23 comedians and writers to follow who will help you survive the Trump era

We're sorry America, but for many of you, your deepest, darkest nightmare has finally come true: the questionably coherent reality television star of white nationalist dreams has officially become leader of the free world. Donald Trump is president.

It's been less than a month since Trump won the election, and Americans everywhere are looking for signs of hope and reassurance. Sure, there's no data to support a theory of hope (just spend a nanosecond on Trump's Twitter, before closing your eyes very tight). But there are writers and comedians on Twitter who can provide something close to it, and remind you that there are other caring, reasonable people out there — sort of like you.

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Below is a list of people to follow on various social platforms who can help you survive the next four years. 

If just want someone to tell you it's going to be OK (without lying)

1. Van Jones

Van Jones might be best known as the astute CNN commentator who popularized the term whitelash, but in recent weeks the pundit has unofficially become the nation's de facto therapist. His most recent three-part video series interviewing Trump supporters made reaching across the aisle seem actually plausible, and he was one of the few liberal pundits to successfully predict Trump's rise.

If you need to be reminded you that there are still rational, compassionate, not-Steve Bannon conservatives out there

2. Evan McMullin

McMullin, the former House GOP policy director who ran against Trump in the 2016 election, has been loudly denouncing the PEOTUS for embracing his party's extremist white nationalist fringe.

3. Ana Navarro

Navarro, a conservative and CNN contributor, has been lashing out at her party for the past year, inspiring some of the best GIFS and tweets of this election, or any election, ever.  

4. David Frum

Frum, senior editor at The Atlantic, is a moderate neoconservative who is so eminently rational and clever it almost makes neoconservatism seem — cool?

If you need to know that there's still love in this world

5. DeRay McKesson

DeRay, a leading activist in the Black Lives Matter movement, produces a Twitter feed that is simultaneously full of grief, critique, and meaningful calls to action. He's best known for tweeting "I love my blackness, and yours," but there's so much more like it. 

If you want to know if you'll still have a job in four years

6. Paul Krugman

The New York Times columnist, economist and on-the-nose curmudgeon carefully and methodically debunks each one of Trump's obscene assertions about the economy with — get ready for it — actual facts.

If you want to take down Trump and build a brand-new beautiful world (or something)

7. Rebecca Solnit 

The author best known for Men Explain Things to Me (think: mansplaining) doesn't have a Twitter account but does have an active Facebook following, where she shares calls to action and deeply empathetic essays that remind you why you want to make those calls in the first place.

8. Representative Keith Ellison

The progressive Congressman is gunning to become the next head of the DNC. Anyone who's anyone (dorks) are watching Ellison to see what kind of vision he has planned for the party.

If you want to spend the next four years laughing in a subtle-yet-depressed way

9. OhNoSheTwitnt

The comedian who delivered some excellent masturbation jokes in the pre-Trump era has now dedicated herself full-time to witnessing the (potential impending) apocalypse around us so we don't have to. 

10. Maura Quint

Her feed isn't all Trump (thank God)  but when she goes there, she doesn't let go.

11. Kumail Nanjiani

The actor and comedian from Silicon Valley and Portlandia carefully balances despair with more despair. 

12. Dave Itzkoff

Of course, the world is imploding around you — but you're not the only one who sees it. Itzkoff, and this Kermit GIF, does too. 

If you just really need someone to cut through the bullshit. All of it.

13. Joy Reid

Say what you will about MSNBC, but commentator Joy Reid has committed her Twitter feed/full life to exposing each and every one of Trump's lies, hypocrisies, and wild allegations. Nothing seems to pass by her. (Truly nothing. She's on Twitter a lot).

14. Jon Favreau 

Favreau was Obama's chief speechwriter from 2005 to 2013 and is now host of the podcast "Keepin' it 1600." Don't believe that tiny bit of good news about Trump that the rest of the world has on blast? He doesn't either.  

15. Julia Ioffe

Columnist and Politico writer Julia Ioffe will, thankfully, never force you to find the silver lining.

If you're a teensy weensy bit concerned that our planet is on its way to hell

16. Neil deGrasse Tyson

The celebrity astrophysicist (who ever thought there would be such a thing?) has more than 6 million followers and is the voice of reason in a world of climate change deniers. 

If you lack the words to describe what you're feeling right now

17. Merriam-Webster

Sure, it's a dictionary. But language is inherently political, and the mysterious talented ghost who runs Merriam Webster's Twitter right now has done some of the best subtweeting of the election season.

If you want to know if what Trump is doing is legal (it's probably not)

18. Laurence Tribe

The liberal scholar and constitutional law professor at Harvard who has argued before the Supreme Court dozens of time should be far more popular than Alan Dershowitz, but sadly isn't. 

If you're in that "angry caps lock tweetstorm" kind of mood

19. Judd Legum

Legum, an editor at Think Progress and master tweeter, has crafted some fine tweetstorms (and real pieces of journalism, blablabla) that can fulfill all your primitive, rage-tweeting desires. 

If you just want to check in and make sure feminism is still alive

20. Lindy West

West, the hilarious Guardian columnist best known for her relationships with trolls, will remind you that, no, feminism isn't dead, it's just really sad right now and needs some space, okay?

21. Brittney Cooper

Brittney Cooper, founder of the Crunk Feminist Collective, might not be the most active tweeter, but every story she writes and collective post she shares is worth your full attention.

22. Roxane Gay

If you don't know about Roxane Gay, now you do. Gay, author of Bad Feminist and a sometimes columnist for The New York Times, dissects human emotions like no one else. 

If humans are being too horrible right now and the only thing that can give you peace is a barnyard animal 

23. Goats of Anarchy

This goat is just like you — a sad, frightened creature who only feels happy in a duck costume. Get a goat costume, or better yet, get this Instagram account.

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