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If you appreciate the time and energy I invest into finding these clips for you, please subscribe to my newsletter. I have a post coming Friday about DeSantis being the face of the GOP and why that's bad news for Republicans.
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By contrast, forcing your former employee to flee his home because you insinuated that he’s a pedophile is fine because when someone flees no one knows their location
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Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok.
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WATCH: former Speaker of the House Boehner sobs at ’s portrait unveiling ceremony saying, "My girls told me, 'Tell the Speaker how much we admire her.'" Really captures the extent of the legacy Pelosi has left (and continues to leave).
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By the letter of this policy you could be suspended for tweeting that you ran into a famous person at a restaurant
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We’ve updated our Private Information policy to prohibit sharing someone else’s live location in most cases. Here’s what changed and why. 🧵
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“If you’re in the media, you know what an essential part of the ecosystem they are. They post short clips from TV… their tweets … are shared by the tens of thousands, and they can create a news cycle out of something that could have gone unnoticed without their intervention.”
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A prior generation of would-be presidents modeled themselves on Bobby Kennedy, the fierce fighter for justice. A next generation is modeling themselves on Bobby Kennedy's son, the weirdo fighter against science and medicine.
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DeSantis announces a new anti-CDC: "Our CDC, at this point, anything they put out, you just assume, at this point, that it's not worth the paper it's printed on ... we're creating what we're calling the Public Health Integrity Committee."
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Can you imagine what happens to HHS Federal agencies such as FDA, CDC, NIH if the Florida Governor becomes POTUS and he populates the leadership of those agencies with members of his so-called integrity committee? OMG, what a horror show
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DeSantis announces a new anti-CDC: "Our CDC, at this point, anything they put out, you just assume, at this point, that it's not worth the paper it's printed on ... we're creating what we're calling the Public Health Integrity Committee."
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Kevin McCarthy on Fox News reiterates that as speaker he plans to hold congressional hearings at the border
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as a Twins fan, hurts to lose Correa, but there was no way they were going to pony up $350m.
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BREAKING: Shortstop Carlos Correa and the San Francisco Giants are in agreement on a 13-year, $350 million contract, a source familiar with the deal tells ESPN.
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Desantis believes this is an issue he can use to beat Trump. The MAGA base is anti-vax. It’s the one thing they strongly disagree with Trump on. Alex Jones, for one, said he would support Desantis if Trump didn’t come out against the vaccines. He didn’t. This is very calculated.
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Ron DeSantis is going full anti-vaxxer on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show
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we're fighting a two front war, with battles still raging in the Campaign Against Christmas
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Ron DeSantis is going full anti-vaxxer on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show
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Kevin McCarthy on Hannity reiterates that if he's speaker, Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell won't be allowed on the intelligence committee
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big big news for Republicans who spent much of the past year asking for a definition
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“Woman” is Dictionary.com’s word of the year – a word so simple and so common but nonetheless, according to the site, “inseparable from the story of 2022” cnn.it/3FPX0RZ
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At a time in this pandemic when the Governor of Florida should be imploring the residents of his state to get vaccinated, he does this.
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DeSantis: "Today, I'm announcing a petition with the Supreme Court of Florida to enpanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to covid-19 vaccines."
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Biden makes a case against all forms of bigotry before signing the Respect for Marriage Act
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Will the Demon Sperm Doctor be invited to join this committee? Ladapo, DeSantis' Surgeon General, has already worked with her.
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