| SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE  The camera really can reveal our truest selves. It's a mirror, often a harsh one under unflattering light. This has perhaps never been truer than last night, outside a school board meeting in Williamson County, Tennessee, as a mask mandate was reinstated for elementary school students, teachers, and bus drivers. Take a good look, because America, America: this is you. "You have a place in Hell," screams a furious young man at a health official, voice raw from what must have been a long time of furious screaming. "You will never be allowed in public again." "We know who you are, you can leave freely but we will find you," an older guy threatens the same health official, in full view of the police officers who are one foot away.
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
America, This Is You. Grow Up.
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