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I make it rain. 📡 Bad opinions are all mine. Aspiring flâneur. Tom Nook apologist. My new book is THE SKIES ABOVE. He/him. 🏳️🌈 || @wxdam .com on Bluesky.
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Thrilled that my book The Skies Above was named a 2022 National Outdoor Book Award Silver Medalist in the nature/environment category.
I love to hear so many folks have enjoyed reading about our skies and beyond.
Get your copy today!
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17 people die in a high school and a month later there's a nationwide protest to get the attention of lawmakers.
One dog dies on an airplane and there's a bill in the Senate rectifying it within 48 hours.
I will be filing a bill tomorrow that will prohibit airlines from putting animals in overhead bins. Violators will face significant fines. Pets are family.
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The President of the United States altered a National Hurricane Center map with a sharpie to falsely extend the official forecast toward Alabama so he didn't have to admit he was wrong in a tweet.
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It is a violation of federal law to falsify a National Weather Service forecast and pass it off as official, as President Trump did here.
18 U.S. Code § 2074:
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They buried the best tidbit at the very end of the article:
Alaska Airlines is the only airline with scheduled service from Anchorage to Juneau, so she has no way to get to the legislature unless she takes a days-long ferry ride.
Alaska Airlines has banned Alaska Senator Lora Reinbold for her "continued refusal" to follow mask rules
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Not for nothing, today was the five-year anniversary of his saluting a North Korean general.
Trump vows that if he wins the presidency, he will appoint a special prosecutor to "go after Biden" and "the entire Biden crime family."
"I will totally obliterate the deep state," Trump adds. "I am the only one who can save this nation."
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Reminder: Hillary Clinton gets to cast one of the electoral votes that throws him out of office. 🙃
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A friend just criticized Hillary's television ads for being so negative.
Her ads are literally just clips of Donald Trump saying things.
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Remember this when we deal with four months of nothing but "Hunter Biden."
Jared Kushner briefs the nation on the coronavirus from the White House.
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Bernie's new campaign tool lets you harvest the personal data of anyone you know so Bernie's campaign can reach out to them.
This is incredibly invasive. It's like the PATRIOT Act for Twitter trolls.
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An Oklahoma state house district near Tulsa just flipped blue for the first time in more than 20 years.
D Karen Gaddis appears headed for victory in HD 75 special election. Rs have held HD 75 since early '90s.
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Did a tornado just whip passed Mike Bettes on live television? Holy crap.
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The President of the United States just invoked the possibility of civil war if he's removed from office through constitutional means.
I never want to hear "both sides" ever again.
....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal.” Pastor Robert Jeffress,
@FoxNews
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We're in the middle of a tornado outbreak and someone posts a picture of the 2013 Moore tornado and says it's happening now and approaching a major city. It's got 3,000 RTs and climbing. They shut off replies so no one can correct them and try to blunt the impact.
New from Twitter: an upcoming feature will let you control who can reply to your tweet as you compose it, there will be the ability to limit replies to followers, people who are mentioned in the tweet, or no replies at all
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Also television sucks tonight without Kathy Griffin. Watching Kathy on TV while growing up helped me feel more secure with being gay and I'll stan for her to the ends of the earth.
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To be clear, the GOP is looking into *canceling an election because they might lose*.
Replace all the actors here with some eastern European country and we'd be screaming for sanctions before the U.N.
NEWS: McConnell looking into drastic plan to keep Alabama seat - asking Strange to resign and then kicking off a new special election
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Robert Dear walked into a Planned Parenthood waiting room in Colorado Springs in 2015 and shot 12 people, 3 fatally, because of deceptively edited videos created by anti-abortion activists that Republican presidential candidates heavily referenced in their campaigns and debates.
Rand Paul: I'm worried that "someone is going to be killed" because of political climate
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"Federal Employee Drew Salary Without Doing Job" would be the headline if this was Obama's press secretary.
BREAKING: Stephanie Grisham out as West Wing press secretary without having held a briefing
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The power outage in Atlanta's airport is a great reminder of how easily modern life can crumble without electricity.
Much of Puerto Rico's been without power for three months on Wednesday.
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Four years ago today:
Donald Trump mocks Hillary Clinton over her pneumonia outbreak
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our next president rambles on like this but I can't find a job. what a world.
Bill Clinton stated that I called him after the election. Wrong, he called me (with a very nice congratulations). He "doesn't know much" ...
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Donald Trump woke up this morning in a house built by slaves.
Pres. Trump: Human trafficking is worse now maybe than it's ever been in the history of this world.
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Lt. Col. Vindman still carries shrapnel in his body from an IED attack in Iraq in 2004,
@MarshaBlackburn
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He doesn't remember saying viciously anti-gay stuff for decades. He doesn't remember voting for bills.
He's really trailblazing as the first Amnesia-American to serve as Speaker. 🫡
Wow. Mike Johnson on Fox News Sunday doesn't rule out voting against access to contraception but then says "I really don't remember any of those measures" when asked about his past votes against reproductive health care
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Strong? Safe? Seriously? Three years ago, COVID was killing seven 9/11 attacks' worth of Americans every week. 21,000 people died between Dec. 6-12, 2020.
I know everyone is desperate to forget it ever happened, but object permanence is a thing! I feel like I'm going insane.
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I hate walking through the grocery store and catching a fatal car accident from a cough.
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Not even trying to hide it anymore. "Bear with us while we try to figure out how to make this sound bad" live on the air.
Fox Business copes with the great 4th Quarter GDP number: "We'll look through this report to see if there are signs, that maybe the economy doesn't feel as, or isn't as resilient as it might seem"
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I can't wait for the Iowa Dems to release the caucus results as a set of 34 riddles to be solved as a treasure hunt.
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It always loops back to how much Republican officials hate LGBTQ people. My god. This guy thinks about gay people more than I do and I'm gay.
DeSantis is asked during a news conference about the state's rejection of an AP African American history class. He says "this course on Black history, what's one of the lessons about? Queer theory ... that's the wrong side of the line for Florida standards."
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We'd welcome American Samoa to join as a state if that was their wish. That goes for Guam, CNMI, and USVI, too.
It's so revealing when guys like this view extending rights to other Americans entirely through the lens of party politics.
3. IF YOU ADD DEMOCRAT SEATS BY ADDING DC AND PUERTO RICO TO THE SENATE, WE SHALL ADD AMERICAN SAMOA AND BREAKUP POTENTIAL OTHER STATES (LIKE TEXAS AND PERHAPS FLORIDA) AND CREATE ADDITIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATE SEATS.
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NOAA released an unsigned statement tossing expert meteorologists under the bus for contradicting false weather information disseminated by the president.
This administration and everyone enabling them needs to go down in resounding defeat next November. This needs to end.
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So
@kathygriffin
gets Dixie Chicked over ketchup but the president makes a soldier's widow cry and his whole base is like "she deserved it!"
I had a very respectful conversation with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, and spoke his name from beginning, without hesitation!
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🚨 Cloud Lobster is trying to consume Florida. Please remain calm.
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Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks is a team I didn't know I needed to exist until now.
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Walker: "you know how we violate the Constitution to make maps as red as possible?"
[aides nod]
Walker: "what if I say the left is doing it instead?"
[aides fracture necks nodding]
Historically, the Left often pushed maps that divide communities of interest & dilute minority voting power as they gerrymander districts to gain more power. The GOP must fight for fair maps. If we have fair maps along with quality candidates & engaged grassroots, we win! 3/3
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Remember when they campaign on "leftist mobs" next year which side shut down a state capitol because of armed protests and which party's senator implied he might kill police officers to avoid voting on a bill.
Threats from militia provoke shutdown at Oregon capitol, a day after GOP lawmakers fled
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The first revenge impeachment begins. No crimes, just vibes.
McCarthy announces he's directing a House committee to open an impeachment inquiry into Biden (even though there is no evidence he did anything wrong, let alone committed high crimes and misdemeanors)
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The left needs to take court appointments as seriously as the right or everything the left fights for is for naught in the hands of a permanently conservative court.
What if we had a Supreme Court that didn’t shock and amaze us whenever it did the right thing?
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Yesterday afternoon's visible satellite view of the eastern U.S. was wallpaper-worthy.
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The end goal seems to be to cheapen impeachment in order to:
1) lessen the sting of Trump's deserved trials, and
2) make impeachment look like another mundane fight to protect future Republicans when they violate the Constitution
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I wrote an ode to the National Weather Service, which keeps chugging through the shutdown to keep us safe, even without pay. Thank you for your service.
Private company execs can thump their chests all they want, but they'd be lost without gov't weather.
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It's a federal crime to publish a hoax forecast or warning that makes it look like it was issued by the NWS or NOAA.
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This is all I can think about whenever I walk by this patch job in the parking lot.
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I haven't watched an awards show since the one on Nickelodeon in the 90s.
I'm watching the Oscars tonight for the only thing that matters: the new Roseanne commercial.
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The massive flood after the major flood that overshadowed the massive flood that came after the major floods and the historic fires and the unprecedented heat that followed a record drought that came after the most intense hurricane season on record that came after the most wildf
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This feature is great for people who face harassment, but it's going to allow people to speak authoritatively without any pushback whatsoever.
The word of the tweet that gets the most RTs will become the uncritical truth.
The unintended consequences of this will be enormous.
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CNN's new hire thinks states should be allowed to imprison gay people for having sex, but yeah, CNN is the "liberal" media. Gimme a break.
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If one of Chaffetz's constituents said this, he'd call them moochers and tell them to work harder and stop expecting a government handout.
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Lauer presses Hillary for ten minutes on emails but Trump praises Putin and they move on to the VA without follow-up. Lord have mercy.
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President Obama is flying to New York on Wednesday for "Dem fundraisers."
I'd like to solve the puzzle, Pat.
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If you appreciate calm, level-headed weather analysis that's not drawn with a sharpie, please consider following my blog
@DAM_Weather
and subscribing to my Patreon.
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THE FIRST POLLS ARE NOW CLOSED IN (most parts of) INDIANA AND KENTUCKY!
PROJECTION: Indiana is still an undesirable place to live.
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This guy convinced tens of millions of people that he's some alpha male tough guy, but he whines like this *constantly*. It's amazing.
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I'm nervous about the impending Electoral College decision from SCOTUS.
Depending how they decide and write it, untethering all 538 electors from their state's results could have enormous consequences and deal a fatal blow to public trust in future elections.
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The President of the United States is sitting on Twitter on the eve of Election Day saying that the impending election might result in "violence in the streets" if things don't go his way.
Vote him out and leave no doubt that his authoritarian fantasies have no place here.
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@marcorubio
The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones.
Luke 16:10
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I could have gone my entire life without seeing pictures of that Trump statue. You can't poke out your mind's eye.
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Trump deleted and reposted this tweet hitting Cuomo so Cuomo's response would have no context.
This guy is president during what's likely the biggest public emergency in living memory and he's playing Twitter games like a teenager.
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Disney has only closed parks a handful of times since they opened in 1971, including during Hurricanes Matthew, Charley, and on 9-11-2001.
JUST IN: Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL to close for at least 2 days due to Hurricane Irma
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@SteveRattner
@Scotus
"You don't deserve help because I didn't get any help" takes an exceptionally vacant soul to admit. Congrats.
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I flipped the radar color table over to black and white and it really accentuates the bands and eyewall in Hurricane Harvey.
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Biden just unlocked a bonus room in the White House for winning his 300th state.
CNN: Supreme Court has declined to take up challenge from lawyers for Trump challenging 2020 election results in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
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I wrote a post explaining how I make maps despite never taking a single GIS course. I started this 24 hours ago and it wound up being 2,600 words. But most of it is a step-by-step of how to make your own map.
This is by far my most requested explainer.
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He has an entire press staff available 24/7. He can deliver a live address on television with half an hour's notice. He can issue statements like every president before him.
Twitter is a private company. Y'all support businesses making their own decisions until you don't.
Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country.
#Unbelievable
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They're so programmed to hurt poor people that they can't fathom helping poor people during a generational crisis.
Sen. Rick Scott: "The moment we go back to work, we cannot create an incentive for people to say, 'I don't need to go back to work because I can do better someplace else.'"
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Keep this in mind tomorrow if the rumors about Baghdadi are true.
#TheresAlwaysATweet
Stop congratulating Obama for killing Bin Laden. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden.
#debate
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NRA's Dana Loesch promptly stopped livetweeting the Trump/Congress meeting after Trump said "I like taking the guns early. Take the guns first, go through due process second."
The NRA would've issued a drone strike on the White House had Obama said that.
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Congressman on MSNBC saying this "could be the first political rhetorical terrorist act that we've seen on our soil," which is 100% untrue.
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The guy who wrote this tweet is now in jail.
Clinton/Kaine -- corrupt, liberal, the rigged system at its worst.
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BREAKING: California delegation achieves greatest victory in history of humankind as all war stops due to their chants at a convention.
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Fast forward three and a half years to tonight and President Trump didn't seek congressional approval before bombing Syria.
What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval.
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I hate when that happens.
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The NYT actually found an elderly couple named Harvey & Irma and interviewed them for their thoughts on the storms.
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Saw a guy angry a store wasn't open scream "I can't wait til Trump f-ing kills all of you."
Can we stop pretending it's about economics?
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Jason Kander was my "please run please run" candidate pretty much the day after the inauguration.
Knowing when to stop and focus on yourself is a solid quality. It's something we don't see much these days in our leaders. 👏
2 years ago today, I announced for Mayor instead of President.
99 days later, I announced I was quitting everything for a bit to get treatment for
#PTSD
.
Update: Good call. Life is much better now.
If you’re struggling, get help.
Ok, I’m going to bed now.
Goodnight!
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Almost everyone in Food Lion has a mask on right now. I've never seen compliance around here like this before. I'll be darned.
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Polio is a civil liberty.
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The federal government spent every day of the 20 years since 9/11 preparing for terrorist attacks—and now that there's an active attack by domestic terrorists against the seat of government, the attackers are running the show. Unbelievable.
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Bloomberg paid $400,000,000 to get immolated by Elizabeth Warren on live television.
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If you're gonna run with a conspiracy theory today, you're probably closer to the universe of possibilities if you run with "let it happen" rather than "made it happen." Just sayin'.
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And we've arrived at why it *very much mattered* that Trump altered a hurricane forecast and forced NOAA to back up his lie under duress.
Fallout from a coronavirus outbreak directly threatens his political ambitions. He's going to control the response with himself in mind.
I’m told the president’s anger about the CDC briefing yesterday is focused on Dr. Nancy Messonnier, who said it’s not whether, it’s when the virus will hit the US. “She never should have said that,” a senior administration official told me. “it’s bad.”
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Is it neolib to avoid spraying COVID door-to-door?
The Biden campaign's decision to forsake door-to-door canvassing may have cost Democrats dearly in down-ballot races. It was emblematic of the party's disastrous abandonment of face-to-face organizing.
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"Condensation does not linger in the sky for hours."
CLOUDS. THEY'RE CALLED CLOUDS. THAT IS LITERALLY A CLOUD.
http://t.co/EOIc4pkYe6
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Trump threatening to arrest and prosecute his political opponent if he won should strike fear into anyone who's ever studied dictatorships.
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If the fireworks get any louder tonight the south's gonna surrender again out of muscle memory.
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Hillary spent a year running ads and speeches warnings us about this, and 63 million people apparently thought they knew better. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nuclear experts stunned by
@realDonaldTrump
tweet about expanding U.S nuke arsenal apparent reversal of U.S. policy since Reagan
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Gotta say, I never expected my political science major and meteorology minor to ever meld so seamlessly.
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This is why elected conservatives like patriotism to be emotional rather than critical. It makes it easy to say "you're with Trump or you're with the enemy." Don't ask questions. Don't think. Just go with your gut and assent. Or else.
#Iran
is now openly calling for American’s to turn on each other.
The time will come to debate U.S. policy.
Tonight American & allied troops have come under direct attack by a nation-state & Americans must come together to support & protect them & respond appropriately.
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Being wrong?
AccuWeather’s 90-day forecast reveals a common theme for several U.S. cities this winter.
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