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@OddRue To be fair it’s great when international events can provide healthcare to participants who are citizens of underprivileged countries
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@Rachel26716201 @IntheNow_tweet @SholaChild How many jobs lost, background checks failed, family custody situations upended...
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@CptCorporate @jordi2nd @Europarl_EN There was a similar standardization around Micro-USB. Turned out when the technology changed, the EU had no issue changing with it
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@notwokieleaks You before hitting Send on this tweet
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@floridamanjames When you don’t think the predator is going to eat YOUR face
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@RonanReigns “What is this ‘draft system’, and what do you mean those who bought the NBA title don’t get first pick?”
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@molly_knight @ThomTillis All those juicy names and email addresses of people (especially NC people) who are so sucked into the Trump-Fox orbit tho
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@dgleick @JoeHeim “By voting too much, millennials are killing voting”
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@BillFOXLA @FoxNews @TuckerCarlson Tucker’s audience trying to decide whether to root for the teacher or the cop, but the teacher is racist and the cop is nonwhite
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@itsapurdy @Mnemorath Funny how many of the service members who show understanding of Walz’ choices post under their own names, and about the same of the haters, especially ones using c*ward and tr*itor to describe a dude who was so essential he wasn’t stoplossed, are too scared to do likewise
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@telushk the rest of the world is amazed that Supreme Court justices don't retire at 75, and that the process for replacing same is so catastrophically flawed.
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@TheEconomist @benshapiro Is this the result of a “market research says we’re stodgy, but we want to be edgy” brainstorming session? This ain’t it Chief
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@BuzzFeedNews hey Buzzfeeder who typed up this tweet and the manager who told them to do it: Jonah Peretti is disgustingly rich but he sure isn't your pal. Hopefully you find new gigs before you get your own invite to "SpringIsHere"
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@TheEconomist Poke the historian bear and they bring the receipts
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@natbiase This is the Toronto that 13 years of Conservative government has left Olivia Chow, yes
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@dianetuman @JasonThorne_RPP The crueller thing is surely that this has been known for decades and that bridge hasn’t been raised since? I mean, even if other routes now exist, leaving that in place sends a message of its own
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@xoxogossipgita Is this a surprise? Dude clearly likes writers
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@fearthe_void Buddy, I don’t know how you think posting that makes you look good. He asked you how what you propose to do makes the slightest positive difference in Palestinian lives and all you did was duck and weave
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@Brexit "Unexpected" - for goodness sake. Irish people tried to tell British folk during the referendum, and the EU27 made the border one of their three main negotiating items. What is this lazy headline about?
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@dmrider @TorontoStar If we wanted a mayor who took the pulse of the city based on what bank CEOs thought, we could just bring back John Tory (not an endorsement)
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@cityoftoronto Ticket literally everyone at every anti mask gathering, and we’ll talk about what other people should do then
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@thomas_k_r Funny how all these people worried about inappropriate jocularity at SIVB post no receipts
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@coolkarenkay @mvincent81 @SI_PeterKing @VP Nobody's telling VP to stick to politics rather than disrupting football games with security theatre VPOTUS trips entail tho. Interesting
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@CLeBlanc4Canada @calwhitejr @RollingStone It was a settlement of litigation - i.e. the government decided a court might award MORE.
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@tomahern @samstein if you turn up to an event such as this, the rules having been negotiated by your own representative, then ignoring them for tactical advantage just marks you out as someone whose word can't be relied on
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@NYDailyNews Is this a #Brooklyn99 episode plot someone snuck into your paper?
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@mattlundy33 Oh no the easy money tap is clogged and they will have to find actual tenants and maybe work too
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@SenMikeLee COVID isn't the only contagion loose in the GOP Congressional Delegation.
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@dippedngold @OddRue Macron gonna bring some of those docs and nurses on his next State Visit to DC as a flex
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@ddale8 Shocked, shocked that the Daily Heil would not be truthful in its reporting!
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@AndrewFeinberg @daveweigel @gtconway3d And then the cheering side lost at home for the first time in years
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@RenoCavalry The reply guys saying “we don’t mean you” - if Mark Kelly had run they would have denied the existence of space
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@Gabriel_Pogrund @StevePeers Guido desperately hoping it’s a remainer because otherwise he gets no clicks from a story he won’t otherwise post
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@DemolitionDan @benshapiro “We can cool the planet with nuclear winter” is a take all right
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@AbeRakov @OverheardinDC One of the things I am most afraid of with the Biden administration and the inbuilt desire of DC establishment to “move on, return to business as usual” is that it will not, in fact, be held against them as they absolutely deserve
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@voyaller @SwiftOnSecurity “I didn’t get it” would have been shorter
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@ireptheculture @Nitzky89 America: “we are the leaders of the free world” The rest of the free world: “have you ever considered term limits or retirement ages for judges, seems like it would smooth out some probl-” America: “OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS NOT FOR CRITICISM BY FOREIGN WEIRDOS”
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@investor_bod @ItsMatt_Again @Luke_Viner NW Cambridgeshire not listed in the top *150* Labour target seats. Definitely a learn the trade learn to take your beating assignment Mind you, he’s been on Cambridge council for two years already including a re-election!
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@gino_peters @stats_canada if it wasn't for Canada you lot wouldn't have a flag to sew on your backpack to pretend not to be American abroad
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@jsatz23 @DanCrenshawTX It’s a Republican presidency; deficits are cool until the WH changes hands again
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@WTOP Ratio incoming like a V2 rocket
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@lpferris @kaitlancollins Picture doesn’t show what the air cover looks like.
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This is a winning argument for any Torontonian who has never visited a park in Tory’s tenure but likes to think we’re a first class city. Overflowing bins swarmed with wasps, pools heaters broken and liners worn out, decrepit island ferries, closed washrooms
@JohnTory
John Tory
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Parks are an essential part of what makes any city liveable, and Toronto is no exception. I'm committed to making Toronto cleaner and greener by continuing to invest in our parks, and build even more of them. Learn more about my plan:
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@TinaYazdani Are TPS putting armbands on buildings so cars don’t run into them as happened twice this week??
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@jnsanchez @k_proberts @MatthewACherry Bet they wouldn’t get the second scoop of ice cream the orange toddler demands or else tantrum
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@JasonKirk_fyi The people who watched him win a state title with a student catchment which produced 0-27 a few years earlier might dispute the “lesser”
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@Elohim_Gadol @SenMcSallyAZ Because there aren’t enough already
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Former Prime Minister of Canada, on Trump:
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@MollySwanx6 @mrniallpower Just going to leave this here - the giver of belly rubs can also open cans of whupass
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@PascalShea you before sending this tweet
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@BrexitCentral This 2014 article aged poorly
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@anacondacode @adrianweckler @smcs Crypto bro sides with Musk shocker
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@RonSFriedman @EvanDyerCBC Maybe read the articles first Ron.
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@jonathanchait Sorry, but this frog was dead *before* it reached the dissection table.
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@ianpaisleymp @SiobhanFenton I think lots of us can think of at least one more option
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@doctors4lifeire Electoral Act 1992 s106(1) If any person misconducts himself at a polling station or fails to obey the lawful orders of the presiding officer for that station, he may immediately, by order of the said presiding officer, be removed from the polling station /cont
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@trishanderton @NNotiar @BFC_Zoe @LauraPAuthor Maybe they should say "we will charge you 20 pounds to measure your kid's foot, and give you a voucher to spend in this store for 30"
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@scottew OGs know moving away from F-keys to mousing for transaction systems was a productivity decline - I did some of those conversions in the late 90s / early 00s
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@AJentleson Hard to take criticisms of AOC et al seriously when Dem congressional leadership does such material damage to a future Dem presidency
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@ddale8 I think the gotcha is that US politicians tend to tell people that US healthcare is the best in the world because of the market system. Going abroad *for any reason* chips at that narrative
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@danghentschel Evicting working single mothers is what Catholicism means in 2024?
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@MikeVickersCB @moulton_jasmine @awudrick @osstf I think he's saying they need a pay rise since they are now frontline workers
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@samoosterhoff @fordnation @LisaThompsonMPP As the father of a student in #onpoli public special education I look forward to your answers to these reasonable and pertinent questions
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Reverend Michael Coren
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Could you answer four basic questions please. 1)Do you have any children in the school system? 2)Have you ever taught in it? 3)How much, if any, time have you spent as a student in the public system? 4)Do you have any relevant academic qualifications? Thanks.
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@tomhfh @MurphyOfMercia Pity Jill is the local Conservative branch vice-chairman and her family run a Jaguar dealership. Not someone easy for this government to ignore, like the poor or the vulnerable
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@luminita_milea @LynneJJMcDonald @CanRevAgency Pride isn’t a political party. You got a picture of a church service with Liberal, Green, NDP signs or name checks for their leader - throw them up
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@davidgura @marthamaccallum @FoxNews @SecPompeo Still only one time that Article 5 was invoked, right?
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@dotMudge "We had to pwn the server in order to save it"
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@JonesDwj @NeilClark66 @freddie801 Not to mention that mask wearing, better hand washing and more personal space in workplaces will likely reduce other non Covid cough/sneeze transmissible infections as a collateral benefit
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@ColinDMello Anyone going to ask him about his campaign manager? (Via @goldsbie )
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@Francophile1962 @sunnywintersays @Sarah_Hayward @BBCNews Cloudy beginnings not withstanding, a model of fidelity compared to Trump, and never admitted to/bragged about sexual assault.
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@iancmclaren eight years and the hotdog thing later
@JoeyBats19
Jose Bautista
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. @simmonssteve who are you and why are you talking to me?
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@ireland1921 @jimwaterson What do you expect Microsoft to have done here? They don’t own Crowdstrike or control their deployment schedule.
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@thunderxstorm07 @Sorrelish “Expected to exceed” = “I made it up” There is a precedent
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@cunarders @HamillHimself @terrycrews Terry journeys to a remote Irish island to consult his rookie mentor #ThePecsAwaken #B99Season6 #Brooklyn99
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@rmp266 @ladyhaja @LADFLEG But he will, because shame is dead and show bookers just can't be bothered finding new people.
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Trying to imagine the rage and ridicule of Conservative Twitter if Justin Trudeau held a festival in his family's name #FordFest
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@CandiceBergenMP the people of Canada decided that, on the whole, they don't see the world as you do.
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@ScottTKennedy How can it be expected that those who drank the GOP kool aid will realize what a Democratic president has done for them, when they can’t even speak to him on the phone after a family member’s murder lest they be considered unfaithful to the cult?
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@kevinzhang25 @Perez_Writes Would require universities consciously uncoupling from the endowment industry, and governments giving them dependable funding to replace it with
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@MJ_Bryant There's a pandemic on. Get a grip. The Atlantic provinces are taking reasonable steps to keep their economies open.
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@UsmanBaghi Sales manager for China-Europe rail freight service heading into the office
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@StevenTDennis It's as if a subject which was deemed unimportant for two years will be deemed super important for two years
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@IAPonomarenko The phrase has become a bit devalued in the last 18 months my dude
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@ArcticFox_am_I @EvanMAllen deliberate misreading by frog disciples who can't stand happy brown people
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@CBCToronto How many votes do international investors have? Just kidding - in a city where a mayoral campaign needs $3m-$5m to have a chance we know money talks
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@MD_Lafrance @Justin_Ling Don’t forget this one
@MeehanCarolAnne
Carol Anne Meehan
3 years
The Ottawa Police Services Board does NOT direct the Chief and @OttawaPolice Direct your anger at @CanadianPM @JustinTrudeau who caused this mess, and who refuse to be the leader we need to end the occupation. We have asked for his help countless time. Why is ignoring @ottawa
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@RunnertheFirst @acoyne What do we call changing the conditions of an election, mid-election? Legislative overreach? #onpoli #bill5 #topoli
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@DavidWright_CNN the real problem here is that Gorka was on television in the first place. Is there no Trump surrogate that channels will say "nope" to?
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@SwiftOnSecurity Dude put in 24 while teaching high school and coaching football, wrecking his hearing firing artillery, to then go to Congress and advocate for veterans, and then get elected and re-elected governor of his state, to be called a coward and a traitor by blue check clowns/bots
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@beatonna @jm_mcgrath Gotta respect a show that ticked the Borg box in the first episode and then never used them again. Would have been better if they had jammed in Q in the same one/done, but it wasn’t a perfect show, just a great one
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@BranwenBingle @patricktbn @brendanenglish9 He’s “the Companion” now though, right?
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@davidallengreen governance by press release
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