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Keith Orejel

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Associate Professor Wilmington College, Columbia PhD, Historian of Rural and Small-Town America, 20th C. US Politics. Tweets my own. Dave & Busters Stan account

Columbus, OH

Joined March 2017

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6 months

To be fully clear. Mine is a leftist critique of scholarship on rural and small-town America. Rural politics are dominated by the petite bourgeoisie, the local booster, the Babbitts. It is their crass commercial interests that drive the MAGA movement.

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That time a neighbors kitten rolled up onto our porch jumped right into my lap and stared at me lovingly.

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I genuinely hope she sues you and you end up like Alex Jones.

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Holy shit. They really did it. They gave the women’s gold medal to a MALE BOXER. I can’t with this shit.

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This is one of Marge’s greatest bangers and a line I use often

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This VP pick could not be going any better.

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JD Vance actually seems like an especially stupid pick now.

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You can’t fuck that can you?

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The fun thing is that if you ever wondered what side you would have been on in the 1960s: now you know.

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I just can’t believe the parallels with 1968. I mean ok, Columbia has unrest and there’s widespread anti war activism, that might be coincidence. But there is a guy named Robert Kennedy running for president and the DNC is in Chicago. Like is this a bit?

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So Shapiro gets to display vile anti Palestinian racism in college but if todays kids protest for a ceasefire they are the Klan. Ok Josh.

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Asked Gov. Shapiro about the Philly Inquirer/ @anna_orso report on a 1993 college op-ed where he expressed skepticisim about a two-state solution "Something I wrote about when I was 20? ... I was 20" "I have said for years, long before Oct. 7, that I favor a two state solution"

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I am a child of the War on Terror and nothing infuriates me more than people slandering American citizens as terrorists for being opposed to a foreign war. Am I having a stroke? Like, we’ve fucking seen this before people.

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The fact that this is the opinion of Biden dead enders should tell you it’s the wrong move.

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Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️

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I am a proud Democrat who is enthusiastically voting for the Democratic ticket this November because I believe Kamala Harris will be a great leader for this country. That being said— I truly hope Josh Shapiro is on that ticket as VP! He’s got my support and endorsement 🤞🏼💙

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Cowardly word salad

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If it's Walz I'm gonna get so drunk tomorrow at Dave and Busters. If Shapiro I may do the same, but for opposite reasons.

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People are like oh the VP pick doesn’t matter. Literally every Democratic Vice President has gone on to be the party’s presidential nominee dating back to JFK: Biden Gore Mondale Humphrey Johnson

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God. Remember how much fun we had that day?

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remember when a bunch of leftists who claim to oppose the death penalty celebrated this old man dying

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We are suffering insane restrictions of civil liberties so another country can carry out a genocide.

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New faculty guidelines from Barnard College at Columbia University. Professors are not allowed to post signs on their door "that support a geopolitical view or perspective". When talking about "geopolitical views or perspectives", faculty must talk about both sides.

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Oh no! They’ve got this all wrong.

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This was an exchange between Pritzker and Whitmer, the popular governors. please don’t try and horn in.

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I can’t wait to see you both in Chicago next week! …but seriously, what is this, @JBPritzker ?

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I strongly oppose journalists misusing the serious conversation about mental health to try and discredit a very clear act of political protest.

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I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.

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Tim Walz or Andy Beshear would be great picks that would maintain the enthusiasm and unity behind Harris. Cooper would be neutral. Kelly would damper excitement but probably palatable. Shapiro would be a disaster that would deflatef progressives and signal business as usual.

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This has me in stitches.

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I've made no bones about the fact that I think Biden has gotten a bit of a raw deal, but it seems almost impossible to image him forging ahead with a campaign while reports circulate that the most prominent Dems (Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, now Obama) think he should get out.

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Our shitposting brought down a President, I believe we can make Andy Beshear happen.

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@Bikiosand But those votes are a lock.

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Josh Shapiro is the candidate all the teachers on Abbot Elementary would be railing against in the break room.

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The idea that Dems will be united if Biden gets crushed in 2024 is probably the stupidest take I’ve heard yet.

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Your choice is 90% lose with Biden but stay united for 2028 OR 50% lose with Harris and disarray/distrust heading into 2028.

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Me going to a conference but not presenting

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I used to defend Bill Clinton and the New Democrats as a regrettable but rational adjustment to a conservative age. But I was wrong. They made life worse for millions of people in ways that were often completely unnecessary and cruel.

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@markgaspar The US didn’t spend billions financing those acts of mass violence? Idk. Just spitballing.

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I remember this one time in graduate school everyone spent seven years pretending they liked reading Foucault.

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If he stays in and we lose it is 100% on Biden. No more fucking lib whining about the left or Russia or god knows what else. This is on the ego of one old man.

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@jenbegakis That kitty would come by everyday for food after. I loved them till they moved away.

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How dare you question Josh Shapiro’s use of state violence against teenagers, you bigot.

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Van Jones is genuinely one of the most deplorable people in the Democratic universe.

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Van Jones admits that Kamala picking Walz was her "caving in to some of these darker parts in the party" in terms of appeasing "anti-Jewish bigots" that have "gotten marbled into this party."

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I think we’re heading towards an devastating defeat in November and the only people to blame are Biden and the brain dead stans who insisted he stay in the race.

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Me lying to my comps committee

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Hamilton is a frustrating play because it’s a multicultural celebration of a person that did not believe on any level—socially, racially, economically—that human beings were equal.

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Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. "This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities."

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@CMcKNichols I mean presumably he could have picked Haley or Scott and potentially broadened the appeal.

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Ok. I’m done harping on Shapiro. Just wait and see what happens. But I’m a college professor and I love my students. I’m never gonna support a politician who unleashes the police on them.

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So there was an Israeli counter protest going on and they only attacked and arrested the pro Palestinian ones. Shocking. Really gives the whole game way. Sickening.

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The police only attacked pro-Palestinian students. I stood on the periphery filming and a DPSS officer threatened me. I said, "I'm a professor." He said, "I don't care." 2/2

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I’m a 20th century political historian and I’m gonna teach a class on the American Revolution next semester. I’m so fucked. Like, who even won? The Dutch?

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Googling: what time does Dave and Busters open?!?!

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If it's Walz I'm gonna get so drunk tomorrow at Dave and Busters. If Shapiro I may do the same, but for opposite reasons.

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I’m kind of Walz pilled. I will be equally happy with him or Beshear. I will be super annoyed with Shapiro.

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NEW: Tim Walz has emerged as a popular VP pick among labor unions, sources tell ABC News. Walz has drawn support for his record of pro-labor legislation in a blue-leaning state and his potential appeal with voters in Midwest battlegrounds Wisconsin and Michigan, they said.

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Pick your favorite Resistance Historian. Go to their account and search Gaza or Palestinian and it’s always crickets. It’s like a whole cohort of public intellectuals who would have had nothing to say about Vietnam in the 60s.

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He was so fucking selfish to run again and everyone around him screwed us all.

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1 year

I was genuinely astounded when I read this. Basically arguing that to stand in solidarity with workers and respect the picket line at APSA is a mark of privilege.

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@EZ_Mehrtenz Oh god someone with crypto in your bio saying "it aint rocket science."

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It’s insane that Clinton was gearing up to privatize Social Security before the Lewinsky scandal broke. A blow job saved old age pensions in America.

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@markgaspar You do realize that “why don’t you pay attention to other genocides!? Why are you only paying attention to this one?!” isn’t the strongest moral argument.

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We used to make things in this country.

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@TheRielGabriel “Laughable man.” Yuck yuck yuck.

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Who is not real life now motherfuckers! Twitter shitposters unite!

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People: this place has a lot of history Historians: Yeah, it’s a place

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I read this book and now I’m a mummy

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I’m glad we all got into academia as all the jobs disappeared and universities became authoritarian hedge fund rackets.

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Hey I got tenure. Good for me.

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This is a blue whale. I saw this today. With my eyeballs.

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I think Trump is incredibly dangerous but the behavior of the Democratic Party this week has really given tremendous credence to the argument “democracy is on the ballot” was just a cynical ploy to frighten people into voting. They are not behaving like democracy is in threat.

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If you all want a brilliant appraisal of American racism from a scholar who would never sell her soul to corporate America do I have just the book for you

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When people would ask Eric Foner why his class at Columbia on American radicalism only dealt with the left he would tell them you could find many fine classes on right wing radicalism in the business school.

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2 years

Am I the only one that thinks these DNA Ancestry tests are racial junk science?

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God. She is really going to pick Shapiro. What an incredible disappointment. Just even thinking about it reminds me of all my liberal friends who had always insisted they supported academic freedoms staying silent or openly endorsing the crushing of student protests.

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Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick in PHILADELPHIA. The two will then hit western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh, Savannah, Phoenix and Las Vegas. w/ @EugeneDaniels2

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@sal2017intj Thank you for the reading recommendation. I just finished teaching a class on the civil rights movements and am well aware of how they accomplished their goals.

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Everyone is dragging Kendi but destroying a bunch of corporate wealth is probably the most radical thing he’s done.

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And in a weeks time Harris!!!!

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@mjs_DC Liberal elites right now “how can I discredit this protest in the most sanctimonious way possible?”

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It seriously feels like there will be a Kent State by the end of the week and I am terrified.

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The radicalization of rural politics is closely tied to the decline of an older elite. The consolidation of small banks, rise of big box stores, and death of local newspapers has robbed communities of imbedded leaders, who tended towards moderation in their pursuit of cohesion.

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This is as authoritarian as anything said by Republicans about policing the teaching of the past.

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Presuming this means it is Shapiro then we really JD Vanced this one.

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Scoop: Kamala Harris is expected to announce her running mate by Tuesday, when she will hold her first rally with her pick in PHILADELPHIA. The two will then hit western Wisconsin, Detroit, Raleigh, Savannah, Phoenix and Las Vegas. w/ @EugeneDaniels2

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Biden was brought down in large part by festering fractures within the Democratic Party. Our relief at his abdication has produced incredible unity that has completely reversed our fortunes. Why blow up that unity?

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People in my mentions will be like “ just because Shapiro supported vouchers doesn’t mean he’s anti public education” and I’m sorry but get the fuck out of here

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“I hate academic writers without whose original research my own pop scholarship would not be possible!!!”

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Oh shit and Planet of the Apes was first released and now there’s another reboot movie? We are so fucked.

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Resistance Historians were once declaring this convention would be a disaster if Biden was forced off the ticket.

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Since this is kind of blowing up I would like to acknowledge the ever hilarious @pschofie79 as the original genius behind this image.

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This might be the best real life dunk a person has ever done on a presidential candidate.

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A man awards Desantis a Participation Trophy for trying hard but likely taking a beating in Iowa.

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I like Walz on large part because I think he’s a strong candidate for broadening Dems outreach into rural America and winnowing margins in the countryside.

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. @GovTimWalz represents the course-correction on class, rural & regional messaging that Dems have needed for decades. As someone for whom PLACE outstrips every other identity, I've never felt seen or represented in the White House in my lifetime & that would change with VP Walz.

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The lightest of intellectual lightweights thinks he proved something

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he unfollowed with quickness after this. bye bye.

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You fuck ONE couch!

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J.D Vance Favorables: Unfavorable: 50% Favorable: 26% Net: -24% J.L Partners / July 30, 2024 / n=1015

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I ordered a burrito in Switzerland and it was a fucking disaster.

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Though economic interpretations of rural politics are out of favor, rural America's shift to the right coincided with rapid economic decline caused by neoliberal globalization. The first blow came with China's entry to the WTO in early 2000s, causing huge industrial job loss 🧵

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I get yelled at for being a crazy leftist a lot now but I was a very pro Dem pro Biden lefty always arguing for a popular front before this war broke out. It’s changed me, this is the worst foreign policy nightmare I’ve witnessed from my government since the Iraq War.

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People talk so much shit on Gen Z. But I, a millennial, identify so much more with these kids born 10+ years after me than the reactionary Gen Xers born just a few years before.

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This guy's school (WVU) is being gutted but his big concern is that we're being too mean to the scabs because he teaches in the business college.

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Calling strikebreakers “scabs” is patently dehumanizing (and if your response to this is “good,” you should probably engage in some self-examination)

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Pretty much every normie Dem on Twitter in the last 24 hours.

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I’m sure her heart was in the right place, but by explicitly breaking the rules of the bus Rosa Parks had more than a little in common with January 6.

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The Biden debate was six weeks ago!!! Absolutely craziest month and a half in American politics.

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@abearclan Oh god an Astros fan. Can’t expect an honest assessment from that crowd of cheaters.

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This is what the US government has been funding with our tax dollars.

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Sure sounds like genocidal intent to me.

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

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"There is no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon. Lebanon will be annihilated. It will cease to exist." — Israel's Minister of Education

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The NYPD throwing Columbia admins under the bus kind of made my day.

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@FreakFls Woke woke woke woke. The clarion call of the idiot class.

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I’m sorry I usually try to maintain a level of decorum in here but these are OUR students and OUR colleagues getting brutalized so I am just not fucking having it today.

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We’ve been ranting and raving about MAGA lunatics for 8 years but Democrats need to take a good hard look in the mirror. I never would have thought our party could be so painfully unserious that millions would want a candidate who clearly does not have full cognitive abilities.

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The argument of this article is that Catholic sexual abuse is not the fault of the church but rather “gay subculture.”

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Lionizing Sinead is unwarranted

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Everyone of these administrators could sit tight for two weeks and wait out the semester. They are trying to crush a movement for political reasons not maintain order on campus.

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