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Sara Z  🇺🇸  🇨🇦  🇺🇦's avatar

On a day we should be celebrating, many of us are in mourning. Yesterday's passage of Trump's Big Ugly Bill was hard to watch. The cruelty of this administration knows no bounds.

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This is indeed a mixed feeling of Independence Day.

From the symbolic language of "kingship" to the transformation of the nation's space heritage into a political bargaining chip, all of this is both infuriating and sad. When you wrote about "a piece of legislation that may be the peak", I couldn't help but think of the old saying - "History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes." What we are experiencing is exactly the rhyming part: excessive concentration of power, whitewashing of reality, and sacrificing the weak to maintain the feast of vested interest groups. As for the "exile" of Space Shuttle Discovery, it is almost a perfect metaphor for the style of this administration: dismantling public memory, exchanging obedience for transactions, and using national symbols as power chips. That is not just a waste of $30 billion, but also a cultural plunder. Thank you for writing this in sharp and calm language. We need more voices like yours - not just to record, but also to remind, awaken and persist. May today's reflection also become next year's action

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