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A swath of the Santa Clarita Valley is under a first-of-its-kind quarantine after the invasive and pestilent tau fruit fly was found in the area, officials announced this week.

But racist real estate rules and low pay sequestered Mexican workers and their families in cramped, often pestilent shacks, where deadly tuberculosis spread just like COVID-19 has today.

Trump is a proven misogynist, a racist and a ball of pestilent, narcissistic slime.

From Salon

He gets as far as lamenting that the Earth itself “appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors” before being blown up by a rocket.

By Galloway’s reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to women’s willingness in the bedroom.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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