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I like this focus on the voice: "Many voices need to rise to make things happen." Agree with all you say. Think 'reading the news' is about being discerning and not getting overwhelmed by a bombardment of images, soundbites, and headline alerts. Being really mindful of where we get our news and sitting to focus to read it is the key I think (reading a bit of opposing views, too). Great YA novel about people using their voices: The Hate U Give. If more teachers are teaching about this power early on we will have a generation of leaders (like RGB & AOC).

Sometimes just writing what's 'real' is the hope. Thanks for sharing.

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Thank you for sharing, Kathleen! I enjoyed T.H.U.G. the movie, but maybe I should check the book out too. Also, speaking of AOC - please check out this story of mine. https://joshpressjakes.substack.com/p/the-first-female-president-of-the-united-states-will-be?s=w

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you have a really cool newsletter! :)

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It's my privilege to have such an engaged reader like you :-)

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May 6, 2022Liked by Joshua Pressman Jacobs

at the risk of sounding too simple, I must say I was reminded of Star Wars. Of the plot of the emperor who worked for decades to undermine the status quo of a 'galactic democracy' and when the pieces were at the right place, a check-mate was quickly issued. And the so-called republic went into a somewhat dictatorial empire. Just like that it became a blackhole of power-loving and power-grabbing authoritarianism. This all happened right under the noses of everyone, Yoda included.

I hope I dont live to see the day where future adults look back and they can no longer say: 'oh no, that cant happen in America!' because of it did.

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Great analogy! So many parallels in history with "Star Wars", both modern day and biblical. I never got into Game of Thrones, but people that are really into that show, say they see many parallels between WW2 and GOT. It's all interpretive though; As clearly this piece of mine here was for an intended audience with a similar persuasion to me. Somebody who is happy with the unfolding events and fall-out from this SCOTUS leak, might completely disagree with your assessment, Henry. But, thanks for sharing :-)

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