Caitlin Flanagan
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To the four year old girl who saw me walking down the street and called down from her apartment “Hello, Beautiful!”—
Everything I have is yours
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17 years ago, when my children were very small, I was diagnosed with serious cancer - and 14 minutes ago I turned 59.
One more birthday I never thought I’d see.
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SNL - believe it or not - used to be this blazing, almost counterculture revolution; it was druggy, inexact, unfettered, glorious.
It wasn’t a bunch of pampered wankers sheltering in a safe room because they can’t handle sharing a stage with a weirdo.
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New York Times: We are very, very afraid of Republican backlash in the midterms.
Also New York Times: Our new word for women and girls is “menstruater”
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Another good cause that schools might take up is the teaching of reading and math.
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Hi, I’m Caitlin 60 years old and Stage IV cancer - but don’t do anything on my account. I’ll wear my mask and be careful. That’s on me. You guys need your lives back.
Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m 35 and a doctor. I also have a heart condition that puts me at an increased risk for serious complications from covid.
#IHaveAPreexistingCondition
- Does the face of
#chronicIllness
look different than you thought?
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Behold the matriarchy. It's like the patriarchy, but without the dead weight of reason and logic.
Katherine Maher: Wikipedia is biased because it is "famously written by men," privileges "European models of reference to the written word," and excludes "women, non-binary, and non-gender-conforming individuals."
She is WokeGPT.
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Allow me, a longtime cancer survivor, to explain why you’re a bit depressed: you just spent a year in survival mode. Now the danger has passed - and you’re having to power down from high-alert tunnel vision to low-threat normal life. It takes a few months to adjust.
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Hating America is a luxury we can no longer afford.
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What we're seeing on college campuses is not a "woke agenda" that can be somehow eliminated. It's the product of forty years of thought, study, degree-granting, hiring decisions, tenure decisions and policy-making.
It's not a blight on American higher education. It IS American…
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What the Times did to
@bariweiss
is unconscionable. It’s not civil, It’s not in the reader’s interest, and the well-documented culture of extreme harassment will, I hope, now come to light. This is the biggest media story in years.
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I’m not sure who benefits from the collapse of California. It has to be intentional because it’s so thoroughgoing and happening so quickly. But I can’t figure out the true engine and the reward.
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Ghislane Maxwell woke up this morning surprised and grateful to discover she hadn’t committed suicide.
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Not trolling. I honestly don’t understand why the US is participating in an Olympics taking place in a country with one million Muslims in concentration camps.
I’m not at all trolling, I just don’t know the justification.
It seems bizarre.
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#IStandWithJKRowling
because she wrote a series of books that made readers out of millions of children and adolescents.
And she has every right to express her opinion on cultural matters.
And because she's right about them.
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A close friend is dying, and I've been spending mornings with him, listening and talking about the big things.
There are moments in life when the curtain parts for just a moment and you see the truth. The only thing that matters is love.
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The rich will take those classes elsewhere and the poor - among them brilliant science-minded kids - will suffer.
Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan
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Hey
@AP
, a 60 year old woman was beheaded this week while at prayer
A schoolteacher was beheaded ten days ago, walking home.
The French have not "incited anger."
They are the target of a bloodthirsty campaign by religious extremists.
You dishonor the dead.
Vive la France.
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If you think one person can’t make a difference...
Incredible
WINNING:
@WaltDisneyCo
has removed its entire antiracism program from the company's internal portal.
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You know what children could really use right now?
Grown ups who keep their own fears and anxieties to themselves, reassure kids that all is well, and that whatever grown up problems exist, grown ups will handle them.
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Fetterman's slob wear is an uncharacteristically elitist gesture. He comes from an affluent family, so he's never had to prove that he belongs in an exalted space.
A working class person would never dress that way to an important job.
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Lifelong Democrat here:
A baby was shot dead last night.
This isn't about "shoplifted bread."
Republicans are all upset that I’m connecting the dots between poverty and crime.
I know most of them haven’t experienced or seen these issues first hand, but I have.
This may be hard for them to admit, but poverty and crime are highly linked, both violent & nonviolent alike.
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Andrew Yang has the one thing none of the others have: he's recognizably human. And because our AI hasn't been fully downloaded yet, there is still some small part of us that recognizes humanity and reaches out for it. Like is calling out to like.
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It's not "shoplifted bread." It's eleven dead New Yorkers last weekend.
AOC on increased NYC crime: "Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent & are scared to pay their rent & so they go out & they need to feed their child & they don't have money so... they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry."
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Was it just me or did all of the candidates seem to think that the place for Mom is at work and the place for baby is daycare?
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So my headline would have been "French Schoolteacher Beheaded on Street."
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When students at a private, Ivy League, highly exclusive university (96% of applicants rejected) where a bachelors degree costs $350K, deem it "The People's University", you understand why so any of them go to work at The People's Hedge Fund and The People's Consulting Firm.
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I feel like
@TheAtlantic
was born for this moment. What an achievement this coverage has been.
"The Decolonization Narrative is Dangerous and False"
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If you like freedom of the press -the real kind, not the kind mediated by careerists, partisans, weaklings and cowards - check out
@thefp
.
All we want is the truth. We'll figure out what to do with it.
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White celebrities, in the moments before they cancelled their private security service (ADT, etc), moved out of their doorman buildings and Malibu safe houses, put their children in the local public school and joined the revolution. Inspiring!
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This man was admitted to and graduated from an Ivy League university.
Somewhere in America there’s the person who got denied so that this guy could go instead.
This is legacy admissions.
Junior says that the prank call to Biden “gave guys like me the greatest Christmas present ever,” and called the guy that made the call “a hero.”
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Who wrote this, a twelve year old?
Ever seen what happened in Vietnam?
Or Japan.
Or during the Blitz?
Simpletons
Israel's military campaign in Gaza seen as among the most destructive in history, experts say
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I just received what was I guess a kind note from a reader saying he was very sorry that I hadn’t “won the genetic lottery.”
And thank you, but Jesus Christ I didn’t lose all of them!
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I'll tell you what I think when you tell me who else thinks it.
I did not know who else had signed that letter. I thought I was endorsing a well meaning, if vague, message against internet shaming. I did know Chomsky, Steinem, and Atwood were in, and I thought, good company.
The consequences are mine to bear. I am so sorry.
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@AndrewYang
seems to be the only Democratic candidate who thinks that there is something in human life that is more valuable than the workplace. He is the true inheritor of the 1960's desire to find a deeper meaning in life than being a cog in the machine.
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I’m going to make a movie about the time I went to Urgent Care for a UTI.
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"I impulsively hit him on the head very lightly to get his attention."
These are the post-arrest statements that haunt defense attorneys' nightmares.
Here’s that Professor of Economics who was arrested at Emory university and everyone seems to think is some poor victim of police repression. Caroline Fohlin ADMITS she hit a police officer on the head. Even professors are not allowed to assault cops. Yes, even professors.
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These parents have astonishing grace. They’ve lost so much, endured so much and yet their message is not bitter. The real deal - Grace
Father of Ahmaud Arbery just now: “ALL lives matter. I don’t want no daddy to watch his kid get shot down like that. It’s ALL our problem. So let’s keep fighting to make this a better place for all human beings. Love everybody! All human beings need to be treated equally.” ❤️👏🏼👑
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An article that tries to damn
@jk_rowling
with her own quotes.
There is nothing hateful.
Eventually, she will be proven right, and the high cost she's paid for sticking to her beliefs will be seen as the choice of a principled person.
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The right wants to ban Beloved
The left wants to ban Huck Finn
How about we stop banning books, let young people read them and conduct seminar-style discussions where students make their own assessments of merit?
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The New York Times’ new word for woman and adolescent girls is “menstruater” and I just tried to play “Cinnamon Girl” on Spotify and was referred to “various artists.”
I am a traveler from an antique land.
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This is a very strange thing to write on Twitter, but so many of you have kindly asked me about it. I had my PET/CT last week: cancer is stable, and that's great news. Now my task is to start getting stronger.
Thank you again for all the kind messages.
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So, 40 years of modern feminism and we’re right back to being t*ts and *ss.
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This is one of the most classist, ugly things I've read in a long time.
And that goes double for her insult about community colleges.
@jakeflanagin
@kalihollowayftw
Nah, it’s a bunch of cornballs who are in an online program simply bc they want to say they have a “Harvard” (or Columbia) degree. That’s fine to laugh at.
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The moment when Crenshaw acknowledged Pete Davidson's father, who died in 9/11, and the very brief moment in which Davidson was almost overcome by emotion because of it, was powerful. As was Davidson's obvious relief at being treated with such grace by the older man.
It turns out there’s a market for grace in American politics.
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Unlike Bennet,
@bariweiss
didn’t apologize for what she believes, didn’t cower, didn’t cry.
Every young woman should look to her example for grace and strength under extreme pressure.
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Incoming
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There are people in China living in concentration camps.
Begin a conversation with, "Hi, my pronouns are ______. What are yours?"
#HowToGetOffOnTheRightFoot
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It’s not really about masking/non-masking/CRT curriculum/non-CRT curriculum.
It’s about the fact that American K-12 education is the biggest failed public works project of my lifetime.
You should not have to live in a wealthy district to get a good education.
#SchoolChoice
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This is a huge story that the
@nytimes
could have helped break earlier this year. It refused, saying the information “fell outside our coverage priorities.”
Of course it did.
Because it was the truth.
@bariweiss
@AbigailShrier
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Watch how
@coldxman
stays calm in the face of Sunny Hostin's ad hominem assertions. How does he manage that? Because he knows more about the subject than she does, and he gracefully waits for her to finish so that he can explain what she's missing.
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I was born in 1961, and it was drilled into me a thousand different ways that if I ever saw the ancient evil rising, I had a responsibility to stand against it.
I never, ever imagined that it would come here, to the United States of America in my lifetime.
These are messages openly promoting the genocide of the Jewish people.
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I know this will only prove your point - and I'm already kicking myself - but it's "an" elitist.
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Mother of God.
And yet to a person, the migrants so cynically sent there, report much, much better treatment than they would otherwise have had.
What he's angry about is the decency and kindness with which they were met. Ruined the stunt.
Cruz: Tomorrow, Martha's vineyard needs a 100. The next day they need 200. The next day they need a thousand. DC says it's a crisis to get 6k? They need 10k, they need a 100k, they need 500k..
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This will sound trite - but as I look back on my life, the sheer gratitude I have for an education, and for educated people around me, and for books and smart people to talk about them with -
I mean, what if I'd been abandoned to whatever processes produced this idiot?
They had to break into Hunter Biden's lost laptop to find the kind of drugged out videos Don Jr. is posting to his social media all by himself.
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There’s nothing like censorship to quell conspiracy theories
Biden Surgeon General Suggests Joe Rogan Podcast Should Be Censored: Big Tech ‘Has Important Role To Play’
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I've been in and around education my whole life - I've always believed anything that improves access is a godsend.
Why do the "real" Harvard students laugh at these others?
I guarantee you, a lot of nontraditional students are rightly proud of those degrees.
I hate snobs.
@kalihollowayftw
Hi, Harvard real-degree here. You're spot on. The "extension school" is a source of laughter and annoyance for students and alumni. (I think Columbia has one, too -- same thing there.) It's basically an "anyone can enroll, so long as you pay", no more stringent than a community…
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The backstory on how the Times was finally forced to run this story is long, but suffice it to say - it validates everything
@AbigailShrier
said when she broke the story months ago.
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Please respect the private lives of this famous couple who have been inserting themselves into our own private lives for a quarter century.
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This fellow came out screaming, had a freak surgical emergency at 6 weeks old, got “lost” at a department store at age 9 when he’d secretly brought his $10 to buy a Mother’s Day gift, works at a soup kitchen, and is one of the reasons I’ve never once refused chemo.
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Tell it to the fireman who walks into your burning house to rescue you.
Or the young men who signed up for heavy combat after 9/11.
Tell it to the man who reaches for the baseball bat when there’s a noise downstairs and his family is sleeping.
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Hold on.
We're going to be doing this for MONTHS?
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“We should not be forcing every parent to leave the home and join the workforce”
Yang! How refreshing to hear someone say it.
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English majors: searching for a paper topic?
Choose any minor character from the assigned novel. Truly, you can do this at random.
Boldly declare that the novel is ABOUT this character.
Do not back down. Open the throttle. Commitment must be total.
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The nation is contemplating UBI for this crisis.
@AndrewYang
would therefore make a superb running mate for the Democratic candidate. No one in the world knows more about UBI.
But because of identity politics,
@JoeBiden
has promised to pick a woman.
#ThisIsUs
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A very big bubble is about to pop - 20 years ahead of the predictions...
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Writers: As with many previously trusted resources, the AP Style Book is now to be avoided.
Carry on using the most exact words you can find, and avoid this type of jargon.
The goal of language is to communicate. The more precise the language, the better the communication.
We now say not to use the archaic and sexist term "mistress" for a woman in a long-term sexual relationship with, and financially supported by, a man who is married to someone else.
Instead, use an alternative like companion or lover on first reference. Provide details later.
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That’s an appropriate way for a president to receive grave national news. Refreshing.
WATCH: Trump hears from a reporter that Justice Ginsburg has died.
"She just died? Wow. I didn't know that, you're telling me now for the first time."
"She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman...I'm sad to hear that."
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"Tomorrow, Israel could kill everyone in Gaza if they wanted that. They obviously haven’t wanted that. They obviously don’t want to do that now. If you reverse that balance of power and ask what would Hamas do, what would jihadist organizations anywhere do? They would kill all…
Sam Harris is right on here.
He explains the insistent assumption of so many westerners that the depravity we saw from Hamas in murdering Israeli civilians in the most brutal and horrific ways must’ve been motivated by some terrible behavior by Israel. Like the terrorists…
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You’ve spent the last 4 years telling me to set my hair on fire and run screaming through the streets, and now when the shit is finally coming down you want me to take some time for myself?
And remember: Whatever is going to happen, is going to happen. Take some time for yourself.
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To exclude Ta-Nehisi Coates from any high school course on African American studies is to deny American teenagers a rich part of their own heritage.
King
Baldwin
Coates
Do these men build on, or challenge each other's ideas?
Jesus Christ, America. Save yourself.
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Another academic handwringing about the "crises in the humanities."
The crisis is that you guys stopped teaching things of great worth. And every time you got hold of something worthwhile, you forced through the critical theory meat grinder. Nobody cares.
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Rapes
Murders
Infanticide
Families burned alive in their homes
Old people mercilessly shot dead
Beheadings
Defiling of corpses
Massive kidnapping of children, whom they now threaten to execute
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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I was standing on 6th avenue after watching my son graduate from college, and there were the warm breezes of a New York spring, and out of nowhere I was awash in grief for my parents, and of wishing I could tell them it all worked out.
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I tanked the math part of the SAT. I mean TANKED it.
This was a result of the test’s evil plan to reveal that I didn’t know any math.
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I was told that if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
But now men CAN get pregnant and Roe’s about to fall.
Are all the promises to be broken?
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Remember children in cages?
This is worse.
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Reminder: no one is ever responsible for another person’s drinking.
Ever.
Ben Affleck: I would've 'still' been drinking if I stayed married to Jennifer Garner
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In all honesty - what does a woman like this think about her own sons and husband?
Kirsten Gillibrand worried top three 2020 frontrunners are all white men
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Where were all of these people when
@normmacdonald
had his show cancelled for rash remarks?
He could have used some friends
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25 years of hostilities come to an end.
Hilary bringing it to the nincompoops of the View so hard that the only comeback is a wan little "those were the days" tribute to Anwar Sadat (late of this world, 1981) has brought me back into the fold.
HRC, you're the man.
I salute…
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There is only one way out. We have to recognize the humanity in one another.
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My son came over to watch horror movies and have dinner with us. I can remember zipping him into a dinosaur costume another lifetime ago.
All I ever wanted in life was to get married and have children.
I don't know what to say about that.
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Lawyers: is it legal to make attending a racially segregated meeting a condition of employment?
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Hitchens said the three most over-rated things were champagne, anal sex and picnics
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Take it a step further. What if we asked for a lifetime commitment, a binding legal document and the presence of witnesses at the vow taking? Could work.
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Good at sex
How do people this unbelievably dumb get prominent media jobs?
CA – which has a lower crime rate than many states, a better economy than most, and fewer COVID deaths than two-thirds – has in her mind “collapsed.” If that is so, then more than half of America has collapsed.
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In unanimous vote, school board re-funds police.
Also humbly requests return of Thomas Jefferson statue.
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I have asked for help with the computer: zoom calls are blurry.
In-house associate quickly diagnoses problem as "butter on the camera."
I am deeply ashamed but fully operational.
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Saying that you don't support the use of puberty blockers doesn't make you an "anti-trans activist;"
Supporting a person's right to post her private opinion - on a private social media account - doesn't make you an "anti-trans activist."
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I was with some EXTREMELY plugged-in and brilliant women last night, and we assessed all of the Democratic candidates in a forensic, if slightly tipsy way. By the end of the discussion there was only wo/man left standing. If i remember this correctly -and I may not -
#YangGang
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I have discovered that a young man of my acquaintance - college educated, raised by good parents - did not know that there are 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon.
What the Hell are they teaching in these schools?
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The state really wants your kids. As early as possible.
Why?
Harvard professor wants to ban homeschooling because it's 'authoritarian'
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“Scuffle” is one word for it.
How eager everyone is to diminish this.
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What an astonishing piece. It explains so much. One of those situations where a person hides something out of shame - for just about his whole life. It’s so much better to be known completely.
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Let’s see, we’ve got one
@CNN
guy being sued for sexual harassment, one suspended for running cover for his sexually harassing brother, and one in good standing despite jacking off during a zoom meeting …
And
@kathygriffin
is the one they fired?
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The reason the Democratic Party is on the back foot is that it has married progressive economic policies - which are good, perhaps essential for the working man and woman - to a set of social policies and attitudes that have been beamed down from outer space.
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