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A genuinely awful week generated a ton of reader feedback — with the full range of opinions that you’d expect from Bulwark readers.
The discussion of Afghanistan also dominated our daily podcasts discussions. (BTW, some news: In August we had more than 4 million downloads — by far our biggest month t…
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