2/ "The increasingly dire, near-death experience of American democracy has felt like the proverbial frog in boiling water, as the heat of a shockingly popular U.S. brand of authoritarianism gets turned up one degree at a time. But in 2023 the far right’s embrace of autocracy has finally reached full boil. And the splatters of this dangerous caldron are burning our fundamental moral values in unexpected ways and the most unlikely places."
The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer
They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.
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3/ "5 members of the Marion Police Dept executed shocking raid on the newspaper’s office — seizing its computers, cell phones, notebooks, other reporting materials. The raiding officers even fanned out to the home of the Meyer family, which has owned the Record for decades. Co-owner Joan Meyer — age 98, mother to current publisher, Eric Meyer — was stunned, in tears as cops seized her computer and the router for her Alexa device, a lifeline, while sifting through her son’s banking records.."