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Remember: They want you scattered. Your focus is resistance.

4/ Practice going slow: Wait 48hrs before reacting to new policies. The urgent clouds the important. Initial reporting often misses context

5/ Build community: Share the cognitive load. Different people track different issues. Network intelligence beats individual overload.

2/ Use aggregators & experts: Find trusted analysts who do the heavy lifting of synthesis. Look for those explaining patterns, not just events.

3/ Remember: Feeling overwhelmed is the point. When you recognize this, you regain some power. Take breaks. Process. This is a marathon.

What now?
1/ Set boundaries: Pick 2-3 key issues you deeply care about and focus your attention there. You can't track everything - that's by design. Impact comes from sustained focus, not scattered awareness.

3/ Agenda-setting theory explains the strategy: When multiple major policies compete for attention simultaneously, it fragments public discourse. Traditional media can't keep up with the pace, leading to superficial coverage.

The result?
Weakened democratic oversight and reduced public engagement.

2/ Media theorist McLuhan predicted this: When humans face info overload, they become passive & disengaged. Rapid-fire exec orders create a cognitive bottleneck so it’s nearly impossible to thoroughly analyze any single policy.

1/ The 200+ executive orders in Trump's first days is "shock doctrine" to create chaos & crisis so radical changes can be made while people are too disoriented to resist. It’s not politics as usual - it's a strategic exploitation of cognitive limits.

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Good manifesto - nice simple, clear guidance. Hold or lightly, do what you can and collaborate 👍

Loving this Veronica- I'm trying to do my bit by highlighting important initiatives like The Circle. Just set up a Letters Page on Medium aiming to extend reach beyond 'usual suspects' if you're interested? bsky.app/profile/poll...

And 🙌 to the BBC 100 Women Production Team for putting it all together 🎉
Valeria Perasso, Natalia Pianzola, Maria Zaccaro, Rebecca Thorn, Lara Owen, Natasha Fernandes, Niamh Hughes, Ahmen Khawaja, Shaina Oppenheimer, Sarah Tiamiyu and Rubab Batool