It is hard to escape the prevailing gloom and anxiety as chaos takes over the presidency and the tech bros loot the treasury data and ridiculous trade wars are started so that they can declare countries enemies and threatent to invade them. It feels like nothing is being done to contravene the illegal actions, although I know law suits are in progress. I have to agree with Elie Mystal that a "moral resistance" is needed and it needs to be impolite:

To me, that response is extrajudicial, anti-institutional, and, at the very least, impolite. I don’t want to hear a word about “friends from across the aisle” when those “friends” are trying to banish 20 million people. Instead, I want to see Democrats doing sit-ins and being carried out of Congress by the sergeant at arms. I want to see politicians chaining themselves to other people. I want Democrats lying down on train tracks. I want them reviewing the civil rights–era playbook and remembering how people who had no institutional power brought about structural change by demanding better from institutionalists.

I picked up this book at Smitty's in Waterville yesterday. It's hard to escape the online ecosystems created by the oligarchs: Amazon, Spotify, Facebook, Google. I want to change my buying habits to avoid them and support independent businesses. The book partially exonerates Spotify (for which their is no substitute) and instead blames the big record labels for decades of cheating the artists who create music.