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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Nov 2015

    How to Spot a Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual from the U.S. Military http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/how_to_spot_a_communist.html …pic.twitter.com/cVYlJwjA2X

    10:36 AM - 25 Nov 2015
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      2. KwesoniusMaximus‏ @Kwesi_Booker 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel what is a hootenany?

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @Kwesi_Booker

        @Kwesi_Booker That's a trick question isn't it, Officer Booker?

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      2. Greg Dworkin‏Verified account @DemFromCT 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel that's fantastic, Comrade.

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @DemFromCT

        @DemFromCT I have a PhD in CompLit. They were onto me long ago.

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      4. Greg Dworkin‏Verified account @DemFromCT 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I know. They told me.

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      1. Woodencrantz and Bernenstern are dead‏ @FuzzyMarth 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        .@emptywheel ahahaha "here is a list of words selected at random. It could be extended to include all words. Communists use words"

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      1. C. Isabel Brain‏ @superisabel76 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @RaeBeta I've been spotted! Time to change my writing style!

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      1. William Owen‏ @Bill_Owen 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel Best to stick to #newspeak I think.

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      1. andré m. carrington, Ph.D.‏ @prof_carrington 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel @markedoten "infinitely more frequent"

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      1. Gus the Disgusted‏ @GusTheTerror 29 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel I find it STUNNING that we're still alive.

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      1. GEOTRILL 🌐 🔥‏ @delmoi 26 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal "Hootenanny"

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      1. Richard Hepp-oween  👻‏ @RLHeppner 26 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal So, yes, "hootenanny" is ridiculous, but it's crazy how on-the-nose others are: "comrade" "bourgeois-nationalism"

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      1. Graham Storrs‏ @graywave 25 Nov 2015
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @AbsoluteWrite @emptywheel Hootenanny?

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      1. Aieeeee! Gunn‏ @eileen_gunn 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal "Hootenanny," eh? This explains a lot.

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      1. Kevin Kautzman‏ @KevinKautzman 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal hootenanny... @bradkelly

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      1. Exiled‏ @_4bdi3l 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal Hootenanny?

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      1. Ryan W Enslow‏ @ryan_w_enslow 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @RaeBeta “selected at random” broke me

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      1. 吹き替え‏ @e_dub_kendo 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @Xythar lol hootenanny? I missed that one in Das Kapital

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      1.  🦇unquiet bat person 🦇‏ @jamescappio 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal Remember when those commies took over a whole TV show? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hootenanny_%28U.S._TV_series%29 …

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      1. Andy‏ @Nexusdog_UK 25 Nov 2015
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        @emptywheel @GreatDismal Ooh, is there one for fascists!?

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