Focus on 1 or 2 things. Go deep on those. Focus on "news" about those things first and foremost. Think about the concrete actions you can take to impact those ONE or TWO things.
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A suggestion for every last one of us. Learn the skills that will help you and your community survive. Take a Stop the Bleed course, then take a First aid/CPR/AED course. Maybe even a wilderness first aid. Learn backcountry survival, learn to grow food. Resilience is the backbone of resistance.
Get to know your neighbors, and build Mutual Aid networks in your community. Establish a system of neighbors checking on neighbors during and after disasters. We're going to need it over the next few years. Don't let Trump leave your community to die, we have to take care of each other.
Step 0. How about check your source of info? How about looking at the raw data vs stats too? Then do step 1. How hard is critical thinking & finding truth to you?
Please, please, PLEASE don't stop speaking the truth and fighting for what's right. There are so few in Congress that are brave enough to stand up to fascism, and y'all are the only ones that can stop them. Thank you for all you do ❤️
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This. A lot of times, people forget that the greater good is not the alternative to the smaller good; the greater good is made up of many smaller goods.
I just read that Elon Musk staff LOCKED federal employees out of the computers this morning. It's that legal?! Who gave NON GOVERNMENT people permission to go into a government system?
This week has been such a punch to the guts, it's been hard to focus. You're totally right - pls know I'm not arguing - but that's exactly what they want. Shock&awe=confusion&despair.
Chose my causes at the election bc I knew. But it's been important to see the breadth of the attacks too.
Forgive me, but I think you're looking for an illusion of control, when we have no control. Of all the "jobs" you might list on a spreadsheet, 50% might get done. And 75% of resistance activity will be things you didn't think of. Instead, write a letter to the editor, today.
@aoc.bsky.social what are we doing starting now about the Green party? I heard someone compare Jill Stein et all to a plague of locusts that show up every year. I’ve heard others say they are a Russian strategy. At what point do we address this outside of an election cycle? And how?
Exactly. The art of war. Concentrate force on the most vulnerable area of the enemies defense (which in my opinion is their stock value - boycott corporations that are controlling the political system).
I’ve been studying Spanish to help my daughter at her bilingual school, and my therapist suggested I go help some migrants with my language skills, such as they are. So I have something on the books for Thursday.
What would I do? Senate, House, DNC & Dem Govs EACH need to have a Rapid React WarRoom staffed 24/7/365. They need to have a rotating Senator, Rep, & Gov on call all times to post video, TikTok, statements & do interviews. Pressers are old, tired & mostly useless.
Have you seen or heard of this? I knew it! What I don't get is why no one can do anything about this?Why one man that is evil and unlawful can ruin our country and we have to take it??! https://youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?si=cE_YJK-ZYUxq-JB3
Hey that’s helpful. It feels small to focus on state legislatures, but focused, small-bore action is where it’s at. I know that. Thank you for the reminder.
***REPOST - CALL TO ACTION: Congress members are not allowed access to the ED building. GO HELP THEM PUSH THROUGH FORCEFULLY!!!! *************The headquarters of the United States Department of Education (ED) is located at 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20202.
This is why I'm focusing on one topic per week on @letshelp.bsky.social.
I'm hoping we can raise awareness and money at a reasonable pace, while also helping people find those 1-2 orgs over time that they can support and volunteer with long-term.
Sadly, what I do isn't valued by the market, so I have 2 jobs & 2 side gigs, which has worn me out so I'm not doing what I do w/excellence or joy. It's a struggle to figure out how to get back there. But this is motivation.
Feeling very interpellated by this insight right now! I’m recovering from hamstring surgery, immobile and woozy from pain meds, and scrolling far too much. I feel very ineffective. I mean, obviously I know about trans issues but there’s so much to take in.
Can you please publish a list of the members of Congress/government who have financial ties to private prisons? Tried googling that question, but without much success in finding the info. Thanks for all that you do.
Yes! I’m on law enforcement - including condemning pardons and Perp watch as well as supporting local Chiefs & Sheriffs who commit to their community mission and to not becoming a federal tool.
And LGBTQ issues
To be sure these are expansive topics but this is my wheelhouse
Thank you, AOC, for being one of the shining lights in the party. I wish all of them would do what's right and get corporate greed out of our government. I'm sick of politics as usual and am so disappointed in this spineless party that is allowing our democracy to fail as we speak. It's shameful.
Anyone not sure 'what to do' - SEE WHAT'S ALREADY HAPPENING and join in. Whether mutual aid online, or local support and outreach. There's ALWAYS something, some way to make a difference 💜
Yeah this “shock and awe” is strategic. If we all do what we can to respond or stand with what is most meaningful instead of wringing our hands or avoiding “negativity”, we will make an effective effort (I say TWO or THREE unless you are an activist, attorney, or other professional advocate)!
Today, I signed up to volunteer with a group that helps people seeking asylum in our country and a group that supports tenants' rights. Those are my 2 areas of four right now.
The oligarchs are playing for keeps. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble or get out of the way and let others take the helm. There is no recovery in 2026 or 2028 if we are served weak tea while Trump tromps over democracy. Raise holy hell about the hell he is putting us through!
He hasn’t gotten to my thing yet—disability rights—but you can tell it’s coming by them adding A to DEI. I’m not checking out of resistance; I’m keeping my powder dry for an upcoming battle.
This is why my plan for organizing my county has Teams. Folks can join one or two teams, focus on those issues, and have the comfort of knowing that other caring people—their neighbors—are taking care of the other issues and will call on the larger community if needed.
Working on helping people find community and I am helping people prep. Issue wise this whole deportation thing is my focus - my kids don’t look American’ whatever the fuck that means grrrr
I focused on making sure ppl 📚 🧑🏾💻👩💻 abt avian #FLU
Data from https://NBC.ca andJapanTimes. I stocked up on 😷 and antiseptic. NO HUMAN2Human transmission yet but it has a high potential 2 charge as well as any virus
Yes. What's happening is overwhelming!
We formed a group:
-Encourage everyone to take a lane.
-Share 'news' in a chat group.
-Compile and distribute a list of actions
I like this approach, as one can quickly get spread thin. My two focus areas are the media (keeping them honest and free of government control) and women’s reproductive rights.
I also think we need to plan not for a copy paste reinstallment of laws but for updating them as well so that they may be better protective of peoples rights
I would also recomend a lot of people take some form of courses that has them think about how human interect. I admit I have a bias in that but I think despite being theory it can often fill in details that get quickly summarized over once they reach the general public
Ever since 2016, they have overwhelmed us with BS and his first week EOs again inundated us. Just nonstop crap. Renaming Gulf of Mexico, releasing J6 insurrectionists.
Right-leaning folks get angrier. Center and left-leaning folks are tired out. This is how propaganda wins, by exhausting our minds.
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My secondary lane: local urbanism. More walkable spaces means more community.
Obstruct Deny Oppose
Michael Steele should be the next DNC chair. He gets it.
No more kumbaya. Walk away from the table. Check out the very end of this and tell me he is wrong.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/let-them-choke-on-that-michael-steele-delivers-blunt-game-plan-to-derail-the-gop/ar-AA1xQOr3
... with a bad guy.
... and an injustice.
... and an aggrieved.
Fun Fact: The Black Panthers -- who are who we've have free food in schools at all, for instance -- were a mutual aid org.
https://bsky.app/profile/pluribus-unum.co/post/3lffhpnjg5k2j
https://bsky.app/profile/prisonculture.bsky.social/post/3lglb4jt55s2e
I am Ali, I am newly married and I have a family. The war completely destroyed my home and now I live homeless. Help me survive the brutal war and get out of Gaza. Please donate to me and save my family.
https://gofund.me/9064a9b2
There are enough to make sure light gets shown on all the evil.
Chose my causes at the election bc I knew. But it's been important to see the breadth of the attacks too.
survival is my only game.
i made a rhyme.
I wonder if we could do the same thing for people out of status. Or if people already are.
Good advice.
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Yes. Thank you for the reminder. ❤️
Welcome to 2025.
https://youtu.be/0LN65qFUDDo?si=cE_YJK-ZYUxq-JB3
I'm hoping we can raise awareness and money at a reasonable pace, while also helping people find those 1-2 orgs over time that they can support and volunteer with long-term.
1. Do what you do w excellence & joy
2. Build community
3. Push back against lies
I'm a Deaf Educator & a lot of our families are immigrants, so I'm focusing on Deaf & disabled ppl, & immigrants. I'm applying the 3 steps there
Sadly, what I do isn't valued by the market, so I have 2 jobs & 2 side gigs, which has worn me out so I'm not doing what I do w/excellence or joy. It's a struggle to figure out how to get back there. But this is motivation.
But your body WILL thank you later.
And that goes for your brain, too. More kiddos and fun TV, a lot less doomscrolling!
And LGBTQ issues
To be sure these are expansive topics but this is my wheelhouse
https://bsky.app/profile/scooptown.bsky.social/post/3lglxlljbxk2i
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Some thoughts about what we can do.
https://medium.com/@fancynancysays/shock-and-awe-dd20cbae2804?sk=be7b3a9036f5e5e042ef70f9538034bb
The oligarchs are playing for keeps. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble or get out of the way and let others take the helm. There is no recovery in 2026 or 2028 if we are served weak tea while Trump tromps over democracy. Raise holy hell about the hell he is putting us through!
I've never been so scared for Canada in my life. Unfortunately, its the one thing i cannot ignore or tune out.
The 51st state jokes are literally everyday, and the more than he says it, the closer it is to being accepted and actioned.
I don't know if Canada survives in 4 years, let alone 2.
Also, I think I saw that accessibility options on the White House website were gone?
Data from https://NBC.ca andJapanTimes. I stocked up on 😷 and antiseptic. NO HUMAN2Human transmission yet but it has a high potential 2 charge as well as any virus
Not BS and rhetoric talking points!
Let's group up for different issues. So a group focused on one thing, another group on another, another group on another, etc etc etc
We formed a group:
-Encourage everyone to take a lane.
-Share 'news' in a chat group.
-Compile and distribute a list of actions
Vive la résistance!
1. Trump's very presence in the WH
means that it is an active crime scene
that is in progress 24/7.
2. His every thought, word and gesture
is a Crime Against Humanity.
3. He is a rapist, a white supremacist
and is aiding and abetting Known Felons.
4. Any questions?
Right-leaning folks get angrier. Center and left-leaning folks are tired out. This is how propaganda wins, by exhausting our minds.