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Mark Schouten

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Former IA prosecutor, bar ethics counsel, Asst. A.G., drug czar, HSA. Sailor, bicyclist, bass player, photographer, Hawkeye. #DeSantis2024

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@MichLKosinski Damn, to be haunted by conversations with those you disagree. You have my sympathy.
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@themultiplemom Perhaps it’s not about skin color for them?
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@HansMahncke Here’s what Vance said: "I don't like that this is a fact of life … But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We've got to bolster security so if a psycho wants to
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@yhazony Sounds like Israel is fighting by the book.
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@BetteMidler “Most traumatic days in American history & life?” Do you read much?
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@JRubinBlogger “The Supreme Court is in one of the worst ethical scandals in its history.” 😀😀😀
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@JRubinBlogger You would have done well in the late 1930’s in Germany.
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@ezralevant Reason enough to defund NPR. State-funded broadcasters are merely propaganda arms of the government that funds them.
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@SJohn_1974 @CollinRugg Yes, I do miss him in that regular time slot.
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@peterjhasson Chuck said Biden was great until everyone knew he wasn’t great. So, now it’s time to backpedal. These people are pathetic.
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@KinnickNorth23 She ain’t got no future with the WNBA.
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@nosyone4 She is a hoot. You can only do that when you realize you are only playing a game—other things in life are far more important.
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@Leftylockdowns1 I went to a football game yesterday—pray for me too.
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@tedwheeler Glad you have finally figured this out.
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@SenWhitehouse Shut it down.
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Casey DeSantis and her son Mason made a campaign stop at Mahalo’s in Nowalk, Iowa this afternoon. When asked why her husband took an approach to COVID different from the other governors, she said he worked early on to understand COVID—so much so she had to build a pillow wall in
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@CBS_Herridge @CBSNews You have a nose for good content. You always add value.
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@AdamKinzinger He said “I went in with the Seals.”
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@BpopeTV Sounds like a leader.
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@SenWhitehouse “Democrats want an orderly and secure border?” So you think we have not been watching?
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@sportingnews Sometime you need to take one for the team.
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@kylegriffin1 @NBCNews Funny how it works differently when the target is a republican. Just like old times.
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@MrAndyNgo So is this horror caused by knives or by evil?
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@JRubinBlogger Then why would an identical indictment have been “filed” hours before the grand jury had finished hearing witnesses and “returned” the indictment? Unforced error that lets people understand how this “grand jury” merely rubber-stamped the result the prosecutors wanted and wrote.
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@SJohnston60 Wrong school.
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@JoanneMason11 @bengrossbg Suspect Ben has had little experience in life but he is really “smart.”
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@ByronYork This is funny but also frightening; she is so singularly consumed by politics/power she cannot drop her guard, even if for kindness.
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@davereaboi Saw DeSantis in Des Moines yesterday afternoon. Standing room only crowd and impressive speech—much looser in person than on TV. Stayed around 20 minutes + afterwards to sign his book. Still signing as I left for dinner. Good vibe.
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@redsteeze I would not be proud to be on that list.
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@tomricks1 @JoyAnnReid Prosecuted for 20 years. Don’t mess with 404(b) evidence when the judge has already ruled on it. Judge was on point and doing his job.
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@nhannahjones Awareness of DEI promoting less qualified pilots is not racism, it’s intelligence.
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@JackPosobiec Their concern is for a specific result and not a fair trial. Unfortunate.
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@nhannahjones Would suggest the push for vouchers started after public schools started the push for left-wing politics.
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@MZHemingway Also appears the real Brandon is a good sport about it. Now my favorite NASCAR driver.
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@seanmdav The fact that she is a vet. and making a political post doesn’t seem to bother most posters. Guess it’s the thought that counts.
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@stillgray @RonColeman Quite surprising how closely Twitter works to control thought—appears entirely political
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@MarinaMedvin @JackPosobiec Now the AP wouldn’t lie about something this important, would it?
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@joey_blau @greg_price11 @zerohedge Office and keys don’t matter; it’s the relationship that’s relevant.
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@abigmanrunning @BurnettForCO3 The fact that she is a vet. and making a political post doesn’t seem to bother most posters. Guess it’s the thought that counts.
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@CollinRugg Damn, who would have expected this in a war zone?
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@BuzzPatterson @PeteButtigieg Quite surprising, since I assume the adoptions were planned. If you know you cannot devote all your efforts to a job this important you should not agree to take it.
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@IowaBOP But, she shouldn’t make the Olympics team.
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@ScottAdamsSays With no convincing evidence to the contrary, this has been a Wuhan lab leak from the very beginning. Again, the mainstream media’s emotional need to damage Trump has provided a real impediment to the public learning what really happened.
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@wesyang Don’t attempt to learn the law at Stanford. There are many far more balanced law schools out there. Probably a risk to hire Stanford grads also, if this is how they act. Looks like they would have a hard time staying on task.
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@BetteMidler Trust you know you are not helping this discussion? Perhaps stick to acting?
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@ByronYork Unfortunately I can see this becoming a pattern—run to the federal government as a place of refuge.
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@yarahawari @naomirwolf World: “No it’s not; Israel is responding in a war Hamas started a week ago.”
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@KenDilanianNBC Yes, interesting how well the media works when dealing with their preferred target.,
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@EinatWilf No ceasefire; Israel needs to finish what Hamas started.
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@ChadLeistikow Looks a little like the ”good old girls network.”
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@thehill Two minutes of Twitter and you see the left’s concerted attack on the Supreme Court.
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@devarsighosh @willchamberlain Perhaps he needs to find a new way to convey all the wisdom/insight/skill he accumulated over the years? Many artists peak at old age.
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@NoahBookbinder Because of a flag??? Bit of a stretch.
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@marklevinshow Should be National Progressive Radio. Keep same logo but not mislead the casual listener.
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@elizaorlins Means the left doesn’t win every case it brings?
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@RandyEBarnett Yes, rule against us and we will come after you. We take our politics seriously.
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@Outkick Not a lot of class; but a good deal of envy.
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@dandakich @WNBA Perhaps CC could be the spokesperson for the US Olympics team; she seems to be able to construct a simple English sentence. Whoops—I hope that’s not racist!
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@SteveDeaceShow Many of Trump’s biggest problems are self-inflicted wounds. Contributors should not pay to fix them
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@leahmcelrath @nhannahjones Lesson: don’t walk into the middle of a police action and try tell the officers what to do?
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@charliekirk11 I think a corporation like delta trying to dictate public policy is “unacceptable.” Is delta elected by the public and entitled to enforce its position in our democracy?
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@MichaelDayDMD @espn Why does women’s college bb have so any classless players?
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@cbrennansports How right she is—my wife and I saw the first triple-double while driving back to Iowa from South Caroline. Paid an ungodly sum for tickets and glad we did.
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@MZHemingway When your case is going south you continue to hold out hope that somehow things will get better. Not always the best approach since the other side may also get better.
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@nhannahjones Of course parents want teachers who are subject matter experts; most just don’t want leftist political indoctrination. Seems to be a fairly clear distinction.
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@shipwreckedcrew Agree—unpresidential; but he says things that should be on the table.
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@JackPosobiec Why most we always learn these things in a British newspaper?
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@DarrigoMelanie Non sequitur.
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@bellausa17 Horrible.
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@nhannahjones Sowell is correct, as usual.
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@heartlesslyrich @TheMattBeebe @willscharf Perhaps just the opposite: we have a very functioning court system acting through a judge that wasn’t about to let this BS go through?
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@TheLeoTerrell Trump doesn’t have the courage to do this. Not a good look.
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@BoSnerdley She is trying to construct a case, a complicated case involving computerized voting systems spanning multiple states, each with different laws/facts and is doing it on a very tight timeline. I like Tucker, but maybe, just maybe, she’s too busy building a case to talk to Tucker.
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@ThunderPhD7 @dcexaminer Among themselves, I trust they are all “well respected.”
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@BretBaier Good job Bret—Trump is not worthy of his former office.
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@ChuckRossDC Defund NPR.
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@MattAAW RDS exudes competency. Yesterday in Cumming, Iowa.
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@KyleGarab Rules be damned, Paige should have been screened from the Iowa player guarding her and allowed to take that shot unimpeded.
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@trendyhoopstars Also takes the least responsibility for her own acts.
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@nhannahjones Not sure you had to be black to experience the freshman shock in college—many of my friends didn’t survive the first year; but they went on to lead successful lives.
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@RpsAgainstTrump @gtconway3d Doubt the Court will need to make that finding. Dispositive issue will be whether section 3 of 14th Amendment can be used as CO used it?
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@MEdwardsBball Doubt this is the rule: late in a close game, when the offensive team’s best shooter is moving for a game-winning shot, offensive players may throw otherwise illegal screens to allow their best shooter an unimpeded last-second shot, so that the game may be decided on that shot?
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@billkeown Agree. Time to drop Trump is now; things will grow only steadily worse.
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@JonathanTurley Neither side probably knows these answers and shows the advance investigation was shoddy. Burden is on the House Impeachment Team to establish necessary facts; they have failed.
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@BarstoolTate Way over paid, unless she was hired for cannon fodder.
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@realjakecobb Spoken like a proud federal government worker/union member, with little or no understanding of how different he is from the vast majority of US citizens.
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@Bubblebathgirl It’s not his money—he doesn’t care.
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@mchooyah Yes. Great example of how to piss a judge off. Don’t mess with 404(b) evidence when the judge has already ruled on the issue and reiterated his ruling earlier in the day.
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@BlackKnight10k Yet you remain.
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@davidharsanyi Yes, agree with me or else!
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@mitchellvii Was not broken, rather made a smooth/easy transition to RDS. Always voted for Trump with reservation. RDS was a reliable, disciplined, and knowledgeable Trump. No question in my mind but to switch.
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@realchasegeiser Well, if you can fly with Covid it cannot be such a big deal.
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@HumanProgress I’m reading Vol. I of Gulag Archipelago—communism was a horrific failure.
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@greg_price11 @TomiLahren DeSantis is far more action than talk.
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@emzanotti Agree. DeSantis is a more nuanced/effective/disciplined communicator than Trump. He will be better able to communicate Trump’s vision than Trump did and he won’t make Trump’s mistakes in Georgia.
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@JayCostTWS Lesson: don’t put your faith/trust in government.
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@brianschatz Nice to see in real time how the left builds these narratives.
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@canarymission Wonder what law firm would hire this person?
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@14erVibes @BretWeinstein From the opinion, it appears the majority is lead by legality rather than theology.
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