Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) amid oaks and others.
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Hannah Arendt, who died on November 4th, 1975 wrote this: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” (Alabama Republicans the latest marks of demagoguery.)
Backyard and Beyond 
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You said it!
So true. I heard her speak once at university.