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What's my new book about? Early modern Jews seeking to understand their Jewish community through the lens of European political ideas, treating it as a Jewish commonwealth in the era of Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza global.oup.com/academic/produ…

@IBXRun10 @SEPTA @SEPTAPHILLY do you know there’s a train full of runners sitting on the tracks due to mechanical failure? We’ve been on the train since 5:30…

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@hchesner Girl, same!

Sigh. I really need to spend more time in Amsterdam. FOMO.

DON'T TEMPT THE THING HIGH ATOP THE THING!!!!

Etymology of the day is 'on tenterhooks' (not 'tenderhooks'): tenters, once a common sight, are wooden frames on which freshly milled cloth is stretched so that it dries without shrinking. To be on tenterhooks is to be as tense and taut as the cloth itself.

Watch "JD Vance you just f'ed up in a way I've never seen in my pollical life and I worked for Sarah Palin" - Nicole Wallace JD Vance just called Kamala Harris TRASH at his final rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

Today.

Correct

response to R whining that this is antidemocratic is to point out that they flat out canceled a bunch of their primaries

Run back this Kamala ad immediately twitter.com/AdamJSmithGA/s…

WHITMER-WARNOCK please

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What a pair of wings

@AnneOAlbert My long lost cousin

I haven't been on here for quite a while. Returned to the delightful reminder that @PFLerner and I have identical orange cats

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