Welcome to Imagine the News, a visionary media outlet that uses imagination, education, and humor to help bring to life the stories we want to see in the world.

Imagine the News is creating a brighter future by writing the news stories we want to see as if they've already happening. By telling detailed imaginary stories of good things, often using satire and humor, we plant the seeds of the way the world can be.

This isn't about magical thinking. Ask any psychologist and they'll tell you a key step in realizing a goal is to imagine and talk about it as if it's inevitable, or at least very likely to happen.

Then, from this place of vision and inevitability, we naturally take the steps to making them real.
This site hosts several projects that have already been imagined and are now being brought to life through the actions of everyday people like you and me.
  • The Peaceful Return 🔗 is a peaceful movement to end the corporate capture of government, advocating for a withdrawal from the economic system that is built on spiritual violence.
  • The Digital Exodus 🔗 a core tactic of Peaceful Return, is a migration out of Big Tech (and Media) into ethical platforms that foster truth and community.
  • The Global Art Renaissance 🔗 is a community art resistance project.

Questions? 

Please reach out if you have a question or want more information on anything on this website 
  • Art of the Global Revolution / Welcome to Elsewhere -> amandaianthe@imaginethenews.com
  • Digital Exodus movement out of big tech/media -> peacefulreturn@imaginethenews.com
  • JEDI Writing Co-working group -> jediwriters@imaginethenews.com
  • Satirical news articles (submissions, comments) -> news@imaginethenews.com
May 15, 2026

Americans Go On Strike: Refuse to Work Until Democracy is Restored

WASHINGTON D.C. 
In what economists are calling the most coordinated act of economic self-respect in modern history, over 50 million workers across the United States walked off the job last week, participating in what is now being called “The Human Strike.”
          The strike, which spans teachers, healthcare workers, delivery drivers, coders, baristas, and even mid-level brand consultants who finally snapped, is not about a single employer—it’s about the entire system.
        “Look,” said Dolores Finkle, a 33-year-old freight dispatcher turned strike marshal. “We’re not protesting for something this time. We’re protesting against being erased. You can’t automate empathy. And you can’t algorithm your way out of this mess.”

Not a Union Strike. A Human One. While organized labor supported the movement, most strikers are not formally unionized, they're just over it.
          “It wasn’t one thing,” said Kenan Gribble, a former UX designer who now hosts daily sidewalk philosophy salons outside a shuttered WeWork. “It was everything. The layoffs. The rent. The quiet quitting that got loud. The fact that I asked my boss if I could take a mental health day and he sent me a Calendly link.”
          The final straw for many came after Project 2025's Phase II rollout, when what was once conspiracy became codified law: no healthcare unless employed, no school unless screened, and no internet unless ‘verified by a partner platform.

Productivity is Not a Moral Obligation. Dr. Rita Von Clewn, professor of Economic Ethics and founder of the nonprofit People Over Profit, called the strike “a long-overdue refusal to be useful to a machine that’s eating us alive.”
          “Capitalism without boundaries becomes cannibalism,” she told reporters. “And while I’m flattered the billionaires want to live forever, I’m not interested in being their battery pack.”

The Numbers Don't Lie - Just the Apps Do. While the White House released a now-deleted post claiming that “only 4% of citizens are participating,” a cross-analysis by The Institute for Things That Actually Exist showed over 55% of the U.S. labor force has engaged in some form of economic resistance in the past two weeks—whether via walkouts, coordinated sick-outs, or refusal to open emails with a subject line “Quick Check-In .”
          Even some delivery drones have reportedly begun flying in slow, sassy loops in solidarity. 
Tech Executives: “We Never Could Have Predicted This,” They Say, Into Microphones They Own. Representatives from Google, Meta, and Amazon issued a joint statement reading: “We always knew humans were valuable. We just...didn’t think they’d figure that out too.”
          Meanwhile, Elon Musk has not made a public statement, but sources close to X say he’s been running simulations on how to generate GDP with only 5% of the population “if they’re obedient enough.”

A Cross-Class, Cross Party Awakening. Unlike prior resistance movements, the Human Strike is not easily categorized. It’s been joined by:
  • Rural postal carriers
  • Former consultants who once believed in “disruption”
  • Librarians and line cooks
  • Millennial dads who learned how to bake sourdough during the AI layoffs
  • Grandmothers who “just got tired of pretending they weren’t angry”
“It’s not about Left or Right,” said Brenda Holstein, a retired factory worker from Michigan. “It’s about not letting a handful of data lords turn the rest of us into frightened renters with no say in how the world works.”

What's Next. The White House has issued no formal response, though insiders say private negotiations are underway. Rumors swirl of a proposed “Digital Bill of Rights”, Universal Basic Dignity, and even a “Human Non-Replaceability Clause” - though no official details have emerged.
          Meanwhile, on the streets, the chant is simple: “We built the empire. And we can un-build it.”

Closing Thoughts. As the world watches, one thing is clear: This wasn’t just a protest. It was a remembering. That labor isn’t just a means of survival. It’s how we give meaning, value, and shape to the world. And if that world forgets we’re human? We stop working for it.

This Month's Comic - Imagine this!!

About Imagine the News

Back in 2016, when books like Brave New World and 1984 seemed to be coming true, it was tempting to see them as prophetic. Over time, I've come to understand them more as a warning that we've failed to heed than a prophecy.

It wasn't inevitable. But one of the challenges we face is that we don't have a lot of alternative uplifting visions of the future to replace these dystopian ones.  This made me wonder: 

What if we started imagining the good news we want to see and hear - more than just broad concepts of peace, but detailed stories of good things happening - would that help usher in a better future? 

Here in 2025, there's more urgency than ever to focus our imaginations towards visions of good things. There's still hope, but the clock is ticking.
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