Three small things I try to do each day for the Resistance
1. I work out most evenings at the health club, which is affiliated with the local university. There is a bank of six monitors on the wall in front of the treadmills and stair-steppers. Monitor no. 2 occupies the prime position near the entrance, and most evenings it is tuned to Fox News. So each evening when I come in, I ask the desk worker there to change that monitor to MSNBC for me. They always comply. Next evening, it's usually back on Fox. So I have it turned again to MSNBC. And so the battle goes, day after day, back and forth, back and forth. It's perhaps a silly thing, but I like being an irritant to at least one of the members there: his eyes are glued to Fox every evening as he pounds out the pace on the treadmill. After he leaves, I request the change and put in token minutes on that treadmill, thereby forcing him to have it changed back the next day.
2. I pick up a paper copy of the New York Times each morning to peruse. Whenever I can, I try to leave this copy at the coffee shop so that others might be able to read it and enlighten themselves as to the latest depredations of the Trump administration. Many years ago, one of the coffee shops in town used to subscribe and have the paper on hand. But none do anymore, out of the half-dozen popular coffee shops in town.
3. I try to call my (Republican) congressman each day with a different message. But it's hard to come up with a different, well-composed message every day. What I have found useful is to quote a remark or statement I hear on NPR that morning (not passing it off as my own, but giving proper reference to the source), using the transcript of the story that appears later on the NPR website, or maybe something from Fresh Air or Rachel Maddow. For instance, recently Fresh Air's Terri Gross interviewed a couple of sources for a Feb. 12 program titled "How Did Elon Musk Become So Powerful in the Trump Administration?" This program had some very good talking points that could be fodder for a congressional call.
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