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The Mayor of London has written to every primary school in London asking them to help counter the "pernicious influence" of misogynists such as Andrew Tate.

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Housing costs and inflation have had a pernicious effect on Americans’ financial well-being.

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It also comes amid a growing body of research showing the pernicious and ubiquitous nature of microplastics in the environment and within human bodies.

Additionally, the salutary bipartisan reform of the Electoral Count Act took away the more pernicious avenues to corrupting the election results, and we are more aware of what bad actors might try to do.

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“No state has done as much as California in addressing the pernicious problem of homelessness that too many politicians have ignored for too long,” he said.

From Salon

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