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Oh wow, what a fascinating project. I'm scrolling through some of her letters about the tensions re: the war while she's staying in Kent. This must've been an enormous amount of work.

I worry if we've lost our ability to apply litmus tests. I've been feeling quite down, recently, about the media's power to shape the conversation at all. Lots of people, on the left and right, hear that and scream "good!" And maybe it is. Trouble, though, is that *nobody* is shaping the conversation. Political parties are trying, and are probably more successful, but it seems we're just screaming into the voids. I feel like this trend has gotten a lot more intense over the past year.

It makes me think that there would be no consequences if some party opted to just shred their support for Kyiv entirely.

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