Dion Rabouin @DionRabouin Twitter profile

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Dion Rabouin

4 years

If you're wondering how to pronounce my last name, here's @BeckyQuick and @JoeSquawk with a quick tutorial. Because I know all the vowels can be confusing.

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Dion Rabouin

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@espn This man stomped on another player's chest and then jumped off of him in a nationally televised playoff game. Of course he got suspended. What are y'all even talking about here?

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The incident in Phoenix wasn’t the first time I’ve been harassed and/or detained by the police for seemingly no reason. It’s just the first time anyone has taken notice. And I'm thankful.

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We got a black Bachelor, y'all. I'm telling you, next week the @Patriots are signing @Kaepernick7 to a five-year fully guaranteed deal, Huey Newton is getting a monument in DC and Malcolm X is getting a posthumous Medal of Freedom.

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It's official...your next Bachelor is @mattjames919 !

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4 years

Why do Black people want police departments defunded and abolished? The attached photo is of a text I sent to a friend who is about to be fired from the Aurora Police Department for taking mocking pictures near the site of #ElijahMcClain 's death.

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2 years

I don't have much more to say about the situation with Phoenix PD. Just about all of the details can be found in Dave's report here. Thanks to everyone who has reached out to offer support. We're hoping to hear back from the chief or someone at the department soon.

Dave Biscobing

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Our report and video is now up. Phoenix didn’t respond to our requests for comment or answer specific questions. We also asked for body camera and records. They did release an incident report late today.

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3 years

@metametamorpho1 @punishedemma This is a brilliant idea. I'd add that users get only one super dislike for the life of their account and anyone whose profile gets super disliked 20 times is banned for life.

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6 years

@hectorcitox Que significa "el bowe"?

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5 years

Greg Mankiew, former chair of the @WhiteHouseCEA under George W. Bush just said he likes the proposals of @AndrewYang and universal basic income. I swear to God. I have it on tape. He's doing a whole presentation on it. What a time to be alive.

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2 years

This time, the bank that called the police on me has called to apologize, and the mayor of the city where it happened has emailed me personally to apologize and assure me that a full investigation is happening. But I've been dealing with this my entire life.

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3 years

Good thread. Companies aren't being forced to raise prices. They're choosing to. Because they want more money. And because they can.

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1. Everyone is talking about rising prices and there are a lot of factors that contribute to inflation but one important factor is almost never discussed: concentrated corporate power Follow along if interested

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7 years

Google executive: "We should feature Selena Quintanilla as our Google Doodle tomorrow." Tech responsible for Doodle:

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Dion Rabouin

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I'm one of the people who was laid off in the latest round of WSJ job cuts. And honestly, I'm so happy and grateful. I love that I got to work at the Wall Street Journal. I got to write front-page news stories, host a podcast, create a Youtube channel and make a rap video.

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4 years

@axios For both @jemelehill and @andreperryedu : What's the most enduring myth about the racial wealth gap? What's the thing you hear most often that is incorrect?

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4 years

This is what the police force does to good and kind and honorable men. It sucks out their humanity and turns them into people who believe it's funny to pose at the site of a man's death re-enacting the chokehold that killed him.

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4 years

This is a quote from Oprah Winfrey about my article that I wrote. Can't nobody tell me nothing ever again in life. Ever.

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1 year

@NBA @nuggets He got this with 5 minutes left in the THIRD quarter. The fourth quarter of this game just started lol

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3 years

@ggreenwald @nation @ElieNYC I really think you oughtta sit this one out, Glenn.

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6 years

@RyanKisiel @vanillaice No, Ryan. He should walk up to the medical staff and say, "Aight, stop! Collaborate and listen!"

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2 years

“No,” my dad responded. “I just didn’t know.” “Yeah, maybe you are stupid,” the officer said. “Don’t do it again.” My dad had this look of sadness, fury and helplessness on his face that I had never seen before.

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Dion Rabouin

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6 years

Treasury Department announces economic sanctions on Venezuela.

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4 years

Because the good and kind and honorable men and women you know who are cops also do things like this when you're not around.

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@DionRabouin

2 years

I wanted to write this because people keep asking me if I’m ok. Of course I’m ok. If I broke down every time I was harassed, assaulted, detained or had my rights violated by the police, all I would be is broken. And I refuse to let them break me.

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2 years

I think my first time interacting with police was when I was 4. My dad used to let me sit on his lap while he drove. I would pretend to be driving and it was my favorite thing in the world. The last time it happened we were pulled over by an officer.

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Dion Rabouin

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6 years

Through poor investment decisions and high fees, Wall Street managers have cost American taxpayers more than $600 billion over the past decade

Wall Street managers have cost Americans more than $600 billion over the past decade

Pension fund managers across the country have been underperforming the market and charging hefty fees to do so. That's helped widen the gap between what retirees are owed and what local governments...

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4 years

To Oprah's point about white privilege: "Data shows that over the last 30 years, even as individual Black Americans have seen increased success, the overall wealth gap has widened."

The myth of closing the racial wealth gap with individual accomplishment

Even as individual Black Americans have seen increased success, the overall wealth gap has widened.

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Dion Rabouin

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3 years

@davidsirota This $15 minimum wage thing reminds me of 2017 when some Republican, maybe it was Ryan, said, "We've got the House, the Senate and the presidency. If we can't lower taxes, what are we even doing here?"

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@ggreenwald Rehabilitated? You're joking right? Are you living in 1980 where children aren't charged as adults? The white privilege in this tweet is strong, my dude.

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2 years

and he’s also the most boring driver on planet earth. Once the car had been thoroughly searched and we had been questioned about where we were going and why we were allowed to go. No apology, no explanation for the stop beyond the completely legal turn.

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He told my dad he couldn’t do that. My father told the officer he didn’t know that he couldn’t have his son on his lap while driving. The officer lowered his sunglasses and asked him, “Are you stupid or something?”

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2 years

The cops searched us twice each, tossed my car and interrogated us about what we were doing there. The idea that two high school students would be at their own high school at 9:30 p.m. just didn’t seem plausible. We had our IDs with us, but that didn’t seem to change anything.

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4 years

@ggreenwald Serious question: How do none of these supposedly politically hyper aware people realize that this is exactly what happened with Trump? It was four years ago. Four. The number before five.

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@DionRabouin

4 years

This story should help you understand why it's not just "bad cops" that need to go, but the entire structure of policing in the U.S. that is a problem. For those of you who don't know the story, Elijah was an autistic young man who after a "confrontation" with APD ...

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@DionRabouin

2 years

My friend started shaking with fear as he was searched. The officer pushed him against the car. “What are you hiding?” he demanded. “He’s just scared,” I said. “If he doesn’t have anything he’s got nothing to be scared of." "He's never dealt with the police before," I replied.

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Dion Rabouin

@DionRabouin

3 years

TFW your new boss saw your DMX tweet thread... Anyway, excited to let everyone know I'm rocking with @WSJ now. Full details of the new job below.

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@DionRabouin

2 years

that I had called, they grabbed me and pulled me, screaming and crying, out of the building and put me in the back of a police car. Lying to police was a crime, they said. After talking with my dad for some time they eventually let me out of the car and told me I was free to go

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They eventually decided I was telling the truth about living at the house I had parked my car behind and left. They never told me why they started following me in the first place or why they felt the need to search me and my car.

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@DionRabouin

4 years

Fed vice chair Randy Quarles has a baller-ass office.

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@DionRabouin

2 years

When I was 17, I pulled off the street into the alley behind my house. A police car followed me. When I pulled into the spot in the alley where I parked and opened my door, two cops jumped out of their car and grabbed me. One threw me on the trunk of my car and cuffed me.

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The other one opened up my door and started looking through my car. The cop who was holding me on my trunk started questioning me, asking where I was going and what I was doing. I told him I was going home to the place I lived, which was about 20 feet from where we were standing.

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When I was 16, my car started overheating so I pulled into the parking lot of my high school to let it cool down. It was a 1985 Ford Tempo, so it did that a lot. I was with a friend and as we sat in the car waiting with the hood propped open a police car pulled up.

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and the cop told him he had made a double-line turn. A double-line turn literally just means you’ve turned across a double line, which is completely legal when a stoplight is green or yellow (which it was). He proceeded to pull us out of the car and then he and his partner...

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When I was 20, I was riding in a car with a couple friends (both Black) and when we turned left at a stoplight, a police car pulled us over. After offering up his license and insurance, my friend driving asked why we had been pulled over...

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@davidsirota This is the part no one talks about. If companies hadn't moved the factories to China and elsewhere in order to save money on labor and manufacturing, we wouldn't need to ship things thousands of miles across oceans to get them. The supply chain didn't magically end up in China

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2 years

When I was 7, my dad (who had some anger issues) hit me in the face because I talked back. I called the police when I got to his office and told them what happened. The dispatcher, who sounded like a sweet woman who wanted to help me, told me she would be coming to talk...

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searched it. That seemed odd, given we had been pulled over for a double-line turn. Our driver that night is the most religious person I know. He has never tried a drug and would sooner die than drink and drive. The car had nothing illegal in it ...

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2 years

to me before she sent any police over so I could decide whether I wanted to press charges. When I went to meet her near the vending machines in the hallway there were two uniformed officers there. I initially denied I had been the one who called. When I finally admitted...

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4 years

One of those people is a man I've known for 20 years. He is my friend. Not an acquaintance. A friend. I have slept at his house. I know his family. I was a groomsman in his wedding. I have on multiple times called him a good and kind and honorable man.

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Dion Rabouin

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4 years

I don't mean to absolve my friend of responsibility for his actions, and as you can see from the text I sent him that's not how I feel. But this is why we need serious reform of all police departments in the country.

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4 years

was choked to death by officers. Three officers went to the place where they killed him and took pictures mocking the chokehold used to kill him. Again, he was a skinny, autistic kid in his early 20s.

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4 years

Look up photos of him and you'll get a sense of how horrific it was that three cops literally felt it was necessary to choke him to death. And then three more cops went to the place where he died and took pictures re-enacting the chokehold used to kill him. As a joke.

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2 years

@memkoh I know I'm not a woman, but I showed up for my interview at the Wall Street Journal with these braids and...

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5 years

@alexnazaryan This is an excellent troll. You got everybody. There's no way to not be mad at you.

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6 years

@Forbes Since Kylie Jenner gets to be on the cover of the Self-Made Women Billionaires issue while being neither self-made nor a billionaire, can I be on it next month?

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6 years

So, the next time you hear a local politician complain that the state's pensions are the reason they have to layoff school teachers or cut funding for WIC or food stamps for the poor or health care for the elderly, know that there's around $1 trillion they could have saved.

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1 year

Journalists. We have to stop writing headlines like this. Retail sales did not rise DESPITE inflation increases. They rose BECAUSE of inflation increases. Retail sales is a nominal number, so when prices rise and things cost more it increases the amount of retail sales made.

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@ggreenwald I know who you are, Glenn. That's why it's so surprising to read this coming from you. Committing a violent crime, especially while black, increasingly comes with adult sentencing and records not being sealed.

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4 years

A question debate moderators need to learn: "Who are these people you speak of?"

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4 years

I know most of you don't see it because you're on the arm of the K and so is everyone you know, your family and all of your friends, but as journalists we've got to start talking about the insane inequality that's happening right now. You are doing a disservice to your readers.

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4 years

@axios For @andreperryedu , why do these myths about what Black people can do persist?

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3 years

@LEAUXEND @metametamorpho1 @punishedemma I like the idea of drumming up as much hate as possible on a dating app, but removing scarcity destroys value. So, compromise: Allow one for free and sell future dislikes for $25 a pop. Thus turning super dislikes into a status symbol and making it sting that much more to get one

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@whoelsebutjay_ @xoxosharae @BigHomieKODAQ PWIs generally have lots of scholarship money to award that HBCUs sometimes lack. So often high-performing Black students can go to an Ivy or private college for significantly less than an HBCU. This is especially true for low-income Black students in states w/o many HBCUs

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@davidsirota @crampell We here at the far-left liberal Marxist Wall Street Journal pointed out that price increases by corporations were much bigger than overall inflation and were pushing prices higher numerous times last year. I did an entire video about it

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3 years

@ggreenwald @nation @ElieNYC I can see that. This is a bad look. Please don't go full Fox News. The clicks and likes aren't worth it

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@KelvinLeeJones1 Also useful to point out that Kylie's Cosmetics being valued at $800 million doesn't mean it's actually worth anywhere near that. That's just how Forbes is "valuing" it based on a formula they won't disclose and apparently can't verify.

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6 years

The total amount pension funds could have saved by simply investing in index funds could be more than $1 trillion.

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1 year

@catturd2 @JosephTrevisani To clarify: Joe here is @JosephTrevisani , who retweeted this nonsense. I don't get into politics. But comparing people to Hitler is never a winning strategy.

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@stephxghost This might be the most accurate thing ever on the internet

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4 years

Secretary Steve Mnuchin today touted the administration's plan to send $3,000 to every American family of four. But the architect of that plan, who proposed it weeks ago, now tells me the administration waited too long and a much bigger stimulus is needed.

Architect of Trump's coronavirus stimulus plan says it's too little, too late

"It is now clear that a much larger package is needed," Jason Furman tells Axios.

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I don't want to scare anybody, but this is scary af. If New Zealand's central bank is cutting rates by 50 bp it means they see very bad things happening.

New Zealand's central bank stuns as bold 50bp rate cut bowls over kiwi dollar

New Zealand's central bank stunned markets on Wednesday by cutting interest rates a steep 50 basis points and even flagged the risk of going nuclear by taking rates below zero, a radical shift that...

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5 years

@Zohreen @donaldglover @AndrewYang Wait wait wait. Are Childish Gambino and Andrew Yang doing a coordinated merch drop? Like, they're dropping merch...together?

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@StJoan7 @sharrington1502 @stweetleigh @educatormary @Doc_Hoops11 @CGasparino @rolandscahill @POTUS Not how it works. Sources will often only talk if you grant them anonymity. If you don't they're afraid to say anything controversial because it could mean being fired. You can't just take it back after the fact. That's basically journalism rule no. 1.

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2 years

This is a short list of the interactions with police that I can remember right now, off the top of my head. There are others.

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@chescaleigh I think most men know this isn't a good look, so when they share stories with their boys they edit out the part where they were creepy or inappropriate. We get the version where they tried to talk to a woman on the street and she was crazy. At least, their boys who are reasonable

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My dad moved to Ghana to retire after I finished high school. Even before, he was never a big birthday guy, so he never made a big deal of it. Tonight my brother and I got to celebrate his birthday with him for the first time in probably 20 years. It was a good night.

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In this economy?!

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4 years

Gonna try to live tweet this presidential debate tonight without getting fired. Wish me luck!

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5 years

I am making it my personal mission to get this man, Jerry Foxhoven, back his job at the Iowa social services agency. #2pacForever #2pac #JerryFoxhoven #GetJerryHisJobBack

An Iowa agency director emailed Tupac lyrics to 4,300 employees. He was asked to resign

Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven routinely sent messages to employees lauding the late rapper Tupac Shakur.

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@ElieNYC Right? I have to imagine all the kids seeing their ridiculous parents freak out have to be like, "Man, we gotta get some of this critical race theory. Let's drive to the hood and ask Black people if they can get us some!"

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Because pensions are guaranteed, the underperformance has hit taxpayers in the form of budget cuts for schools, hospitals and libraries and decreased spending on infrastructure, health care and other public projects.

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Oh, and if you're looking for someone to create, to host, to write, to deliver content that people care about and that helps audiences understand money, markets and the economy in a real way — get at me. I got them words.

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I've been investing for 16 years now, and because I've been patient and made sacrifices and saved and taken advantage of opportunities in the market, I'm in a position where money isn't a worry.

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Can someone explain to me why Trump and Congress love the airlines so much? They don't employ that many people, aren't a big contributor to GDP or future growth, aren't all headquartered in a part of the country that's electorally important. Why the rush to bail them out AGAIN?

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Was just informed that the Axios Markets newsletter has now reached 155,000 subscribers. That's more than 10x where we were just a year ago. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed. If you haven't already, get signed up here -

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@exavierpope You just stay hating. Even at this very early hour smh

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@byjoelanderson I think about this all the time. Sitcom actors and video vixens. Whenever I watch old videos I'm always like, "I wonder what she's doing now."

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When you go to tweet after tragedies like the death of Kobe Bryant, first ask yourself three questions: 1. Does this need to be said? 2. Does this need to be said now? 3. Does this need to be said now by me?

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Y'all gotta stop saying that $SIVB got in trouble because Treasury prices fell. US government bonds were NOT the problem. Silicon Valley Bank is in trouble because they made poor investment decisions and didn't properly hedge their risk to protect their clients. That's it.

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@LisaArmstrong He says he just wanted to let me know before it went public. I assume the department is releasing his name at some point in the near future.

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And it's not as if there aren't clear historical examples of what happens when economic inequality gets to extreme levels. People explode and revolt. We have thousands of years of history on this. Inequality is THE issue right now. And most of you refuse to even put it in print.

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@whoelsebutjay_ @xoxosharae @BigHomieKODAQ Like, personally, Harvard would've been waaaaaaaaaayyyy cheaper for me than Howard or Hampton. The school I ended up going to was the cheapest of all, even though it had the highest initial price tag.

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@ezralevant @PrisonPlanet If everyone ignored it, how'd you get the footage?

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@TheStalwart @tracyalloway Why big corporations love inflation

Why Big Companies Love Inflation

Some think rising inflation means big companies are forced to raise their prices. But it actually works the other way around: corporations actually drive inf...

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@ggreenwald To suggest that forgiveness and rehabilitation is the norm for offenders under 18 is to apply a very white lens. I just think that's important to say.

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I think this is about the most New York thing I could have possibly done today. Watching the Knicks vs the Heat at Rucker Park. (Just ran into Latrell Spreewell lol)

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@ggreenwald @nation @ElieNYC A black person with significant credentials is calling out racism in the judicial system and your response is basically, "LOL! What a cuck." Think about the side you're taking, who's there with you, egging you on, and if that's really where you want to be. That's all I'm saying.

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@TheNBACentral One of...?

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@JoyAnnReid @DrJasonJohnson @KingJames I love Joy Ann but this is wildly inaccurate.

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Dion Rabouin

@DionRabouin

4 years

@axios For @jemelehill what's the biggest misconception people have about Black athletes and entertainers when it comes to the wealth gap?

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