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🏝️ Today’s Letter from an American is not about reopening Alcatraz—it’s about burying reality beneath spectacle.
Trump hurls the word ALCATRAZ like a grenade, hoping we won’t notice the fires of corruption at his feet.
đź“– https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-5-2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
🏝️ Today’s Letter from an American is not about reopening Alcatraz—it’s about burying reality beneath spectacle.
Trump hurls the word ALCATRAZ like a grenade, hoping we won’t notice the fires of corruption at his feet.
đź“– https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-5-2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
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đź’° A nation is not a family business.
Yet Trump runs ours like a cash register: foreign emoluments, crypto grifts, $5M dinner deals.
The Constitution doesn’t permit monarchy—or merchandising.
But the checkout line is long and the tills are ringing.
🎠From Signal clones to tariff tantrums, from toys to foreign films—each announcement masks another breach.
This is not governance.
It’s sleight of hand.
And we, the public, are being pickpocketed while staring at the fireworks.
🌍 Rural Americans now feel the sting of the very blade they were promised would protect them.
Christmas without toys. Farms without buyers. Dreams without anchors.
Even dolls are under attack. “Shared sacrifice,” they say—without asking who’s doing the sharing.
🧱 Alcatraz was built to contain danger—not project it.
We must ask: who benefits from fear?
Democracy, like grief, withers when silenced.
Let us not mourn it prematurely—let us meet it at the shore and keep it alive.
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