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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