Are you a busy person who wishes you could resist more? Start where you are and take one step forward. Choose a schedule you can keep and commit to one five minute act of resistance. It can be daily (while you wait for the coffee to perk) or weekly (during your lunch break Wednesday) or even monthly. It can be five minutes of a larger task, or discrete, individual actions. What’s key is this: do just a little more than you were doing.
If you’re feeling hope, share that as widely as you can. If you’re feeling despair, treat it like the flu: try not to spread it, treat the symptoms, and work to recover. Neither hope nor despair is an objective fact, but despair saps your energy to bring about change. Treat it, don’t feed it.
Last December CBS pulled a 60-minutes segment on CECOT the foreign prison we “deported” immigrants to. A bootleg copy that streamed in Canada went around, and eventually CBS aired the segment (opposite an NFL division playoff game…) with new content from the Trump administration. It’s important we witness what is being done in our names, so if you never saw the segment, take 14 minutes to watch it now.
The regime proposes to redefine transgender health care as “sex-rejecting procedures” and make hospitals choose between Medicaid and services to trans youth.
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