Mark Strauss
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I hate being right sometimes.
@brianbeutler In all seriousness, my greatest fear is how much damage Trump could do in the event of a pandemic.
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Elon Musk’s views on free speech remind me of a story from a few decades back. Holocaust deniers began targeting college newspapers, asking the editors to publish their articles. If the editors refused, the deniers argued, they would be complicit in suppressing free speech 1/x.
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Musk is as naïve as those young editors, he still doesn’t understand the difference. And, like many, he fails to appreciate the importance of gate keepers. That's what readers are paying for—quality, curated content. 5/x.
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But, of course, the editors failed to understand that while the 1st Amendment guarantees the right to express ideas without govt interference, it does not OBLIGE anyone to share those ideas in their own publishing platforms. Editors have a different job than ACLU lawyers. 4/x.
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Trump’s defeat hit Newt hard. He had been expecting another four years living in Rome, on the taxpayers’ dime, while his wife continued to serve as MAGA ambassador to the Vatican.
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The deniers deliberately selected college editors, of course, because they were easy targets: young, idealistic, inexperienced journalists brimming with dedication to free speech and doing the right thing, even if it’s unpopular. 3/x.
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The strategy worked. Some college newspapers published the articles, often accompanied by a statement that although they didn’t agree with the content, Holocaust deniers had a "constitutional right" to express their views. 2/x.
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My dude, the company that manufactures Ivermectin says that it doesn’t cure Covid.
You leftists try telling the families who had to bury loved ones bc Fauci said Ivermectin didn't work on Covid that he's a good guy.
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Luke Bryan, four years ago, posted a message about the sanctity of voting. Now he’s endorsing a governor who is literally arresting citizens to intimidate minority voters.
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Trump will regret the day he chose to fuck around with those ruthless badasses at the [checks notes] National Archives.
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Turley wrote a piece for WaPo in 2014, declaring that it was a myth that an impeachable offense must involve a violation of criminal law:.
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@mtgreenee As I recall, you had no respect for Congress and the Office of the President when you repeatedly heckled President Biden during his SOTU address.
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GOP: “These mathematical models predicting the spread of COVID are useless!”. Also, the GOP: “This statistical model that I found on Facebook proves that Trump won Pennsylvania!”.
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This map shows all the Americans at risk. When will we declare a national emergency? #WindmillsCauseCancer
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It’s pathetic watching Meghan McCain constantly kicking her father’s corpse in the hope that more loose change will fall out of his pockets.
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@susanferrechio They have a ladies room. You were likely confused because they didn’t have a Lying Hack Reporter room.
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@KevinMKruse @elonmusk I’m amazed he didn’t ask Twitter to choose Brazil’s new president via an online poll.
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SARS, Monkey Pox, H5N2, Zika, MERS…I don’t think people fully understand that Covid is just the latest pandemic in a world where conditions are increasingly optimal for emerging infectious diseases. This, plus hostility towards vaccines, masking, and public health orgs.
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Where’s Peter Navarro? Shouldn’t he be saying something incredibly stupid right about now?.
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"We've already lost half of all the sentient beings in the universe. Now is not the time to create more anger by going after Thanos, who is living peacefully in retirement."
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@mcuban @MMthee0ne And we have the data: The Federal Reserve confirmed that Trump’s tariffs screwed both U.S. manufacturers and consumers. The tariffs on aluminum, in particular, did a lot of economic damage.
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I recently rewatched Zack Snyder’s “Justice League,”‘and then immediately afterwards watched the Joss Whedon version—and now I’m more convinced than ever that Whedon needs to be brought before The Hague for a crime against humanity.
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@thehowie @brithume @GOPLeader Here was Brit Hume’s hot take on January 6th. When I challenged him on it, he blocked me.
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The only other virus that attacks and kills T-cells is HIV.
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I thought Biden showed tremendous restraint by not wearing a tan suit.
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@guypbenson And now America knows that Trump doesn’t understand the difference between “asylum seekers” and an “insane asylum”.
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Our next president will need to authorize an extensive audit of the multiple ways our national security was compromised during this hellscape reality show. imagine how much we don't know.
Since Trump and Sonland were using Trump's UNencrypted personal cell phone, the odds are that eventually that conversation was recorded by *any* number of intelligence services. Not a transcript, a recording. I *guarantee* Putin's services have it.
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@TheRickWilson “I was geographically raised on Coruscant, but culturally my upbringing reflected the working-class water farmers on Tatooine—from toiling long hours under the twin suns to fighting Tusken Raiders. This made me the Force-fearing, rugged individual that I am today.”.
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Trump might as well give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stormy Daniels since his main criteria seems to be anyone who sucks his dick.
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@TheRickWilson He must be terrified that the Jan. 6 committee might also subpoena the stack of Playboy magazines that his mom found hidden under his bed.
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Coronavirus upon hearing that it will soon be flying all over the country on American Airlines:
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Alexa, find someone who has worse understanding of the law than Tom Fitton.
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It takes a special kind of political skill to wage a voter suppression campaign against your own party.
Via the latest ABC/Post poll, 51% of Dems plan to vote by mail vs. just 20% of Republicans, thanks to Trump's attacks. That's unprecedented.
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The 8th Amendment is trending because the folks who advocate lethal injection for anyone kneeling during the National Anthem believe that Trump’s financial penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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@tlrdrkmrgn @mtaibbi They impeached Bill Clinton over a blow job, so calm down you hysterical weirdos.
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I confess that when I heard the company name, Essential Consultants LLC, I immediately thought of Prestige Worldwide.
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@DougJBalloon Holy fuck, I was just joking….
@carlquintanilla @RadioFreeTom @axios @politico @nytimes @RollingStone “At Trump NYC Rally, A Heady Mix of Patriotism and Humor” —NYT, in just a few minutes probably.
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Pause for a moment to reflect that the GOP calls the Never Trumpers “traitors” and “human scum”.
I've read almost every word written about Trump's horrible nature. I'm an anthropologist of his shitty worldview. This article is the nadir of it all.
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Sometimes, posed social distancing looks like a Star Trek away team that has just beamed down to a planet.
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Earlier this year, the Southern Baptist Convention acknowledged they spent years protecting over 700 ministers and church workers who were credibly accused of sexual abuse. 2nd largest Christian denomination in the U.S—and nobody is discussing it.
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@TimRunsHisMouth @POTUS He forced you nitwits to loudly defend Social Security and Medicare after months of veiled threats to cut them—and I’m totally here for it.
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“Musk has recently claimed that someone was stalking his 2-year-old son [due to] the ElonJets account. But open-source intelligence researchers have located where the video was taken, noting it wasn’t near an airport and roughly a day later than any flight by Musk’s private jet.”.
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And, with Mike Pence officially assuming the role of Pestilence, the Four Horsemen are ready to ride #COVID19US #Pence
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As Trump's polling numbers continue their inevitable decline, expect him to grow increasingly insistent on "reopening" the economy. He believes a mini-economic recovery prior to November will be key to his re-election.
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Elon Musk disappointed to learn that free speech includes people loudly screaming, “Oh God! Help me, please! I’m burning to death in my Tesla!!!!”.
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@JackLombardi @EdKrassen It seems like only yesterday that Trump admitted that his charity foundation was a fraud, that his family used the money as a personal slush fund (including $10,000 for a six-foot-tall painting of Trump), and that he had to pay a $2 million fine. Loser.
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Stop the presses! I’ve located photographic evidence of Pelosi’s Subway—and it’s bigger than even the GOP dared imagine.
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“At least in Nazi Germany, Jews had ways to avoid extermination,” is a statement that should end any political career.
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The jokes at the Babylon Bee make more sense when you remember to add, “right, Elon?”.
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Why would anyone stay in a political party that threatened your daughter’s life?.
Some Jordan holdouts are refusing to meet with Jordan or take his calls, sources tell me — a sign of the uphill climb Jordan faces in winning 217. Meanwhile, one of the Rs who voted against Jordan had to have a sheriff stationed at their daughter’s school because of threats.
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@DrSarteschi @RadioFreeTom Such a waste after spending all of those millennia frozen in ice.
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Allowing economists to determine America’s public health policy is a really terrible idea. #notdying4wallstreet.
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@marcorubio @USNavy Weren’t you one of those idiots warning about the invincible Russian military not so long ago?.
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Meanwhile at Fox News: “Biden spills coffee, raising doubts about his capacity to govern".
And there it is. The Trump Organization is found guilty of tax fraud on all counts.
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“Kermit the Frog unrecognizable in first photos of new Muppet film” — The New York Post
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I’m surprised they haven’t included images of House Republicans storming the SCIF during the first impeachment hearings. It was a violation of federal law as political theater to please Trump—and a preview of what was to come.
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@Ryan_N_Wiggins @RadioFreeTom @marcorubio So, the kid with the lawn mower was Marco Rubio all along?
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@justinbaragona Megyn Kelly humiliates herself by again prostrating before Trump. And Nikki Haley is humiliated because Trump would rather have a d-list podcaster in a trash bag speak at his rally rather than the former governor of South Carolina. So, all in all, this is a great night.
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Fox News presents Jeanine Pirro with her severance package:
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Three of Southwest Florida's nine acute-care hospitals have no available intensive-care unit beds for adults.
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Captain America doesn’t even need to give a speech. All he has to do is yell, “Avengers, assemble!” and I’d follow him anywhere.
Superhero Twitter . Who gives the best inspirational speeches ?? 🤔🤔
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Perhaps we could offer White House officials the option of resigning, and then Taking the Black to join the Watchers on the Wall.
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This pandemic would be so much cooler if we could wear steampunk face masks
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I saw Biden's so-called COVID press conference. Where were my assurances that this virus will simply disappear one day? Why didn't he recommend an off-the-shelf miracle cure? Why is he getting advice from "scientists"??? Where are the free bleach pills? Total letdown.
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For some people, supporting Palestinian rights has turned into an obsession that makes them indistinguishable from followers of QAnon. They’ve convinced themselves that they’re larger-than-life heroes fighting the forces of evil to liberate the innocent. I worry for them, and us.
"We'll see you at your house. We'll m*rder you." Words said by pro-Palestinian activist Riddhi Patel to the mayor of Bakersfield, California, during a city council meeting on Wednesday. She was arrested on 8 felony counts. Bail set at $1 million.
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@ArmandDoma The heckler, Jennifer Koonings, is a member of Codepink—a group that continues to deny the Uyghur genocide in China and who strutted around Congress dressed as Nazi concentration camp prisoners. They’re garbage.
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@NoLieWithBTC If Democrats can’t turn “No American Cheese” into a campaign meme, they’re done for.
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@RadioFreeTom I want to see a remake of Roadhouse where a Patrick Swayze character kicks anti-vaxxers out of dentist offices.
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I’m 100 percent convinced that the guests at Mar-a-Lago feed on the living.
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What happens in China doesn’t stay in China. Potentially significant implications for the global economy, pharmaceuticals, and public health.
⚠️THERMONUCLEAR BAD—Hospitals completely overwhelmed in China ever since restrictions dropped. Epidemiologist estimate >60% of 🇨🇳 & 10% of Earth’s population likely infected over next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the start—🧵.
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It’s kind of surreal when you compare how Shatner was made to look 90 years old with makeup (in the Star Trek episode, “The Deadly Years”), versus what he actually looks like at 90.
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@samthielman I once saw AOC eating food, despite the fact that people are going hungry in this country. Total hypocrite!.
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@brianbeutler In all seriousness, my greatest fear is how much damage Trump could do in the event of a pandemic.
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@catturd2 I love it that Fox News admits they lied to you—but you keep eating their shit and saying “Yum!” 🤣.
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@victorckumar “You’re childless, so your life will never be as meaningful as mine.” You should write self-help books.
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@paulkrugman First we had reporters staking out gas stations. Then the hard-hit family that drank 12 gallons of milk per week. And now the “unprecedented egg crisis.” Cable news covers the economy in the same vapid ways they do politics—horse races, diner interviews, weird focus groups.
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What film have you watched more than 7 times? Reply only with gifs.
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Your daily reminder that Bruce Campbell has more talent and class in his pinky finger than Kevin Sorbo has in his entire body.
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"I know this world needs help. That's why some of my generation are. kind of crazy and rebels, you know. We wonder if we're gonna be alive when we're thirty." — Teri Garr as Roberta Lincoln in the Star Trek Episode, "Assignment Earth," 1968. Godspeed, Teri.
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Florida Health Department’s Bureau of Epidemiology has been unable to fill two senior positions because nobody wants to work for DeSantis. Meanwhile, Florida has become a hot spot for leprosy and malaria.
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Over 200 million Americans have been vaccinated. Each one of them died. It’s just the pure bloods now, being hunted by intelligent apes on horseback. We did this to ourselves. #DiedSuddendly.
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