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Senator Joe Manchin, D-WV, departs after attending Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's video joint address to Congress in the Congressional Auditorium at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 16, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Fuck Joe Manchin

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Senators Week

Stop Referring To The “Caning” Of Charles Sumner!

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Let’s Remember Some Senators

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Sen. Tommy Tuberville questions Joe Biden's HHS Secretary nominee about, let's say, cancel culture.

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Tommy Tuberville Is At Home In The Senate

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That Time Two Senators Socked Each Other In The Face

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A Senate Judiciary Committee ready to discuss prohibition enforcement, Washington, circa 1925.

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Let Me FOIA The Senate (And The House)

Brady Tkachuk of the Ottawa Senators checks Auston Matthews, much as he might check Ted Cruz

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Which U.S. Senator Would Most Thoroughly Be Obliterated By A Single Check From Brady Tkachuk?

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