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Blogs & columns for @WashingtonPost. No pun is beneath me. NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY is out now! http://bit.ly/2Kkv3ob 

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    Alexandra Petri‏Verified account @petridishes 29 Jan 2020

    Alexandra Petri Retweeted Abbas Al Lawati

    based on this threshold I am now the world’s foremost scholar of World War I poetry I thinkhttps://twitter.com/allawati/status/1222487741222604800 …

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    Abbas Al LawatiVerified account @allawati
    Kushner tells Sky News Arabia he has read 25 books on the Israel-Palestine conflict
    5:28 am - 29 Jan 2020
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    • Meara Charnetzki Sisyphus Lenka Hudakova jbparity 🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🗽 Αντώνης Χάρισον Robb Stankey Facts matter. Get vaccinated! Nancy Gage-Lindner in defense of human rights Marissa 🇺🇸✡️🍓🌈🌞🌸
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      2. Alexandra Petri‏Verified account @petridishes 29 Jan 2020
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        people will always be kind

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      1. Athena‏ @DaOtherLady1 29 Jan 2020
        Replying to @petridishes

        if your ww poetry involves the middle east you likely out pace him on multiple fronts

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      1. Kaylua‏ @KayeeLua 29 Jan 2020
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        25 picture books with text in large print.

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      2. Rev. Charles S. Freeman‏ @cspencef 29 Jan 2020
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        Ooh, a chance to ask an expert: Sassoon or Owen? 😎

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      3. Alexandra Petri‏Verified account @petridishes 29 Jan 2020
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        why can’t I have both??? I love them both dispassionately, so much, so very much

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      1. Andrew Tobin‏ @tobin 29 Jan 2020
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        If you need anyone in charge of space force doing intergalactic trading, I’ve been really getting into that. Do you think any of Kush’s books were non-fiction? Did he just get a list of references from Netanyahu or do you think he asked around a bit more?

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      1. David Paul Booth  🇪🇺  🇺🇦‏ @DavidPaulBooth1 29 Jan 2020
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        Yeah, right, he's read a book. Coloured in a few probably.

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      2. Andrew Epstein‏ @AndrewEpstein3 29 Jan 2020
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        “My friend, you [should] not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est …

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      3. Dr. Walda Frey-Bolton‏ @fat_walda 29 Jan 2020
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        Dulce et decorum est pro patrem insidias.

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