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Ben Domenech
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Editor at Large , Contributor , Substack . You can tell a man’s vices by his friends, his virtues by his enemies.
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Very grateful for the opportunity to write about the Twitter whistleblower's astounding report for :
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The liberal media is openly at war with and, so far, he’s winning. My Friday column in
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'Layoffs around the holidays are a relatively recent phenomenon.' From 'Why Companies Do Layoffs Around Christmas.'
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"Standing up for truth" isn't what cost him his job. Democrats in Illinois redistricted him out of his seat.
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Kinzinger gives his farewell: "Had I know that standing up for truth would cost me my job, friendships, and even my personal security, I would, without hesitation, do it all over again."
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BREAKING: SBF has been charged with violating campaign finance laws.
He is estimated to have given more than $42 million to Dems and more in "dark money" to Republicans.
But which politicians did he give money to??
Many of them, and their PACs.
Here is the total list:
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'There is no going back from this.'
says Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's Netflix documentary series is 'like a reality TV show'.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
💻 GB News YouTube: bit.ly/3vAYaw0
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Stats on religious exemptions requested vs. granted (per DOD/specific branches):
9,068 Army - 123 granted
4,187 Navy - 51 granted
1,350 Coast Guard - 12 granted
3,740 Marines - 23 granted
11,00 Air Force - 200 granted
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NEW: Ahead of the NDAA vote, military members discharged for refusing to get vaccinated are speaking out about their struggles since asking the military to honor their religious objections to the mandate.
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Cory Booker: "I cannot ever stand up and stand against a parent having options, because I benefitted from my parents having options..
All the people representing my city.. [Obama] does not send his kids to DC Public Schools.. and now you want to deny that to my community"
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I'm not trying to rain on the parade but the idea that there would be a new owner by next season and a new stadium opening in 2025 just seems nuts.
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This is exactly what I was saying at the time. Slow your roll on inevitable sale. If Bezos is the only guy who can afford $7B, Snyder may play the minority ownership/liquidity game, with an option for a partner group to buy the whole team in the future.
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If "Jeff Bezos, whom Snyder doesn’t want to sell to in the first place, is just a stalking horse (which I’ve heard speculated) to drive bidding into the stratosphere, and the actual bidders know it, and top out in the $6 billion range" then...
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Admiral (USN, Ret.) has written about the new Select Committee on China, which will be chaired by . It includes a very useful reading list: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl You can’t oblige anyone on the committee to read anything, but nudge nudge.
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Going to write tomorrow revisiting some of the best TV and movies of 2022, but I just can't stop laughing at the line "Grits don't work on me, I've developed a tolerance."
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"At the end of the sixth episode of the interminable, grotesquely self-indulgent wallow in self-pity and score-settling that constitutes Netflix’s Harry and Meghan, a single thought dominates: we’ve been had," writes
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Could SBF's Parents Be the Key to a Plea? After wheeling and dealing in billions, SBF has become his own sole remaining asset. That is why the Justice Department just might offer him one final “effective altruistic” moment.
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"I’m pretty sure that nobody I observed on November 7 was ready to give up fighting. Not Randi Weingarten, of course"
John R. MacArthur meets the woman Mike Pompeo calls "the most dangerous woman in America"
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"Over the last few years, we have seen a Jenaissance," writes
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Sculptor Alexander Stoddart, architect James McCrery, composer Sir James MacMillan, and yours truly talking arts and music at this year's Catholic Art Institute conference. Visit the Institute's YouTube channel for their superb individual talks.
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Will The FTC Strike Back Against Twitter?
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Jon Hamm as old Superman, Josh Brolin as old Batman - DC, please make KINGDOM COME.
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"A Coen bros directed Superman movie starring the actor in this meme"
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Reboot Superman into the 1930s and make it exactly like the Hudsucker Proxy.
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“TikTok appears to be pushing videos about eating disorders and self-harm to 13-year-old users at a rapid clip, researchers said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the service’s influence on young people.”
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Big win for the China hawks - Hawley was ahead of the curve on this one.
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Tonight the Senate unanimously passed my bill to BAN TikTok on all government devices
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Tonight the Senate unanimously passed my bill to BAN TikTok on all government devices
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"Most of the anti-ASSC speakers acknowledged the legal challenges of shutting down the group, but still urged the Chesapeake School Board to find some way to reject the club."
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Catching up on episodes and I hope this is listened to widely. shows why he’s a top-of-the-game interviewer, asks difficult questions not just for Liz Wheeler, but for anyone who wants a better America for themselves and their family.
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House Intel GOP: “There are indications SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program & spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan lab. The IC has failed to adequately address this info.”
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There are many clips of Mike Leach. This is my favorite where he just eviscerates a reporter who tried to mask shame him. But he did it with wit and charm.
#hailstate #hailLeach
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This sounds familiar 👀
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Welcome to #MILFManor! Eight hot moms leave home for the chance to find love with men half their age, but they're greeted with a shocking twist. The new series premieres January 15th at 10/9c on @TLC.
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Deborah is testing off the charts in the most profitable demographics: Soccer moms, NASCAR dads, white collar pervs and the obese.
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Welcome to #MILFManor! Eight hot moms leave home for the chance to find love with men half their age, but they're greeted with a shocking twist. The new series premieres January 15th at 10/9c on @TLC.
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Taylor works very hard to erase her old tweets, but here's the text of one where she confirms she and Claudia were "mutuals" and that she "literally talked to her."
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Taylor is tweeting at me from behind a block so I can't respond with these screenshots. Shrug.
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"This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago...If your kids are on TikTok…the ability for China to have undue influence..,and a much more immediate threat than any...armed conflict.”
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MAJOR #1619Project news coming tomorrow, y'all. Stay tuned! 
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