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Dr. Deborah Hall's avatar

I woke at 4am yesterday

nauseous from the sudden

full recognition

of all you lay bare here.

Denial had protected me

since the Feb 25 UN vote.

I wept and wept

for my country

in deep sorrow and pain.

You do us a service, Marc,

to tell us the truth.

It is hell to face

but we must.

We cannot fight

what we cannot face.

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

So it’s clear that we are also waging our war against Putin. Since I am sure that he reads this and other Substacks, we need an underground to address this. And remember, without tRump’s total failure and subservience to Putin, Zelenskyy was WINNING!

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Rue Ryuzaki's avatar

Just wow. Going to restack this.

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Karen B's avatar

This is terrifying and angering me - how can we continue to let this happen??

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Erik S's avatar

Get out there and fight for it. Get OFF THE COMPUTER and make REAL CONNECTIONS

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Marc Friedman's avatar

I am almost in my ninth decade. Thousands read my articles. I regularly see my Congressman. I meet with a group of men every Saturday where we discuss politics. What are you doing ?

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Ian Thomas's avatar

Sadly, I have little hope that the Democrats will do anything meaningful it that they are up to the task even if they tried. They failed so utterly The last four years I can only assume it was in purpose.

We have to rally around a real party for the people. Even if the reform efforts inside the democrats worked (which we don’t have time for), the 90 million we need to galvanize won’t believe it.

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Bob Lewis's avatar

I'm not shocked, I read Project 2025.

This has all been according to plan.

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MarkmBha's avatar

WOW!

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Diane Lee's avatar

😳 🥺 😢 🤬

Dear God.

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DocTalk, Allan N Schwartz PhD's avatar

Your essay is disturbing and absolutely correct

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Leland Katz's avatar

😢🤬😢🤬😢

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