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I live in LA. It’s been tough to see innocent people hurt here and around the globe. I feel entirely powerless reading the news. I feel entirely powerless about climate change. My future is bleak to say the least.
I wanted to do something, but nothing felt big enough.
So I tried to ignore it. I buried my head in the sand and hoped that somehow someone would save the world. But it still ate away in the back of my mind.
I had to do something to feel better.
I went to protests. I started going to city council meetings and giving my opinion. I joined a few local advocacy organizations. I volunteered to feed the homeless.
I feel a bit better.
3d ago
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Despair and anger feed the monsters
I do recommend scrolling through news headlines every day so you have an idea of what’s happening (I use NY Times and Al Jazeera mostly), but you have no obligation to be an expert. If you can volunteer in your community (anything helpful, doesn’t have to be political), that would be awesome.
Jan 22, 2025
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There's been a numbing, sinking, unescaping feeling of dread at the pit of my stomach and the depths of my chest these days that continues to augment on the daily due to the current landscape of the world. Being in high school right now is such an experience in and of itself, I hear so much insensitive, immature, inaccurate, idiotic rhetoric, insults, and straight-up slurring left and right. Reading and any form of intellectual gain or self-actualization is immediately met with accusations of being a "nerd" or how it's some waste of time, which is influenced by the rapid consumption of social media in all of our daily lives. People in my circles are becoming radicalized and desensitized to really, really frightening ideologies that are facilitated through the lack of discernment and punishment for simply just wrong exclusionary statements that are said to attack people's integrity, race, gender, what have you. I am not hearing many positive things going on, and every insane headline I accidentally see, even when I avoid the news (not that that is the answer), is something straight out of a dystopian novel.
It hasn't been a month and a week if I'm correct. Left and right, I see exclusionary, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, racist, classist, chauvanistic, and outright outdated policies and rhetoric normalized and spreading like wildfire. We tried to tell ourselves it wouldn't be this bad. It is that bad. And pray to whatever you worship that it won't get worse. But don't leave it at that. Do your part. Please do your damn part.
Volunteer. Donate. Talk about it. Use your platforms. This post is not meant to catastrophize, but to shake you hard and wake you up. When tomorrow comes around, remember the plan. Please look up the "People's Union USA" for more information on the February 28th boycott, and try your hardest to do your part.
We are the people, the masses they fear. We have the power.
Feb 28, 2025
the world is a scarier place than usual these days.
if you can, go to marches and demonstrations. i went to one alone for the first time ever last weekend and it was beautiful, and happy, and sad, and hopeful. staying at home and doom scrolling through the terrible things that are happening all over the planet will not help you or your causes. adding your body to the numbers of likeminded people who are uniting for what is right will allow you to engage with bad stuff going on whilst also giving you some hope and light. ❤️
Apr 22, 2025
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sometimes bridges burn. you have to wade in the water to get to the other side. life is too short to lose shared memories
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