Coping with the Latest US Government Attacks on Human Beings

Coming to terms with this new administration's cruelty, and our trauma response

Eight years ago, I remember posting on Facebook a new, firm policy for myself: I would not signal-boost content that centred a certain new president. His name was everywhere already, and that was part of how we’d gotten into this mess: a media-generated sense of inevitability to the whole spectacle. I would not add to it.

Instead, I would strive to signa…