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🌋 Hot rocks, new politics

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🌋 Hot rocks, new politics

By James Pethokoukis

🦃 Since this is a holiday week for America, the newsletter will be shorter and perhaps a bit less frequent. There will also be no Week in Review on Saturday, so I will do a brief Up Wing-Down Wing Things in each issue.

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