Virginia Heffernan
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I profiled the great Marina Hadjipateras for
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The World’s Most Important Industry Has a New Captain—and She’s Piloting It Into the 21st Century | WIRED
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The brave Parkland students are doing something astonishing. They are instantly preempting disinfo & gaslighting by posting testimony, evidence, photos. And they have rallied to specifically to oppose the NRA. This is courageous grieving; they are warriors fighting for all of us.
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@staceyabrams
is the greatest strategist and tactician we have seen in U.S. politics in a very long time
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Actually just furious that my aunt died.
Laura Ingraham thinks "Americans should be furious" that the pandemic isn't as bad as originally projected
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My wonderful Aunt Peg, born May 2 1928, who had the best laugh and looked like a 50s movie star, died today in Massachusetts of Covid-19.
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Maybe calling McCain and the war dead suckers and losers was locker room talk
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"We regard Ivanka Trump the way we do half-wit Saudi princes. It's in our national interest to flatter them.”
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Is it just me or does it seem like the president of the United States is an active participant in a murder coverup?
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PSA. For anyone beset by Nazi and brownshirt bots: I changed my Twitter address to Germany at the suggestion of a shrewd friend, and they vanished. Germany has stricter hate-speech laws.
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An 80yo couple close to me, lifelong GOP, got hijacked by Fox News in 2010 or so.
They started railing against the MSM & sidling up to conspiracy theories. 6m ago they quit Fox. Voted for Biden. TODAY they subscribed to
@washingtonpost
.
This is like watching people get sober
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Kavanaugh hard in favor of life in prison for people who make mistakes as teenagers. Well isn't that special
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Kids dead in the Trump camps: Darlyn, Jakelin, Felipe, Mariee, Carlos, Wilmer, Juan.
Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle, 10
Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7
Felipe Alonzo-Gomez, 8
Mariee Juárez, 20 mos
Carlos Hernandez Vasquez, 16 Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vásquez, 2
Juan de León Gutiérrez, 16
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Neil Young is a polio survivor.
“They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young,” Neil Young wrote in a letter to his manager and label, “Not both." Young demands Spotify remove his music over "false information about vaccines"
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Joe, kiddo. I got my PhD when 2 ancient & 2 mod langs were required & 10y of bowing & scraping to men like you. So I use my title. Sure, It’s not for BAs like you mistaken for MDs, but for ppl like me & Dr. Biden who are mistaken for housewives.
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Cowardice is what landed the Trumps in the US to begin with.
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I’m sure the president is stocking up on eggs, bagels and tulips for Melania’s breakfast in bed tomorrow. On her first-ever Mother’s Day, in 2006, he was having two affairs.
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Quick Rand Paul review:
1. Didn't finish college.
2. Got MD anyway from Duke, but found it too hard to get certified as an ophthalmologist, so started his own certification board, which was never deemed legit. Currently has no certification to practice medicine.
Worth recalling, Rand Paul was one of the biggest, more destructive, spreaders of misinformation and panic about how Ebola may spread. That he’s downplaying COVID spread now is quite the 180
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@ahylton26
Hold on my ex-husband bought me a gigantic TV (?) and as I was installing it he asked for a divorce. We just need one more example and it’s a thing.
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Warren would be the brightest, most dynamic, most imaginative, most principled & most effective American president in history.
But she’s also asking a lot of Americans. In other years we could have risen to this challenge, but we are too broken by Trump to rise to the occasion.
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The fact that this news is not above the fold in 24 pt on the major broadsheets is a travesty.
I’ll do my best:
HILLARY CLINTON SHAM PROBE DROPPED; NO WRONGDOING FOUND; PITCHFORK SALES PLUMMET AMONG THE HUMILIATED GOP AS MUELLER PROBE CONTINUES BRISK PATTERN OF INDICTMENTS
House GOP quietly ends probe into FBI's 2016 decisions
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Is anyone guessing that Trump will see in one horrible sickening flash what a 2020 loss—and an unpardoned exit from the White House into the loving arms of SDNY — will cost him...
...and then give serious thought to resigning?
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I’ve gone back and forth on whether the “cult” framework works.
It does.
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Just now realizing: Khashoggi was banned in KSA was not because he was critical of Mohammad bin Salman, the devastation of Yemen, Wahhabism, or the Salafi movement. It was because, ON NOVEMBER 10, 2016, in DC, Khashoggi mildly criticized...Donald Trump.
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"I hope you can see your way clear to letting Flynn go" finally found its true love in Bill Barr
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Has there be a time in history when citizens *overreacted* to encroaching fascism in their government? The dangers of caution and skepticism about Trump's cruelty right now seem far greater than the dangers of overreaction, but I'm prepared to be told i'm wrong.
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The person who knew the ways of Putin & Trump best, & who called it all first & most clearly will always be Hillary Clinton.
Not journalists. Not the FBI. Not Mike Morell. But the incisive far-sighted SecState Hillary Clinton. No wonder she is so unlikable...to Trump & Putin.
In hindsight, this clip from one of the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton debates is pretty telling.
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Trump absence from Twitter has made political exchanges much richer and more possible - like when kudzu or another predator plant is cut back, and there can be biodiversity again
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A word to
@jkbjournalist
: you seized the Epstein story w/a ferocity that was singularly equal to our dark times. Nothing is lost. Without your focus & intensity we wouldn’t have heard the clear voices of the girls & women—& your voice—which will now, unlike his, never be silenced
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If only there were something a Cabinet member could do to remove an "unhinged" president.
2/ Secretary Nielsen “believed the situation was becoming untenable with the President becoming increasingly unhinged about the border crisis and making unreasonable and even impossible requests,” a senior administration official tells CNN.
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I have a “I have a joke” joke, but it meta cruel fate.
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It's almost like he knows he's leaving soon & intends to saturate the mattress of the nation with urine before checkout at noon.
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Always a superb reason to keep someone in public service
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Canada, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 Kelly emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.
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Impeach him again. Aggressive, constitutional, justified. This cannot stand.
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I will say this Epstein-Barr stuff is making me...chronically fatigued.
*shows self out*
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Hot other tip: no one who Epstein could give up in any way is an ally. If Elizabeth Warren flew around the world with Epstein and got a sex massage from a trafficked child, she’s dead to me.
I'm seeing lots of folks on the left and the right who seem absolutely sure that Epstein is going to give up their political enemies. Hot tip: he's just as likely to give up your allies.
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Melania cut down a cherry tree & drained the life out of the landscape — but would call that fake news
Before and after photographs of newly renovated White House Rose Garden:
courtesy
#Getty
and
@marycjordan
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Why tell Twitter but also why not: My son became a bar mitzvah today and I’m so happy.
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Elizabeth Warren refused Bernie Sanders his “good game, you little firecracker” handshake.
He was mad.
Rather than let him deny he’s a sexist, she checkmated him into proving it.
Me
@latimesopinion
:
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Donald Ayer: “Barr doesn’t believe in the central tenet of our gov’t—that no one is above the law. [He wants] a virtually autocratic executive. Given our national trust in a rule of law no one can subvert, it’s not too strong to say Barr is un-American.”
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I know it’s a day about the other guy but the story about a Moses-like foundling in the New York subway in 2000 is required Easter reading. 🐣
Stay for all the pictures and try not to cry
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So. More on the modern slave trade. Justice obstructor AG Bill Barr's dad, Donald Barr, the Dalton headmaster who unaccountably hired college dropout Coney Island hustler Jeffrey Epstein to teach underage girls, wrote a sex-slavery novel while working with Epstein.
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Having still not grasped the humiliation that America elected Trump, we now have the added humiliation that he served out a full term.
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the exposure of real-time witness tampering on live TV with the witness registering her response then and there might even be said to have... pizzazz
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It’s tedious to keep posting these — I’m tweeting about 10% — but, more than a month after Tucker Carlson attacked me by name & photo, they keep coming. Many to my mailbox. All with threats.
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Twitter is not the place for naked sincerity and idealism. I know that. But the sound of angry women who will not be slaves again is not faint. The old regime is structurally unsound. Something is changing, and not incrementally, and the world feels very young suddenly.
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@ejeancarroll
is now at the center of Barr’s massive gaslighting operation, which affects all of us. E. Jean alone probably has the wit and nerve to endure it. Her persistence is service to the rest of us.
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Oh god the Trumpites next door, who are as rabid as you can get without being Q or believing Trump actually won, just PLOWED OUR DRIVEWAY WITHOUT BEING ASKED AND DID A GREAT JOB sos
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I’m prepared to tweet for 450 hours straight about the importance of ending the filibuster.
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With even Pelosi and Nadler thinking only about impeachment’s effect on Dems in 2020 I just can’t stop saying I don’t care.
It’s not politics; it’s crime. If facts and law are just political poses, we as a nation have become insane.
Last thing! Impeachment is not about politics it’s about holding someone who is suspected of committing crimes, Trump’s case he does it in the open daily, accountable. It’s also about making the public aware and providing all evidence to the people.
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Trump is both compromising American sovereignty and orchestrating an insurrection from inside the White House.
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Stunning. Depressing.
To see Parnas and Giuliani cheer Barr’s distortion of the Mueller Report—which they took as a big fat greenlight for a new crime spree—is so depressing there are no words.
Also my Barr loathing has reached dangerous levels.
NEW: The private Instagram account of Lev Parnas reveals new clues about his access to the Trump family and his close relationship with Rudy Giuliani.
w/
@emmatscott
@LaurizzleK
@WSJVideo
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This presidency is one long neverending Saturday Night Massacre
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Raskin’s COS used a fire iron to protect his daughter and son in law. My mind can’t process this.
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Thank you,
@MaryLTrump
, for bringing this up. Anything that Donald Trump has said about veterans, war dead, John McCain, or nearly any of the other people he routinely insults, he said about his own brother first—before he stole his money. Here's to Fred Trump Jr.
In addition to serving in the Nat’l Guard my dad was a professional pilot at the dawn of the jet age. His brother Donald and his father Fred thought he was a loser and a sucker. To those of you who have loved, served, and sacrificed for our country—you are in very good company.
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I NEVER FAILED AN EXAM IN MY LIFE, AND AM NOW TENURED FACULTY AT YALE WITH A CHAIR!
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If you criticize Sanders, you get reported to your boss, sent rape imagery, savaged as brain-damaged, a snake, a Nazi. For days.
The Sanders campaign smears, bullies, defames & threatens critics. Happened in 2016 & it’s happening again.
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Flashback to when IVANKA pushed her father to hire Flynn.
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He urged Democrats under siege to run to the other side of the aisle so they could “blend in” with Republicans and not be murdered.
Realized in a flash that some of his colleagues cannot, can never, “blend in.”
Rep. Dean Phillips: "I'm here tonight to say to my brothers & sisters in Congress & all around our country, I'm sorry. For I've never understood, really understood, what privilege really means. It took a violent mob of insurrectionists & lightning-bolt moment in this very room."
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Brutal — and searingly beautiful. First ruling that has ever brought me to tears.
Here’s a key part of the Ruling dismissing Trump’s Pennsylvania lawsuit.
Brutal.
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@MonicaLewinsky
, whose commentary on all things is always lively and incisive, is especially allowed to tweet ANYTHING she wants to today.
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Jeffrey Epstein, who didn’t go to college, is a billionaire, who started off work at the $$$ Dalton School, teaching teenagers, when he was inexplicably hired without a college degree by US AG BILL BARR’s FATHER, then the head of school.
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Prediction for Facebook users: certain lefties are going to see the zone flooded with Tulsi Gabbard comms—and attacks on Kamala Harris—that will look weird and may not be exactly...homegrown.
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Oh look just casually calling today's trending topic of President Pelosi back on OCTOBER 9, TWENTY SEVENTEEN
Stick with me, Twitter, your prophetess
Trump resigns, Congress flips, Pence is impeached. President Pelosi. Daring to dream.
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Now we choose to vote not because it is easy, but because it is hard
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I hope this doesn't sound grandiose but Zelenskyy seems to be reinventing the world in front of our eyes—reimagining culture, borders, digital citizenship & leadership, even the idea of "living on Earth." If he is assassinated, the loss will be unfathomably great.
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When a paper publishes an editorial, it lends its authority & above all RESOURCES to the author. Not only does Tom Cotton get the IQ boost of Times typeface, he gets editors, copy eds, & fact-checkers who are charged with burnishing his argument to give it the best possible shot.
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At-home abortion kits are the ingenious and inevitable solution.
The NHS has done abortions exclusively via telemedicine throughout the pandemic. It's the way.
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This is a minority view but I’m increasingly convinced that Trumpism will disintegrate when Trump leaves office.
As enlightened as it seems to see Trumpism as “systemic”—as inextricable from America itself—it may be a mistake.
The news could be much better than that.
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Trying to sort this out...Daily Caller for Sanders, Ben Shapiro for Sanders, Russian botnets of course all-in for Sanders (see # LyingLiz) and now Hugh Hewitt VOTING for Sanders.
So many new Democratic Socialists!
That whirling, whirling horseshoe...
WATCH: Hugh Hewitt announces that he will vote in the Democratic party in Virginia on March 3rd.
#MTP
#IfItsSunday
@hughhewitt
: "I'm voting for Bernie Sanders"
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Three and a half years ago, investment banker & Republican dirty trickster Peter W. Smith told the WSJ that he & Mike Flynn had reached out to Russian hackers for—you guessed it—dirt on HRC in 2016. Ten days after this confession, he died by suicide in a Minnesota hotel room.
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I’ve never met grown men more terrified to break their NDAs than Apprentice staffers. Kudos to Noel Casler.
Taking a cue from Summer Zervos, Stormy Daniels, Weinstein staff and victims.
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It’s useful, in hindsight, to have Biden’s measured statement about Tara Reade’s accusation: “it never, never happened.”
It suggests that being *falsely* accused maybe doesn’t look like this:
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Me in rural convenience store: “Oh sorry I forgot a mask. I’m vaccinated fwiw.”
Her: “oh me too. I just wear a mask so people don’t think I’m crazy.”
“Cheers”
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THIS is when Lindsey Graham broke bad. Mark my words.
Something happened in those windy and wet conditions and it wasn’t a “73.”
Really enjoyed a round of golf with President
@realDonaldTrump
today.
President Trump shot a 73 in windy and wet conditions!
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The president* is a cheater. My piece on Trump as a dice-loading, deck-stacking, bogus foul-calling, America-defrauding cheat.
"Cheaters are especially malevolent actors in a social system because they paralyze competitions and contracts, demoralizing both their teammates and their opponents," says
@page88
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Really feeling for people who have to look up “empathy” tonight
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I didn’t expect it either. I condemned him as a spent geezer in 2020. But hope comes from unexpected corners, and this time it’s in the person of a grief-stricken old Catholic with a lifetime of losses, who decided to keep faith in this broken country.
Americans have filed for a record 16 million new business applications since I came into office.
Every one of those applications is a sign of hope.
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Can a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court be indicted?
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Entirely because I wish I'd written
@RepAdamSchiff
's rousing and case-closing address I am going to tweet the whole damn thing. 1/
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Remember when Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and Trump nominated a Handmaid to the Court and everyone got Covid at the unmasked superspreader ceremony and McConnell and Graham in sick spite and utter desperate hypocrisy confirmed her? Remember how that was LESS THAN A YEAR AGO?
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@JoyceWhiteVance
goes through the cards in the hand of Trump’s defenders — and it’s a whole lot of nothing.
Why All of Donald Trump's Impeachment Defenses Will Fail | Time
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I’d just like to take this chance to distance myself from Donald Trump. He was like a coffee boy to me. He was very low-level. I’m not sure I’d recognize him if he walked into the room.
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Why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in heaven & earth. I heard many things in hell. How am I mad? Hearken! Observe how healthily, how calmly I can tell you the story
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4 years ago a former Secretary of State said Trump was Putin's puppet & everything he did proved it, as did the Mueller Report & the impeachment. But for 4y I've thought, until HR McMaster says it, I'm reserving judgment. Well, the day has come.
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All of the GOP senators who confirmed Kavanaugh should be ashamed. And no one of themSUSANCOLLINSshould he singled out as any more treacherous, dishonest and opportunistic than any other.
Every single senator who voted for Brett Kavanaugh despite the clear obfuscation and obstruction of the investigation into his history of sexual assault should feel deeply ashamed. It is an enormous tragedy of the democratic process.
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Lots of people doing armchair oppo and purity tests on private citizen Michael Avenatti. God I *hope* they don’t find out that Stormy Daniels has had sexual intercourse before
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