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"Freedom is not freedom if a single medical crisis can drive you to bankruptcy.

"It is not freedom if childcare is too expensive for you to hold a job, or if you are born poor & at every turn are blocked in your rise: by underfunded schools, overpriced colleges, & usurious college loans.

" Not to mention women’s right to reproductive freedom, which the Supreme Court has just snatched away in its Dobbs decision (& the court’s right-wing majority is of course not stopping there).

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" Or the right to go out in public without being gunned down: The first right of all, in many ways, is the right to be secure in one’s person. These are absolutely freedom issues." [end Michael Tomasky quote]

DeSantis and the fascist wing of the Republican Party have kidnapped freedom, removing it from the discourse of democratic equality and social justice, distorting its potential as a crucial category of radical politics, and reducing it to political theater.

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