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    "text": "Here's something I wrote in 2020 about punditry's idpol contras that I don't recommend reading so much as printing out on absorbent paper, ripping into pieces, wadding up, moistening with saliva, inserting into a straw, and shooting at Jeremy Peters's computer www.motherjones.com/politics/202...",
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