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@questionableway

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illinois bar applicant (derogatory)

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@questionableway
just matt (bar prep edition)
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harold washington library state and van buren is next. doors open on the right at harold washington library state and van buren. transfer to red and blue lines at harold washington library state and van buren
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when you’re the dean of a community college and you have good news and bad news
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Found a Barbieheimer guy in the wild
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i (apparently) have a final exam today for a class i did not remember i was enrolled in and do not need to graduate. let’s see how it goes!
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it is written: he shall know your ways as if born to them
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Vashon Jordan Jr.
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Governor Pritzker holds an empty cup and gives a thumbs up after catching and drinking a Jell-O shot with one hand today at the Chicago Pride Parade.
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craziest fact to me is that the only cities in the world w 24/7 rail are 1) chicago 2) nyc 3) copenhagen. exceedingly rare example of us doing smth better than everyone else wrt transit
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Literally how do cities without 24/7 transit work are u just supposed to die after 8pm
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you may be asking: if you didn’t wanna take it and don’t need it to graduate, why on earth did you take it? reader, i forgot
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oh! right! the deal is i had enough total credits to graduate but you also need 9 per quarter, so i had to add another class for this last quarter, which i do not need to pass only to be enrolled in
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the bear is crazy because it’s so obvious that everyone involved loves chicago more than anything but it’s also reasonably clear that they haven’t spent like a ton of time here especially in the neighborhoods that don’t have michelin restaurants
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my Nuanced Take on this is that while this guy is an absolute idiot and should definitely have to pay some kind of comically large fine, 12 years is a fkn insane prison sentence for any non-violent crime and the us embassy would be right to throw a fit about it
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Robby Starbuck
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An American dad faces 12 years in prison for having a tiny bit of hunting ammo in his carry on bag in Turks and Caicos. He could miss his son growing up over this. Do not visit there until he’s sent home. Let @TCIPremier know what you think about this!
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how is AOC consistently the only competent & clear sighted member of this party
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return.
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this apartment in lakeview, chicago costs $138,000
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whats the reason thai food is so big in the us but just hasn’t really taken off anywhere else in the world? is it literally just the government funding thing?
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cant believe nyc is gonna pay mckinsey millions of dollars to invent the dumpster
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Streetsblog New York
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BREAKING: @NYCSanitation hires @McKinsey to do a comprehensive study on what NYC needs to finally get trash off the sidewalk (couldn't we have just called the mayor of Barcelona?):
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oh MY GOD??? how was this allowed? in what totally insane crazy psychodrama is this line of questioning admissible in a real court of law?
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she was convicted 10-1 in a murder trial??? what do you mean the uk has non-unanimous murder convictions?? and the defense can’t communicate w the press? god
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@aquafreshXTREME it could be worse! i had a friend take the wrong final once
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a fox! at clark/polk
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she was convicted 10-1 in a murder trial??? what do you mean the uk has non-unanimous murder convictions?? and the defense can’t communicate w the press? god
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Brandy Jensen
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incredibly disturbing read
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ah shoot. you caught me. this was a completely serious application for the currently unavailable position of associate justice on the US supreme court. i believed myself to be qualified for this role because of my 2.5 years of law school but now i know better. back to the grind!
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i think "unreasonable" maybe undersells the city's demand here, which is $108,000 in permit fees! it should not cost SIX FIGURES to use public space for a public use
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Block Club Chicago
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JUST IN: Friday Morning Swim Club has been canceled this summer as the organizers blame the city's "unreasonable" demands.
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okay i’m only going to say this once but i think three things are true 1) biden should step aside 2) only kamala can replace him 3) if he refuses we are stuck with him, and it is the solemn and sacred duty of every single breathing democrat to pretend the emperor is clothed
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what do you mean the typical down payment in pittsburgh is zero dollars???
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this palestinian restaurant in bridgeview, illinois is one of the best meals ive had
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you guys. GUYS. lake michigan is the most important place on earth
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i found a happy hour in lincoln park last night with $3.50 well drinks, beers, and house wines. it goes until 9 pm on fridays. i am sad to say i do not remember where this mythical place is
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home girl selling single shots of vodka on the red line for $2 a pop. the catch? you gotta pull straight from the bottle. who ON EARTH is the market for this?
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@AnthonyDiCarl12 used to cook pad thai in a small pot. now we don’t anymore. because of wok
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@jaketropolis god bless the thai government. other countries should do this. we need jolof rice on every corner
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very cool for the sox to host their pride night against the only team in baseball w/o one
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babe wake up INSANE copypasta from the governor of colorado doing iq discourse just dropped
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Jared Polis
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None of my intelligent (130+ IQ) friends use X/twitter. They only read accurate, vetted news sources and almost never use social media spontaneously on their own time. This has been a long term consistent observation, but today confirmation came. A new meta-analysis showed time
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@aquafreshXTREME like substantially thru it when they were like “wait a minute i didn’t learn any of this” they got a B- on the wrong final and a 0 on the right one
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once again: salt water is not real water!
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@pelhamfall
Gothic Pikeman 🇺🇦 🇬🇾🍦
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The Midwest states are landlocked, end of discussion, cope and seethe in your continental interior.
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i love this building so much i wish it was real (didn’t cost $3k for a 1 bed)
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like, there’s such an open and aggressive outpouring of love for this city in every single scene. yet,,, it fails to betray a familiarity for the place it so clearly loves
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@notkavi used be conservatives ran parliament. but not anymore. because of wokington
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@ex_factis no nightmare! i said “do not need to graduate” ! there are no consequences.
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if no new taxes are being issued for this, that means some other government spending will have to be cut to pay for it, which is even worse. i’m not accepting reduced government services because of the fucking bears
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Courtney Cronin
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Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson says the building of a new Bears stadium will "result in NO new taxes on the residents of Chicago." He repeats himself to make sure that part is clear - the building of a new stadium does not call implementing new taxes or raising current taxes on
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the first warm weather day of the year the energy in chicago is absolutely unparalleled. everyone in a good mood, everyone outside. the whole city is basically one big block party. nothing i experienced growing up on the west coast ever came close to matching it
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even louisiana managed to abolish non unanimous convictions by now. no major country would more benefit from just copying the bill of rights than england
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that this isn’t grounds for a mistrial is a bigger indictment of the uk justice system than any of their myriad other abuses of process
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@TheTallestPlant even murderers have constitutional rights. those are particularly helpful when you’re wrongfully accused
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fun fact: chicago doesn’t actually have 24/7 service they just claim to. proof: i can’t get home because the red line isn’t running south even tho it’s supposed to
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craziest fact to me is that the only cities in the world w 24/7 rail are 1) chicago 2) nyc 3) copenhagen. exceedingly rare example of us doing smth better than everyone else wrt transit
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@Lauraonthettc i think that a person bringing meth to the united states also should not get a 12 year prison sentence!
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questioning the efficacy of placing this ad in downtown chicago
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like, i don't have that much sympathy for this dude because come on. but still people do exceedingly stupid things literally all the time and 12 years imprisonment (or any imprisonment tbh) would a pretty deranged response to this specific Exceedingly Stupid Thing
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building up the social stigma against smoking is probably the single most effective public health intervention in terms of years of life added since like the polio vaccine
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@baranskocracy he can’t change the law, he can only break it. he can legally assassinate them it seems but not fire them
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@Ian_Gay_briel look i’m all for uk slander but i draw the line at supporting ohio
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@slucy but a new yorker who loves it here so much
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i was not that good at trial ad & struggled the most with objections and even my brain was flashing sirens screaming “OBJECTION” on about a million different grounds the whole time i’m reading this
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say what you will about lori lightfoot but its pretty fucked up that they euthanized her
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okay who approved this doctor doofenshmirtz looking ass tower? bc honestly i kinda love it
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tapping the sign
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Sarah Langs
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Shohei Ohtani’s outing was the 26th since at least 1901 with 10+ strikeouts and no runs allowed on Opening Day it’s the first time that pitcher’s team lost the game
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part of being committed to criminal justice reform is supporting it for even the least sympathetic cases (like this yahoo)
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does anyone know why 1) copenhagen does this despite no one else in europe doing so? 2) why no major transit cities (tokyo, paris, madrid, etc) have 24/7 ops? seems like a huge oversight
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@Ian_Gay_briel she was convicted TEN to ONE by an ELEVEN person jury. kangaroo court for sure. level of provision of justice you’d expect to see in early 20th century alabama
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more and more people are saying: lisan al-pritzker, the muad’dib of the midwest
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it should probably be a bigger scandal that the cta has literally caught fire 3, maybe 4 times in the month of june 2024 alone
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CTA service alerts
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[Minor Delays] Howard-bound Red Line trains running w/residual delays following an earlier minor fire at track level near North/Clybourn. Service resuming, allow extra time.
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obviously this is a data error right? right?
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@TheTallestPlant they have none i guess
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@Trinder5475 that’s the government funding thing!
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@whitemishima and while it’s fine to convict on circumstantial evidence unanimously, it sounds like at least one juror was convinced otherwise!
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the median illinoisian’s tax burden is so high bc we have a constitutionally mandated flat income tax, so we have to raise revenue from more regressive taxes like sales & property. the 2020 fair tax amendment would’ve solved this. illinois policy strongly opposed that amendment
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Illinois Policy
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💰NEW: Illinoisans pay the highest state and local tax burden in the U.S.
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@thrillhowse bestie if you’re not nice i’ll sue you
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@Ian_Gay_briel i run way hot but for me 82 is absolutely unsleepable with no blankets, just boxers and both a tower & an overhead fan blowing on high
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IT IS CALLED DOGHAUS AND THEY SERVE FOOD TOO (and it’s good)
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i was doing a bit last night, but i think we should actually just all very loudly celebrate his performance. talking about the panic helps no one—trump was nightmarish last night and you don’t hear any republicans saying negative things. thus, they win the media battle
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@worsematt also the last 25 years have seen tens of thousands of units added to what was formerly largely industrial land
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@jaketropolis the article insinuates it’s merely that the median income is sufficient to qualify for a mortgage greater than the value of the median house, which is not really how things work
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like or dislike her politics she is the only democrat in washington who knows ball
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@c30c60c90yo i mean yeah he’s unambiguously an idiot, but 12 years is beyond life-ruining. we should not be sending anyone to jail for that long save extreme circumstances
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okay. i didnt wanna get into this but: does anyone know what thornton township RESOUNDINGLY has against soup and salad bars? or why they voted on this?
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@UrbanistOrange i think a detailed impeachment trial listing his various corruption would probably be good for democrats’ political chances and bad for republicans’
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he spoke for 3 and 1/2 minutes and took no questions. he read sotomayor’s dissent and presented no plan of action
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think its safe to say this is make or break for the biden presidency
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babe wake up new point graffiti just dropped
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@Ian_Gay_briel i think coasting on brand rec and maximizing short term gains are big parts
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guys. you GUYS
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@bkpark there are zero qualifications in the constitution. you do not have to be a lawyer, an adult, or even an american
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@AesculusGlabra_ an apartment is a home you dotard
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multiple ppl have asked me for directions to the “green river” i am at state & lake
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workshopping something
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@Ian_Gay_briel they also interrogated her for 9 hours without a lawyer present, for what it’s worth
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guys i did NOT know yall all had nightmares about this! why do you have nightmares about this? it was not a big deal! i almost certainly did okay! i was not stressed at any point!
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i (apparently) have a final exam today for a class i did not remember i was enrolled in and do not need to graduate. let’s see how it goes!
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never fail to be stunned by how truly suburban chicago gets within city limits around the last few stops of the blue line before o’hare
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oh thank fucking god. we love our big beautiful governor yes we do
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Capitol Fax
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Pritzker says new leadership needed at CTA
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we should seriously consider kamala harris for president. but if that doesn’t happen this week i am going to spend the next 7 months celebrating joe biden’s MANY accomplishments and ignoring his faults (age)
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two things that really cannot be emphasized enough are : 1) the cta offered a service that was multiple orders of magnitude better as recent as 2017/18 2) the cta’s present problems are almost entirely self-inflicted. its failure is a policy decision not an act of god
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Gay-briel
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it has gotten much much harder to live here without a car in the 7 years i've lived here and that is entirely dorval carter, brandon johnson, lori lightfoot, toni preckwinkle, and jb pritzker's faults.
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@macsquirelera i’m getting the sense people are way more concerned about this on my behalf than i am lmao
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this is the most i’ve doomscrolled since dobbs. not making me feel better! it seems like everything is collapsing. which is probably because it is. i need to log off. go to lake michigan. lay down on a concrete slab
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@annusia__ as scandals go that’s basically one of the funnier ones. “too rich to be corrupt” is great for being governor of illinois but bad for a legacy of tax manipulation
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@vanillaopinions with taxes & the mortgage payments it should still pencil out to <$2k a month & that covers gas (it doesn't seem like the building has separate metering)
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@exist_you 12 years is an insanely long time! 1/6 of a human life. to justify such a sentence i think the crime in question has to be truly grievous
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puerto ricans should be able to vote for president regardless of who they would vote for
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@NomikiKonst
Nomiki --- "No-me-KEY"
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American liberals: “Puerto Rico should be a state! We’d get 2 more Democrat Senators!” Meanwhile, meet the Statehood party nominee for Governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon.
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@smoltittynerdgf law school grades are 100% on the final exam at my school
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@Ian_Gay_briel another one! USA USA USA
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@notkavi median voter like "this is a politically motivated prosecution, which is good, actually"
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@onlyseedaisies geographically that makes sense to me
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quigley certainly isn’t exactly on the fringes of the party (in either direction) and he’s not exactly a fire breather either. gonna go ahead and say this is probably the beginning of the end, it’s joever
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NewsWire
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Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) calls on Biden to step down from presidential race - MSNBC interview
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@nikicaga not sure whether its endearing or terrifying that the governor of a major state is This Online
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@wiscottcurtis i honestly holstered bc i was so doubtful it was real. this is deranged
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