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Host of @WagnerTonight 9PM on @msnbc + author of "Futureface" on @OneWorldLit + Worried Mom! Insta: itsalexwags
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LA ROCHE MELA B3 x FOURTH
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HAPPY 3RD BINIVERSARY
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白血球さん
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エアコン
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#GiveMeThat1stWin
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#サッカー日本代表
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ライエモ
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#鷹嶺ルイ生誕バンドLIVE
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細胞実写化
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The fact that my 75 year-old Asian mom has two shots of the Moderna vaccine in her arm makes me want to cry. The fact that my 75 year-old Asian mom no longer feels safe walking down the street by herself also makes me want to cry.
#America
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Trump valued Mar A Lago at $739 million — the real value is closer to $75 million. He bought his Jupiter golf course for $5 mill — the next year he valued it at $62 million. A markup of 1,100%. Just wow
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This secret recording of
@SenatorBurr
suggests some in the GOP fully grasped how serious COVID 19 would be, but refused to say so publicly -- putting American lives at risk to maintain allegiance to the Trump WH:
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I cannot imagine any other president in modern American history who would not have sought to address the nation as a deadly virus killed 100,000 of its people.
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On the same day that a man attempts to kill the Speaker of the House, a judge in Arizona has ruled that armed citizens can show up to *monitor* ballot boxes as part of their "constitutional rights." This is how democracy ends.
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I am absolutely thrilled and honored and generally upside down with excitement to come back home to
@MSNBC
to host the 9PM hour, beginning August 16th. LET'S DO THIS
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Delta CEO defends choice to end NRA partnership in the wake of Georgia legislature killing the company's coveted tax break: "Our decision was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale."
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This “female journalist” is very excited!
Showtime’s ‘The Circus’ to replace Mark Halperin with female journalist
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After Brown v Board of Ed, White Mississippians left Jackson, rather than have their children attend school w Black children. Black families were left behind & the tax base necessary for infrastructure improvements + repairs was decimated. This water crisis = the legacy of racism
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Put your name on the hotel. Put your name on the golf course. Put your name on the steaks. Put your name on the checks. And put your name on the pandemic.
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If Loeffler and Burr are forced to resign, McConnell is going to have to defend seats in GA and NC in an election year that is shaping up to be... fairly treacherous.
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Whoa:
@AdamSchiffCA
says that Dems on the House Intel Committee wanted to bring Maria Butina and Paul Erickson in for questioning — but were told not to by House Republicans, who were worried about “tarnishing” the NRA and President Trump.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle was uh married to the current Democratic governor of California. There are a lot of *layers* here
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I’M COMIN HOME!
Seasoned journalist
@alexwagner
makes her return to
@MSNBC
as a Senior Political Analyst and Guest Anchor.
In her new role, she’ll appear across MSNBC to weigh in on the news driving headlines in Washington and around the country.
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Oprah invokes the story of Otis Moss, Sr who walked 18 miles to vote and was never able to cast a ballot: “I vote for him. I come as one,” she says, “but I stand as ten thousand.” Anyone who chooses not to vote, she adds, “You are dishonoring your family.”
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Wrapping up my spring break adventure at
@msnbc
keeping ye olde anchor chair warm for the inimitable and ever gracious
@NicolleDWallace
— thank you for this fever dream of a week back on the ranch.
@DeadlineWH
team is the jam!
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Ford was polite, deferential and accommodating. Kavanaugh is loud, angry and aggressive. Tells you a lot about what we expect from women and what we allow on the part of men.
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To everyone who watched
@WagnerTonight
last night, thank you! I cannot promise Gremlins this evening (nor uh would I want to?), but I can promise some really good stuff from the field, in addition to all the gaga headline news you could ever want. Day Two LFG!
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Donald Trump does not love Gordon Sondland's ass right now.
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Thank you
@DeadlineWH
team for letting me sit in the chair for a marathon two hours today. Felt good to be back home!
@NicolleDWallace
you have an incredible, interstellar team and also sorry if I left crumbs on your keyboard. Possible
@msnbc
will let me do it again tomorrow!
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Trump is reiterating that he "inherited a mess." Economic data says (distinctly) otherwise:
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Oh Rick. Did you not know that I’m ASIAN AMERICAN? This is so embarrassing for you. But not more embarrassing than having an utterly unqualified fascist in the running for Attorney General of the United States.
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This is so, so ugly. What an utterly embarrassing moment for America.
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I’m not sure which is more devastating to Trump, invoking the 25th Amendment or taking away his Twitter access
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Gina Haspel oversaw interrogation tactics so brutal that CIA personnel at one black site openly wept and requested transfers after torture sessions. Details here:
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Ladies and gentleman, things may be going backwards on a lot of fronts, but we just had a vice presidential nominee walk off the national stage to MARY J BLIGE and that feels a lot like... progress
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Late night media strategy sesh at Buckingham Palace gonna be 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I'm still reeling from the fact that the President of the United States could not bring himself to condemn white supremacy
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I spoke with medical experts about the trauma inflicted on migrant children who are being separated from their parents. One told me, "This is government-sanctioned torture of children." Here's
@TheAtlantic
story:
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This is utter insanity. The reason PA wasn't able to deliver results on Election day is because the **Republican** legislature refused to let officials open/count ballots before Election Day. Gaslighting ne plus ultra!
The failure of Pennsylvania to have firm election results on Election Day is an openly partisan failure by Democrats from the Wolf administration to the PA Supreme Court.
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Second half of 2021 is gonna be me hugging the shit out of literally everyone
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Imagine being willing to throw democracy under the bus... just to stay in the minority, with no governing agenda, under the leadership of a man with no particular interest in whether you live or die
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Teaching students about structural racism has become a political flashpoint across the country. Here's my interview with one of Virginia's leading activists, Patti Hidalgo Menders -- a mother of six who's fighting the state's equity and inclusion curriculum. Via
@Sho_theCircus
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Crowd here at
@BernieSanders
HQ in VT was stunned silent when the North Carolina results came in.
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Across Michigan, Wisconsin and PA, we are witnessing the absolute cravenness and absurdity of Republican efforts to prevent mail-in/absentee ballots from being counted before Election Day. There is literally no reason it needs to be like this.
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Just in time for the holidays: the Dept of Agriculture has finalized a process whereby 755,000 Americans will be removed from the federal food stamp program. Secretary Purdue says it's an effort towards "self sufficiency," and is the first step of many to cut food assistance.
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Just now
@RepMaxineWaters
(ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee) says Treasury Sec'y Steve Mnuchin never responded to a committee letter asking if Treasury had ever expunged records relating to payments made to Trump or his associates. via
@allinwithchris
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America is the place where a man with no political experience can run for president, walk out to "Return of the Mac," and poll as high as two sitting U.S. senators.
#YangGang
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.
@AndrewYang
campaign events feature “Return of the Mack” (Mark Morrison) and “You Get What You Give” (New Radicals) AND “Two Princes” (Spin Doctors). I feel so seen.
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FL Governors Debate just got *intense*:
@AndrewGillum
says of his GOP opponent
@RonDeSantisFL
"I'm not calling him a racist. I'm just saying the racists believe he's a racist."
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Guys just so you know my induction stove boils water a trillion times faster than my gas stove. Also maybe doesn’t slowly kill me, but it’s really the hot water for me
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I was born in the same decade as
@megynkelly
and do not recall blackface being acceptable anywhere, anytime.
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Do not underestimate the four Dem women just elected to the US Senate: Tammy Duckworth, Kamala Harris, Maggie Hassan and Catherine Masto.
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Has
@Acosta
used the "Lord of the Lies" line before? Please don't tell me he's been sitting on that one for 4 years
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Hi from the future, where everyone now gets a yearly Covid shot and the 2021 political shitstorm around vaccinations looks completely, murderously insane.
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There is a sickness in our democracy when the integrity of American elections hangs on the opinion of a single senator from West Virginia
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California, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you
NBC News calls Nevada for Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D), ensuring continued Democratic control of the US Senate
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I say with a full heart that
@NicolleDWallace
is one of the most generous and decent people in TV. All the good things for her!!!
Watching
@NicolleDWallace
and
@alexwagner
openly support each other on air is the balm I needed today. 💓Lift other women up. It costs nothing & changes everything.
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Technical term for this is: "The walls are closing in."
Fox News just cut away from
@PressSec
, saying the network could not in good conscience continue to air her false claims, for which she has provided no supporting evidence.
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It’s allllll happening! Follow along for new and exciting developments, friends:
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Taylor's statement is, yes, devastating for the president—but what also comes across is Taylor's deep and abiding commitment to democratic ideals, and promoting the best of what this country stands for. In the end, it's pretty heartbreaking.
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There is a deep, historic connection between yesterday and today: Black grassroots organizations mobilizing Black voters to elect a Black and a Jewish senator from the Deep South... and a white terrorist mob overtaking the Capitol to stop the democratic process.
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This is… extraordinary.
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$65M of the $85 Million in FOX harassment payouts is going to the men who were fired b/c of harassment allegations:
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As it turns out, when the governor slashes social programs in one of the poorest states in America, voters don't want to re-elect him. Even if the president tells them to.
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A delightful return to my old home! Thank you
@NicolleDWallace
for the chance to keep your seat warm, sister
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“Researching what other counties do.” Pro tip: they have paid family leave.
Gillibrand, after cornering Manchin on the Senate floor over paid family leave: "He's researching what other countries do, he's looking into the details and he said he would remain open minded."
Q: So it's not out?
"It's not out."
via
@Grace_Segers
to the pool
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BEST BUDS
Big night here at
@msnbc
! (Not to mention another major milestone in our nearly 25-year friendship!)
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Worth noting that acting AG Sally Yates (!) first alerted Trump WH about Flynn's vulnerability to Russian blackmail... several weeks ago.
The Latest: National security adviser Michael Flynn resigns amid Russia controversy.
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Chuckling at the idea that the use of the word "fight," in any context, in any tone, to any person, with any degree of seriousness, is a Trump defense strategy.
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The fly is the only thing people will remember from this debate
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This is a tough, compassionate, uplifting speech filled with useful information. Good god it’s been a long time
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From my conversation w
@AOC
last night, it seems pretty clear that Dems know that their leverage hangs on maintaining rock solid unity, and they’re going to do absolutely *nothing* to help McCarthy dig himself out of this hole — including back-channeling w the Freedom Caucus.
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A working class kid from blue collar Pennsylvania is running a presidential ticket with the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants. Amid all the polling and ballot counting tonight, don’t forget just how extraordinary the American story remains.
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God bless this halftime show, on behalf of my twenties and my midlife crisis alike
#SuperBowl
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People who are undecided in this election are really wild humans
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.
@AOC
is laying the groundwork for the Oversight Committee subpoenaing Trump's tax returns.
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Via
@NYmag
, a persuasive argument that it was President Trump — not RNC finance bigwig Elliot Briody—who paid $1.6M in hush money to silence a Playboy Playmate pregnant with his child:
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The turkey is not worth risking anyone's life. Come on, people.
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The fact that the President of the United States would rather spend his morning watching Fox & Friends than read a daily briefing that (among other things) detailed a Russian plot to kill American soldiers is just a shocking, shocking dereliction of duty.
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I've spent the last 48 hrs trying to determine the average price of each haircut and I still can't get to $70K
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Lindsey Graham has a lot of nerve going after Democrats for unduly delaying a Supreme Court nomination.
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“Netanyahu has previously denied any wrongdoing and has said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated ‘witch hunt’ by the media and the left.” WAIT A SECOND
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Souvenirs for all on set guests!!!
What a thrill to be on with my friend
@alexwagner
to talk midterms, abortion rights and Trump PS I stole a cool mug
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Just to be clear, the "radical unelected bureaucrats" refers to Bill Taylor, a West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran and Ukrainian ambassador appointed by George W. Bush—who was asked (again) to serve his country by a GOP congressman turned Secretary of State named Mike Pompeo.
WH Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham: "Today was just more triple hearsay and selective leaks from the Democrats’ politically-motivated, closed door, secretive hearings. Every day this nonsense continues more taxpayer time and money is wasted."
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Spoke with
@HillaryClinton
this week about the incoming Attorney General, the Mueller report & Trump’s relationship with his own party — more on Sunday night’s
@Sho_TheCircus
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Need to highlight the importance of the Kavanaugh allegations unfolding against the backdrop of the Cosby trial -- where many victims remained silent for many, many years before coming forward.
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Seeing Obama and Harris speak back to back tonight makes real the role that Biden may end up playing, connecting these two in the trajectory of American history and progress
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Guys you haven’t even seen the best part of my interview w
@AndrewYang
yet. Tune in to tonight’s
@SHO_TheCircus
— you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll need extra ketchup.
On the next episode
@SHO_thecircus
:
@AndrewYang
talks with
@alexwagner
about his affinity for
@BernieSanders
— in fact, says he voted for Bernie in 2016! Catch the full ep at 8pm on Sunday on
@showtime
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Just cruising around NYC on this 66 degree evening and getting a sense of the utter bacchanal that is about to erupt on the city streets this summer. Buckle up buckaroos
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It's both embarrassing and inspiring that basketball players have a greater interest in the public good than the leaders elected to serve the citizens of this country
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We were given catastrophically bad advice to not wear masks in January and February
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Did I think I would live to see the world in which Migos opened up for Joe Biden at a socially distanced parking lot rally in the middle of a pandemic? No, I did not.
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Rest in Power, George Floyd. May your memory mark a turning point in American history
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It’s not like these people wear badges that say, ‘I’m a friendly reporter.'"
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I hope everyone watches *this* video of Tyre Nichols again and again and again:
Before the Memphis Police Dept. releases the video of 5 MPD officers murdering
#TyreNichols
during a routine traffic stop, and that heinous video inevitably goes viral, I want to amplify THIS video of Tyre LIVING his best life. 🛹👑🙏🏿😔✊🏿
#JusticeForTyreNichols
🎥: Austin Dean
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For those keeping track: Baby
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arrived 4/16/2019 (!) and the Biden announcement was, well, today. BABY BEATS BIDEN.
I am now officially taking bets about which comes first: Baby
#2
or a Biden presidential announcement. Both have been gestating for approximately equal amounts of time.
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Literally debunks the entire WH defense in one question
To my money, best question so far comes from GOP Sens Collins and Murkowski: Before Joe Biden started running for President, did Trump ever raise the issue of corruption and Biden to Ukraine's previous president or others?
White House counsel: I have nothing for you on that.
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The number of people who died alone, without family, continues to be the most brutal part of this whole brutalizing period
Most powerful line thus far tonight is from Kristin Urquiza whose father died from COVID: “His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald Trump and, for that, he paid with his life." Her father died alone with a nurse holding his hand.
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My South Asian mom ain't letting anyone forget this is the first Asian American VP nominee
Kamala Harris’s immigrant parents--Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris:
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