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The Unbearable Ubiquity of "God Bless the USA"

The song we grew up with was a harbinger of American authoritarianism all along

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Chrissy Stroop
Jan 20, 2025
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To start off, I offer my apologies for the late Bugbear Dispatch. I am trying to return to a schedule that involves more freelance writing, balanced with both this newsletter and my Flytrap work, ahead of a particularly stressful “presidential” inauguration—happening tomorrow, on MLK Day, and thereby adding insult to injury.

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