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Nerd, Bostonian in exile, Catherine Wheel superfan.
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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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The fact that no one person embodies the government is literally the point of our government. “The president is the most powerful single actor but the executive is co-equal to the legislature and the court” is 4th grade civics.

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Movies you've watched more than six times, gifs only

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I think we should be running on an extremely strong anti-corruption platform, so I appreciate the Post stepping up to help us spread the message.

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This might be the most insane monkey paw’s response to “housing prices are too high” possible, making it harder for people without 20% down to buy a house. The ideological thru-line of all of the Trump administration policies is straightforward, its limit upward mobility. Every policy supports it.

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When I say Trump and Musk are facists, I don’t mean he’s a bad guy - I mean they’re literally facists, and this thread nicely sums up why the term is appropriate.

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democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

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