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Interdependence Day

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Chris Baker
Jul 04, 2025
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Yesterday, in a shocking act of collective immolation, the Republican Congress passed what looks to be the single most devastating piece of legislation of my lifetime. Quantifying the harms is an exercise in doom-scrying I have no interest in pursuing today, a day many of us have come to reframe as Interdependence Day. If anything, the project of re-sig…

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