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skypilot

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15. I like to think that there was a time when...

Reply to Shellback Squid (Original post)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 10:20 PM

16 hrs ago

...a journalist would have won a Pulitzer for writing a series of articles reporting on all the right- wing politicos, clergy, etc. who get busted for this shit. Each incident seems to get reported on for a day or two and then is forgotten until the next one. And there is always a next one.

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