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I am an emigrant who writes love letters. Ireland :: California
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The New York Stock Exchange listed Newsmax the same week that Newsmax turned off the imploding onscreen stock ticker to pretend everything was fine. Snakes eating their own tails.

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Can’t get over the heavy-handed showrunning for America’s season finale this week. April Fools.

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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Listen to the Soviet refugee writers. Masha and Gary called it.

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White Gen X Americans: the dumbest voters in the history of the world, as was foretold in the prophecy of John Hughes. youtube.com/shorts/MckCZ...

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Surprisingly moving to see the portrait of proto-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft that Aaron Burr commissioned, and hung above his fireplace. He reared beloved daughter Theodosia by the principles of A Vindication of the Rights of Women. That duel gets sadder and sadder. Men too emotional to lead.

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Welcome to Venture Capitalism Extremism Day. Destroy the US dollar. Make oligarchs more powerful than governments. Make workers of every class, everywhere, scared, exhausted, and willing to accept scraps. Let the weak die. They’ve told us. www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capi...

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It's not just chatbots that get flummoxed by "ignore all previous instructions"; it also happens to people with ADHD when they notice a wikipedia article about the Broad Haven Triangle

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Dorky brag: My ex once held a Guinness Record for the longest after-dinner speech. (Dublin college debaters. Sally Rooneyland.) They had to stand & extemporize. No reading. His record was ~27 hours, & soon smashed to double. Hard to believe Strom Thurmond got away with reading phone books.

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Meet John Jacob Astor IV. Richest man on the Titanic. My Granny’s old boss. We bumped into him at the New York Public Library, and thanked him for the existence of our own dynasty. Great-Granny Hannah left Roscommon for America in 1904. For #9 of 18 children on a few acres, what else? #nypl

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Lowtax echolalia, at this point.

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Everyone's laughing at this but the ability of GOP organizers to realize what is and isn't working puts them miles ahead of the Democrats, who are continuing to run on centrist west wing bullshit, despite it not working.

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Groimes oi Lorst in wiscornseen

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I trust Val’s judgement on Lou Reed’s tickle deficits.

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Libertarian theology strikes again.

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“Some of my work is part of admitting things aren’t normal.” That’s also the work Cory Booker stepped up to do.

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Important to celebrate the W’s. Eat shit, Elon

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