"The hub of this work is south Minneapolis, last in the world's headlines six years ago as the site where George Floyd was killed by police officers.

Some of those who rose up in the Black Lives Matter protests of that period have clearly reawakened their old networks.

Others note that Minnesota regularly tops measures of social trust: in other words, its residents are among the most likely to place their trust in their neighbor across the road, rather than the leader at the top of the pile."

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"People are doing something wildly dangerous. They are singing and dancing"

"American Jews reclaim German citizenship |

"An increasing number of Jewish Americans with family histories shaped by the Holocaust are applying to restore German citizenship " not necessarily to leave, but to have a safeguard:

the option to move to Germany should conditions in the United States deteriorate further.

Germany allows victims of Nazi persecution and their descendants to reclaim citizenship that was deliberately taken from them. In New York alone, applications have more than doubled in recent years."