I'm going to call this series Tools for Coping, and I'll be doing a separate post for each "tool". Feel free to add hints in the comments. I may post the first few fairly quickly, since the situation is getting more urgent, and the more tools people have quickly, the better. First up, a summary of Professor Timothy Snyder's book "On Tyranny". This is from his substack, and I'll provide a link to that as well as the summary in full here. Heather Cox Richardson has said that she has found that having to click through to a link is a barrier. https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny 1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do. 2. Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve d...