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Washington Times Pentagon reporter. Ex-Army officer & Desert Storm vet. Old account @mrglenn got nuked. This is the only place to find me these days. Follow me!

Va. & DC (but from Texas)
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@BayouBikeyBoi “Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee; Texas, one state under God; one and indivisible” It’s a real thing in Texas.
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Now everybody in the defense media world is a frigging expert on cluster munitions. Dude. As a cav troop fire support officer, I called in a buttload of DPICM missions during the Gulf War. They are the shit.
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@TheOscarRace Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols and as Winston Churchill. Case closed.
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@MarinaMedvin I'm not an expert on the tenets of Islam, but it looks like she's dressed a little casually for a mosque.
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@bennyjohnson Maybe I'm wrong but it sounded like he said, "....first time I've done it as president"
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@Mike_Hixenbaugh NBC hired Jen Psaki while she was working as President Biden's spokesperson at the White House. There wasn't this kind of pearl clutching from Chuck Todd back then.
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@TByrne75 @AlwaysLegitWhit We’re the only country that has sent people to the moon
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@BenjaminGoggin NBC reporter wondering why the Jews keep bringing up that Hitler guy
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@MeghanMcCain @TheView @ABC As the old saying goes, "They hate you cuz they ain't you." You were the only thing that made the show watchable.
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@SKMorefield @JesseKellyDC @JesseKellyDC is not the first Marine who failed in look under the hood before buying a car
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@redsteeze He flies on Air Force One, which is like flying in a very nice apartment complete with a personal staff. It’s not like he had the center seat on a Southwest flight to Akron. It’s hardly rough travel.
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I'm getting a fair amount of pushback from people - including some in the media - who were 'shocked and outraged' that I asked Gen. Ryder at his Pentagon press conference how an E-3 in the Air Nat'l Guard managed to get his hands on Joint Staff briefing documents. (more)
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@camiloreports An "obstacle in U.S. law" is called "the law."
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@ShakariSBriggs @mattbramanti I spent 20 years as a reporter at the HouChron and this is disgraceful behavior and a complete lack of professionalism. You’re not the first Chron staffer to be criticized by the public. I had death threats made against me. I’m appalled at the @HoustonChron
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This may be the most tone deaf Page 1 headline I’ve ever seen in my 25 plus years as a newspaper reporter. The @denverpost really hit the bottom with this one. #DenverPost #Trump #TrumpAssasinationAttempt
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@NewsJennifer @esquire Too bad he didn't bother asking Arlington National Cemetery-who confirmed to me it was a private wreath-laying ceremony (they do about 12 every day there) and a Gold Star family invited President Trump. (Of course, that's just basic journalism so I understand why some ignore it)
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@RubensteinAdam Great piece in The Atlantic. As a reporter myself, I'm glad you 'named names' of some of the current NYT staffers who completely crossed over into advocacy from journalism with their internal attacks over the Cotton op/ed
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So, even with my clearance (and as an active duty officer) I never got my hands on briefing documents for the most senior Pentagon officials. So, I ask the question again: how does a junior Air Guardsman get his hands on that G2? Still waiting. (END)
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@RadioFreeTom I think it’s the Texas NG adjutant general
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@RichardGrenell @shelbygrad @cmsub @latimes @DrPatSoonShiong Hey @RichardGrenell , you know they do the same thing here in the Pentagon. I refuse to provide my Qs ahead of time (which may be why SecDef Lloyd Austin has never called on me during one of his very few press conferences)
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@jonallendc @NBCNews I think your definition of "lashing out" is a bit overly generous. As a reporter I've been threatened with arrest for getting too close to a crime scene. Now, THAT'S "lashing out" - not this modest rebuke.
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@sav_says_ I spent 20 years covering the police in Texas - before coming up here to DC. Cops will act like that around reporters if they think they can get away with it. CPB are not in charge of air space.
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@AmySwearer @JJCarafano I wrote a "good guy with a gun takes out a bad guy" story every few months or so when I was covering the cops at the Houston Chronicle. It happens more often than some people think. (At least in Texas)
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@RadioFreeTom Well, I have it on good authority that @RadioFreeTom likes cats (and that’s never a good sign) #Blofeld
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@jodikantor The American flag also was prominently displayed during the Jan. 6 riots. Does that mean anyone who now flies that flag at their home is an insurrectionist?
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@megynkelly Or maybe if she had just scooched over a bit?
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@walterkirn Charles Nelson Reilly and the cast of Match Game say “Hey”
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I cringe anytime I have to write “ #FortLiberty ” Not that I necessarily object to changing the name of #FortBragg (Braxton Bragg was not only a traitor but a bad general) “Fort Liberty” just sounds so lame. My choice? Fort #Ridgeway after the Army’s greatest airborne commander.
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@redsteeze She will never stop shooting her Disney movie to death.
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Lt. Col. James E. Rudder commanded the 2nd Ranger Battalion - Rudder's Rangers - that scaled the 100-foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoc on Normandy to seize German artillery that could have been fired at the US troops landing on Omaha and Utah beaches. He later was president of Texas
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@kevinmyoung Brown skinned? More like olive-colored skin, probably. Middle-Eastern? Those geo-political distinctions didn't exist back then. Undocumented immigrant? Joseph & Mary travelled to Bethlehem because of Roman tax laws. I'm sure He was on someone's list. Other than that, great sign.
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Sad news today about the passing of Col. Roger Donlon, the first person awarded a Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War and the first Green Beret to be so honored. RIP.
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@NoahCRothman I asked Gen Pat Ryder at the Pentagon today how SecDef can be “outraged” over what happened in Gaza after US drone strikes on 10 civilians in Afghanistan in Aug 2021 that resulted in zero firings. He wouldn’t touch the question. (Not surprised tho)
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Pentagon spokesman explaining why they sent a destroyer to Sudan: "I would look at it less as a destroyer and more as a ship - a capability that comes with it, a variety of capabilities that includes transport." That's some prime gov't gibberish right there! Attn @cdrsalamander
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@NRO @mawrightjr Wow. Those Taylor Swift fans can be brutal!
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I don’t believe in government conspiracies because I’ve worked in government and, believe me, those guys can’t organize a sock drawer much less an all powerful elite.
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@piersmorgan Even at the time, I always figured Diana used the media as much as they used her. It was a symbiotic relationship. I never faulted her for it - it simply was the way things were done in her rarefied world.
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Ex-CNN reporter #MichelleKosinski is getting heat for a tweet thread where she talked about the horror of having dinner with people whose opinions were different from hers. But I'll never forget the time she paddled by in ankle deep water while covering a flood.
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@KurtSchlichter The difference between Pearl Harbor & Hiroshima/Nagasaki is that we were at peace during the former & at war during the latter.
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In re @JDVance1 , people are allowed to change their opinions over time. For instance, I was really into punk rock music in the 80s - Ramones, DKs, X, etc - but now I mostly listen to the Yacht Rock channel. (And that doesn't mean I'm just old AF! Boz Scaggs is the GOAT!)
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@JesseKellyDC I know people who really felt sorry for the people of Chicago but have now washed their hands of the place following the recent mayoral election.
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@JamesGunn @Guardians @starwars I was so impressed with the way @JamesGunn was able to take what was really a third-tier #Marvel comic book and really do something fresh and original with it. I've thoroughly enjoyed every "G of the G" movie and am looking forward to the finale film.
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@jconricus @mdubowitz The Cologne Cathedral (seen here) was heavily damaged in the allied bombing of WWII. They didn't want it to happen but war is terrible. I highly doubt #Israel intended to hit the Church of St. Porphyrius in Gaza.
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@JoelWBerry Maybe sue the White House for copyright infringement or something?
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@RepBowman The Sgt. Shultz Defense
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Maybe if he had asked Arlington National Cemetery - as I did yesterday - they would have told him it was a private wreath-laying ceremony (they do about 12 every day) & President Trump was invited by a Gold Star family to be there. (Of course, that's just basic journalism....)
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Credit to @esquire for asking the right question⤵️
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Earlier in my career as an enlisted GI in Germany, I was part of my 8-inch howitzer battery's Special Weapons team. We would have constructed & fired a nuclear artillery round if called to do so. So, yes, I have some idea how the security clearance sausage is made. (more)
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@bennyjohnson @SpaceX @elonmusk These people who think it's a burn on @ElonMusk don't know how many NASA rockets blew up on the launch pad in the early days of the US space program.
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"Don't you know young people do a lot of important things in the military!" was a common response I got. As an Army officer, I had a TS-SCI clearance (Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information) because I was part of a group in my squadron that decoded flash traffic. (more)
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@KurtSchlichter "My" country didn't lose. The petulant, arrogant members of a soccer team that acted as if they loathed the place they were supported to represent lost. But my country didn't lose.
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Uh. hello? Have you never been inside a 7-11?
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They make “Wine for Men” now
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@NYCHealthSystem How is wearing cloth masks (as they clearly are in the photograph) keeping anyone safe from COVID?
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@DuplessisBrad I had to listen to that song multiple times a day during the Gulf War because our Cav Squadron commander thought so highly of it. It almost made me defect to Saddam Hussein’s side to get away from it
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The people saying today's GOP isn't the party of Reagan also said the GOP in the 80s wasn't the party of Eisenhower.
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@KurtSchlichter Did you swear an oath every day? I mean, I did when I enlisted and then when I got commissioned but 'every day?' I mean, that would have cut out time I was in the motor pool.
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So after 20 years, more than 20,000 killed and wounded US military personnel and more than $2 trillion spent, the Taliban controls Afghanistan and they're back to stoning women. Good job all around, folks
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Taliban Leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada announces a return to the policy of stoning women: "We will soon implement the punishment for adultery. We will flog women in public. We will stone them to death in public. We will bring Sharia to this land.”
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@EvaVlaar The original Snow White was kind, compassionate and helped the 7 Dwarves become better people. Disney now wants her to be some strident "girl boss" who doesn't need a man. So boring. So pedestrian. (Hard pass)
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@KurtSchlichter If I even drive past a police station, I call my lawyer first. After 20 years covering law enforcement in Houston, this much is certain: don't talk without legal representation.
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Calling operators with the Combat Applications Group (ie Delta Force) 'first responders' like they are Red Cross volunteers or something. (I'm not even going to go into how the White House just burned these guys by publishing their photographs WHILE THEY'RE ON AN MISSION)
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The Whitehouse media team shared this picture last night (I added the black boxes) without blurring or censoring the faces of the “Delta Force” (CAG) operator’s faces. They deleted it an hour later after hundreds of thousands had already viewed it. This is a massive failure on
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@filtrapp 155s from our unit
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@cdrsalamander I can imagine a stampede in the ready room of some F-18 squadron on the USS Ford to get a chance to splash a few Yemeni F-5s
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@stclairashley @stillgray I used to live in El Paso, it's a great town and what's happening to it - and other border cities - is a scandal.
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@EricLevitz I'd like to nominate #EricLevitz for whatever is the opposite of the Pulitzer Prize for this ridiculous and appalling thread.
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My heart has been successfully jumpstarted. You guys aren’t getting rid of me that easily! I’ll be back at the Pentagon on Monday to ask questions the brass doesn’t want to answer.
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@Shermichael_ @elonmusk @Not_the_Bee Threads seems to be the lefty version of Truth Social. At least on Twitter there seems to be a range of opinions and open conversation
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@SenTuberville @POTUS Any comment about the breaking Space Command news? Pres Biden picked Colorado Springs, overturning the earlier decision to base it in Huntsville.
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@RadioFreeTom You say 'tomato' I say, 'Synthetic opioid drug used as an analgesic'
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A senior Pentagon official smirked & rolled his eyes when I told him about my P1 story in the @WashTimes about the @Heritage Foundation’s report that rated the US military as weak. “Well, I’m sure they don’t have an agenda,” he said. Me: They say they can back up their
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@omid9 The courage of the women of Iran is a example for how one should act when confronted by oppression.
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@TheLaurenChen Whatever you might think about the man's actions, it was clearly protected political speech. He physically harmed no one. The police officer's actions were completely unconstitutional.
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@GayPatriot @schwagerTV @KHQLocalNews If burning a US flag is protected political speech, why wouldn't something like this be as well? I think any case that goes to trial will be tossed as an unconstitutional abridgment of freedom of speech.
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@johnrich @nypost "Ben and Jerry's" - ice cream made by hippies but owned by a giant multinational corporation based in Europe.
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@GadSaad Robert DeNiro sounds intelligent in movies because he has screenwriters who provide him with clever dialogue. (Similar to his reputation as a movie tough guy because he has stuntmen)
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@abbythelibb_ Church leaders have made a number of errors over the years. Popes have spoken ex cathedra only twice: regarding the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary. Everything else is up for debate.
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I think it's fair to note that #Israel accepted responsibility for the botched airstrike that killed the aid workers in #Gaza faster than the #WhiteHouse & #thePentagon did for the errant drone attack in #Afghanistan that killed 10 civilians, mostly children. @MorganOrtagus
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@JackPosobiec Anyone who says they were involved in a high speed chase for two hours through New York City has never been in traffic in New York City.
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Dpty Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks was on vacay in Puerto Rico when she got an email saying she was temporarily in charge. 2 days later, she learned it was because DefSec Lloyd Austin was in the ICU at Walter Reed Hospital. 2 more days later, the White House was told.
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@KurtSchlichter I've worked with Ivy League grads & used to be a bit intimidated because I went to a two-bit Texas cow college. But, the president of my school had first been a civil engineer for 30 years. We also didn't honor terror groups at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED TO QUESTION ISRAEL’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE FALL OF THE ALAMO?
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WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED TO QUESTION ISRAEL’S INVOLVEMENT IN 9/11?
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@LucasFoxNews This was a point I brought up yesterday in the Pentagon presser
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The Pentagon’s decision to hide from the press (and by extension the American public) that President Biden’s military advisor - Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin - has been hospitalized for a week will have ramifications in the press room. Can it be trusted with anything anymore?
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@MintPressNews You have to be pretty twisted to find objectionable anything @stephenfry said during this message.
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@noahgittell What, no Liev Schreiber? That man just oozes Hebrew awesomeness, and I say that as a Catholic.
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@KurtSchlichter @RonDeSantis There is no such thing as a "moral victory" There is only victory.
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So how long until #Venezuela invades #Guyana and will this be the third war to erupt during the Biden administration that the US will eventually back in some form?
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Cherry blossom time here in DC Adjacent. This is outside my apartment in Arlington
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@Johnny_Joey I also really liked Hillbilly Elegy. His Mamaw reminded me of my Grandma from north Mississippi. She was a tough, hardscrabble old woman who never had an easy day in her life. I remember going up to the state pen in Parchman, Miss. to visit kin doing a "stretch'. So I 'get' it
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@AdamKinzinger This tweet makes more sense when you read it in a comic Russian accent.
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I’d like to know what kind of “elective” surgery a 70 year old man goes under the knife for. The fact that it was elective rules out the usual kind of emergency procedures
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Happy (early) #VeteransDay to all who wore our country's uniform. This is me and one of the guys in my platoon somewhere in #Iraq during the #GulfWar . This was after one of our first gunfights. (Complete with a couple of captured AK-47s) We were "Rocking the Casbah" that day.
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@newrepublic Disgusting and an embarrassment to the profession of journalism
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@ChristinaPushaw @Cernovich We recently visited Seattle to see our daughter who was there on a travel nurse assignment. I had been there several years ago & really liked the place. But today it looks like some Mad Max-style hellhole with everything tagged with graffiti and shantytowns everywhere
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