I subscribe to a newsletter by author Courtney Milan. In it, she writes of one of my reasons for living, tea, but also, to put it briefly, coping and some activism. It’s a good newsletter, and I’ve often wanted to share parts of it, but never got it done. This one, that I’ve only read today (so 1 day late for Hands Off! but there are plenty of times and places for us to rock on,) has good information, and activism we can take while in grocery lines or waiting rooms or wherever we are. Here’s the tea (without actual tea, but if you want to see her tea entry, let me know in comments and I’ll bring it here):

NORMIE TARIFF EXPLAINER

I had started writing something yesterday about Cory Booker, and was interrupted by Donald Trump announcing massive, sweeping tariffs that will send the global economy into a tailspin. One of the problems with things like this is that a lot of people simply don’t know what tariffs are, or don’t know that Trump is lying about the tariffs other countries are imposing. They certainly don’t understand what the impact will be, and so I decided to make an extremely basic Trump Tariff Explainer to pass out to friends/family/at protests, etc, because if there’s one thing that extremely normie and/or not online people may pay attention to, it might be something like “everything is about to cost a lot more money.” Even if they don’t believe that this will happen, I think it’s important to put it in their brains that if it does happen, the people to blame are Donald Trump and his cabinet. So I have made a website and downloadable PDF sheet for the normal person in your life.

The website version (with links to sources) is: TrumpsTariffsExplained.com You can download the PDF here. I’m printing several hundred of these and bringing them to distribute at the protest this Saturday–the more people who see this information, the faster we can try to turn the tide. These tariffs are going to be terrible for everyone, but they’ll be especially horrific for the poor, the disabled, and the marginalized both in the US and around the world world. The faster we can turn things around, the more lives we will save, and hopefully more people knowing what is happening will help us turn things around faster.