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Quadrants of social and physical environments, longform

Ang Madsen

Ang Madsen

20 Nov 2025 — 3 min read
Quadrants of social and physical environments, longform

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Winter is coming? Summer forever? Something else entirely?

Winter is coming? Summer forever? Something else entirely?

I've been thinking alot about our economic system lately. It's not working. It hasn't been working, as evidenced by how much homelessness and food insecurity there has been increasing for so long, increasing suicide rates, and the self-medication of drug and alcohol abuse.

By Ang Madsen 16 Feb 2026
The Epstein Class; potentially triggering

The Epstein Class; potentially triggering

The Epstein files are weighing heavy. We knew they would. We know there's more to come. And yet, no matter how heavily it weighed on my sternum, the actuality is twisting down harder than I thought it would. It comes back to the ties with so many powerful

By Ang Madsen 08 Feb 2026
Listen

Listen

Listen. The world is burning. We can hear the sizzling flames in the expanding targeting by ICE, pops in the darkling gloom that we hope are knots exploding in the heat and not gunshots. We can hear the break of the burned-enough-to-weaken log in the international shift to seeing the

By Ang Madsen 06 Feb 2026
People first

People first

These past few weeks have been hard. Hard to keep up with, hard to stomach, hard to assimilate, and hard to find a pathway forward. It's designed to be hard. The intent is to cow those of us who would be cowed; thrill those of us who would

By Ang Madsen 29 Jan 2026
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