We are living in increasingly heavy times.

The United States is in the grip of the most openly oppressive administration of my lifetime with the rights of many Americans in peril. Institutions that people once looked to for justice (or to check the worst impulses of the worst people) stand corrupted themselves, fostering an environment in which law abiding residents are kidnapped in broad daylight for chasing a better life while military vehicles line the streets on which these acts occur. Every day, a new corporate media outlet capitulates to the racist, anti equality agenda the president is pushing, betraying the values and population they once claimed to serve. As I write this, I have to fight the impulse to tone it down because it sounds so hyperbolic but this is what is actually happening. And in order to fight it you have to first acknowledge it:

Whatever country you thought existed before this administration is gone forever, there is no going back. The only question is where do we go from here...