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Thumbs up for moratoria (opens the original)
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In early June, Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidates held a forum and were asked a series of yes-no questions. If they were a “yes” they held up a green thumbs-up. If “no,” an orange thumbs-down. The six candidates were largely in sync with each other until the moderator asked, “Do you support a one-year or longer moratorium on data center construction in Wisconsin?” Only one candidate held up the green “thumbs-up” sign: State Representative Francesca Hong.<a class="image-link image2 is-
The worst of times (opens the original)
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It has been one year since masked, heavily armed men in unmarked vehicles invaded Chicago in what the Trump Administration called “Operation Midway Blitz.” It was the Department of Homeland Security’s first major incursion into a large American city, a rubric they repeated in Minneapolis, Charlotte, and New Orleans.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-HE0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws
Death with dignity (opens the original)
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My dad was 88 when he told me he wanted to die.He had just gotten a prostate cancer diagnosis, and he didn’t want treatment. His father, he told me, had died at 90, and Joel (my dad) had never expected to live beyond that age. For years, Joel had been clipping articles about how one might go about ending one’s life before disease and infirmity took hold of body and mind. “I never want to be incontinent,” he said firmly, which struck me as an odd line to draw in the sands of time. He had joined T
Do not forget Silverio Villegas González (opens the original)
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