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🧨 I Am America A spoken lament in the era of Project 2025

🇺🇸 I am America.
Not the myth. The machine.
I cage children. I starve the poor. I sanctify greed.
Don’t call it freedom if it comes with a price tag.

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This may not be for you, but if you have an open mind...
They told us we were building... but we were just carrying — and we forgot to ask… why?
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Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…

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