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Write, hug trees, play banjo. Occasionally live-tweet public meetings for Chicago Documenters.

Chicago, IL
Joined February 2009
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Will Reynolds
2 months
Commissioner Pogorzelski references a New York Times opinion piece suggesting the Great Lakes should be used to provide water for western states, like Arizona. He passionately says ABSOLUTELY NOT!.
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2 months
@TCAZ1776 Yes, they should. A city the size of Phoenix doesn't belong in the desert. It's insane.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
I read today that Amber Heard's violence sent Johnny Depp to the emergency room and she was once arrested for hitting a girlfriend. And now she takes paid speaking fees to talk about domestic violence. I guess her speeches are a "how to" guide?
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@MarkMaxwellTV @AllisonAPetty Mary Miller said, "We should be unashamed to represent our values." I dunno...if she likes quoting Hitler maybe she should be ashamed.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ProudSocialist The only reason Trump has a shot at another term is that corporate Democrats learned nothing from '16 and nominated Biden.
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@TCAZ1776 Civilization was born along major rivers (Tigris, Euphrates, Nile) because they have water. Phoenix should not exist where it is.
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Will Reynolds
9 years
11 cops suspended for viewing arrest report of Rahm Emanuel's son. No suspensions for covering up homicide of #LaquanMcDonald #ResignRahm
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2 months
@TCAZ1776 Cool. Then there's no need for Great Lakes water. The editorialist can go away.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@AC360 @andersoncooper Notice how quickly Biden pivots away from climate and starts pandering to conservative trade unions. He's not serious about the issue. He just wants to make everyone happy.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@kthalps Sanders wore warm clothes to a cold outdoor event, just like the woman near him in the picture. Everything else is what people project onto the photo. For some people it's an outlet for their hostility toward straight white men.
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@vincentdonofrio Nah, I think the blame will be with boomers who voted for Biden in the primary because they learned nothing from '16.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
@MMiraculorum This is honestly such a big deal. A whole generation of timid, self-censoring Democrats took all the wrong lessons from Mondale and Dukakis. And they all think they're so smart and pragmatic, no matter how many times they lose.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District adjourns at 12:29. This concludes my live tweeting for #ChicagoDocumenters . Due to a new job, this will probably be my last time live tweeting/Xing for @CHIdocumenters . It's a great program and I've loved doing it!
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Will Reynolds
8 years
Biggest @timkaine accomplishment is raising corporate cash. #ClintonKaine is an appeal to rich donors & a middle finger to progressives.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@BillKristol In other words, picking Neera Tanden suggests she will kill most of the progressive policies Biden embraced during the campaign. Biden is empowering those who view progressives as their enemy.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
@bo_austin_ While it's true that DMB is what frat bros played to get laid, their music is also sophisticated, and the band is extremely talented.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@briebriejoy The toxic othering campaign directed at Sanders supporters continues to make Democratic unity nearly impossible.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@QueenInYeIIow The hate toward Michael Moore is exactly how most Dem party leaders feel about progressives. Condescending disdain for people they string along.
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@shaunking Reorganizing the Democratic coalition to exclude progressives has been a primary goal of the Clinton wing of the party for over 30 years now.
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@iowademocrats It looks suspiciously the same.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
Good morning! I'm live tweeting the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Board of Commissioners meeting, scheduled at 10:30, for @CHIdocumenters . #CHIdocumenters
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou That's the kind of thing done by the activist left Hillary spent the campaign ignoring & insulting, bro.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ExcelsiorAR @kthalps Sanders would have won by the huge margin everyone thought Biden would win by. Biden would have lost if not for COVID.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@AmandaMarcotte Pelosi and her team have recruited corporate fundraiser candidates to run against progressives in Congressional primaries for years. No one made that up just because Pelosi is a woman. It happened.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@HillaryClinton Still promising more ground troops and an expanded bombing campaign? Then nope, not on team warmonger. Or team fracking.
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Will Reynolds
3 years
@davidsirota Being attacked by the IRS when you're too poor to afford a lawyer can ruin a person's life.
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Will Reynolds
1 year
Got to see some vintage @cta trains today! #Chicago
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@kthalps Warren apparently has a flexible attitude about toxic bros, depending on the circumstances.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@Trippypea47 @JeremywithaZ @AC360 @andersoncooper It's unrealistic to think we can keep fracking and also save modern civilization. Biden's position is idiotic and deadly.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@kthalps Has everyone forgotten that Obama agrees with Sanders on this? Obama admitted he made a mistake neglecting the electoral side of things and the DNC during his presidency. So much contrived outrage! @JamilSmith @paulwaldman1
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou Sorry this is news to you. Not sure in what bubble you didn't notice the steady stream of insults & othering of many Dems.
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Will Reynolds
3 months
@franifio We should have been honest all along that Biden only won because of COVID. Both because it was a national tragedy, and because it allowed Biden to run a very relaxed campaign from home.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@dillesquire @PressHerald This is hilarious! I think someone is confused about who lost the election. Hint: Bernie would have won.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
This got some attention, so for context. The Great Lakes are jealously guarded by states in both Canada and the US, which created the Great Lakes Compact. Also, stop growing water intensive crops in the desert, jagoffs.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
Commissioner Pogorzelski references a New York Times opinion piece suggesting the Great Lakes should be used to provide water for western states, like Arizona. He passionately says ABSOLUTELY NOT!.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@ianbremmer So Clinton's milquetoast major-donor strategy worked so well against Trump you want to try it again. hmm...
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@davidsirota Running for office attracts people who are a little too eager to be liked. Sinema wants to be liked by the wrong people.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@SenSherrodBrown Does Biden not understand that Neera Tanden spent six years being one of the most divisive, toxic trolls against fellow Democrats, or is that a qualification to him?
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@briebriejoy Wild prediction: None of the Dem leaders and TV pundits who told us Hillary and Biden were most electable will ever consider they were wrong.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou Team Clinton smearing and othering large part of Dem base as bros. What kind of idiot campaign runs against their own base?
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Will Reynolds
3 years
Sure, people post photos of the #Chicago skyline during their flight. But here's a photo of the McCook Resevoir after takeoff from #Midway Airport! @MWRDGC
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Will Reynolds
3 months
@ryangrim When did funding a genocide and provoking war with a nuclear power become good things?
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Will Reynolds
7 years
@thereydiance @JoyAnnReid Yes, if only they had been more strategic and wise like everyone who said Hillary was electable. oops! lol
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@NomikiKonst Amazing how quickly they shifted from the white BernieBro narrative to suddenly saying his voters are too "urban." Wow
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Will Reynolds
4 years
Playing with my new phone's gif maker. Here's Blackberry Smoke at House of Blues last year. @blackberrysmoke
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@joshfoxfilm @FilmsForAction @MMFlint His portrayal of the Sierra Club taking fossil fuel money and promoting natural gas was accurate though. That's punching up. The attacks on McKibben were flimsy.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou Cool story, bro. You didn't notice the past year of team Clinton bashing progressives?
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Will Reynolds
2 months
@joshfoxfilm @kenklippenstein I do not trust the judgement of anyone who thought Biden could win.
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@ryangrim @JordanChariton It's so much like the way Democrats closed their eyes to the many obvious problems with Hillary during the primaries. I don't know how to explain the phenomenon.
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Will Reynolds
3 years
@AlexThomp Warren made her position on abusive internet trolls clear when she quickly supported Neera Tanden for OMB director.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou Clinton, her staff, her surrogates and Super PACs. Yes, we all know she likes to send her attacks through others.
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Will Reynolds
2 years
The clerk reads a resolution recognizing February as Black History Month and honoring Shermann Thomas, aka the Chicago urban historian. @6figga_dilla
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Will Reynolds
2 years
@SawyerHackett Hasn't anyone else noticed how often Democrats lose by running safe, boring Senate candidate who appeal to major donors but not voters? The DSCC track record over the past decade is atrocious.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@caitoz Claiming Trump is the worst president reflects the privilege of being able to ignore all the civilians killed overseas by George W. Bush and Richard Nixon.
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Will Reynolds
3 years
Now everyone who complains about fireworks bothering their dog can go back to letting their barking dog annoy neighbors the rest of the year.
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Will Reynolds
3 years
Hi. I'll be live-tweeting today's Chicago city council committee on environmental protection and energy scheduled at 1:00pm for @CHIdocumenters #CHIdocumenters
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@drvox It's not bullshit when it decides elections. 2004. 2000. 2012. Too many Dems are slow learners.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
Sounds like @BernieSanders speech is packed with crass @HillaryClinton supporters. Sore winners. Stupid move by campaign. #HillNo #JillYes
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Will Reynolds
3 months
@brenonade Is he on drugs?
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Will Reynolds
2 months
@Tim_Walz Coach Walz with another win.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
@eternallyRaq Can we remind them they were also wrong about Hillary being electable?
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Will Reynolds
8 years
How can I believe @HillaryClinton will stand up to oil as President if she won't speak up during the campaign? #climate #NoDAPL @JenD1974
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Will Reynolds
7 years
@markos Markos spent a year badgering progressives into supporting Hillary cause she's more electable. Still can't admit he's a fool.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
Six water protectors inside delivered letter and shut down Chicago citibank branch on clark st right now. #NoDAPL #nodaplchi Citibank divest
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@CDRosa My god, these people are monsters.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@nathanTbernard Chuck Schumer and @dscc spent millions in primary wars against progressives, only to lose as badly as they did in '18. The entire Dem leadership team needs to be replaced.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@drvox Can it be like the tea party in that they took over the GOP and every branch of government?
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@HillaryClinton I don't donate to warmongers or frackers. Twitter ads don't make your agenda more appealing. #JillNotHill
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Will Reynolds
3 months
Biden's big comeback speech has him messing up several lines, despite the teleprompter, and even a Democratic supporter is begging him to drop out. This will be the biggest Republican landslide since 1988. #passthetorch
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Will Reynolds
6 years
This ad for @LUnderwood630 is the best I've seen this campaign year. It's sincere. It tells a personal story and still focuses on an important issue. #ILgov #il14
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@yashar @NomikiKonst Straight out of the Clinton inevitability playbook. It's an inherently disempowering mind game.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@DemSocialists This is abelist. Not everyone can or should hold a job. UBI would free people to live a fulfilling life and work the job they want, when they need to, not make-work the government creates for them.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ProudSocialist Biden recently named a huge promoter of fracking and Dakota Access pipeline to his transition team, Lonnie Stephenson. No one seems to have noticed.
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Will Reynolds
3 years
@LeftFlankVets Coke doesn't want us talking about diabetes.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@davidsirota We can at least partially thank Bill Clinton for both Bush and Trump.
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Will Reynolds
2 years
@6figga_dilla Black History Month began in Chicago. Here's a tiktok about it from Thomas himself:
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Happy Love Day & happy birthday Frederick Douglass 😤💪🏾
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ProudSocialist @AOC Are these the same 31 permits that were than revoked a couple days later?
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@bobbyfruit56 China is building renwables far, far faster than the US. To paraphrase Anderson Cooper, that's the excuse of a 5 year old. "But moooom, China and India get to build coal!" So what?
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@dougsc1 @ProudSocialist The last 20 years of presidential elections were won by the candidate who focused on base turnout and lost by the candidate who focused on centrist swing voters.
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Will Reynolds
2 months
The Water Reclamation District returns from recess. I spent the break grabbing a snack and realizing that I haven't watched the Blues Brothers movie in a couple years. I wonder if I know anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@Cardinals COVID19 will self-isolate for 10 days after exposure to Yadi.
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Will Reynolds
7 years
@davidsirota Expanding Medicaid was the best part of Obamacare.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@Amy_Siskind @Smith83K So basically everyone in the world knew those were crucial swing states except the inept Clinton campaign. lol
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ProudSocialist @PeoplesParty_US I hope the People's Party embraces the spoiler role in strategic districts against conservative Democrats. Force Democrats to run a progressive or lose.
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Will Reynolds
4 years
@ReallyAmerican1 @johncusack If Democrats listened to progressives and picked a better nominee, we would have won the election. Both '16 and '20.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@AOC @washingtonpost I'll never forget WashPo fact check confirming Hillary lied about taking fossil fuel donations but somehow deciding Sanders was the one being untruthful. Amazing contortions.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
In '08 @BarackObama ran on promise to end 2 wars. @HillaryClinton is promising to expand a new one. That's not how to unite. #DemsInPhilly
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Will Reynolds
9 years
#HillarySoProgressive she promoted #fracking & offshore drilling as sec of state.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
Happening now at Citibank Chicago branch on Clark st. #NoDAPL #nodaplchi
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@peterdaou No. Plurality. No Clinton ever won a majority in a national election. It took Obama's progressive meesage to do that.
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Will Reynolds
8 years
@KeithOlbermann @DrJillStein I hope when Hillary expands war like she's promising that you attack her as much as you sandbagged Obama.
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Will Reynolds
7 years
@BruceRauner This bully is wrecking the state with an artificial crisis because he can't get his way. Illinois needs to stand up to him.
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Will Reynolds
6 years
@NBCNewsTHINK @davidbrockdc David Brock is certainly an expert on divisive attacks against Democrats. Great irony, bro.
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@VanJones68 Biden isn't defending. He's outright lying. Repeatedly. Why is everyone on CNN afraid to say so?
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Will Reynolds
3 months
These two images are the entire election for 90% of the public who aren't political nerds. Presidential elections are decided by turnout. Which party is motivated to turn out on election day? Democrats lose in a landslide if Biden is the nominee. #PassTheTorch
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Will Reynolds
5 years
@theclown8 @shaunking CNN plays Dean making a goofy scream 300 times. Biden starts cussing out and threatens to physically assault a random voter and CNN publishes an opinion piece praising him for it. #CNNisTrash
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Will Reynolds
8 years
Way to go #Lyft for supporting #ACLU and immigrants! Free credits for new Lyft riders here: @GeorgeTakei #deleteuber
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Will Reynolds
7 years
I moved on from supporting bad politicians just because they're on Team Donkey. That's why I donated to @paulajean2018 . Manchin: I've 'moved on' from Trump sexual misconduct allegations
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Will Reynolds
8 years
It feels good giving my vote to the only candidate standing up for peace and real #climate solutions: @DrJillStein #ItsInOurHands
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