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I thought it was just a slangy form of Nathan.

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Right...sure....liberals hate Frederick Douglass.

Next they'll knock down a statue of Eleanor Roosevelt.

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Yeah, I guess I give them too much credit for knowing anything about history, or much else.

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I'm not entirely clear in what sense this was a hoax and I'm certainly not going to google it. Did Wallace get caught (or confess to) tying the noose himself? Was there never a noose? Or did Fox & Friends announce that it was just a "friendship knot" so there?

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Fucking upstate New York rednecks.

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I read that at TPM but it went over my head. I suppose it was because the article said it was left at the edge of a gorge which put into my head that it was taken out of town.

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Not his m.o.: he looooves a bright spotlight.

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Only hipsters are in Austin and the Montrose. So I imagine they'd have closed their coffee shops. There was one hipster coffee shop in Midland back in the day. Ironically, the proprietor was a RWNJ. If it's still around, it would be open.

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As somebody who has repeatedly experienced Tidewater humidity in the summer (thanks, Navy), I approve of this message! Keep 'em there!

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And mankinis

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I’d imagine a few folks experienced fear seeing those robes...

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I believe that there is a whole chapter about it in the Grundrisse.

I can make this claim, because no one is ever going to bother to read enough of the Grundrisse to actually verify it.

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Bad-faith pearl-clutching, a phrase that meets my quota of hyphenated terms for the day. “Oh no, where the statue-topping stop?”

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Alan Dershowitz: going all-in on a pair of threes.

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The edge of the gorge is fifty feet away. This location is just north of the Lower Falls of the Genesee and there is a marker right next to where the Douglass statue was explaining that this spot on the river was a transit point for the Underground Railroad. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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