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Politics With Charles P. Pierce
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The Ocean Has Never Been Hotter
the latest from the shebeen
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Stormy Daniels' Testimony Was Something Else
At one point the defense objected to a question about sex positions.
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Crypto Came Roaring Back At OSU Graduation
Why is it that pitchmen for cryptocurrency always sound like this?
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Stormy Daniels: Trump Is a Terrible Date
Apparently she asked him to change out of some pretty ugly-sounding pajamas.
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Hamas Says It Has Agreed to a Ceasefire
Details of the proposal emerged in confusing dribs and drabs.
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Judge Merchan Is Mollycoddling Trump
Last resort? Maybe it should be the second resort? Or the third resort? Or the more recent resort?
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Trump Went HAM On Jack Smith This Weekend
As a kind of command performance, he brought up on stage all of the rumored candidates for vice-president.
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Matt Gaetz and MTG Are Theologians Now?
There are legitimate First Amendment issues with the Antisemitism Awareness Act, but I did not see this particular argument coming from the peanut gallery.
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What the Heck Happened to the Film ‘The Sixth’?
I’m used to efforts to whitewash American history, but this just doesn’t smell right.
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Some Kind of Hero
I’m thinking in particular of The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, who finds hope in Barrett’s brief walk-on role as Not Insane Person in the dramas of the moment.
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Texas Prisons Are Roasting Inmates
What heinous way to be inhumane will the Abbott administration think of next?
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UCLA on Tuesday Night Seemed All Too Familiar
A group of “counter-protesters” smashed up a pro-Palestine encampment on campus, and law enforcement had a curious reaction.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Needs Attention, Everyone
She announced plans to call a vote to oust the Speaker of the House next week.
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Trump-Allied Buffoons Charged In Arizona
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Can a President “Officially” Order a Coup?
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Things Took a Turn for the Co-Conspiratorial in MI
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