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Extra Extra: Who Wants To Buy Dark Helmet's Helmet?
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Published Jun 10, 2017
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- Finally, something millennials aren't killing: left-wing politics.
- A Westchester teen was taken into custody by ICE on day of his prom, ahead of graduation.
- Keith Ellison is explicitly threatening IDC members with primaries if they don't rejoin the mainline Democratic conference in the state Senate.
- Peter Thiel’s chess obsession can be used to explain his belief that technology can “fix” everything.
- Two U.S. soldiers were killed, and two more were wounded, when an Afghan soldier attacked them.
- A fake Antifa rally promoted by right wingers fooled some Houston media members.
- If you've ever really wanted to buy Dark Helmet's helmet from Spaceballs, well, this is your big chance.
- Levi Johnston is part of the Deep State now, b*tches.
- A word to the wise: Donald Trump’s “Pittsburgh not Paris” line is an appeal to toxic masculinity, not a paean to American manufacturing.
- And finally, it's an unforgiving world, she's not an unforgiving girl:
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