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Feb 12, 2021

The words Frederick Douglass offered regarding Abraham Lincoln gives me chills as I listen to them read 155 years later. Lincoln’s genius was in skillfully dragging a recalcitrant and racist country out of the mud and then laying the foundation of a more perfect union.

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UNUMKenBurns

@UNUMKenBurns

Apr 14, 2020

On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. He died the next day at 7:22 am. In his speech at Lincoln’s funeral, Frederick Douglass offered both high praise and sharp criticism of the late president's legacy.

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“You will not find a single political actor – from Steve Bannon to Joe Biden – who looks at what Trump did and will say anything but how mind-bogglingly, breath-takingly, unambiguously pathetic, sad, and symbolically resonant it was.”

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Michael Dyer

@Mike_Dyer13

Dec 8

Chaim Bloom inherited 27 year old Mookie, 27 YO Bogaerts, 25 YO Benintendi, and 23 YO Devers and so far has turned them into: Alex Verdugo Jeter Downs Connor Wong Franchy Cordero Josh Winckowski Grant Gambrell Luis De La Rosa Freddy Valdez Devers still here, but not extended

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Twitter Suspends Accounts of Half a Dozen Journalists

Donald Trump shames his remaining defenders with a trashy NFT trading card announcement and then Elon humiliates his minions who breathlessly search through Twitter docs to piece together evidence of content suppression. And then…this🤣

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The social media service, which is owned by Elon Musk, said the accounts were suspended for “violating the Twitter rules” but did not provide details.

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Peter Bonilla (pebonilla@masto.ai)

@pebonilla

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This platform still has its moments

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Bill Kristol

@BillKristol

What Christopher Hitchens Can Teach Us About Liberalism

"Hitchens argued that there would always be 'powerful enemies' of the Enlightenment, and he decided that defeating those enemies and defending the open society was worthwhile...He recognized this 'necessitated constant argument about the idea of America.'”

thebulwark.com

Eleven years after his death, a look at the English writer’s dedication to democracy, free expression, and the idea of America.

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Windsor Mann

@WindsorMann

Reupping this thread on the 11th anniversary of Christopher Hitchens’ death

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Windsor Mann

@WindsorMann

Dec 15, 2020

Christopher Hitchens died nine years ago today. Here are some of his quotations that apply to Trump: “He’s a fascist and he’s an ignorant peasant and a superstition monger.” [Scarborough Country, MSNBC, 3/11/04]

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James E. Clyburn

@WhipClyburn

I am very pleased to see

@USPS

announcement honoring the life of my dear friend, the great John Lewis, on a 2023 USA forever stamp. May we always draw inspiration from the "good trouble" which defined his legacy.

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As Willie points out, this comes in as #5 on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movies of all time—only behind Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Wedding Crashers, and Anchorman. Gone With The Wind is #6 behind The Other Guys. Old School sits at #9.

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Anthony Sposato

@AnthonyRomeo1

Listen @JoeNBC and @morningmika and @WillieGeist, don’t sleep on Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s “The Other Guys”. Outpaces “Casablanca” and blows “Gone With The Wind” out of the water. Joe, have the oxygen ready.

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Trump favorability sinks to lowest level since 2015: survey

Trump favorability sinks to lowest level since 2015: survey. Craters to 31% | The Hill

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Former President Trump’s favorability rating has sunk to its lowest level since 2015, as he mounts his run to reclaim the White House, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll, rele…

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An historic run for #Morocco comes to an end but what glorious run it has been. They pushed a great French side to the wall and have so much to be proud of. #WorldCup

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How good is this Morocco team? They are controlling this game right now against a great French side. #WorldCup

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Tim Reynolds

@ByTimReynolds

Officially calling upon Mika to live tweet her real, unfiltered thoughts the next time

and

@JonLemire

talk baseball. It's worth the price of your cable bill to just watch her while they go back and forth.

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One of my websites has been hacked and I’ve been trying unsuccessfully for 24 hours to find a human being that works at Word Press to fix the redirect issue. The same can be said of Go Daddy, who still allows the hacked site to stay up. How does Word Press stay in business?

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Mediaite

@Mediaite

Dec 13

The hosts of Morning Joe —

@morningmika

and

@WillieGeist

— are so vital to MSNBC’s future they were awarded a fourth hour this year, for a stretch of TV real estate that has delivered solid ratings. They're number 5 on our Most Influential list: mediaite.com/news/mediaites

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Rex Chapman

@RexChapman

Dec 13

Outrageous.

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Lloyd Legalist

@LloydLegalist

More senseless Canadian road rage caught on camera. #Canada #Roadrage *Warning: Graphic footage.

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Carol Giacomo

@giacomonyt

Dec 13

I hope you aren’t counting Otto Warmbier as one of your administration’s successes.

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Mike Pompeo

@mikepompeo

As Secretary, my approach for hostage negotiations was to get every American home, but not in a way that creates more Americans hostages. I fear the Biden Administration fell dangerously short of this standard.

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Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities

The humanitarian crisis continues unabated at the Southern Border. We are a nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws.

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The arrival of up to 1,000 migrants, the latest big group to have crossed the border, was one of the largest single crossings in recent years in West Texas, which has seen a surge in migration.

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Morning Joe

@Morning_Joe

"You don't leave Americans behind. You bring them home to their families for the holidays. And anybody that can't celebrate that, well, they don't understand the goodness of Americans and what's in Americans' hearts." --

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Michael Beschloss

@BeschlossDC

Sports news from sixty years ago this month. JFK and brothers Bobby and Ted were privately considering possible purchase of

@Eagles

. Made political sense: PA was crucial state for Kennedy's 1964 reelection, as was adjacent NJ (which had almost gone to Nixon in 1960).

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Trump Republicans 2017: Lose 2018: Lose 2019: Lose (even governor races in Louisiana and Kentucky) 2020: Lose 2022: Lose (McCarthy down 40 seats from his House prediction). In a year Democrats should have been routed.

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They lose elections, keep churning up conspiracy theories, lose more elections, spew even more bizarre nonsense inside their bubble, keep losing elections, double down on Trump, continue losing elections, get even crazier, watch Biden’s approval ratings go up, and go bonkers🤣

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Mehdi Hasan

@mehdirhasan

Literally every word of this is unintelligible nonsense from people who live in a rightwing infotainment conspiracy bubble. Then they wonder why they struggle in midterm or presidential elections with normal people. twitter.com/tomselliott/st…

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Tim Alberta

@TimAlberta

seen a lot of moments in this stadium, that was top-3

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Detroit Lions

@Lions

No. 58 reports as an eligible receiver. No. 58 is an eligible receiver. @peneisewell58 #ProBowlVote

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Republicans blew an historic opportunity this midterm election because the massive BUBBLE they lived in that made their candidates and conspiracy theories unpalatable to swing voters, who also had little use for progressives of the Democratic Party.

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An laughable take on ideological “bubbles”. The writer argues progressives live in elite bubbles (many do), but that it’s impossible to do so on the right. Funny that many old friends and relatives are election-denying, anti-vax, QAnon quoting bubbleheads. wsj.com/articles/why-t

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wsj.comOpinion | Why the ‘Smart’ Party Never LearnsIf your views by definition are enlightened and progressive, why should you bother understanding those of the other side?

*a laughable take* Where’s my edit button??

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Imagine being so blinded by your ideological bubble that you could argue the right-wing cannot live in bubbles despite 6 years of blindly following conspiracy theories on election deniers, QAnon hoaxes, hateful Sandy Hook lies, & the latest nonsense from Chinese religious cults.

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Princeton Men’s Soccer

@TigerMensSoccer

Princeton University and 2 others

Grant Wahl '96 was one of us. A Princetonian. A lover of sport. A citizen servant. He was the best of us and he will be missed. A Message From Bob Bradley '80

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Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

“He was the best of us”

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Grant - by Joe Posnanski - JoeBlogs joeposnanski.substack.com/p/grant?utm_ca

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Franklin Leonard

@franklinleonard

He did the exact same thing after the Euro Final. Good man.

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Stewart Wood

@StewartWood

Southgate consoling Kane tonight is the last 30 years of England football captured in one 10-second hug. #ENGFRA #ENG

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Will Kennedy @willkennedynews

@willkennedynews

We are the world! #GoArgos 🏈

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The whole world’s eyes are on the World Cup⁩ showdown between England and France and, of course, the NCAA Division II semifinal with Pensacola’s own ⁦@UWFFootball⁩ on a mission to win it all! #uwf #Pensacola #football #universityofwestflorida wkrg.com/sports/local-s

This is the best England team I’ve seen. Looking forward to a great 2nd half

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UWF football team set for Saturday rematch against Ferris State in NCAA Division II semifinal

The whole world’s eyes are on the World Cup⁩ showdown between England and France and, of course, the NCAA Division II semifinal with Pensacola’s own ⁦

@UWFFootball

⁩ on a mission to win it all! #uwf #Pensacola #football #universityofwestflorida

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PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — The University of West Florida Argos football team is a day away from another showdown with Ferris State in the semifinals of the NCAA Division II Playoffs. The No. 6…

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He died soon after posting this tweet.

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@GrantWahl

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Just an incredible designed set-piece goal by the Netherlands.

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nikki mccann ramírez

@NikkiMcR

Sports illustrated fired him for challenging their pay cuts during the pandemic. He ran to unseat FIFA’s president. He challenged human rights abuses in Qatar. RIP Grant Wahl, who’s career was as much about great reporting as it was about speaking truth to abusive power.

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They just don't care. Qatari World Cup organizers don't even hide their apathy over migrant worker deaths, including the most recent one.

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’s remarkable post from yesterday. RIP.

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World Cup Daily, Day 25

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Bleacher Report

@BleacherReport

LeBron reflects on Grant Wahl following his death. Wahl covered James as a high schooler and wrote the Sports Illustrated cover story of “The Chosen One” (via

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Brendan Hunt

@brendanhunting

Free to Read: My Walking Tour of Richmond from Ted Lasso's Brendan Hunt

Sitting here floored by the horrible news that Grant Wahl died today in Qatar. I have read his work for literally decades; just two months ago I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he was an absolute mensch. This is a tragic and devastating loss.

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And a dose of feel-good that I didn't realize how much I needed.

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Franklin Leonard

@franklinleonard

If you're not both an American AND a fan of the beautiful game, it might be extremely hard to understand Grant Wahl's meaning to the community of folks who are, and honestly I'm sort of at a loss to articulate it. This is utterly shattering.

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