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Stan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It’s that time of year again, when we see who the REAL ALPHAS are … @theonion.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Trump's must-run orders have prevented several fossil fuel power plants from closing, costing ratepayers hundreds of millions of dollars, even though those plants are barely running, because their power is not economic. A pure example of large public cost for narrow private benefit.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rescued these fossil fuel power plants. Americans are paying for it.
The must-run orders have kept alive aging generators that are costly to run — and produce plenty of pollution.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
stripes.com
West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 23/09/2026
“This is pretty simple physics. This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.” www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
bloomberg.com
AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities
As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The plants being built by Meta in Ohio will release significant greenhouse gas pollution and particulate matter with adverse impacts on health
dispatch.com
Meta's massive plants may spell massive health problems for Columbus area | Opinion
If Google can power its data centers with clean energy, why can’t Meta?
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US data centers will be use more natural gas than any country except China, Russia, Iran and the United States. It's like we're inventing a huge new nation, just when the climate needs it least billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...
billmckibben.substack.com
The Two Horsemen, Riding in Formation
Is There Suddenly an Opening for AI and Climate Sense?
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyway you should read Steve Kandell’s beautiful piece www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stev...
buzzfeednews.com
The Worst Day Of My Life Is Now New York’s Hottest Tourist Attraction
Nearly 13 years after my sister’s death, a reluctant Sunday visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where public spectacle and private grief have a permanent home together.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"The Environmental Protection Agency is considering a rule that could treat some temporary gas turbines as mobile equipment rather than stationary pollution sources, potentially making them easier to permit."
axios.com
Trump moves to ease environmental rules for data centers
The moves risk inflaming an already fierce and bipartisan backlash to data centers, the backbone of the AI boom.
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 14/08/2026
NEW: i dove deep into the plans for several massive power plants being built specifically to power data centers crucially, they're designed much less efficiently than gas-fired power plants that are connected to the electric grid: www.wired.com/story/real-r...
wired.com
The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty
A massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 12/08/2026
Steel giant Cleveland-Cliffs was supposed to use $500 million from a Biden administration grant to usher in cleaner steelmaking in SW Ohio. Now the company plans to instead put those funds toward a project that locks in old coal-based tech for decades ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/12/o...
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Ohio steel giant aims to use Biden climate funds for polluting project • Ohio Capital Journal
Steel giant Cleveland-Cliffs was supposed to use up to $500 million from a Biden administration grant to usher in cleaner steelmaking in SW Ohio. Now the company plans to instead put those funds…
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the Simpson episode, this clip is from, is 32 years old.
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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"The average turnaround time for these less-rigorous permits for gas-burning plants linked to data centers was 18 days. In comparison, companies applying for full air permits, the category that commonly applies to more traditional power plants in the state, can expect to wait 285 days."
nytimes.com
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution (Gift Article)
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Save Ohio Parks @saveohioparks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Why does BLM want to frack Ohio's only national forest-- the Wayne-- when renewable energy is cheaper, reliable and planet-friendly? Submit snail mail comments only by Aug. 3: bit.ly/4yOsIbO @altnps.bsky.social @altblmatinterior.bsky.social @peopleoverpetro.bsky.social @ohiocitizen.org
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Submit a comment to protest fracking Wayne National Forest
The BLM is moving forward with fracking 41 parcels in the Marietta Unit of Wayne National Forest in Washington and Monroe counties, with bidding on these leases scheduled for September 15.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Hey, @leahstokes.bsky.social has a new newsletter, on electrification and climate and important stuff. She's sharp as a tack, and not to be missed electricnotes.news/p/yes-democr...
electricnotes.news
Yes, Democrats Should Talk About Climate.
Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 02/07/2026
The Citizens Utility Board of Ohio has published a report warning policymakers against relying on aging, mostly coal-fired power plants. The study casts doubt on programs allowing facilities to run even when they’re not the most cost-efficient option ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/01/c...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Citizens Utility Board of Ohio questions programs that keep aging power plants running • Ohio Capital Journal
The Citizens Utility Board of Ohio has published a report warning policymakers against relying too heavily on aging, mostly coal-fired power plants. The study casts doubt on programs that allow…
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Ohio Citizen Action @ohiocitizen.org · 01/07/2026
This is the 5th behind-the-meter gas plant approved in New Albany to power data centers, with more in the works, including a proposed 430 MW plant that would need a new 24-mile gas pipeline. Ohio's energy buildout is being reshaped by data center demand. bit.ly/4b1JvOc
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The explosion of MAGA rage at birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing. As we discuss on the pod, it's telling that sealed border and end to TPS/asylum don't sate MAGA. They want dramatic ethnic purges. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2125...
newrepublic.com
MAGA Rage Takes Unnerving Turn as Birthright Loss Rattles Trump Badly
As fury mounts at the Supreme Court decision upholding birthright citizenship, an immigration lawyer explains how we’re heading into a long war over the 14th Amendment—and what might come next.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Justin Gerdes @justingerdes.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"In order to pay for the president’s projects, the parks have had to cancel needed repairs, slash their budgets, and operate with fewer employees," reports @michaelscherer.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
'Rush Project at Request of POTUS': Trump Is Draining the National Parks to Pay for His Projects
Money once used for crucial national-park repairs is now financing Trump’s redecorating projects.
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 25/06/2026
Base Power is bringing its low-cost battery backups to Illinois, offering customers a home electricity backup system starting at just $95. www.canarymedia.com/articles/batter…
canarymedia.com
Base Power brings cheap batteries to residents in power-starved PJM
The unicorn startup launched its first move outside its home state of Texas, pitching low-cost energy and backup power in northern Illinois.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 23/06/2026
Gawker, bless it, tried to warn us. www.gawkerarchives.com/gawker-was-m...
Tom Scocca, writing in the conclusion of the second-to-last post published by Gawker under Nick Denton's control:

"Gawker always said it was in the business of publishing true stories. Here is one last true story: You live in a country where a billionaire can put a publication out of business. A billionaire can pick off an individual writer and leave that person penniless and without legal protection.

"If you want to write stories that might anger a billionaire, you need to work for another billionaire yourself, or for a billion-dollar corporation. The law will not protect you. There is no freedom in this world but power and money."
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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just insane own goals. Generational errors. Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Administration to Pay $765 Million to Cancel 4 More Wind Projects
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Race-obsessed, untouchable Musk hits escape velocity from CEO rulebook www.axios.com/2026/06/11/e...
axios.com
Race-obsessed, untouchable Musk hits escape velocity from CEO rulebook
On the eve of SpaceX's IPO, Musk is stoking far-right culture wars across the West.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
for a hot minute, trump's iran war was supposedly about his concern for the safety of the iranian people, and particularly iran's dissidents and activists. now he's deporting (to central african republic, for some reason??) iranian women who fled here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
nytimes.com
Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2026
On Jared Kushner's trillion dollar conflicts of interest, from Casey Michel: "His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the diplomatic hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Editor Commentary: Ohio taxpayers are sending $2.5 billion to private and religious schools. Even if you agree with this, don’t taxpayers deserve transparency and accountability? A group of bipartisan lawmakers thinks so, but Speaker Matt Huffman doesn’t ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/01/o...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Ohio taxpayers deserve accountability and oversight of $2.5 billion being sent to private schools • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio taxpayers are sending $2.5 billion to private and religious schools. Even if you agree with this, don’t taxpayers deserve transparency and accountability? A group of bipartisan lawmakers thinks…
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Ironically, Trump's trade wars have actually prevented some firms from reshoring their manufacturing, because they don't know what their costs will be. Trump is tariffing all their inputs (metals, industrial machinery parts, electronics components, textiles, wood, chemicals, plastics) too
thebulwark.com
Trump’s Tariffs Have Created an Economic Sh*tshow Beyond Your Wildest Imagination
The company that makes his favorite shoes just got its first tariff refund. But it still hasn’t been made whole.
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Ohio Citizen Action @ohiocitizen.org · 18/05/2026
Ohio's grid reliability problem didn't happen by accident. Utilities and their allies in the state legislature spent years blocking the clean energy and efficiency measures that could have prevented it. Now they want ratepayers to accept more outages. bit.ly/4dATvi4
canarymedia.com
Ohio utilities report subpar grid reliability as they seek a lower bar
FirstEnergy and Duke say factors like worsening extreme weather led to missed 2025 targets. The state will soon decide whether to accept more and longer…
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 18/05/2026
US House GOP & Dems have compromised on 5-year transportation bill. Draft bill includes a $150 annual fee on electric vehicles ($35 for plugins). No fee on gas-powered cars. Though not huge, this is another disincentive to shift to EVs in a country where the EV market share is low & declining.
transportation.house.gov
Press Releases | Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump’s More Than 3,700 Trades Provoke Wall Street Astonishment
President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totaling tens of millions of dollars and involv...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/05/2026
Two police officers from Gratis, Ohio, an all-white town per the US census, showed up at a majority Latinx public school in Cincinnati—50 miles away—to search for kids for ICE, disguised as a “wellness check.”
theguardian.com
Unauthorized ICE ‘wellness checks’ by police at Ohio schools draw outrage
Community members and rights groups criticize police arriving at Cincinnati schools on behalf of ICE
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Want a job forever? Run for Congress.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"Our president is basically an economic serial killer, whacking firms left and right. In addition to the intentional corporate executions, there are a great many Trump casualties that look more like manslaughter...victims mangled by Trump’s agenda." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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The ‘America First’ Corporate Graveyard
An (economic) serial killer is on the loose, and he’s murdering U.S firms left and right.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal
dailykos.com
Mike Johnson is House speaker only because of illegal GOP gerrymanders
Discover how partisan gerrymandering secured GOP control in Congress and shaped national politics—find out more in this in-depth analysis.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x
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Attorney says detained Korean Hyundai workers had special skills for short-term jobs
An immigration attorney says many South Korean workers detained in a U.S. immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Georgia were brought in for highly specialized work that Americans aren't trained to pe...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 02/05/2026
Well, there's at least *one* little way the Democrats are like Donald Trump. ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social:
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Dumb, Bespoke Tax Policy
Trump perfected it. And now Democrats are getting in on the act.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What is happening in Louisiana right now is both a redistricting power grab and a dry run for authoritarian election subversion this Fall. The governor has declared a state of emergency to suspend the congressional elections because he doesn't like the current map.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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DrCrlsnPEJD @drcrlsnpe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
To quadruple nuclear by 2050 (if no current operating NPP closed), US would need ~300 AP1000-sized NPPs. That's completing one NPP *every month for 25y*. For a 7y build time (1/2 that of a Vogtle AP1000), 80+ (!!!) NPPs would be under construction *at once* for a decade. Achievable? Delusional.
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/04/2026
Solar panels don’t damage the countryside you just don’t like the way they look. Skylarks. Linnets. Yellowhammers. www.ecoportal.net/en/solar-pan...
ecoportal.net
Solar panels were known to attract birds, but they are now drawing in species never seen in these areas before
New research from the University of Cambridge has found that some birds species are making a triumphant return to the area around solar panels in England.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 21/04/2026
Ohio GOP governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has investments with a venture capital firm that's backed every one of the defense company Anduril's funding rounds. Anduril is receiving more than $830 million in state incentives to build a production facility. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/21/v...
ohiocapitaljournal.com
Vivek Ramaswamy may have stake in company receiving more than $830 million from Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has investments with a venture capital firm that has backed every one of the defense company Anduril's funding rounds. Anduril is receiving more…
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 16/04/2026
From yesterday’s dispatch:
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 14/04/2026
Councilwoman Day-Achauer has treated me very unfairly in the past, but we’re looking past that because she was dropping bombs on Monday night.
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