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Podcast host of UNDER THE INFLUENCE & COMMITTED Author: CHARLOTTE WALSH LIKES TO WIN & WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM. Journalist, mom, doing life with @NickAster

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@jopiazza
Jo Piazza
4 years
This week on @committedpod I got to interview PA Lt. Gov. @JohnFetterman and his magical wife @giselefetterman They're a delight and a true example of a couple committed to public service and compassion for all.
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6 years
This is the best part of the Jennifer Aniston interview. Period. "Or we just give it some time and then Lisa, Courteney, and I could reboot The Golden Girls and spend our last years together on wicker furniture."
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6 years
We found Lady Piazza’s Halloween costume. #Gritty
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4 years
Philadelphia inspires me every day.
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8 years
I love that Nick and Liz met in a hotel lobby like a romantic R. Kelly song. #TheBachelor
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4 years
I got to interview @caitlinmoran about her new book More Than a Woman. It's fucking great. Go buy it. And one of the many things that stuck with me is WOMEN MARRY THEIR GLASS CEILING
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6 years
Giant thanks to @RepLoisFrankel and @kasie for talking with me on @MSNBC about the record number of women running for office this year. WE LIKE TO WIN
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Jo Piazza
8 years
If you happened upon this green loch wouldn't you think fairies lived here. @VisitBritain #Scotland @British_Airways
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Jo Piazza
6 years
What happens when you marry someone with the same exact dream as you? Well in the case of @ChrisKnierim and @alexa_knierim you end up going to the Olympics. @USFigureSkating Listen to this week's episode of @committedpod
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7 years
This is wonderful.
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8 years
I'm not a cat, but I'm definitely judging #CatsJudgingKellyanne
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4 years
Life is short. Work with people who believe in you.
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8 years
#tfw you find out your crush is vegan after making 3 like really funny vegan jokes @sallykohn
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8 years
A real president/man would have seen the #womensmarch and said, "I see you. I hear you." @DonaldTrump instead lied about his own numbers.
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Jo Piazza
5 years
I’ve cried every single time I’ve edited today’s episode of @committedpod with @bsw5020 and @sabrevaya Not because I’m sad but because I’m in such awe of their strength and bravery. @iamalsorg #IAmALS
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Jo Piazza
6 years
So proud of my friends @ThirdLove for this open letter to @VictoriasSecret in today’s @nytimes “Haven’t we moved beyond outdated ideas of femininity and gender roles? It’s time to stop telling women what makes them sexy — let us decide.”
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Jo Piazza
3 years
So now maybe we're in a conversation about universal basic income?
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Just gonna say this...I have a lot of girlfriends who have gotten their nails done in lockdown and are too scared to vote in person. If you can get a pedi or stand in line at Whole Foods you can mask up and vote in person. That's all.
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Jo Piazza
5 years
We just met our Philly neighbors and said we moved from San Francisco. The guy was like “oh this is a downgrade” and I was like well so far no one has masturbated in front of me, my kid hasn’t picked up a heroin needle and I haven’t stepped in any human feces. So....upgrade?
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Jo Piazza
12 years
#overheardAtRNC Reporter: " I can't tell which old white man is which anymore." #GOP2012 #current2012
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6 years
I didn’t know @thelaurengraham was a fan of Charlotte but it made my damn day!!!
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6 years
This tough cookie is just making sure all our friends in California’s 4th Congressional district are registered to vote and that they vote for @Morse4America
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4 years
The brilliant women behind @emilyslist are coming out with a new book! Strong women can change the world — and in Run to Win, @Schriock1 and @creynoldsnc share essential lessons for how to do just that. Pre-order yours today:
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6 years
Very exciting news.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
. @GinaOrtizJones , @Dana_Balter , @ChristyforCA25 , and @FinelloforPA are all @emilyslist women running to FLIP seats in districts that Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Donate to help all four women cross the finish line.
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Jo Piazza
5 years
Waiting for a meeting @the_wing and because my “member” wasn’t here yet they sent me to wait outside and stand on the sidewalk....even after telling them I was six months pregnant and needed to sit. You love women how much?
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Jo Piazza
2 years
Oh no it could not!!!
@harriettsbooks
Harriett’s Bookshop
2 years
Amazon could never compete w/ a Blk woman. We are letting our light shine today at @idasbooks & @harriettsbooks . See you there.
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Jo Piazza
3 years
Thanks for this review @rachsyme Downloading now
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Lock him up.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!
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Jo Piazza
3 years
I will listen to anything @jamieloftusHELP makes.
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The Sunday Long Read
3 years
"Jamie Loftus’s new podcast Aack Cast! with iHeart takes everything we thought we knew about Cathy and blows it the hell up." #SundayLongPod selected by @jopiazza
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Jo Piazza
10 years
Wherein I realize I just mistook Joel McHale for a startup dude #SXSWProblems #Community on @Yahoo #Yodel http://t.co/f0FrNLW3Ut
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Jo Piazza
6 years
How, how, how!!!!!
@MonicaLewinsky
Monica Lewinsky (she/her)
6 years
it’s a miracle. i haven’t killed it yet. #2months #OrchidWatch2018 cc @AlyssaMastro44
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Jo Piazza
7 years
Fine. I'll be the one to start the rumor that Spicey is going to be on the next season of Dancing With the Stars.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
I would like to do an entire podcast series on frat boy behavior of male lawmakers.......who wants to distribute it?
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Jo Piazza
6 years
I wrote a thing for the Wall Street Journal about just a small fraction of the women disrupting Silicon Valley's bro culture from within.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
It's finally live!!! Our collaboration with the incredible folks over at Tribeca Studios. These are the bedtime stories of fierce women who changed history that will make you wake up happy in the midst of all this madness.
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Tribeca
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🗣️Introducing Fierce hosted by @jopiazza ⚡️A new podcast from @iheartradio & Tribeca Studios celebrating women in history you need to hear about✨ First up: fearless pirate Cheng I Sao + revolutionary food writer Clementine Paddleford. Listen & subscribe:
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Instead of asking "How are you?" at the beginning of a meeting I've started asking "What are you drinking this afternoon?"
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Jo Piazza
13 years
Who knew that @VINNYGUADAGNINO can recite Shakespeare and got a 3.9 in college...and is an anti-bullying advocate! http://t.co/xGcEtTx5
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Jo Piazza
3 years
Since Instagram is still down I’ll start sharing my pub week fashion here and pretend anyone cares.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
After spending the past year producing a podcast on mom influencers I have a lot of thoughts on what is happening with Hilaria Baldwin. Mainly if you decide to turn your life as a mom into a brand do not complain when people ask you questions about being a mom.
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Jo Piazza
3 years
Frankly this Instagram outage is a fascinating case study for Under the Influence.
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Jo Piazza
6 years
And the news is out!
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The Bookseller
6 years
. @HQstories has made a six-figure pre-empt for a début and second book by Simon & Schuster US senior editor Christine Pride and writer @jopiazza :
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Jo Piazza
6 years
And this is the number one story on @marieclaire !!! So thrilled for Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win to be named one of the best books of 2018 among these other incredible authors.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Every community stands to benefit from an accurate census count — but we know that women, particularly women of color, have an outsized stake in the census this year. So take 5 minutes, go to , and get it done. It matters.
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Jo Piazza
12 years
This crowd wants more Bill Clinton. Unfortunately he headed out to the VMA's to explain why Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart broke up.
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Jo Piazza
8 years
Mysterious benefactor buying & giving away @MargaretAtwood and @eriklarson books to arm the resistance @Booksmith
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Jo Piazza
8 years
Call your congress person, tweet your journalists. Sound advice from @lpolgreen on effecting change in both media and politics. #WatchUsRun
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8 years
I interviewed the lead organizer of Amsterdam's sex workers' union. This is what she told me. via @ElleMagazine
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Jo Piazza
6 years
This is a book that needs to be written. I'm honored to be writing it with Christine Pride: WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM, the story of a lifelong friendship between two women—a successful black TV journalist, and a working class white woman married to a Philadelphia police officer.
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Jo Piazza
7 years
So I've got a new book coming out next summer.
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6 years
Want to be inspired today? Listen to this @committedpod with Olympians @ChrisKnierim and @alexa_knierim about their incredible love story and getting to the games!
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Jo Piazza
3 years
I couldn’t be more honored to be the graduation speaker for @AnnenbergPenn this year…which also happens to be my 20th college reunion.
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Annenberg School
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We are excited to announce that our 2022 Comm major graduation speaker is author, journalist, podcaster, and alum @jopiazza ! Listen to our audio announcement at or read about Jo at .
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4 years
Every single fucking word in this from @amil
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Jo Piazza
4 years
One solution to the crisis for mothers we are not talking about enough right now is asking fathers to step the fuck up. I started working on an essay about this, but I am also putting it out here so we can talk about it.
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Jo Piazza
8 years
This @AlaskaAir breakfast menu by @TomDouglasCo is making my morning. #BabyMoon #IFlyAlaska
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Jo Piazza
3 years
Second vax down! Sore arm, a little tired. But I'm always tired I have two fucking kids....so I think I could say it was the vaccine and watch some HGTV, but let's be honest I'm just going to drink four cups of coffee and keep working because this is the norm for moms.
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Jo Piazza
10 years
Love this! @StacyLondon — My Summer Living in a Hotel via @YahooTravel
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Jo Piazza
3 years
It's time to stop saying "working mom". It simply doesn't work any more and it belittles all of the work women do outside the labor force. I wrote about it with @KGeee for @romper
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4 years
Where can I get a sheet cake at this hour?
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Jo Piazza
4 years
“If she wants children and a job, a woman’s life is only as good as the man or woman she marries,” Moran writes. “That’s the biggest truth I know. All too often women are marrying their glass ceilings.”
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Jo Piazza
6 years
Same
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6 years
Every person who has knocked on my door this election season, including the one actual candidate, has been a woman.
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Jo Piazza
10 years
So I actually made it into the Wild Atlantic today...darn proud of myself for surfing Ireland in October. #2014ATWS http://t.co/KL9pVPBOK5
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Jo Piazza
6 years
I absolutely love everything about this special bonus @committedpod episode with @NicoTortorella and @bethanycmeyers that questions everything you think you know about marriage.
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Jo Piazza
8 years
I'm partial to the fried cheese curds in the Milwaukee airport. #travelskills
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8 years
More fun than me reading from the book. Author is letting her exes ask questions during book reading via @pagesix
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Jo Piazza
6 years
All of the yups and more yups from @honeystaysuper "I have breadwinner status and lead-parent status. I have so much status."
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Jo Piazza
2 years
I don’t have many words about the continued shootings in Philadelphia except that we have a city government that has done nothing in the face of this gun violence epidemic.
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The Philadelphia Citizen
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“Even though the homicide rate has been steadily rising since 2020, the @PhillyMayor Kenney administration has taken shockingly little action to change anything,” says @jopiazza .
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Jo Piazza
8 years
George Bush takes the field. Even liberals in that stadium are thinking, "we'd give you the job back." #Superbowl
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Jo Piazza
6 years
I just told my husband what night nannies make in San Francisco. Now he thinks he should be a night nanny in San Francisco.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
I'm thinking of starting a new podcast called Don't Pull Your Penis Out..and it's just men who want to...you know pull it out, calling me up and me saying DON'T PULL YOUR PENIS OUT....
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Jo Piazza
11 years
Can we please just give Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski their own show already? http://t.co/EVZwSFxHux
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Jo Piazza
9 years
We are chatting with people right now about a possible movie or TV series for #TheKnockoff #FashionTalk
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Jo Piazza
6 years
Making a bold statement. @hallmarkchannel movies have more women in high powered jobs and pass the Bechdel test more often than the canon of all other movies. (Can you tell I have strep throat and been on the couch all day)
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Jo Piazza
3 years
Honored to see my @thephilacitizen gun violence podcast on mother’s solving their sons murders on this list. “When police don’t solve murders, Philadelphia mothers work to do it themselves.”
@soljourno
Solutions Journalism Network
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24 stories to get lost in: These are the solutions stories that stuck with people from 2021. Explore and find stunners from @jessetnichols , @tidepoolsinc , @TheNationalNews , @jopiazza , @Emstiflerwolfe and plenty more.
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Jo Piazza
8 years
Today I'm interviewing a guy who gave up his girlfriend and his job to search for the Loch Ness monster. Too bad I'm already married.
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Jo Piazza
6 years
Fun fact about Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win. One of the original titles was Charlie Walsh Likes to Win just to see how people felt the moment they realized the book was about a woman.
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Jo Piazza
3 years
The moment where Christine Pride and I high five on @GMA
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Jo Piazza
3 years
I was doing a bonus Under the Influence episode on bookstagrammers but now I guess I need to do one on what happens when the platform where you make your livelihood goes away.
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Jo Piazza
8 years
It's like @bookofthemonth knows exactly what I need right now. @jamiattenberg #AllGrownUp
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Jo Piazza
4 years
I told my toddler I’d dress like a princess in my junior prom dress if he put away his Magnatiles. I fear I’ve set the bar really high.
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Jo Piazza
9 years
A2: The biggest myth about the fashion industry is that it's filled with bitches. So many nice, kind people there @CFashionista #FashionTalk
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Jo Piazza
7 years
It's become a badge of honor. What's the worst thing a man has said to you while you were pregnant? @ElleMagazine
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Jo Piazza
8 years
How can Melania dare mention social media bullying when her husband is the biggest social bully of all time?
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Jo Piazza
7 years
I’d kept cheese in my fridge longer than I’d known the man who just proposed to me.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
We need more doctors in elected office.
@rachael_morocco
Dr. Rachael Morocco for Ohio
4 years
Hi! My name is Rachael Morocco. I'm a pediatrician running for the Ohio House of Representatives to bring science and logic to our Statehouse. It's time for leadership that cares about our community. Can you help me flip this seat BLUE? Retweet and Follow! #MoroccoForOhio
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4 years
I am so blown away by the UK cover reveal for my new novel WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM with @cpride Writing this book with Christine has been an incredible journey and it's a novel that I hope will start some important conversations.
@HarperCollinsUK
HarperCollinsUK
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We're thrilled to share the cover for the brilliant #WeAreNotLikeThem by @jopiazza and #ChristinePride A powerful story about friendship and love, prejudice and betrayal, and standing up for what you believe in, no matter the cost. Out Feb 2021
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Jo Piazza
7 years
Dear Men, Please Stop Saying Unsolicited, Insensitive Crap to Pregnant Women via @ElleMagazine
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Jo Piazza
6 years
I couldn't be more excited!
@LoriFradkin
Lori Fradkin
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So exciting, @jopiazza ! via @variety
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Jo Piazza
8 years
I used to black out and tweet things about my ex boyfriends too. Been there.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Hilaria Baldwin owes her fans some respect. This is a woman who has turned her life as a mother into a brand....who makes money off her family on social media. That's wonderful. I fucking love it. But she also has to be accountable.
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Jo Piazza
3 years
And just like that. Natasha is the one who is winning.
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Jo Piazza
4 years
Who feels like shit today? Come have some fun tonight with me @jenniferweiner @oureric and @LizMooreBooks We'll talk reading, writing and saving the world from impending doom. I also have a mean chicken piccata recipe I'm ready to share.
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