w.a.mckie
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Existentialist. "Achtung y'all" #bingo
Joined November 2009
I remember what it meant to finally leave the hospital—the relief mixed with uncertainty about what comes next. I’m so grateful Sophia has reached this milestone and I’m praying for her and her family as they continue their recovery journey. https://t.co/piFa81S4Qq
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A 12-year-old girl who doctors said was on the brink of death after being shot in the head this summer while praying with classmates of Annunciation Catholic School was greeted by dozens of cheering...
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"The East Wing was the workbench of the republic’s rituals, the place that once transformed policy into hospitality, power into presence, memory into history." Read one of @TheRickWilson's finest columns of the year on Lincoln Square: https://t.co/AIN2hKRF2J
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"On one hand he says 'I'm so rich, I've got so much money, I don't need any more.' On the other hand, he is always asking for your money": NYT investigative reporter @Fahrenthold on the president's offer to give $230 million that he's asking for from the DOJ to charity.
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If this doesn't make you cry, see a doctor, there's something terribly wrong with you. @jonstewart I feel your pain.
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WATCH: “Folks, he has no intention of leaving.” @profgalloway & @JessicaTarlov agree Trump’s tacky $350,000,000 ballroom and East Wing destruction show he plans to violate the constitution and stay beyond the end of his term. #OrgyOfCorruption Full: https://t.co/2tQ3lLEGIK
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Michael Shelden, a Dean’s Research Professor, and a renowned biographer who has written about George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and others speaks about the importance of free speech.
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Michael Shelden, a Dean’s Research Professor, and a renowned biographer who has written about George Orwell, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, and others speaks about the importance of free speech.
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Why Beyond Meat shares have surged 1,000% in four days
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Shares in the struggling plant-based meat company have rallied as retail traders pile onto stock.
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Congratulations to Maryland alums @DickJerardi and @GARYWILLIAMS02 on being inducted into the Philly Sports Hall of Fame! 🏀 Read More ⬇️ https://t.co/iqVZE81Z0E
umterps.com
Maryland alums Dick Jerardi and Gary Williams will be inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday, November 6.
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Ron Johnson says it won’t be “gut wrenching” if ACA enhanced subsidies “just go away.” Tell that to the 235,000 Wisconsinites who would see their monthly out of pocket costs skyrocket, or be priced out of affording insurance at all.
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OPINION by @DavidColborne: Who really “hates America” — peaceful protesters in frog costumes or a president openly fantasizing about militant monarchy? Reno’s No Kings protest was regally eye-opening. Read it here: https://t.co/7jVxjIxb2w
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Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's an opportunist. He's not fit to be President of the United States.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright visited North Las Vegas today, holding a news conference outside the Mission Support and Test Services complex to report that shutdown-caused furloughs of federal employees had begun at the Nevada National Security Site. More tonight on @KTNV.
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After 79 days in the hospital, @calvertphoto is finally home. He'll have a few more days of rest before checking back into the hospital for another round of chemo. Full update from David here: https://t.co/YQGsruU1IO
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Dangerous enough to try to kill with military force but not dangerous enough to detain and prosecute via lawful methods--almost certainly because a lawful case could not be made before a court. Especially awkward for DOD.
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Two men rescued by the U.S. military after it attacked a boat in the Caribbean Sea were being sent to their home countries of Colombia and Ecuador, President Trump said.
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The CHP and highway safety experts are saying what any person with common sense knows: It is not safe for people to drive on a major freeway at high speeds directly under LIVE MUNITIONS. White House not communicating, endangering the public, and then trying to blame the
Newscum is lying. He closed the highway — not only did nobody at the White House or the Marines ask him to do so, the Marines repeatedly said there are no public safety concerns with today’s exercises. Newscum lies and tries to make it about himself? Day ending in ‘y’
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Laurene Powell Jobs, owner of The Atlantic, goes in on fellow billionaire media owner Marc Benioff: "In his eyes, generosity is an auction—and policy is the prize awarded to the highest bidder." https://t.co/09GnQ1rT6x
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True generosity flows quietly to communities that already know what they need, building capacity not dependency.
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A part of the 5 Freeway will be shut down for an event at Camp Pendleton being attended by Vice President JD Vance on Saturday, despite reports earlier this week indicating it wouldn’t be closed. https://t.co/szqXoqFF9A
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On January 19, 1981, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was so upset when he learned that a Vietnam veteran was going to commit suicide near his house that he rushed to the scene just four minutes later and personally saved the man. He then escorted the veteran to the hospital.
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"Defining white South Africans, and Europeans who disagree with their government's migration policies, as being somehow victims of human rights abuse or political repression....it's a way of mocking the entire system of refugee protection." ICYMI @anneapplebaum joins @Timodc:
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