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Happy Texas Ex. Strategy consultant for governments. Advocating for more affordable housing in Austin. Often cooking. Opinions are mine. He/him

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Joined August 2012
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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Go vote, Texas! Took less than 10 minutes to vote for @BetoORourke and great local candidates like @CeliaIsrael for ATX mayor!
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@TexasTribune Cool how the Texas Supreme Court can make this ruling remotely. Sure would be nice if all Texans could exercise the most fundamental right we have without fearing for our lives!
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11 months
What the state wants to do to our city literally haunts me
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6 years
It looks like the 4th of July in Austin. Thousands of people turned out for @BetoORourke and Willie Nelson. You couldnโ€™t pay people and get this turnout for Ted Cruz.
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4 years
@statesman โ€œIt places a renewed spotlight on Paxton, who is already under indictment for alleged securities fraud.โ€
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7 years
Kate McKinnon is playing Robert Mueller on #SNL . Wow
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7 years
Loved meeting these titans of ethics, @waltshaub and @RWPUSA on Trump, Ethics & the Law at #TribFest17 .
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POV: listening to shake it off (Taylorโ€™s version)
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@Molson_Hart Wow he spends $24K on travel and $60K on food and entertainment, yeah thatโ€™s normal and not extravagant at all, even on a second glance
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1 year
This Brooklyn establishment has some explaining to do
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1 year
I remember when Austin was truly weird, back when we had a McDonaldโ€™s on south Lamar
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1 year
Free shuttle = less time trying to find parking, more time swimming, tanning, reading a good book, and enjoying Austinโ€™s crown jewel :)
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1 year
PSA: Iโ€™m the only one riding the free shuttle to zilker! Avoid the hassle of parking in zilker and ride there for free!
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6 years
Currently departing Canada for America. Iโ€™ve been wanting to read @RonanFarrow โ€™s new book โ€œWar on Peaceโ€ for a long time, and in light of the G7 meeting, it seemed more relevant than ever. Canโ€™t wait to read it!
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2 years
This morning I was driving through lovely Tarrytown where the cheapest home on the market is $2M and where apartments are illegal and I thought to myself, โ€œthe REAL problem in this city is Luxury Highrises Downtownโ€
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PSA: Iโ€™m the only one riding the free shuttle to zilker! Avoid the hassle of parking in zilker and ride there for free!
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Parker Sewell
7 months
Today in why we need to build more housing, a friendโ€™s 12-month lease in ATX was renewed & he received: - 1 free month of rent - $500 off the 2nd month - $106 off his current monthly payment for the remainder of the lease Thatโ€™s over $3,300 in rent reduction โ€” YIMBY in action!
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6 years
Willie Nelson tweeted a picture I took
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4 years
@oneunderscore__ Omg this reminds me of when Tobias got hair plugs and his body rejected them and all he had to do to not die was remove the hair. They made a whole drama that was basically that?!
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4 years
It should be public. Heโ€™s (poorly) running a great public institution. Share the plan with the public, and let us evaluate.
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Greg Sargent
4 years
NEW: Dem leaders say Postmaster General privately committed to offering concrete plan to ensure smooth vote-by-mail. New letter from @SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi seeks to pin him down on that. Should prompt intense media scrutiny of his intentions:
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Expanding I-35 subsidizes sprawl. It is not helpful for growth in Austin proper It will make quality of life in the urban core worse, strain city finances, and for years be a massive mess for anyone who lives here. And it wonโ€™t fix traffic. We donโ€™t need a bigger I-35 to grow
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@the_transit_guy Austin cannot grow any bigger until I-35 is fixed.
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2 months
A massive victory for the rule of law. Consequences, at long last. Convicted felon Donald Trump.
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9 months
@SydneyBattle This is Franklin and he expects us to take him very seriously, especially in that 2nd photo
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Parker Sewell
8 years
This editorial piece on Trump vs. the First Amendment made my morning. Happy Friday!
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Parker Sewell
11 months
@sam_d_1995 @TxDOTAustin Itโ€™s horrific! Itโ€™ll take 10 years, cost billions, increase pollution and climate change, displace homes and businesses, displace part of our running and biking trail downtown, and not. Fix. Traffic.
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6 months
In a famous bathroom
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4 years
@weijia I think we know itโ€™ll be
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2 months
Stunning, perfect run in Central Park. Couldnโ€™t ask for anything better
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4 years
@oneunderscore__ Oh my god Facebook did something right for once! Hope they stick to this.
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11 months
new favorite thing is a 9AM weekday workout when the gym is empty
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3 months
The lady bird lake trail is pretty empty on misty Monday mornings btw
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1 year
Swimming a lot is hard work ๐ŸŠโ€โ™€๏ธ
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Parker Sewell
4 months
Some of Austinโ€™s so-called environmentalists should take a trip to the beautiful Texas hill country sometime and see how much of it has been โ€” and continues to be โ€” paved over due, in part, to NIMBYs preventing the construction of dense and affordable housing in ATX
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Parker Sewell
2 years
Itโ€™s a gorgeous morning to canvass for Austinโ€™s next mayor, @CeliaIsrael ! Get out and vote on Tuesday if you havenโ€™t, Austin!
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3 years
Socialism: good for poor countriesโ€™ growth rates as they develop towards some form of capitalism; not so good for developed countries. Really enjoying โ€œCapitalism, Aloneโ€ by @BrankoMilan
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4 years
@samueljrob @EricLevitz Reminds me of this A+ troll job by Tim Robinson
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4 months
Night workout pic and behind the scenes goodnight!
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1 year
Working on my shoulders some
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Parker Sewell
7 years
What do people *really* think about @realDonaldTrump & the @GOP ? We analyzed almost half a million tweets and 4,000 comments from @nytimes to find out. The numbers don't lie: The #GOP is not yet viewed as The Trump Party. #TechTuesday
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The contempt our cityโ€™s police union has for the people of Austin is unacceptable. They tried to trick voters, got walloped in the election, and now they want to undermine the results. This behavior is scandalous.
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Austin Police Association
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The Austin Police Association is aware of the election results and is taking immediate action to determine the city's intentions regarding the implementation and enforcement of the illegal provisions contained in Prop A. The APA simply will not stand by while this city and 1/4
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Good morning. Saturday morning
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4 years
@MichelleWilli7 @TexasTribune Iโ€™m from Texas. My family lives in Texas. Most of my friends live in Texas. I want them, you, and all Texans to be able to vote by mail safely and securely exactly like I can in Pennsylvania.
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10 months
More apartments getting built = Your rent goes down, and the landlord crypto bro gets sad Itโ€™s exactly what we need to make Austin affordable for everyone, and thereโ€™s still more work to do
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QE Infinity
10 months
Crazy stats in this. Austin TX has 120,000 apartments in the current pipeline ready to rollout. This is over 50% of the volume of apartments that Austin holds right now. Rental rates are gonna fold like a tent. Yikes.
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1 year
Itโ€™s 78 degrees, sunny, still March, and this is the view. I love you, Austin
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4 years
@MollyJongFast How and why does my pillow guy have all this money and interest in everything from pillows to fake pharma to movies lol
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Parker Sewell
2 years
A 640 sq ft house in austin that has a washing machine in the kitchen where the dishwasher should be is selling for $800,000. Austin. Listen. This is not acceptable. We need to build more housing.
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5 months
Cute morning run, letโ€™s go DC!
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6 months
I hate these posts because you can eat this same low calorie, not particularly nutritious breakfast in America, only difference is youโ€™re walking more in Italy
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Joey Mannarino
6 months
So, Iโ€™ve been eating this for breakfast every morning in Italy for about nine days and Iโ€™ve lost 3 pounds. The food in America is just poison.
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5 years
Donald Trump isnโ€™t going to change. Heโ€™s going to keep saying racist things, inspiring the next killer like he did the one in El Paso. Under him, the FBI will not be able to crack down on white nationalist terrorism. We need a new president.
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Thinking more gyms need to learn to clean their mirrors!
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1 year
Eating every chocolate croissant I encounter in Brooklyn tbh
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1 year
Hereโ€™s a tip: the gym is super empty on Friday nights. Who knew!
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8 months
New study from UT looks at redevelopment of single family homes into dense homes in Houston: more affordable homes replaced SFHs, & they were mostly in high-demand areas w/o driving out existing folks. This was possible bc Houston reduced minimum lot size
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Parker Sewell
4 years
@OrinKerr You violated norms against me, I didnโ€™t retaliate, and then you escalated and kept violating norms. Constitutional hardball is bad or at least non-ideal; asymmetric hardball is worse
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2 years
@AlexanderMcCoy4 @ArmandDoma You can follow financial freedom by 30 as a landlord of multiple properties IG accounts and these guys are also very openly like โ€œugh so much new housing is being built and thatโ€™s not good for meโ€ This shouldnโ€™t be hard to understand!
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3 years
I now drive an electric car. It plugs into the wall and uses NO โŒ๐Ÿ™…๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ gas โ›ฝ๏ธ!!!
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2 years
@jbouie We all remember when AOC came to my local school board meeting to advocate changing the name of the school before she tore down a local statue
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Might be my last workout here. Goodbye equ*nox
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2 years
Proud to support โฆ @CeliaIsrael โฉ for our next mayor!
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Parker Sewell
11 months
Meanwhile our compatibility rules have prevented 72,000(!) units from possibly being built on lots zoned for multifamily Airbnb certainly has an impact on housing costs, but the bigger issue is we constrain new housing from being built
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NotoriousAirbnb
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@BioWino @GRomePow No but here's what @insideairbnb has for Austin: 12,127 whole-home units.
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5 years
This graph from โ€œThe Triumph of Injusticeโ€ by @gabriel_zucman ๐Ÿ‘€ The avg tax rate on capital โ€” corporations, dividends, estates, etc. โ€” has dropped while taxes on labor have increased. In 2018, for the 1st time in US modern history, capital was taxed less than labor.
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Happy to report itโ€™s already Tuesday
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Tonight Iโ€™m making Cookies for Kamala, but Iโ€™m 100% going to make @alisoneroman โ€™s coconut cake for the occasion soon ๐Ÿฅฅ
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Austin has a serial bomber. The story is getting plenty of national coverage. What itโ€™s not getting is a response from major political leaders. Hoping that changes and that the killer is stopped and brought to justice
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Will be eating every croissant in NYC btw
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2 years
@JaredLPatterson You donโ€™t represent us. Go focus on your own constituents and leave Austin alone.
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3 years
First time cooking for a crowd in uhhh, quite a while! Weโ€™ve got buttermilk fried chicken, buttermilk biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans, and an apple pie. Happy Easter!
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Parker Sewell
2 years
Successful day canvassing for my friend @ZoForAustin in Mueller. Austin district 9 voters, Election Day is this Tuesday. Make a plan to vote for this future awesome council member!
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Parker Sewell
4 years
@JakeCorman At least one PA Republican has discussed the โ€œcontingency planโ€ w/ the Trump campaign to subvert our will. If it wasnโ€™t you, who? If you want a fast count of our votes, why havenโ€™t you passed Governor Wolfโ€™s plan to allow counties to begin counting ballots early? Do your job.
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Parker Sewell
3 years
Even as a bi man, I never realized how a lack of visibility for bi people has harmed our community. It takes us proudly claiming that label to help break the cycle. Really important piece for #pride by @ZacharyZane_
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1 year
A little rainy in New York I fear
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1 year
First long outdoor run in months. Thanks for the weather and views, Chicago!
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1 year
This is phase 1 of the system, a fact that isnโ€™t really being conveyed to the public. The plan we choose should maximize ridership and support expansion. That probably means going underground downtown, even though that means the initial line is shorter
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Nathan Bernier
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BREAKING: Five new light-rail options are being unveiled to Austin right now. The plans are significantly scaled back from the 28-mile map shown to voters before the November 2020 election.
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4 years
@daveweigel @maggieNYT @anniekarni Charlie Kirk is also on it - only the sharpest legal minds for Trump will do
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4 months
Hear me out: Indian-Texas BBQ fusion
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5 months
Day off in Kyoto โ›ช๏ธ
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3 months
The new pastry chef at the Austin fairmont is slinging some of the best croissants in the city โค๏ธ
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1 year
Last nightโ€™s gala
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@sam_d_1995 I love arguments like โ€œall types and levels of risk should be assessed and understood to be the sameโ€
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5 months
Beautiful day in Austin to build affordable housing! And if not mistaken, these are the first duplexes Austin habitat for humanity is building! ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿป๐Ÿ”จ
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9 months
The pro-housing, pro-affordability crowd was out in full force at the city council today ๐Ÿก๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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Ben Thompson
9 months
After about 6 hours of public testimony, chambers have cleared out as today's hearing wraps up. I know my count is off by a handful of people but the breakdown roughly ended up around: -111 in favor of HOME -54 against -5 neutral
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3 years
Trying to put our love for afternoon fetch into words and I simply cannot
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3 years
@williamlegate @eatinginmycar @PondsMA @paulinaberlang2 You might be a bad person if this is your first thought when you see someoneโ€™s home burning
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1 year
Back here from Chicago
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7 months
Happy new year! This was maybe the worst martini Iโ€™ve ever had. Though I didnโ€™t finish it I appreciated the number of olives
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Parker Sewell
7 months
Cutting minimum lot sizes is a great way to boost more housing In Austin, city council will soon take up HOME Phase 2 โ€” with a goal to reduce our minimum lot sizes and create more affordable, dense housing in our urban core. Letโ€™s build! ๐Ÿก ๐Ÿ—๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป
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Emily Hamilton
7 months
New research! I have a working paper out on the effects of Houstonโ€™s minimum lot size reform on assessed land values. I look at the effect of the 2013 reform that reduced the amount of land required to build a house outside of the cityโ€™s I-610 Loop:
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Scenes from a sunrise beach run in Hawaii ๐ŸŒด
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@GovAbbott Itโ€™s time to expand Medicaid. If Texas opts in to the federal expansion, we get a $3.9 billion funding boost over two years and more than 2 million uninsured people will become eligible for Medicaid coverage.
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3 years
So thankful. Happy Motherโ€™s Day, mom!
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1 year
Gained a lot of elevation very quickly to see the Royal arch ๐Ÿ”๏ธ
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Little birthday Barryโ€™s moment ๐ŸŽˆ
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Me with a perfect soft boiled sando
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This CNN town hall is incredible. Something is changing in this country. #StudentsStandUp
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James Medlock
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That's right.
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Parker Sewell
4 years
@ABCPolitics And it doesnโ€™t take 10 days for the results to come back. He only wanted tests slowed down for everyone but him.
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Parker Sewell
3 years
What a relief! Got my second shot and in 2 weeks, Iโ€™ll be ~extremely~ protected from COVID ๐Ÿ˜Ž Find the vaccine nearest you and get vaccinated as soon as you can:
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