| Week of 10/19 Current Events Thread
Posted by ATL
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on October 19, 2026, 09:00:38| This Chris Hayes interview with Ilhan Omar makes me wonder if there are any good cops remaining.
Posted by complainant
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| What could they even be looking for? *
Posted by doubledown
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Previous Message| The paperwork that her dad signed, and gave to them, in 1995.
Posted by complainant
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| Not the Onion: CBS election night coverage will be branded as DraftKings
Posted by ATL
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| Jesus Basejumpng Christ. *
Posted by doubledown
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| Tesla revenue flat YoY and profit down 4%
Posted by ATL
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| The fact anyone is still buying cars from a white supremacist....
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Nm*
Posted by OWWDig
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| You rang?*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| What's the statute of limitations on securities fraud? *
Posted by doubledown
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| Let's ask Jensen Huang
Posted by ATL
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| Sure would be bad for him if the US had a functioning anti-trust apparatus. *
Posted by doubledown
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| This pretty gross wrt to polling
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| Check their betting accounts too*
Posted by RVA
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| Mallory McMorrow had some things to say about it.
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| Would*
Posted by Sounder
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| God damn dude...*
Posted by haighter
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| I would too. Love those redheads.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| You guys suck. I mean, it's this corner of the internet so who really cares...
Posted by haighter
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| C'mon man, lighten the fuck up
Posted by Sounder
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| Eh, we've been discussing this race for months and this is the first time anyone
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| That’s correct. Their response should have been ‘Wood’*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| Well fuck you too, “HungryButts”. *
Posted by haighter
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| Be honest, did you know who this person was two days ago?*
Posted by Sounder
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| We got caught with our hand in the cookie jar so we claim
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| Their statement seems bogus. Solely to try to get ahead of the article I linked
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| I was about to say that I feel like this is old news - so it sounds like two different pollsters (at
Posted by ATL
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| Not to mention the 2016 Republican presidential nominee.
Posted by complainant
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| Not sure she would've won, but she was quite an impressive candidate, which is really unfortunate*
Posted by UofIL6
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| Eh, she’s alright. Maybe we should just skip to President AES so she can be senator.
Posted by Toonces
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| He's a glimmer of hope in a depressing political landscape. The supposed Dem front runners for pres
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| The results in Michigan would likely have been different if a 3 way race to the end
Posted by CanHartlebHireSnider
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| I just learned that Richard Petty is alive. I would not have guessed that.
Posted by complainant
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| Wheatley is shot, hired a convicted child abuser*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| More marveling at men’s asses
Posted by OB25
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| Roy Cohn didn’t just mentor him on business*
Posted by Carl Spackler
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| he can't keep saying "never" when he keeps doing it!*
Posted by shua
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| Bi-curious Donnie.*
Posted by DT
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| inevitable
Posted by complainant
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| Maybe it’s not a golden shower tape.
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| It’s pretty clearly his thing. *
Posted by doubledown
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| he marveled at arnold palmer's wang*
Posted by VIV
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| Donny, have you ever seen a grown man naked?*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| lol. Again!!?*
Posted by VIV
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| Replace the E with a U, drop the B, because no one knows it's there
Posted by Sounder
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| Men's marbled asses?*
Posted by complainant
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| Tom Smykowski = Ed Martin
Posted by assassin
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| I actually looked him up last week cause I thought he had already died.
Posted by Sammich
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| Don’t look me up*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| NYT suggests a Venezualan billionaire paid Alina Habba $50 million
Posted by assassin
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| Dershowitz would have done it for $250,000.
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| mmm you don't KNOW that second part. *
Posted by assassin
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| True but not for $250K. You have to pay a troll toll for the Dersh*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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| WSJ reporting Musk personally ordered the Starlink rug pull on Ukraine
Posted by assassin
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| Dr. Evil in the flesh. So…much…flesh. *
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| Twitter today became a cavalcade of optimistic Republican pollsters.
Posted by complainant
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| Serbian war criminals spent an average of about 7 years in jail prior to conviction.
Posted by complainant
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| Evil gonna evil*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Dirty Tricks from Desperate GOP candidates
Posted by ECEIllinois
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| National Review confirms Amy Acton's side of the story
Posted by ATL
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| Vivek Ramaswany sucks and I hope the next Dem president deports him personally.
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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| from what I read, the Ramaswamy ad implies that she lied about the abuse
Posted by Sammich
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| No bar too low.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki Would you expect any less from the treasonous party of January 6th?
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| Amy Acton’s upbringing story is gut wrenching.*
Posted by Carl Spackler
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| Have no idea how this guy went bankrupt running casinos
Posted by ATL
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| Whistleblower referral program. How do I report the entire Trump administration and family members?
Posted by UofIL6
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| might want to sit on that a bit*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| That website is going to be flooded with a single name. *
Posted by doubledown
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| I learned it by watching you, Dad
Posted by Sounder
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| Nick Shirley in the oval might be a new low*
Posted by Sounder
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| Christina Applegate announced she was misdiagnosed with MS for the past 5 plus years
Posted by Orangeillini
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| Ooooo
Posted by DocWalk20
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| My wife was diagnosed with MS. Turned out to be lymphoma.*
Posted by Stu
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| how do they know she doesn't?
Posted by Sammich
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| i bet it's the covid vaccine*
Posted by lcubed
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| My hottest hot take is that Long Covid is a euphamism for hypochondria*
Posted by Sounder
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| The billionaire class deserve all of the baseball bats that will be aimed for their heads
Posted by ATL
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| “Post not found, it may have been deleted”*
Posted by DocWalk20
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| "don't vote for people who lie," Donna says in the video
Posted by Sammich
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| ^^^supposed to be a response to complainant's post below*
Posted by ATL
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| I don't understand the problem here.
Posted by complainant
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| is Tammy Wynette gonna get pulled into political discourse again?!*
Posted by Sammich
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| is Tammy Wynette gonna have to choke a bitch?!*
Posted by VIV
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| Aw shit, it's Tammy Wynette, son!*
Posted by Sammich
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| This is the problem
Posted by Stu
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| Yeah this will hopefully backfire. A bad look for ramaswamy*
Posted by gvibes
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| when/how did elon get back in the good graces? or was that just another of of the
Posted by lcubed
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| He was hired to help them try to steal the midterms. Why else?*
Posted by OrangeSox
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| My guess? Money. The guy is basically bankrolling Ken Paxton's senate run, for example.
Posted by ATL
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| elon bought some company so that starlink can become a mobile service provider.
Posted by Nobster
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| Remember how in Austin Powers 2
Posted by Sounder
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| Basically no one is giving money to Paxton except for Elon*
Posted by Sounder
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| he's needed to help swing the midterms*
Posted by VIV
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| Hey complainant, you’re not going to believe this
Posted by ATL
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| I don’t care which party he’s registered to, is he a citizen?
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| The party from which the fraud originates is kinda the crux of their argument.
Posted by Sammich
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| I disagree. The R's narrative is that non citizens vote
Posted by TarheelIllini
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| No, the narrative is that millions of illegals vote for Democrats.
Posted by Sammich
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| It's literally that Dems allow illegals in to juice their share of the vote*
Posted by ATL
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| What is a higher number, trans athletes or illegal immigrant voters?*
Posted by Sounder
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| Not sure but one thing I'll say is both substantially fewer than child molesting Republicans.*
Posted by ATL
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| Send your kid to school and they come back four days later a different gender?
Posted by Sounder
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| Send your kid to school and they'll get diddled by their wrestling coach/future House speaker*
Posted by ATL
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| Ya got Tarheeled. *
Posted by doubledown
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| Republicans cheat. That's why they're so convinced that Democrats cheat. *
Posted by doubledown
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| Why do you think Trump is such a cuck when it comes to Putin?
Posted by doubledown
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| Kompromat of some kind*
Posted by VIV
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| At this point, there has to be something there
Posted by Sounder
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| Putin and Xi both changed their nation's constitutions to allow themselves power for life.
Posted by complainant
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| what does he care about? Money, his image, power, and leverage
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| He certainly seems to have some form of gay dementia*
Posted by Sounder
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| Verified by South Park*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| You like that on your face?*
Posted by Sounder
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| So a couple days ago Trump walked right past his open car door and into a field
Posted by VIV
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| Even the Biden accusations were admissions.*
Posted by ATL
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| I thought the wave/salute thing has been a mainstay.
Posted by Carl Spackler
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| i've seen him do it getting off of AF1 when no crowd is there
Posted by VIV
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| And this tonight:
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| What law requires one to "go after" people who didn't pay you, and why haven't Trump's creditors
Posted by complainant
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| I can only assume he thinks it is some kind of health care provider fraud.
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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| Uh oh, you've fallen into the Rationalizing Trump Remarks trap
Posted by complainant
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| how would you fix money in politics?
Posted by Nobster
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| This feels like a bad time to dismantle the Sierra Club and Environmental Defense Fund.
Posted by complainant
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| It legitimately feels to me like people just stopped caring about the environment
Posted by Sounder
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| We're back to "New Mexico should immediately change its name to New America"
Posted by VIV
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| Increasing home values is the dumbest outcome. interest rates are 7%
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| ...but Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki We deserve the downfall we're getting.
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| SCOTUS agrees to hear case on local middle school magnet admissions
Posted by Potomac
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| I wonder which side of this Bo French is going to come down on *
Posted by ATL
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| Trump sought $6B from overseas investor to put into Kennedy Center
Posted by UofIL6
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| How much of the money Trump has stolen do you think will be able to be recovered?
Posted by doubledown
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| None.
Posted by Chicago1995
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| I don't think we should expect any kind of closure or satisfaction.
Posted by Sammich
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| yep. i'd rather any effort towards accountability take a backseat to reforming
Posted by Nobster
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| History would say that we need accountability. Won't happen though.
Posted by Chicago1995
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| i'm fine waiting 2 years, then going for accountability.
Posted by Nobster
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| I think that at every Democratic primary debate
Posted by Sounder
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| honestly it’s a stupid campaign question Democrats should avoid
Posted by memyselfandillini
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| Here's the problem with that plan.
Posted by complainant
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| Similarly a conversation I was having the other day. No new constitutional amendments...
Posted by haighter
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| Sorry friend, two-thirds won't cut it.
Posted by complainant
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| Read Dillon v. Gloss if you're interested in the history.
Posted by complainant
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| Never is a long time. In the current environment, it might be possible…
Posted by DT
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| Trying to think of every possible loophole, like you’re dealing with a djinn or something
Posted by Sammich
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| Make Jack Smith the new AG
Posted by Sounder
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| Trump giving an update on the most important objective of his administration
Posted by ATL
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| Seems like one of his least toxic hobbies*
Posted by CWR10
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| Ooo
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| Military-Ballroom Complex was inexplicably cut from Eisenhower's farewell speech
Posted by ATL
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| Just voted, 20 times, as Soros told us to. But damn some others we putting in 50+ ballots
Posted by MC
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| Any north shore folks with insight into what happened in the New Trier vs Evanston football game?*
Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes
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| N-word, gay slur starting with F, spitting, as reported. Pretty shitty. These would be the kids
Posted by cpsteine
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| My daughter is in the band, but was out of town at a hockey tournament. She'll get a download today.
Posted by cpsteine My wife is an NT admin and said the claims were probably pretty substantiated if NT joined the statement with ETHS (which they did). NT is hyper-sensitive to not upsetting its vocal conservative boosters (although they are actually in the minority).
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| New trier kids allegedly made racist remarks to the Evanston band*
Posted by Mrap24
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| according to this story they also told them to kill themselves and spit on them
Posted by IlliniSax05 MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
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| Yes, that was the already known part.*
Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes
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| BBC subpoenaed Jack Smith in its defamation case v. Trump. Trump's lawyers oppose the subpoena.
Posted by ATL
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| Looks like Europe is a mess.
Posted by doubledown
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| Looks like not booking that trip to Paris for the Saints game was a good call*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| glad our France trip was the last week of August/first week of September*
Posted by shua
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| IANAL, and the bluesky reports are a little sketchy, but sounds like the golf course hearing
Posted by larue33
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| It's mind boggling (not really) that this is something that Trump thinks...
Posted by shua
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| This is the only part of the job he actually cares about.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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| It's the gilded age all over again*
Posted by Sounder
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| Watching Pubs dust off the same economic playbook that didn’t work for the Dems is heartening*
Posted by Carl Spackler
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