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Originally published: May 30, 2025 This morning, I awoke with a weight in my spirit, a grief too great for silence. The images flooding my mind are not from some far-off dystopia. They are from the here and now. Vans sweeping up fathers on their way to work. Mothers clinging to their children. ICE agents…
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There are days when the weight of the world settles so deeply into my bones that I can barely move beneath it. My nervous system is frayed, stretched between urgency and exhaustion, between the call to speak and the desperate need to withdraw. I don’t say this lightly—I feel the fractures in our nation, the…
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