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  "text": "\u003ethe city that answers ICE agents with salt trucks\nAnd on assemblies (a la assembly.blacksky.community)\n\u003e a key form of collaborative governance can complement representative government and community organizing to deepen democracy and … people's sense of interdependence and commitment to one another"
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