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@dcbigjohn

senior national correspondent & former DC bureau chief for BuzzFeed, former fellow, and former bar bouncer. all around DC bama

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 9

    I went to Wisconsin to report on the shooting of Jason Pero, a 14 y/o Ojibwe boy, by the local white sheriff's dept. What i found were accusations of institutionalized racism, sexual assault and rape — a story all too common in Indian Country

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  2. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    WHEW, JESUS.

    Next Thursday, FEMA will do its first test of a system that allows the president to send a message to most U.S. cellphones.
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  3. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    We’re still doing this, I guess

    “They say all these people died in the storm in Puerto Rico, yet 70% of the power was out before the storm. So when did people start dying? At what point do you recognize that what they are doing is a political agenda couched in the nice language of journalism?”
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  4. Retweeted
    Sep 10

    AMLO dice que va a terminar c/la guerra v. el narco con "abrazos, no balazos" y una amnistía para ciertos criminales. Para las víctimas, esta estrategia= dolor, indignación y mucho, pero mucho escepticismo. Aquí una crónica de los "Foros Escucha":

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  5. 16 hours ago

    This’ll last till lunch, tops

    i’m turning over a new leaf today. In the words of H-Town legend Derrion Yates, I’m a “peaceifist."
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  6. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    They’ll kill you & say you had weed in your apartment. They’ll kill you & say you were “no angel.” They’ll kill you & say you put a middle finger up on your instagram. They’ll kill you & say they thought your wallet was a gun. They’ll kill you & always try to find a reason.

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  7. Sep 13

    In the wake of FOSTA/SESTA being passed, sex workers decided to get involved in electoral politics, getting behind for her open support of their rights. On Thursday night, they won that bet.

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  8. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    There’s A Crackdown On Sex Workers, And It Might Be Only The Beginning via

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  9. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    There’s A Crackdown On Sex Workers, And It Might Be Only The Beginning via

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  10. Sep 13

    you'd think condemning an ego driven effort to deny the deaths of nearly 3000 of your fellow citizens would be a pretty easy thing to reject

    GOP senators’ reaction this AM to Trump Puerto Rico tweets following a familiar pattern: Decline to comment, say they haven’t read them, or offer mild criticism and move on.
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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    This reporter was in Puerto Rico, and reported the death toll correctly from reporting there.

    0:27
    . explains everything wrong with Trump's tweet about the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico
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  12. Sep 13

    thanks to for having me and my weird mustard colored hotel room on to talk about sex workers rights today.

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    Sep 13

    FOSTA-SESTA was billed as legislation that would curb online sex trafficking but threatens the livelihoods of sex workers as well, says

    The Problem With FOSTA-SESTA
    Sex trafficking and sex work aren't the same thing.
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  14. Sep 13

    which of course may have been a coincidence. But the timing seems to indicate sex worker rights is not only no longer an automatic 3rd rail issue, but also a recognition that it can have an appeal, particularly to young and progressive-minded voters.

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  15. Sep 13

    Sex workers are flexing their electoral muscles and endorsed , who has vocally supported them. and it was after stories about her sex worker rights positions ran in the Intercept and Splinter that her opponent really went all in on her

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  16. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    “The fact that there is so much stigma about it demands that I do more than simply feed into that stigma by being shy about it or cowardly about it," told . "It’s about actually addressing the stigma that is continuing the harm.”

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  17. Sep 13

    was not expecting to wake up to Donald Trump Is A Hurricane Denier but honestly, that's on me.

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 13

    Trump says he doesn't think nearly 3,000 Americans died in Puerto Rico from Maria and that it's a conspiracy against him hatched by Democrats.

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  19. Sep 13

    From the halls of Congress to Bourbon Street anti-sex work groups have begun using arguments against human trafficking to wage, and in some cases win, fights against sex workers and their rights

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  20. Sep 12

    2018 is gonna make this study obsolete SO HARD

    2017 marked the world’s most miserable year, study finds
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  21. Retweeted
    Sep 12

    Arkansas Just Kicked 4,000 Low-Income People Off Of Medicaid Due To A Work Requirement Policy Trump Pushed by

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