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I want to recommend Captain Awkward's recent post "We Have Always Lived In Presidential Primary Season: A Half-Assed Activist Post About Getting Through This Shitshow Without Perpetuating Or Tolerating Bad Behavior And Keeping Some Tiny Spark Of Hope Alive". The article is a combination of things Jennifer thinks, or hopes, might be useful politically, and suggestions on not driving yourself up the wall in the process. It's a public post on her Patreon page, which she's encouraging people to link to.
As she says there, she's not interested in re-litigating anything about the 2016 elections or in debate about specific candidates or political leanings.
That said, I'm assuming a certain basic sympathy of views here, both political and that you think it's reasonable for people to step away from news and/or activism from time to time in order to protect their mental health. This journal, as noted on the sticky post, is pretty political these days, and I understand if you want to skip those posts, or need to unsubscribe altogether. There are days I avoid the news, and entire weeks at a time that I avoid Twitter.
(Linking to the post here will also help me remember it later.)
As she says there, she's not interested in re-litigating anything about the 2016 elections or in debate about specific candidates or political leanings.
That said, I'm assuming a certain basic sympathy of views here, both political and that you think it's reasonable for people to step away from news and/or activism from time to time in order to protect their mental health. This journal, as noted on the sticky post, is pretty political these days, and I understand if you want to skip those posts, or need to unsubscribe altogether. There are days I avoid the news, and entire weeks at a time that I avoid Twitter.
(Linking to the post here will also help me remember it later.)