If anything, media criticism in the U.S. becomes anti-PR for those institutions, just more attention and weight given to their brands.

Some of us are already reporting, giving news, creating editorials. If this is you, just be the better media. Be what people need.

Claim your power.

I usually don’t channel fictional white guy energy, but this gif about sums up where my soul is at right now.

I have my writing. I have all the gifts I need. I just hope everyone else can find their gifts, too.

Please let the folks who need it find some hope and some light in the coming days.

I want something impossible, but it isn’t to be.

I’ve gone through denial, anger, bargaining, sadness and acceptance. I’m grateful for it, even as sadness keeps coming back. But I move to acceptance.

… and the men pushing us to disaster are smiling and getting rich while they do it as if sitting on a mountain of gold is going to help them survive a wildfire.

Today was the wrong day. Everyone deserved a better one - even the people who think they won today and don’t realize it yet.

Today the conversation is dread, anticipation of abuse, fear, all reasonable, and all the wrong conversation. Not because anyone talking is wrong, but because the world feels tilted off its orbit, out of control …

We should be talking about civil rights, about the way forward, about the legacy of MLK and the civil rights movement, arguing about why we don’t talk enough about Stokely Carmichael and Ella Baker and so many people - but that’s not the conversation today.

… but I’ll still feel it for days. Like, whatever the hypervigilant shock to my system is that hurts, I know it’ll stop tomorrow but I also know it won’t for the people around me.

I just wish I could take it away from so many people.

I’m not discounting how bad it feels - when any of us are in pain it’s not a contest - but when I feel like this, I know so many people are feeling worse. Always.

And I want to wave a magic wand and fix it. Because for me, this feeling will subside …