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  1. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    Numbers posted today by show the National Debt ended 2018 more than $2-trillion larger than on the day Pres Trump took office. It represents a 10% increase in the Debt on Pres Trump's watch. National Debt now stands at $21.974-trillion. 1/2

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  2. Trump gave a pro-Soviet explanation for the USSR invasion of Afghanistan that would make even Putin blush.

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    23 years ago, from a refugee camp in Kenya, my father and I arrived at an airport in Washington DC. Today, we return to that same airport on the eve of my swearing in as the first Somali-American in Congress. 🙏🏾

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    Jan 3
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    Sudan Protest: remember that your dictator's fellow dictators will back him against you because they can't stand the idea of freedom spreading. remember that Western leaders are weak and unreliable. Count only on yourselves

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    23 hours ago

    : List of specific names/dates/locations of more than 300 people arrested or "shot dead"/"tortured to death"; more than 40 have been deliberately killed by the regime A great many deaths and arrests have not yet been recorded.

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  6. The isn't getting much international attention, but it's a heroic effort by Sudanese protesters risking death to try to overthrow a president notorious for genocide, brutality and incompetence.

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  7. Not to mention a president with outstanding modesty and self-awareness.

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    LAST CHANCE: Win a global reporting trip w/ + the opportunity to write for ! All we need are 700 words of your thoughts by next Friday, January 11. Learn more:

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  9. Jan 4

    Trump IS trying to run government like a business—Trump University.

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    The Republican Senate already voted (100 to 0) in late December to keep the government open without any money for the wall. The Constitution allows them to override a presidential veto. They could reopen the government immediately just by voting for a bill they already voted for.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Ten years ago I was part of an attempt to get R. Kelly’s music off the radio during his trial for child pornography. We were ridiculed and laughed at. Happy to see expose his long record of abuse and the ways we’ve been complicit in it.

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  12. Jan 4

    Happy 50th birthday to the ⁦⁦⁩ Style Section, which redefined newspaper feature coverage and showed me and so many other journalists how serious news writing could also be sprightly and fun.

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    Jan 3

    As we start a new year, we should not forget the struggle 3 female political prisoners are going through in . My mother-in-law Hajer Mansoor along with Najah Yousif & Madina Ali have not seen their family since they were assaulted in September.

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Everyone's focused on the political news, as they should be. But there's some important economic news too, and not just the market having another fainting spell: it's becoming clear that the Trump boom, such as it was, is over 1/

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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    One of President Trump’s former lawyers:

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  16. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    I like and respect but I disagree with this. As Jeff Zucker (whom I have criticized for other things) put it, being pro-truth should not be mistaken for being anti-Trump.

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  18. Jan 3

    Trump was right in his diagnosis of Washington as a "swamp," and then he vastly magnified the problem both with personal corruption and with his appointments.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    A-[expletive]-men!! -No one has any idea who *will* win in 2020, so why waste time on guesswork -No poll right now is worth anything -Who “should” run? Anyone who wants to try -The best way to tell who’s “likable” / “electable” is to listen to them and see how primaries turn out

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