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Walleye

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1. Department of war to be used to pick up trash in DC

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 09:15 AM

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That’s the headline we should be seeing. also please, headline writers, journalists, stop using the word. “crackdown“. Gestapo tactics are not a crackdown

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