We are into week five of the fascist Trump regime that's overtaken the United States of America.

A lot of you, understandably, have been wanting to know what we should do.

How do we move forward? How do we get out of this? Who are our leaders?

I have a lot of ideas about all of that, but the degree to which the earth is shifting

beneath our feed is shocking. Even for those of us who knew all of this was coming,

it's shocking because it's happening everywhere all at once and with a rapidity and a comprehensiveness

that are very difficult to be prepared for.

And prepared or not, it's still destabilizing.

So I wanted to take a step back for a second and expand on something that I've discussed elsewhere.

While also trying to keep up with everything in order to get a sense of where we are, vis-a-vis

what's happening in the country, where we are in terms of what's happening with the world order,

what are Democrats doing or not doing?

What Republicans doing or more likely not doing?

Are there any individual Democratic candidates,

sorry, politicians who are taking a stance worth noting?

So there's a decision-making framework called Oudaloup, designed by

an Air Force Colonel named James John Boyd. The acronym stands for Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

The loop is the repetition part. You repeat the process until the problem is solved.

I'm in the Orient phase, although since I'm applying this to a much larger battle, a field of battle,

that it was designed for, I'm also continually observing.

So anyway, I'm still in the orienting phase, because there's so many people in agencies and systems

that are being impacted, harmed,

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