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Plus, how conservatives are marrying climate denial with denial of indigenous suffering.

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Emily Atkin
Oct 16, 2019
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“I know you think what I do for a living is nothing. But it really isn’t nothing. I just did it badly.”

-Meg Carter, The Absence of Malice.

Usually, when a presidential debate airs on television, I watch it at the bar down the street. Afterward, I usually come home and write something about it. Then I usually go to sleep.

But I couldn’t do the usual thing…

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