DWL

DWL

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Toleration is not allowing another man to agree with you. It is defending his right to disagree without fear of punishment. The genius of religious liberty is not that the republic declares every belief equally true, but that it refuses to make political equality dependent upon religious belief.

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Because of the Big, Beautiful Bill: A family making $50K will get less than $2 a day from this bill's tax cuts—while a household in the top 0.1% will receive more than $300K This is legalized theft from working people to reward the ultra-rich. We must not forget that.

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If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

@tntsportsus.bsky.social Fire the announcer who kept saying "It's his (Monfils') final match at Roland Garros" before the match even started. Or fire him for continually saying afterward that "Nobody has left Chatrier" when the camera Clearly showed hundreds of people streaming out. Useless.

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Barney Frank lived his truth at a time when doing so cost everything, and he did it anyway. The first sitting congressman to come out as gay, the first to marry his husband. He fought for all of us with humor, ferocity, and brilliance. Rest well, Barney. We carry your courage forward.

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RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

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Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

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Solving the problem of Iran blocking the strait of Hormuz by mounting your own blockade of the strait of Hormuz is the kind of inspired genius thinking that only a tacky failed real estate mind could think of. Checkmate, woke libs.

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Here it is, straight from the horse’s mouth: the American public is the last of the Trump Administration’s concerns.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hassett: "If the war were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers, and we'd have to think about what we'd have to do about that, but that's really the last of our concerns right now."

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The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

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Whatever one thinks of the attack on Venezuela, you have to admire the skill and strategic precision of the military forces that stormed Madura's fortress and so effectively removed the Epstein Files from the headlines.

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Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump has sued over jokes, tweets, interviews, and news articles but not once over any of the countless accusations of child rape. — That silence says everything.

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You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"

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Take pride in our fellow American, Sen. Mark Kelly, vigorously standing up for the Constitution and against a violence-inciting White House occupant who is failing to intimidate this good man and honorable public servant.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

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The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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The Hiring of E.J. Antoni: STAFFER: "Do you have any experience?" ANTONI: "Not much--" STAFFER: "Trick question. We don't care. Have you shamelessly flattered Mr. Trump?" ANTONI: "Yes. Often." STAFFER: "You're hired!" [Kidding! This White House doesn't vet people.]