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contributing writer | ex- Quartz, Inc., The Daily Dot, and some others | weekend museum visitor✈️ | and alum

Los Angeles, CA
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Joined March 2011
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  1. Apr 15

    Maybe it’s his day off?

    Nobody told Tajikistan's president you're not supposed to take your body doubles out on official trips with you
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    Apr 15

    Similar dynamic in the Senate. Shelby, Blunt, Portman, Burr, Toomey all retiring. Most of those Senators were always in the room for big pieces of legislation, in the middle of cutting deals. Meanwhile their replacements are campaigning as firebrands

    NEW this am: W/ key GOP dealmakers retiring, some Rs are talking about need to replace the losses of Kakto, Brady, Upton, etc from McCarthy’s prospective governing coalition. “We can’t have this mindset of ‘burn the House down,’” said Rep. Don Bacon.
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    Apr 13

    this is so thoughtful. good stuff . 💖

    Well done
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    Apr 13

    “Maybe people think I am on drugs, but I am not. I am fasting.” — Zack Tahhan wins quote of the year.

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    Apr 13

    TikTok created an alternate universe just for Russia CHART: Pro-war videos uploaded from Russia to TikTok overshadowed anti-war clips and evaded bans

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    Apr 13

    I investigated her claims & wrote abt a new lawsuit that’s seeking to bring much needed transparency to the travel influencer space I also spoke to women who visited every country on earth years before De Pecol about the internet & what it means to travel

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  7. Apr 12

    This photo perfectly captures 2022.

    Replying to @ALaForce @NBAonTNT
    Yup!
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    Apr 12

    Ok so the perp not a Muslim

    Brooklyn subway shooting not being investigated as terrorism, says NYPD chief Follow latest:
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  9. Apr 12

    Wow didn’t expect this reaction at all!

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  10. Apr 12

    The NYT asked these conservative men to give good examples of masculinity and they named two Hollywood stars and a football player.

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    Apr 12

    "You know, I've lost friends to alcoholism, but I've never lost any to Pinot Noir alcoholism" is something real that he actually told a reporter.

    Nick Kristof's view on alcoholism is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.
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    Apr 11

    is this a bit or what?

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    Apr 11

    A thirty-year-old lefty magazine with just over a dozen staffers keeps breaking stories about the Biden admin. I wrote about the American Prospect's interesting and at times critical coverage of Biden's Washington:

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    Apr 11

    Russian forces kept a group of women and girls in a basement of a house for 25 days and repeatedly raped them. Nine of them are now pregnant. The police found five members of a family, including two women and a child, their bodies dumped and burned.

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    Apr 11

    Spirit Halloween is going from the strip mall to the big screen—it's getting the Hollywood treatment in a new movie starring Christopher Lloyd and Rachael Leigh Cook. 🎃

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    Apr 10

    Thanks for breaking the silence. As a professor who actually teaches football players at a football powerhouse, I can’t tell you how sick I am of coaches emailing to press their woke Marxism on me. They practically write my exams now, Marxism is that important to them.

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    Apr 11

    Factbox: JetBlue, Frontier in high-stakes battle for budget airline Spirit

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    Apr 9

    I dont even want to see Nawaz Sharif.

    Do you want to see Nawaz Sharif as your Prime Minister 4th time?
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  19. Apr 6

    Join me in raising money for Stephennie Mulder!! via

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    Mar 11

    Like Ukrainians, Syrians, too, were displaced by Russian intervention. The effects of displacement are long-lasting. I'm trying to help a Syrian student complete his PhD, and I'd be grateful for your help! Even a small donation is gratefully received.

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