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Good morning!
It’s a new week and a new day.
Unless it’s your job, you do not need to buy a ticket to The Trump Show today.
The ticket costs your attention, which is a precious resource, and you have only so much of it each day.
Deciding how to bestow it is the act of a free person.
@Julie I like this.  Thank you!
@Julie I’m trying. I’m trying so hard.
@Julie do you believe the next few months are going to be business as usual?
@Julie in that case it might help to pay more attention than usual, not less. You’ll need to know when and where to run. 
@aapis @Julie Hypervigilance is a natural trauma response, to help you feel safer by knowing what your enemies are up to. At a certain point however, your brain starts to understand the patterns and you can safely let go and channel those energies to activities that will actually keep yourself and others safe. I'm to the point where I can skim whatever headlines come into my Mastodon stream to get the general idea, but am putting my focus into personal safety and continuing to educate people on abuse patterns. Continual self-awareness can help you know when you more enough, when it's time to back off the news and focus on what's under your control. It really is freeing.
@aapis @Julie I am actually. My only point is that knowing what some state legislature ten states away is doing to ban books or this week's politician conspiracy drama isn't going to help with a personal safety plan. A general idea of troop movements or use of LLMs to track dissidents might, which I can glean from headlines and an occasional deep dive. Other than that, the drive to keep tabs on every detail of every news item might be a compelling trauma response but it's a waste of energy, and I'm keeping my nose down and focusing on *my* situation and my community's situation. Was my point. 
[And, that point is to reiterate the OPs point. You weren't the only person I was responding to. If you're not in the US then I'm not sure what you have to add.]
@corbden @aapis This is exactly it. *This* is what we pay attention to. When they come for our communities, we need to be out in the streets. When they come for us, we need to have a plan.
What we don't need to do is follow the palace intrigue every day--the wild proposals, the ridiculous statements, the stuff he says clearly designed for the clicks or to own the libs. That weakens us, monopolizes our attention, and makes us less free.