Yes, things are dark. But if history has taught us anything, it’s this: regimes fall, because people rise. Some soldiers will follow orders. Others won’t. And that fault line? It’s where dictatorships begin to crack. Just ask Romania in 1989, as we discussed in our March episode, “How to Overthrow a Dictator.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s team can’t even staff the Pentagon, according to reports. No one who can put one foot in front of the other wants to work for “Whiskey Pete.”
The NIH is being gutted. Five-year research grants canceled in year four. Science is being purged, not for savings, but for submission. Stalin would be proud. So what do we do?
We create. We resist. We document.
We fund the arts. We fund scientists. We dance in the streets. Because protest is not just rage: it’s dance, murals, color, joy.
We outnumber them. They know it. That’s why they’re afraid. That’s why they send in the troops.
So unleash your inner rebel. Paint. Dance in the streets. Testify.
We are all artists now.
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