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✍🏽 recently in @VanityFair @POLITICOMag @GuardianUS | Bad Bunny scholar | Something new, coming soon | Job leads/scoops 👇🏽adriancarrasquillo @gmail .com

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Adrian Carrasquillo
10 days
Scoop: With Dems faced w/ clawing back support from drifting Latino men, this is how @RubenGallego looks to reach them A @Canelo fight watch party Cinco de Mayo weekend for more than 100 Latino residents & families at a boxing gym w/ a taco truck outside
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At Yankee stadium: “The Yankees wish a happy birthday to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani.” Thunderous boos rained across the stadium.
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WH comms staffers just put the TVs on super loud after we could hear yelling coming from room w/ Bannon, Spicer, Sanders
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I truly think the scale of how horrified the Latino community is right now is not being understood, which is why the reporting about this moment is so important. So a quick story. I was chatting w/ a friend I met through the course of my work and she told me she had been crying.
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Guy Fieri has helped raise $21.3 million for restaurant workers, which will send a $500 check to more than 40,000 people.
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Can now hear yelling coming from room where officials are.
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Per @TreyYingst , Bannon, Mike Dubke, Sarah Sanders and Spicer walked into cabinet room just now. They did not look happy.
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🚨 NEW Telemundo poll of Latinos in Texas: @BetoORourke : 54% @GregAbbott_TX : 31% Polled 625 Hispanics statewide
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Omg
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It is incumbent upon us to include Latino and immigrant and Mexican voices in our reporting, and to have Latino reporters included in the reporting and listened to in the decision-making, and to not minimize this as business as usual.
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I mean, amazing.
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5 years
A story I’m sharing with permission from a young Latina
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It would appear that when Mexico sent Julio César Urías Acosta, they were sending their best.
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At Cashman Middle School off the strip, Spanish-speaking Latino voters were asked why they supported Bernie and they said “Honestly, he’s the only one we see on TV and in Spanish ads.” I’m a broken record on Latino investment, but it’s important. Speak to voters where they are.
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Arizona Dem sends this, tells me it’s going around after Sinema’s minimum wage vote today. Ouch.
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7 years
She literally wrote a book called "A Global History Of Concentration Camps"
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The pardon of Arpaio is an endorsement of the concept of twenty-first-century American concentration camps.
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Her husband was at the community pool and a group of white men said they thought the killing went too far but they agreed with some of the stuff the shooter stood for, like making sure whites aren’t wiped out and Hispanics take over. This was in the ruby red city of...Los Angeles
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If we want to do our best job now we have to truly listen and understand this isn’t just a sad moment that will pass, but the culmination of an anti-immigrant four decades in politics, that has only become louder, emboldened, and unchecked by American leaders.
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“I mean he openly was discussing this like it was sports talk,” she told me exasperated. “After 20 people are dead. Disgusting.”
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. @AOC on @SHODesusAndMero talking the bad memes trolls send her way: “How do you have a computer that has Windows 95 and Twitter?”
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7 years
Oh My Goodness, What's Happened? The 2017 Story.
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I asked @TVietor08 if Obama aides jockeyed to get links from liberal sites in front of him :(
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Many reporters get to go home after talking to suffering people or writing a heavy story and everything is fine. They get to dip into this world and then quickly evacuate.
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Now Hispanic Americans have been targeted, some who are immigrants, and all who have limited political power. That’s what’s going on. And people are terrified.
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Obviously, I shared this all because I want folks to know what’s going on. But I would also add, the level of community, of people checking in on each other, and sharing how they’re feeling has been really incredible. People are scared but resolute things will get better.
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From a Latina woman in America on her husband’s US nationality being called “fake news” in a Home Depot light bulb aisle.
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I read more than 160 DMs, emails and texts from people who told me they didn’t have a safe space to share these stories. They were from people in red states and blue states, the united states of hating immigrants and people who just look like they might be
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On CNN @kaitlancollins says a Voice of America’s reporter who served as pool reporter on AF1 has been asked by Biden camp not to travel with them tomorrow due to possible coronavirus exposure.
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This is a free website
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The @ResistanceRev Chrorus with special guest @AOC singing “This Joy” at the #AOC5k in celebration of the spirit and tenets of the Green New Deal. You don’t see this every day.
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Are you dealing with this WashPo story fallout at all? Trump admin official: "No I'm dealing with other dumpster fires."
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Wow Biden: “I think about what it takes for a black person to love America. That is a deep love for this country that has for far too long never been recognized.”
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5 years
Making sure this tweet shows up in the original thread and also feel free to DM any story of how you are dealing with this moment that you would rather share anonymously and, with your permission, I will post it here.
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Adrian Carrasquillo
5 years
Another story I’m sharing with permission, from a Latina health care provider in another largely-Hispanic border city on what she should do if someone hateful targets her workplace.
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From a white man in Austin about his Latino family and their fear of taking his children to public spaces and that his legal citizen mother and father in law could be targeted nonetheless.
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2 years
Beto dancing to mariachi music with this energetic lady who walked up to him dancing
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5 years
I’m seeing tweets rejoicing at Nielsen out. I would just say that while Trump is president and Stephen Miller is a top advisor, replacements aren’t usually better in the eyes of those who oppose the admin.
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JUST IN: Two US officials tell @CBSNews DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen meeting with President Trump at 5pm, expected to resign.
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This one hit me because he says he’s not good with words and then writes this thoughtful comment. “It’s as though my memories and relationships are diminished because of viewpoints and ideology that I would never have guessed were in their hearts.”
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From a young man in Los Angeles, which makes me think of all the kind Uber and Lyft drivers I have met who are Latino and the grief they may receive.
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“The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a cluster that started from a restaurant owner returning from India and breaching his 14-day home quarantine. The man has since been sentenced to five months in prison and fined.”
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JUST IN: Malaysia detects new coronavirus strain that’s 10 times more infectious
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AP and Time boycotted the gaggle today because of the way it was handled.
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A man in the Boston area scared for his 70-year-old mom being reported as in the country illegally even though she came to the country legally decades ago.
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Biden comparing Buttigieg to the son he lost, Beau, was not only powerful and surprising — “I’ve never done this before” — but it almost seemed to take Buttigieg aback, knowing what that comparison means to the former VP.
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This broke my heart, from an “American that happens to have brown skin.” “It is really the last few months that I feel not wanted by my fellow Americans and it hurts. It hurts because we contribute to the economy, to the food and the culture.”
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Actual photo of Tim Howard. #USA http://t.co/wflBoaat1m
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A naturalized citizen and immigration activist worried for her family in a border state and that she could face retribution for her advocacy
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NEW @UnivisionNews poll of Latino voters: National: Biden 66% Trump 24% Texas: Biden 66% Trump 25% Arizona: Biden 65% Trump 25% Florida: Biden: 52% Trump 36%
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How the shooting looks like from the Mexican side of the border.
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What a photo.
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Univision viewers scored the debate 92-8 for Clinton.
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This Google Doodle of Roberto Clemente is pretty special, recognizing his off the field work as much as what he did on it. #PuertoRico
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Julián Castro: Think about how absurd it is that Trump is caging kids at the border but letting ISIS go free. Ouch.
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A young man “from the same town as the El Paso shooter. Same graduating class, but rival high schools.”
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4 years
As another black man has been shot by police, I’m reminded of how Julian Castro was talking about police reform a year before George Floyd was killed by cops. Not only was he excluded from a DNC speaking slot but high-profile journalists waved it away as a non-issue.
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Her husband is a manager at a grocery chain in Southern California and gets told to go back to Mexico weekly. “I fear for his safety and the safety of our kids.”
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7 years
Cuban friends telling me parents are crying of relief, one is going to buy champagne now. One's parents saved a bottle to drink when he died
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Reminder: The El Paso hate crime mass shooting that killed 23 and injured 22 at a Walmart was perpetrated by a white man who drove 10 hours to kill Mexicans and Mexican nationals because of a so-called “Hispanic invasion of Texas” he posted about in a racist screed.
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Fox News is back to fully embracing the "invasion" rhetoric on migration. Lisa Boothe: "I see military-age men... I ask myself, at what point do we see this for what it is, or what it appears like to me -- an invasion?"
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Clyburn’s Biden endorsement, the kind that money can’t buy. Deeply personal, methodical, mentioning friends and neighbors in South Carolina, invoking MLK Jr. “I’m voting for Joe Biden, South Carolina should be voting for Joe Biden. And here’s why.”
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. @Acosta just said on CNN that Trump is “superspreading misinformation about the virus.”
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Dark quotes overheard in briefing room from reporters: "I just realized it's Monday." "I guess it doesn't matter what day it is."
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. @Evan_McMullin on CNN: There is an element of the Republican Party that is racist and our leaders are scared to confront it.
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From a journalist at a major newspaper. “I’m terrified in a way maybe only one or two other people in my newsroom are. For the rest of them, what’s happening is only abstractly horrifying.”
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A hurricane taking down part of the border wall is a little on the nose 👇🏽
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A community organizer and immigration activist doing this work to honor his family’s sacrifice. “I don’t think my heart has been whole for a while.”
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Taco trucks lining up outside Cardenas supermarket in East Las Vegas to register voters in the neighborhood and on college campuses.
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From a Texan in the Rio Grande Valley: “It could have been us...we’re not fine.”
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She has family members that escaped that shooting at the garlic festival. They’re mixed but her sister looks more “Latina.” “I’m so much more scared for her because her brown skin makes her a target for violence than me.”
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Heartbreaking: “I am proud of my Latinidad but after the Pulse shootings and now El Paso, I feel so scared because I look very Hispanic.”
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Pecos County Judge Joe Shuster says he’s hosting @BetoORourke today because he will never get an audience with Governor Abbott. Says if Beto wins he will know their story around rural health care and Medicare issues the community needs help with.
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This thread is heavy. A moment of levity: I talked to my small mom today, an immigrant who’s lived in NYC for 50 years. She’s feisty so I asked what she would say if someone told her not to speak Spanish? “I’m Hispanic and I’m proud of it, what are you going to do about it?” 🤦🏽‍♂️
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. @Acosta says Trump advisors are upset with a call of Arizona from another network. Says they’re worried if they lose Arizona they have to win Wisconsin because they feel they will lose Michigan.
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Also horse race with Latinos if you’re into that sorta thing: BIDEN: 58% TRUMP: 31% BIDEN: 57% DESANTIS: 28% 1401 Latinos, the largest bipartisan poll of Hispanics so far this cycle. A good poll for Biden, better than the 2020 final results of 59% to 38% according to Pew…
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Adrian Carrasquillo
8 months
NEW from me: I’ve got the first look at a Univision poll and how it shows January 6th and Trump’s legal woes like the Georgia indictment could be an opening for the Biden campaign with Latinos via @TheMessenger
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. @AOC w/ @residente on Puerto Rico health care disparities, already bad, & made worse in the age of COVID But this part below is powerful. On patients asking how much it’ll cost before intubation. Says that doesn’t happen in a compassionate, modern, rich society but a brutal one
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
4 years
¡Gracias por la conversación, @residente ! 🇵🇷
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“At a time when Democratic leadership’s message was ‘We’re working on the message’ [ @Ocasio2018 ] offered bold, progressive policies – medicare for all, criminal justice reform, and a green energy based economy.”
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I wrote up my experiences from the campaign trail:
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Piping hot take from Judge Jeanine who was posing for selfies at Lara Trump's baby shower yesterday.
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“I have thought for a while I would be doing this work until I retire, but increasingly I wonder if I will do this work until a fellow countryman kills me instead.”
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The stories out of Puerto Rico are just as incredible as during Harvey but receiving far less attention
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His murder is an American tragedy.
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Sandeep Dhaliwal, the first Sikh to become deputy in Houston, TX was fatally shot from behind yesterday He was a HERO! With the help of his community, he filled an 18 wheeler truck with supplies worth over a million dollars for those affected by Hurricane Harvey KNOW HIS NAME!
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My latest pool report: - No clue what Trump has done for last three hours despite multiple requests. - Picking up tips at tennis palace.
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. @ComfortablySmug starting trouble in @Ocasio2018 cook and chat live IG video
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McCabe blames Trump for amplifying lies about him and says he won't be quiet anymore. "And all along we have said nothing, never wanting to distract from the mission of the FBI by addressing the lies told and repeated about us. No more."
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JUST IN: Statement from Andrew McCabe: "I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey.”
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A random Chadwick Boseman moment that made me laugh at the time: @THEKIDMERO and @desusnice asked him, seriously how tired are you of doing the Wakanda Forever salute and he laughed and basically admitted he was:
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“Who’s to say this won’t inspire something worse?”
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Puerto Rico official says "no accident" Trump's 1st tweets on crisis came as PR gov @ricardorossello described need for assistance on CNN.
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A Dreamer student asks about reinstating DACA and Buttigieg says “I want you to know that I see you as an American. That you belong to this country as much as anybody,” to applause. Nice moment to end his townhall actually.
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A source close to WH says "Don Jr. is a huge problem," because he passes questionable articles to the president.
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NEW @UnivisionNews poll of Latino voters: NATIONAL: Biden 67% Trump 26% TEXAS: Biden 66% Trump 28% FLORIDA: Biden 57% Trump 37% ARIZONA: Biden 66% Trump 26% PENNSYLVANIA Biden 67% Trump 25% Graphic below is new state poll in each state:
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Meanwhile, Bad Bunny is currently making music history. Not as a Latino artist, but just in general. His virtual concert during the pandemic started in front of Yankee Stadium, is driving thru NYC on a truck, and just brought on a killer featured artist Sech from Panama. Amazing.
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I think I figured out why Trump hasn't done many press conferences.
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Adrian Carrasquillo
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Heartbreaking, eye opening thread.
@krudell
rudell.bsky.social
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A couple years ago, when I was writing for American Dad!, I needed an Arabic speaker for a small part. Our casting director recommended a Saudi comedian, who happened to be in LA for a couple months shooting a tv show. His name is Fahad Albutairi.
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Cool @WhiteHouse pic of the Latinos that work in the admin posted for Hispanic Heritage Month.
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NEW from me: Afro-Latino @RitchieTorres wants to be in the Hispanic Caucus and the Black Caucus but he can’t be in both: “It's an antiquated notion that you can be Black or Latino, but you can't be both.” via @Newsweek
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“I presented them w/ his original birth certificate & other documents and they ignored them. So now I’ve faxed over all the documents to the ICE agent handling the case. He’s going on a full month of being wrongfully detained. He’s a U.S. citizen and he needs to be released now.”
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This is absolutely indefensible. The state is detaining and American citizen solely because of his race and his families country of origin. He had his freaking ID.
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Per @TreyYingst , Bannon, Mike Dubke, Sarah Sanders and Spicer walked into cabinet room just now. They did not look happy.
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Haven’t seen @davidaxelrod madder than just now. Interrupts @VanJones68 to say Trump isn’t subtle when he talks about Detroit and Philadelphia being known for corruption. Says “it’s about race.”
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