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Oy. Let me know if there’s an extra room in your escape hatch tree house.

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yes! please. I may be hiding but I could use some company. The adjacent RV sleeps eight! I have an accepted offer, unbelievably.

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It might get crowded. Count me in.

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You’re welcome to!

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Oh and I have archery supplies, so we can also start our training camp there for the Resistance.

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It's not all gone, just on pause. We can regroup when we understand more of what we face.

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Yes, before we regroup, some rest. But never sleep since you have to keep one eye open now at all times. (Listening to the Cure might prove fatal if you take them too seriously, luckily this was not his premonition of the end-times but more of a break up song apparently).

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What can I say? I would've followed her anywhere. In case it helps (it also frustrates terribly), I just learned this:

"One of the most searched things on election day was “did Biden drop out.”

Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who studies focus groups, told NPR, “When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘What is an authoritarian?’” People just don’t pay attention to politics and many don’t even know what fascism is."

I've belonged to a group at DailyKos called Good News Roundup, which focuses on good news and activism, and also inspiration. The woman who is our unofficial mayor and who started this in 2016 is a professor somewhere, and just wonderful. She writes her column on Saturdays, and this one was so helpful. Feel free to join us (but I'd avoid the main page at DailyKos because they're going through a catastrophizing phase - in fact I'm reducing my social media diet for awhile if I can manage).

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/9/2284307/-Hope-has-dirt-on-her-face-and-blood-on-her-knuckles-as-she-rises-for-another-go-Saturday-s-GNR?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web#comment_90087269

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Yes sadly in addition to the gender gap there’s also the education one. I made the mistake today elsewhere of calling that stupidity but it’s also just ambivalence. I will check out that group, thank you, we need all the good news and also the activism.

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Yes this. Thank you.

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