American flag

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After the bloviated weirdness of Trump’s Nuremberg-Rally-style ‘celebration’ at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020, I’ve noticed a common thread on social media feeds. Ordinary non-Trumper Americans, especially people of color and LGBTQIA folks, are *flinching* at American flags. Because now there’s a deadly calculus going on in our heads: “Is that flag being flown…

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Here is an American flag. I shot it a couple of weeks ago, looking west in Central Phoenix, outside a modest strip mall with a bakery, a pizza joint, a taco shop, a Buy Your Gold store, a cell-phone store, a nail-art salon, and some other little businesses. That’s as representative a slice of modern,…

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