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HISTORY.
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KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
KNICKS WIN!!!
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Crazy scene from this Fishback team ambush of Byron Donalds in the FL gov race. x.com/PeterSchorschFL/status…
.@J_Fishback calling @ByronDonalds a "slave" is one of the ugliest moments I can remember in Florida politics.
Save your whataboutism; I know there have been uglier, violent moments, but every decent Republican should condemn this behavior.
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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) isn’t ruling out a future presidential bid while speaking in New Hampshire: “Never say never”
Source: WMUR
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I taped El-Sayed's answer to Craig's Q, and got a response today from Stevens.
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"It's a lot more about what you're advocating for that gets you indicted or not indicted, rather than what you did," Abdul El-Sayed said on Friday night. detroitnews.com/story/news/p…
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We’re the only Americans in this Edinburgh bar, and the live musician started playing Country Roads, and at least half the people there turned to me and my wife like this
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How far is FIFA going with its brand restrictions? The condiments at the Levi’s Stadium press box have all been taped over 😆
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JAMES FISHBACK CONFRONTS GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE BYRON DONALDS ON HIS LIVESTREAM!
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To the *two separate couples* who brought their *toddler* to Glenn Branca’s HALLUCINATION CITY, which features 100 guitarists, each with their own amplifier, playing an avant-garde composition at maximum volume:
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One aspect evident in every book or article I've ever read about the Biden campaign/White House is that, from Biden on down, it was filled with C players who were enormously bitter about being the Dems' C players and so desperate to prove otherwise
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"People were grousing that they had to pay for the drinks themselves. “When the Obamas or Clintons have their reunions, it’s like a three-day all-expenses conference” a Biden alum told me. “And we got a cash happy hour at an Irish bar by the train station” nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
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Absolutely massive scoop by @emilypont: The Trump administration is giving up defending the president's offshore wind permitting freeze in court
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New massive ad buy against Cait Conley from Progressive Champions PAC, which has ties to Republicans.
NEW FEC F24
PROGRESSIVE CHAMPIONS PAC
$1,500,000-> #NY17
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There's much better parks in urban America. Rock Creek Park in DC is much bigger and interesting and so is Golden Gate park in SF.
But Central Park has a ceiling effect that those places do not because those places are not surrounded by tall buildings. The ceiling effect enhances the awe of being inside of the park. The skyscrapers act like tall walls that frame the sky, making it seem even bigger and more open, like you're in a massive, open-air "room" with a very high ceiling.
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NEW: In 2018, white working-class voters approved of Trump on the economy by 30 points.
Now they disapprove by as much as that margin in some polls.
My piece on how Trump’s big blue-collar white vulnerability is reshaping the 2026 landscape
nytimes.com/2026/06/13/us/po…
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Had to make our New Castle stop the iconic Separation Day Parade to celebrate the day Delaware dared to declare independence from Pennsylvania and Great Britain. Down with tyranny!
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Hunter Biden on his father pardoning him:
He chose me over his legacy, because no matter what you say, that's going to be one of the first things written about him.
He chose me over his political legacy.
And that's how much my dad loves me.
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man, what even are these offers
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