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16! Stories on Washington Post website about Biden Speech/Afghanistan before you get to this story about the suffering of the people in Louisiana.
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Just masterful 🤡 deployment
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Why did he make a truly dumb statement like this? I don’t get what he expected from those employed at Amazon! I know it couldn’t have been a YAY!! Shame on you, Mr. Bezos… 
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If you find the UNC Board of Trustees’ decision to deny tenure as abhorrent as I do, consider supporting Nikole by preordering a copy of the 1619 book, which comes out this fall. It’s an expanded and enhanced version of the magazine issue.
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Maybe:
1) Climate change causing a hairnado
2) When you put your ponytail in the dryer
3) Hair hoarding
4) Why Meghan was nicknamed The Blonde Anaconda
5) When your stylist works at Carvel
6) How people used to get cable TV
7) Hair with an elbow
8) Legally considered carry-on
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These people have been *waiting* to spill their beans, maybe even waiting for Max Linsky.
Listen with a Kleenex and a notebook.
68 more and we've got The Meaning of Life.
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For those who haven’t gone through it, it is extremely destabilizing to have major conservative media attack you by name — you get a flood of deranged threats. What is dealing with is not only unacceptable, it’s dangerous. Fox News should be ashamed, were it capable
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A national emergency. A national tragedy.
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It'll only become real for him when he pushes the Diet Coke button and nothing happens.
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It’s on: Judy just spanked her desk.
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Norah O’Donnell is calling Powerball. Gayle just basically asked what’s a Gwinnett. My nerves are asking if Judy Woodruff comes in pill form.
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Heard this when I was 12 and sing it to myself once a month. This year it's been every single day.
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When Judy Davis is the LEAST stable person a show has to offer and Corey Stoll the hottest, I’m definitely being pandered to.
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I’m struggling to understand how anyone can have a “religious objection” to birth control.
Also, why is this any employer’s damn business?
#universalhealthcare now.
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I sent this open letter to the Opporunity & Inclusive Growth Institute as a message to those well intentioned economists who are looking for a way they can respond to this moment of calling for racial equality minneapolisfed.org/~/media/assets
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Fascinating and unprecedented move. assuming debt via 30- and 50-year “social” bonds to increase philanthropic giving NOW when most needed. leading the way.
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There is a battle brewing in the traditionally stuffy boardrooms of foundations and the first major salvo came today from @darrenwalker and @FordFoundation with a billion-dollar bet on bonds. Thread /1
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“Let’s Be Cops” actually happened. grantland.com/features/lets-
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Are Mayor Turner's *briefings* that fire??
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(3PM gate time?? I'm sorry, but they'll never make it.)
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On this week's Kicker, discusses notions of objectivity, and how to write about our current political moment viscerally.
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lots of convo about books to read right now and it's dope so many of you are buying mine! (&tagging me on IG)
Allow me to add two crucial titles to those being widely recommended: "The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein & "When They Call You A Terrorist" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
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This had been on my mind.
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Let’s set the stage. In 1915, one year after the start of World War I, D.W. Griffith released Birth of a Nation, which tells the story of how southern whites founded the Ku Klux Klan and took their country back after the Civil War. #historyrhymes 2/12
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The Spanish Flu pandemic passed through three waves from spring 1918 to early summer 1919. Comparisons have been made between it and #Covid19. But few know what happened in the United States as the pandemic faded in early-to-mid 1919. #historyrhymes 1/12
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After which Jesus Christ would say “Jesus Christ.”
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Everything about this clip is amazing (the nominees jfc), but witness Richard’s rage, channeled through comedic timing & flamboyant egotism, over being forced to stand next to a white novelty act who’s *wearing his hairstyle* like it’s a cute throwback.
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Professional writing advice: best way to find a mistake in your work is to hit submit.
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Our third and final Fellows of 2020 is a conversation between and hosts of podcast “Still Processing” and .
Watch live at 6:30pm EDT: writing.upenn.edu/wh/multimedia/
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This stinks. Our church applied but we were told the money ran out before we were approved.
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"At @jpmorgan, nearly all of the 8,500 commercial and private banking clients who applied for a loan got one. .. At the same time, only 18,000 of more than 300,000 small-business customers who applied through Chase’s retail bank got loans, according to the bank."
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Empty supermarket shelves = desperate food pantries.
This devastating story includes lots of the organizations.
If can you help, help.
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Just one of the beloved imperiled restaurant-bars in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Several losing trivia nights for me.
Building on Bond/Robert Employee Fund gofundme.com/f/building-on-
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Sorry this took so long, everybody.
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Some of my best friends are firewalls.
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This is 4 years old and no less true.
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