DanaBlankenhorn
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Freelance writer, journalist, futurist. Novels and analysis. Rice '77, Northwestern Medill '78 Mastodon: @DanaBlankenhorn @journa .host Atlanta, GA
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When truth is behind a paywall it can't get its pants on.
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@rosannecash
We know this is being encouraged, and we know who is doing the encouraging, and November is coming.
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As a father, I pray each day for the courage of Pearce Tefft. Read
Father Denounces Son Identified As Participant In White Supremacist Rally
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@chrislhayes
Remember the scandal when
#Obama
tried to keep his Blackberry?
Good times.
No, I mean it. Those were good times.
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@joshtpm
@chrislhayes
You described why, this time,
@thedemocrats
have to crush it.
Not good enough to win the Presidency. Not good enough to win the Senate.
We must bury Jim Crow once and for all.
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@Stone_SkyNews
@bencnn
@cnni
We have told ourselves for decades that Israel is different than other Middle East nations. It's a democracy, we said. They're free, we said.
Not so much
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@brianschatz
The only possible result of filibustering the Organizing Resolution would be to eliminate the filibuster starting with the Organizing Resolution.
Or is there something about checkers I don't understand, Senator?
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@SRuhle
@BillAckman
@POTUS
A socialist is a libertarian whose bank just went under. You may quote me
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@Slate
Any woman who votes for any Republican should just put the chains around her own neck. She's pro-slavery.
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@maxseddon
@PentagonPresSec
I am increasingly impressed by Mr. Zelensky. I'm not Ukranian, but to think this guy came up as a guy playing an ordinary guy who ran for President, then ran for President, then makes such a President.
#wow
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@jackbgoode1
Black folks died for the right to vote. They won't be intimidated. Deal with it.
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@jzinn5611
@PalmerReport
It's a lot more than that. What
@JoeBiden
is doing regarding
#PutinsWar
is next level. It's amazing what you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
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This is a declaration of war. Jim Crow vs. democracy, everywhere.
Are we ready to protect our neighbors?
GOP to enlist 50,000 volunteers to "monitor" polling places in 15 states.
Same old story: stealing elections & the right to vote from non-white Americans.
Maybe someone should video these volunteers.
Who watches the Watchmen, indeed.
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@humorzo
@davidrollert
@joshtpm
Dersh' loyalty is to Netanyahu, not America. He and Adelson have that in common
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@sahilkapur
@tedlieu
@ProPublica
Karen Handel laughed when the sound of children crying was played in the House.
That's going to be the ad in
#GA06
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@IronStache
This is great, but say
@DeptVetAffairs
. Say "Republicans are cutting the VA," "Republicans are killing the VA."
Say it every day.
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@DerfBackderf
I am very glad that Charles Schultz remained a great man from the beginning of Peanuts until his death.
I don't think I could have handled a fascist Snoopy
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@felixsalmon
@tedreednc
The scandal is readers don't know the difference between paid and paying contributors, and aren't being told.
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@JordanPeele
@WhoopiGoldberg
Somewhere, maybe in several somewheres, there's a kid now doing the same for you. Paying it forward.
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@JoyAnnReid
@keithboykin
Thanks to the Internet, this rising of the KKK is very well documented.
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@RussTamblyn
100%
Forced birth is slavery.
It's all about power. Who will decide when children come into the world? The woman who will care for them, or the man with his magic wand?
Thanks for stepping up.
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@DemSpring
WTF does this have to do with democracy? Either accept the majority or you are as authoritarian as those you most despise.
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@RepTroyNehls
Mississippi got the money to fix its problems years ago. They handed it to rich people as tax cuts.
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@satyanadella
Your tweet reminds me that there's a great wide wonderful world outside the USA. For this I am thankful.
Oh, and congrats to India on its comeback win over Australia. ;;
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@zakwilliams
Working in mental health, and at the intersection of mind and body, is a great way to honor your dad. Hats off to you.
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@BetteMidler
From most reports William Howard Taft was a nice man. For his time. As I see here, he also dressed better. And rocked a very nice mustache
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@petersagal
In the early part of the 21st century America paid a terrible price for its complacency.
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@ananavarro
Obama lives! Because he really does love his wife. Likes her, too. Some guys have all the luck. I know I do.
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@StevenBeschloss
Merrick Garland will let indictments speak for him when he has cases that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
That's what prosecutors do. They should not be political lapdogs.
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This is so offensive to me as a human being I can't even.
Dr. King's church is "the bed of Hell."
Really? Really. Collins would run to the right of Lester f'in Maddox.
Collins opens with a swipe at
@ReverendWarnock
: “There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the bed of Hell. It is time to send it back to Ebenezer Baptist Church.”
#gapol
#gasen
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@vanitaguptaCR
@KrisKobach1787
This is the battle. This is the war. Voting rights. Democracy will live or die, here. We demand equal ballot access, registration by default
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@JRubinBlogger
No one is giving
@JoeBiden
credit. He got 100% unity on first steps, even if they were weak.
Now our alliances are united and going forward with purpose.
#leadership
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@Susan_Hennessey
@maggieNYT
Until you understand that the 2016 election was a successful invasion of America by a foreign power, you understand nothing.
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@nbashaw
@davekarpf
A lot of tech today is pushing garbage the market wants no part of.
Those pushing real productivity will do fine
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@RoArquette
@DrEricDing
What sense does it make to subsidize Alberta tar sands when we have oil going bust? Harvesting the Sun and wind is cheaper anyway
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@LiaS814
@MichaelSkolnik
@NRA
Since they've ended their support, maybe you can stop boycotting? Boycott those that remain.
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@samsteinhp
When you know you have lost, it's what you do. Attack the refs.
#trumo
would make a good GEICO ad if anyone cared after Tussday
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@emptywheel
Ah, thank you.
@GovPenceIN
will sell his soul for a pittance, eh? Good to know.
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@rbruno3801
Dementia isn't forgetting where you put your keys.
Dementia is forgetting what keys are for.
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@AprilDRyan
@owillis
I do wish the rest of the press room had shaken their heads in solidarity, FWIW
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@kurteichenwald
This election is just the start of a wave that will sweep oil out of power and bring technologists to the forefront.
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@chrislhayes
Again, how do Republicans get away with attacking Democrats on crime when we know what makes criming so easy?
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@undrcovrbrovr
@lachlan
@GOP
@TheDemocrats
We stole Merrick Garland fair and square. You have no right to complain.
Yeah, right
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@WalshFreedom
If guns aren't readily available, it's hard to get one.
But they are. Ridiculously available.
Murder is bang-bang easy for everyone.
Calling the problem just "crime" and "criminals" ignores this fact.
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@donmoyn
A whole lot of kids in McMinn County, Tennessee, are suddenly going to get interested in Maus. Help them access it.
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@keithboykin
Ditto with fiscal responsibility. Any Republican who screams "the debt the debt the debt" gets laughed at, now and forever
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@JohnNosta
No control group. Many COVID-19 patients recover in hospital with purely palliative care. Wait for more before celebrating.
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@bad_takes
Trump appointed the FBI director.
Trump appointed the judge.
The special counsel is independent.
The previous special counsels were both Republican.
If the point is that Republicans should prosecute, that's what is happening.
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@sgoewey
@manwhohasitall
@HamiltonMusical
Eliza built that great orphanage but her husband died young. Sad!
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@paulkrugman
There is a long history of Southern Senators lying about reality. See the 1960s, for instance.
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@LateNightSeth
@SRuhle
Find the
@sruhle
@AliVelshi
Canopy interview. They tag-teamed that poor guy like he was a civilian in a
@WWE
ring.
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@dominicholden
Jesus was a carpenter. He would not have made the cake. But Joseph & Son, Carpenters would have gladly made the table.
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@Acosta
There have always been Americans who opposed its founding principles.
We just have one in the White House now, and it's our duty as reporters to write that truth.
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@maxseddon
@PentagonPresSec
There are very few American Presidents who have ever had to hold up under the pressure Zelensky is under now. We built statues to them, although many opposed them feverishly while they were in office.
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@paulkrugman
The wakes of bigger boats sink smaller boats. It's the perfect analogy to
#GOP
governance over the last half century.
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@MenInBlazers
Out of all those, McKennie playing for Mourinho at Roma is the most interesting.
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@DLeonhardt
@markoff
At some point, even
@Foxnews
viewers have to figure out how they're being manipulated. Don't they?
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@jules_su
@GreatDismal
You can have my garlic when you seize it from my cold, tasteless tomato sauce
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@mawilner
@SecPompeo
Once
#Trump
appoints people like Trevor McFadden, the judge in this case, they owe him NOTHING.
That's the only hope we have right now.
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@girlsreallyrule
There is no way these two white dudes would be public figures if
@oprah
hadn't endorsed them.
It's fair to ask her to cut them off now.
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@joshtpm
@FoundlingStein
@Leopardonbackup
It is increasingly difficult to defend Israel when its government is acting as this one is. Netanyahu has us all in a box.
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@bennyjohnson
@chrislhayes
To "Trump People," Trump is God-like. As Putin is God-like to his people. This is weakness, not strength.
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@Msdesignerlady
@DrDinD
@donwinslow
@BrettFavre
I wonder what the former teammates of
@brettfavre
think of his racism
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@JRubinBlogger
@SykesCharlie
Great example of why neither of you are Democrats.
Pointing out the genocide of native Americans and black slavery is not an extreme position.
Especially in the face of modern racism
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@MattPotter
@Wikipedia
Rice Krispies were first sold in 1927. Snap, Crackle and Pop date form the 30s.
Just a guess. The derivatives were named for the ad.
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@nhannahjones
@owillis
Read the Chernow biography again. Grant happened to marry a slaveowner. It disgusted him, helped turn him, and he became the best President in a century for black civil rights.
We should be erecting more statues to him, not taking them down.
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@soskuen
@chrissyteigen
I think that, in this case Mrs. Legend, you're the one who is innocent.
Racists don't want to be photographed. That's why they wore hoods back in the day.
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@HotlineJosh
@BrianKempGA
ran his entire campaign on identity politics.
He purged voter roles, fought registration, and ran a voting system that couldn't be audited.
But
@staceyabrams
is running on "identity politics." Yeah, right.
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@StevenBeschloss
A year later we were headed into Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. Saudis did it. And they're still threatening us, through Trump. '
The only way out is to end oil.
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@KevinMKruse
@FPWellman
@RealDylanMO
@TeamGreitens
@EricGreitens
@ProjectLincoln
I suspect making cracks about playgrounds and Chuck E. Cheese while defending Eric Greitans may be sub-optimal.
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@GnarlyChaplin
@igorbobic
There's a difference between paying your bills and not paying. Conservatives have generally been in favor of not paying.
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@WSJ
One of my neighbors is turning a 1,500 sq. ft. bungalow into a 3,000 sq. ft. McMansion because they have (checks notes) two kids.
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@larrywilmore
@jemelehill
Internet video can identify these people, and computer technology can lead to prosecutors.
We need to all demand it.
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@keithboykin
It's a distraction. We're not talking about policy now. We're talking about what
#Trump
said.
Let's talk about policy instead.
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@Nicole_Cliffe
In "All About Eve," Marilyn Monroe played a woman who can't act.
But she could.
Which makes her work as a bad actor brilliant.
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