"2025 was one of the most trying years of my life. As an "elder millennial," I've lived through my fair share of bad news over the past four decades, including multiple recessions, pandemics, and wars (both literal and figurative) - not to mention an increasingly inequitable economy, progressively more dysfunctional and divisive political system, and an aggressively endangered planet. And yet, with the inauguration of the second Trump administration, things have gone from being a hot mess to a five-alarm dumpster fire."
"In this cruel game of 2025, I personally could have called "bingo" multiple times over - from living through the Los Angeles fires, to surviving existential cuts to university funding, to being made the poster-child for Marjorie Taylor Greene's defunding campaign against public media. I've also witnessed and stood in solidarity with those facing more immediate and violent attacks, including migrant neighbors kidnapped by ICE, Palestinians in Gaza fighting for survival amidst starvation, and trans friends preparing to leave the country."
2025 brought intensified political and personal turmoil under the second Trump administration and an advancing Project 2025 agenda. The writer experienced multiple crises including Los Angeles fires, deep cuts to university funding, and being targeted by a campaign to defund public media. The writer stood in solidarity with migrant neighbors kidnapped by ICE, Palestinians in Gaza facing starvation, and trans friends preparing to flee the country. Roughly half of Project 2025's far-right policy agenda was reportedly implemented, and the agenda's momentum threatens further erosions of democratic institutions, public services, and protections for marginalized groups.
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