By Rob Brezsny
Indivisible on how to fight back effectively: https://tinyurl.com/FightBackFierce
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has good ideas: https://tinyurl.com/AOCsays
Call your Senator and Congresspeople and tell them to vote a flat NO on any and all cooperation with the Trump administration. This site makes it easy: https://5calls.org
Starhawk on what groups can do now: https://tinyurl.com/WhatWeAllCanDoNow
In service to love, hold off fascism: https://tinyurl.com/HoldBackFascism
Push back against the thugs: https://tinyurl.com/PushBackAgainstThugs
Some intimate ways to create hope: https://tinyurl.com/HelpCreateHope
Nullify the nullifiers: https://tinyurl.com/HowToStopTheThugs
Sister District helps us fight for democracy: https://tinyurl.com/FightingForDemocracy
Boycott companies that enable the Trump autocracy, starting with Elon Musk’s X and Tesla and companies that advertise on X or Fox News. Download the app: https://www.goodsuniteus.com/
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WE WON’T LET THEM COMMIT THEIR ATROCITIES
Rebecca Solnit wrote everything in this section: They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything, and you won’t let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything — and everything we can save is worth saving.
You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. In this tide of hate, remember what love is.
You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who’s upset and check your equipment for going onward.
Many of us are under direct attack, and many are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.
There is no alternative to persevering. That does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it’s sunny or raining.
Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself — because you are interwoven with the trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.
In the past, there were ethical Republicans with integrity who worked for the common good: Mark Hatfield, Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, Charles Percy, William Scranton, Margaret Chase Smith, Millicent Fenwick, Edward Brooke, and George Romney.
But now there is no more Republican Party. There is only a brainwashed MAGA Cult.
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THE MAGA CULT LOVES CRUELTY
Republicans aren’t just indifferent to suffering; they enjoy it. Their entire political project is about inflicting pain and calling it virtue. The cruelty isn’t a bug. It’s the feature: https://tinyurl.com/GOPlovesCruelty
A MILLION LIES
Trump’s indoctrinated cult members parrot his lies. Their hypnotized minds falsely say that the criminal Elon Musk is eliminating corruption in USAID and other government agencies. But investigation reveals that while there may be a very tiny bit of money going toward issues Trump cultists don’t like, the vast amount is for good causes.
Distortion of the Facts: https://tinyurl.com/FactDistortion
Fact-checking claims about USAID funding: https://tinyurl.com/ManyLiesAbound
Sort out facts: https://tinyurl.com/SortOutFacts
