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McCarthy’s rampage was about rooting out traitors.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026 -
Each night, the traitors eliminate one faithful by figuratively murdering them, ending their time on the show.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
3 Mar. 2026
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Each of the songs on the fifteen-track album has at least one collaborator, some of whom appear posthumously.—
William Vaillancourt,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2026
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Working with bandmate Ross, as well as a strong cast of remixers including tour collaborator Boys Noize, Reznor retools the film score into a stylish and confident, if occasionally tedious, album of aggressive dance music that stands on its own.—
Sadie Sartini Garner,
Pitchfork,
7 Mar. 2026
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On November 25, 1947, a majority of Hollywood top brass met at the Waldorf Astoria in New York and drafted the notorious Waldorf Statement that promised no studio would employ anyone who was a communist or suspected subversive.—
Chris Yogerst,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Oct. 2025
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Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
27 Sep. 2025
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The game was played in front of a sellout crowd of 41,628 that was decidedly pro-Mexico.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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On January 24, a sellout crowd for the University of Connecticut’s men’s basketball match-up with Villanova at PeoplesBank Arena combined with a show at Hartford Stage combined to fill up the MAT Garage well ahead of the beginning of the play.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
8 Mar. 2026
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The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Jan. 2026
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But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.—
Ryan Cooper,
Washington Post,
20 Jan. 2026
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But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.—
Marc Caputo,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2023
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Judas, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, was believed to be the 13th Apostle to join the table at the Last Supper.—
Chad Murphy,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
13 Feb. 2026
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The former requires identifying conspirators who have a chance.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
1 Mar. 2026
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The former Cabinet secretary also slammed oversight committee Republicans for skipping the recent deposition of former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner, whom the FBI labeled a co-conspirator of Epstein.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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