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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Neil Steinberg

‘Jumping off a cliff to feel the breeze’

Former president Donald Trump embraces Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for governor in Arizona. Following Trump’s lead, Lake, a former TV newscaster has insisted the 2020 presidential election was stolen, hoping to glide to victory down a greased slide of lies. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

I’m too out of touch to know if Facebook is truly defunct, or just feels that way. An enormous virtual senior facility where aging Boomers show off our lunches and post wildly unflattering pictures of themselves in hospital beds. Not life, but a pallid imitation, a faint echo of the real thing, that red hot dynamo humming somewhere else, far, far away.

Yet I toss my column up on Facebook every morning, and check the “Memories” section, which sometimes reminds me of things I’d rather forget.

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