Paul Boutin
@chezpaul
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A poor grasp of science leads people to fear the technology around them.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2008
This is my last post on Twitter. I’m over on threads now. Twitter sucks!
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🚨 Russia lures impoverished Cubans with a promise of jobs & money, takes away their passports when they arrive, conscripts them into the Russian army and sends them as cannon fodder to the frontlines to fight Russia's fascist war in Ukraine.
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I'll repeat it again: Every country has mental illness, but it’s America that has an epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings. It’s the damn guns. https://t.co/hO4t5amNgQ
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Day 500 of the Russian war in Ukraine. I am president of the Kyiv School of Economics, a former minister of economy of Ukraine, and a professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I left the US for Kyiv 4 days before the war. These are the lessons I learned. 1/
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The year is 2016. I’m listening to a secret recording of Donald Trump that proves his horrendous moral character beyond a shadow of a doubt and will surely cost him the upcoming election. The year is 2023. I’m listening to a secret recording of Donald Tru-
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🚨 Please watch this video In it’s entirety 🚨 Ms. Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles Unified School District says it in a way we all need to hear. Growth is a choice. #thursdaymorning #LAUSD #Pride #PrideMonth #Parents #books #teachers
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What Wikipedia did: we stood strong for our principles and fought to the Supreme Court of Turkey and won. This is what it means to treat freedom of expression as a principle rather than a slogan.
@mattyglesias Did your brain fall out of your head, Yglesias? The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?
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US Death count in War Vietnam War 1955-75 58,281 Korean War 1950-53 36,516 Iraq War 2003-11 4,614 Afghanistan War 2001-21 2,402 US gun deaths 2019-21 133,759 51 years of war 101,813 deaths 3 years of US gun deaths 133,759
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Congress is full of millionaires for the same reason the NBA is full of tall people: it's easier to get there. If we want a Congress that actually tackles what's on everyday Americans' minds, then we need to make it easier for candidates of all backgrounds to run for office.
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Clarence Thomas is not Harlan Crows dear friend… he is his lackey… Crow is not a friend but a benefactor… their relationship is no different than that of a spy with a handler… provide critical services and get paid handsomely…Clarence Thomas is an unethical man who uses his
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Why isn’t this considered lunatic talk in the US?
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These people are all crazy, they don’t want anything imposed on them but impose all kinds of horrible things on us.
Oh my God. Idaho Republicans have passed a bill that would create a new crime called “abortion trafficking” which would restrict travel to other states to get an abortion and charge violators with a felony and minimum of 2 to 5 years in prison.
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The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.
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What a bunch of idiots!
"It saddens me that my time here had to end this way." A Florida principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s "David" sculpture.
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Cats 🐈⬛ 🐈 kill 1.85 billion birds 🦜🕊🪶 every year in the #US But no calls for cats to be banned Buildings 🏢 kill 675 million birds Vehicles 🚛🚙 214 million birds We poison ☠️ 72 million birds Wind turbines kill just 328,000 and #climatechange deniers want to ban them!
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ok this video is literally the only thing that’s helped me understand the silicon valley bank crisis
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Trump disbanded the pandemic response team the Obama-Biden administration created. Crisis followed. Trump ended the rail regulations the Obama-Biden administration created. Crisis followed. Trump ended banking regulations the Obama-Biden administration created. Crisis followed.
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