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Thomas E. Ricks retweeted
Welcome back, #KennedyCenter!
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Live your life so people don’t celebrate when they take your name off things

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Awesome.
Kennedy Center says it has fully removed Trump's name from its building. cnn.it/4xqbIYD
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Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500. If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
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Talarico: Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't sell their soul to the highest bidder. Real men serve others, weak men serve themselves. So I welcome this debate. I don't think Paxton or Cruz are in a position to tell anyone what a real man is.
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So Trump must be endorsing platner?
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Trump says Graham Platner is a pig and conman.
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Inflation has overtaken wages for the first time in 3 years. That means Americans’ incomes are shrinking in real terms, largely because of the Iran war. My @Morning_Joe Chart.
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Pope Leo at Port of Arguineguín: “Dear migrants: before saying any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. You are not numbers, nor files! You are people with a family and a home that you have left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to despise.”
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if you want some much needed context about contemporary Belfast and Northern Ireland and some really terrible jokes I recommend the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Barry Award and Ned Kelly Award wining DI Duffy series
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.” Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.
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Rule 1 of contemporary American life: Everything Trump touches turns to s@@t
Dude shut down Midtown to show up, get booed, fall asleep, and cause the Knicks to lose the game & a 12-game winning streak. Donald Trump is a generational loser piece of shit. Everything he involves himself in gets significantly worse.
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Good thing y’all didn’t elect an emotional woman. 😂
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We only rate dogs. This is a whirlpool. Please don't get too close. It is quite powerful. Still 13/10
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the lawyer who defended Ken Paxton during his impeachment trials just announced he is endorsing James Talarico. This is huge.
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Hodges: Russia wants to scare the hell out of Ukrainians and European capitals. But strategic bombing almost never brings decisive results. It did not break Germany, North Vietnam or North Korea and it will not break Ukraine. 2/
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RT @saymaysmith: Have no idea who created this.
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Trump, election night 2024: "I'm not going to start wars. I’m going to stop wars." Trump, Sunday: "I didn’t guarantee no war." @katierogers nytimes.com/live/2026/06/07/…
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Thomas E. Ricks retweeted
With Trump's pardon of ex-Rep. Steve Buyer R-IN, who was convicted of insider trading, here is the updated Trump pardon list involving Congress: 11R, 2D
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Death threats against me. A subpoena from Congress. Interviews cancelled and censored. A source indicted. Witnesses killed. Read the book that the corrupt national security state and criminal actors within it have fought tooth and nail to suppress. Now available in paperback.
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Hey media Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"
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