I'm Just So Mad

The particular exhaustion of working to restore rights YOU ALREADY HAD

Charlie took this pic during the 60 MPH windstorm yesterday that felt very ON BRAND for this moment

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I’ve spent the last few months trying to figure out what I’m feeling — it’s not apathy, although the reality of the electoral college makes me feel alienated from the concept of American democracy. It’s not fear, exactly, because I know what Trump will do, and I have a good idea of how the next four years will play out, and I know how much work will need to happen to protect those vulnerable to his policies. What I’m feeling, it’s flat and banal, enormous and expanding.