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"I am supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, not in spite of being a conservative Republican, but because I am a conservative Republican"
@JeffFlake with @RepsForHarris in Scottsdale, Arizona:
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From @DavidAFrench - American Racism: We’ve Got So Very Far to Go frenchpress.thedispatch.com/…
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"If [Trump] fails to prevail in November against a man he describes as corrupt and weak, all the world will see him as a loser," @michael_steel writes. "Those who have hitched their wagons too closely to him clearly worry they will be, too."
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"You honestly think he can serve 4.5 more years?"
"I do."
"I think that's lunatic."
@JonahDispatch & @KBeds argue on CNN whether President Biden running for reelection is "irresponsible."
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Minnesota recorded eight deaths among infants who survived abortion attempts during Tim Walz’s tenure as governor.
Fact check by @AJDemas:
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From @charlotteUVA: ‘As Far as I Understand, Nobody Likes the Regime’ thedispatch.com/p/as-far-as-…
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From @thomasjoscelyn (🔒): Germany Disrupts ISIS Plot Targeting U.S. Military
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🚨Big news: The Dispatch has acquired @SCOTUSblog, and we're thrilled to welcome cofounder @AHoweBlogger—widely respected as one of the nation's leading legal journalists—to our team.
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"Ron DeSantis boasts—rightly—about Florida as a global destination for immigrants, tourists, and business. He’s very proud of Florida’s low taxes.
If he runs for president on the promise to make America more like his vision for Florida, I’m good with that."
-@JonahDispatch
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.@stephenfhayes SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani tried calling Sen. Tuberville tonight asking him to object to the election results in 10 states.
"I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote."
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"The plot to overturn the election wasn’t just insurrection; it was also an extraordinary financial grift." — @DavidAFrench
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"If you're praising Hamas... that means you're pro-terrorist."
@JonahDispatch got into a debate with @lourdesgnavarro on CNN about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia University:
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Five years ago, @stephenfhayes and @JonahDispatch had an idea:
Create a place where thoughtful readers can come for fact-based news and commentary that doesn’t come either through the filter of the mainstream media or the increasingly boosterish media on the right.
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"The room filled up such that the Kennedy campaign was forced, last minute, to create an outside overflow space. That’s not inconsequential."
@DavidMDrucker: The RFK Jr. Experience
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"Forcing people to lie about whether or not they think Russia started the war is just a way to signal that truth will not save you." @JonahDispatch told Sam Harris.
"You cannot tell the truth, you cannot have the courage of your convictions and speak honestly."
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"Rubio is a picture-perfect caricature of what he feared eight years ago that Republicans would become under Trump’s influence."
@allahpundit:
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Did Steve Mnuchin say Americans can live on $1,200 for 10 weeks?
No, he did not.
A fact check from @Alec_Dent.
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"Howard Lutnick is what social scientists call a moron...just a total sycophant and completely economically illiterate."
@JonahDispatch discusses how he really feels about Trump's Commerce Secretary on @RealTimers
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"Progressives would do themselves a lot of favors if they start talking about wealth creation rather than wealth distribution."
--@JonahDispatch on @JonahRemnant
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.@stephenfhayes: "At Fox, the executives are afraid of the hosts, and the hosts are afraid of the audience.
The result is you have these primetime hosts who just spill bull****, and did so knowingly in this case."
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"Here’s why Juneteenth is a great American holiday: Slavery was very bad."
In 2021, @JonahDispatch argued, "Juneteenth is a good thing for all Americans, not just black Americans, to celebrate."
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"How sad is it that you have an administration that is transforming a country from a place that is a magnet for people all over the world and to turn it into a place that people are afraid to come to.”
--@DavidAFrench on The Dispatch Podcast with @JonahDispatch and @whignewtons
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From @CaseyMattox_: The Supreme Court Can Strike a Blow Against Compelled Speech thedispatch.com/p/the-suprem…
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🚨 An exciting announcement years in the making: Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) is officially a Dispatch contributor!
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"I think extreme anti-Mormonism may be the most reactionary form of hatred in America, because hating people solely for what they believe is the closest we get to ideas that powered the wars of religion in Europe." --@JonahDispatch | G-File
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"Tucker likes to make a really bold assertion and then add 'and no honest person can disagree.'
That's how he always says it, as if there's no room for debate about something that demands reasonable debate, and that Tucker has the wrong opinion on."
@JonahDispatch today:
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Patriotism says: “I love my country”
Nationalism says: “My nation has this kind of culture, not that kind”
Patriotism says: “I love my fellow countrymen” Nationalism says: “Only people who share my culture are my fellow countrymen”
from @PaulDMiller2:
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Kevin Williamson: What we have here is an idiotic vandalism spree conducted by incompetents toward no useful end.
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From @wardcarroll: Add the Roosevelt Crisis to the Cautionary Tales from Trump’s Presidency thedispatch.com/p/add-the-ro…
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Uphill, from @byrdinator: ‘I Remember Being Very Angry’
Rep. Liz Cheney reflects on January 6. uphill.thedispatch.com/p/i-r…
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"Donald Trump tried to overthrow the US government the last time he was in power. No one's allowed to be shocked by the fact that he's an authoritarian creep." --Kevin Williamson on The Dispatch Podcast
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"Trump’s enemies are all Americans, his friends are all foreign dictators, and his money lives in Dubai and Indonesia. Some nationalist." | Kevin Williamson:
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"There are constitutional rules and prerogatives here that the president has made really clear he doesn't give a rat's ass about." --@JonahDispatch discusses Trump's push to send the National Guard to Chicago on @TheArenaCNN
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From @JonahDispatch: Defending Conservatism—From the Right
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"That supposed libertarians such as Sen. Paul can be so easily buffaloed into accepting [Trump's] 'infinite crimes' model not only of the presidency but also of the post-presidency is a reminder of how easy it is to morally corrupt such a figure."
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"You have schools bending over backwards to police speech where if you say men can't get pregnant, you get kicked out or thrown into re-education."
@JonahDispatch discusses the current state of college campuses on @RealTimers
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"Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett ... is a great loyalist—but not the kind of loyalist Donald Trump’s ghastly little sycophants demand that she be. Justice Barrett is loyal to her oath of office, to the law, to the Constitution." Kevin Williamson:
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"They’re voting for a truly terrible human, and they know it. They know that he’ll treat their support as a mandate to behave even more terribly as president. They just don’t care." | @allahpundit:
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"You have to be too stupid to be a spell checker at an M&M factory to think that's a great idea."
@JonahDispatch calls out post-liberals who want to abandon the Constitution.
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We will have a special edition of The Morning Dispatch tomorrow after we gather our own reporting on the issue.
We will be careful and methodical in our reporting. We are already seeing irresponsible speculation about this horrific event. We won’t contribute to it.
We are praying for a full recovery for President Trump—-and praying for our country.
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We just received word: We won a Webby Award!
Thanks to your support, we were selected as the People’s Voice Winner for best news and politics website. We are honored by the recognition and deeply grateful for the backing of our dedicated community. winners.webbyawards.com/2025…
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.@JonahDispatch discusses the current state of the Israel-Gaza conflict on CNN This Morning:
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"Conservatism ... cannot endure and still be called conservatism if it is openly, wildly, and insanely committed to the idea that our country is one vast conspiracy." | @JonahDispatch thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…
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"Joe Biden is losing right now... If you actually believe the things Democrats say about Trump being an existential threat to democracy then you should do anything you can to put forward the best person who has a chance of beating Donald Trump." @JonahDispatch on CNN.
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BREAKING🚨: @stephenfhayes is working on a piece.
The scoop 👇
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"A conservative, we are told, is not a conservative if they don’t vote for Trump. Nonsense. I won’t vote for him because I am a conservative, and I think this country needs a healthy and sane conservatism." | @JonahDispatch:
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"The president is supposed to faithfully execute the law ... while Congress, the legislative branch, is supposed to write the law. Both parties have colluded over decades to ignore this basic division of labor."
@JonahDispatch:
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.@JonahDispatch thinks @DavidAFrench was wrong to endorse Kamala Harris.
"I think David’s error ... was succumbing to both the voter’s desire to feel good about their vote and the columnist’s desire to make a positive case for his position." thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…
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"If you have no problem with the term 'good genes' when used by and about black or brown people, but suddenly become outraged when used for a white person—you’re the one with a racial prejudice problem." --@JonahDispatch
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"It should not take this much work to find a photo-ready starving person if there's mass starvation." --@JonahDispatch questioning the media's famine narrative in Gaza
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"The most depressing thing about the Trump presidency hasn't been Trump himself," @JonahDispatch argues, "but what it has exposed in others."
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"This is what makes Aemond so dangerous: He feels justified in the present because of what happened in the past, tethering him to it and ensuring future tragedy."
Samuel Kronen revisits House of the Dragon's "most captivating character."
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“The president thinks the U.S. is one big Macy’s—with him in charge. Donald Trump is a Socialist.”
--Kevin Williamson explains how Donald Trump’s vision of the economy is classic socialism. Read more: thedispatch.com/article/trum…
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There’s nothing conservative about Donald Trump’s trade philosophy. It’s actually the essence of left-wing economic thought, @JonahDispatch writes:
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From @DavidAFrench: The Center Is Not Holding frenchpress.thedispatch.com/…
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"I don't think the president should pardon anyone who assaulted a police officer at the United States Capitol on January 6."
—@Mike_Pence #DispatchSummit24
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.@JonahDispatch: "It’s fine to say Trump didn’t intend the utterly foreseeable violence. But that’s like a bank robber saying he didn’t intend for anyone to get hurt. The intended theft was bad enough. The violence only makes it that much more heinous."
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"Governors do not answer to the President of the United States. They answer to their own states and their own voters." --@JonahDispatch discusses Trump's push to send the National Guard to Chicago on @TheArenaCNN
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“Zelensky isn’t an obstacle to peace; he’s an obstacle to a talking point. And Trump and company hate him for it,” @JonahDispatch writes:
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"If America behaves dishonorably on the world stage—and that dishonor is celebrated as glorious strength—it will change American character as well," @JonahDispatch writes:
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From @DavidAFrench: The True Extent of Religious Liberty in America, Explained frenchpress.thedispatch.com/…
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Congratulations to Gus, the lab/golden retriever mix who is our inaugural Dispawtcher of the Year!
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🧵 (1/9) Tucker Carlson claimed on a recent video podcast that Ukraine’s military has been selling U.S.-provided weaponry to buyers on the black market, emphasizing repeatedly that he knew this “for a fact."
Carlson’s claims lack any evidence and are likely entirely false.
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From @McCormackJohn: Since Trump was elected to a second term, @Mike_Pence has proven himself to be one of the last remaining institutional voices of traditional conservatism in a party and movement willing to go along with whatever Trump wants.
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"This is a moment where we should be able to lock in and say that the political system is insufficient to the moment and that it is failing, it has failed."
@ChrisStirewalt and @JonahDispatch discuss last week's debate on #TheRemnant🎙️:
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"I take very seriously the prohibition against bearing false witness and J.D., who's out there campaigning as a Catholic and a Christian, is out there not only telling lies about these very poor vulnerable people, but justifying the lies."
Kevin Williamson on today's Remnant:
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"Marco Rubio, I think is an outstanding choice for Secretary of State, Tom Homan, as the border czar, Michael Waltz as a National Security Advisor ... these are all conservative men and women who I believe will serve the country well, serve the president-elect well."
@Mike_Pence #DispatchSummit24
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"Trump’s three big problems as a candidate are precisely the same qualities that mitigated the worst of what might have been a much worse Trump presidency the last time around: He is lazy, he is stupid, and he is childish." | Kevin Williamson:
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"When chief executives start accusing their opponents of treason, it is time to throw them out." --Kevin Williamson
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"Donald Trump is an ailing, dim, mentally unstable moral grotesque who attempted to stage a coup d’état the last time he lost an election." | Kevin Williamson:
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As Mike Lee notes, a conflict with Russia in Ukraine is dangerous. But so is not doing anything––it rewards the behavior most damaging to the United States' image and interests.
This is why Russian chess grandmaster @Kasparov63 has argued against appeasing Iran (and Russia).
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.@whignewtons: Joe Biden was elected to restore norms but has done more damage to the rule of law than any other president.
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.@RepMeijer to @declanpgarvey: "If you’re using the government to compel something you like, you’re setting the precedent for the government to be compelling something you don’t like."
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"You can think honor is for suckers, as so many seem to do when it comes to everything from marriage vows to election results, to international alliances. But behaving dishonorably has a price," @JonahDispatch writes:
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"To corporate America, many House Republicans' view is: We protected you guys for a long time. We cut your taxes, we lightened your regulations...
And you turned around and on every issue of cultural salience, you sided with Democrats."
@jonathanvswan, for @JonahRemnant:
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"When Israel pulls off a maneuver that is unprecedentedly precise and surgical in its minimization of collateral damage, they’re still the bad guys."
@JonahDispatch: Let’s not forget who was on the other side of those pagers.
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"I'm voting for Harris for these reasons and I totally get that other people will disagree and I'm fine with that."
@DavidAFrench defends his endorsement of Kamala Harris to @JonahDispatch on The Skiff:
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.@JonahDispatch: I remember saying to Charles Krauthammer, "This thing is gonna end in tears no matter what, so you might as well do the right thing.
The takeaway from so many people at Fox was "this thing is gonna end in tears no matter what, so let's just make a quick buck."
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.@JonahDispatch discusses how the polarizing language used by both the left and the right has fueled conspiracy theories and political tensions.
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"“I’m supporting Kamala Harris because I know she would never use the powers of the presidency to overturn an election that she did not win."
@JeffFLake makes the case for Harris in Arizona:
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“Trump says these kids who got 20 or 30 dolls, maybe this year they only need one or two. That is coded at people who can afford 30 dolls. What about the families that can only afford one or two dolls, and now can’t afford any?”
- @JonahDispatch on The Remnant
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"There remains every reason to think that as vice president he’d try to obstruct the transfer of power if Republicans lost a national election." | @allahpundit:
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Trump “never recovered from the consequences of the ‘perfect’ phone call,” John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, told The Dispatch.
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"According to the Constitution, their job isn’t to 'support the president,' but to protect and defend the Constitution and, with that in mind, to advise and consent to presidential appointments." | @JonahDispatch:
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"I think one of the reasons why our politics are so gross and so distorted is people are trying to get out of politics what is properly reserved for the realm of religion."
@JonahDispatch and @wrmead on today's #TheRemnant🎙️:
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🧵: What would "Stop the Steal" 2.0 look like?
@McCormackJohn reports on what we know and what we don’t about how Donald Trump would fight another legitimate loss at the ballot box. (1/8) thedispatch.com/article/what…
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"For some Europeans, air conditioning is seen as a profane American indulgence (I consider it close to indoor plumbing as a boon of civilized living)." --@JonahDispatch
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Former President George W. Bush on parts of the GOP leaning into nativism: "To me, that basically says that we want to be extinct."
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"I’m at a loss to understand why celebrating the end of slavery is anything but good. In particular, I’m at a loss to understand why seeing white Americans celebrate the end of slavery is anything but good."
Read @JonahDispatch's G-File on Juneteenth: thedispatch.com/newsletter/g…
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“He is lying—that’s what Putin does.”
For the #DispatchPodcast, @NikkiHaley recalls her conversation with Donald Trump following his 2018 press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Check out @DavidMDrucker's full interview with Haley here: thedispatch.com/podcast/disp…
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The Dispatch is launching The Next 250, a yearlong project. We’ll spend the year talking about how we can take that baton and build towards a future our Founding Fathers can be proud of.
Join today: thedispatch.com/join-offer/t…
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Kevin Williamson: Vis-à-vis Moscow, the Trump administration is not even a paper tiger: A paper tiger might at least give you a papercut.
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From @DavidAFrench: A Vigilante Killing in Georgia
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