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  2020-03

  Postcards From the Pandemic

  I intended to record the lived experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the mundane details of our coping strategies, set against larger, national events.
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  2022-11-04

  hermit HERALD, ISSUE 147

  Welfare state can't have open borders
• 2022-08-30

  HERMIT HERALD, ISSUE 145

  Political divisions greatest threat to U.S.; 7 Billion weapons left in Afghanistan; Opioid $ penalties; $300 billion college loan forgiveness; college tuition up 6x inflation; 16% of voters would not have voted for Biden; election not stolen at voting booth; Democrats gaining fast on midterm elections; Trump welcomes embrace of QAnoners
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  2022-03-30

  President Biden Pressures Congress for Emergency COVID funds

  This is a news story written by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Emily Cochrane and Noah Weiland for the New York Times. The article writes of how President Biden believes this is not a partisan issue, but a matter of health. President Biden is said to have received his second COVID booster prior to making this announcement. Another aspect this story brings up is how BA. 2, a new COVID variant, has made itself known, raising concerns for once it gets to the United States. President Biden has made it known that as these new variants pop up, we will be in our "Next Normal", where masks and other such requirements will be used when needed. In other words, there is no real "end" to the pandemic.
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  2021-08-16

  False Promises?

  After 20 years of bloodshed, the Us military forces withdrew from Afghanistan, leaving it under Taliban rule. The departure was followed by a , two week process of which more than 120,000 people tried to evacuate (Council of Foreign Affairs, "The US War in Afghanistan" The tweet depict the heartbreaking images of crowds of people trying to cling to the sides of Us military planes at the Kabul airport and tweets from US civilians sympathizing with the troubles overseas.
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  2020-12-17

  HERMIT HERALD VOL 1 ISSUE 86

  Trump refuses to be a loser
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  2020-12-13

  HERMIT HERALD VOL 1 ISSUE 85

  Fake news from 50 former U.S. intel officers;
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  2020-11-07

  Campaigning during Covid

  This is a video from Nov. 7., the day Biden was announced as President-elect. I was walking through Boystown in Chicago with my roommate to pick up dinner for the evening and lots of people were out celebrating. Celebrating in a COVID-friendly way...it may be hard to tell in the video but everyone was spaced out respectfully with masks! An unusual time but an important one to remember.
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  2020-11-07

  Boston Celebrated Joe Biden's Victory in the 2020 election

  This moment is an important moment in American history, as it marks the end of a tyrant. However, it's important to me because it will hopefully represent a shift in the handling of this pandemic, meaning we can get back to a regular life sooner. Donald Trump has not handled this pandemic very well, giving our country the highest one-day increase of any country and the deaths of nearly 250,000 people. I hope that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's inauguration will America get back on the right track. Their current plan for handling the pandemic looks very promising, and I cannot wait for them to work I also think that its really cool that my sister now has a role model that she can look up to in the White House, and while Ms. Harris may be the first, I am sure that she won't be the last.
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  2020-11-05

  Two Biden supporters in Gritty costumes greet each other in Center City

  The picture is about the protests in Philadelphia, with an icon of Philly, particularly surrounding the desire to count every vote against the requests of President Trump who wants to stop the count.
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  2020-04-13

  "The Hermit Herald" vol. 1 Issue 13

  U.S. VS other countries CV Stats; Apollo 13; Crozier update; Biden Woman problem; tulips & CV.
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  2020-03-29

  "Where is Joe?" Election 2020 Commentary During Coronavirus

  Some commentators were concerned that Joe Biden, former Vice President and presidential candidate, faded from view and failed to be vocal about the Trump administration's mismanagement of coronavirus. The concern was that because Biden was trying to defeat Trump in November, he should be more outspoken. #HIST5241