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I've been unable to find which website would have this, or where it may be. Can you give any more hints?

There will be people in your communities who have fought these battles before. Learn from their experiences; these lessons were paid for in blood.

Hope is hard work, but despair will kill you. Let's resolve to set aside fear for courage. Take care of yourselves and your communities. I love you.

Dehumanization and scapegoating are weapons which only ever serve the enemy. Learn how to recognize these weapons when you see them, and speak out whenever they are employed, even if by someone who is supposedly on your side.

The playbook from the first Trump administration is mostly still relevant. Many things will be different but more will be the same as they were. The general patterns by which we resist the authoritarian machine are still valid: Do not obey in advance. Make connections with people.

Part of this is to know your own limits; everyone can do something, but nobody can spend their every moment in the fight. Manage yourself so that you can work for a better future without burning yourself up in the process.

Remember the airplane rule: secure your own mask first before helping others, but **do help others**. We have to stand together. We cannot break ranks if we want to survive.

And these wins will often be small, and they will often be conditional. We will have to keep defending them for the rest of our lives; this is not pleasant to hear, but it is the truth, and we must not shy away from the truth.

From now on, every day we wake up is a win. Every time we stand up and say we will not be silenced and we will not ignore the suffering of others; that's a win. Every life we save, every right-wing policy we delay or frustrate or block, these are wins.

This is not a story. We will not win by blowing up the Death Star or by dropping the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom. We will not win in one single moment, but through a long twilight struggle.

not really a big blusky user, tbh; i much prefer the fediverse, or alternatively making posts on my blog that nobody reads. thanks though.

My new mug is prompting a lot of questions already answered by my new mug.