Brandon Wall
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Now: Social Media Director @CBSNews | Proud Alum: @BuzzFeedNews, @Suntimes | Same handle on Bluesky | 'A beautiful creature of the Internet'
Joined November 2008
Programming note: I am on the Other Website and will be migrating more of my posting over there
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🚨 14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde just won the 2021 Scripps Spelling Bee with the word "murraya"
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Twitter is cool because you can log off to go pick someone up from the airport and have dinner, and when you come back your entire timeline is nothing but people worshipping an anthropomorphic poptart that was paraded around then ritualistically sacrificed at an altar.
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We were at a 1030am showing of Oppenheimer and after he said "Now I am become Death" for the first time someone very audibly cracked a beer open. Cinema is SO back.
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I am also looking forward to emerging from the shell of my former self and spending all summer outside screaming.
An invasion is coming. This spring, trillions of cicadas will emerge from the ground around us, announcing their arrival with a cacophony of sound & piles of molted skin. Brood X – which arrives every 17 years – should appear sometime in May #nature #wildlife 🪲
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Illinois’ Pritzker is the first governor I’ve seen to respond, on CNN now: "I reject the notion that the federal government can send troops into the state of Illinois".
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when Harry Styles sang "scuba duba dubub boo oh". I felt that.
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The cop who said the spa shooter had “a bad day” previously posted a racist shirt saying the coronavirus was imported from “CHY-NA”
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I am BEGGING news editors to put the goddamn context in the headline. Not your dek, not your lede, the headline.
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This viral tweet complaining about the Little Mermaid casting being racist has a profile pic stolen from an Instagram model. The “half black best friend” pic is taken from god knows where, but shows up in a bunch of Pinterest BFF roundups
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AOC on Instagram urging Republicans to vote for impeachment: "Stop pretending this shit is complicated, because it's not. You are either with the people, or with the mob".
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Really excited for my first day as webmaster for the US State Department. Now to take a big sip of coffee and see what everybody is talking about.
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Zion Williamson is a 19-year-old rookie. Pelicans owner Gayle Benson has a net worth in the billions.
New Orleans' Zion Williamson says he is pledging to cover the salaries for all of the Pelicans arena staff workers for the next 30 days.
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Extremely important photos on the Getty wire: Golden retriever puppies and a white tiger cub play in Beijing
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Chance The Rapper is hosting SNL and he’s wearing a Chicago Teachers Union sweater, who are currently on strike
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Please note that this is the second time a candy has distanced itself from the Trump campaign in three weeks
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Look at Chrissy Teigen back there pretending to sleep through Casey Affleck’s acceptance speech
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Lil Pump takes the stage at the Trump rally shortly after 1amET on Election Day. Trump introduces him as "Little Pimp"
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I'm completely obsessed with Dynamite, I think I inadvertently became BTS army this weekend
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Chicagoans: Generally not fans of Rahm Emanuel. This guy unloaded
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I found out the hard way a few years that the common understanding of "bbl" is no longer "be back later" when I went on vacation and changed my Slack status to "on vacation - bbl"
It has occurred to me that millennials invented all the early online abbreviation words like lol and Lmao . But for whatever reason g2g has not survived. That was a staple once.
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NEW: Apple has given Parler a 24 hour ultimatum to implement a moderation plan or it's getting kicked from the app store
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(AP) — Pentagon says it will give 5 million respirators, 2,000 ventilators to Health and Human Services for virus response.
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Note Fauci’s reaction when Trump makes a deep state joke at the podium
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.@ananavarro goes off: "Dammit, Donald Trump, call a spade a spade . call them out by name"
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So here’s a robot that prints out Trump tweets then lights them on fire. Then tweets a video
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One more: The pic of the Little Mermaid DVD the account tweeted came from this tiny YouTube unboxing channel, video was uploaded in 2016
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I had my flag guy make this for me, although I'm not entirely sure why
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New WaPo: "He also has told worried subordinates that he will pardon them of any potential wrongdoing should they have to break laws to get the barriers built quickly”
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cannot stress enough, if you didn't spend the last 13 months in New York City, I don't give a flying fuck what you think about people wearing masks here.
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He was so excited to hit the balloon, then he realized who he was standing next to #DemsInPhilly
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Protesters blocking the street outside the Donald Trump rally in Chicago
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Speaking in Buffalo, Trump just accidentally referred to the 2001 terrorist attacks as "7-11”
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part of being the boss is telling your team yes, I'm serious, we're saying bullshit in a push alert
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I am begging journalists to follow to follow the advice from an obscure organization called the AP and stop saying "officer-involved shooting”
Avoid the vague "officer-involved" for shootings and other cases involving police. Be specific about what happened. If police use the term, ask: How was the officer or officers involved? Who did the shooting? If the information is not available or not provided, spell that out.
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Here’s what Michelle Obama just said about Donald Trump calling Chicago’s South Side “hell"
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New WaPo: "Trump’s interaction with the foreign leader included a “promise” that was regarded as so troubling that it prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint”
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"Representative Yoho called me, and I quote, a fucking bitch"
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Here’s the full segment that just aired of Barack Obama, George W Bush, and Bill Clinton talking about the peaceful transition of power. Not exactly subtle.
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Here's video of Trump talking about wind mills at the NRCC dinner tonight: "They say the noise causes cancer.”
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NEW: The head of CrossFit told staff on a Zoom call "we are not in mourning for Georg Floyd." . He also shared conspiracy theories about the killing. And conspiracy theories about COVID. And trashed epidemiology. And and and
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NEW: Why did Trump never join Parler?. Turns out the Trump Organization negotiated on his behalf *while he was in office* to make it his exclusive posting platform in exchange for an ownership stake in the company.
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NYT: "Privately, the president had often talked about fortifying a border wall with a water-filled trench, stocked with snakes or alligators, prompting aides to seek a cost estimate"
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Tucker is exploring witchcraft. "Is this legal? Can you run around casting spells on people? Is there any kind of federal regulation?"
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The Rosie O'Donnell tweet was posted on the Trump subreddit about 20 minutes before the president tweeted it
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Uh, wow. Reuters has US officials talking about that botched raid in Yemen
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This 17-year-old kid dialing into CSPAN at quarter to 8 in the morning on Inauguration Day
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Trump is complaining there's been too much attention on degenerative brain diseases in the NFL. "They're ruining the game"
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One year ago today
Nothing ever happened with any of these women. Totally made up nonsense to steal the election. Nobody has more respect for women than me!.
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every time I think of how surreal the closing months of the 2016 election were, I think about this tweet
Tic Tac respects all women. We find the recent statements and behavior completely inappropriate and unacceptable.
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OJ Simpson has been released from prison - Nevada Department of Corrections
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"6.4 million Texans — 37.6% of registered voters — have already cast their ballots through Oct. 22"
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UPDATE: Saint just deleted the super viral tweet that lead to everyone thinking DMX is dead
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Bloomberg came within a hair's breadth of saying he *bought* the Democratic majority in the House and caught himself as it came out of his mouth
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Statement from President Trump on the alleged radical militant plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan leads with. "Governor Whitmer of Michigan has done a terrible job. She locked down her state for everyone. "
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ICYMI the Philly Inquirer had a solid rundown of what happened with that "poll watcher" Trump tweeted about and then invoked during the debate
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"Slowly, he got comfortable and began playing with other monkeys. He now even has a best friend named Maximus" 🥺
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact police had a gun battle in the middle of rush hour and used occupied cars as cover
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Just to reiterate, the feds say they stopped a domestic terrorism plot against a sitting governor, and the president's instinct is to attack her at the start and end of his statement
Detailed walkthrough of what we know about the radical militants accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor. What they posted on social, how they organized, etc. This is what homegrown American terrorism looks like.
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Hannity is currently attacking Obama for letting the Russian lawyer into the country.
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Big Poppa’s owner noticed the pup staring down at kids playing in the courtyard. "He kept making noises to get their attention, but we're six stories up and they can't hear him," she said. "I was like, Oh my god, he's really sad.".
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If you look closely, you can read the plaque dedicated to troops who quartered in the Capitol building during the Civil War. (📷: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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Anthony Rizzo (a MSD graduate) met with a Parkland student in the hospital who had been shot three times, and when the kid said he also liked Kris Bryant, Rizzo facetime'd Bryant on the spot, per @NBCSChicago.
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Clayton County, Georgia Elections Director just now: "I am happy to announce that we're down to 3,500 absentee ballots to count". "We are going to stay here until every single absentee ballot is counted"
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Daily Beast reports Biden campaign didn't tell Heather Heyer's mother that he'd be invoking his daughter's murder in his campaign launch video. "Most people do that sort of thing. They capitalize on whatever situation is handy"
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Statement from Barack Obama on Joe Biden winning the presidency
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Taylor Swift creates a petition for her fans to sign supporting the Equality Act and urges them to contact their senators
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New from AP: Deborah Birx did a multigenerational gathering at a vacation home the day after Thanksgiving, the day she and the CDC told people to limit get-togethers to your immediate household
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@sarayasin Disney definitely created the movie Frozen to SEO suppress that Walt Disney had his head cyrogenically frozen.
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New via CNN: Facebook removes Trump post falsely saying flu is more lethal than COVID
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Sorry our fracking well exploded, one person is missing and another presumed dead. Here is a coupon for 1 large pizza http://t.co/Oc8sKr2TMW.
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Reddit is banning hate groups today as part of a broader sweep cleaning up violent content
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This tweet was a year ago yesterday. Believe people when they tell you this.
I have always been the same person-remain true to self.The media wants me to change but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so!.
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