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Sep 2024
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#472 - The Ruhling Class and Palestine's...

Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch
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* The return of the Boss POC

* The veep sits for an “interview”

* That’s all she had to do…

* Will Michael Cohen be assassinated?

* Not if he escapes the country (and his family)!

* The return of Tennessee

* 10 days in an uncomplicated land

* That conflict is just like all things I care about (except it’s nothing like the things I care about)

* Disassociating yourself from the freaks and terror supporters

* So we finally got to Diddy

* Sure, he’s a monster! But the Mann Act??



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