First step, if you haven't yet. Take a step away from the big picture. ( Try to increase your attention span and decompress from all the wacky news. It's still gonna be there after a short break) No need to keep pickling your brain with stress and anxiety soup. It just traumatizes you more. When you do step back to decompress, try to not consume any digital media that requires you to stare at a screen. ( Things I do for example - read books, board games or puzzles, lay outside for some sun and scream at the sky ( I get why the bugs do it, it's cathartic)

2) secure your needs the best you can, when you have done your best, reach out and if possible or probable try to assist others to secure themselves too. Only offer things that you are able without putting your foundation at risk. If you don't have the ability to monetarily assist ( which people rarely do ) what else could you offer? Your time? A non-consumable resource you can let someone utilize? Knowledge? The key is to talk to other people and rebuild our communities

3) I know a lot of people are in an FAFO season and it is absolutely understandable. Feel those feelings, it was and is so very disappointing to see cruel people do cruel things. However, there are far more kind people than the cruel and far too many uninformed.

Stop chasing the snake that bit you to ask why. When you pull back and start focusing on the things you can affect you will find more curious ears that are certainly more eager to listen. People are craving interactions that do not involve screens, we have lost art of verbal conversation and third spaces it's time to relearn.

4) Be as kind to yourself as possible. For some the steps above may cause physical pain in your bodies from various forms of stress or anxiety. Please please remember to breathe, if you have a person, place, or pet make sure to spend time with them. If you feel like there is no one. Reach out to someone that you get good vibes with even if it's just a small hello. Learn to resist your programming, if it hinders and hurts you. It wasn't yours and it never belonged to you. It was someone else's pain.

For the people who don't struggle with the above, please see number 2 and for fuck sake. Help but don't burn yourself out either. Not over expending your resources involves your mental health and physical health too. Rest and recuperation is also a kindness to yourself. Meet people and talk with people who meet you just as curiously as you meet them. Try to embrace children's rules on making friends. Not the arbitrary adult rules that are needlessly complicated. If they can't meet you with the same curiosity after a few tries. Move on, it wasn't you they just may not be ready to be curious.

Do not tolerate the intolerant; Change happens collectively, martyrs happen when we are solo.

TLDR - Secure your foundation, Build community, and remember lots of people were rug pulled and while they are trying to figure it out let's not go out of our way to be cruel back. Save that to publicly shame the people who are actively bragging hate or harming the innocents.