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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T13:38:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Spencer Pratt will not be the mayor of Los Angeles. There should be no need to utter this sentence, much like “You do not have to swallow a rhino whole, tonight” or “Human shit will not rain down from the sky.” _Well, of course not. Should I have been worried about that?_\n\nAccording to more than a few self-styled Serious Thinkers—perhaps still haunted by the shock they experienced on the night of Nov. 8, 2016—who insisted on treating Pratt’s mayoral primary run as a legitimate rebuke of status quo politics: Yes. The Free Press worked harder than anyone has ever worked before to imbue Pratt's candidacy with a sense of “woke Democrats just might lose because of woke” verve.\n\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/passantino.bsky.social/post/3mnqlfoemb42g",
  "title": "Washed-Up Clown Spencer Pratt Will Not Be The Mayor of Los Angeles"
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