Victoria Brownworth
@VABVOX
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Award-winning investigative journo ▪️ 2022 Society of Professional Journalists Award/Newspaper Feature Reporting ▪️2023 NLGJA/Curve Award ▪️ Socialist ▪️Widow
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When I was 16 in the 1970s I was expelled from high school for being a lesbian and put in a psychiatric ward for conversion therapy to de-gay me. It was so traumatic, I attempted suicide. I was fortunate--I survived. So I am celebrating another birthday, today. But conversion…
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Wow. Wow. Wow. This opener by Jimmy Kimmel is a gut punch. He's crying, he's raging and he's saying "let's make sure that not one of these [pro-gun] politicians holds office ever again."
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Am I the only one who doesn't understand why any healthcare worker would refuse to get vaccinated?
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So Clarence Thomas wants to invalidate my marriage protected by Obergefell but not invalidate his marriage protected by Loving. Got it.
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True story: So someone emailed my work email to ask me why all the students on Abbott Elementary are Black and I said because it's set in Philly and they asked where the white students were and I said Philly is 75% BIPOC and majority Black and the public schools are 86% POC and…
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No one wants to hear this, but none of the 606 mass shootings so far this year have been perpetrated by women.
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This guy actually has a dating podcast and draws circles on women's bodies. Honestly, the entitlement of unattractive mediocre middle-aged men is astonishing.
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This video moved me so much I had to track down this barber. His name is Anthony Klaxton. He's dedicated his barber shop to "restoring queens" self confidence by "restoring their crowns." There's an interview on YouTube. A loving, caring, fabulous man.
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Be honest--are you still wearing a mask when you go out?
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Libertarians are not leftists. They are Republicans who like weed.
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In 1861, 11 senators and 3 representatives we're expelled from Congress for supporting insurrection.
We can still do that.
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President Obama will be televised in prime time on every network (including Fox) on May 16 giving a commencement speech to the entire high school graduating class of 2020. For an full, uninterrupted hour.
The juxtaposition is going to be terrible for Trump. Just terrible.
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Please take a moment to thank
#RubyFreeman
and her daughter
#ShayeMoss
for bringing attention to the attempts to overturn the Georgia vote. These brave women were threatened by
#RudyGiuliani
&
#HarrisonFloyd
non-stop yet fought for accountability. RT if you're grateful to them.
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Am I the only person who finds Samuel Alito on an international circuit tour cracking jokes about the end of Roe that he orchestrated with Clarence Thomas to be egregiously misogynist and wholly inappropriate for a sitting Supreme Court Justice?
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I never graduated from high school because I was expelled for being a lesbian and then got put through conversion therapy and attempted suicide. So my 16 year old self is going to listen to Obama's commencement speech tonight.
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The rage I feel right now is absolutely incalculable. Who's with me?
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So didn't Martha Stewart go to prison for doing exactly what Kelly Loeffler did?
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An AR-15 costs more than a Le Creuset pot.
Just saying.
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Cry more, you sad little incel. Taylor Swift has TWO cats; is a global superstar billionaire; revolutionized the business for women by taking on the dude who took her playlist AND streaming services; took the guy who sexually assaulted her to court and won; AND has a hot NFL…
It’s shameful and sad that a hyper-promiscuous, childless woman (Taylor Swift), aging and alone with a cat, has become the heroine of a feminist age.
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I will never not be sad that we were cheated of Hillary's presidency--her intellect, her grace, her compassion, her historical memory. We would be in the middle of her 2nd term: with a liberal court and Roe intact. With far fewer deaths from COVID. And no January 6th. Sigh.
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No one is talking about the fact that the teacher who was shot by the 6 year old, Abigail Zwerner, is still in the hospital or that she got her students out of the classroom after she was shot and with life-threatening injuries or that the school was warned the child had a gun.
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For their relentless attacks on LGBTQ people, especially teens, and their attempts to ban books by/for LGBTQ people as well as by Black writers.
Far-right 'Moms for Liberty' listed as a hate group for first time
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Hey--remember when Katie Hill was forced to resign for a *consensual* lesbian relationship *not* with a 17 year old?
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Taylor Swift was sexually assaulted. David Mueller pulled her close for a photo and then forced his hands up under her skirt and grabbed her "intimate area." Her security team confronted him and he was fired. He sued her for $3M for defamation. She countersued for $1. At trial he…
@luvnresist
@VABVOX
@cmclymer
Radio DJ grabbed her. She sued him for $1, went to court, and won, because it's the principle.
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Am I the only one who doesn't understand how a group of men plot to kidnap, torture, rape and execute a woman governor and are acquitted? Nothing like finding out your life is utterly meaningless to a jury.
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Wow. Just...wow.
Gayle King, CBS news anchor: "Tell us about your dating situation."
Stacey Abrams, Nobel Peace Prize nominee: "I haven't been focused on that this month. I've been focused on saving democracy."
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No one wants to hear this, but if The Firm at Buckingham Palace hadn't driven Meghan Markle to contemplating suicide whilst she was pregnant, maybe the whole world wouldn't be questioning the state of Kate Middleton's well-being so assiduously.
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OMG hunt this guy down and fire him and never let him forget what he did here.
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Wow.
This comment from one of the Georgia special grand jurors is just devastating.
"I tell my wife if every person in America knew every single word of information we knew, this country would not be as divided as it is right now."
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Every time Jon Voight turns up to say something embarrassing and fascistic, it reminds everyone of why his daughter, Angelina Jolie, is estranged from him and has dedicated herself to humanitarian causes for women and children.
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So:
Biden is 80.
Trump is 77.
Biden is lean, active, walks, bikes, does pilates.
Trump is overweight, sedentary, rides a golf cart, eats fast food, has memory problems.
Why are there dozens of stories on Biden's age and fitness but none on Trump's? It's media malpractice, right?
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Here's the thing --if you're at a rally and there are Nazi flags and the folks with those flags are not ejected, you're at a Nazi rally.
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#CarleeRussell
is back home safe-- great news for her, her family and all who feared for her safety. She's being evaluated at the hospital. This is not the usual outcome when women go missing. Attention paid to her disappearance clearly factored into her safe return.
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Am I the only Christian shocked by Rep. Lauren Boebert saying a public prayer for President Biden's death?
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Martha Stewart went to prison for what several GOP senators and Congresspersons have done and it really should be a major story with an ethics investigation attached.
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Hi friends of Victoria-- Victoria's wife here. Victoria's had a sudden health crisis. Please keep her in your thoughts and if you pray, prayers. She's had a tough battle the past few months. I know she'd appreciate your well-wishes. And please--wear your masks. Thank you.
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#BREAKING_NEWS
:
#TheWife
It is with heavy heart and incalculable grief that I announce the sudden and too-soon death of my beloved and adored wife, Maddy, who I always called The Wife here. It’s impossible to articulate the depth of my pain at the loss of her. I am riven.
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The Wife is heading into hospital this morning after a bad turn. I know everyone is dealing with other things, but if you could please keep her in your thoughts and if prayerful, prayers. Surround her with healing energy. She is my heart and I need her well. Cancer is a monster.
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So Marco Rubio's Cuban parents were not US citizens when he was born in Florida. They had lived in the US for 20 years before they applied to be naturalized. Rubio's maternal grandfather was deported for entering the US illegally without a visa. Such a flaming hypocrite.
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Kyle Rittenhouse is trending to remind you that white men can cross state lines to commit serial murder and escape any punishment, but women trying to access abortion in another state will be jailed.
#BansOffOurBodies
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Gotta love how
@NicolleDWallace
always refers to Trump as the "disgraced, twice-impeached" former president. Don't let anyone forget.
@DeadlineWH
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How long are we supposed to pretend Clarence Thomas doesn't have COVID?
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Your parents came here illegally and your grandfather was deported for coming here illegally. Your parents were undocumented when you were born. 11 years ago your mother asked you to stand for immigrants and this is what you are doing instead. Shameful.
We face a growing migrant crime wave because Biden has released into America tens of thousands of illegal migrants who were criminals in their own country
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When
#TedKennedy
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#cancer
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#healthcare
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As Trump keeps tweeting about it, remember it was ONLY a week ago
#SallyYates
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Am I the only Catholic who believes that if your church is making political decisions, as Cordileone did about Pelosi, then that church should be taxed?
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Dolly Parton is trending, so here's a reminder that she donated $1M to vaccine research, wrote a little song about vaccines, got vaccinated on camera and then went off to continue her literacy campaign that has already put 100 million books in the hands of kids who never had one.
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Misogyny is when you claim a 22 year old woman who's been vlogging daily for weeks suddenly threw her phone away and gave her boyfriend her van rather than that he's responsible for her disappearance.
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For everyone applauding Facebook for removing Russian ads and monetizing Russian products-- that's part of of sanctions. It's not Zuckerberg being morally ethical.
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The thought that Herschel Walker could replace Rafael Warnock is just madness.
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This is the story of all the CIA assets dying in a parallel to when Trump was showing classified documents to people with no clearance at Mar-a-Lago. I thought you'd want to read it. RT for max exposure.
Check out this gift article from me via
@nytimes
.
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On
#Inauguration
night, Hannity referred to POTUS as "the weak, the frail, the cognitively struggling Biden."
Biden's day began at 6am, ended at 12am. He gave 4 speeches, signed 17 EOs, swore-in 1k workers, walked down PA Ave to the WH, and more.
RT if you disagree w/ Hannity.
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Literally none of this would be happening if white Democrats had voted like Black women in 2016. Hillary Clinton warned you about the courts, about Roe and about Trump and his racism, criminality and affinity for dictators. Turns out Hillary was right about everything.
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Am I the only journalist who really doesn’t care how much Hunter Biden earned as a private citizen, but still wants to know how Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made $640 million while they were working for the Trump administration?
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Chelsea has FOUR degrees & is a private citizen. Why is this a headline? Ivanka has one degree as a legacy student at a college her father barely graduated from, she has made 10x this & is grifting off the US taxpayer with a fake job in the White House.
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I admit I don't care about Hunter Biden's laptop, but I still want to know how Jared and Ivanka made three-quarters of a billion dollars while working in the Trump White House.
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I just heard this in the early news: A Norwegian cruise ship is under quarantine because some passengers have come down with cholera. Yes, cholera. And yes, there's a vaccine for cholera. Three in fact.
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No one ever talks about the breadth of trauma and how it just freaking obliterates you. We pretend the pandemic--a collective trauma-- never happened when 1.3M people just died and disappeared and we never got to say goodbye or mourn properly. We need to address the suffering.
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@patswithyou
Right? It's a (fabulous Emmy-winning) show by a Black woman about Black students and teachers in a majority Black city. I mean I never saw a Black character on Seinfeld or Friends.
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I really am chuckling that Biden announced that whole new unit to investigate misuse of COVID funds and the GOP chose a lady who has been accused of misuse of a half million in COVID funds to give the rebuttal. Wow.
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Do you agree that the history of Indigenous peoples, tribes and their genocide should be taught in our schools?
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The Asian students who brought the case against Harvard saying affirmative action for Black students was keeping them out of seats at the elite college are gonna be really shocked when they find out that this ruling won't make more space for them, there will just be more white…
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When I listened to Hillary on Maddow, at some point I realized I was crying. Crying for what could have been with her presidency. Trump gave permission to the worst in America--the vulgar misogyny, the blatant racism, the grotesque xenophobia. He appealed to the basest…
I will never not be sad that we were cheated of Hillary's presidency--her intellect, her grace, her compassion, her historical memory. We would be in the middle of her 2nd term: with a liberal court and Roe intact. With far fewer deaths from COVID. And no January 6th. Sigh.
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I have covered politics for 30yrs. Never has there been a Democratic presidential candidate endorsed by brutal dictators and alt-right neo-Nazis and KKK.
#IamTulsi
Gabbard is endorsed by
~Bashar al-Assad
~David Duke
~Richard Spencer
~Steve Bannon
~Tucker Carlson
So is Trump.
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Kellyanne Conway is in constant contact with Trump--she remains one of his most trusted advisors. Her daughter, Claudia Conway, said on Tik Tok that her mother said Trump is doing very badly and they were trying to stabilize him to send him home. Lord.
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Please RT if you are following President Biden's 100 day mask requirement. I'm trying to gauge support for a column.
Thanks.
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Love this: Jason Carter says his grandmother brought a Tupperware container full of cheese and a loaf of bread on a plane and started making everyone in the family sandwiches and then started making them for other people on the plane and you'd hear,
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Am I the only one who wants to know why when 81M Americans voted for Joe Biden and only 280k voted for Joe Manchin, we're stuck with Manchin's agenda, not Biden's?
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A week ago the Palace told us Kate Middleton was still recovering and couldn't even sit for a Mother's Day photo and couldn't attend any events, yet this woman is jogging and carrying bags and not one person recognized her in the shop or outside.
#KateMiddleton
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#PrinceWilliam
Saturday. (🎥: TMZ/The Sun)
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So generous that nearly 7k people raised more than $375k for Mary Lou Retton's medical bills so she doesn't have to mortgage her $2M luxury home in Houston. Wishing Retton well--along with all the other Republicans like her who have actively undermined affordable health care.
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#NEW
The man who attacked Nikki Bullock, her wife and their 5 and 2 year old kids has been arrested and charged. Cory Heron, 26, was turned in by his employer. He is being held on $2.5M bail.
A Black mother, Nikki Bullock, her wife and their two kids, 5 and 2, were stopped in traffic when a ⬜biker jumped on her car, smashed in the back windshield, and threatened Bullock with a gun. Philly police are searching for him. Tips to PPD welcome.
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"Raise your daughters to be soft core porn stars and to marry men the same age as your parents to get chain migration visas for your Communist apparatchik family members instead of a talented performer and philanthropist" is pretty gross messaging even for the GOP.
Raise your daughters to be like Melania Trump, NOT Taylor Swift.
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The problem isn't investigating Hunter Biden. The problem is NOT investigating Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
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Just heard Pence on MSNBC where he says Hillary Clinton did exactly what Trump did and I admit I am confused, because I cannot remember Hillary Clinton ever being president.
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We were teen lovers in high school, then as adults we were married for 23 years until a rare aggressive cancer took her from me a few months ago. We were the loves of each other's lives. She took her last breath holding my hand. 💔🏳️🌈💜
Do you know any queer people who have been together for 10 years?
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Everyone I know--family, friends,colleagues--are vaxxed and boosted. None of them has been hospitalized. None of them has had blood clots or tremors like these new videos.
💙 if you are vaxxed, boosted and haven't had any of these conspiracy-theory side effects MTG is pushing.
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At 16 I was expelled from high school for being a
#lesbian
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I was put in a mental hospital for
#conversiontherapy
.
I tried to kill myself.
I survived.
This man's daughter did not.
He wishes EVERY DAY he could bring her back & love her.
#RoyMoore
spreads hate.
Stop him.
Father, who says he's a local peanut farmer in Wicksburg, outside Roy Moore rally talks about losing his gay daughter at age of 23 to suicide. "I was anti-gay myself. I said bad things to my daughter, which I regret."
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You know what amazes me?
Women have access to guns every day and despite the way we are treated by society, by bosses, by men who claim to love us, we are not sending people bombs nor shooting up schools or churches with AR15s.
Take a lesson, men, and work on yourselves, not us.
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This is the man Joe Biden is. The President left this message on the comments on The Wife's obituary.
Joe Biden knows what it's like to lose a wife suddenly right before the holidays. That he reached out to me at this time means more than I can say.
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Am I the only reporter who remembers that Donald Trump went to a debate with Joe Biden knowing that he had tested positive and that constituted a deliberate attempt to infect Biden?
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The GOP is stealing our kids books, but Dolly Parton is giving 'em back. Love her!
Every child under five in California is now qualified to receive a free book in the mail every month,thanks to the state’s expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
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Nancy Mace and Katie Britt assert there is nothing worse for women and girls than sexual assault yet they both support a rapist for president. Make it make sense.
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.
@JohnFetterman
's office contacted me to send condolences on
#TheWife
's death, as she was a supporter of his and voted for him in the general election. In the midst of going to DC and all that entails, his office reached out to me. That tells you what kind of senator he'll be.
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Anyone who has had addicts in their family knows how painful it is for everyone. Exposing Hunter Biden's texts from rehab to try and undermine his father is not journalism. And Hunter has kids. This isn't journalism. It's just trash.
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So
@MeghanMcCain
joined the pile-on against
@VP
Harris for her "enjoy the long weekend" tweet, yet it was VP Harris who went to pay respects at John McCain's grave today while Meghan posted on Instagram how much fun she was having with her husband gambling at a casino in Vegas.
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As someone drowning in bills since my wife died during her valiant cancer battle, admit I'm pretty steamed by this Mary Lou Retton story. Her daughters presented it like she was destitute and couldn't afford medical insurance but she owns a $2M 9k sq ft 6br home.
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Am I the only reporter who knows that we are short on tests because millions of anti-vaxxers have to test several times a week at their jobs and schools because they refuse to be vaccinated?
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Someone explain to me why Lauren Boebert is allowed to stay in Congress after threatening the lives of AOC and Ayanna Pressley?
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Wow. Sunny Hostin, the not-so-closeted conservative on The View claims IVF embryos are fetuses and says she had IVF and Sara Haines checks her on the science of when an embryo is viable and when a fetus is viable.
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Thinking about how many GOP sent me messages and gave me quotes for news stories in which they referred to John Fetterman as a "vegetable" and "incompetent" after his stroke. Seeing nothing but well wishes for Mitch McConnell from Democrats. Just saying.
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I just spent over an hour reading French news reports on
@VP
Harris's 5day trip to France. The French thought it was a major news story; US didn't. When folks ask why Harris's poll numbers are so low, maybe this lack of reportage is part of it. One shouldn't need to know French.
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Joe Manchin said $3T is too much because he doesn't want to "create an entitlement society," but his Big Pharma CEO daughter raised the price of the Epi-Pen by 5,000 percent, so maybe Manchin doesn't understand what entitlement really is.
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Two GOP senators deserve to be called heroic today because they actually showed courage in the face of presidential bullying.
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OMG this is brilliant. This woman put her tech skills to use to troll VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin over a tipline he put up to report CRT. Her talk will give you life.
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The Wife was just rushed to the hospital via EMT. Please keep her in your prayers and healing embrace. I love her so much. She has to be okay.
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