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@PeterTobias8

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Physicist. Interested in science and politics. Now also on the blue sky, under my name, where I plan to be more often. Pronouns: see my name.

Minnesota, USA
Joined March 2017
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3 years
@robertfr69 @ambernoelle @Solidarity_Star Did they REALLY tell the kids not to tell ANYONE, not their parents, not a teacher of their trust? That would be a BIG RED FLAG.
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@jmasseypoet I like your first statement, but I think it's unfair to blame foremost women for the state of men.
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@Malka_Simkovich @CHSommers The Palestinian flag is not the flag of Hamas but of all Palestinians. Do the Hamas headbands say Hamas on them, or how are they otherwise specific to Hamas?
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@visegrad24 British police should be ashamed of themselves. The video showed Palestinian flags hung in the street, assumingly after the Hamas attacks, and the man said essentially that "this is the kind of nonsense we're dealing with". Glorifying Palestine at this time is nonsense indeed.
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@RonFilipkowski The CEO is DEVIN NUNES? Which business genius picked him?
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7 months
@cmclymer I refuse to call the time after Jan 6, 2021 a Trump Era. Maybe an era in search for justice.
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5 years
@MeTooSTEM A STEM community that bans every view but "transwomen are women" doesn't seem to be a science community.
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3 years
@wscott44 @TheRealFancyGrl Brandon Brown lost his sponsors who are afraid to be seen as political. I saw a good proposal: if legally possible, White House should sponsor Brandon and cover his car with a Pro-Vaccination message: Let's go, Brandon.
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4 years
@AbbyJohnson Why should we? Biden is president, TRUMP IS GONE - IT'S GLORIOUS.
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3 years
My mother just died after having stopped eating and drinking for the last two days. She was 86. I will miss our phone calls each weekend. I'm crying and will log off for a week. Please pray for her soul and for my father who is alone now after sixty years together with her.
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5 years
@DreaRene29 @jonmladd @myminutia In China, men were more likely to DIE from COVID-19. Speculated reason was higher incidence of snoking among men.
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I think sex is real and transwomen shouldn't compete in women's sports. So do many men. But it's difficult to make common cause with feminists who argue that transwomen are really men and, therefore, evil.
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@BrandonMShow Where are the men? Why aren't they telling their fellow men to stop behaving this way? Why are they berating women for not stopping men? What's he been doing about it for the last 15 years?! (I know - NAMALT)
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4 years
@RepWillBailey Censuring was planned for Trump's telephone call to Georgia Secretary of State. This is bigger, much bigger.
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3 years
@DrLongissimus And how did the x-ray look like? Please show the picture if you have it.
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3 years
@CasuallyGreg It's not about race. But if the roles would be reversed, wouldn't many more people make it about race? And would you still be opposed to making it about race?
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5 years
@ananavarro @MedPierre @FLOTUS That's actually a pretty good question. Do those children get any presents, maybe at least one? It would be proper for a First Lady to care about this politically unimportant but emotional question.
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1 year
@visegrad24 It was mild humor, and it was Ok. Even during war, some observations are funny.
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6 years
@AnneMWolke @FoxOfSilver2000 @KatyTurNBC Exactly. Forty House seats, baby.
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3 years
@TravisConway123 @BigBird @EricaRHill Kids 5-11 can get the vaccine now. Big Bird got it to encourage them.
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5 years
@davidfrum Sorry, David. You know how he fell. You helped start the disastrous Iraq war that destroyed New Labor.
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9 months
@lhfang @razibkhan Whoever put four agents on this non-case should be demoted. The four agents should have taken away from them any bonus or merit from this non-case.
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3 years
@markfollman Having weapons in nearby cars and hotels counts as preparation for using them on Jan 6. But having weapons in their homes, hundreds of miles away should not be part of any accusations.
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4 years
@SethAbramson Now, that House has passed the $2000, it's up to Senate majority to say Yes or No. If they say No, they've made themselves target on Jan 5 when Georgia can decide to remove the current Senate majority into the opposition.
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@ystepin @joonhopekook @KinCali1 The dead was an American. People in Atlanta have the right to be concerned about police violence anywhere in America.
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5 years
@daveweigel What would people earn in this programs? Would it be realistic for poor people to serve there, or would they earn too little? And then maybe shut out from better jobs for life, because they couldn't invest that time at the start.
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3 years
@emlynsshoes @BethAshton Why do we need Radcliffe mansplaining gender identity to Rowling?
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4 years
@sara_freeman1 @CardinalBCupich You're welcome to follow Bishop Gomez and read every tweet of his, but he shouldn't pretend he speaks for the church. He doesn't. And the silence of the bishop conference about federal executions and the Capitol Riot on Jan 6 is shameful.
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3 years
@gvnlaw @RBraceySherman You missed the point: The tweet you reply to is NOW up on arms about CEOs are overpaid.
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2 years
@jakeallr I think that's unfair to many small businesses. I worked at a Mom and Pop shop for some seasons, and the employees clocked in and out. How would that shop do wage theft?
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1 year
@BadMedicalTakes A good midwife knows when the mother needs to get into a hospital and says so.
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6 years
@RonDufresne @BillKristol It is newsworthy that senior people who worked close to Trump thought that he was incapable to be president.
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3 years
@LucasOfSunshine @josh_posts Laws and punishments in other democracies are less draconian than in the US. What probably happens: lifelong prohibition to work in healthcare, if victims need ICU: charged with assault, if victims die: charged with manslaughter. Among 9000 case, I assume there will be victims.
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4 years
@SameeraKhan China is an authoritarian state and has just suppressed free expression in Hong Kong. And you welcome that?
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3 years
@libsoftiktok If they kick him out, he should sue them to give him the money earmarked for the multicultural center.
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4 years
@YesThatAnna Sign in clinic said: No Visitors Exceptions can be made for children and special cases. These cases were apparently not special enough, or receptionist had a bad day, or whatever...
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2 years
@Snukkems_Art @BadBalticTakes Did any of them had a clause to split multiple foreign countries between the signatories?
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2 years
@SamJx @Heathentertain @ask_aubry It's an old cop rule: If a suspect is talking to you, let him talk and self-incriminate himself. That makes the job easier for prosecutor and court, to convict him - he confessed to a cop.
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4 years
@YesThatAnna Overheard refusals to let relatives into clinic: Husband denied to see his baby on ultrasound. Wife said they'd tried for years. Daughter denied to come with her mother who doesn't understand English. Then daughter needed, but she was gone.
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6 years
Hopes that just jettisoning Trump would Make America Normal Again are premature: long before Trump, Republicans already preferred Alternative Facts, for example when asked to limit Climate Change. The GOP needs an overhaul - best done as opposition hurt by abysmal elections.
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Climate denial is where the essential elements of Trumpism - the conspiracy theorizing and menacing of critics - began, writes @Paul Krugman
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@LizanneWhitlow @essenviews @Corinacakes I doubt that. They know he will drive their car against the wall. But they hope they can cut taxes and load courts with enough right-wingers to handsomely benefit from his term anyhow. And then attack Democrats for tax and spend again. Rinse and repeat.
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2 years
@VivekGRamaswamy Science is not religion, and climate science is not religion. We may disagree how to deal with climate change, but denying it should disqualify a candidate.
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5 years
@billmaher If the Senate trial will be a letdown, and it will, then make the best of the on-going impeachment inquiry and investigate further.
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3 years
@libsoftiktok They're OUTSIDE. Even Minnesota's mask mandate doesn't include the outside anymore.
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3 years
@billmaher I don't get criticism of driving through America in a van and visiting interesting sites, that only retirees were allowed to do that. Let people also live before they retire. I'm sure most travelers don't get much money from sharing their trips, it's just fun.
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@ReincarnatedRus @DrewPavlou The government in Gaza started a war. Thousands in Gaza cheered them on. Now, the war is in Gaza.
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10 months
@CougarSpider As a German, and I ask as a German specifically, not as a generic European: what are the intermountain west and southwest? I was only aware of the fascination Death Valley has specifically for German tourists (it's name in German is Valley of Death).
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@jochen_mitschka Ich werde meinen Enkeln erzählen, dass Massenmörder wie Hamas gerne töten und sich dann beklagen. Man muss kein Israel-Fan sein, um Hamas verbrecherisch und erbärmlich zu finden.
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2 years
@Sumfinkstrange This is not a girl but a woman. Why is she bound? In beginning of war, disorder was widespread, which looters exploited to loot. When caught, they would be bound to a pole with tape or plastic wrap (-> many pics online). After a few weeks, order was reestablished.
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3 years
@SethCotlar @mehdirhasan The House was Democratic 1954-1994, but many of those Democrats were conservative Southerners. Reagan had few problems to convince Phil Gramm or Richard Shelby to vote for more military and many other conservative preferences. Gramm and Shelby even became Republicans later.
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5 years
@IcasVasc @MrAndyNgo Giving support to declared enemy is treason. She's got no right to return.
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6 years
@amissio_ @MrAndyNgo I find Ngo's reporting necessary. Nobody else seems to cover the violent protests in the Northwest and their territorial behavior against those in the public space who think differently. Or could you recommend a better reporter?
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7 months
@CaptainSamBrown The Capitol Police is not part of the Biden Administration but reports to Speaker and Senate Majority Leader. Cry to Mike Johnson. I don't want preferential treatment for Nikoui who broke the rules premeditated, deserved his arrest, and should pay his fine.
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3 years
@sanniangs @Capt_Navy @oryxspioenkop I find it better if there are many survivors and they go home and tell how the war is going.
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10 months
@joshtpm It's not bait for you. Learn to recognize other victims.
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3 years
@R_Denhollander I was with you until here: Data show that porno is NOT a gateway to abusive actions. Abuse happens also and even more in societies where porn is banned. Child porno is bad, because it abused the children that are photographed.
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4 years
@BrentDyer3 @robbysoave When did it stop being acceptable for a student to learn about a point and then trying to make the point himself? If the professor thinks the point was wrong, the professor should explain. That's academia.
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5 years
@jessesingal Does "my employer" also imply I own my employer? Cool.
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5 years
@GenePark @LivPosting Democrats tried to strengthen gun control after Sandy Hook but were blocked by Republicans. That shows Democrats and Republicans are not the same. We shouldn't blame an administration for all that happened but for how they respond. See also Covid-19.
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6 years
@LovedByaDove @LaurenceADingle @JoeManchinWV The NRA should be toxic. They accepted Russian money to fight Americans.
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3 years
@scrumpyh3 @ripx4nutmeg @sarahstuartxx @ONS @fairplaywomen @WeAreFairCop @Womans_Place_UK @HJoyceGender May I suggest a law that requires gender AND sex to be published for each criminal conviction? Seeing self-declared gender and biological sex together allows a better understanding who the criminal is.
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6 years
@edwardpowell @etuckerAP @bradheath Exactly. Without Meese signing an NDA (he apparently has not), it's very inappropriate.
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2 years
@rapunzel6977 @nexta_tv It's the current fantasy by Russia fans that Ukraine will be split among its neighbors, including Poland that would want to get Lwiw. They try to promote this to sow discord among western supporters of Ukraine, and Lukashenko is trying to help. But Poland fully supports Ukraine.
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5 years
@lil_wage @WardQNormal @furtiveclown Your figure shows neoliberalism started earlier, under Carter. He deregulated the airlines and some things Nixon had done. Carter was peaceful, but otherwise not good for the country.
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4 years
@CNNPolitics Mexico should refuse her entry as apparent criminal.
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5 years
@KimRuxton @CiCi77 He's got no elected public office. He should be suspended.
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4 years
@peterjgowan @ebruenig I worked once with a foreign student in Sweden. I asked where he came from. He said he was British. Only Unionists from Northern Ireland would say that. The others are English, Scottish, Welsh.
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4 years
@AsherWhites @MikeGrunwald A few extra provide protection against faithless electors.
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3 years
@L4tkeMuncher @ConceptualBIG @Lefty_Jew @YishaiFleisher @MalkahFleisher Calling it Israel Lobby would be much better. Many Jews are not for treating Palestinians as 2nd class humans. Many evangelical Christians are part of the Israel Lobby.
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3 years
@CaitlinPacific No, it's a tragedy. Leaving Afghanistan was necessary but necessarily messy. That's tragic, not dishonorable. Stop riling up militaristic feelings.
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8 months
@rkfatheree @meiselasb That's a good point. It should be brought up in the lawsuits about if Trump can be even a candidate if the 14th Amendment is taken seriously: Trump gave and is still giving aid and comfort to those who have been later convicted and sentenced for seditious conspiracy.
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4 years
@DeirdreJones54 @PaulBegala @SenSchumer What could Pence tell us? He was in hiding and cut off. The Secret Service people who worked in their communication central and in the White House on the afternoon of Jan 6 might be much better suited.
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3 years
@FaustinoDiBauda @RealBFolks It seems clear that the violent brawl had already started when he entered it. I don't want to idolize people entering a brawl, but he doesn't seem more guilty than the people he hit.
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2 years
@OskarJaeger @noclador ...and that criminal was shot. The many other Russians, too, unfortunately.
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2 years
@noclador Sweden has these weapons against the Russian threat. Ukraine is fighting the Russian threat: if Ukraine wins, threat decreases; if Russia wins, threat increases. Sweden should give half of the weapons to Ukraine, after training, of course.
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1 year
@zdash12 @Docziggy @Acyn No, we raise our hand proudly for equal justice under the law. For both Hunter and Trump. You apparently cannot do this.
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2 years
@winincentive @wartranslated In Putin's Russia, rivals wrestle for power, and the dictator makes sure no rival becomes too powerful. Not Prigozhin, not Shoigu, not Gerasimov. Inefficiency is built into dictatorial systems.
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4 years
@JeffNguyen_ @Teri_Kanefield And like the call to Zelensky, this call should lead to impeachment of Trump by the House.
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4 years
@voxdotcom As a Minneapolis resident, I beg to differ. Police violence started the protest, but by now it's the arson and vandalism that are dominating Minneapolis. Are you justifying their violence and destruction?
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4 years
@mtracey The riots in Minneapolis were started by a masked white man. He's suspected to be from a white supremacist group. During the first nights in Minneapolis, there were many white men who fanned the flames. One guy tried to trip me and later choked a man who called for moderation.
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3 years
@mags_mclaugh I wish you love and happiness all your life. But this pic doesn't look especially attractive to me. Your avatar looks good and attractive though.
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@BillyCorben Why do we need the victims to press charges? That was assault, and the DA should have a clear case with all the video evidence.
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4 years
@cmclymer @Nairb_1988 It's the right step to protect women sports from becoming a clown show without paying audience and no earning potential for biological women. Transwomen can and should compete in the free-gender sports, also called men sports.
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@T_Walt615 @BudgetBen But that would be a stupid narrative.
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4 years
@HotzTucker @abc13houston @benshapiro I don't want to be scared either. But I want to be informed. And the lack of fever in some patients sick from Covid-19 is remarkable in itself.
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@Serenitynow418 @joelpust The debate between Populism and Liberal Democracy is worth having. As opposed to debating right fringes, for example. But kicking someone out is PREVENTING debate. It's a power move, neither populist nor liberal.
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1 year
@paulkrugman Newt Gingrich's speakership radicalized the Republicans in the mid 1990s.
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4 years
@MaxPinky22 @JoeBiden @USWNT @ussoccer That's just false. No women's national team has chance against any team of men who are soccer pros. It's just biology: the men are much faster. The two teams play different opponents, i.e. they do not do equal work.
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5 years
@BBengela @blakesmustache @brunhildenator Trump's administration has defied congressional subpoenas but not court orders yet, as far as I can tell.
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2 years
@Snukkems_Art @BadBalticTakes That means they did NOT use that as opportunity to grab land for themselves, did they? Instead, they wanted to meet German demands halfways to avoid war. While Soviet-N.zi pact was built on that the signatories would wage war to get land into their hands and then split it.
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4 years
@cjjohns1951 @jennycohn1 @JonathanSimon14 I thought two had more GOP ties and one more Dem ties. But regardless: Den should use opportunity for Grand Analysis of elections and of voting machines and push for paper ballots instead and against voter suppression.
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@hoback_sara @MsPackyetti @4everNeverTrump The criticism was unfair in its emphasis on rehearsing. Every debater on that stage rehearsed. McCain could still criticize Harris, of course, but she would have to be more specific about what Harris said, which means either work or opening her up to specific criticism herself.
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5 years
@Siphr0dias Frage den Häsischen Rundfunk.
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6 years
@SusieusMaximus @gsheath829 @Redpainter1 @KevinMKruse @BLEXIT @RealCandaceO History does matter, of course, but I saw her tweet mostly as a rejection of classifying organizations from their distant past. In that, she's right. Old members leave, new members join, which can change any organization completely.
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3 years
@RonDufresne @gtconway3d There's some hope still Trump could go to prison, for tax and mortgage fraud in New York.
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3 years
@stevebousquet Does Fox News broadcast from inside? If Fox News does so and doesn't insist on giving other media access, Fox News should lose its media status elsewhere and be treated as GOP media.
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3 years
@DemocraticDaisy @atrupar It was shameful by GoFundMe to refuse a fundraiser for the DEFENSE of an accused. It was good that someone else filled that gap. Every accused has the right to a defense. Rittenhouse was found Not guilty by the jury in a unanimous decision. How does GoFundMe look now?
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2 years
@PeterFile_143 @p8stie Step one. Get a divorce. Divorces are contagious.
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2 years
@SassyE I also assumed it was you. I think the strangers mean well. Thanks for posting the video.
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11 months
@mehdirhasan @arnehoffmann There are many differences though: - Ukraine didn't attack Russia - Ukraine didn't commit thousand war crimes on first day - Hamas isn't evacuating a front city, Israel can and has put a siege on it. Israel can shoot Hamas to pieces but must first allow civilians to evacuate. Go.
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