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Vivek

@VerverkS

6 months

Harsh but fair. Mostly harsh. Prove me wrong... if you can.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

4 months

@RealJacobPerry I'm pretty sure I've got tweets from early 2020 noting that there is absolutely no scientific, objective basis behind any of these insane things we did, and that we succumbed to hysteria. And if even *I* figured that out, others did too. This was easily understandable in 2020.

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3 years

@baseballcrank The more I see how deep the rot is and how horrifically our institutions fail us, the prouder I am of that kid, and the more grateful I am that he was out there that night. If our country wants a chance at a bright future, we need a million people just like him. At least.

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2 years

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3 years

@baseballcrank A hundred years ago, most American families would've been proud to call that kid their son. The world has not changed. We've just gotten soft.

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2 years

@JesseKellyDC

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@VerverkS

2 years

@charlescwcooke I respectfully disagree. It's not enough to simply meet your enemy as though it's a tete-a-tete. And Disney did not simply engage in "hysterical criticism." Disney has been, and is, actively interfering in the political affairs of our country & sponsoring a genocidal foreign one.

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@VerverkS

2 years

@JesseKellyDC

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@VerverkS

5 years

The real winner in this box office battle is Zoe Saldana for being in both of the two highest grossing films in history.

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@VerverkS

5 years

"Listen I'm just saying that The Last Jedi is the worst thing that's ever happened to star wars. I mean how could you not agree with that?"

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

The account is called "I Do The Thinking." Gonna grade that a "Needs Improvement."

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

The only difference between Bubba Wallace and Jussie Smollett is that America actually has a video of Wallace in a fight.

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@VerverkS

3 years

@scott_tobias @HotlineJosh (For those who don't know, the context was that she had leukemia and died of it in 2016 while awaiting confirmation.)

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Vivek

@VerverkS

7 years

Now we all know who to blame.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

3 years

Brooding & depressed isn't the only way to portray him.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

7 years

Donald Trump Goes To Saudi Arabia.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

The media reported on the destruction in one week, and then that entire disaster was memory holed because DeSantis stepped up. This is an astonishing success. He's going to win his re-election by a Florida landslide.

Ron DeSantis

@GovRonDeSantis

2 years

Three weeks ago, Hurricane Ian destroyed the Sanibel Causeway in three places, leaving the island of Sanibel isolated. Today, we have re-opened the causeway for our residents after completing temporary repairs more than a week ahead of schedule. Way to go!

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@VerverkS

2 years

If you're not legally sophisticated, here is a free shortcut. The exact opposite of Mark Joseph Stern is the correct position. If he's freaking out about something, whatever that is is a good and needed thing. If he thinks something is radical, it is painfully moderate.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

1 year

@mattzollerseitz What in the...

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

More. Do more. Get meaner about this. Ever since winning with Willie Horton, conservatives have become ashamed of their zeal to fight. They've been guilt ridden and taught to feel disgrace, shame, & sorrow for reminding people what they occasionally need reminding of. Do more.

Josh Kraushaar

@JoshKraushaar

2 years

#WISEN ; The latest crime-themed ad (from SLF) in the Wisconsin Senate race, invoking the testimony of a grandmother whose granddaughter was badly injured in the Waukesha parade attack.

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@VerverkS

2 years

Relentless center-right culture warrior. There's nothing far right about DeSantis at all. His positions are pretty ordinary for Republicans. He's just becoming less and less nice about it. This is a good thing.

Bill Scher

@billscher

2 years

If DeSantis wins re-election, after governing as a relentless far right culture warrior, I’d be inclined to stop referring to Florida as a swing state and Democrats should seriously question spending $100M+ there again in 2024

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Vivek

@VerverkS

4 years

@RubinReport @jessesingal @cmclymer @glaad He shouldn't have to apologize to you to get your help if you truly believe that helping him is the principled thing to do under the circumstances.

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@VerverkS

7 years

@miracleofsound

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

Reminder: In 2016, Trump ran and won on the issues, and NOT just on his personality. He built coalitions among respected conservative and Republican operatives, and had the same policy presentation wherever he went. Today, Trump doesn't talk about the issues at all. Just 2020.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

4 months

Complaining about it on the internet?

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@LangmanVince

4 months

Is there anything more Soy than grown men going to a Taylor Swift concert?

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@VerverkS

2 years

@TheDailyShow Credit goes to @RuthlessPodcast because they came up with the game first.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

6 years

What's your favorite movie, the core message of which you fundamentally disagree with?

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

@charlescwcooke When we make these arguments, we end up, whether we see it or not, sounding as though because tax cheating was not the worst thing Al Capone was doing, that it wouldn't be truly principled to vigorously prosecute him for that. It was the thing we could use to get him, so we did.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

The entire established press and the Fetterman campaign owe a massive apology to @DashaBurns . She is a profile of courage for the truth she spoke about Fetterman's condition, and she was horribly abused for it.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

No it did not. Covid-19 does not make a person depressed, sad, pessimistic, hopeless, or mentally drained. But shutting down a country, closing down schools and institutions of learning and socialization... that will do the trick.

The Associated Press

@AP

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The pandemic took a harsh toll on U.S. teen girls' mental health, with almost 60% reporting feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness, according to a government survey released Monday that bolsters earlier data.

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@VerverkS

2 years

In other words, he won.

Dr. Ben Braddock

@GraduatedBen

2 years

Evil people celebrate Sherman because of his ‘March to the Sea’ campaign. This wasn’t some impressive military operation like Jackson’s Valley Campaign: it was a campaign waged against women and children far away from the Confederate army. Farms and homes were burnt

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Vivek

@VerverkS

6 years

LOGAN LUCKY just became an even more personally affecting film for me. Story below if anyone's interested.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 months

@miracleofsound He's a few weeks away from writing a song called "The White Wolf Wakes"

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Vivek

@VerverkS

3 years

Narrator: She did.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

3 years

That third one is my favorite L I've ever seen in Twitter. And I do mean ever. It's just magical.

Defiant L’s

@DefiantLs

3 years

Worst L’s of the week Pt. 1:

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Vivek

@VerverkS

1 year

Hunter didn't even live there back then. He was in California with his new wife. Pretty sure that's literal public knowledge.

Brooke Singman

@BrookeSingman

1 year

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden received wires originating in Beijing for more than $250,000 from Chinese business partners in 2019—wires that listed the Delaware home of Joe Biden as the beneficiary address for the funds, Fox News Digital has learned.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

10 years

@the_moviebob http://t.co/i6OfCxTJPv

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Vivek

@VerverkS

4 years

@sagehyden Careful now, that opinion is frowned upon by "the rEaL gAmErS"

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@VerverkS

4 months

Lol Hunter was an inch away from obtaining complete immunity for all crimes until the judge saw that buried provision in the deal, called it out, forced the prosecution to say that it didn't say what it said, and in so doing blew up the deal entirely.

Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

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If you want an example of someone being prosecuted to the fullest possible extent of the law for charges that would normally be excused or settled on extremely lenient terms, just look at Hunter Biden.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

8 years

A year ago @JonahNRO wrote one of his first anti-Trump letters. Still one of his best pieces & only more true today.

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@VerverkS

4 months

@CaseyMattox_ You know as well as I do that the Left is deaf to this logic because they don't view these institutions as something that might belong to anyone who isn't them. Would you feel this way about your property?

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@VerverkS

3 years

In the Soviet Union, families did this shit all the time.

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@VerverkS

3 years

@DavidAFrench Yes he should have, David. I love and respect you, and I value your commentary, but he should have been there. Kenosha was lucky he was there that night, and they will be blessed if he finds the courage to serve that community again.

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@VerverkS

2 years

The best interview I've heard in weeks. The pain he talks about coming from veterans and their families as a result of the AFG withdrawal is wrenching. In the year since it started, there's been no accountability and consequences worse than anyone could've predicted.

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@michaelgwaltz

2 years

So many things we discussed a year ago on @RuthlessPodcast during Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal debacle have sadly come true.

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@VerverkS

2 years

@noahgittell @shannonrwatts @samyoungman This sentiment was inevitable after the word "urban" became synonymous with the word "black."

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@VerverkS

8 years

"This is it. NOW he crossed the line!" He crossed the line months ago. After "Ban the Muslims," nothing else should've surprised you.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

2 years

I met my puppy for the first time today. Twitter, this is Vera. Say hi.

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@VerverkS

4 months

@varadmehta Jackson didn't just concur in the judgment. She JOINED the opinion.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

5 years

Here's a joke in two parts. First a joke within this joke that my friend sent me. Second, my response to said joke and the glaring error subsequently pointed out to me. Don't say I don't make fun of Republicans too...

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Vivek

@VerverkS

3 years

@the_moviebob You know what the Constitution says about that. Jurisdiction does not extend that way, and he's not being charged for any association. He's being charged with murder under Wisconsin state law. Judge here by all accounts is actually pretty tame and permissive.

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@VerverkS

3 months

A few weeks ago, @VDHanson suggested that the present-day election cycle strongly resembles 1980 - which was also the first time VDH refused to vote for the Democrat. I wasn't buying this... and I still have doubts, until I remembered the OTHER thing that happened in 1980.

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@VerverkS

2 years

The meltdown is continuing and I simply don't understand it. You know you can control your own feeds, right? Just limit who you follow, and respond only to those you want to respond to. Use grains of salt for all the information you see here (which you should've done anyway).

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@VerverkS

6 months

Would be ironic if "Civil War" helps avert actual civil war because the country unites on what an awful movie it is.

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@VerverkS

2 years

@JesseKellyDC 🚁🚁🚁

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@VerverkS

6 years

@mattzollerseitz If I may plug myself again, it's all right here.

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@VerverkS

2 years

Holy fuck lmao libertarians are lunatics

Libertarian Party NH 🦔

@LPNH

2 years

Happy Holidays

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@VerverkS

4 months

One of the dumbest sentences I have ever read came from Justice Sotomayor in her JARKESY dissent in invoking George Washington's Farewell Address. And Gorsuch in his concurrence uses his space to bash the dissent like a blacksmith on an anvil. Just a great review of precedent.

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@VerverkS

3 years

I'd say Reich has a Napoleonic complex, but there's two problems. Napoleon was taller, and Reich isn't complex at all.

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@VerverkS

4 months

@RealJacobPerry I just think you're misstating. I agree that the emphasis on Fauci alone is misplaced. Often what happens in things like this is that the people who all went along with it get let off the hook because of an easy scapegoat. But plenty of good science opposed Fauci in 2020.

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@VerverkS

2 years

Said it before and I'll say it again. Donald Trump can go fuck himself and disappear.

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@VerverkS

2 years

This is the first time in my entire life where the Right has played offense. And now the two wealthiest men in America have been virtue signaling against the established Left. Quite a sight.

Jeff Bezos

@JeffBezos

2 years

Look, a squirrel! This is the White House’s statement about my recent tweets. They understandably want to muddy the topic. They know inflation hurts the neediest the most. But unions aren’t causing inflation and neither are wealthy people. Remember the Administration tried…

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@VerverkS

11 years

We need a scene in AGE OF ULTRON where Cap picks up Thor's hammer & tosses it to him. "Thor, don't forget this." And everyone stares in awe.

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@VerverkS

4 years

Good. They deserve it for the borderline election coverage malpractice they committed today.

Sean Stafford

@sstaffordtweet

4 years

Fox News is getting crushed by its viewers tonight. Viewer mutiny may be underway. Fox has been terrible with details and analysis. CNN and yes newsmax have had far better coverage and insight, detail.

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@VerverkS

2 years

In doing so, Sherman brought the consequences of the Civil War to exactly the place where it belongs. The war that the southern elite and hierarchs had fostered was now their ruin in which to mire. There is nothing more moral than that. /end

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@VerverkS

2 years

Remember when Republicans voted against bonuses to the FDA and the media pretended that it was a vote against baby formula? That was last week. We're living on that wave planet from Interstellar.

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@VerverkS

1 year

@JesseKellyDC Respectfully, Jesse, you're wrong. People need to see it, and need to see it HERE because they wouldn't be able to see it anywhere else. The media is not covering it. The headlines are suggesting or outright declaring that both sides are at fault. The grotesque truth is here.

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@VerverkS

2 years

I'm going to respond to this here because there's no point going after him directly. Ben, if you see this, your response is welcome. Sherman is one of the most morally upright military leaders in American history, and just as misunderstood. His March to the Sea reflects that.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

5 years

Somehow a friend of mine had never seen the @ERBofHistory . She's losing her mind from how good they are.

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Vivek

@VerverkS

8 years

This from the guy you people trusted to replace the seat of Antonin Scalia, the swing justice who disagreed.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

8 years

Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!

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@VerverkS

2 years

Happy Passover, Happy Easter, and Happy anniversary of the Surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox.

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@VerverkS

7 years

@the_moviebob The article I wrote a month ago about the treatment of Skyler is directly relevant to this.

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@VerverkS

2 years

@ShayCormac_1 @ebeth360 It's not real, but like all headlines like this, it might as well be.

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@VerverkS

1 year

@MaKEITHappen_90 @_ParadiseParis1 They don't have periods because there's something biologically wrong or broken about them. Not because periods don't belong to women. They do. A man with a low sperm count is still a man. C'mon, this ain't hard.

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@VerverkS

9 years

In case you missed it, here's a cool thing I wrote about AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON. http://t.co/hotQq3mmci

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@VerverkS

3 years

@EWErickson A hundred years ago, Americans everywhere would've been proud to call Rittenhouse their son. It was an unfamiliar era where our country actually knew how to win wars, but it did that in large part because of the commitment and necessary work of kids who were just like Kyle.

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@VerverkS

2 years

If anything, he should join the majority. Send a hard message.

Erick Erickson

@EWErickson

2 years

If John Roberts is able to cut a deal to save Roe v Wade after all the death threats, protests, leaks, etc. that will truly be the end of the Court’s credibility. They’ll show they can be bullied by public protest and violence.

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@VerverkS

10 years

My country spent 4 years patting itself on the back for electing its first black president. #Ferguson is what we have to show for it.

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@VerverkS

4 months

This is, again, why Byron Donalds is an awful messenger, and why it is actually okay to make fun of him for it. I have never bought into the hype about him, and he has proven me right every time, especially in the DeSantis school psychodrama.

POLITICO

@politico

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Byron Donalds expresses nostalgia for the Jim Crow era, when 'the Black family was together'

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@VerverkS

8 years

No serious conservative can, with any modicum of moral and intellectual integrity, support Donald Trump.

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@VerverkS

9 months

@mattyglesias It's actually the complete opposite of that lol

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@VerverkS

6 years

History Lesson Time. The moral of the story I'm about to tell you is this is: the Supreme Court will not save society from itself, and, no, packing it with the "right" weapons will not bring your enemies to heel, or help you declare law. VERY LONG THREAD BELOW...

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@VerverkS

2 years

Hearty applause for the poetry of McDaniel at @RuthlessPodcast .

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@VerverkS

2 years

@davidmweissman @ChristinaPushaw When people were exercising their free speech to protest lockdowns, they were told that they were killing their grandmothers and endangering everyone. Then thousands gathered to protest & riot. Suddenly free speech was cool again and it was "LESS healthy" not to join them.

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@VerverkS

7 years

This party effectively sanctioned the John Doe investigations - one the most disgraceful law enforcement witch hunts and civil liberties violations we've ever seen, comparable only to Jim Crow era raids. If there's any group that actually deserves to BLEED, it's the WI Democrats.

Wisconsin Democrats

@WisDems

7 years

To pass the progressive policies that we want, we must elect Democrats up and down the ballot in 2018. That’s why the @womensmarch is launching a nationwide voter registration effort to channel the energy and activism of the last year into real wins. 2/x

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Sherman understood this. And the March to the Sea is actually one of the most disciplined military odysseys in the entire history of civilization. He didn't kill very many people. He just burned every plantation in sight, freed slaves, and destroyed the infrastructure of war.

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@VerverkS

9 years

Where was this belly fire during the 2012 election, Mitt?

Mitt Romney

@MittRomney

9 years

A disqualifying & disgusting response by @realDonaldTrump to the KKK. His coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America.

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2 years

Conservatives have been taught for over a generation that it is better and more noble to lose with dignity and without ruffled feathers than it is to win dirty. And the people who taught these supposedly big moral lessons either ran or had no problem with the Daisy Girl ad of 64.

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@VerverkS

3 years

When all is said and done, someone is going to have to put together a clip show that features all the parallels between Malcolm X in the '60s and @JesseKellyDC today. The agendas may be different, and the men may have different backstories, but their rhetoric is fascinating.

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@VerverkS

2 years

The media is a dangerous institution and an enemy of American interests in nearly every way, and needs to be aggressively treated as such. These people were arguing for the banning of your gas stove less than a month ago.

The New York Times

@nytimes

2 years

After a train carrying toxic material derailed in Ohio this month, Right-wing commentators have been particularly critical of the response, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be irreparable.

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This all goes back to Shiloh. The Sherman who did all that in 1864 was a different man. People call him "dishonorable." I see that stupid rhetorical trick played a lot by modern Confederate sympathy hawks. What the fuck is "honor" under these circumstances? A war needs winning.

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@VerverkS

8 years

This was something I never wanted to write. It's vicious and unforgiving, but true to its conservative conviction.

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4 years

@CaseyMattox_ @guypbenson I love and respect and even deeply admire @DavidAFrench . I have no qualifications behind that. I find his words and sentiments moving. I value his voice and contribution, and I will always wish him nothing but the next. He's wrong.

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@varadmehta No she's not. I disagree with her on her OHIO v. EPA dissent, but her opinion yesterday was actually very, very good. Standing doctrine needs rigorous upkeep and yesterday her opinion did just that. I hate the result, but it's the right decision.

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@VerverkS

9 years

This review is a monster, but it had to be done. So much to shred; as it stands I probably haven't written enough.

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@VerverkS

2 years

@BlueBoxDave There's no hate here, but I don't agree. He doesn't need to rant or be unhinged or vindictive or spiteful or sarcastic or anything like that. But this simply isn't good enough. "Well, I don't know the girls in your school, but what you claim to be has no bearing on VA policy."

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2 years

"Nice" has been an anchor tied to the nuts of the Republican Party for three decades, and the country has paid for that.

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@VerverkS

2 years

Reminder that any time Clarence Thomas is attacked, 95% of those attacks are racist. At a minimum.

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@VerverkS

7 years

Today I get a law degree I've been working on for the past few years.

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@VerverkS

10 years

Literally can't stop listening to THE LAST GOODBYE. Jesus Christ, Billy. Absolutely incredible. #TheLastGoodbye cc: @theoneringnet

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@VerverkS

8 years

@the_moviebob Republican here. If Trump's an indication of the future, next candidate'll be a cop who gunned down a black man.

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@VerverkS

7 years

Maybe next week the President can pardon Charles Manson. That seems to be the trend.

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