David Martosko
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@WETAClassical host. Founder, @DailyMail DC bureau. Emmy 🏆, Shared Edward R. Murrow 🏆for writing. Tweets ≠ employers' views. Upcoming airtimes in link below.
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🧵My town (Burke, VA) needs a new name. I’ve found evidence that its namesake Silas Burke actively participated in slave auctions while he was a judge & owned 9 children. The first child he bought was named Fenton. I want my town to adopt his name. (1/9)
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Some personal news: My daughter drew this for the
@USPS
duck stamp contest this year.
She's 11.
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Among the weirdest things I've read about the Zucker scandal is that Gollust and her husband moved into the apartment above Zucker and his wife. Same building, one floor apart. On purpose, while everyone was still married.
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@DavidClinchNews
@elonmusk
Some journalists are doing that quite well; they don't need help.
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Last year my 11-year-old drew a duck for the
@USFWS
junior duck stamp contest that won a first prize in the 4th-6th grade category. Her entry for 2021 went out the door over the weekend. Yes, she did this by hand on paper. And yes, she's 12.
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Can anyone honestly doubt journalism has lost its way? This new
@HarrisPoll
poll (via
@axios
) shows airlines as the only industry that's lost more public approval than the media since the start of the COVID epidemic.
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*Nobody* has gone on the record, not even now. The level of risk associated with dropping a dime on a president in this town has never been lower, and yet no one talked about this *during* the trip? I call BS on the whole thing, especially since Bolton's memoir had none of it.
Seriously,
@JeffreyGoldberg
piece is important and terrific reporting. Where the hell were these sources when it happened? Did I miss the part where any of those who heard the President attack war heroes quit in protest, or went on the record to tell us about this now?
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Her next project will be a mural. We've primed a wall of our garage and bought a bunch of acrylic paint. I can't wait to see what she comes up with.
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Do these people know absolutely nothing about Tchaikovsky? He was descended from Cossacks and spent most of his summers in Ukraine. He lived in Ukraine full-time for 4 years when he was in his late 30s. His symphonies and operas are chock full of Ukrainian folk themes.
NEWS: Cardiff Philharmonic replaces the programme of its upcoming all-Tchaikovsky concert, citing it as 'inappropriate at this time’.
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Please pick a day on your calendar when you can find a random person In a U.S. military uniform, take some money out of your pocket, and thank them for their service.
I've done this every year on my birthday for a long time, and it's probably the most selfish thing I do.
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Update: Spinal surgery was a success despite some residual pain. Discs were so shot that vertebrae were compressing my spinal cord. Doctor said if I were rear-ended on my way to the hospital, I would have been paralyzed. Also, I did the whole thing with no opioid painkillers. 👍
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Has anyone gone *on* the record to confirm the Atlantic story yet?
Just checking.
Anonymous sources are destroying trust in the news media. This is the worst-kept secret in journalism.
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When you have 800 words to get into nuance, in writing, you can split the hair between crude oil and refined oil. But faulting someone for *not* doing that on the air, in the spoken word, is idiotic and unworthy of journalism -- especially when the statement is true on its face.
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Some personal news: I have a very artistic daughter.
She's 11.
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Probably the most important question I've ever asked at the White House. Maybe. We'll see.
Q Mr. President, what exactly did you hope Zelensky would do about the Bidens after your phone call? Exactly.
TRUMP: Well, I would think that, if they were honest about it, they’d start a major investigation into the Bidens. It’s a very simple answer.
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Some personal news: I'm moving on from the
@DailyMail
in two weeks, roughly 7 years after I launched their Washington political team. It's been a great run with a smart and generous company that gave me opportunities beyond what my experience would have commanded elsewhere. [1/3]
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This is why so many people think political journalism has become a total clown show.
Just watched Trump hospital video a second time. His breathing is clearly labored. He seems to be leaning on table for support. And there’s so much fear in his eyes.
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This. Is. Idiotic.
You're not helping.
🚨 New word alert! 🚨
"supposably," which is an adverb meaning "as may be assumed, imagined, or supposed," is one of the 600 words we just added to .
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Lithium oxide deposits in Ukraine are more important to Russia than some people understand. Chinese companies have applied this year for exploration and mining permits -- especially in Donetsk. Putin knows that if he doesn't get them, Xi will. Kirovograd deposits are cake-icing.
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@TheJRECompanion
@jimmyfallon
It's also a really bad impression of the frontman for the B-52s.
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...to grow your talent stack & broaden your wingspan, if you want a front-row seat to history, & if you're eager to work hard, find a news outlet like this. I'm grateful for my years with the
@DailyMail
. Not sharing details about my next adventure yet, but watch this space. [3/3]
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Mark your calendars.
The Supreme Court indicates that both Monday and Wednesday of next week will be opinion days.
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I've had the benefit of massive exposure, Air Force One access, campaign charters, daily live shots on the popular syndicated
@DailyMailTV
(and an Emmy!), and the rare commodity of collaborative help to minimize the footprint of my mistakes. For journalists: If you want... [2/3]
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This is nuts. 313,000 people saw my little girl's artwork in 150 minutes. That's about 35 per second. Thanks everyone. You made a dad feel great.
Some personal news: My daughter drew this for the
@USPS
duck stamp contest this year.
She's 11.
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So I have my 2nd negative
#COVID
test, which is fantastic. But doctors can't tell me why my symptoms are spot-on for coronavirus. Latest candidate: a glob of fluid at the site of my second spinal surgery. Is it infectious? Will I need a third operation? (Cue the sinister music)
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She doesn't have a name yet but she's all ours.
#adopt
... (This girl's shelter name was Bonnie.) Suggestions are welcome!
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If you want to see the stark separation between true friends/colleagues and opportunists, here's a plan: (1) Have 2 painful spine surgeries, (2) Stay in the hospital for days, (3) Disappear from work, (4) Wait.
I've been pleasantly surprised (thank you!) and truly disappointed.
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This is the saddest thing I've ever heard.
Hug your children, everyone. Be grateful. Take nothing for granted. And if you encounter anyone in this sort of pain, drop what you're doing and shoulder some of their load.
Andrew, your girl is loved by hundreds of thousands here.
We’re heartbroken to have to announce our beautiful daughter Francesca passed away last night in the arms of her mom and dad. There will always be a Bean-sized hole in our hearts for her. We’re so grateful to have known her love.
Francesca we love you.
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Someone please show this to
@rebeccasugar
and
@SteSug
... If I told my daughter in the morning that they'd seen her piece, it would make her entire month.
#StevenUniverse
Some personal news: My daughter drew this for the
@USPS
duck stamp contest this year.
She's 11.
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Maestro Verdi and I get to listen to my wife, a working opera singer, every day. This is what I came home to this afternoon. I married way up.
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@elonmusk
"The science is settled" ≈ "No more new rocket designs. Propulsion is settled."
That's not how any of this works.
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Has anyone at MLB looked at Colorado's voting laws? This is going to be a giant own-goal.
DENVER (AP) -- AP source: MLB to relocate All-Star Game to Denver's Coors Field after pulling it from Atlanta over Georgia voting laws.
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@elonmusk
This whole Musk thing has the feling of mid-2015 Donald Trump, back when it was one delirious shock after another and no one could catch their breath.
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I'm adopting one of these rescue puppies this weekend. How do you choose between such adorable animals?
They're beagles mixed with who-knows-what. Help me pick!
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News: 4 days after presenting with what looked like
#COVID
pneumonia, I'm going home from the hospital today. I still have a lot of rehab to do from 2 spine surgeries, but this could have been far worse.
Doctors and nurses here have my undying gratitude and sincere respect.
I'm stuck in the hospital while they figure this out, which is maddening -- but also humbling, because there are probably people on other floors dying if
#COVID
right now. I'm grateful I'm not, and to the doctors and nurses here who do amazing work.
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That was a gift in the 2017-18 cycle. His son will enroll this fall, I think. Plus, Ted is a Stanford alumnus. And if you think a hyper-liberal sitting congressman from Santa Monica has any trouble getting a kid into Stanford, um ... no
I’m sure it’s totally coincidental that
@RealBFolks
drops a bomb on
@tedlieu
and gets his account suspended hours later
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More importantly, about a half-dozen big outlets said they independently "confirmed" the Post's reporting with their own nameless sources. (Stage whisper: "It was all the same dude.")
The dirty little secret is that a lot of the White House press corps welcomed this deception.
🚨 So basically a "source" made up a bunch of Trump quotes, WaPo ran with it, and now they're issuing a correction *two months later* completely contradicting what they originally claimed.
No wonder trust in media is so low.
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LOL. One anonymous source confirms another. I heard about this thing from a guy who told me this other thing, and now some other guy says it's true. Is the first guy the same as the second guy? Will we ever know?
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@brianstelter
Come on. It takes time to find a competent CEO -- at least 4-6 months. You can't replace something with nothing, and getting it right is far more important than satisfying the peanut gallery's timetable.
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Throw in a Seneca chaser:
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
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My daughter is 12. She drew this in a few art classes. I'm blown away. Anyone hungry?
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I've interviewed the President of the United States and I've been summarily banned from covering a Democratic nominee's campaign. Newsworthy stuff.
But I've never tweeted anything that was seen 3.4 million times in 24 hours.
Behold the power of artistic genius. I'm in awe.
Some personal news: My daughter drew this for the
@USPS
duck stamp contest this year.
She's 11.
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I just got an Amazon package in the mail containing a giant bag of Sour Patch Kids, a dozen movie-theatre boxes of cookie dough bites and a large canister of salted caramels. No clue who sent this. No gift receipt, no nothing. Family says no one knows. I'm stumped, but thank you!
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I'm about to brag about my 16-year-old daughter, who taught herself the Korean alphabet in 8th grade (Thanks, K-pop!). Now she's in her 3rd year of classes and I can't understand a thing she's saying. This is part of an oral exam. And the kids one level above get to grade her.
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Made this from scratch out of cherry, walnut, oak, padauk and cedar. How am I doing? It's enormous and it's in my kitchen A year ago I couldn't imagine making anything with my hands.
#makerspace
@nova_labs
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@ScottAdamsSays
@Rasmussen_Poll
Also, he's conflating "major" side effects with "rare" side effects. Those circles might overlap less than we expect. Do they? And can we rely on what side effects ordinary people consider "major"? For some, that might be a headache if they're not used to having them. Do we know?
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Today I went back into the hospital, a few weeks after major spine surgery. I had a 102.6°fever & pneumonia, and I'm hoping it's only that. (My latest COVID-19 test will come back tomorrow.)
This is disappointing, but a lot of people are worse off than I am.
If you want to see the stark separation between true friends/colleagues and opportunists, here's a plan: (1) Have 2 painful spine surgeries, (2) Stay in the hospital for days, (3) Disappear from work, (4) Wait.
I've been pleasantly surprised (thank you!) and truly disappointed.
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Here's the funny thing -- and if you've done this for a living you've encountered it yourself -- it's 99% certain the anonymous sources confirming this for Fox are the *same* anonymous sources who planted it with The Atlantic to begin with. (It's not independent confirmation.)
A top correspondent for Fox News says two former senior
@realDonaldTrump
officials anonymously confirmed part of the Atlantic's report about disparaging remarks Trump allegedly made about fallen soldiers.
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At this point, if the deal *doesn't* go through...we'll have to look far outside Silicon Valley for reasons why. Smart reporters will have been examining, ahead of time, whether government agencies or foreign intelligence services are moving levers to scuttle it for some reason.
New: Twitter’s board plans to comply with
@elonmusk
's demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, an inside source tells
@lizzadwoskin
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Listen to the opening bars of the 1812 Overture. They're based on a style of liturgical chant in a distinctive Kyivian style. There are Ukrainian folk memories in "Mazepps," in his 2nd symphony & at least one piano concertos. And there are memorials to Tchaikovsky in Ukraine.
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Why is it that camera equipment keeps getting better and cheaper, yet UFO images still look like they were shot in Super 8 film in 1952?
In 2004, Navy fighter jets from the U.S.S. Nimitz were off the coast of San Diego when they encountered a whitish oval-shaped craft hovering over the sea. The U.S. Defense Department released their video in 2019 after it was leaked to a documentary filmmaker.
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Here's last year's entry:
Some personal news: My daughter drew this for the
@USPS
duck stamp contest this year.
She's 11.
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This is everything.
LAND OF A MILLION ORPHANS: 'Children raised by children' in Zambia
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Putting this on my feed in the hope that my 16-year-old daughter will read it while she's social-media stalking me.
Everyone who follows these steps to success does well.
1. Focus on useful education
2. Stay out of legal trouble
3. Stay away from drugs
4. Don't become a parent too soon
5. Build a talent stack
6. Be "useful" to others
7. Favor systems over goals
8. Learn basic risk management
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TIL that Tyrannosaurus Rex was chronologically closer to an iPhone than it was to the Stegosaurus.
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This is spot-on.
When a DC axe-grinder takes the same claim to three reporters, hours apart,
#2
and
#3
will claim it's "confirmation" of
#1
's story.
This happens in Washington all the time. It's one reason journalism has crappy ratings.
by
@ggreenwald
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Ask yourself a question: If the "entirety" of a rumor is true, how can one part of it be "especially" true?
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"My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious."
Sources: Trump had heart palpitations on Friday, a possible negative side effect of Regeneron antibody treatment. His fever reached 103. And a G7 ally wonders if he’ll appoint Ivanka president instead of Pence. My latest:
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@ScottAdamsSays
You'll probably miss a recession or two. Labor participation lags a good deal behind.
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This is the definition of "word salad." It's practically word goulash.
KAMALA HARRIS: "For Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic...we will assist Jamaica in Covid recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential."
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I'm holding out for a bill to prevent tax gouging by the tax industry.
PELOSI says she’ll have a bill on the floor next week to prevent oil gouging by the oil industry.
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@ScottAdamsSays
House Speaker and Senate President Pro Tem are 3rd and 4th in line for the presidency. If POTUS and VPOTUS are expected to do this, they would be the next logical persons to request. (Pelosi & Leahy) Cabinet members? Not so much.
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Someone in the White House press corps should ask about this. Moral leadership, etc....
There’s a mask mandate in Los Angeles where violations can carry a $1,000 fine or 6 months in jail but apparently COVID isn’t a concern if you’re a celebrity at the
#Grammys
. Celeb parties are no big deal but have a family party in LA and the mayor can turn off your power.
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My 11-year-old daughter's latest creation. I love the fact that she can do this and I can't.
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Update: COVID test came back negative (Yay!) But doctors say my symptoms all line up with coronavirus so they ordered a second test (not so much Yay). I already had one 2 weeks ago before my spinal surgery too. Takeaway: Number of tests performed ≠ number of people tested.
Today I went back into the hospital, a few weeks after major spine surgery. I had a 102.6°fever & pneumonia, and I'm hoping it's only that. (My latest COVID-19 test will come back tomorrow.)
This is disappointing, but a lot of people are worse off than I am.
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1. When will you visit the southern border, and why haven't you gone yet? It's been more than 4 weeks since the president tasked you with "stemming the migration" flooding in there. (2/6)
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@elonmusk
@ScottAdamsSays
Almost right. Journalism schools have always churned out the same kind of product. What's changed is the information economy. As the cost of entry in publishing approaches zero, you hear more diversity of voices. And then you notice how skewed the baseline has always been.
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This. Omicron appears to produce antibodies that attack Delta. It's a more communicable but less deadly strain. It does basically the same thing a vaccine does.
This is how every pandemic in history has ended, BTW.
Israel is *not* there yet, but is considering a policy of vaccination-by-omicron.
"In light of the lack of immediate rise in serious illness... officials in the Health Ministry have recently raised the option of switching to a “mass infection model”"
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Actually, vegans don't live longer. They just look older.
Vegans outlive meat eaters by nine years. Nine miserable, tortured, baconless years.
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This is an interesting exposition, but likely incomplete IMO. It's not just our own intelligence services trying to impact everything downstream. I would also put the news industry on the same level as any political party, given the amount of direct interference there. It's a lot
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Very classy. Kamala Harris offered the same thing. Can anyone recall Trump ever calling Obama "Mr. President"? Nothing comes to mind.
Mr. President, Jill and I are sad to learn of your younger brother Robert’s passing. I know the tremendous pain of losing a loved one — and I know how important family is in moments like these. I hope you know that our prayers are with you all.
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Yes,
@kevincorke
is the man. One of my favorite human beings.
@foxnewsnight
@kevincorke
@RepNancyMace
@dmartosko
@MayMailman
@RotellaLegal
@Jeff_Paul
@AshleyStrohmier
@BillFOXLA
@ChadPergram
@GillianHTurner
Great to see
@kevincorke
anchor. Perfect fit for that chair.
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Today seems like a good day to reiterate my only Twitter policy: Criticize me all you want, but if you curse at me I will either mute you or block you, depending on my mood.
And since I'm recovering from spine surgeries right now, my fuse is a bit short. Please be civil.
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Russian TV picked a hell of a time to start recruiting in Washington.
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You all remember my daughter (now 12) who drew a prize-winning duck in this year's
@USFWS
stamp contest? (See the next tweet.)
Take a listen,
@SimonCowell
, and have your people call her people (which is me, I guess).
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One of my children is taking the trash out tonight for the last time before she leaves for college. And suddenly, shit just got real.
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I'm happy to report to my second scary spinal surgery in 2 years went off splendidly. Lots of pain and physical rehab ahead, but there's officially more titanium in my neck and back than in most golf bags.
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@Olivianuzzi
The prickly pear cactus is also known as "tuna." California's La Tuna Canyon is full of them. Not a bluefin in sight. And we say "cheddar cheese," too. (See definition
#2
)
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@TrungTPhan
So he was a high-functioning alcoholic with a high tolerance level built over many years in a high-stress job.
Sounds like a lot of institutional Washington. 😀
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Some personal news: I will be be joining the
@WETAClassical
roster of radio announcers in Washington. Coolest part-time side hustle ever, & something I've wanted to do since I was 10. (Fun fact: I have a master's degree in orchestral conducting from the Peabody Conservatory.)
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Sorry, but the moment someone threatens a reporter, "off the record" has no meaning.
Talking OTR doesn't mean you have permission to threaten or harass someone.
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