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A crowded suburban home-improvement store parking lot on a bright summer morning, full of pickup trucks and shoppers loading cars.
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We Got the Day Off for Juneteenth and Spent It at Lowe’s

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A corporate lobby wall with a faintly visible rectangular outline where a Pride banner had previously hung, now replaced by a small neutral painting.
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The Rainbow Logos Came Down This Year, and We Called It Restraint

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A storefront window plastered with red-white-and-blue Memorial Day sale signs advertising furniture discounts.
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We Marked Memorial Day With a Mattress Sale and a Moment of Silence, in That Order

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A federal wage garnishment notice and paystub lying on a kitchen table beside reading glasses and an unopened Treasury envelope.
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On Wage Garnishment, and the Dinner Party Where Everyone Suddenly Had a Niece in Default

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A crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican looking toward the basilica.
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The Vatican Picked an American and We Treated It Like a Cabinet Appointment

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A dense crowd of May Day marchers fills a downtown American street, holding handmade signs about workers' rights.
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A Thousand Cities Marched for Labor on Thursday. Washington Decided It Was a Commute Issue.

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The Constitutional Court of Korea in Seoul, with news cameras and a small crowd gathered outside on the day of the ruling.
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South Korea Removed a President This Morning. We Can’t Even Remove a Library Book.

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An empty Pentagon-style briefing lectern at night with a phone resting on it, a social media post glowing on the screen.
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We Started Bombing Yemen Again on a Saturday, Which Is When You Schedule the Things You’d Rather Nobody Notice

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A military cargo aircraft on a tarmac with pallets of supplies, the kind of shipment now suspended under the administration's pause on aid to Ukraine.
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We Paused the War on a Monday, and the People Who Used to Call This Appeasement Were Suddenly Very Quiet

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An empty conference ballroom stage set for a political keynote, with flags, a lectern, and rows of folding chairs under theatrical lighting.
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CPAC Used to Be Where the Fringe Auditioned. Now It’s Where the Cabinet Reports Back.

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