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I'm on a mission that Dreamers say is impossible. But when I swing my sword, they all choppable.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Sep 2015

    all facts.

    . . Brilliance rewarded.Congratulations. Now, get back to work.
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  2. 7 hours ago

    Honestly, I'd prefer announced bias and intentions over an objectivity that can't really exist.

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  3. 7 hours ago

    i don't know that i do...

    Don't you see different burden for politicians and journalists?
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  4. 7 hours ago

    I took exception to Sanders declining to answer a question. Utterly backwards to then do the same thing.

    That's the point I was trying to make. Even if didn't intend on endorsing, he was endorsing. Should know.
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  5. 7 hours ago

    Essentially the argument for why so many "public figures" just "no comment" everything.

    That's the point I was trying to make. Even if didn't intend on endorsing, he was endorsing. Should know.
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  6. 9 hours ago

    essentially...

    no offense, but this news is likely to shift the black vote in the primaries by roughly zero percent.
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  7. 9 hours ago

    lol. basically.

    Who the fuck is ?
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  8. 9 hours ago

    Right. But I didn't reconsider. That's the whole point. Can both critique someone and vote for them.

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    9 hours ago Leesburg, VA

    I'm confused by you brother are you in bed with ask about

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    9 hours ago

    Teachers face same dilemma. Don’t want to close class convo by sharing POV prematurely, but if students ask, I answer.

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  11. 9 hours ago

    "Black voters should be seen in all of their complications, not through the lens of unelected "thought-leaders.”

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  12. 9 hours ago

    "Citizens are not sheep. They do not need shepherds, and even if they did I would be poorly qualified."

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  13. 9 hours ago

    "The idea that anyone would cast a vote because of how I am casting my vote makes my skin crawl."

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  14. 9 hours ago

    Against Endorsements. "This is not the record of someone who should be telling other citizens how to vote."

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  15. 15 hours ago

    Because I put people on the spot with these sort of Qs all the time. Seemed weak to lawyer up when it's done to me.

    Why not just say, "I prefer to keep my vote confidential?" Isn't that the point of a secret-ballot voting system?
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  16. 15 hours ago

    So yeah. This ain't "feeling the Bern." It's just trying to be a decent citizen and as transparent as I can be.

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  17. 15 hours ago

    Addendum: No reason to be particularly excited about my personal vote. I'm gonna keep writing like I'm writing.

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  18. 15 hours ago

    Hope that makes some sort of sense.

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  19. 15 hours ago

    And given that I generally go after people for just those sorts of evasions, I don't think there was much else to do.

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  20. 15 hours ago

    That's between you, the ballot and (maybe) your God. Would rather have not answered the question. But it would have been evasive not to.

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  21. 15 hours ago

    But that's me, the citizen. Me, the writer doesn't speak for anyone else and doesn't intend to try to sway anyone else.

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