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Screenwriter, playwright. FIRST TIME FELON on HBO BATTERY …

Astoria, Queens NYC
Joined March 2010
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I’m not getting the shingles shot.
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Joyce Carol Oates
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yes, I had to go to urgent care, eventually; & was given a prescription for shingles--the vaccine had apparently left me with a "mild" case. (I'd had a very bad case of shingles in 2008. even when it has abated, it remains with you in sensitive painful nerves in the back &
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This is actual journalism. Proving through data that those in power in Brazil corrupted the courts to be used against political enemies. WATCH: Glenn Greenwald Explains the Political Earthquake in Brazil Caused by Our Ongoing Exposés by @ggreenwald
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Edvard Munch. "The Murderer" (1910)
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To find a single American police officer guilty of murder, it only took a video of the entire murder in detail and a world-wide protest movement that lasted a full year.
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This Derek Chauvin verdict in the killing of George Floyd is historical in breaking the centuries of police getting away with murder.
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Donald: "Let it be an arms race."
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Banksy.
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Trump Wants To End ‘Meals On Wheels’ for Old People. Passed in 1963. Annual budget equals 1 trip to Mar-A-Lago.
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Cuomo is as ridiculous as this Biden surrogate. This is the bias, defensiveness, condescension and entitlement that is aired every day toward the most diverse working class progressive movement.
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Jenna
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Ms. Rosen showing EXTREME disrespect, taking her own time AND Nina's time, too. This is disgusting. This is @JoeBiden 's team shutting down a black woman when she tries to break down Dr. King's white moderate statement.
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Monica Bellucci being labeled the "oldest Bond girl". Who's the oldest Bond? No one cares. Not an issue. #film #Bond #sexism
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George Orwell: "“In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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Why is this not called right wing domestic terrorism? by @ShaunKing
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Caught orange-handed.
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He admits it's a #FakeTrumpEmergency . Hear him say it: "I *didn’t need* to do this, but I’d rather do it much faster."
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Eyewitness dismisses CNN reporter's biased question. "This was not a war between two factions. This was terrorists plowing down people."
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Your debate with @thomaschattwill on the Penny issue is this: Chatterton is open to a possibility of imminent danger and admits he doesn’t know what happened. You assert that you do know what happened and deny any imminent danger with certainty.
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The journalism on the Iowa Caucus disaster was just as disastrous - biased & unethical. How does Buttigieg "win" when the vote isn't completed, Sanders has more votes and the delegates are tied? FAIR: How Corporate Media Make Pete Look Like He's Winning -
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Matt Lauer more concerned to rush to the next question than listening to Clinton's answers. #NBCNewsForum
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When Dylann Roof shot and killed nine Americans in Charleston, did Ted Cruz suggest patrolling right-wing Southern Christian communities?
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Audio seems to prove Saudis are lying about brutal murder of American journalist as US president defends the murderers and calls journalists the enemy of the people. Vote all Republicans out of office for the sake of the country.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Breaking News: Audio confirms Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and dismembered, a Turkish official said, revealing gruesome details and contradicting Saudi denials
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The US president now scapegoats an individual US judge for future terror attacks that may result from his administration's policies.
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Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
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We're not going to pay for the wall. We hire people, they build it and then we don't pay them. That's how I got rich. It's in my book.
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Jeffrey Guterman
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tRump at round table on border security on January 11, 2019: "You let your contractor do the work and then you see if they did a good job and if they didn't do a good job don't pay 'em."
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Shepard Smith, the best journalist at Fox News, just quit.
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Jon Passantino
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Full video: Shepard Smith's final sign off from Fox News
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The right wing terrorist did not just kill Jews because they were Jews but also because Jewish people help refugees. It's this hatred toward refugees and specifically the fear of refugees from South America that is fueled by Donald, the GOP and right wing media.
@Will_Bunch
Will Bunch
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HIAS, the Jewish refugee aid society that dates to 1880, can't understand how "basic humanity became controversial." How love toward strangers fueled a Pittsburgh madman's hate, and how you can fight back, including DONATE to HIAS. My new column
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To the right, a white shooter is always a lone wolf with mental problems. Unless he's a Democrat?
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@_SJPeace_ @TulsiGabbard What this guy said in the video is exactly what Lori Lightfoot did. He's describing precisely what she did. It's the definition of racism. By your own post. People are funny.
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Diego Rivera. "Flower Vendor"
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Variety finally announces that Kristen Stewart was talking about gender not race after setting her up & twitter calling her a racist.
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Edvard Munch. "The Sick Child" (1907)
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I haven't heard discussed the sexual connotation and pornographic roots in Donald calling women who intimidate him "nasty." Doing "the nasty" is slang for sex. Porn stars are commonly promoted as nasty. "Sluts" are nasty in their freaky sex acts & by betraying men after sex.
@JeffreyGuterman
Jeffrey Guterman
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With the graves of U.S. veterans behind him in Normandy, France on D-Day, Trump says of Nancy Pelosi: "She's a nasty, vindictive, horrible person ... She is a terrible person and I'll tell you, her name, it's Nervous Nancy cause she's a nervous wreck."
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Wouldn't a #GunBan make us safer than a #MuslimBan ?
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That those defending incarcerating infants, and causing them unknowable physical, emotional & developmental damage, are arguing whether this indefensible moral abomination falls into a category of a concentration camp, in itself further dehumanizes these children.
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Incarcerating an infant, alone, in a cell, without parents, for absolutely no crime is the action of an immoral society. This is not a political question. It's not liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat. It's a moral abomination. A stain on our country. It's monstrous.
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@dampscribbler @JFrankensteiner When Rourke asks, "What the fuck have I done to get a bad-boy image?" The Interviewer can say, "This interview."
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I won, the debates are rigged, I'm a victim, I dominated, I'm a nice guy for not attacking a woman's husband, Miss Universe is fat.
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Testing positive after sheltering with Republicans who refused to wear masks, Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman: “The arrogance and stupidity combined with their undying loyalty to a president who has led us in this direction sickens me to my stomach.”
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Terrorism by Muslims makes up one-third of 1 percent of all murders in the US via @voxdotcom #MuslimBan
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The protest was Uuuge. Biggest protest in US history. Bigly. This movement is unpresidented. I've never seen such a protest against anyone.
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With only 25% of the country voting for Donald, there's a solid argument that 75% of the country hate his guts. #WereInTheMajority
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As for the argument that if they can't get guns, they'll just get knives...
@tha_rami
Rami Ismail / رامي
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A 44-year old man with severe mental issues attacked my former high school in the Netherlands today. Since he did not have access to guns, he brought knives, and was scared away by students throwing their backpacks at him. The man & students are now all getting help as needed.
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You did not scour. It’s everywhere. Another senseless liberal reaction.
@IJasonAlexander
jason alexander
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I’m scouring social media to find Republican reactions of sympathy for Paul Pelosi. Please share if you find it.
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How can cats follow social distance guidelines but people in Los Angeles can’t?
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The Christian religion comes from the Jewish religion. Many Christians don't seem to understand that.
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Any greater proof of our journalistic hypocrisy than WaPo accepting Pulitzer for Snowden docs and calling for their source to be prosecuted?
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Fox News and Republican politicians accuse Democrats of taking advantage of the Capitol assault for political purposes. Yes. Democrats should not only take advantage, they should eviscerate the Republican Party and damage it as much as politically possible without mercy.
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Matisse. "Woman in a Purple Coat" (1937)
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Two things the dictator ran on: Repeal ObamaCare and Build the Wall. One down. Let's stop the wall. And push to #UniversalHealthCare .
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But there were good people on both sides.
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Vice President Mike Pence Archived
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Karen and I were deeply moved by Birkenau and Auschwitz. It was a scene of unspeakable tragedy, reminding us of what tyranny is capable of. #NeverAgain
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Women's March had amazing performers compared to the embarrassing entertainment at the #Inauguration .
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Banksy. Oscar Wilde escaping prison in Reading, where he spent two years, hauling a typewriter.
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Have victims of a violent American tragedy ever wanted the president not to visit to mourn?
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Kyle Griffin
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"Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and parents of the victims have one request for Pres. Donald Trump: stay away. 'In my opinion I do not want Trump here at all,' Ameer Hussain, a 15-year-old freshman at the school told The Daily Beast."
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Physicians Demand End To 20-Year-Old Ban On Gun Violence Research via @thinkprogress
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Mark Rothko "Untitled (Blue Divided by Blue)" (1966)
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Where I used to live in Putnam County, an hour north of NYC, there is a Donald J. Trump State Park. A sign is on the highway. Donald could never get approval for a golf course, so he donated the land if named after him. We will celebrate the day when that highway sign comes down.
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Jeffrey Guterman
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The name Trump is already being removed from public spaces. Someday his descendants will be recluses, some will change their names, and most of his supporters will deny they ever supported him.
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Should countries consider sanctioning the US for human abuse issues?
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NBC News
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UN Human Rights commissioner: "In the United States, I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable."
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"A failed, collapsed (Democratic) party cannot form an effective resistance." by @ggreenwald
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J.M.W. Turner. "Snow Storm" (1842)
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When I was in school, children did not have access to guns. Since radical Republicans have taken over the country, children have guns and kill other children. Because of Republicans, the NRA and people who support them. #gunviolence #guncontrol
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1st time in American history? More women protesting Donald's presidency than all those celebrating #Inauguration ?
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When Jewish children were crying in Dachau, a guard mocked them saying the weeping was like an orchestra and they should have a conductor - wait no, that was a US border agent mocking imprisoned children.
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What a dysfunctional Republican Party to accept threats by the president in the matter of checking the executive branch. What a dysfunctional democracy.
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Jeffrey Guterman
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Per @CBSNews : A @POTUS confidant tells CBS News that GOP senators were warned: “vote against the president & your head will be on a pike.”
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Our very good friends in Saudi Arabia. The best way defend yourself from death as an atheist is to claim insanity.
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We still have to take our shoes off at the airport but we can walk into the Capitol and put our shoes up on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
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This is the kind of personal attack and negative campaigning as well as a “both sides” smear that Bernie Sanders has always refused to use or engage with.
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Pastor Ben
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You’ve got to be kidding me
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Any strong writer who signs on to a grad course from a teacher who demands that you must "name the race and gender of any character at first introduction" and if you don't it will affect your grade should probably not take the course. This kind of trendy confinement can be death.
@TLiterarian
The Ludificatorypogonophobian
2 years
In case you missed it
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When did a single Black Lives Matter protestor carry arms and attempt to assassinate a politician on live television? The comparison by Republican apologists of the insurrection to BLM is cynical, desperate and morally vapid.
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Dan Therriault
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It’s rare for Americans to have a self-awareness of U.S. Christian terrorism. The Iraq invasion was a Christian invasion when Bush said God told him to invade. The Capitol insurrectionists chanted Christian prayers. If these were Muslim prayers they’d be emphasized in the media.
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Beautiful, brilliant interview with Philip Roth in the New York Times today concluding with: "I have many dear dead friends. A number were novelists. I miss finding their new books in the mail."
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Hillary Clinton thrived under an 11-hour grilling about Benghazi, Nancy Pelosi delivered an 8 hour speech for Dreamers, Donald watches Fox News in bed. If he avoids a Mueller interview, he's not as tough as the women. #GoNancyGo
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76 years old today. WATCH/LISTEN: Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue" Live 1975. via @YouTube
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What happens when Donald incites violence against a nuclear power, denies it and says he was joking about bombing them? #2ndAmendment
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The State of the Union is that it's closed.
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How absurd is demand for Sanders to drop out when Americans continue to vote for him in large enough numbers to win states? #IndianaPrimary
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Klimt. "The Park" (1910)
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"We watched as this lie was launched, took root, then spread until it became unquestionable truth." by @ggreenwald
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What I miss in the absence of President Obama is his intelligence. Even when I disagreed, I knew intelligence was applied to the dilemma.
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To protect Clinton, Democrats wage war on their own core Citizens United argument by @ggreenwald
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When Trump says a protestor should be attacked, he shows, as president, he has no intention of representing all American citizens.
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BREAKING: Absurd prosecutorial charge against Amy Goodman thrown out. "Riot" Charges Against Amy Goodman Dismissed
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Donald's embarrassing dealings with foreign leaders is like George H W Bush vomiting at dinner in Japan, only every single day.
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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Trump repeats wiretapping claim, suggests he and Germany's Merkel were perhaps wiretapped by Obama administration.
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Klimt. "Upper Austrian Farmhouse" (1911)
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Most self-made men are millionaires at age eight.
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SNL has parodied every US president. Chevy Chase as Ford tripped every time he came onstage. When my sister's Iranian in-laws visited years ago, they were shocked that late night comedians savaged the president and asked why they weren't arrested. Parody is American.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Nothing funny about tired Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion!
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Klimt. “Apple Tree I” (1912)
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Jan van Eyck. "The Arnolfini Portrait" (1434)
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@postdiscipline Your inaccurate criticism was against Sanders. My criticism is against you and your unsubstantiated claim. (BTW, revealing Beto’s voting record/oil exec donors is not “a hit piece” - it’s journalism. “Hit piece” is a biased term in case one of your disciplines is not language.)
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Faye Dunaway, 80 years old today.
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Andrew Wyeth. "Fence Line" (1967) (freezing out today)
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"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look." - Joyce Carol Oates Happy birthday, @JoyceCarolOates
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Klimt. “Landscape Garden (Meadow in Flower)” (1906)
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“She Tortured Just for the Sake of Torture”: CIA Whistleblower on Trump’s New CIA Pick Gina Haspel via @democracynow
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Dan Therriault
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Because it's a statue?
@CNN
CNN
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New York's “Fearless Girl” statue stands her ground against the Wall Street bull, even in the snow
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Rushdie: "A poem will not stop a bullet. A novel cannot defuse a bomb. Not all satirists are heroes. But we are not helpless. Even after Orpheus was torn to pieces, his severed head, floating down the river, went on singing. We can sing the truth & name the liars."
@VilkViktorya
Viktorya 💙💛 Vilk
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As we @PENamerica reel from the horrific news of the attack against Salman Rushdie—brilliant writer, free expression defender, & past PEN President—I can think of no better way to honor him than with his own incisive & urgent & words from our 2022 Emergency Writers Congress:
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Klimt. Bauerngarten. (1907)
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Dan Therriault
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Do we have to change "Loose Lips Sink Ships" to "Media Whore Nuclear War?"
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Dan Therriault
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Unless you were a Black man hanging by the neck from a tree.
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Mikael Covey
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@dantherriault As I recall, life in America was pretty peaceful prior to race riots of the mid-60's.
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The Democratic Party laughed at the left’s dissent in the lead up to the Iraq War. Hillary Clinton & Joe Biden were outrageously egregious in the promotion of the immoral Iraq War. There is no better time to cleanse this bloody party than with a Sanders nomination and new age.
@LukewSavage
Luke Savage
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Sanders: "Voices of dissent went unheeded in the lead-up to the Iraq war. They must be heeded now."
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Klimt. "Birch Forest" (1903).
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