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Luci Baines Johnson came to celebrate last night.
We just took back her dad’s Senate seat.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,000 points at the open of trading on Wednesday morning, just hours after midterm election results showed Democrats had taken control of the U.S. House and Senate. abcnews.link/h5zqBF6
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JACKSON CHOURIO TIES A 98-YEAR-OLD RECORD 😳
Chourio's 10th hit this #WorldSeries ties Babe Ruth (1928) for most through the first four games of a Fall Classic!
ALT Left, Babe Ruth wears a New York Yankees uniform. Right, Jackson Chourio wears a white Milwaukee Brewers uniform.
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Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.
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TOUCH 'EM ALL, JOE 🏆🏆
On this day in ‘93, we went back to back! #WorldSeries
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On this date in 1993: Joe Carter hits a three-run walk-off home run in Game 6 of the World Series, securing the Blue Jays' second consecutive title.
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Mark Carney on Elon Musk throttling Starlink: "I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression."
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😮 Katie Zacharia crashes and burns on [checks notes] Hannity 😮
If you had the "over" on Zacharia lasting more than one Scaramucci, her epic flame out on Hannity just now won't help your cause
HANNITY: You said you consulted with people who advised you it was okay to call yourself a lawyer but not an attorney, correct?
ZACHARIA: Correct
HANNITY: There's a report out tonight showing 15 social media posts where you identify yourself as an attorney
ZACHARIA: I think they were retweets
Here's the whole interview:
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Meloni: I do not miss the Russian tanks in Prague and Budapest. I do not miss the Berlin Wall.
If Ukraine stopped defending itself tomorrow, Russia would occupy a European nation and Soviet-style imperialism would return.
Surrender is not peace. It is conquest. 1/
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"Guilfoyle was scrambling to save her job ... when the Journal published an investigation revealing texts showing she had solicited $100,000 from a Trump donor, Guilfoyle reached out to the WH to say the text messages were AI generated. The officials didn’t believe her claims. Journal reporters verified the authenticity of the donor’s text messages." wsj.com/politics/policy/kimb…
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Sen. @Ossoff: You see what we have right here is the Washington establishment. Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen just like Mike Collins who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war.
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Richard voted for Donald Trump three times. Then the Iran war sent diesel prices soaring.
Now he’s voting for Jon Ossoff. Here’s why:
