If you want your country in safe hands again know that we will support elsewhere in other ways but not facilitating our presence for troops of barbarians to do with us what their sick minds and permissions lead them to. This is your fight now. We warned you aplenty.

If you have a friend that’s not a citizen, unless them - on their own volition - say they want to take to the streets, don’t even try. No one is safe anymore. The harrowing stories of legal residents of this country are PTSD inducing and too much for us to expose ourselves.
If you want us here and

I have no other safe harbor to run to. I don’t have the energy nor health to start my life over for a 6th time. I’ve built a life in a country I still believe to despite all signs that we’re heading to one of the darkest times this country has seen in the last century. It’s not hyperbole.

And more. If you followed me once on Twitter, you know this well.
Another friend - I say, bless her heart in a semi southern twang that my accent will allow - invited me to a protest.
I declined.
And you’d ask: WHY?! Aren’t you like the protest girl? Known for them?!
Nope. Not this time.