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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 5 May 2016

    Is it me or does reporting on opium epidemic never get credited back to journos who did earliest work on it?

    6:52 AM - 5 May 2016
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    • Griff Ferrell Tony Naggs 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔨𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔉𝔦𝔫𝔎 Jeff J Emory Parker 🌈 Subscribe to The Post & Courier dell cameron Leah A. Rascal
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      2. BOBSON DUGNUTT‏ @doryphorus 5 May 2016
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel wait till nothing is done about it this time and then you can ask the question again in the future

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 May 2016
        Replying to @doryphorus

        @doryphorus They're making baby steps, but I'd be interested in horse race story abt how politics ignored until white people died in big #s

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      4. BOBSON DUGNUTT‏ @doryphorus 5 May 2016
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel HRC/neolib/R loves big pharma$ PSE virtually unregulated THC schedule 1 Heroin analogs on demand while terminal file paperwork

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      2. Jeff‏ @jefffreyspies 5 May 2016
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I feel like I've been reading long form pieces on it for roughly a decade now, each new piece seems too self-contained.

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 5 May 2016
        Replying to @jefffreyspies

        @jefffreyspies Right. And yet no one is doing the "here's how the press reported on major threat for 10 years and Congress ignored it"

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      4. Jeff‏ @jefffreyspies 5 May 2016
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        @emptywheel The biggest bias in media is sticking to the running narrative, heroin is considered an inner-city street drug, …

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      5. Jeff‏ @jefffreyspies 5 May 2016
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        @emptywheel … so every time it got reported on in rural communities it was treated as an oddity and quickly forgotten, even while …

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      6. Jeff‏ @jefffreyspies 5 May 2016
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        @emptywheel … the reports were accurately classifying it as an epidemic, of which they were (usually) telling one places story.

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      1. Jay Schiavone‏ @jaytingle 5 May 2016
        Replying to @emptywheel

        @emptywheel I think It was Bowie who observed that it is better to be second than first.

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