Dispatches from a Collapsing State - avoiding war at the End of Empire;
Heather Cox Richardson - when people in plainclothes with covered faces take you away;
Rewire - do new state laws really clarify their abortion bans?
Roy Edroso - life rafts in the flood;
xpostfactoid - Republicans make the able-bodied vulnerable.
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