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Mark Dowling
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Toronto, ON. Made in Ireland. Recently got here so figuring things out
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Even if the US government offered the money equivalent of the expired munitions and ancient aircraft and tanks Ukraine is getting, how do you get state governments controlled by the GOP to spend it in a way that acknowledges climate change event risk when they don’t want to admit that’s a thing?

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How do those prefab homes and utility trucks get to regions where the roads don’t exist any more

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Democrats are being targeted by vandals and hostile neighbors in deeply red Washington County. “This is Trump country... You should be grateful for the privilege of being allowed to live here," one woman said a man told her after seeing her Kamala Harris shirt at a concert in St. George.

Harris-Walz supporters brave threats, theft and vulgarity in southern Utah’s Trump country
Harris-Walz supporters brave threats, theft and vulgarity in southern Utah’s Trump country

Harris backers in southern Utah's Trump country meet hostility and threats.

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Me while binging “Raised By Wolves” over the last few days

Benoit Blanc saying “it makes no damn sense” (Knives Out)
Benoit Blanc saying “compels me though” (Knives Out)
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If Biden or Harris suggested the FBI have "one really violent day" so "word got out" about the Trump because "the police can't do their job" everyone in every newsroom would have a collective aneurism and they'd be impeached by the end of the day, and yet if T says it won't even make the front pages

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“I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months.”

Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post
Tenured Jewish prof. says she's fired for pro-Palestine post

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...

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The best bits in the Boris Johnson memoirs are the unintentional revelations. Here, we learn that the Queen read government briefings, and he didn't.

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genuinely surprised by this and also this is an implicit challenge to mitt romney

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Mark Dowling
@markdowling.bsky.social
Toronto, ON. Made in Ireland. Recently got here so figuring things out
100 followers119 following179 posts