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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 9h
Hmm, but for Jake Tapper that challenge is impossible.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 18h
Experts say this always happens in countries that are on the right track.
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Will Ferrell's Disapproving Look
Alt: Will Ferrell's Alex Trabek Disapproving Look
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 03/10/2026
This is absolutely horrible. (Read this letter). And apparently very little has changed for university administrators.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All the more reason we have to protect the sunshine!
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Aside from all the other frivolous stupidity here, calling it the "Sunshine Protection Act" is peak Beltway Brain.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is neat Spanish-Argentine expedition to verify whether a geoglyph located in the Andes via Google Earth is genuine | Culture | EL PAÍS English share.google/UQSjU7ALcOJF...
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Spanish-Argentine expedition to verify whether a geoglyph located in the Andes via Google Earth is genuine
Researchers will investigate whether it is a sacred structure from the Inca period
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You can't hate Tucker Carlson enough.
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Researchette @researchette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wemby reminds me of Kareem (my favorite) in that he's a top tier player, but also a real gentleman who has serious thoughts and interests outside of sports. Not that every athlete has to be like that, of course, but it's always nice when one pops through.
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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...
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Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it
In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Of course, why read CNN when you can get the numbers directly from the source? election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
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February 13: New Deal

Required:

William E. Leuchtenburg, "The Triumph of Liberal Reform;" Barton J. Bernstein, "The Conservative Achievement of New Deal Reform;" and Anthony J. Badger, "The Unanticipated

Consequences of New Deal Reform" in Hamilton ed., The New Deal, 3-50

Jefferson and Nick Salvatore, "The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History," International Labor and Working-Class History 74 (September 2008): 3-32.

[Eric Rauchway, MAH piece]

Mark H. Leff, "Taxing the 'Forgotten Man': The Politics of Social Security Finance in the New Deal," JAH 70 (1983): 359-381.

Alice Kessler-Harris, "In the Nation's Image: The Gendered Limits of Social Citizenship in the Depression Era, JAH 86 (1999): 1251-7

Margot Canaday, The Straigh exuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, chap. 3.

Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. (1990)*

Presentation:

Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1995)

Citizenshin Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2001). Century America (2001

Recommended:

Colin Gordon, New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935 (1994). Ellis Hawley, The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly: A Study in Economic Ambivalence (1966).

Nelson Lichtenstein. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (2003).

Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (1994). Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression (1982). Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equality: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic

Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996). William E. Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1996). of Roosevelt (1996) William H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its

Legacies (2003).February 20: Warfare States

Required:

James Sparrow, Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government

Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2004), chap. 5.

Benjamin L. Alpers, "This Is the Army: Imagining a Democratic Military in World War II." JAH 85 (1998): 129-63.

Roland Marchand, Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business (1998), chap. 8.

Kevin M. Kruse and Stephen Tuck, eds., Fog of War: The Second World War and the Civil use and Stepnen Tuck, eas Rights Movement (2012), chaps. 7-8.

Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (1988), chaps. 5-7

Daniel Horowitz, "Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America," American Quarterly 48,1 (1996): 1-42.

Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland (1999), chap. 2.

Presentation:

Wendy L. Wall, Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Era (2008)

Recommended:

David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (1984). Allan Bérubé, Coming Out Under Fire: A History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

(1990). Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II

(1987).

Stephen J. Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War (1991).

Ellen W. Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998).

Peter J. Kuznick and James Gilbert, eds. Rethinking Cold War Culture (2001). eds. Rethinking Cold War Culture Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (1994).February 27: Civil Rights

Required:

Stephen F. Lawson, "Debating the Civil Rights Movement: The View from the Nation," and Charles M. Payne, "Debating the Civil Rights Movement: The View from the Trenches," in Lawson and Payne, eds., Debating the Civil Rights Movement (2006), 3-44, 99-138.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past," JAH 91 (2005): 1233-1263.

Sundiata Keita Cha Jua and Clarence Lang, "The Long Movement as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies," Journal of African American History 92

(2007): 265-288

Eric Arnesen, "Reconsidering the 'Long Civil Rights Movement,"" Historically Speaking 10 (2009): 31-34.

Michael J. Klarman, "How Brown Changed Race Relations: The Backlash Thesis," JAH 81 (1994): 81-118.

Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995), introduction and chaps. 1-9.*

Timothy B. Tyson, "Robert F. Williams, 'Black Power,' and the Roots of the African American Freedom Struggle," JAH (September 1998): 540-570.

Leah Wright Rigueur, The Loneliness of the Black Republican (2015), chap. 4.

Mark Brilliant, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 1941-1978 (2010)

Recommended:

Richard H. King, Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom (1992). Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black

America's Struggle for Equality (1975).

Movement in the South (1994).

John Egerton. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights

Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2001). Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 (1988).March 6: Postwar Political Economy

Required:

Bruce J. Schulman, From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and he Transformation of the South, 1938-1980 (1991)*

Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996), chaps. 4-6.*

Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar ohen, A Consumers America (2003), chaps. 3-5.

Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001), chaps. 3-5.

Julian E. Zelizer, "The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation and State Building Since the New Deal," in The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History, eds. Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian Zelizer (2003)

Presentation:

Shane Hamilton, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (2008).

Recommended:

Michael K. Brown, Race, Money and the American Welfare State (1999).

Jennifer Klein, For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's

Public-Private Welfare State (2003).

Liberalism, 1945-60 (1994).

Liberalism (1998).

Robert M. Collins, More: The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America (2000).

Julian E. Zelizer, Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress and the State, 1945-1975 (2000).

Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (1982).

Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and

Kevin Boyle, The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995). d the Judith Stein, Running Steel, Running America: Race, Economy, Policy and the Decline of

Alice O'Connor, Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History (2001).

Robert Dallek. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973. Julian Zelizer. The Fierce Fierce Urgency Urgency of of N Now: Lyndon Johnson. Congress and the Battle for the Great Society (2015)
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Readings

Seminar participants should already have a basic textbook knowledge of the period covered by History 590. If this is not the case, or if you simply need a refresher, you should review broader case, or it a narratives in addition to the assigned readings. There are many fine syntheses of aspects of the period written for advanced undergraduate or general audiences. Among the more useful:

1984.

2003.

Alan Dawlev. Struggles for Justice. 1991. Lynn Dumenil, The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s. 1995. William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. 1963. David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Freedom and War, 1929-1945. 1999.

James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. 1996.

John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960. 1988. Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s.

Michael S. Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. 1995. Robert D. Schulzinger, U.S. Diplomacy since 1900. 2002. Alfred E. Eckes, Jr., and Thomas W. Zeiler, Globalization and the American Century.

Harvard Sitkoff, ed., Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century. 2001. Michael Lesy, Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life, 1860-1945.

1982.

Copies of all assigned books will be placed on reserve in the Graduate History Reading Room in Firestone Library. Paperback copies of the books marked with an * are available for purchase at

Labyrinth Books on Nassau Street.

Articles in maior historical iournals can be accessed online through the library's database. Chapters drawn from collections or larger monographs will be placed on the course's E-Reserves

readingsFebruary 6: Race and Nation

Required:

John Higham, Strangers in the Land (1955, 2002), chaps. 6-11.*

Mae M. Ngai, "The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924," JAH 86 (1999): 67-92.

Linda Gord Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition (2017) *

Gary Gerstle, "Liberty, Coercion and the Making of Americans," JAH 84 (1997): 524-558.

Peggy Pascoe, "Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century Peggy America," JAH 83 (1996): 44-69.

Linda Gordon, "Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activisms, 1890-1945," JAH 78 (1991): 559-90.

Presentation:

George F. Sánchez, Becoming Mexican-American (1995)

Depression (1990).

Recommended:

Matthew Jacobsen, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998).

James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners and the Great Migration (1989). Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great

James Goodman, Stories of Scottsboro (1994). Leon F. Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998).

Vicki L. Ruiz, From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997). Sarah Churchwell, Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and the

American Dream (2018).
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad
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Cameron Jones @paramystery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m not sure I understand his answer-But am I crazy?? Does this look like A.I. art to you?
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That answer is bizarre.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In which President Trump learns about the Panama Canal for the first time. youtube.com/shorts/yj1qb...
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Former ambassador on the meeting with Trump that made him quit
YouTube video by Stateside Podcast
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The show must go on!
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We Taught This Chimpanzee to Understand the Median Voter's Politics and He Hanged Himself

Then a picture of a chimpanzee looking bewildered
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretty sure that's what the directions on the can say to do.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Math doesn't Math finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
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'Both cannot be right': AI faces a high-stakes paradox
Two new analyses question AI labs' optimism that client revenue will eventually outpace the enormous cost of the AI build-out.
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of course he is. Abusers convention in D.C. presiding over the health of our most vulnerable people. Rape. Culture.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 29/09/2026
you're still fw poultices? it's all about broths now dude
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The Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Epitomize Government Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
The White House claims that its pro-Trump propaganda ads are "public service announcements." That is only true insofar as they demonstrate to viewers how little this administration cares about the nat...
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Just saw a fascist Trump ad on the NFL broadcast. At the end it prominently said "Paid for by US Government."
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The truth behind Donald Trump’s ‘biggest oil deal in world history’
The US’s oil deal with Venezuela faces multiple legal and logistical problems, including questions about whether it can be implemented
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👀 AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau share.google/xvoEFg7fnUFx...
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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau
Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the easter...
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh no, @sheaserrano.bsky.social you gotta get an otter now!
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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San Antonio Express-News @expressnews.com · 25/09/2026
Texas shoppers may want to check their spice cabinets before sprinkling this holiday baking staple into their favorite fall recipes.
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Cinnamon sold in Texas recalled over lead levels ahead of holiday baking season
Texas shoppers may want to check their spice cabinets before sprinkling this holiday baking staple into their favorite fall recipes.
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Gangly Bitch @gangly-bitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Ah Oh
Alt: Always Sunny - Charlie screaming "aaaaaaah! Oh my GOD I don't care!"
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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wu on redistricting if Dems get control: "You do the exact same thing that they did to you until they say mercy" and agree to national, bipartisan reform.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So the plan is to have AI write books, and then AI will read the books and tell us what is in the AI books.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump loves communists
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Same thing
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Absolute psychopath
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Doomer VonDoomington 🇺🇦 @doomervon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'd be the Clinton-Dole-Gore-GWB-Obama-Romney-Clinton-Trump-Harris median voter
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"President Xi, read us your fortune cookie."
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OUR President does not eat broccoli, sir.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump doing James Austin Johnson doing Trump.
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dtf1947 @dtf1947.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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James Webber @ja.meswebber.com · 24/09/2026
I assume that insulting Trump to his face in a way he doesn't understand is an unofficial sport among world leaders.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#OnlyTrump would roll out the red carpet to beg for a Communist dictator's friendship.
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What if instead of putting these 2 in charge of billions of people's lives, we put them in a buddy-comedy where they belong?
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Jeff Fowler @jefffowler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We got this guy in Austin
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