Timmy Facciola
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Reporting on New York politics and Striped Bass | Subscribe to the Judge Street Journal: https://t.co/H09QIGcSqa
Joined January 2019
AOC campaigned with Pat Ryan in the last month before the election and Ryan absolutely smoked his Republican opponent on Tuesday.
Another House Dem aide gets in touch:. “Our party must learn that outside of our tiny insular bubble, AOC is toxic to the Democratic brand with swing voters. Her primetime DNC speaking slot played directly into the narratives that lost us this election”.
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SCOOP: Employees of the New York City Sheriff’s Office are grossly inflating their salaries through unchecked overtime, costing taxpayers almost $5,000,000 more than budgeted for 2024, according to city Comptroller Brad Lander.
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@JDVance Do you think it’s befitting of a Catholic leader to relegate someone to a dungeon indefinitely?.
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NEW: Long before her bid for NY-18, Alison Esposito cost NYC $120,000 in police misconduct settlements while she was in the NYPD. One lawsuit claimed that she handcuffed, detained, and frisked an infant.
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ICYMI from March: George Latimer faced calls to find a new healthcare provider for the Westchester County Jail and seemed open to it. Then he got a campaign donation from the existing provider and renewed their contract to the tune of $41,000,000
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SCOOP: For 2 years the story has been that Sean Patrick Maloney kicked Mondaire Jones out of his district. It’s not true. Maloney allegedly offered to back out of NY-17 and give @MondaireJones the nomination, but Jones declined.
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New: A top-ranking staffer of Sean Patrick Maloney’s heard the phone call Maloney made to Jones offering to back out of NY-17 and has corroborated my reporting from Friday. w/ @petersterne .
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NEW: In his race against West Point grad @PatRyanUC in NY-18, @colinschmitt presents himself and has received funding and endorsements as a veteran. Records I obtained paint a murkier picture.
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NEW: Pat Ryan speaks with me about a ceasefire, his vote to censure Rashida Tlaib, and the Likud Party Manifesto
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NEW: An AIPAC donor is urging Republicans in NY-16 to switch parties so they can vote for George Latimer in his primary against Squad member Jamaal Bowman.
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NEW: A spokesperson for George Latimer's campaign tells me that he will NOT comment on President Biden's plans to withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah. His opponent in the Democratic primary for NY-17, Jamaal Bowman, supports Biden's move.
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I asked @MondaireJones last summer if he would endorse @JamaalBowmanNY against a hypothetical AIPAC challenger and this is what his team told me:
SCOOP: Mondaire Jones coming hard at Jamaal Bowman. “As someone who is among the most popular Democrats in the Hudson Valley, it is my prerogative to play a dispositive role in ending this long, painful nightmare that we have been experiencing since Oct 7".
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In a letter sent to the Department of Finance on Monday, Lander wrote that, so far this year, the sheriff’s office has outspent its overtime budget by 542 percent. In 2023, the ten highest paid employees of the agency earned a collective $1,010,739 in overtime pay.
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Alison Esposito posted on LinkedIn that she's open to new roles in Colorado or New York City.
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Molinaro is the latest house GOP member—and first entrenched New York candidate—to repeat this far-right conspiracy theory without any evidence.
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Brother how about you flip open your phone and respond to my press inquiries.
18 Days until we flip #NY18! Join #TeamEsposito today:
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Ritchie Torres now sets his sights on The Pope.
A year ago, during Christmas, there were Anti-Israel activists who vandalized my office with a baby doll drenched in red paint, claiming that Jesus was a “Palestinian refugee in the West Bank” and that Zionists like myself are the moral equivalent of “Christ killers.” A modern
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Sean Patrick Maloney hung up on me less than halfway through what was supposed to be a 15 minute interview with him. My latest for @timesunion
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Sources who were previously unwilling to cooperate came forward to me only after @MondaireJones went on @CNN and denied my reporting.
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71-year-old freshman in Congress.
CONGRESSMAN George Latimer. Has a pretty nice ring to it. Doesn’t it?
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George Latimer seems to have a rather narrow definition of genocide
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@SenGillibrand Why so soft on Andrew Cuomo a caller asks @SenGillibrand? "Everyone gets to decide who they want to vote for in this election. I did my part standing with survivors at the time," Gillibrand says. @BrianLehrer follows: what do you say to survivors? That's a Q for Cuomo, she says.
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Nobody at Jones’ team or with the DCCC has denied my account of the events—I reached out multiple times. I was skeptical too when I got the tip. When I called sources who I knew would have direct knowledge of the convo, they were shocked it leaked but confirmed it to be true.
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🚨SCOOP: After an inmate died in the Westchester county jail, George Latimer received calls to find a new medical provider. Then he received a $2,500 campaign donation from the old one. Within a year he gave them a new contract for $41 million:
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In Dutchess County: Ryan +14, Harris +7.In Orange County: Ryan +7, Trump +9.In Ulster County: Ryan +28, Harris +18 . Last cycle, Ryan won his seat by less than 5,000 votes (1.4%).
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@DouthatNYT The standardized tests only require you to answer questions about short passages, so one can score high on the SAT without being able to read a long novel, and if teachers don’t assign novels in class, then students can still get high GPAs without being able to read a novel.
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@powellAtlantic Advocating on behalf of people who hate you is a very Christian thing to do and the gospels compel its followers to do so. This is only a gotcha in a zero-sum framework.
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Today marks the end of my internship @politicony and I’m incredibly grateful for the experience. What a treat it was to work with and learn from so many heavy-hitters @SallyGold @michaelgartland @JCColtin @joeanuta @JasonBeeferman @madinatoure @ryrivard @emilyngo @NickReisman.
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Latimer has benefitted from the fact that nobody (save for that Jacobin housing piece) re-reported his past scandals from previous cycles and so they never became part of the conversation in the primary.
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SCOOP: On October 10, 25-year NYPD veteran @EspositoforNY announced her bid for NY-18. In the 3 months after launching, she did not pay any of her campaign staff, according to her FEC filing. She hung up on me when I called to ask her why.
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Good try, Harrison—it’s actually Jesus Christ’s resurrection.
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@semaforben Seems like a skill issue tbh—some reporters have been able to earn protestors’ trust while others have used their copy to complain about not being able to do so.
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TV on school night??.
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Thinking about the Stefanik staffer who said in response to an inquiry late last year that he didn’t have time for this because his boss was headed to the UN.
NEWS: Trump is preparing to withdraw the nomination of Rep. Elise Stefanik to be his ambassador to the United Nations, according to one congressional source and another GOP source familiar with the matter. The move comes amid ongoing concerns about the House GOP’s razor-thin.
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After speaking at fish fry at Antioch Baptist Church this morning, Mayor Eric Adams told me he confesses his sins to God every morning.
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9 DSA members are running for State Assembly with @AOC’s endorsement, hoping to bring an urgency they say is lacking, especially after @CarlHeastie let the Build Public Renewables Act die without bringing it up for a vote. Wrote ab 2 of them @timesunion .
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I caught Mayor Eric Adams on his way into Gracie Mansion earlier this afternoon before his indictment was reported. He gave me a thumbs up.
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Vice versa: Mondaire Jones did everything he could to atone for his leftward policies and distance himself from his 2020 AOC affiliation—even endorsing against Squad member Jamaal Bowman in the June dem primary— but he too got absolutely smoked on Tuesday.
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Mondaire Jones on the young reporters who have observed his pivot toward the center: .
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NEW: George Latimer's team "will not have a statement" on @SenSchumer's call for an election in Israel, which @AIPAC has condemned. @LatimerforNY was recruited by AIPAC to primary @JamaalBowmanNY.
Israel is an independent democracy that decides for itself when elections are held and chooses its own leaders. America must continue to stand with our ally Israel and ensure it has the time and resources it needs to win this war. Hamas bears sole responsibility for this.
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@ettingermentum She’s criticizing leadership for not saying publicly what they’re winking/gesturing towards. That would make for more forceful pressure on Biden.
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In 2017, Esposito was sued for allegedly arresting and assaulting an infant. The city paid the infant’s mother a $25,000 settlement.
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Nixed for space but: the 37 highest paid sheriff employees in NYC all made more than $50k in overtime last year.
SCOOP: Employees of the New York City Sheriff’s Office are grossly inflating their salaries through unchecked overtime, costing taxpayers almost $5,000,000 more than budgeted for 2024, according to city Comptroller Brad Lander.
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In 2005, three Black women sued Esposito for violating their civil rights by wrongfully arresting them on suspicion of shoplifting. They saw a purse filled with what looked like fake money and left it, suspecting it to be a trap. But before they could leave the store, Esposito.
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"Boat Fish Don't Count" . This is the coolest thing The Atlantic has published in a very long time. h/t to fellow Surf Rats Ball member @Tyler_A_Harper.
“Wetsuiters” swim out into the surf at night, often during storms, and spend hours in the darkness attempting to catch striped bass. @Tyler_A_Harper reports on this alluring and addicting sport—and why he can’t get enough of it:
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Not only is Latimer’s campaign funded by GOP donors, his supporters have been courting Republicans to change party registration so they can vote against Jamaal Bowman.
Voters are getting the first negative mailer of this campaign, an outrageous -- and FALSE -- attack on me. The insurrection on 1/6 is a dark mark on our country. I've never wavered in my commitment to ensuring it's never repeated. My opponent cannot say the same.
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NEW: I reached out to all 22 Democrats who voted to censure Rashida Tlaib and asked what they made of Netanyahu calling for Israel to control the entire territory west of the Jordan. Only 2 replied—. @PatRyanUC issued this statement:
I strongly condemn these comments from Prime Minister Netanyahu and the recent statements from Ministers Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. Now, more than ever, as we continue to witness gut-wrenching and heartbreaking violence in Israel and Gaza, we must redouble our commitment to.
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This isn’t the first time Latimer has stayed quiet after a leading member of his party criticized Israel. In March, he declined to comment when the senior Democrat from New York, Chuck Schumer, called for elections in Israel.
NEW: George Latimer's team "will not have a statement" on @SenSchumer's call for an election in Israel, which @AIPAC has condemned. @LatimerforNY was recruited by AIPAC to primary @JamaalBowmanNY.
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I can’t think of a more bipartisan stance in NY-17 than “it should be called the Tappan Zee again”.
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A source in the studio before tonight’s NY-19 debate tells me that @marcmolinaro will be standing on a box to hide the height difference between him and his opponent, Josh Riley.
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Not a single Catholic college:.
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Lawler would rather tweet out AI slop than comment on the people his party is disappearing.
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The @NRCC is accusing decorated combat veteran, West Point graduate, and recipient of 2 bronze stars Pat Ryan of “supporting Hamas”
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@dieworkwear @SohrabAhmari Are you ever going to grace us with photos of your outfits or just pick apart others’?.
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Mondaire Jones doesn’t want his Democratic Governor to be a “little bitch” but also insists he’s not talking about his current Democratic Governor
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in my limited experience with the wine selling and producing world, the absolute contempt everyone involved has for orange wine and "brooklyn" (i.e. orange, natural etc) is quite widespread
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Embattled Dems reluctant to come out against Biden might want to listen to this interview with Pat Ryan’s opponent, who now has to run mainly on inflation and crime because Ryan agreed that Biden is too old for another term and took the wind out of that argument’s sails.
Joined @kilmeade on The Brian Kilmeade Radio Show to discuss the catastrophic failures of the Biden administration. The Biden Border Crisis, rampant crime, and endless crises have plagued us for four years too long. On November 5, we will restore sanity, security, and common.
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Pat Ryan:. 1. Happily calls out corporate greed.2. Is a decorated combat veteran and West Point grad.3. Campaigned with AOC a month before Election Day and then cruised to victory in his rural swing district.4. Was among the first to call on Biden to step down after the debate.
probably a quietly super economically populist straight white dude actor or former football player. a sleeper cell Kurt Warner or Glen Powell lying around somewhere. a Jake Delhomme hail mary from deep behind the line of scrimmage.
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Latimer would be a 71-year-old freshman congressman if he wins.
@JamaalBowmanNY @ericadamsfornyc @LatimerforNY “I support him. I will work on his behalf. … I think there’s an ageist argument out there, which is offensive,” @LatimerforNY says re Q on Biden hurting down-ballot races.
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Harrison and Scarsdale are very white and incredibly wealthy (Tuckahoe’s nothing to scoff at either)—a really stark contrast to draw.
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Loomer doubles down—and still no word from New York Republicans.
23 years later, and there’s still a lot of unanswered questions. The 9/11 documents are still classified to this day. The American people deserve to know the entire truth. Not just what our lying government chose to tell us. There’s so many unanswered questions… Why?
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Eric Adams tells me that he plans to run for re-election as a Democrat
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Dolan turns at the end and chuckles at the crude joke.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "There’s a group called “White Dudes for Harris”. but I’m not worried about them at all, because their wives and their wives’ lovers are all voting for me."
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Last week Alison Esposito claimed endorsements from her local county sheriffs, but none had endorsed her, and one tells me he plans to back her opponent, Pat Ryan
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Classes are cancelled, students are leaving campus, dorms are closing Sunday, but @bcheights is putting out a paper. Student journalism at its best #Covid_19
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Humbled and grateful to have been part of such a talented team.
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Esposito, who is running against @PatRyanUC for NY-18, said she marched with the mayor of Goshen, Indiana—Gina Leichty—in the Mid-Hudson Valley parade. Molly O'Donnell is the mayor of Goshen, New York, the same town in which Esposito's campaign PO is registered.
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This ad drops one day after Latimer declined to support President Biden’s plan to withhold arms from Israel if it invades Rafah.
My opponent: .❌ Voted AGAINST @JoeBiden's Infrastructure Bill.❌ Promoted dangerous conspiracy theories about 9/11. As your Congressmember, I will:.☑️ Modernize Infrastructure.☑️ Tackle Climate Change.☑️ Protect Reproductive Rights. Vote by June 25th for #RealResultsNotRhetoric
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If I click on Ryan’s profile, this thread disappears—is this true for anyone else?.
Trump’s first week was great if you’re a mega-billionaire or Oath Keeper. It wasn’t so great for the rest of us. I know a lot of folks are feeling down right now, & trust me, I get it. But the battle lines were drawn. And here’s why I'm confident we can win this fight. 🧵.
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And as birthday present, Trump completely gutted Catholic Relief Services this week—less than one month after Dolan said a prayer at Trump’s inauguration.
Today is Cardinal Timothy Dolan's 75th birthday. Dolan has been a bishop since 2001, almost 25 years, and archbishop of New York since 2009. I expect his resignation will be accepted relatively quickly.
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ABOVE😤THE FOLD😈.
oh, wait, what?! Above the fold on A1 of today's @nytimes?! Congrats to incredible colleagues & teammates on this one @FacciolaTimmy @tiffvevo & special thanks to @danielle_ivory for both photographic evidence & the opportunity! ICYMI:
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Are Republicans just not bothering against Pat Ryan in NY-18 anymore?.
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NEWS: New York's most important fish, the striped bass, had its worst spawn in the Hudson since 1985. The DEC maintains a positive tone when answering Qs about the species, but anyone who spends enough time on the water can tell you that things are bleak:
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After publishing his denial on Friday, @nypost independently confirms my reporting that Sean Patrick Maloney called Mondaire Jones offering to back out of NY-17 .
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Media observation from a hometown reporter: lots of oppo has come out against Bowman because his scandals are the sort that are 1. Accessible to national reporters and 2. Don’t require much more than internet verification, whereas if someone wanted to look into Latimer, they’d.
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NEW: Alison Esposito has used campaign funds for her parking garage on the Upper East Side since 2022. Team Zeldin made payments to the same garage that Esposito was caught expensing to her #NY18 campaign on Weds. Zeldin continued paying the garage after losing the election.
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"I hear you did just about the best job there is in education" Trump said to Cardinal Dolan. In reality, the New York Archdiocese has shuttered five Catholic schools in the last year—at least one of which without any advanced notice.
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@RepWilliams Congressman what proof do you have that Syracuse students called for the murder of a “race of people”.
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Here's more on the full arc of his pivot—from his calls to Defund The Police in 2020 to launching his 2022 bid with an ad featuring a police officer front and center.
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Esposito, who is running against @PatRyanUC for NY-18, said she marched with the mayor of Goshen, Indiana—Gina Leichty—in the Mid-Hudson Valley parade. Molly O'Donnell is the mayor of Goshen, New York, the same town in which Esposito's campaign PO is registered.
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The question for Jones if he loses because he failed to secure the WFP line is whether his endorsement against Bowman was worth it. Question for WFP is similar—was not endorsing him in the WFP primary worth the re-election of a Republican?.
NEW #NY17 Poll by @GBAOStrategies/@MondaireJones. 3-Way.Mike Lawler (R): 46% (+3).Mondaire Jones (D): 43% .Anthony Frascone (WFP): 5% . H2H.Mike Lawler (R): 47%.Mondaire Jones (D): 45%.
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"Three sources familiar with the conversation alleged by City & State told The Journal News/lohud the account was true." . @ChrisMcKenna845 corroborates my reporting in @CityAndStateNY .
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". and I personally observe a multitude of biases that are unfair and biased." . Open the schools.
Trump chief of Staff Susie Wiles says AP Stylebook is biased and needs to be reviewed.
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Humpback whale feeding on a school of bunker yesterday morning while I was fishing in NY-1.
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Fellas is it gay to be put-off by someone’s opinions and then draw broader conclusions about the person who hatched those opinions?.
Calling people "weird" is such feminine behavior. Textbook sex difference: Men engage in open conflict; women police conformity. It's honestly disorienting to hear male politicians use the line.
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