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Before you eulogize the dead, I have stupid tweet you should consider
Matt sort of emptywheels Harry Reid
Planes, Trains, and superspreader events
Yes, there are no tests
The usual Covid frustrations
The Webb Hubbell telescope
The Memorial shutdown
The non-historians lecture us on history
Destroy the idols of Americanism
What on Earth is the Flatbush Remonstrance?
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