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- A lot of people are unnerved right now, and for good reason. Thunderous explosions throughout the night are not making life any easier.
- The substantial increase in illegal fireworks being lit in inner cities, weeks before the Fourth of July, has spawned fantastical conspiracy theories about a massive government psy-op operation.
- These evidence-free theories have been spread by people and organizations with massive platforms who should know better.
- This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
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Fireworks are making people lose their minds.
Unauthorized pyrotechnics going off in the days around the Fourth of July is common. But in cities across the country they are being lit far earlier than usual, for longer periods of time, and appear to be louder and brighter than is typical of amateur fireworks.
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