One area of the news I commit to keeping at arm’s length is the drama surrounding Donald Trump. Even this week it’s feasible to tune out that sphere of breaking news reports. But it’s not as easy as it usually is.
At one point in this project, the tagline of TracingCOVID was “tracing the COVID infodemic.”
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While I do consume and make sense of much news circulating now, about climate, about COVID, about politics, I stay in the shallow-dive level and keep the floor on my rabbit holes high when it comes to Donald Trump.
I live in an apartment building with some long-time residents and some recent unit turnover. A new tenant in the unit next to me who parks his car next to mine in the garage is following Trump news pretty regularly, but through different mediu…
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