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@jbenton

I run at Harvard; I ask questions about digital media for a living. I love + . Proud Cajun. Ask me about boudin.

Cambridge, Mass.
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Joined December 2006
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  1. 15 minutes ago Cambridge, MA

    North Carolina: even money right now

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  2. 39 minutes ago Cambridge, MA

    Are you a journalist? Interested in global women’s/LGBT issues? Apply for this fellowship

    8 retweets 7 likes
  3. 2 hours ago

    Belated RIP to my old Toledo Blade colleague Chet Sullwold

  4. 14 hours ago

    Biggest Fruit of the Loom ad ever

    3 likes
  5. 15 hours ago

    Congratulations Brazil! Great job shutting up the naysayers.

    6 likes
  6. Aug 21

    Hell of a story: More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead

    61 retweets 45 likes
  7. Aug 21

    July 2016 was unquestionably the hottest month in 136 years of continuous record. Here's how every month since 1880…

    462 retweets 290 likes
  8. Aug 21

    A record hot month would be bad enough. We just experienced 15 of them in a row.

    104 retweets 54 likes
  9. Aug 20

    I’m sure this is a dumb question, but: Did Gord Downie ever write about Quebec/French Canada?

    1 retweet 2 likes
  10. Aug 20 Riverside, Cambridge

    Easiest Order of Canada decision ever.

    31 retweets 58 likes
  11. Aug 20

    Downie is living proof that weird kids can make it. Stay brilliantly strange. One day a country may hang on every odd word.

    120 retweets 236 likes
  12. Aug 20

    "You are ahead by a century"-Gord Downie, gesturing to the crowd

    1 retweet 5 likes
  13. Aug 20 Riverside, Cambridge

    Yep, this was my guess for final Hip song

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  14. Aug 20

    So Gord Downie just left twitter speechless. That mic drop just broke a country.

    282 retweets 558 likes
  15. Aug 20

    Gord Downie drops the mic exhausted, picks it back up and places it in its stand. Canadian to the core.

    87 retweets 228 likes
  16. Aug 20 Riverside, Cambridge

    This concert will be half a chapter in the first Justin Trudeau post-PM biography

    2 retweets 7 likes
  17. Aug 20

    New Canadian motto - "Everybody's involved. Everybody's invited." - Gord Downie

    57 retweets 80 likes
  18. Aug 20 Riverside, Cambridge

    Terry Fox might be the better analogy, vs. any musician?

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  19. Aug 20

    "Everybody is invited. Everybody is involved. We tried to write that way. We tried to think that way." Downie. Thank you,

    228 retweets 513 likes
  20. Aug 20

    Gord Downie looks like a man at peace. Thank you Canada for giving him this send off.

    4 retweets 9 likes

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