It’s Friday, late July, the Dog Days of Summer, you might say, and we’re overwhelmed not only by the heat, but also by the incessant stream of bad news emanating out of the nation’s capitol — and much of the rest of the world. So much stupidity, corruption, cruelty, death, despair.
Buying power is my biggest muscle. Choose how and where you spend your money.
Second biggest muscle is kindness. Have compassion for all things, especially during a reactive moment. Coping mechanism is boundaries around screen time and taking back that scroll time to spend it with others having real conversations again. I love watching the bumbles and honey bees making the most of the time they have in this summer of abundance.
This might sound a bit strange, but I've been spending my time having down-to-earth conversations with conservative friends to get their views/thoughts, and sharing my own. It helps to round out their news sources which have bias, and helps me make sure I'm still thinking correctly with all angles. I know it's not much but I find it helpful.
I am trying to build fences around my time on reddit and actually tune in to some really wonderful writing on Substack. My life is filled with working for a conservation NGO, attending meetings in town aimed at forming strategy locally for actively waging non violent protest at home (like what to do when ICE finally arrives here), and stewarding the ⅓ acre around my rented home trying to encourage the bunch grasses and pigweed and ground cherry and mallows to outcompete the cheat grasses, monitoring the evening hunting activity of the Woodhouse Toad in my back yard during June bug season, the Parker’s thread-waisted Wasp that sleeps in the same shrub every night, checking whether I still have a whiptail residing in my front yard or not, inspecting my solitary bee houses, trying not to startle the late-born town fawns that wait for mom in my yard, and talking sternly to the rufous hummer that found my feeder and is mad that I hang out in my own yard. I’ve become intimately familiar with the micro ecosystem that’s around me, I guess my form of grounding. It’s all that’s keeping me from chucking my phone as I read the news this morning that the IRS might go strictly English speaking (which, holy hell… it’s not about the money is it, it’s definitely about punishment).
I seek voices that help fact check where we are, like Land Desk. I enjoy spending time with Ken Layne’s Desert Oracle. I try to put my money where my head is.
I don’t know what to do, and I don’t think any of these things help anyone but myself.
Maybe it makes it possible to keep doing my job, which hopefully helps?
Sounds like you do what keeps you sane and reasonably secure.
I walk my dog, care for him and my cat and Pookie, my Cedar WaxWing who lives with me. Keep the hummingbird feeders filled for them and the Baltimore Orioles who somehow have decided that I do it for them too!
Read, Letters from an American, Civil Discourse, Land Desk, of course and The Front Page. Oh I comment here there and everywhere, too.
I also comment, donate & keep up with the Wild Horse "issue". Right now the BLM's roundup season is in full force. Sadly in several of the most beautiful herds - removing some completely, and in foaling season and July heat. Its brutal.
Of course I contact Jeff Hurd and others, but that feels nearly useless. To feel better, I read good books (just started Jess Walter's excellent new novel "So Far Gone" with spot-on hilarious and trenchant satire on conspiracy-theorist nutbags and Christian nationalism). That, and I connect with locals and work on local/regional projects for good. When all else fails, I go outside and wage war on thistles by cutting off their heads. And run, of course. Trail therapy always helps.
I'm also reading So Far Gone (about a 100 pages in) and I'm loving it. I admit that I wasn't sure I'd be up for a novel that included conspiracy-theorist nutbags and Christian nationalism, as novels are often my break from reality, but I'm here for this one.
I get overwhelmed with all of the terribleness in every arena. I can’t combat, or even think about it all. So, I now work for a local non-partisan, non-profit fighting climate change. I use my skills to contribute to their plans. I think its most impactful to work together- you feel less alone. https://yvsc.org/
I also donate to other organizations, attend protests, talk about big topics in non-threatening ways as often as I can, make environmental art, and enjoy nature daily.
The Idaho Statesman used to be a useless newspaper. But in the past 5 years or so, as our State Legislature has become full-blown MAGA idiocracy, the paper has become a significant voice of reason. I answered the call to join the volunteer Editorial Board. Didn't get picked, but am the alternate and hope to join it next year. I call my lousy Senators "Crap-o" and "Rich" at least weekly. If an intern answers I tell them this isn't directed at you, but your boss, and then launch. Decorum is out the window; I let them have the litany of how they are bending over for Trump, how they care more about their party than their citizens, etc., laced with a fair amount of anger and profanity. Same for emails: I email them at least once a week. Their deeds are so bad they deserve zero respect and get none. I have them on speed dial on my phone so sometimes I launch a blast from the car. I never post political stuff on Facebook. If MAGA truly takes over the U.S., with AI, anti-MAGA posters will be the low-hanging fruit for who knows what...deportation? Incarceration? I attend protests. I write letters to papers and sometimes for Writers on the Range. To get away from it all, I work, which takes my mind off politics. I never ever look at TV news; I get all my news from the NYTimes, LATimes, Idaho Statesman, Seattle Times, and here. And I take comfort in knowing the Earth will still be here for billions of years after She shakes off the human pestilence, filled with new and wonderful kinds of plants and animals, clean oceans, and clear skies.
After the 2016 election, and yelling at the TV, we cancelled satellite dish network, and subscribed to WP and NYT: Reading the news in the morning with cup of coffee. Those outlets got worse over time with negativity. After the 2024 election, cancelled WP and NYT, and started reading Craig Childs in the morning with cup o' coffee (outstanding book "Atlas Of A Lost World"). Caught up on all of his new books, then went into others including JPT's fascinating Slickrock novel. Now writing my own papers, trying to revive my selenium research that was squelched by corrupt bosses, and hoping to talk with JPT about popular outlets for science writing (coffee anyone?). So, the answer is to write meaningful articles about your passion. There are numerous outlets these days to express oneself. Writing to congressional representatives (the R's at least) is a waste of time; sending opinion letters to the local paper does nothing.
I immerse myself in nature. I'm a retired biochemist now living part time near Silver City, NM. There are lots of great places to walk in this area. I also keep my love for science alive by studying the moth fauna in SW NM. Moths are beautiful, amazing creatures and so diverse that they are a source of endless fascination.
I regularly attend Cochise County (AZ) Board of Supervisors meetings, speak up on important issues, and get others involved to do the same. I also write letters to the editor and postcards to voters. Daily breaks include walks in nature and occasionally I slip away on a camping road trip. Being engaged helps me stay focused on positive actions and not feel overcome with despair.
I have a lot of conversations with family and friends about what's going on. For our 15 year old we've decided to limit talks about Trump et al to one dinnertime conversation per week, as it was getting overwhelming for him. So there's a lot of balancing our moods and reactions, our conversations and attitudes within our household so our kids are in the know without becoming overwhelmed, shutting down, and then tuning out. It's something that's within our control to do, which helps because so much feels out of our control. For nervous system reset we've been spending more and more time in nature. We applied for and received a community P-patch allotment, so we can garden there and provide extra food to the community in need. We have sought out forest, lakes, cabins, ocean this summer to connect with nature and gain renewed strength for fighting the good fight to protect our parks, oceans, forests and animals.
In between listening to podcasts, reading and marching, posting protest and various reposts for the resistance in Palestine on social media, I am gardening, growing both food and cultivating a wild meadow or two, of native flowers that are full of birds, butterflies, bees and have an ecosystem that is evolving as I go. Wonderful and tragic times. Anxiety is in the air along with much uncertainty. Planning a move abroad.
I spent so much time resisting the previous administration (trying to protect nature from mining and offshore energy development), I got very burned out. I still write a lot of letters and articles about ecological overshoot and fighting so-called "renewables" and their destructive march via mining, refining, shipping, installation, etc. I figure most everyone knows fossil fuels are bad at this point, so I spend my time trying to help people see the bigger picture and protecting what little of nature is left.
I do wonder when or even IF any of us (humans) will put energy towards examining our throw away mindsets. For instance, exactly what or where will we continue to put our garbage? Throwing it in the ocean didnt work (years ago) sending it overseas didnt work, so I guess we just gave up. And continue to throw away. Electronics are an entire different issue on their own. Wouldnt it be nice of one of these large profitable untaxed corporations found a way to dispose of them? Maybe that should be Elon's next project.
I propose we stop digging up non-renewable materials (whether that's coal, oil, lithium, copper or anything else, destroying habitat in the process, while exacerbating the sixth mass extinction) and start rationing what we've got left.
We must put in an aggressive, comprehensive degrowth plan, starting with eliminating everything we don't absolutely need (e.g. cruise ships, etc.) and hitting the wealthiest the hardest (e.g. eliminate 2nd (3rd,etc) homes), 90% tax rate, etc.). Put into place programs that start easy (e.g. cut back on electricity by 10% now) and get more difficult over time, again, hitting those who use the most the first and the hardest. And stop manufacturing absolutely everything that we don't need (e.g. bobbleheads, AI, PFAS), putting all remaining resources towards the basics: clean water, food, heat, cohesive communities. We can ramp up family planning programs to start dramatically reducing population, so shelter will not be an issue; use the housing stock we've already got including the 6-7 million 2nd homes sitting empty most of the time, and sharing all houses over 2500 square feet with multiple families. And finally, put people to work tearing down unneeded infrastructure and restoring ecosystems. Put as much area (land and water) as possible into exclusion zones (i.e. no humans) for wildlife and plants, with a program to expand these areas as quickly as possible as ecosystem restoration gets underway. And of course social programs to help remind people how to live with dramatically less of everything.
Even though it's very very late in the current mass extinction--perhaps too late--we should do everything possible to not annihilate any more species, as we are breaking the web of life faster and more deeply than we can possibly understand.
In a world in catastrophic ecological overshoot, this is the only plan that makes sense.
More energy => more growth => more destruction. This plan, the one we're on, makes no sense at all. Worse, it's a suicide plan. So-called "renewables" (actually rebuildables) have not replaced or even reduced fossil fuels use. And if we learn from More and More and More by Jean Baptiste Fressoz and other writers on this topic, we understand there has never been a materials or energy transition (except wool -> synthetics for clothing) and there never will be.
So we must tighten our belts and start facing reality. Anything less is not just stupid, it's unethical, immoral and cruel.
You endorse degrowth, then. I can’t say that I agree that your plan “is the only plan that makes sense” but I also reckon that anything I say would be unconvincing to you. All I’ll say is that I find it a useful thought experiment to imagine having the chance to live in any time period other than ours today. Would you? I wouldn’t. The reason I wouldn’t is because the wealth, medicine, science and knowledge, and human well-being that exist today dwarf any period in the past as far as I can tell. If we had embraced degrowth then, I have to imagine the world would be a worse place to live in now. We shouldn’t rob our children of a better future. We face ecological problems today, but we have the technology the make these problems tractable and people interested in solving these problems.
I would definitely pick a point prior to the invention of agriculture if I had the chance. We'd already begun the sixth mass extinction (killing off the megafauna wherever we went) but from all accounts, living as a scavenger/gatherer was far preferable. We had bigger brains, we had huge amounts of knowledge of the natural world, we had strong, small communities, most were far more egalitarian, and if we were lucky enough to make it past childhood, we had a good chance to live as long as many people do now.
Most of all I'd love to be able to experience a world that isn't poisoned; one that is full of more life than I can possibly imagine. One without crowding diseases; one where people have healthier stronger bones and teeth, and cancer is essentially non-existent.
I'd take that in a heartbeat over this soulless, cruel, poisoned, shell of a world with so many species already gone, and so many more poised on the precipice.
All modern technology is simply ways to convert the living into the dead more efficiently. I'd take short bursts of hard work with lots of play and strong family and a world full to bursting with amazing life.
Mass public protest attendance. Most recently, helping to quell our county commissioners from allowing primitive camping in a dedicated open space, the jewel of our county really in an area that was four miles away from the historic Hayman fire. We have nearly constant downslope winds with insurance companies telling us we have one of the highest wind loads in the state. Many view our three commissioners as openly corrupt and power-grabbing. Local political engagement is irreplaceable
I actively pursue the challenge of living a sustainable life. Second, I talk and teach everyone I can about sustainability, basic human rights, and the responsibility of the government we created. We created our government to ensure everyone has their basic human rights met. Teaching includes writing to politicians several times a week about the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the domestic abuse of power.
With the Executive Branch out of control and the Legislative Branch out to lunch indefinitely, my focus is on the Judicial Branch. Keeping in contact and supporting all the altruistic lawyers I know is my chosen form of resistance.
Buying power is my biggest muscle. Choose how and where you spend your money.
Second biggest muscle is kindness. Have compassion for all things, especially during a reactive moment. Coping mechanism is boundaries around screen time and taking back that scroll time to spend it with others having real conversations again. I love watching the bumbles and honey bees making the most of the time they have in this summer of abundance.
This might sound a bit strange, but I've been spending my time having down-to-earth conversations with conservative friends to get their views/thoughts, and sharing my own. It helps to round out their news sources which have bias, and helps me make sure I'm still thinking correctly with all angles. I know it's not much but I find it helpful.
I am trying to build fences around my time on reddit and actually tune in to some really wonderful writing on Substack. My life is filled with working for a conservation NGO, attending meetings in town aimed at forming strategy locally for actively waging non violent protest at home (like what to do when ICE finally arrives here), and stewarding the ⅓ acre around my rented home trying to encourage the bunch grasses and pigweed and ground cherry and mallows to outcompete the cheat grasses, monitoring the evening hunting activity of the Woodhouse Toad in my back yard during June bug season, the Parker’s thread-waisted Wasp that sleeps in the same shrub every night, checking whether I still have a whiptail residing in my front yard or not, inspecting my solitary bee houses, trying not to startle the late-born town fawns that wait for mom in my yard, and talking sternly to the rufous hummer that found my feeder and is mad that I hang out in my own yard. I’ve become intimately familiar with the micro ecosystem that’s around me, I guess my form of grounding. It’s all that’s keeping me from chucking my phone as I read the news this morning that the IRS might go strictly English speaking (which, holy hell… it’s not about the money is it, it’s definitely about punishment).
I seek voices that help fact check where we are, like Land Desk. I enjoy spending time with Ken Layne’s Desert Oracle. I try to put my money where my head is.
I don’t know what to do, and I don’t think any of these things help anyone but myself.
Maybe it makes it possible to keep doing my job, which hopefully helps?
I guess it’s just hard for me to determine if I’ve got my nose to the ground, or I’ve buried my head in the sand.
Sounds like you do what keeps you sane and reasonably secure.
I walk my dog, care for him and my cat and Pookie, my Cedar WaxWing who lives with me. Keep the hummingbird feeders filled for them and the Baltimore Orioles who somehow have decided that I do it for them too!
Read, Letters from an American, Civil Discourse, Land Desk, of course and The Front Page. Oh I comment here there and everywhere, too.
I also comment, donate & keep up with the Wild Horse "issue". Right now the BLM's roundup season is in full force. Sadly in several of the most beautiful herds - removing some completely, and in foaling season and July heat. Its brutal.
Of course I contact Jeff Hurd and others, but that feels nearly useless. To feel better, I read good books (just started Jess Walter's excellent new novel "So Far Gone" with spot-on hilarious and trenchant satire on conspiracy-theorist nutbags and Christian nationalism). That, and I connect with locals and work on local/regional projects for good. When all else fails, I go outside and wage war on thistles by cutting off their heads. And run, of course. Trail therapy always helps.
I'm also reading So Far Gone (about a 100 pages in) and I'm loving it. I admit that I wasn't sure I'd be up for a novel that included conspiracy-theorist nutbags and Christian nationalism, as novels are often my break from reality, but I'm here for this one.
I get overwhelmed with all of the terribleness in every arena. I can’t combat, or even think about it all. So, I now work for a local non-partisan, non-profit fighting climate change. I use my skills to contribute to their plans. I think its most impactful to work together- you feel less alone. https://yvsc.org/
I also donate to other organizations, attend protests, talk about big topics in non-threatening ways as often as I can, make environmental art, and enjoy nature daily.
Thanks for all you do, Jonathan!
The Idaho Statesman used to be a useless newspaper. But in the past 5 years or so, as our State Legislature has become full-blown MAGA idiocracy, the paper has become a significant voice of reason. I answered the call to join the volunteer Editorial Board. Didn't get picked, but am the alternate and hope to join it next year. I call my lousy Senators "Crap-o" and "Rich" at least weekly. If an intern answers I tell them this isn't directed at you, but your boss, and then launch. Decorum is out the window; I let them have the litany of how they are bending over for Trump, how they care more about their party than their citizens, etc., laced with a fair amount of anger and profanity. Same for emails: I email them at least once a week. Their deeds are so bad they deserve zero respect and get none. I have them on speed dial on my phone so sometimes I launch a blast from the car. I never post political stuff on Facebook. If MAGA truly takes over the U.S., with AI, anti-MAGA posters will be the low-hanging fruit for who knows what...deportation? Incarceration? I attend protests. I write letters to papers and sometimes for Writers on the Range. To get away from it all, I work, which takes my mind off politics. I never ever look at TV news; I get all my news from the NYTimes, LATimes, Idaho Statesman, Seattle Times, and here. And I take comfort in knowing the Earth will still be here for billions of years after She shakes off the human pestilence, filled with new and wonderful kinds of plants and animals, clean oceans, and clear skies.
After the 2016 election, and yelling at the TV, we cancelled satellite dish network, and subscribed to WP and NYT: Reading the news in the morning with cup of coffee. Those outlets got worse over time with negativity. After the 2024 election, cancelled WP and NYT, and started reading Craig Childs in the morning with cup o' coffee (outstanding book "Atlas Of A Lost World"). Caught up on all of his new books, then went into others including JPT's fascinating Slickrock novel. Now writing my own papers, trying to revive my selenium research that was squelched by corrupt bosses, and hoping to talk with JPT about popular outlets for science writing (coffee anyone?). So, the answer is to write meaningful articles about your passion. There are numerous outlets these days to express oneself. Writing to congressional representatives (the R's at least) is a waste of time; sending opinion letters to the local paper does nothing.
I immerse myself in nature. I'm a retired biochemist now living part time near Silver City, NM. There are lots of great places to walk in this area. I also keep my love for science alive by studying the moth fauna in SW NM. Moths are beautiful, amazing creatures and so diverse that they are a source of endless fascination.
Commenting from Las Cruces! Go New Mexico and its beautiful landscape to escape into!
I regularly attend Cochise County (AZ) Board of Supervisors meetings, speak up on important issues, and get others involved to do the same. I also write letters to the editor and postcards to voters. Daily breaks include walks in nature and occasionally I slip away on a camping road trip. Being engaged helps me stay focused on positive actions and not feel overcome with despair.
Never not petting or talking to my dog ha
I have a lot of conversations with family and friends about what's going on. For our 15 year old we've decided to limit talks about Trump et al to one dinnertime conversation per week, as it was getting overwhelming for him. So there's a lot of balancing our moods and reactions, our conversations and attitudes within our household so our kids are in the know without becoming overwhelmed, shutting down, and then tuning out. It's something that's within our control to do, which helps because so much feels out of our control. For nervous system reset we've been spending more and more time in nature. We applied for and received a community P-patch allotment, so we can garden there and provide extra food to the community in need. We have sought out forest, lakes, cabins, ocean this summer to connect with nature and gain renewed strength for fighting the good fight to protect our parks, oceans, forests and animals.
In between listening to podcasts, reading and marching, posting protest and various reposts for the resistance in Palestine on social media, I am gardening, growing both food and cultivating a wild meadow or two, of native flowers that are full of birds, butterflies, bees and have an ecosystem that is evolving as I go. Wonderful and tragic times. Anxiety is in the air along with much uncertainty. Planning a move abroad.
I spent so much time resisting the previous administration (trying to protect nature from mining and offshore energy development), I got very burned out. I still write a lot of letters and articles about ecological overshoot and fighting so-called "renewables" and their destructive march via mining, refining, shipping, installation, etc. I figure most everyone knows fossil fuels are bad at this point, so I spend my time trying to help people see the bigger picture and protecting what little of nature is left.
If fossil fuels are bad, and renewables are also bad, what is your proposition for how we generate power? Mining is necessary to produce solar panels and wind turbines, but there is far less waste produced from renewables compared to fossil fuels (https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/renewables-waste) and far less mining required overall (https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/energy-transition-materials).
I do wonder when or even IF any of us (humans) will put energy towards examining our throw away mindsets. For instance, exactly what or where will we continue to put our garbage? Throwing it in the ocean didnt work (years ago) sending it overseas didnt work, so I guess we just gave up. And continue to throw away. Electronics are an entire different issue on their own. Wouldnt it be nice of one of these large profitable untaxed corporations found a way to dispose of them? Maybe that should be Elon's next project.
Recycling rates for clean energy technologies (batteries, solar, wind) make circularity quite viable and that is only becoming more true. https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/low-carbon-tech-needs-much-fewer
Yes - in the future - the circularity looks very promising.
However - my old microwave sits in a box because there is no place to get rid of it. Old monitors etc still in the same boat.
Then the recycle material that my garbage co. picks up all goes in the same bin -
I propose we stop digging up non-renewable materials (whether that's coal, oil, lithium, copper or anything else, destroying habitat in the process, while exacerbating the sixth mass extinction) and start rationing what we've got left.
We must put in an aggressive, comprehensive degrowth plan, starting with eliminating everything we don't absolutely need (e.g. cruise ships, etc.) and hitting the wealthiest the hardest (e.g. eliminate 2nd (3rd,etc) homes), 90% tax rate, etc.). Put into place programs that start easy (e.g. cut back on electricity by 10% now) and get more difficult over time, again, hitting those who use the most the first and the hardest. And stop manufacturing absolutely everything that we don't need (e.g. bobbleheads, AI, PFAS), putting all remaining resources towards the basics: clean water, food, heat, cohesive communities. We can ramp up family planning programs to start dramatically reducing population, so shelter will not be an issue; use the housing stock we've already got including the 6-7 million 2nd homes sitting empty most of the time, and sharing all houses over 2500 square feet with multiple families. And finally, put people to work tearing down unneeded infrastructure and restoring ecosystems. Put as much area (land and water) as possible into exclusion zones (i.e. no humans) for wildlife and plants, with a program to expand these areas as quickly as possible as ecosystem restoration gets underway. And of course social programs to help remind people how to live with dramatically less of everything.
Even though it's very very late in the current mass extinction--perhaps too late--we should do everything possible to not annihilate any more species, as we are breaking the web of life faster and more deeply than we can possibly understand.
In a world in catastrophic ecological overshoot, this is the only plan that makes sense.
More energy => more growth => more destruction. This plan, the one we're on, makes no sense at all. Worse, it's a suicide plan. So-called "renewables" (actually rebuildables) have not replaced or even reduced fossil fuels use. And if we learn from More and More and More by Jean Baptiste Fressoz and other writers on this topic, we understand there has never been a materials or energy transition (except wool -> synthetics for clothing) and there never will be.
So we must tighten our belts and start facing reality. Anything less is not just stupid, it's unethical, immoral and cruel.
You endorse degrowth, then. I can’t say that I agree that your plan “is the only plan that makes sense” but I also reckon that anything I say would be unconvincing to you. All I’ll say is that I find it a useful thought experiment to imagine having the chance to live in any time period other than ours today. Would you? I wouldn’t. The reason I wouldn’t is because the wealth, medicine, science and knowledge, and human well-being that exist today dwarf any period in the past as far as I can tell. If we had embraced degrowth then, I have to imagine the world would be a worse place to live in now. We shouldn’t rob our children of a better future. We face ecological problems today, but we have the technology the make these problems tractable and people interested in solving these problems.
I would definitely pick a point prior to the invention of agriculture if I had the chance. We'd already begun the sixth mass extinction (killing off the megafauna wherever we went) but from all accounts, living as a scavenger/gatherer was far preferable. We had bigger brains, we had huge amounts of knowledge of the natural world, we had strong, small communities, most were far more egalitarian, and if we were lucky enough to make it past childhood, we had a good chance to live as long as many people do now.
Most of all I'd love to be able to experience a world that isn't poisoned; one that is full of more life than I can possibly imagine. One without crowding diseases; one where people have healthier stronger bones and teeth, and cancer is essentially non-existent.
I'd take that in a heartbeat over this soulless, cruel, poisoned, shell of a world with so many species already gone, and so many more poised on the precipice.
All modern technology is simply ways to convert the living into the dead more efficiently. I'd take short bursts of hard work with lots of play and strong family and a world full to bursting with amazing life.
Mass public protest attendance. Most recently, helping to quell our county commissioners from allowing primitive camping in a dedicated open space, the jewel of our county really in an area that was four miles away from the historic Hayman fire. We have nearly constant downslope winds with insurance companies telling us we have one of the highest wind loads in the state. Many view our three commissioners as openly corrupt and power-grabbing. Local political engagement is irreplaceable
I actively pursue the challenge of living a sustainable life. Second, I talk and teach everyone I can about sustainability, basic human rights, and the responsibility of the government we created. We created our government to ensure everyone has their basic human rights met. Teaching includes writing to politicians several times a week about the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the domestic abuse of power.
Take a judge out for drinks and snacks!
With the Executive Branch out of control and the Legislative Branch out to lunch indefinitely, my focus is on the Judicial Branch. Keeping in contact and supporting all the altruistic lawyers I know is my chosen form of resistance.