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>"The former president’s backing of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is really just an endorsement of his own tactics."

"Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, and two-time presidential candidate has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19."

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>"The country’s people hold out hope for international help. None is coming."

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"Noted White Supremacists ransacking its offices. An authoritarian President inciting it all, denying a peaceful transfer of power. America’s day of infamy — the day armed fascists took the Capitol…"

"What happened — and if you’re not American, and you just want to get to the actual good part, skip all this — was this. Reddit, little old Reddit, beat… the big bad hedge funds!! Amazing, right…"

How We Live in a Fascist World — and White People Have No Idea

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