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I'm tried of feeling useless: What can I do to help? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-01
The constant flood of aweful in the past month has been emotionally draining, and I am just so DONE with feeling uses. So I am asking all of you:
What can I do for my country?
Things I have done:
1. Called my congress people. A lot.
2. Attempted to talk to my neighbors. (As a tenth degree introvert, this is not a small thing.)
3. Tried to contact my local democrats, though no success so far.
4. Given money directly to Ukraine via United24 (thank you to the people here for the link).
5. Donated or subscribed to several journalism outlets I think are doing good work, like Kos, propublica, and wired.
What else can I do?
I have several ideas for things I have no idea how to do, but maybe someone is doing. Like:
1. Can there be a fundraiser for Ukraine with a leader board showing how much is being donated by private citizens from different countries? A lot of Americans are angry, guilty, and desperate to demonstrate their personal support for Ukraine, and we're a pretty dang competitive lot. How far can we go to replace the funds Trump ripped away?
2. On a similar note: USAID. While we can't hope to replace the whole of it, is there a list of the projects that the funds were cut for? Is there a way to donate funds to maintain the most critical of these? I'm thinking about that peanutbutter for starving children. Is anyone organizing that?
3. Speaking of organizing, we need a LOT of lawsuits from experienced lawyers who know how things are supposed to work in our democracy. A great many such lawyers now have time on their hands because Trump/Musk fired them. Is anyone activity recruiting these folks for that work? And is there a legal fund set up?
4. There are SO many things Trump's taken a sledge hammer to. Is there something like a spreadsheet of the individual issues and steps taken to adress them, so they don't get lost in the ongoing catastrophe? Like, so we don't forget about NIH indirect costs while horrified by the betrayal of our allies.
Do you have any ideas? I want to help.
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