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United States of America (In Name Only): When Home Becomes Unrecognizable

United States of America (In Name Only): When Home Becomes Unrecognizable

Day 85 gave us the clearest signs yet that our democracy is actively dying, if not dead already.

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Apr 15, 2025
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It’s a strange and unsettling feeling: our addresses never changed, we crossed no borders, and we didn’t even pack a bag. Yet sometimes a nation just shifts beneath your feet—permanently, irrevocably.

I’ve sat with the headline below for hours, trying to make sense of what it means for our country. After damn near ten years of “Why are you being so drama…

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