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"Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law? | Frankly 117"
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#perfume : the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance

- French: Parfum

- German: das Parfüm

- Italian: profumo

- Portuguese: perfume

- Spanish: el perfume

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#BBC Will the TikTok deal mean the app changes in the US? w.st/UkskG
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#BBC Pair jailed over camera in driveway of ex-policeman's house w.st/bnTnV
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#BBC UN-backed experts say Gaza food supplies improving but 100,000 still in 'catastrophic conditions' w.st/Uksk9
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Builders have 'fear of speaking out' against Trump despite collapsing housing industry

Journalist Catherine Rampell writes in The Bulwark that the U.S. construction industry is curiously silent about crossing President Donald Trump, even as he devastates its bottom line and knocks holes...

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Trump's disqualified prosecutor brutally mocked for glaring typo in her official signature

Unlawfully appointed interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan recently suffered another public embarrassment after a legal reporter noticed an obvious spelling error in her official signature.

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Top Joint Chiefs lawyer gives guidance on how to respond to 'patently illegal' order

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew into a rage when, in a video posted online in November, Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers urged members ...

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'Next AG will prosecute': Trump official warned of fallout from Epstein files release

WASHINGTON — A rebel House Republican openly questioned top Trump administration officials on Thursday about their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files after House Democrats released dozens of new ph...

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There's one key reason the Trump 'ballroom' will never get built: analysis

President Donald Trump has already bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, but replacing it with his ballroom may not be in the cards, one columnist said.

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The Wiles interviews aren't mysterious — they're just damning

I confess to believing something was afoot when I first heard about Susie Wiles’ interviews with Vanity Fair. The White House chief of staff had savaged JD Vance (“a conspiracy theorist for a decade”)...

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'Where's Trump?' Fomer DOJ lawyer details approach to the Epstein files

The Department of Justice has until the end of the day on Friday to release its files pertaining to infamous pedophile sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. To mark the occasion, former DOJ attorney Ankush...

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Science destroys Trump Cabinet's lie

The idea is as old as western civilization: “The morbidly rich are born to rule the rest of us.”

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Staffers' sanity questioned after Trump's 'divorced from reality' speech

President Trump praised the state of the U.S. economy in a primetime address Wednesday evening, even though new government statistics show the nation’s unemployment rate is at a new four-year high of ...

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Mitt Romney offers cure for Trump's 'slash-and-burn' policies in scathing editorial

During the United States' 2012 presidential race, conservative GOP nominee Mitt Romney and incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama aggressively debated one another on economic policy. And they had...

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NESCIO. He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand any thing. After the senate house examination for degrees, the students proceed to the schools, to be questioned by the proctor. According to custom immemorial the answers MUST be Nescio.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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A Silver Lining From Comic Book Burnings and Censorship in Postwar America: Book Censorship News, December 19, 2025

While comic books remain among the most challenged and banned formats in the US, there are some silver linings to be seen.
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