Malicious compliance is just chaotic lawful. No I will not be explaining.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Something everyone, especially married women & anyone w/ a name change, need to be pay attention to is the SAVE act. This would require that the name on your ID matches your birth certificate to vote. Call your Reps. 5calls (5calls.org) makes It easy.

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Trump says he wants to take over Gaza. Yes, that is scary & bad. Don’t let it distract you from what Musk is doing, the fact that the department of government efficiency is NOT an official agency, we are deporting people to Guantánamo, & that Rubio has arranged to deport detainees to El Salvador

Language has power: Don’t let fascists frame the debate YouTube video by Kristofer Goldsmith

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I feel like the tariffs are a distraction from what Elon Musk is doing.

My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”

If it were legal to fire you, they wouldn't put so much effort into getting you to resign voluntarily.

If it helps, gather a group of friends together, figure out what you all care about the most, and assign everyone two things to follow so you can keep each other up to date. Try to make it local friends so you can meet in person and begin building mutual aid networks.

Report to friends and family about it and share information. Make sure you follow up as events unfold but not in a “breaking news” way. Information takes time to process and by constantly shoving information into our feds, they hope we become too dazed and confused to pay attention and organize.

Pick 2 things you care about the most. Follow those news stories. Wait 36 hours before panicking (you can share about the thing, just reserve snap judgments and opinions).

I keep seeing memes like “my need to be informed is fighting with my need to stay sane”. That is what they want. They want you overwhelmed and scared so that you do nothing.

being mocked. So, as an act of resistance we all can do, we can pair the art of comedy with factual to bully the fascist.

I recently finished listening to “Why Evil Exists” from the Great Courses collection. One of the big takeaways I have is that totalitarianism can’t withstand art and the truth. I pair this with another takeaway I have from “Strongmen” by Ruth Ben-Ghit, which is that would be dictators can’t stand

The Mountain Goats - This Year YouTube video by megasupersharkattack

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Mostly Sleep Token lately. They’re easy for me to listen to while I write.

Music is a wonderful escape today.

Today feels icky. Like having to play nice with a person who creeps you out. The last few months feel like they have been orchestrated to overwhelm us so we can’t act. So, pick one thing you care about and fight for it. Pay attention to what’s going on, but pick one thing and fight for it.

Dear American Fundamentalists,

The reason you are able to draw so many parallels between the modern day and Revelation is not because Jesus is about to suck you up into heaven.

It’s because it’s about the fall of an empire.

And guess who you are in this story?

Advice on building mutual aid networks and community.

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by @sea-ya-later.bsky.social

A sign from the People's March that has a caterpillar, with "Eat the rich." And says: The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires.

The only minority destroying this country are the billionaires. - The People's March 2025

NBC news: Republicans block cap on insulin costs for many Americans by stripping out a provision to cap insulin costs at $35 for private insurers. But the inflation reduction act still includes an insulin price cap for seniors on medicare.

NBC News: GOP-controlled NC Supreme Court blocks certification of Democrat as winner of close high court race. The order allows the state Supreme Court to hear a challenge by the Republican candidate in the race - who trails by just 734 votes. He wants to have 60,000 ballots thrown out.

Now if you’re looking to feel rage - I get it. But there are actual achievable anti-democratic things happening across this country.

And they have a much greater realism than Trump’s pointless, sensationalist, clickbait, distraction clown show.

At least hold on to your hopes and dreams.

Books that can help you understand what is currently going on and help you figure out what to do next:

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Tyrannical Minds by Dean Hancock
Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

I think it’s time to start shifting from outrage and grief over the election towards action. We are all aware of the worst case scenarios and we need to start working to prevent them.

A really good book that has been helping me understand why people have been voting or aligning their politics against their own interests lately is “Dying of Whiteness” by Jonathan Metzl.

As always, I am two raccoons in a trench coat and we have no idea what we are doing.