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Fight Evil, Resist Fascism, and Take a Nap

A radio host recently asked me what recurring themes I sense as I talk with my readers, engage online, and meet people across the country in my travels.

One word came to mind: exhaustion.

Millions of us are thoroughly depleted right now, having spent the past months in a dangerously elevated state, fueled solely by adrenaline, caffeine, shock, sorrow, and outrage. We've been sleeping terribly, eating poorly, exercising less, and in general allowing most forms of self-care to fall by the wayside; marshaling all our available resources toward surviving a non-stop onslaught of legislative…

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