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computers, journalism, horror and beer. I am quite the dapper gentleman.
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JD Vance is every rich kid you wanted to beat the crap out of in every John Hughes movie.
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Without the beard, JD Vance looks like that guy who stole Pee-Wee Herman’s bike.
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My nephew Feyd-Rautha - so much better than Rabban, who was mistreated by the Atreides even the emperor never saw anything like it - my nephew says that they’re giving all the spice away. The atreides are afraid of the fremen. Nobody said that when it was my arrakis, my dune
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Imagine how difficult it would be if you had two colleagues, one called Ian and one called Iain, but Iain only had one eye.
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I’m not much of a live laugh love person so long term nuclear waste warning messages it is
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Republicans want to reconnect with younger voters. Representative Matt Gaetz has a plan.
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Everyone looked so great on the red carpet, like captive beasts walking round in their cages, or measuring the lengths of their chains.
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Polls show that, somehow, most voters don’t know or have forgotten most of this, so here it is all in one place, as presented by @sethmeyers in tonight’s Closer Look: An overview of Donald Trump, the GOP nominee for president. (And this is only a small fraction.)
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Trump's behavior during the January 6 attacks was disgraceful. Here's why I'm endorsing him for president in 2024. by Mitch McConnell
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As an objective, nonpartisan journalist, it is not my place to editorialize. But if Democrats can't admit that Biden is too old to run again, they deserve to lose this November.
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"Our ancestors have been eating each other for a million years or more. In fact, it seems that, down the ages, around a fifth of societies have practised cannibalism."
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Fossil evidence shows that humans have been practising cannibalism for a million years. Now, archaeologists are discovering that some of the time they did it to honour their dead
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Whether it's Biden misremembering a period of extreme sadness or Trump misremembering a period of extreme raping, both candidates' memories seem to have been clouded by strong personal emotions.
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I've been using https://t.co/YS6gitQfIS ever since 2012. I've got more than a decade of data in there. Now they've changed over to https://t.co/z2HaYlAh0g, and they've broken everything. This new software sucks sucks sucks. Luckily, I backed up all my transactions from Mint.
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Jim Jordan's detractors say his involvement with a sex abuse scandal at Ohio State should disqualify the Congressman from holding GOP leadership positions. His supporters say he could be a fine Speaker in the mold of Dennis Hastert.
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Not-at-all fun fact: The viral "blue/black/white/gold" dress was photographed by a woman purchasing it for her daughter's wedding (it all started when the daughter insisted it was white/gold). The groom in that wedding is now charged with trying to murder his now-wife.
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Country musicians are like “Y’all, there’s two things I can’t stand. Socialism, and the exploitation of my labor by the bourgeoisie.”
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