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Sep 8, 2021Liked by Jared Yates Sexton

This is another sad, beautiful, sobering gut-punch of an essay. Thank you, Jared.

"The transfer of trillions of dollars to the military-industrial complex at the expense of our own programs and well-being has left America a struggling, anxious, suffering nation of struggling, anxious, suffering people. The war has come home."

I don't do needlepoint, but if I had such skills I'd stitch this on a pillow and send it to my stepdad, who drilled so much jingoistic Ayn Rand Objectivism into my brain that it has taken most of my entire life to remove the tumors. Your work is just the medicine I've needed and I appreciate you.

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Congrats for getting out of that relationship!

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