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Winter in Wisconsin is tough. So tough, in fact, that living creatures might go searching for shelter in unlikely places. House Speaker Paul Ryan explained Thursday that a family of woodchucks moved into his Chevy Suburban recently, eating the wiring and rendering the car useless. "My car was eaten by animals," Ryan said, to laughs from an audience at an event hosted by The Economic Club of Washington D.C. "It's just dead."

Hillbilly sellout: The politics of J. D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” are already being used to gut the working poor | Salon.com

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Conservatives and the media treated Vance's memoir like "Poor People for Dummies." Watch his damaging rhetoric work
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