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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

5 years

I hate being right sometimes.

Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

5 years

@brianbeutler In all seriousness, my greatest fear is how much damage Trump could do in the event of a pandemic.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

Elon Musk’s views on free speech remind me of a story from a few decades back. Holocaust deniers began targeting college newspapers, asking the editors to publish their articles. If the editors refused, the deniers argued, they would be complicit in suppressing free speech 1/x

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Mark Strauss

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We’ve achieved peak Simpsons

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Mark Strauss

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Musk is as naïve as those young editors, he still doesn’t understand the difference. And, like many, he fails to appreciate the importance of gate keepers. That's what readers are paying for—quality, curated content. 5/x

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Mark Strauss

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But, of course, the editors failed to understand that while the 1st Amendment guarantees the right to express ideas without govt interference, it does not OBLIGE anyone to share those ideas in their own publishing platforms. Editors have a different job than ACLU lawyers. 4/x

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Trump’s defeat hit Newt hard. He had been expecting another four years living in Rome, on the taxpayers’ dime, while his wife continued to serve as MAGA ambassador to the Vatican.

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The deniers deliberately selected college editors, of course, because they were easy targets: young, idealistic, inexperienced journalists brimming with dedication to free speech and doing the right thing, even if it’s unpopular. 3/x

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The strategy worked. Some college newspapers published the articles, often accompanied by a statement that although they didn’t agree with the content, Holocaust deniers had a "constitutional right" to express their views. 2/x

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

My dude, the company that manufactures Ivermectin says that it doesn’t cure Covid.

@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸

@Chicago1Ray

2 years

You leftists try telling the families who had to bury loved ones bc Fauci said Ivermectin didn't work on Covid that he's a good guy

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Mark Strauss

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Luke Bryan, four years ago, posted a message about the sanctity of voting. Now he’s endorsing a governor who is literally arresting citizens to intimidate minority voters.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Trump will regret the day he chose to fuck around with those ruthless badasses at the [checks notes] National Archives.

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Mark Strauss

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5 years

Turley wrote a piece for WaPo in 2014, declaring that it was a myth that an impeachable offense must involve a violation of criminal law:

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

@mtgreenee As I recall, you had no respect for Congress and the Office of the President when you repeatedly heckled President Biden during his SOTU address.

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

GOP: “These mathematical models predicting the spread of COVID are useless!” Also, the GOP: “This statistical model that I found on Facebook proves that Trump won Pennsylvania!”

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

6 years

This map shows all the Americans at risk. When will we declare a national emergency? #WindmillsCauseCancer

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

It’s pathetic watching Meghan McCain constantly kicking her father’s corpse in the hope that more loose change will fall out of his pockets.

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Mark Strauss

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2 months

@susanferrechio They have a ladies room. You were likely confused because they didn’t have a Lying Hack Reporter room.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

@KevinMKruse @elonmusk I’m amazed he didn’t ask Twitter to choose Brazil’s new president via an online poll.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

SARS, Monkey Pox, H5N2, Zika, MERS…I don’t think people fully understand that Covid is just the latest pandemic in a world where conditions are increasingly optimal for emerging infectious diseases. This, plus hostility towards vaccines, masking, and public health orgs.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Where’s Peter Navarro? Shouldn’t he be saying something incredibly stupid right about now?

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

"We've already lost half of all the sentient beings in the universe. Now is not the time to create more anger by going after Thanos, who is living peacefully in retirement."

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Mark Strauss

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2 months

@mcuban @MMthee0ne And we have the data: The Federal Reserve confirmed that Trump’s tariffs screwed both U.S. manufacturers and consumers. The tariffs on aluminum, in particular, did a lot of economic damage.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

I recently rewatched Zack Snyder’s “Justice League,”‘and then immediately afterwards watched the Joss Whedon version—and now I’m more convinced than ever that Whedon needs to be brought before The Hague for a crime against humanity.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

@thehowie @brithume @GOPLeader Here was Brit Hume’s hot take on January 6th. When I challenged him on it, he blocked me.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

The only other virus that attacks and kills T-cells is HIV.

Immune systems seriously weakened by COVID

Evolving research says COVID leaves many people at heightened risk for other infections

www.therecord.com

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

I thought Biden showed tremendous restraint by not wearing a tan suit.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

3 months

@guypbenson And now America knows that Trump doesn’t understand the difference between “asylum seekers” and an “insane asylum”

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

This is going to be a bad flashback for Trump

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

Where’s my house?

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

5 years

Our next president will need to authorize an extensive audit of the multiple ways our national security was compromised during this hellscape reality show...imagine how much we don't know.

Rick Wilson

@TheRickWilson

5 years

Since Trump and Sonland were using Trump's UNencrypted personal cell phone, the odds are that eventually that conversation was recorded by *any* number of intelligence services. Not a transcript, a recording. I *guarantee* Putin's services have it.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

@TheRickWilson “I was geographically raised on Coruscant, but culturally my upbringing reflected the working-class water farmers on Tatooine—from toiling long hours under the twin suns to fighting Tusken Raiders. This made me the Force-fearing, rugged individual that I am today.”

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Trump might as well give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stormy Daniels since his main criteria seems to be anyone who sucks his dick.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

@Acyn Since when does Hawley avoid photo ops?

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Mark Strauss

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3 years

@TheRickWilson He must be terrified that the Jan. 6 committee might also subpoena the stack of Playboy magazines that his mom found hidden under his bed.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

@ProjectLincoln @TheRickWilson “GET ME BAIO!”

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

5 years

@LizDueweke If you take away Kit Kat, it will crash the Japanese economy.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

@TheRickWilson The muted tone of Fox News coverage is also a tell.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Coronavirus upon hearing that it will soon be flying all over the country on American Airlines:

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

1 year

Alexa, find someone who has worse understanding of the law than Tom Fitton.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

It takes a special kind of political skill to wage a voter suppression campaign against your own party.

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4 years

Via the latest ABC/Post poll, 51% of Dems plan to vote by mail vs. just 20% of Republicans, thanks to Trump's attacks. That's unprecedented.

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Mark Strauss

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7 months

The 8th Amendment is trending because the folks who advocate lethal injection for anyone kneeling during the National Anthem believe that Trump’s financial penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

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Mark Strauss

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3 months

@RealEmirHan Claire Forlani

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

2 years

@tlrdrkmrgn @mtaibbi They impeached Bill Clinton over a blow job, so calm down you hysterical weirdos.

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Mark Strauss

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7 years

I confess that when I heard the company name, Essential Consultants LLC, I immediately thought of Prestige Worldwide.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Sometimes, posed social distancing looks like a Star Trek away team that has just beamed down to a planet.

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Pause for a moment to reflect that the GOP calls the Never Trumpers “traitors” and “human scum”

Rick Wilson

@TheRickWilson

4 years

I've read almost every word written about Trump's horrible nature. I'm an anthropologist of his shitty worldview. This article is the nadir of it all.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Earlier this year, the Southern Baptist Convention acknowledged they spent years protecting over 700 ministers and church workers who were credibly accused of sexual abuse. 2nd largest Christian denomination in the U.S—and nobody is discussing it.

The DOJ is investigating Southern Baptists following sexual abuse crisis

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, which has faced widespread sexual abuse problems, said several of the denomination's major entities are under investigation by the Department of Justice.

www.npr.org

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Mark Strauss

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@TimRunsHisMouth @POTUS He forced you nitwits to loudly defend Social Security and Medicare after months of veiled threats to cut them—and I’m totally here for it.

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

@itskeyon In Japan, Kit Kat rules them all.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

“Musk has recently claimed that someone was stalking his 2-year-old son [due to] the ElonJets account. But open-source intelligence researchers have located where the video was taken, noting it wasn’t near an airport and roughly a day later than any flight by Musk’s private jet.”

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Mark Strauss

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3 months

@timecaptales Two weeks later, he went on a rampage that destroyed downtown Tokyo.

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Mark Strauss

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5 years

And, with Mike Pence officially assuming the role of Pestilence, the Four Horsemen are ready to ride #COVID19US #Pence

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Mark Strauss

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@bubbaprog @gtconway3d God literally rebuked Trump with a plague.

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Mark Strauss

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5 years

As Trump's polling numbers continue their inevitable decline, expect him to grow increasingly insistent on "reopening" the economy. He believes a mini-economic recovery prior to November will be key to his re-election.

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Mark Strauss

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@pattonoswalt And if that dog had taken hostages? You ok with that, Patton?

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Elon Musk disappointed to learn that free speech includes people loudly screaming, “Oh God! Help me, please! I’m burning to death in my Tesla!!!!”

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Live footage of Elon Musk using his engineering skills to repair Twitter. #TwitterDown

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Mark Strauss

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@JackLombardi @EdKrassen It seems like only yesterday that Trump admitted that his charity foundation was a fraud, that his family used the money as a personal slush fund (including $10,000 for a six-foot-tall painting of Trump), and that he had to pay a $2 million fine. Loser.

Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million Over Scam Charity

The charity had, among other things, allegedly used funds to buy a $10,000 painting of Trump.

www.vanityfair.com

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Mark Strauss

@MarkDStrauss

4 years

Stop the presses! I’ve located photographic evidence of Pelosi’s Subway—and it’s bigger than even the GOP dared imagine.

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Mark Strauss

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1 year

“At least in Nazi Germany, Jews had ways to avoid extermination,” is a statement that should end any political career.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

The jokes at the Babylon Bee make more sense when you remember to add, “right, Elon?”

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Mark Strauss

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1 year

Why would anyone stay in a political party that threatened your daughter’s life?

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Some Jordan holdouts are refusing to meet with Jordan or take his calls, sources tell me — a sign of the uphill climb Jordan faces in winning 217. Meanwhile, one of the Rs who voted against Jordan had to have a sheriff stationed at their daughter’s school because of threats.

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Mark Strauss

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@DrSarteschi @RadioFreeTom Such a waste after spending all of those millennia frozen in ice.

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Mark Strauss

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5 years

Allowing economists to determine America’s public health policy is a really terrible idea. #notdying4wallstreet

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Mark Strauss

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@marcorubio @USNavy Weren’t you one of those idiots warning about the invincible Russian military not so long ago?

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Meanwhile at Fox News: “Biden spills coffee, raising doubts about his capacity to govern"

Brian Tyler Cohen

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And there it is. The Trump Organization is found guilty of tax fraud on all counts.

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Mark Strauss

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@MattWalshBlog Matt Walsh has thoughts about what’s normal, y’all:

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“Kermit the Frog unrecognizable in first photos of new Muppet film” — The New York Post

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

I’m surprised they haven’t included images of House Republicans storming the SCIF during the first impeachment hearings. It was a violation of federal law as political theater to please Trump—and a preview of what was to come.

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4 years

@TheRickWilson He’s gonna want alligators.

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@tedcruz You are the Frank Burns of the U.S. Senate.

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@CortesSteve Immigrants fleeing persecution and coming to America? How unprecedented.

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Fox News presents Jeanine Pirro with her severance package:

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

Three of Southwest Florida's nine acute-care hospitals have no available intensive-care unit beds for adults.

ICUs full at three Lee, Collier hospitals as coronavirus cases continue to rise

Overall, the region's hospitals are now at 82% capacity in their adult ICUs, the tracker showed. And the two largest hospital systems roughly doubled COVID-19-related hospitalizations in the past...

www.news-press.com

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Mark Strauss

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Captain America doesn’t even need to give a speech. All he has to do is yell, “Avengers, assemble!” and I’d follow him anywhere.

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒜𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓁 𝐵𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝐼𝓃 𝐻𝑒𝓁𝓁 👼🏾🔥

@AMPARADOXXX

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Superhero Twitter . Who gives the best inspirational speeches ?? 🤔🤔

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Mark Strauss

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Perhaps we could offer White House officials the option of resigning, and then Taking the Black to join the Watchers on the Wall.

Kevin M. Kruse

@KevinMKruse

5 years

If you're a criminal defense lawyer in the DC area, you should probably stay close to the phone right now.

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Mark Strauss

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This pandemic would be so much cooler if we could wear steampunk face masks

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Mark Strauss

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4 years

I saw Biden's so-called COVID press conference. Where were my assurances that this virus will simply disappear one day? Why didn't he recommend an off-the-shelf miracle cure? Why is he getting advice from "scientists"??? Where are the free bleach pills? Total letdown.

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Mark Strauss

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For some people, supporting Palestinian rights has turned into an obsession that makes them indistinguishable from followers of QAnon. They’ve convinced themselves that they’re larger-than-life heroes fighting the forces of evil to liberate the innocent. I worry for them, and us.

Eitan Fischberger

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"We'll see you at your house. We'll m*rder you." Words said by pro-Palestinian activist Riddhi Patel to the mayor of Bakersfield, California, during a city council meeting on Wednesday. She was arrested on 8 felony counts. Bail set at $1 million

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Mark Strauss

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@NoLieWithBTC If Democrats can’t turn “No American Cheese” into a campaign meme, they’re done for.

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Mark Strauss

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5 years

@41Strange Among dolphins, the slang term for this is “huffing and puffing”

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Mark Strauss

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3 years

@RadioFreeTom I want to see a remake of Roadhouse where a Patrick Swayze character kicks anti-vaxxers out of dentist offices.

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I’m 100 percent convinced that the guests at Mar-a-Lago feed on the living.

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2 years

What happens in China doesn’t stay in China. Potentially significant implications for the global economy, pharmaceuticals, and public health.

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

2 years

⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵

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It’s kind of surreal when you compare how Shatner was made to look 90 years old with makeup (in the Star Trek episode, “The Deadly Years”), versus what he actually looks like at 90.

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@samthielman I once saw AOC eating food, despite the fact that people are going hungry in this country. Total hypocrite!

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Mark Strauss

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@brianbeutler In all seriousness, my greatest fear is how much damage Trump could do in the event of a pandemic.

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@catturd2 I love it that Fox News admits they lied to you—but you keep eating their shit and saying “Yum!” 🤣

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@victorckumar “You’re childless, so your life will never be as meaningful as mine.” You should write self-help books.

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2 years

@paulkrugman First we had reporters staking out gas stations. Then the hard-hit family that drank 12 gallons of milk per week. And now the “unprecedented egg crisis.” Cable news covers the economy in the same vapid ways they do politics—horse races, diner interviews, weird focus groups.

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3 years

What film have you watched more than 7 times? Reply only with gifs.

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Your daily reminder that Bruce Campbell has more talent and class in his pinky finger than Kevin Sorbo has in his entire body.

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@Mediaite Speaking of aging poorly, here is Brit Hume’s hot take on January 6th.

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Florida Health Department’s Bureau of Epidemiology has been unable to fill two senior positions because nobody wants to work for DeSantis. Meanwhile, Florida has become a hot spot for leprosy and malaria.

2 top public health positions in Ron DeSantis' administration are vacant

The positions are open as the CDC says Florida is seeing its first cases of malaria in two decades.

www.nbcnews.com

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Over 200 million Americans have been vaccinated. Each one of them died. It’s just the pure bloods now, being hunted by intelligent apes on horseback. We did this to ourselves. #DiedSuddendly

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Mark Strauss

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2 years

Anyone playing a Fox News-Hunter Biden Drinking Game would die of alcohol poisoning within the first 20 minutes.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

2 years

Hunter Biden has been mentioned 31 times over the last 90 minutes of Fox News programming (Hannity's show and the first half of Ingraham's show)

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@elonmusk And that’s how a guy named Catturd became the CEO of Twitter.

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@RadioFreeTom Real men get vaccinated:

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@EmilyGorcenski The same right-wing pundits who are rallying around Rittenhouse were completely losing their shit last year when Antifa protesters were throwing vegan coconut milkshakes.

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Hey Twitter, do me a favor. When “Giant Bomb” is trending, could you please clearly label it as a software company? Thanks.

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