Flooding The Zone: A Blog About What the Fascists Are Up To

Fascists are now in power in the United States, and I need some way to mentally contain the chaos they’re unleashing on us.

Their strategy is to Flood The Zone — that is, to fill the news with so much stuff all at once that the populace, media, and opposition government are overwhelmed, off balance, and exhausted. They know that it takes 20x more energy to refute a lie than it does to tell one, and 100x more energy to combat an action, than to perform one.

What I want for myself is a verified list of the actions taken by the Trump Administration/Project 2025ers/Technocrat Billionaires each day, with those things ranked from "Take Immediate Action" to "We should worry" to "Just a distraction"

Something I can consume and process in 30 minutes or less per day.

I want to know things like, "Are the ICE raids coming to my town this week?" so that I can prepare. I need to know where my action/mutual aid/etc is most useful, and what I can safely ignore (eg. renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America) and what I can't (tariffs going into effect Feb 1, so I need to stock up on what I can that will be more money) and what I need to keep an eye on even though it's most likely unconstitutional and will be overturned (ending birthright citizenship, cancelling the equal employment opportunity act).

I can’t find anyone doing this in the way I want it, and so I’m going to try my best with the limited time and resources I have. It won’t be perfect, or as comprehensive as I’d prefer, but if we’re going to live through history, we might as well help write the first draft.

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