Its so hard but we HAVE to stuff our ears when the cynics start spewing, or when someone unthinkingly expresses their grief and sorrow as as an objective inevitability.

Anything can happen depending on what we decide to do together.

I follow @hcrichardson.bsky.social closely. She has told us time and again that throughout US history the only thing that's ever worked is the general public making lots of noise. She tells us to take up oxygen in the room, protest in the streets, contact congress, letters to editors, run 4 office.