It’s one of my true joys in life to get to introduce new people to the humor and horror of the exploding whale, complete with Paul Linnman’s step by step reporting.

Instead, focus attention on shoring up the people who are already doing the work, or can be convinced to join. Anybody who’s checked out but is going to lose something big? That’s who you should talk to. People who are uneasy but don’t know what to do? Your new best friends.

“Rebellions are built on hope”. They’re also built on the backs of countless faceless nameless people, quietly doing what they can

And just because you don’t always—or even most of the time—see much of what they’re doing doesn’t mean they aren’t still out there

People with relatively little power doing what they can in their own little spheres, maybe not even because of any grand ideas of Resistance or being part of a movement but merely because of a deep feeling that *this is fundamentally wrong*

Those people are out there and they are stepping up