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Support access to abortion

Ever since Roe was reversed by the Trump-appointed majority Supreme Court, access to abortion has become harder and harder in the USA.

The good news is that many states have been passing measures to make abortion more accessible. In 2024, voters passed seven out of ten ballot measures supporting access to abortion (and even in Florida, where it didn’t pass because the constitutional amendment needed 60% to pass, the measure received 57% of the votes).

Planned Parenthood has been one of the stallwarts in providing access to abortions (and all family planning services!). You can donate money or your time.

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is an advocacy organization that, while independent of Planned Parenthood, acts as the political wing of the organization.

Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of attorneys and advocates working to ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.

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Take care of your health

You don’t need to join a gym or become a vegetarian, but make sure you’re being healthy. When the world looks bad, it’s easy to fall into bad habits, so try to avoid this trap.

If you’ve been thinking about making a change in your lifestyle, now may be a good time to do it. For example, eating less meat is not only health for you, it helps the environment. If you’ve thought about becoming a vegetarian, give it a try. You might want to start by not buying meat for the home, but still eat it when you go out.

Bottom line: Set goals you can achieve.

Tips for staying healthy:

  • Build a calendar to track your successes. It’s easy to forget to do things you want, so having a visible reminder may help you keep close to your goals.
  • Set reasonable goals. Either maintaining your current habits, or making small changes in the direction you want to improve. Setting too high goals may set yourself up for failure.

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Don’t build doom-scrolling

We don’t want to bury our heads in the sand, but it’s also unhealthy to focus too much on all the horrible things that come out of Mr. Trump’s mouth (or his minions’ mouths).

Here’s a suggestion: For every post you make about something horrible in the news, add one post about something positive. Maybe it’s about something personal in your life, maybe it’s about success in politics at the local/state level, maybe it’s an announcement of an upcoming protest…but make it positive.

Our mental health depends on it, and our survival depends on our mental health.

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