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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNEW from Mike Luckovich for 9/26: Fighting for democracy
— Mike Luckovich (@mluckovich.bsky.social) 2025-09-25T20:08:48.880Z
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NEW from Mike Luckovich for 9/26: Fighting for democracy (Original Post)
highplainsdem
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SheltieLover
(73,903 posts)1. Kick

patphil
(8,291 posts)2. Sing it - all together now!
Marie Marie
(10,558 posts)3. Should have included fearless comedians.
Hekate
(99,587 posts)5. "Late Night Hosts" ?
Marie Marie
(10,558 posts)7. Exactly - plus a few others
Xipe Totec
(44,401 posts)4. Liberty leading the people

A painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, commemorating the July Revolution of 1830 that toppled King Charles X (r. 18241830). A bare-breasted "woman of the people" with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied by a young boy brandishing a pistol in each hand, leads a group of various people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen while holding aloft the flag of the French Revolutionthe tricolour, which again became France's national flag after these eventsin one hand, and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. The figure of Liberty is also viewed as a symbol of France and the French Republic known as Marianne
niyad
(127,503 posts)6. Thank you for this amazing background information.