"During the most unprecedented, illegal, and unconstitutional first three months in office, this regime has managed to tear down not only storied institutions and long-standing safeguards but our entire collective confidence in our government.
We are in the unknown, floating between disbelief and horror, fear and anger, unsure where to place our next dollar, what to tell our children, and how we’re supposed to proceed.
We are in total free fall."
— Melissa Corrigan, If Your Skin Is White, This Is Your Fight.: We're over the cliff. What now? Counterstory Media, Apr 16, 2025
Brian Klaas says: "Like it or not, the whirlwind is back. My unsolicited advice is this: make a deliberate plan to escape its vortex so you have the energy to push back more effectively. And remember, above all, that digital engagement matters only if it provokes real-world action."
"The first one hundred days of this bullshit has gone exactly how this regime wanted it to. Steve Bannon calls it “flooding the zone”. Political communication expert Dannagal Young calls it a “tidal wave”. A symposium of journalists call it “weaponizing chaos and overwhelming media”."
— Who I Am, And Who I'm Not: Adjusting to this "new normal", and redefining who I can be in it. Melissa Corrigan, May 6, 2025
We are speechless (Naomi Klein, Doppelganger) before the wreck (Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror).
"In a dumpster-fire world, I choose over and over again to act treasonously, which is to say, to reach. What does your treason look like? I hope this week, it looks like carrying a plant around for a day, inciting joy in strangers."
— Sara Sadek in Folkweaver, May 6, 2025
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