What can you do?

Don’t give up hope. Dictators feed off your hopelessness.

Don’t quit. Dictators want you to give up.

Punch back. Dictators are bullies, and bullies are cowards.

Stay tethered to the truth. Dictators need you to believe their lies.

Resist. Stand with others.

Vaccines prevent child deaths. Guns cause them. The Republican Party wants fewer vaccines and more guns, while simultaneously decrying the birth rate. Dystopia is used a lot lately for a reason.

At what point does the military step in? Isn’t that what often happens in dictatorships where the dictator goes insane? Isn’t the US military supposed to have a plan for everything?

They want you so sad you give up. But people and nations are fighting back.

If anyone is managing to get stuff done at any kind of a normal rate I beg you to tell me how you are doing it. Let's just set aside the "don't look at the news" stuff. I mean REAL ANSWERS.

They're so close to getting it.

If anything is going to incite a literal pitchforks and torches march through the streets, fucking with people's social security and tax refunds is a good bet.

I despise talking on the phone, but even I took a deep breath and called my congressmen. This was an excellent script to use and eased some of my phone anxiety to have something right in front of me to read on the call.

Current mood

I really need to stop doomscrolling right before bed. Or I need to stock up on coffee. One of the two, but the former would probably be the healthier option.

It always seems so intimidating making a first post. I don't feel witty enough for this responsibility.

So. Hi, I guess.

Maybe I'll be more active here than I had been on Twitter in the last about five to ten years.