1693 || you don't have to read them

YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ THE FILES.

There are plenty of people pulling all nighters with this shit for their actual job, you (likely) don’t have to. You can’t retroactively stop these crimes by learning about them. Also, this has been one of the biggest assaults on victims privacy in history, the reductions protect the criminals, not the victims. You don’t have to fucking read them.

If you’re going to read them?

PROTECT YOUR ENERGY.

You can’t be an effective person that makes any type of change if you’re incapacitated by fear and despair. We talked about “flooding the zone” at the beginning of his presidency, and we’re talking about it again today. This is a tactic to overwhelm the masses into inaction. Don’t feed the machine. Set boundaries. Set limits. Put on an invisible cloche and protect your energy subconsciously. Respect yourself enough to know when a conversation isn’t productive or an article isn’t helpful or a feeling isn’t permanent. Don’t engage with the information, engage with the emotions + what they make you want to do. Rage and grief are normal reactions, but feeding into the things making you feel that way, instead of what the feelings are attempting to communicate, can create a cycle of inaction and frustration. Engage with what the feelings are communicating, not the content making you feel those feelings. Let that push you into some sort of connection or advocacy. Not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it will make you feel better about doing the right thing, and we need more of that energy right about now.

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