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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 21

    I did a talk last year for . It’s about and representation and how conventional wisdom is usually all convention and no wisdom. It is now available for your viewing pleasure (or dismay.)

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    9 hours ago

    I’ve already lost count of how many people is bringing with her, and she’s just getting started.

    Kid Fury to Develop HBO Comedy Series With Lena Waithe Producing (EXCLUSIVE)
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  3. Retweeted
    5 hours ago

    "the music icon hired the first black photographer to shoot a cover in the publication’s 126-year history." 👀 "

    1. SCOOP: For what is likely to be her final September issue of Vogue as editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour has given unprecedented control over the cover, captions, and photographer. Essentially, Beyonce is the editor-in-chief
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  4. 5 hours ago

    So, is super smart and thoughtful and I’m constantly learning from her. Bless yourself and do the same.

    i understand why people are excited about LeBron's school not being a charter. There are some ways in which that distinction matters, and some ways in which it does not, given that the school is receiving millions of dollars & resources from private funders other than LeBron.
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    6 hours ago

    Should I pin this tweet or what?

    Prediction: in a year, Trump has a summit with Rouhani in some neutral city—Dubai?—on which 1,500 journalists will descend, at which point, Trump and his supporters will claim that he averted war with Iran.
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    10 hours ago

    Ppl keep incorrectly saying is the 1st studio movie in 25yrs w/an all Asian cast. It isnt! Theres crouching tiger, Memoirs of a Geisha. But it IS the 1st w/Asian AMERICANS in lead roles. Key words: American & Lead. This is an imprtnt distinction.

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  7. 9 hours ago

    I’ve already lost count of how many people is bringing with her, and she’s just getting started.

    Kid Fury to Develop HBO Comedy Series With Lena Waithe Producing (EXCLUSIVE)
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  8. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    They’re selling bootleg Juventus jerseys in Atlanta. This timeline is WILD.

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    15 hours ago

    To date, 3 of the top 5 highest-grossing movies from Sundance 2018 are documentaries: 1.) HEREDITARY ($43.6MM DBO) 2.) WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR ($19.3MM DBO) 3.) RBG ($13.2MM DBO) 4.) SORRY TO BOTHER YOU ($12.3MM DBO) 5.) THREE IDENTICAL STRANEGRS ($5.5MM DBO)

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  10. Retweeted
    Jul 29

    I wasn’t aware that was enjoying a concert on the same night that he should’ve been saving the Democratic Party. Or that after an admittedly flawed presidency during which he managed to rescue the country from recession, he is not allowed to dance to Beyoncé. Got it.

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  11. Jul 29

    Now tell me something I didn’t know.

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  12. Jul 29

    Sounds like someone’s about to have a rough week.

    Is Robert Mueller ever going to release his conflicts of interest with respect to President Trump, including the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship, I turned him down to head the FBI (one day before appointment as S.C.) & Comey is his close friend..
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  13. Jul 29

    At this point, why not just go all in and say your poll numbers are higher than Jesus, the first Republican President?

    Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. There must be something wrong, please recheck that poll!
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  14. Jul 29

    Covfefe

    You
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  15. Jul 28

    Mood.

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  16. Retweeted
    Jul 27

    Ask Dak the right time and venue, millions want to know?

    Dak Prescott will continue to stand for the national anthem. “I don’t think that’s the time or the venue to (take a knee and protest).”
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  17. Jul 27

    Can’t... uh... be in our own homes.

    Police held Ving Rhames at gunpoint in his own home after a neighbor told 911 that 'a large black man' had broken in
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  18. Retweeted
    Jul 27

    the last thing the food world needs right now is Gordon Ramsay going to foreign countries showing “locals he can cook their cuisines better than they can”

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    Jul 27

    This is soo much better than that New York Times map making the rounds. Instead of filling in entire precincts with blue or red, it uses dots to represent each vote, accounting for population density.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jul 27

    tacos forever, and Jonathan too. His funeral songs were The Germs “Forming” and Dr. Dre’s “Nothing but a G Thang,” and he served Kogi, Mariscos Jalisco, Guerrilla Tacos and Zacatecas-style burritos (La Palma) after his service. We truly did lose a great one.

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  21. Jul 27

    Could not be more relevant to the marketplace for writers and writing in Hollywood.

    Many years ago a book of mine was a finalist for a very fine literary award. I didn’t win. At the ceremony finalists read a page from their works for the crowd. After the reading one of the judges pulled me aside and said something I’ve never forgotten:
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