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Adam Fleming Petty's avatar

this is the kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism substack needs

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Pete Tosiello's avatar

democracy dies in darkness, mon frere

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Hawa's avatar

This is great! The Arne Duncan erasure though...

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Pete Tosiello's avatar

true! thank you!

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Derek Neal's avatar

This was amazing. By chance I’m reading at LaGuardia as I make my way back home from the Basketball Hall of Fame Tip Off Tournament at Mohegan Sun, which featured my alma mater (Vermont), Yale, Fairfield…basically a bunch of teams similar in talent level to Princeton with ends of the bench similar to Hegseth.

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Pete Tosiello's avatar

yo that's fuckin dope, mohegan sun is a great basketball atmosphere, just super hard to get to. we used to love going to the America East/MAAC/NEC conference tournaments, basketball recruiting is so random especially in the northeast, you can see all-american caliber dudes play before dozens of spectators

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Derek Neal's avatar

It’s great, at least for Vermont I love the small town atmosphere of it and you still get to see some really good players

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Pete Tosiello's avatar

tom brennan cultivated such a folksy new england mystique, would love to catch a catamounts game someday!

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Derek Neal's avatar

Tom Brennan!? Damn dude…that is a deep cut. We’re gonna need more mid major college bball essays from you!

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Pete Tosiello's avatar

he came to our high school on a recruiting visit my sophomore year, it was like elvis came to town

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

https://substack.com/home/post/p-151992936

AN OPEN LETTER TO PETE HEGSETH

Your Nomination for Secretary of Defense — A Blatant Spectacle of Opportunism, Recklessness, and the Sinister Nexus of White Nationalism and Sex Crimes

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