This tidbit* on events last night as protests against the deadly rigged legal system raged across the country:
"A curfew goes into effect at 11:00 tonight in Washington, D.C. For the past several days, trouble has begun as peaceful protesters go home, leaving the streets to those spoiling for a fight. As 11:00 hits, crowds around the White House are setting fires and attempting to break into the White House grounds. Just before the curfew, the lights that usually illuminate the outside of the White House were turned off."
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The lights were doused at the symbolic head of our country: finally a definitive acknowledgement of the current status of our democracy. I cannot wait for November, and yet await it with a profound dread. Four years ago the unthinkable occurred: we invited in barbarian rule. Unthinkable (for me), but entirely real for all of us. It was as if I awoke in a foreign country. Even the many accounts of true patriotic actions by concerned and caring Americans across the county have not succeeded in convincing me that we will agree to banish it to history.
* From Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters from an American"
