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Nine Billion Minds in Song
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word gave us a way to cross the gap between minds.
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From Madison Avenue to Madison, Wisconsin
New York, New York.
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Respect Before Love
Most people pretend the choice is binary: better to be loved or better to be feared.
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The Coward Class: Anatomy of Decline
The coward class doesn’t march, doesn’t shout, doesn’t even risk the embarrassment of conviction.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, dated Saturday, June 30, 1934, page 1.
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Go back to where you came from.
This dumbfuck from Staten Island, New York, told Mamdani “go back to where you came from.”
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Peace at Last!
Sources inside the White House have leaked the framework of the Trump-Putin Ukrainian Unity Accord, a groundbreaking agreement set to be formalized in…
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TRVMP Eternal: How Republicans Will Pay Off the Debt and Lift America’s Spirit
At last, a plan bold enough to inspire hope, unity, and fiscal freedom.
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Emperor of Japan Gifts Trump State-of-the-Art Toilet for Qatari Jet 
In an unusual act of personal diplomacy, the Emperor of Japan presented Donald J.
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AI just want to pinch those little cheeks!
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now steering Meta’s superintelligence lab, has put fatherhood on pause.
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Maybe I got it wrong.
I walked into that block party already telling myself a story.
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The Block Party and the Death of Dissent
Yesterday I walked into a block party.
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