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@kymburleigh

San Francisco, CAJoined July 2009

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Stephen King

@StephenKing

People who want to damn books for cultural appropriation are really no different from those who want to ban textbooks dealing with Black and/or queer identity. The flashpoints are different, but the lightning is always the same: your ideas should not be disseminated.

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Akash Anavarathan

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As someone that got to go to the NFC Championship last year in Los Angeles, it was an electric experience (even in an L).. It’s expensive, but if you get the chance to go, I’d highly recommend — once in a lifetime experience. Can’t believe we’re back here 12 months later.

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George Conway: Trump rejoining Facebook, Instagram won’t work out well on.msnbc.com/3j7Nd1c --

@gtconway3d

msnbc.com

George Conway: Trump rejoining Facebook, Instagram won’t work out well

Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the...

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:⁩ “Abortion, like bullying trans kids & banning books, has become a way for GOP governors to prove their MAGA bona fides despite Mr. MAGA himself, Donald Trump, [realizing] how unpopular the assault on abortion rights is…”

vanityfair.com

It’s More Dangerous to Be Pregnant in Post-Roe America

On the 50th anniversary of the landmark ruling, the slogan “abortion is health care” has never felt so urgent.

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OurSF49ers

@OurSf49ers

49ers Vs The World 🌎 #49ers || #FTTB

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"If you're one of these companies, do you want to be the means by which an autocrat mounts an assault on the Constitution itself? Maybe they do. It's a moral question." -Jon Meacham on Facebook, Instagram's plans to reinstate Trump's accounts

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No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

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: "When you talk to former Republicans who've switched, I'll hear, 'these guys are a fucking shitshow. Every person that I hear from, the whole Trump posse, they're all corrupt, they're all crazy. I can't vote for my local Republicans if my party is such a shitshow.'"

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Every time you think Ted Cruz can’t embarrass himself any further, he happily does — and this time, it's about the classified document saga. As

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says, “You can’t shame the shameless!” WATCH:

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Rochelle Garza, who lost her race for Texas Attorney General in November, will become the new president of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Garza is a civil rights attorney from the Rio Grande Valley. (Photo: Jon Shapley/HoustonChronicle)

Rochelle Garza speaking at a campaign event in Houston in October 2022. (Jon Shapley/HoustonChronicle)

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Initial court appearance happens shortly in newly filed US Capitol riot case of Dodge Hellonen, one of three newly-arrested US Marines accused of being amid the mob Hellonen allegedly carried "Don't Tread on Me" flag while inside for nearly an hour More: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is pro-insurrection, so Kevin McCarthy appoints her to the Homeland Security Committee. He knows she is a covid conspiracy theorist, so he appoints her to the Coronavirus Pandemic Panel. He's spineless.

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Kevin McCarthy’s district has the highest murder rate, crime, and the most police executions in California. The corruption is exposed in the new docuseries KILLING COUNTY, executive produced by MeidasTouch co-founder Ben Meiselas and Colin Kaepernick.

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"The likelihood that you could've had these two...plots, proceeding on essentially the same legal theory: one in the Justice Dept. and one in 7 state capitols and run out of the White House...and they're not coordinated...I don't believe it" -

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“the hunt for evidence supporting Mr. Barr’s hunch about intelligence abuses had failed. But he waited until after the 2020 election to publicly concede that there [was] no sign of “foreign government activity” and that the C.I.A. had “stayed in its lane”

nytimes.com

Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

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U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat whose reelection chances next year are deemed a toss-up by political prognosticators, on Wednesday blamed Ohio’s Republican drift in statewide races on the decline of unions and Republicans changing election rules.

cleveland.com

Why Sen. Sherrod Brown says he’ll win reelection next year despite Ohio’s rightward drift

Brown attributes Ohio's swing towards Republicans to unfair machinations by the party.

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Tara Palmeri

@tarapalmeri

"A longtime State Department official explained that he filed a complaint to the Office of Inspector General about Pompeo’s rampant use of classification to stop embarrassing leaks.. to the point that every doc that reached his desk had to be classified"

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The S.B.F. PAC Pickle, a New DeSantis, & Pompeo’s Doc Fetish

News and notes on the talk around town: whether S.B.F.’s donations to Future Forward will create collateral damage, Brian Kemp’s growing ambition, and Mike Pompeo’s document drama.

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If you haven’t met me yet: Hi, I’m Andy Morales. 👋🏻I’m a Gen-Z Security officer, Latino, and the candidate running to get MAGA extremist Kevin McCarthy out of Congress. Could you please RT this so I can reach 1,000 new followers to build the people-power we need to unseat him?

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The U.S. is not remotely close to a recession right now. Layoffs suck. But if you're fixated on the tech layoffs *as a signal of US econ strength," consider that they affect less than 0.1% of the economy. It's like predicting a house will fall down because the faucet broke.

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U.S. Rep. George Santos’ campaign committee has told federal regulators it hired a new treasurer amid lingering questions about the source of his finances. But the man Santos supposedly hired says he actually turned the job down.

apnews.com

Latest Santos chaos: 'Hiring' treasurer who turned down job

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. George Santos’ campaign committee told federal regulators Wednesday that it had hired a new treasurer amid lingering questions about the source of his wealth and irregular...

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Deadline White House

@DeadlineWH

"We basically set out to investigate the investigation of the investigation... We found a lot of new things... Unbeknownst to everyone, Durham ended up opening a criminal investigation into Trump or into Trump-related issues" -

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TWEEPS: The US economy grew by 2.9% last quarter, blowing away economists expectations! Can we get 1,000 fast RTs and replies to get the hashtag #WayToJoe trending so we can give some well-earned props to the Biden Admin? Please and thank you!🙏💪

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Sunday Night Football on NBC

@SNFonNBC

The 49ers are playing in their 18th Conference Championship, the MOST in #NFL history. #FTTB

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on weaponization, the GOP circus, Kevin McCarthy's commitment to "integrity," and a sentence I wish I'd written: "This is not just the death of irony; it is a North Korean–style, firing-squad-by-anti-aircraft-gun execution of irony."

theatlantic.com

The GOP Is a Circus, Not a Caucus

The Speaker pays off his debts to the extremist base.

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story is a tremendous black eye for Durham and Barr. It shows they brazenly abused their investigative and prosecutorial powers to pursue a political agenda to help Trump escape the Trump-Russia scandal. It was a perversion of the DOJ—to benefit Trump AND Putin.

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David Corn

@DavidCornDC

Hey I found the "weaponization" of the federal government! Spoiler alert: It was Barr & Durham. I'm sure the House GOP will be investigating this. And guess what: The Russian investigation was no witch hunt. The effort to prove it was...was the witch hunt. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/

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David Sirota

@davidsirota

🚨WATCH & RETWEET: Today's most important free speech case is unfolding RIGHT NOW in Texas. An oil/gas billionaire is trying to set a legal precedent that Americans can be financially punished for criticizing money in politics. levernews.com/the-lawsuit-th

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Wajahat Ali

@WajahatAli

This should be bigger news: first Trump dined with Kanye and Nick Fuentes, now an anti-LGBTQ extremist who has helped promote threats against drag queens, doctors, and educators. If you're an extremist, Trump will dine with you...just don't kneel.

nbcnews.com

Trump hosts conservative influencers behind ‘Libs of Tik Tok’ and Babylon Bee for dinner

The Twitter account 'Libs of Tik Tok' posts often feature anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and are widely shared among right-wing figures.

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Robert Maguire

@RobertMaguire_

Not only did Durham's probe come up with bupkis after nearly four years, but he and Barr got an "explosive" tip linking *Trump* to financial crimes. Instead of assigning another prosecutor, Barr got Durham to investigate the tip, while Barr misled the public about the probe

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Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

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Deadline White House

@DeadlineWH

"You have Ron DeSantis talking about Florida as this bastion of freedom and here it is, it has a 15-week abortion ban. What kind of freedom? Freedom then for whom? I think that that is the way this conversation is going to move" -

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Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argues against military aid for Ukraine, claiming it’s not “where the real problem is.” Fox’s Brian Kilmeade: “Think down the line, though. You let Russia take 20% of a country, what about the next country? Give them another 20?… You gotta play this out.”

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John W. Dean

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Wow! I suspected something was amiss with Durham’s inquiry. This report establishes the outlines of the efforts at a horrific miscarriage of justice that failed. As the saying goes, anything Trump touches dies – this time Barr and Durham’s reputations.

nytimes.com

Barr Pressed Durham to Find Flaws in the Russia Investigation. It Didn’t Go Well.

The review by John Durham at one point veered into a criminal investigation related to Donald Trump himself, even as it failed to find wrongdoing in the origins of the Russia inquiry.

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Kamala Harris

@KamalaHarris

United States government official

Since President

@JoeBiden

and I took office, we’ve seen the two greatest years on record for new small business applications with more than 10.5 million applications submitted to date.

Vice President Harris makes a purchase at These Hands Makers Collective for Small Business Saturday.

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Will Sommer

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I'm losing it over this news that the Durham investigation — which Trump, QAnon believers, and plenty of other Republicans claimed would blow the lid off Democrats and "Russiagate" — started a criminal investigation into none other than Trump himself. nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/

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Kenny Akers

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Ladies and Gentleman senator Stephanie Flowers of Arkansas does not give two fck’s; she stated, “It's not hard to see how many Black men, and boys are being killed by this; stand your ground defense and people are getting away with it.” She says it better 👇🏾

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Amazing economic news today! Our economy continues to grow, inflation’s coming down & unemployment’s at record lows. If YOU appreciate the job President Biden is doing, RT & reply with the hashtag #WayToJoe! Thanks for the steady hand,

@POTUS

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Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

“Five former Memphis police officers who were fired for their actions during the arrest of Tyre Nichols earlier this month were indicted on charges including murder and kidnapping”

cnn.com

All 5 former Memphis police officers charged with murder in Tyre Nichols' death, court records show...

All five former Memphis police officers who were fired for their actions in the arrest of Tyre Nichols earlier this month have been charged with his murder, according to Shelby County court records.

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Bradley P. Moss

@BradMossEsq

Everything is projection. They were looking for ways to do exactly what they say they fired

@Comey

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Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona

Just in case you were wondering how fever-swampy John Durham's probe really got: nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/

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NEW: Ken Cuccinelli testified before Jack Smith's grand jury today. Ken was head of DHS when donald asked him to seize voting machines. He was also a candidate to be appointed special counsel to investigate fake election fraud.