Want some good news, or at least good vibes? Read this:

[Ocelot II]

I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsletter template to produce a private document, maybe a PDF, full of screenshots instead of emailing her, but it doesn't work that way. So I decided that more than a few friends and lovely strangers might like a pep talk that is really a round-up of a lot of signs of our strength and their weakness (in a format a little less essayistic and a little more choppy than what I usually deliver here).

The most essential thing about the Trump Administration right now is that it is weak, chaotic, and wildly unpopular and doing everything it can to make itself more so. Unfortunately it's taking the nation and to some extent the world with it, but if you want to see the administration as the drunk driver, more and more people are getting out of the car, or trying to turn it around (and take the keys away). Congress could do it, but Mike Johnson and John Thune won't let that happen (while everyone is focused on Trump, the fact that Congress has immense powers that have been sabotaged or surrendered could use a lot more attention and maybe a campaign to shame the party in charge).

The hideous crimes of Trump's ICE in the present and the revelations about the hideous crimes of the past that implicate so many rich and powerful white men, including Trump and his commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, are together a sort of pincers move. They corral the administration from two angles, clarifying its utter disregard for the human rights of, well, everyone but powerful white men.

Much, much more here:
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/auspicious-omens-and-excellent-insubordination/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

[KPN]

1. Kicked!

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Thanks for this, Ocelot. It gives me hope.