This is America, dammit. When political tensions are white hot, and the stakes are just about the highest they can possibly be, it’s time to pause for a little consumerism break.

Or at least that was my response to this incredible photo credited to Pierre Lavie posted online by a photographer named John Abernathy.

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Abernathy says on Instagram that it’s him in the photo during Thursday’s protests at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where Immigration…

This is America, dammit. When political tensions are white hot, and the stakes are just about the highest they can possibly be, it’s time to pause for a little consumerism break.

Or at least that was my response to this incredible photo credited to Pierre Lavie posted online by a photographer named John Abernathy.

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Abernathy says on Instagram that it’s him in the photo during Thursday’s protests at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where Immigration…