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As a gift, my dad bought my great-grandfather his first television set for his Brooklyn apartment. He had never owned one, and my dad assumed that was because he couldnвЂ™t spend the money. My great-grandfather, a Jewish immigrant who fled a shtetl in Moldova that no longer exists, had a thing about TVs. Thinking about this reminds me of a story my dad once told me about my great-grandfather.

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On the worst days, I donвЂ™t know how to orient myself in a reality that can appear to change based on whatever Donald Trump feels like reality should be. On bad days, trying to tell the truth through the same screens that helped elect Trump feels irrelevant. Like the hundreds of other reporters swarming the capitol, IвЂ™ll soon be witnessing a made-for-TV spectacle for a made-for-TV president who was boosted into power by the internetвЂ™s worst conspiracy theories. SYDNEY BROWNSTONE: IвЂ™m writing this on a plane two days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, and I feel like I know what IвЂ™ll be walking into. HereвЂ™s their full diary from the events of January 18-23.

Armed with mood rings supplied by their editors, writers Sydney Brownstone and Heidi Groover, along with photographer Nate Gowdy, met those celebrating and protesting, shared their personal perspectives, and examined what it means for the next four years. To cover this past weekendвЂ™s inauguration and WomenвЂ™s March protests in Washington, D.C., Longreads teamed up with Seattle publication The Stranger.