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British social democrat, here for UK/US politics. Masochistic Arsenal, Fiorentina and SF Giants fan. #SabolSquad #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

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Danielle Blake
2 years
Two Kennedys were shot dead
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Aaron Rupar
2 years
"There is no family in American history that has taken more arrows in the back than the Trump family" -- Eric Trump
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8 years
For a four letter word, it's amazing how often 'rape' is misspelled.
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Raw Story
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NC cop impregnated 14-year-old girl -- then pressured her to have an abortion
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BNO News
2 years
BREAKING: Moscow Stock Exchange to remain closed for trading Thursday
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Danielle Blake
4 years
We Brits absolutely do not say Thailand like this, nor do we go out for 'Thigh' food, however we do pronounce "Dinesh D'Souza" as "dickhead loser".
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Dinesh D'Souza
4 years
@Polymathically In England, Australia and India it is pronounced “Thighland” and guess who invented the English language?
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Danielle Blake
5 years
*exhausted voice* why can't you just believe women
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PinkNews
5 years
Man dresses in drag to experience sexual harassment women receive daily and it’s eye-opening
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Danielle Blake
2 years
I am once again asking how this website is free
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Danielle Blake
4 months
Zionism literally just means believing that the Jewish people have a right to a homeland of their own. If you twist it into anything else, the racism is coming from you.
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Danielle Blake
8 years
*walks up to Michael Cohen's door* "Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Says." "Says who?" "THE POLLS. ALL OF THEM."
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Danielle Blake
2 years
I’m not exaggerating when I say this week’s #Andor is one of the best depictions of a tyrannical dystopia ever committed to screen. I felt claustrophobic and oppressed just *watching* it.
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Danielle Blake
3 years
Sorry, I’m just completely stuck on the fact Hancock woke his 8 year old kid up to say he was walking out on their family, and did so purely because his affair was about to be made public. What an absolute bastard.
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Danielle Blake
2 years
How has no one called the queue the Elizabeth Line
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Danielle Blake
3 years
The one time regime change actually needs to happen, John Bolton's against it
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Brian Stelter
3 years
John Bolton, speaking on @TheLeadCNN , says the secret to getting through the next 13 days is: "Put Trump on Air Force One and let him go play golf"
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Danielle Blake
5 years
@youngvulgarian as someone who suffers from particularly bad cramps I would very much like to feed the men who were on that panel to a nest of fire ants
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Danielle Blake
2 years
Guys I am fucking dying, please send help
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Danielle Blake
3 years
Fashion-wise, that's a bold choice by Lady Gaga to come out as a Liberal Democrat
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Danielle Blake
6 years
Look, we've all mocked Corey Stewart for being a Northern-born Confederate, but give him credit: he's truly honoured his adopted heritage by losing just as badly as they did.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
That tweet has left me viscerally angry. It's bad enough when people demand Barack help them when they didn't give him Congress or fucking listen to him in 2016. But trying to make Michelle their saviour after she's made it clear she hated being in politics? Fuck outta here.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
Michelle Obama: to continue my theme of getting everyone fit and healthy, here's some cool tunes for you to exercise to! Journalist: why does Michelle Obama, the most popular public figure, not simply end our political strife with the power of her Magic Blackness
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Danielle Blake
8 years
I'm so old I remember when Michelle Obama was slammed for saying she hadn't always been proud of her country. It's OK for whites though.
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Maggie Haberman
8 years
"You are going to be proud of your country again," says Trump.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
This tweet is taking off and I have nothing to push save advice: - Americans, vote blue across the board no matter what - fellow white people, stop being entitled douches - fellow Brits, pray we survive the catastrophe of No Big Ben Bong For Brexit - leave Meghan alone
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johnny maga
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This is heartbreaking
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Nah, that was the years-long racist crusade to get the first black president to show his birth certificate. I forget who led that. 🤔
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!
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Danielle Blake
3 months
Well, personally, I think the main difference is that one was an expression of bigotry and the other was calling it out.
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Mikey Smith
3 months
Main difference between this and 'bigotgate' is that Gordon Brown didn't know he was on a hot mic, and Rishi Sunak said it live on television.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Like. Clockwork.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
"TEH LAST JEHDIE ISN'T MAH STAR WARS" - people who need to be made to watch the OT again, Clockwork Orange style
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Danielle Blake
7 years
*Ron Howard voice* The Vice President did not in fact think everyone is entitled to their own opinions
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Vice President Mike Pence Archived
7 years
While everyone is entitled to their own opinions, I don't think it's too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Assange: Trump is welcome change Greenwald: Breitbart is awesome Leftists: These guys are our heroes and moderate liberals are our enemies
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Man, Obama could've been one of the greats, but then he went on holiday with Richard Branson after leaving office and became Herbert Hoover.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Trump is currently: Refusing intel briefings Taunting Romney Ranting that recounts are unfair while alleging widespread illegal voting
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Pepsi: well, that was an epic PR catastrophe that'll never be matched United: hold my beer *Sean Spicer enters with entire liquor cabinet*
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Danielle Blake
4 years
See, this horrible framing is why Republicans get away with it. It's a setback for democracy and voting rights. It is part of a multi-pronged assault on the Republic. Not a partisan horse-race event.
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Kasie Hunt
4 years
In setback for Democrats, Supreme Court won't let late mail ballots count in Wisconsin via ⁦ @PeteWilliamsNBC
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Danielle Blake
4 years
Also, do these idiot journos still not understand what happens to a person's popularity when they run for office? It goes through the floor. It's what happened to Hillary, and it would unquestionably happen to Michelle.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Belated unpopular opinion: Gordon Brown wasn't wrong when he called Gillian Duffy a bigot and shouldn't have apologised.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
Jolyon Maugham fighting Brexit vs Jolyon Maugham when he sees a fox in his garden
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Danielle Blake
4 years
sorry, it tickles the hell out of me to read a letter that begins with lines like "voters tired of being patronised by elitist bourgeois liberals" and ends signed by two knights and a lord
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Christopher Hope📝
4 years
Letter to the ⁦Telegraph⁩ from 28 Tories about the National Trust and its colonialism report: “History must neither be sanitised nor rewritten to suit snowflake preoccupations. A clique of powerful privilege liberals must not be allowed to rewrite a history in their image.”
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Danielle Blake
7 years
I've been to the year 3000, not much has changed, Jeremy Hunt is still Health Secretary.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
George W Bush's speechwriter. I repeat, *George W Bush's* speechwriter.
@davidfrum
David Frum
6 years
The lives of Americans and the peace of the world are in hands you wouldn't trust with your beer money.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
Yoda hit a droid with a stick over a torch, rummaged around in Luke's belongings and threw them around while giggling madly, and when Luke got quite understandably annoyed by this, Yoda went into a huff and decided this meant Luke could not be taught.
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Danielle Blake
2 years
If you showed this to someone from 2010 they’d assume it was a far-right rally. Incredibly grim times.
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@LamentablyAwake
Something Something ~Fiscal Rules~ 🇵🇸
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If you showed this to someone from 2010 they'd assume it was a far right rally. Incredibly grim times.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
well this is the easiest game of "fuck, marry, kill" ever
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Danielle Blake
8 years
Remember that time Trump's lawyer defended him vs spousal rape accusations by saying you can't rape your spouse?
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Danielle Blake
4 months
@latimes @marymacTV I feel like not just attacking, but actively disparaging the acting work of other women because your fave didn’t make the list is infinitely more anti-feminist than one of *Barbie’s 8 Oscar nominations* not being the Best Actress category.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Anna Soubry is completely out of fucks to give. Like, literal "behold the field in which I grow my fucks and see that it is barren". #ge2017
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Danielle Blake
4 years
OK, let me tell you something: women don't give men wrong numbers by mistake. They give them wrong numbers on purpose, and this kind of stalkerish, obsessive behaviour illustrates why.
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Danielle Blake
8 years
Billy Bush at least apologised, but saying he was "less mature" at 33? Seems white men never grow up while black kids are adults from birth.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
hence why you're currently living in an embassy basement cupboard
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Defend Assange Campaign
7 years
Rats always scurry for the dark.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
Ah yes, as we know the humour in the original Star Wars trilogy was only ever of the highest intellectual calibre and never lowbrow comedy like, oh, I don't know, a toolbox falling on someone's head and complaints about how bad something smells.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
*whispers* also Luke whacking Rey, like Yoda's shenanigans, had a purpose: to get her to understand he meant reaching out in a spiritual sense and not literally sticking your hands out
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Danielle Blake
4 years
Because Hillary wasn't the impeached president, dipshits.
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MRC NewsBusters
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If "impeachment lasts forever," why did it oh so very rarely come up when the Clintons were running for president in 2016?
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Danielle Blake
6 years
"Give him his fucking wall. He won the election. He is owed this." - Andrew Sullivan, who appears to have no fucking clue how democracy works, or that nobody "owes" a person in a job that exists to *serve the people* jack shit.
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Danielle Blake
3 years
*wearily taps sign* Democrats are demonstrably to the left of most centre-left parties in comparable countries on social issues and immigration, are about the same on economics and would absolutely not be centre-right in any of them.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
People who express anonymous political opinions like *checks notes* James Madison and Alexander Hamilton did when writing the Federalist Papers are cowards unfit to lick the bold brave boots of Founding Fathers such as *checks notes again* James Madison and Alexander Hamilton
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David Marcus
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Let me put this as bluntly as possible. People who express anonymous political opinions on Twitter are cowards. The founding fathers risked their lives for their beliefs. These people, for all their bluster, won’t risk their jobs.
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Danielle Blake
8 years
Ryan (internally): 🎶Smile less, frown more, make sure they know you're against what Obama's for.🎶 #Ham4SOTU #SOTU
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Danielle Blake
4 years
For those not aware, Louisville police arrested the lawmaker who just happened to have introduced Breonna's Law to prevent this happening again, on spurious grounds.
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Tessa Duvall 📰
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Attica Scott says the charges against her are ridiculous. That she was detained two minutes before curfew. Says LMPD came prepared for war.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Mock away, but I think you'll find #Covfefe is an example of someone who's done an amazing job and is being recognised more and more
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Danielle Blake
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Danielle Blake
6 years
Yeah, the son of a prominent family with Jedi and political heritage who *starts out* as the No 2 to the next tyrant trying to rule the galaxy is definitely the underdog here vs the orphan from a desert. Or a lot of fanboys are big babies who can't handle a female protagonist.
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Danielle Blake
9 years
This isn't beautiful, this is fucking disgusting. Nobody should have to work 3 jobs, 95 hours a week.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
People throwing everything they care about under the bus for Trump, a man who cares about no one and nothing done for him, is a truly inexplicable phenomenon and everyone debasing themselves in this manner will stand alone on a pedestal of public and private shame come 2021.
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Danielle Blake
5 years
This tweet continues to age like particularly fine wine.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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"Forget the myths the media created about the White House. The truth is, these aren't very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
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Danielle Blake
4 years
It's ridiculous that IRA sympathiser and Islamophobe Peter King can still be described as "one of the more moderate" GOPers in the House because the party is just that batshit crazy.
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Robert Costa
4 years
Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Republican from Long Island, will not seek re-election in 2020, per a statement. He is one of the more moderate GOP members of the House and a former chairman of the Homeland Security committee.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
I can't believe we live in a time where the depth of Hitler's depravity towards Jews is being openly erased on both sides of the pond.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
I tell you, bothsideism is going to be the literal death of the republic, what on earth are you doing??
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Danielle Blake
7 years
It's going to be hard to find a hotter take than that, at least today. Matt Stoller is one dumb motherfucker.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
Rose Twitter is attacking Joe Biden for a) genuinely believing the other driver in the car crash that killed his wife was drunk b) expressing the passion and love he had for his wife after she died, because they can tell the Reade story's dead in the water, and it's disgusting.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Think we can agree that the term snowflake, like fake news, has now been rendered completely meaningless.
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Max Tani
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On Fox, Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill calls Ben Jacobs a "snowflake reporter," and says he thinks the body slam was "kind of funny."
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Danielle Blake
2 years
@sarah_rankin Hey Sarah, this isn’t actually condemning violence, it’s incorporating it in a truly revolting manner into a political attack.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
"We're not like the Nazis. We're just following orders."
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Danielle Blake
6 years
just sitting here thinking about how Hillary Clinton had to put up with far-right lunatics inventing wild theories of her and her team supporting paedophilia through a pizza parlour while Donald Trump and his admin just actively backed a man accused of paedophilia
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Danielle Blake
4 years
...and you can't spell McSally without two Ls.
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Danielle Blake
4 months
The problem is that the activist left have totally warped what was a useful concept for recognising how people are advantaged/disadvantaged in different ways, into a morally simplistic Oppressor/Oppressed dynamic that pigeonholes entire groups regardless of individual context.
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Lakshya Jain
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Oh boy. Hot take time. Politically, intersectionality has arguably done more harm than good to progressivism. The way to advance a cause isn’t always to group it with everything else. Preventing Palestinian children from getting bombed has little to do with Planned Parenthood.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
actual LOL
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Danielle Blake
12 years
Mitt Romney retroactively cancels visit to London. #RomneyShambles
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Danielle Blake
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"We won't turn out in midterms, we won't vote at state level, we won't make GOP's life hell, OMG WHY ISN'T OBAMA DOING ANYTHING TO SAVE US."
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Danielle Blake
5 years
May to Bercow:
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Danielle Blake
3 years
oh, look who now wants to sit at the new cool kids’ table
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Danielle Blake
7 years
#JoeTrudeau was the sole survivor of the Bowling Green Massacre who went on to become the Prime Minister of Columbia.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
So, my account got locked this morning for a four year old tweet wishing hateful anti-trans people would go away but @jack tells me a guy who's harassed murder victims' families into hiding isn't violating the TOS
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Danielle Blake
5 years
The year is 2019. The Mask is fighting with Mussolini while a mad scientist drops raps about a dead gorilla as a racist reality show star sits in the White House and gives the store away to a pair of psycho dictators who like to off people with plutonium and anti-aircraft guns.
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Danielle Blake
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Shout out to all the idiots who thought Trump wouldn't discriminate against LGBT people because he held a fucking rainbow flag for 5 seconds
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Danielle Blake
3 years
Jesus Christ, the state of what this website does to even normally sensible people. It's not a crime to be wrong about something! There's no smug police waiting to arrest you for admitting it!
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Danielle Blake
4 years
hey here's a novel idea how about every US company does this, and permanently
@MarkCCrowley
Mark C. Crowley
4 years
US grocery chain, Trader Joes is the first company to temporarily change its sick leave policy in light of the Coronavirus. To encourage workers to stay home when ill, all employees regardless of tenure & full-time or part-time status will be paid for their time off. #Health #HR
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Democrats: 🎶you're going to pay for this🎶 GOP: we hurt millions of the poor, sick and old, PARTY TIME Media: wow how rude are the Democrats
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Danielle Blake
2 years
Oh shit guys we completely broke his brain
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Danielle Blake
3 years
As a Brit, the idea that Democrats would be a centre-right party in Europe is the most common wrong assumption from Americans that drives me round the bend.
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Danielle Blake
3 years
From the Sunday Times:
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Danielle Blake
5 years
Jeremy Corbyn couldn't walk away from a wreath laying ceremony when it was clear it was honouring murderers. But he'll storm out of a cross-party meeting concerning a critical national issue rather than sit with people who left his high school clique - sorry, party.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
I'm sure it is sheer coincidence that the politicians singled out by the left for criticism are all black.
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ryan cooper
7 years
Why leftists don't trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick
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Danielle Blake
2 years
I see in addition to whitewashing Bob Dole, blaming Trump’s rise on voters rejecting Nice Republicans (TM) we’re also going to pretend that Good Guy Mitt Romney didn’t pander to birtherism and kiss the ring before he did the right thing exactly twice, when it didn’t matter.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
hi US friends, 2018 is going great so far, we in Britain are enjoying a year in which Trump has not uttered or tweeted a single word
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Danielle Blake
4 years
"I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message."
@SenTedCruz
Senator Ted Cruz
4 years
If we wake up in January with Biden, Schumer, and Pelosi in charge, Democrats will end the filibuster in the Senate, they will add two new states to the U.S. to increase the number of Democrat seats in the Senate, and they will pack the Court. Every Senate Democrat is in on it.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
The problem now is that if Jesus decides this is the moment the world is fucked up enough for him to come back, America won't let him in.
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Danielle Blake
6 years
on the other hand he didn't have to struggle to not get to where you are in your 50s, namely being under the permanent ownership of @KevinMKruse , so there's that
@DineshDSouza
Dinesh D'Souza
6 years
@jpodhoretz And you have unsuccessfully struggled all your life to get places I reached when I was in my 20s and 30s. Envy really becomes you!
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Danielle Blake
1 year
I think we can all agree at this point that it’s not naivety. It’s wilful blindness for the purpose of both-sidesing everything and laundering the GOP’s message.
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Isaac Chotiner
1 year
People this naive should perhaps do something other than write about American politics for a living.
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Danielle Blake
2 years
“The race to collect the Infinity Stones has set off a contest between Thanos and the Avengers over whose policies would be best for the universe’s population.”
@AP_Politics
AP Politics
2 years
The Supreme Court decision to overturn national protections for abortion has set off a contest between Democratic and Republican lawmakers over whose policies would do more to help vulnerable mothers and kids. It's a key issue going into midterm elections.
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Danielle Blake
4 years
One thing that's clear by now is that Ryan Grim has no business being a journalist and a reputable outlet would fire him.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
You can actually pinpoint the moment the economic recovery and record period of job growth vanished into the historical ether.
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Danielle Blake
7 years
I must be getting old b/c I can't remember Obama inciting baying mobs to spew vitriol at reporters or personally attacking several.
@davidfolkenflik
David Folkenflik
7 years
NYT's James Risen on O press legacy: If Trump targets reporters, thank Obama
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Danielle Blake
7 years
Tonight, Donald Trump became President of the Confederate States of America.
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