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"Overturning Roe is certainly a conservative priority, but it's only been on the list for about 30 years. Fighting unions has been on the list for more like 130 years. If it's not central to the conservative identity in America, I don't know what is."
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"This also establishes [Francis] Bacon as the earliest to record the phenomenon, known as triboluminescence, a.k.a., "the Wint-O-Green Life Saver Effect." "
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Like "High School Musical," without the sexual tension.
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They forgot the weird novelization of "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About."
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What to do when you're trapped in an infinite desert for all eternity
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