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Luke Zaleski

@ZaleskiLuke

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Legal Affairs Editor, Condé Nast, longtime/former Research Director @GQMagazine Head of fact-checking ‘The Resistance’ #truthhurts

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Luke Zaleski
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This is the story of our life
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What kind of father lets his son play football? by @ZaleskiLuke
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These men lost a wife and mother and a son and brother and a daughter and sister and the remaining son is suffering and his father is reaching out to try to help him and I’m failing to see what’s wrong with these words and I’m wondering if maybe we’ve lost some essential humanity
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It’s heartbreaking to watch America destroy itself over the most undeserving man in the word
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I can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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I don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for eight years and was popular and largely successful absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse
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@elonmusk Just a reminder to everyone—Elon is a rightwing media mogul with massive conflicts of interests in various fields that require government oversight and regulation—who’s openly and not so openly—utilizing his giant personal social-media platform to serve his own political purposes
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It’s heartbreaking to watch America destroy itself over the most undeserving man in the world
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I can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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Jack seems ashamed to look Jon in the eyes
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MAGA wants you to forget they did this. Don’t.
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You couldn’t leave the house. You couldn’t find toilet paper. Food was scarce. People were scared. Trump took over the airwaves every day and lied, made up stuff and blamed everyone else. No one knew what was happening. Millions were out of jobs. Thousands dying. We can’t go back
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I don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for eight years and was popular and largely successful absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse
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MAGA: the Super Bowl is rigged. The election is rigged. The fake news is rigged. The primary is rigged. The trump prosecutions are rigged. The insurrection was rigged. The pandemic was rigged. The border is rigged to bring in voters to rig more elections. Everything is rigged.…
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You’re living through the largest longest coordinated propaganda campaign and hostile takeover attempt in the history of humanity, folks.
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It’s heartbreaking to watch America destroy itself over the most undeserving man in the world
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MAGA wants you to forget they did this. Don’t.
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@elonmusk The eight stages of Trump’s guilt: 1. “I didn’t do it” 2. “I didn’t do anything wrong” 3. “I didn’t do anything illegal” 4. “The people accusing me are guilty” 5. “The law is illegal” 6. “Prove it!” 7. “What happened didn’t happen” 8️⃣ “It’s fine, I did it and I’ll do it again...”
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I don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for eight years and was popular and largely successful absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse
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MAGA: the Super Bowl is rigged. The election is rigged. The fake news is rigged. The primary is rigged. The trump prosecutions are rigged. The insurrection was rigged. The pandemic was rigged. The border is rigged to bring in voters to rig more elections. Everything is rigged.…
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You could barely leave the house or find toilet paper. People were scared. Trump took over the airwaves every day and lied, made up stuff and blamed everyone else. No one knew what was happening. Millions were out of jobs. Thousands dying. We can’t go back
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Calling bullshit on people refusing to be honest about what last year was like. It wasn’t subtle. Trump crashed america. Bread lines. Millions unemployed. Thousands dying of Covid every day. Unrest in the streets. A lawless maniac prez trying to get generals to attack the people
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@elonmusk To independent-minded voters: The choice is clear — democracy or dictatorship; freedom or subjugation
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There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack.
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I don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for eight years and was popular and largely successful absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse
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@benshapiro There are a million openly gay veterans. There are 65,000 openly gay active service-members. Freedom from the tyranny of bigotry is as American as apple pie. Anyone who oppresses the rights of Americans is themselves the problem—not the victim or the hero.
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I still can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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MAGA: the Super Bowl is rigged. The election is rigged. The fake news is rigged. The primary is rigged. The trump prosecutions are rigged. The insurrection was rigged. The pandemic was rigged. The border is rigged to bring in voters to rig more elections. Everything is rigged.…
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Trump built the wall and gave us world peace and then they made up a phony virus that doesn’t make you sick and trump caught it and made a beautiful vaccine that kills you and he saved us before Joe stole the election and trump had to start an insurrection that didn’t happen and…
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Trump wants you to fight a civil war so he doesn’t have to go to jail, America
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Trump failed—He had a chance and he blew it. He let Covid ravage the country, lost millions of jobs, added $7 trillion in debt, lost reelection, lied and incited insurrection on the Capitol, then lambed it to Florida. He’s a global laughingstock and fraud
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I still can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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It was so much worse than you remember
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@elonmusk My pronouns are prosecute/trump
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It was so much worse than you remember. You have PTSD from Trump’s abuse, America
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Still don’t think you could overstate how completely Obama broke their minds. The fact that a black man was the most powerful person in the world for 8 years—and was popular and largely successful—absolutely destroyed white power mythology and psychology and was their apocalypse.
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@elonmusk $44 billion to do this?
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@elonmusk There is nothing anyone can say or do to confront this level of gaslighting. Nothing. That’s the loop we’re in. That’s the gaslighting paradox of Elon pretending he’s some savior of free speech and the victim of powerful invisible forces on his own personal social media platform
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@Sethrogen @AlexMLeo We are witnessing the largest under-reaction to a violent insurrection lead by a sitting president in the history of humankind and it’s because the Republican Party/trump are experts at one thing: Denying the premise of reality and convincing people anti-government is government.
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@GOPLeader honestly fuck everyone who’s lying for that filthy disgusting traitor Trump and forcing us all to live like hostages and work so hard to be free in our own goddamn country and helping our enemies grow stronger while making America weaker and more divided and distracted every day.
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We’re living through a hostile takeover of the greatest experiment in self-governance in history and most people don’t even know it’s happening and the rest are either egging it on or too busy to deal or in denial—and every day we get closer to never getting back our independence
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I still can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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I love how Trump never built the wall, Mexico never paid for it, and no one talks about it anymore. It’s like he’s a magician.
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There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack.
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@elonmusk There is nothing anyone can say or do to confront this level of gaslighting. Nothing. That’s the loop we’re in. That’s the gaslighting paradox of Elon pretending he’s some savior of free speech and the victim of powerful invisible forces on his own personal social media platform
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Here’s trump getting laughed at by the world. He hates this video. His sad little cult followers hate it more.
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I still can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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America has completely lost its freaking mind
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@elonmusk What’s amazing is you’re not even embarrassed trump got kicked off social media. You know how messed up you have to be to get kicked off social media as the president? You basically have to attempt to overthrow the government—which he did.
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It was so much worse than you remember
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Here’s trump getting laughed at by the world. He hates this video. His sad little cult followers hate it more.
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There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack.
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There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack.
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Here’s trump getting laughed at by the world. He hates this video. It’s why he only speaks in safe spaces to deluded crowds now
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@elonmusk $220 billion man who just fired 3700 Americans needs your $8 to turn a profit. Can you spare the price of one cup of coffee to help a billionaire sell your free speech back to you?
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How the heck was trump ever even president in the first place?
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It was so much worse than you remember
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Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that’s less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
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@elonmusk MAGA glossary 1. Education is indoctrination 2. Prosecution is persecution 3. Losing is winning 4. Insurrection is patriotism 5. Violence is victimhood 6. Killing women is pro-life 7. Antiracism /“woke” is racism 8. Antifascists are fascists 9. MegaMAGA Billionaires are populists
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Trump is declaring war on America right now.
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I can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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To all the angry MAGAs in my feed calling me names and overreacting and cursing ignorant bile at me. Relax. Breathe. You’re experiencing a gentle shock that comes with being bluntly told the truth. It’s like when you stub your toe and yell in pain. It’s a little phenomenon we…
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It’s so much worse than you realize
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OMG the former president is a TRAITOR
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It’s heartbreaking to watch America destroy itself over the most undeserving man in the word
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MAGA: the Super Bowl is rigged. The election is rigged. The fake news is rigged. The primary is rigged. The trump prosecutions are rigged. The insurrection was rigged. The pandemic was rigged. The border is rigged to bring in voters to rig more elections. Everything is rigged.…
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@laurenboebert You should storm the FAA with trump flags
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Fuck every single person pretending this animal doesn’t want to be dictator and isn’t a clear and present danger to America and the world or ignoring the threat all Americans are facing but only some are actually fighting
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@elonmusk The world’s richest man has taken possession of a global social media platform used by the world’s journalists, scientists, governments, private citizens, businesses, religions, militaries and health/emergency services to share all vital information—It’s going as you might expect
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How the heck was trump ever even president in the first place?
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To all the angry MAGAs in my feed calling me names and overreacting and cursing ignorant bile at me. Relax. Breathe. You’re experiencing a gentle shock that comes with being bluntly told the truth. It’s like when you stub your toe and yell in pain. It’s a little phenomenon we…
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It’s heartbreaking to watch America destroy itself over the most undeserving man in the world
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@mtgreenee Get help. You’re having a seizure.
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MAGA needs you to believe this never happened. They want you to forget. Don’t.
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I still can’t believe we live in a country stupid enough to tear itself apart over Donald fucking trump. Insane.
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Here’s trump getting laughed at by the world. He hates this video. His sad little cult followers hate it more.
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All trump had to do was act like a normal person during the pandemic and he would’ve rallied and united the nation and saved countless lives and won reelection in a landslide. And instead he lied about it and divided the country and prioritized red states and let people die —why?
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@SpeakerMcCarthy You are living through the largest longest coordinated rightwing propaganda campaign and hostile takeover attempt in the history of humanity. Because trump needs you to fight a civil war so he doesn’t have to go to prison for his abuse of power and obstruction and attack on you.
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@MikeSington they should sue trump. his lies are why she's dead
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Imagine airing Trump’s hate rally and not an actual presidential address
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There is no deep state. Trump lost. Vaccines work. Elon is a rightwing oligarch. Taxes help pay for things we all need and use as a society. Politicians lie. Trump lies more than any other US politician. His Big Lie is the basis for the insurrection. Trump incited the j6 attack.
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@elonmusk Elon’s con is trying to get you to think he’s objective while also platforming every MAGA election-and-vaccine denier and that open/out-sourcing the accuracy/moderation of his $44 billion baby absolves him of responsibility for any bias, but Twitter is Elon. This is a closed loop
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@elonmusk Imagine being so upset by your interpretation of current events related to the advancement of human rights and economic and social freedom that you name it “the woke mind virus” and invest $44 billion to stop it while calling yourself a centrist and denying white privilege exists
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“We are going to eliminate 87,000 middle class jobs to protect billionaires” cue rubes applauding
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@atrupar Does America have a 67-year-old never married white man with no children attempting to mandate who can have an abortion? Of course it does
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Trump needs you to forget he did this. Don’t.
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MAGA needs you to believe this never happened. They want you to forget. Don’t.
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@elonmusk Just a reminder to everyone—Elon is a rightwing media mogul with massive conflicts of interests in various fields that require government oversight and regulation—who’s openly and not so openly—utilizing his giant personal social-media platform to serve his own political purposes
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What is still baffling and troubling on many levels is the fact that all trump had to do was act like a normal US president during Covid and he would’ve rallied the country around the pandemic response, unified America, and won the election and he just wouldn’t do it—because why?
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Everyone. Has. Lost. Their. Damn. Mind.
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@elonmusk $220 billion man who just fired 3700 Americans needs your $8 to turn a profit. Can you spare the price of one cup of coffee to help a billionaire sell your free speech back to you?
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trump made the decision to leave Afghanistan, Pompeo signed the surrender pact, both forced the release of 5000 Taliban who control the country now and set a withdrawal date of May 1st. And the second the challenges of those decisions played out he politicized it and blamed Biden
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It’s not the democrats job to lie to the voters as well as republicans do. It’s the press’s job to point out who’s lying.
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$220 billion man who just fired 3700 Americans needs your $8 to turn a profit. Can you spare the price of one cup of coffee to help a billionaire sell your free speech back to you?
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They install the guy from apprentice and then we all have to be on survivor?
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