday, February 24, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern (an hour and a half earlier than our usual 12:30 time, so mark your calendars) we’ll have our regular conversation with scholar of fascism Ruth Ben-Ghiat. Then on Friday, February 28, also at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, we’ll speak with Stephen Wertheim, the historian, author, and theorist of America’s place in the world.
To join us and watch, download the Substack app and turn on notifications. You’ll get an alert that we’re live and you can watch from your iOS or Android mobile device.
