10 concrete things you can do RIGHT NOW to make a difference:

1. Get your fucking covid vaccination fall booster. It's not just important for you, it's important for everyone around you. I'm serious get it now if/while you still can.

2. Wear a fucking quality respirator. Be consistent about it.

3. Connect with your local mutual aid group (https://www.mutualaidhub.org/)

4. Connect with your local mask bloc (https://maskbloc.org/)

5. And your local abortion fund- (https://abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/?gad_source=1...)

Mutual Aid Hub

Find Mutual Aid Networks and other community self-support projects near you. Join these important efforts, offer resources, or submit needs requests.

Mutual Aid Hub

6. Become a member/owner at your local food co-op (https://grocerystory.coop/food-co-op-directory) and start making connections within your foodshed.

7. Support your local library and bookstores (https://www.indiebound.org/)
and find community there

8. Support some form of local media that is covering local stories and doing investigative journalism beyond the wretched spin of utter junk like Sinclair. (https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/)

Food Co-op Finder — Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants

The most comprehensive directory of food co-ops in the USA including a select number in Canada. Also available as a mobile app.

Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants

9. Start getting a handle on where your money supports the bad guys and work to find local good folx supportive alternatives wherever possible. It's not going to be perfect. Do what you can.

10. Map locally who your 'good folx' are, listen to what they themselves say they need. Work to build connections, strength, and ability to respond quickly.

Conclusion to my 10 things-

Try to view yourself as part of a long 'front' in which people come together to resist, sometimes on very short notice, without having to agree on everything tactically, or ideologically, because you simply won't, you don't have the luxury of time for that. For some, those responses may be in person, if so, mask the fuck up. For others, it's going to be other forms of support. Make room for both.

Those are some really basic starting points, but it seems that's necessary at this point.