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“I used to be somebody but now I am somebody else.” Best-sellers: “Love That Boy” & “Applebee’s America”. Ex:
Media & News CompanyDetroit, MItruscottrossman.comJoined March 2008

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I learned here. I shared here. I heard here. I swaggered here. I fought here. I connected here. I disconnected here. I loathed here. I loved here. I was good here. I was bad here. I was here. I was, before here. I’ll be, after here. -30-
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Well. Regulated. Militia.
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NEW: Neighbors who saw a toddler in diapers wandering around a Beech Grove, Indiana, apartment complex with a loaded handgun called police. The incident was caught on building cameras. The father - who lied that he didn’t own a gun - was arrested. #inlegis dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1
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“Only one person has occupied both the Oval Office and the world wrestling hall of fame. He got there by turning conflict into celebrity and celebrity into votes … we must call off the conflict that feeds the beast.” ~ ⁦
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Over the years, MLK Day could be seen as just another day off work. Let’s change that perception. How are you going to celebrate the late civil rights leader? #Detroit is rich in its history and Hour Detroit shares different events to celebrate #MLKDay.
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I think it's funny that people insist on reading my habit of expressing very normal opinions as some kind of clever ruse — you, too, can have normal opinions and state them on the internet.
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Great profile—deftly points to Yglesias's branding of aggressively conventional wisdom as unconventional, a trick that works bc his willingness to carry water for the rich/powerful is often so brazen it's hard to believe someone would say it so straight. washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023
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A helluva read here. On the declining quality of hangers-on in Mar-A-Lago; Trump’s obsession with the movie Sunset Boulevard; its parallels with his own life; and the feelings of his family members about a second run. With this kicker:
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For the latest cover of @NYMag, I profiled Donald Trump in failure and isolation at Mar-a-Lago: nymag.com/intelligencer/
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1- Blake Hounshell was my first editor at Politico. A few months after starting there, I had my daughter, Esther, and went on parental leave. Several weeks before my leave ended, Blake and I decided to meet up and talk about what I’d cover when I came back.
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Dear God, this is horrible. Yoni is right on all below. RIP, Blake
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Blake Hounshell was a hell of a journalist. Deeply saddened to hear of his passing. And to all out there battling depression, know that there is help, you are not alone, and you are loved.
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Imagine arresting people who staged a coup on the same day they attempted the coup. What a concept. This may read as snark but I am sincere in asking us to imagine this. Instead, insurrectionists in the US retreated to hotels where they openly celebrated in lobbies and bars.
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