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We're moving down the lines of the poem pretty quickly now

They never stopped coming for the Black folks. Gavin Newsom is grinning brightly as he sacrifices Trans people with his podcast's nazi guests. They purged the military of gays, of women, of people in the global majority. They sent bounty hunters to collect people without their papers. Being Latino made you a target, regardless of your legal status. But YOU are safe, right? YOU don't commit crimes. YOU have your papers together. YOU have your shit together, so that means YOU won't catch any heat, right? WRONG. At any moment, you could become disabled through no fault of your own. Maybe there was a patch of ice. Maybe the other car ran the red light. Maybe you just stepped wrong. Maybe that chronic condition you've been ignoring because you don't have health insurance is getting bad enough that you can't ignore it anymore. Maybe there's a recession and you lose your job, along with everyone you know. Maybe you're not in your prime working age anymore. How ...