podcast friday

[sabotabby]

 Hmm, what to choose for today? I think maybe It Could Happen Here's "Robert's Guide To the Next Six Months of Danger and Resistance." It's not a happy episode, of course, but Robert is doing good work by calmly assessing various threats and how you should react to them (acknowledging, of course, that different people will have different risks). He goes through some of the models that are likely to happen: Will you get disappeared into an off-shore concentration camp? Will Trump invoke the Insurrection Act? etc., their probability, potential fallout and effects, and how worried you should be.

I don't know what more to say. This kind of work is important because I know for me, I tend to see what's going on and get panicked into paralysis, which is the point of the US government firehosing acts of pure evil. We need to fight back of course but you can't fight back if you're frozen in terror.

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[yarrowkat]

on Instagram, i follow an extremely sensible creator, amandasmildtakes, who does something very similar. she also does hilarious article roundups twice a week of DT's losses so far that week. it's life-giving. and significantly panic-reducing. she's also on substack where she includes all the article links and receipts.

[sabotabby]

Oooh that sounds awesome. Wish it wasn't video format.

[yarrowkat]

yeah, that part is irritating on substack. she's primarily on tiktok, cross-posting to Instagram, both much more suitable to the video format. but people were urging her to future-proof her platform so we can still get information if she starts getting censored,so she started a substack.

[xturtle]

I'm going to try to make my way through this. I'm at the point where I'm focusing on being outwardly benign in my personal life so that I can give students my personal phone number in case of emergency. Which feels like freezing in fear and doing nothing.

[sabotabby]

That could ultimately be doing everything for someone.

[xturtle]

I hope not, but also, I hope so.