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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
    9 Jan 2018

    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. Conservatives being all “god no we don’t have a crush those gross Congress girls they have cooties and smell like icky sunshine and happiness” might be understandable in 9 year olds but is a weird look for grown ass adults

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  4. I’m pretty sure Rep. Don Young considers the word motherfucker a pleasantry.

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  5. A woman member of Congress using profanity one time doesn’t seem to rise to the level of, say, Steve King’s regular use racist language for decades before people finally got upset. Also, the president used the term “illegals” the other day, so maybe some perspective is in order.

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  7. Jan 3

    Between ’s ancient Flock of Seagulls looks and dancing around like a kid when she was a kid, the GOP oppo machine really has these youths right where they want them

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  8. Jan 3

    Imagine the awkward teen videos Charlie Kirk will make when he’s finally a teen. PHEW

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  9. Jan 3

    Oh and I see the incels are mad at AOC for having once been a teen.

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  10. Jan 3

    I leave twitter for a few days and suddenly Trump has albino Minion Lawyer Back Up Dancers like some kind of dark 4chan Robert Palmer erotic fan fiction

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  11. Retweeted
    31 Dec 2018

    Warren has privately met with Native leaders to hear out criticisms from D.N.A. test, but publicly, she is still refusing to give an inch. Last month, even her own allies told me this was a “strategic failure” that was “depressing and unforgettable.”

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    POTUS tweet minutes ago claimed he was in the Oval Office. No marine there so that’s another lie. ⁦

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  13. 31 Dec 2018

    Looking forward to the story on Trump’s use of the “racially tinged” word illegals, and how he’s just a mercurial rapscallion living a lonely life in the White House, so really he’s the victim, according to a senior White House official.

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    30 Dec 2018
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    This is Kelly on videotape in March 2017 talking about it.

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  15. 30 Dec 2018

    I know because I and other border and immigration reporters have been writing about this for years. Including this story I did in July when it first started happening

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  16. 30 Dec 2018

    It was clear this would happen. So while they didn’t have the resources or personnel to help Jakelin Caal or Felipe Gomez Alonzo, it’s not like they weren’t warned, repeatedly, that it would happen.

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  17. 30 Dec 2018

    Groups like and for years have warned our border policies would result in situations like this. The Sonoran desert patrols is littered with crosses erected for dead migrants by human rights activists.

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  18. 30 Dec 2018

    While I’m back here and feeling cantankerous, I’ll also point out that ’ claims that they were caught off guard by migrant families trying to cross through the most dangerous parts of the border is, in a word, false.

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  19. 30 Dec 2018

    It should have been abundantly clear Kelly was playing you when he tried to pawn his own racism off on Jeff Sessions, which is a bit like kicking a coma patient.

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  20. 30 Dec 2018

    I honestly don’t get how you let someone like Kelly, who has been proven to lie repeatedly, with absolutely no shame, to make such patently false statements.

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  21. 30 Dec 2018

    So while John Kelly might want to blame simple ass Jeff sessions forit’s just not true. They were separating families before “zero tolerance” was announced this year. He knew. He directed it. Letting him just lie is malpractice.

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