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Not to make light of the arson and attempted murder of Gov Shapiro, but apparently the gubernatorial mansion was designed by George Ewing in the Georgian style and I’m thinking that if you’re an architect named George, you cannot have a neutral attitude towards Georgian style.

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His La Fiesta del Chivo greatly influenced the form of the novel I’m querying right now.

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Had a bit of a breakthrough with my novel in progress that—I think—solves a narrative problem that turned my protagonist into a bit of a creep. In the original draft he follows a woman into a church who turns out to be someone he’d seen previously and been intrigued by and I tried to make the act

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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Yet another reason not to trust AI summaries:

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Funny, according to Twitter, when someone sent me a message there saying he was going to print a ghost gun with my name on it, they said it was perfectly fine. The positive side is that these freaks are usually cowards.

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Dear Amazon, I can fail to develop a script for just 2 million. Call me, OK?

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Bring back DEI before it’s too late

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I am apoplectic about this. The first thing you say about Ted Bundy is that he killed women, and then if you really feel like it you can talk about how charming he was or whatever. The first thing you say about RFK is that he’s pro-measles.

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I think I’ll pass on the transphobe shop

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The penguin was like “you want a trade war? Oh, I’ll give you a trade war.”

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Illegal ideas.

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New funding for “la la la la I can’t hear you!”

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If you’re a Republican, and you’re not a Nazi, yes you are.

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Hey, the world is burning down but you could win free books for life from bookshop.org

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men will literally impose tariffs on islands entirely inhabited by penguins instead of going to therapy

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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

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Boobies!

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A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

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Impressed with whoever is carrying that AutoZone sign

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