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  "path": "/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#19_May_2026_(Kash_Patel_snorkeling_around_USS_Arizona_National_Monument)",
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  "textContent": "Kash Patel faces a new criticism — for snorkeling in the vicinity of the USS Arizona National Monument.\n\nPatel has done a series of cavalier, unjust, and repressive actions, for which he ought to be impeached and removed, and in some cases perhaps jailed. But snorkeling near a sunken battleship is not one of them. It is of no real significance — only a symbolic meaning which anyone might attribute or not.\n\nI observe a tendency to reproach, excessively, alleged failures to \"show respect\" is a distraction from the real injustice that really matter. It plays into the hands of right-wing extremists, who just love \"showing respect\" for dead heroes as an excuse for persecuting or murdering the living heroes who campaign for freedom today.",
  "title": "Kash Patel snorkeling around USS Arizona National Monument"
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