My eyes keep being weird so I'm trying to find non-text ways to get the information I need, and man, national daily news audio is a real hellscape of people acting either two notches dumber (relatability!) or two notches smarter (counterintuitive cleverness!) than they actually appear to be.
And yet wherever ICE and CBP show up in force, young people do come out to protect their neighbors—and at far greater risk to themselves than the risks posed by mass protests that may help in a diffuse way, or may work more like an accountability sink than a countermove. RE:
The child for whom I have been collecting books recs was given the chance to request a book for the school library and she asked for an, uh, body horror…caper? About ancient fish gods that eat human fear? And it has arrived. So she is now slowly converting her classmates to the fish cult.