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Jan 2024
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#439 - Ladies Tees and Democracy Pleas

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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* This time, we’re not going to hold back

* Destroying from the ladies tees

* I love with Doug

* More media implosions

* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

* Democracy is over when my irrelevant newspaper folds

* Passover is too Jewish

* The uniqueness of the Holocaust

* Opinion mongers making calls about newsworthiness

* This era as history

* Whatchutalkinabout Fani Willis

* Ross Douthat and “Neocon Nikki”



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