one of the best white boys to do it was Silas Soule who was an abolitionist in bloody Kansas, served in the Union Army, abstained from Sand Creek, testified against Chivington, and was murdered on the streets of Denver for his courage.

Most of my beloved comics from early childhood have the "STILL ONLY 35 cents!" call-out

I know I’ve said this before, but Tolkien lost almost all his friends in the Somme, and certainly knew the seductive appeal of despair, and built an entire epic with the constant theme of the power of hope to effect triumph. Aurë entuluva!

we need to be nourishing ourselves regularly so that there's enough bandwidth for action

AND

so that our spirits are strong enough to say no to the motherfuckers who want us to concede and fold

(all the people who didn't just follow orders? what were THEIR inner resources? Yeahhhh.)

And the war against immigrants/brown and Black people continues in Minneapolis and elsewhere.