Turns Out You Can’t Brunch Through a Coup: The Power of Small Acts

Authoritarianism doesn’t survive on brutality alone. It needs our silence. Our compliance. Our polite head-nods. Our excuses. Our “I’m just not political” shoulder shrugs.

Let me tell you a story.

Last week, someone told me—kindly, with a smile—that I was "a little too outspoken for my own good." (As if that were a bad thing.) All I’d done was push back, politely but firmly, on a casually dropped comment at brunch about “staying neutral” in today’s political climate. Neutral? Baby, this isn’t Switzerland—it’s 2025, and the…