2025 Life Logs, Day 24: Lunch with a Friend
Date: Friday, January 24, 2025
Weather: Mostly Sunny: Temp 32, Low 15 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue with My Shadow, Falmouth, MA
Not a lot to report today. I met a friend for lunch that I haven’t seen for ages. She had a morning exercise class at the Senior Center, so I met her there right after her class. The Senior Center serves good food at very affordable prices. I’ve only eaten there twice before, but it is certainly a good lunch option for seniors in Falmouth.
When I picked Ollie up after school today, he was not his cheery self. He said he had a headache all day and he felt like he had a fever. He was bummed because he really wanted to go to the dance at the middle school tonight, but it didn’t look like that was going to happen. I took him home and he said he was going to go to his room to rest. I went home, but then I had second thoughts. I emailed Heather to tell her I was going back to check on him. She was in Boston all day today and won’t be home until tomorrow evening, but she was going to check to see when Jed would be home. But since I was going back to check on him anyway, she suggested I check his temperature and make sure he was staying hydrated. He did have a fever just a bit over 100, but the headache had gone away. He promised to drink lots of water and rest until his dad came home. I checked with Jed tonight and he said the fever is down a bit. Now we just have to wait to see what tomorrow brings.
I got an email today from my daughter-in-law’s father who lives in England. During the past few months, he has been sending me articles from The Guardian focused on a world with Donald Trump as President of the United States. Today’s article listed 10 things you can do to resist Trump’s ‘neofascism’. In case you are looking for something you can do, I am listing the 10 things recommended below.
Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist.
Robert Reich for The Guardian
“What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations.
1. Protect the decent and hardworking members of your communities who are undocumented or whose parents are undocumented.
2. Protect LGBTQ+ members of your community.
3. Help protect officials in your community or state whom Trump and his administration are targeting for vengeance.
4. Participate or organize boycotts of companies that are enabling the Trump regime, starting with Elon Musk’s X and Tesla, and any companies that advertise on X or on Fox News.
5. To the extent you are able, fund groups that are litigating against Trump.
6. Spread the truth.
7. Urge friends, relatives and acquaintances to avoid Trump propaganda outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, X and, increasingly, Facebook and Instagram.
8. Push for progressive measures in your community and state.
9. Encourage worker action.
10. Keep the faith. Do not give up on America.
Here are some of the sources Reich listed that he currently relies on for the truth: The Guardian, Democracy Now, Business Insider, the New Yorker, the American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, the Economic Policy Institute, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, ProPublica, Labor Notes, the Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson and, of course, Reich’s own Substack.
