Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Inauguration of the former and next President is in thirteen days, and the mid-term elections are in six hundred thirty-four days, and many of us will be counting the months, weeks, days, and hours until that election day.

We must resist in all our legal capacity, and we must be loud.

My two strongest focuses, in addition to holding onto our democracy by any legal means necessary, are combating antisemitism and trans-hate. Some of it is transphobia, but the majority of what I’m witnessing is ignorance and hate, and we all need to be allies.

The graphic below is useful in vetting news sources. In the coming weeks, this is going to be more difficult with opinion pieces masquerading as facts, with declarative statements masquerading as already existing in law. Two examples of this are:

The media continually calling Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel the next Secretary of Defense and Director of the FBI, respectively. They are not, and they will NOT be until they are confirmed by the United States Senate. They are merely nominees; not even designees yet.

The second is the acquiescing to calling Musk and Ramaswamy as any kind of official and calling DOGE anything other than wishful thinking. A new government department just doesn’t magically appear without Congressional approval, and these two numb nuts have no position within the government. They may still, but not yet.

We must not obey in advance.

I have social media accounts on Threads and BlueSky. They are both valuable for different things. Threads has a large pro-Jewish population which I haven’t found on BlueSky. BlueSky seems to have chronological timelines and more political accounts.

The following list consists of accounts that I follow at one or both places. They are going to get us through the next few years with encouragement, advice, and practical ways to resist the fascism to come. I’ll add more as I discover them, and I will be setting up a separate page that can be accessed from the menu or sidebar. I hope to have this complete (with links) by the middle of February, if not sooner.

ProPublica
Mark Elias
Democracy Docket
Reuters
Molly Jong-Fast
the TN Holler
Mark Zaid, Esq
Fred Wellman
Aaron Rupar
S Ifill
Angry Staffer
Barb McQuade
Joyce Vance
Ritchie Torres
Michael Twitty
Heather Cox Richardson
George Conway
Mueller, She Wrote
Brian Tyler Cohen
Glenn Kirschner
Katie Phang
Hen Mazzig

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