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#443 - Take a Load off Fani / RIP Alexei
* The Fani Willis train wreck
* Daddy and the sacks of cash
* $9,999
* Russian McDonalds is so good that Tucker doesn’t care about freedom of the press
* The political pilgrim
* The murder of Alexei Navalny
* A wave of whataboutism
* Are your 19 year old daughters about to be drafted to fight in Gaza?
* Time to retreat from the world?
* OpenAI videos are sort of terrifying
* Free Rachel Dolezal Kwame Nkrumah
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