Welcome everyone who's willing to reject what's happening. But we don't have to make space for cruelty, punishment, or exclusion.

the fascism stage

First, remember what works in moments like this one.

Just started reading The Fifth Risk, & immediately a sentence leapt out at me as underlining what Blum says in the above article (and much more about this moment): "People who had never experienced a collapsed state were slow to appreciate a state that had not yet collapsed."

So: here we are.