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Ain’t Too Proud to Beg, Borrow and Steal (opens the original)
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The Nation that many of us have taken for granted is now in the throes of a desperate and devious power grab. The protections written into the U.S. Constitution were supposed to protect her citizens from what we are witnessing daily. It is as if they know this way of governing is coming to an end — like a Clearance Sale — and they are grabbing as much as they can before it SUTS DOWN.Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — AWOL for more than two months. His office is still open, but not taking call
When the Diagnosis is Cancer (opens the original)
Redefining “Normal” (opens the original)
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We talk about “normal” like it’s a fixed address — a place we can always find our way back to. But normal has never been a destination. It’s a snapshot, taken at a particular moment, of whatever pattern repeated long enough that we stopped seeing it as a choice.It was once normal to drive without a seatbelt. Normal to smoke a cigarette on an airplane. Normal, for generations, to accept conditions we would now call unjust without a second thought. None of that was “true” in any permanent sense. I
250 Years of Unfinished Promise: America’s Birthday Party for a Dream It Never Kept (opens the original)
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On July 4, 2026, this nation will light fireworks, wave flags, and toast itself for 250 years of independence. There will be speeches about liberty, equality, and the “self-evident” truths Thomas Jefferson wrote into our founding document. What there will not be — what there has rarely been — is an honest reckoning with the fact that the man who wrote “all men are created equal” enslaved more than 600 human beings and fathered children with one of them, Sally Hemings, a woman he owned and could
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