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sorry about whatever i did that brought you here // i work @theathletic // alum of @washingtonpost & @umontana

Spokane, WA
Joined May 2012
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everyone's telling me not to "check my 401K," as if i know how
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one way to increase baseball's popularity is more camera angles that can show an entire play developing in real-time
@Rangers
Texas Rangers
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The perfect relay doesn't exi- @TMobile x #StraightUpTX
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2 years
if you drive around DC for more than 3 minutes, you will witness a driver do something you never imagined possible
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it would be cool if Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married bc i like the idea of Andy Reid meeting a Haim sister
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Bryce Harper was the first big MLB star of his generation to understand that athletes are also performers and entertainers
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Bryce Harper has changed his walkup song for #LondonSeries ... He's now using "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls 😂👏
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3 years
walking right up to the cashier and asking how many cups in a gallon
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The Verge
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Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC
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i don’t mean to be dramatic, but if i don’t see the screenshot i will die
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AP Entertainment
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The AP has deleted a tweet about Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. The video was deleted because it did not meet editorial standards.
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4 years
i knew if i saved this picture on my phone that one day the perfect news cycle would hit
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4 years
happy labor day
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Awful Announcing
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"If science is Dr. Fauci, you're damn right I'm defying science." Aaron Rodgers with another swipe at Dr. Anthony Fauci on The Pat McAfee Show
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2 years
made some revisions, based on data
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4 years
"do NOT panic, do NOT check your retir—" cool, done
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1 year
that show “Jury Duty” wouldn’t have worked on me bc i would’ve immediately been like “hey you’re stand-up comedian and character actor Kirk Fox”
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4 years
(both candidates are named Steve)
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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No Contest. Steve blows him away. So important for Montana. I’ll be there to help Steve win big!!!
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earlier this morning I witnessed all the ACC mascots gathering in DC………….. i need eyes on the Capitol NOW
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3 years
this is, quite possibly, one of the best blogs i’ve ever read. no notes.
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since moving to WA i’ve been watching some Mariners games and this has to be one of the most chaotic teams in the league
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Talkin’ Baseball
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WALKOFF SLAM CAL RALEIGH
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2 years
on the same stretch of road, within two minutes, i just watched - one driver speed into the oncoming lane and run two reds while we all waited at the light - a different driver pull around us at a different light so he could also run two reds yes, both cars from Maryland
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2 years
here’s what FanGraphs DOESN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
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i'm sure this is pretty complicated from a production standpoint. major props to the production director for sticking with this shot the whole way
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5 months
young people don't understand but this is exactly what Twitter was like back in 2012. actors casually posting about sports. Rihanna manual-RT dunking on randos. the Rock announcing bin Laden was dead. i miss it
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Sam Blum
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My favorite thing about Twitter these days is movie star Ben Stiller live-posting contextless stream of conscious Knicks thoughts to his 5.5 million followers.
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Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.
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experience Montana’s punt return TD from Mount Sentinel, courtesy of my brother @natosanch who’s shooting for @MontanaKaimin . Wa-Griz is LOUD today.
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4 years
Birdland
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well at least this label is honest
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do not fall for hot dog straw man. you know in your heart of hearts it was staged. it’s too perfect. do not give in to the IG Reels Industrial Complex
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4 years
hello i am one of the people who went to bed at 10 and just woke up
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3 years
RIP to the entire Presidential Reply Guy economy, the machinations of which i never quite understood
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1 year
Elly De La Cruz is NOT a good baseball player. he simply gets on base and steals bases and also hits for power
@BrewerSooner
Brewer Sooner
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Elly is just a tall track star that can put the ball in play and occasionally hits a ball far
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2 years
i’m kinda making light of it, but roads feel truly dangerous lately, right? i almost got T-boned in an intersection a month ago bc a driver was blowing through 4-way stop signs at like 40mph in the residential part of Georgetown
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3 years
hey anyone remember what Greg Gianforte is arguably most famous for?
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Governor Greg Gianforte
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Violence has no place in our civil society, and I categorically condemn what’s happening in the U.S. Capitol.
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truly, deeply enjoying the comments on the WaPo interview with Dril
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5 months
this is what Spotify’s app looks like to me
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@blgtylr
Brandon
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I don't know how to describe what I am experiencing with Spotify, but it feels like...it is kind of unusable now to find new music? Like, it's just...cluttered and confusing and hard to navigate now, lol.
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Washington paid Montana $675,000 to come and beat them in Husky Stadium
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please look at where Justin Herbert threw this ball and where Mike Williams caught it
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if i'm understanding the situation properly
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Juan Soto is doing vaccine-awareness IG posts for Walgreens. my MVP!!
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4 years
this whole thing is extremely silly, but 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙘𝘿𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙙’𝙨 i gotta say asking someone to park is v normal (usually to cook fresh fries/hashbrowns) and bringing out the drink is supposed to be a nice gesture
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3 years
every social media manager falls into one of two categories a.) So excited to BUILD ~community~ with our audience 🙌🙌 b.) i’m a little goblin who plays in the swamp
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logging off the work laptop to stare at my personal laptop? that's work-life balance baby
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4 years
the Wendy’s at Dave Thomas Circle in DC
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@jpbrammer
JP
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where would your campaign's last stand take place. what would be your campaign's four seasons total landscaping
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remembering the slow dismantling of this app will affect my literal job
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4 years
. Klobuchar Klobucho Klobuchamos Klobuchas Klobucha Klobuchan
@aidachavez
aída chávez
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Amy Klobuchar opened the Culinary Union forum by saying: “My name is Amy, but when I was in fourth grade Spanish they gave me the name Elena.”
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@jpbrammer i caught my mom crying during Mewtwo’s inciting incident in the Pokémon Movie (1998)
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@normcharlatan gotta hand it to him, blatantly disobeying traffic laws does feel very '70s. he's locked in.
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[whispering to the juror next to me] “that’s Lisa Gilroy from Tiktok”
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NYC Media Twitter felt an earthquake? this site will be unusable for hours.
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What’s the worst sports tweet of all time
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in our defense, many of us were children
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2 years
this dismissive, willful ignorance about audience desks is the whole problem in a nutshell
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4 years
holy shit, i just finished the big media story everybody’s talking about
@TheOnion
The Onion
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Nobody Panic: Bulbasaur Found A Gun
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my 5 remaining brain cells firing up for work this morning
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back when i was at The Post i definitely would've done something like this for the eclipse and had to answer some concerned Slacks
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3 years
after 5+ years, this is my last week at The Post. later this month, i'm joining the social team at @TheAthletic . i'm very, very excited.
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just pulled into my reserved parking spot at my local media job in my new car (Audi A5), about to file my one story a week. now it’s time to take a big sip of coffee and open up twitter..
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hey before everyone leaves, one last group photo
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@CDogmatics no that one’s still up
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this is an absolutely horrible idea, and it only reinforces the worst stereotypes of what people think online journalism is
@SacBeeGuild
Sacramento Bee News Guild 🐝
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We have alarming news. The owner of The Sacramento Bee is trying to tie journalists’ pay to the number of clicks their stories get. We’re urging the company to reconsider. Here's our letter to McClatchy’s new CEO about how this could hurt our community. #NoPayForClicks 1/9
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hello i did this internship, please ignore the “must have previous experience in a major newsroom.” it said that back when i did it and i applied anyway. my previous internship experience was a small magazine and then a mid-sized daily.
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this is boring and uncreative. hire @jon_bois to make a 10-hour doc about the least important athletes in sports history.
@THR
The Hollywood Reporter
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Following the breakout success of #TheLastDance , @espn has ordered another docuseries about an athlete considered the greatest in his sport: #TomBrady
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me making coffee: I'll just clean out the french press tomorrow. me making coffee the next morning: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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A researcher says “he has seen white supremacist recruiters ‘raid’ QAnon groups with the explicit goal of recruiting disillusioned and hopeless conspiracy theorists.”
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Tim Onion
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"God help us we’re beyond ready. If nothing happens I will no longer believe in anything," said one QAnon supporter in a chat obtained by NBC News. “We all just got played,” said another, moments later.
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“NFT art combines the nuanced social awareness of computer programmers with the soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers.” nothing more satisfying than a clear-eyed, well-written takedown.
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if i were a manager i’d do this every night
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glad that everything is going Extremely Normal for my last social shift at The Post
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4 years
there is immense, blind privilege in the ability "not to take strong positions on public issues *even in private*," and this horrible standard will keep journalism homogeneous
@mlcalderone
Michael Calderone
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There's a quadrennial journalism discussion around whether to vote or not. @peterbakernyt on why he doesn't
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if you scanned that QR code i’m sending you a phishing email tomorrow morning
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immediately a first ballot HOF post on this site. up there with "Ruthkanda Forever," "Tommy needy drinky" and the alligator tweet.
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Joey Mannarino
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“This MF paid for Twitter” No, I didn’t pay for Twitter. I paid for free speech. I paid for 1776 to commence again. I paid for the Founding Fathers’ vision. I paid to tell Silicon Valley to go screw itself. I paid to show support for a man who put himself in the line of
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and here is tonight's starting infield for the Nationals
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we’re not talking enough about how UTSA-TXST is an elite-tier helmet matchup
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tried exercising *before* work again for the first time since the pandemic started, and i regret to inform you that it boosts my mood substantially :(
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D.C. has its first confirmed case of the coronavirus, the rector of Christ Church Georgetown. He was present for three services last Sunday attended by 550 people.
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my favorite athlete in baseball is "looks like they pulled your cousin out of the stands"
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we moved his food dish a few days ago and replaced it with a cactus. he still hasn’t caught on.
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if i like your tweet, and then i see you deleted it to write a slightly better version, i’ll throw that one a like too. that’s the Ric Guarantee
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gf and i just realized that as far as our cat knows, the three of us all met on the same day
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oh hey guys btw i got engaged recently
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i did it. i woke up early enough to see the cherry blossoms before the tourists got there
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by far the coolest bday gift i got this year was finding out this project i worked on won a Pulitzer
@PulitzerPrizes
The Pulitzer Prizes
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Congratulations to @washingtonpost . #Pulitzer
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not gonna rest until my future kid wants to be an associate consultant for private equity at Bain Capital 😤😤💪💪
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well, while we're all here
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2 years
listen, i don’t mean to disparage my fellow brand tweeters. it’s a weird job. it’s a paycheck. but like… what are we even doing here?
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one time on the Washington Post’s IG Stories i accidentally posted a pic of my dad wearing a Thrasher backpack
@Doty_Dwight_99
Dwight
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Poor intern forgot she was on the Wizards account 💀
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in the span of like 30 seconds Mahomes almost threw two of the greatest TDs in NFL history
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ok
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this rare interview with “Simpsons” legend John Swartzwelder also includes some of the best writing advice i’ve ever read
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today is the day your well-meaning friend will try and do numbers by calling it “sportsball” or “the superb owl,” and it’s important to be there for them
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@dlynch_esq @hammerito this would be the season to experiment with angles!
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“mexicans are perfect” etc.
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@jakeiverson57 this is like when i started noticing college athletes named “Kobe” and felt old as dust
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. @DUALIPA ’s full name is actually Double India Pale Ale
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@PFF everything else the Chargers did on that drive
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Montanans’ dunking on out-of-staters can be a bit overblown at times, but the amount of tourists i saw in Missoula wearing this stupid fucking hat was STAGGERING
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i feel like something major happened in the early 2000s but i cant put my finger on it. oh well
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should i be concerned that i’ve never seen the Bidens’ cat and my cat in the same room together?
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