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allison

@allisongeroi

4 years

If you run across my tweets please note that I have no idea who controls this account

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@allisongeroi

2 years

what do we, as a culture, have to do to kill QR code menus

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it’s not about finding a quarantine boyfriend, it’s about developing strong feelings via text that you won’t be able to verify in person until June

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3 years

vaccine summer will not even come close to the manic social energy of the summer Pokemon Go came out

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there is literally nothing less dignified than writing a cover letter

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3 years

fucking over families was a given but limiting rapid tests based on residential address is a very funny way to also hit people with roommates

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5 years

extremely cool to have one set of laws for poor people and a whole different, easier set of laws for rich people

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@ABC7Chicago

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Marijuana banned from Chicago public housing despite legalization taking effect January:

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My debt forgiveness plan is simple: I have hidden five golden tickets in chocolate bars around the world. The lucky children that find the bars can use the tickets to pay tuition fees if they pass a series of simple tests during a visit to my candy factory

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5 years

I am ideologically opposed to taking a spouse's last name but I am intrigued by the idea of starting over with a fresh gmail account

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@allisongeroi

4 years

everyone saying that Twitter banning Trump means they might start arbitrarily banning leftists seems to have forgotten Twitter has been arbitrarily banning leftists for a while

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Scorsese’s daughter said “King of Comedy was slept on” to teach him what “slept on” meant and suddenly he was naming names

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@allisongeroi

4 years

My friends are dead because they couldn’t afford medicine

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4 years

I miss 2012, when you could change an .mp3 file to "finalpaper.docx", creating an unintelligible stream of type, and then email it to a professor in order to buy yourself ~24 hours without asking for an extension

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4 years

do you ever feel your personality getting worse

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5 years

losing my mind over my great-grandmother’s Catholic school yearbook

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@allisongeroi

4 years

every three weeks Biden exits the basement, tells people not to vote for him, and disappears again

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5 months

if you want to skip to the part of his response where he starts breakdancing, it’s 6:36

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@BenHart_Freedom

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I wake up at 6 a.m. to find that my daughter has posted a TikTok video trashing me. She's a big social media influencer with millions of followers. Here it is . . .

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@allisongeroi

4 years

Summer fun! 🏖️♥️. (*Private island all tested negative multiple times wear a mask ♥️)

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@allisongeroi

3 months

cancelling the speech led to nationwide coverage, so cancelling the entire ceremony should really lower the temperature

Writers Against the War on Gaza

@wawog_now

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‼️ BREAKING: USC just canceled their entire commencement ceremony under pressure to reinstate Asna Tabussum as commencement speaker:

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2 years

have discovered something I must share about my favorite hollywood couple Vincent Kartheiser and Alexis Bledel:

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3 years

what hemingway was missing was ENERGY

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5 years

the simplest joy in life is booing a rich person, do not let the rich people on TV tell you any different

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@allisongeroi

4 years

A plan that is only free to those below 200% of the poverty line is not “universal.” Under Warren’s plan, a single mom making $36,000 wouldn’t qualify for free childcare

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@allisongeroi

3 months

why publish any quotes from a Palestinian Columbia student whose family has died in Gaza when you can simply say she spoke “at length and with nuance.”

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@powellAtlantic

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What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive? My essay :

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@allisongeroi

3 months

what, exactly, is the value of a Democratic governor and a Democratic mayor if this is what the state does do children?

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@isabelle_leyva

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Arrests underway on 114th as NYPD clears protesters from the area surrounding campus. They’re shoving people into buildings and blocking the doors. NYPD has kicked all legal observers out of the area.

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@allisongeroi

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Höss tells his wife that he couldn’t enjoy a lavish party because he was imagining how he could gas everyone in the room.

CNN Opinion

@CNNOpinion

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‘The Zone of Interest’ — a Holocaust movie without Jews – Read more from Peter Rutland here:

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3 years

After John Landis killed an actor and two kids on the set of the Twilight Zone, he directed the "Thriller" music video and Coming to America. Crew members who blew the whistle couldn't find a job for months (in one case, years).

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3 years

I have decided to marry the TikTok beekeeper. I love my fearless bee wife

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@allisongeroi

3 years

watching solidarity with Palestine go from fringe idea to non-negotiable among young leftists over the last decade: very good

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@allisongeroi

4 years

does no one remember Jose Andres personally campaigned against paying his employees more than $3.89/hour

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@TIME

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TIME's new cover: "Without empathy, nothing works." Chef José Andrés wants to feed the world through the pandemic

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@allisongeroi

3 years

just heard someone earnestly refer to themselves as “thin-passing”.....gonna go walk into the river

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@allisongeroi

3 years

JEREMY STRONG'S WIFE: He's intense but makes room for a normal home life JEREMY STRONG: My normal home life is a performance, a lie I have committed to

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2 years

eataly says “embrace dialectics”

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@allisongeroi

3 years

we must, as a gender, stop turning "a man was rude to me after 0-2 dates" into content

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@allisongeroi

3 years

stimulus should have been by household. you get to split $1200 between your three roommates as you update the chore chart

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@allisongeroi

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In 2018, I was fired by the DOJ Antitrust Division after protesting deportation. I knew my firing was retaliatory, so I filed a whistleblowing complaint with OSC. Last month, I signed a settlement with the DOJ that covers all of my back wages, plus most of my attorney's fees :)

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@allisongeroi

4 years

here's an open letter written by Larry Kramer to Dr. Anthony Fauci (yes, same Dr. Fauci) in 1995

The Upshot

@UpshotNYT

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"I did not think this level of failure in a federal response was possible in the United States."

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@allisongeroi

2 years

this piece profiles the comms director for Progressive Anti-Abortion Rising, but does not mention that police found five fetuses in the basement of that group's director in April

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@nytimes

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A new generation of women activists opposing abortion rights — often pointed to by anti-abortion leaders as the face of the movement — say they are poised to continue the fight in a post-Roe nation.

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4 years

been in awe of "i don't see no riot here/why are you in riot gear" for hours. when was the last time we got a new chant

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@allisongeroi

2 years

when you learn NFL overtime rules

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3 years

once again thinking about the photo

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@allisongeroi

4 years

I was fired (and am still getting death and rape threats!) because publications like the Washington Post and The Hill decided I was a public figure at 23. It sucks to see @thedailybeast , an outlet I respected and trusted, make the same call about a low-level campaign staffer.

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@allisongeroi

5 years

Harold Prince, the titan who shaped musical theatre as we know it, could not wrap his mind around cats. He turned Sweeney Todd into a parable about industrialization grinding people up and assumed Cats had to be about the monarchy or some shit

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When I was just a little girl I asked my mother, what wife will I be Will I be Curvy Will I be Cliff Here's what she said to me

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why does Chabad have beef with Trader Joe’s

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@allisongeroi

4 years

I don’t want to praise the NYT EdBoard but they were spot on when they said Pete was the only millennial who lived through endless wars and two recessions without getting mad about it

Pete Buttigieg

@PeteButtigieg

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Black lives depend on whether America can be what we want to believe it is. What we need it to be. What it could be. Systemic racism is so woven into the fabric of this country, facing it will take action, honesty, listening, and deep, deep change. And for many of us, humility.

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3 years

after three weeks in a public defender’s office, I have literally no idea how you could do this job without being an abolitionist

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@allisongeroi

4 years

“public enemy and Dick Van Dyke will perform” is the last phrase my brain will register. we’re ending on a high note, sunshine and calming images only from here on out

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1 year

we have to let girls make jokes

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@allisongeroi

4 years

Here’s what this article doesn’t capture: when you are poor, and you see tenants being evicted every day by the conveyor belt of housing court, and you know what the NYPD does...throwing a Molotov cocktail at a police car is the only reasonable reaction

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@allisongeroi

5 years

If you’re looking to defend an SNL cast member who was wrongly fired for a minor mistake, Jenny Slate is the better choice

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6 years

John McCain had access to the best health care at the end of his life. Here is a what it was like when one of his constituents got brain cancer:

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1 year

when has shiv ever wiped the floor with anyone lmaoooo

pinky

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this is the look of a scary obsessive man locking onto his next target, but his next target is shiv roy and she's going to wipe the fucking floor with him. damn. i feel high

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a pattern that hasn't changed since 2017 is that when fascists murder a protestor, my family of highly engaged voters+daily news viewers has no idea it happened until I tell them

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can kids even cheat anymore? some of my fondest high school memories were the hours we spent at starbucks, devising new ways to share answers during tests instead of learning chemistry

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the New York Times’ coverage of the 50th anniversary of publishing the Pentagon Papers includes.....an op-ed saying Ellsberg is an anti-democratic radical

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@allisongeroi

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Fox and Friends once mocked me for using GoFundMe to pay my rent and I would rather replay that then tell another organization I can contribute to their mission

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@allisongeroi

4 years

Is anyone in the lawless mob wearing a hat with a particular slogan on it

Olivia Nuzzi

@Olivianuzzi

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I want to be clear: I am hearing from Republican and Democratic staff members on Capitol Hill that this is terrifying, this is chaos, this is “the scariest thing that I’ve ever seen,” in the words of one staffer. This isn’t MAGA vs. the establishment. It’s a lawless mob.

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anyone who wants to be valedictorian or salutatorian this badly should automatically be disqualified. this does not matter!!

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@allisongeroi

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I left that conference with this question: Do writers not care about my kidney donation?

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@allisongeroi

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this assumes that anyone who hasn’t been scammed just hasn’t been targeted but…people get these fake calls all the time! i’ve gotten them! I hung up!!

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@kattenbarge

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Everyone who reads this thinks they would never fall for a scam like this, but the truth is you would. You just have no idea how you will react when your emotions are toyed with to this level. Everyone is capable of being abused, manipulated, and scammed.

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after two years and thousands of dollars my therapist finally cracked it: I want to be loved

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4 years

whenever the FBI foils a terrorist plot it is important to ask how much of the terrorist plot was planned by the FBI

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my waitress asked if the logo on my DSA totebag was the polyamory symbol. I have to die

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I think the two children who stabbed their friend to impress Slender Man should never have been identified publicly, charged, or imprisoned. I also think they shouldn’t be elected to the Wisconsin state legislature.

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very sad to read a 27 year old describe age 20-25 as her “best years”

The Case for Marrying an Older Man

A woman’s life is all work and little rest. An age gap relationship can help.

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@Vanessa_ABee plato's cave but they're writing laws about what you're allowed to do outside the cave

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3 years

well I hope everyone learned a lesson about what’s appropriate and not appropriate online today

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@allisongeroi farewell !

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everyone tells you how horrible law school is but no one mentions how many 22 year olds there are

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what is a “household”? how DO we define “family”? can we draw borders around LOVE?

Variety

@Variety

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Netflix Will Prompt Subscribers to Pay for Users Outside Their Households in New Password-Sharing Crackdown Test (EXCLUSIVE)

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4 years

Neera Tanden does not want to keep you alive, she just wants to blame the Republican Party for your death

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2011, to a local paper: Occupy is cool, but idk if I'd join 2017, to VICE News: Yes, I'm distributing socialist lit at the Juggalo March

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6 years

Happy sixth anniversary of the time an athlete came late to our first year diversity workshop and said his preferred gender pronouns were “she/her” because he thought it meant “what gender do you prefer, sexually”

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Once a month a few hundred Nazis come to DC, seriously injure people, and destroy property. District leadership’s response is a variety of flyers and press conferences asking them to please not do that this time.

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Höss fantasizes about gas, Hedwig breaks up the family to stay “Queen of Auschwitz”, their son pretends to gas his brother, even local servants take lingerie from murdered Jews. Anyone misreading this wants to believe the Palestinian genocide doesn’t have a similar moral fallout

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2 years

I emailed Glenn Kessler about his column and he...told me he knew women who were raped? And identified two family members specifically?

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1 year

I cannot imagine saying that my famous ex psychologically abused me, providing proof of that psychological abuse, and then seeing a film critic say I shouldn't whine about it

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It’s gross to post your ex’s private texts unless you have a really solid reason to do so—& this holds true even if your ex was a thin-skinned, manipulative weasel. That used to be a given, but it clearly isn’t anymore

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4 years

we literally already fought for it, Muriel

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5 years

“AOC is actually unpopular” is a very powerful stance to take, gotta respect it

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please DM me if you are still cheating, I will not snitch, I just want to know if the "tap system" was simultaneously invented by anyone else

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@allisongeroi

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that said I will be sipping a stiff drink when everyone remembers how Charlotte’s first foray into feminism ended

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tell me your worst ghosting story, because I just remembered the time I texted a guy I’d been seeing for 3 months “how do you feel about bowling” and then never heard from him again

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@allisongeroi

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Mount Rushmore was created by dynamiting and drilling the sacred land of the Lakota Sioux

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We're like one week removed from entire cable news panels debating whether or not we should blow up Mount Rushmore.

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organizations should help people get comfortable with the idea that protests are illegal. permits are for parades, not challenging state power :)

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I borrowed $16,500 for undergrad and after four years of payments, I have whittled down my balance to $16,086.06✨

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@allisongeroi

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10 properties is....actually quite a lot of property to own! At minimum, it is millions of dollars of property!

FiveThirtyEight

@FiveThirtyEight

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About half the rental properties in the U.S. belong to landlords who own no more than 10 properties, and many of those 8 million individual landlords rely on the nominal rent they collect.

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I think it’s really nice that being anti-union is becoming an unacceptable stance

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3 years

A/B testing what level of fear gets the most engagement

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7 years

tired: women’s marches wired: women’s riots

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4 years

every screenshot of bad Xeni Jardin posts should come with a note that Xeni Jardin’s name is Jennifer Hamm

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many people trying to argue with me about this. they are all wrong.

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always unfortunate to learn a podcaster is handsome

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RBG'S job was to carve out equity for women and protect the gains we'd made, she failed at the latter, I am exhausted by everyone pretending otherwise.

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good morning, let’s get this over-priced bread #HotGirlsForBernie

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7th graders: please help us not be boiled by the sun A grown ass adult: I am popular which means I don’t have to care

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3 years

why is an economist giving public health advice

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Kids are low risk. Go ahead and plan the summer. My latest in Atlantic.

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I cannot believe they locked up Sansa AND Tyrion AND Varys AND Gilly in a crypt full of zombies-in-waiting and just........didn't write them any dialogue

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2 years

relatedly: which local journalist is going to report on the mysterious ghost kitchen operation at Chupacabra

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4 years

Amy Coney Barrett voting to put a man to death tells you all you need to know about her alleged devotion to Catholicism.

SCOTUSblog

@SCOTUSblog

4 years

Just in: The Supreme Court has vacated a lower court's 11th-hour order that had blocked tonight's scheduled execution of Orlando Hall. Breyer, Kagan & Sotomayor dissent.

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I’m not saying Jesse Singal should never work again, just that he should be given different employment. He could tend an isolated orchard. Monitor ocean currents in a remote waystation. Things of that nature

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