My friend posted this on Threads. I scrolled past it because I wasn’t ready. I was still living in Schroedinger’s Democracy. I have questions about yesterday’s outcomes. Tomorrow I will go through all my emails and unsubscribe from every news organization that I feel betrayed the American values we purported to share. These include The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, Politico, possibly a few of the Crooked Media podcasts among others that helped heave us into this cesspool of apathy and antisemitism.

Another thread that I want to share came from “OhNoSheTwint” who wrote, “It wasn’t ‘but her emails;’ it was ‘but they’re females.'”

I sat with my friend’s simple, heartbreaking post. I went into my daughter’s room to watch her sleep. She was also in Schroedinger’s Democracy up until the point from her very first vote just over twenty-four hours before to when her eyes opened, and I watched her groggy and yawning and innocently unknowing, and I kissed her head and I went out and brought back bagels.

On the drive, with the window down and the cool air blowing, a litany came to me.

• Women’s Rights. It is finished.
• Equality. It is finished.
• Protecting women and girls from predators. It is finished.
• Rule of law. It is finished.
• Department of Education. It is finished.
• Safe school. It is finished.
• Climate Progress. It is finished.
• Voting rights. It is finished.
• Public safety. It is finished.
• Separation of church and state. It is finished.
• Freedom of religion. It is finished.
• Freedom from religion. It is finished.
• Freedom of the press. It is finished.
• Freedom of Assembly. It is finished.
• The Right to an Education. It is finished.
• Learning history. It is finished.
• Social security and medicare. It is finished.
• Standing up to Jewish hate. It is finished.
• Facts matter. It is finished.
• America. After two hundred forty-eight years, it is finished.

It is finished.