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Hallmark podcast. Past: Guardian, Rolling Stone, Gawker, editor at 50 States of Blue. Sometimes: NBC, Deadspin, Esquire, Vice. He/him. jeb.substack.com
Tampa, FLfacebook.com/ItsChristmasto…Born April 20, 1969Joined August 2008

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Probably the most deeply perverted Hallmark movie yet, and you couldn’t ask for two finer guests for it.
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Land your plane (the "Daddy's Girl") on the USS Christmas and set sail to defend an Empire of Joy with @KatzOnEarth and @SamAdlerBell! And forget about the POWs already! Stitcher: bit.ly/3CSRKKC Spotify: spoti.fi/3sitHQh podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its
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A party that cannot figure out how to beat a guy who is currently scheming to force parents to submit to a government database on the menstrual cycles of their children should just hang it up.
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NEW: Democrats are worried about running against DeSantis in 2024, given his age (44 vs. Biden's 80) + his experience running a big, diverse state. They know the playbook of how to win against Trump but are trying to figure out how to thwart Fla. governor: bloomberg.com/news/articles/
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In other words, Rubio lied, and should be described as such.
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On CNN, Sen. @marcorubio acknowledges spy balloons have been seen before but says one flying this brazenly over the continental US and sensitive areas is “unprecedented.” “We have never seen this…There is no comparison to anything that may have happened up to this point.”
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We arrived at this point because Very Serious self-described moderates and centrists who kept telling us we had to take these as good faith efforts and to find a way to compromise with folks who clearly weren’t about compromise.
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The plan to use the CRT hoax as a tool to dismantle the public school system was formulated well in advance, was extremely cynical, and its architects have been brought into FL by Desantis to implement it. The plan:
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we won't forget your role in pushing for this all along.
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Trump's proposal here is radical and insane, and Weigel properly distinguishes it from the ongoing debate about youth gender medicine, which is legitimate semafor.com/article/02/03/
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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you can tell they're trafficked because they're holding up the foreign passports their traffickers have taken from them. they're singing steve winwood deep cuts. also their traffickers are openly trafficking them, they have those light-up cones that they use to wave the plane in
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California Gov. @GavinNewsom last year legalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution and now trafficked sex workers are soliciting johns directly in front of an Oakland elementary school. Police say the law prevents them from stopping it. abc7news.com/human-traffick
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I don't begrudge them the right to make awful decisions like this, they should just have to do it while you sit across the desk from them holding a loaded gun to demonstrate how not big of a deal it is.
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The Fifth Circuit strikes again: Unanimous panel (Jones, Ho, Wilson) strikes down the federal statute prohibiting possession of firearms while subject to a domestic violence-related restraining order; holds it violates the Second Amendment under Bruen: assets.nationbuilder.com/firearmspolicy
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McNAMARA: The thing LeMay didn't understand about the burrito is that proportionality is key. [b&w footage of distended sludge of beans perforating tortilla]
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I don't begrudge the man his living and he's made some of my favorite movies but it's still weird hearing Erroll Morris honk "the soundtrack of Chipotle?" in a commercial, in more or less the same tone of voice he used to ask Robert McNamara about incendiary bombs in Fog Of War.
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trying to play like dial-tone content while cleaning house and accidentally drawing a mid-series law & order pure psycho mccoy episode
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hakeem jeffries suck my whole ass challenge
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JEFFRIES on GOP effort to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs: "Rep. Omar certainly has made mistakes. She has used anti-Semitic tropes that were clearly and unequivocally condemned by House Democrats when it took place four years ago...
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