But if we don’t escape from the shackles of convenience we’ll never go far enough, we’ll never go from the good to the necessary. The life we need to live right now is often inconvenient, the organizing we need to do right now is often inconvenient. We’re going to need to sit in meetings, canvas our neighbors, and organize our coworkers. There is no shortcut for the deliberate, time-consuming work needed to defeat fascism.

The bad news will not stop anytime soon, but consuming information is not resistance. Doom-scrolling is not resisting anything, and in fact it often fuels defeat. We absorb information largely on platforms by and for billionaires, and the algorithms are not on our side.