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Every hour I think that he can't be a worse human. Then he proves me wrong. twitter.com/thehill/status
Holy shit. just told everyone to read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."
I know as a journalist I'm not supposed to have opinions about candidates. But when it comes to Mike Bloomberg, I can't stay quiet. He's an open racist, a sexist & an oligarch. He ordered the brutalizing of peaceful protests and arrests of journalists. He has to be stopped.
#Charlottesville Police have decided to arrest #DeAndreHarris instead of searching and prosecuting the white supremacists that attacked him.
I took this image and I was JUST yesterday contacted by the FBI by e-mail, thanks to - I'll be talking to them Monday. Stay tuned twitter.com/ShaunKing/stat
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How old are you? Do you remember what Bush did? Do you remember the terror that he committed on Muslims in America and the rest of the world? Are you fucking kidding me?
Earlier in a parking garage in #Charlottesville - white supremacists beat this black kid w/poles. [Photo for by ]
Do not ever fucking tell me that the networks don't have money to pay journalists, photographers etc. That excuse is long fucking over.
Just your reminder that Elon Musk and Tesla likely tried to have a whistleblower killed by cops.
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This is stunning stuff. TESLA tried to have a whistleblower SWATTED, arrested & placed on a mental health hold in retaliation for him going to journalists with safety violations. Bravo to this police officer for documenting the entire interaction in writing twitter.com/PlainSite/stat…
Well got peppersprayed by a Proud Boy. Several other media got direct hit. Thankfully it hit my glasses but my face and body is burning like the worst sunburn. #PennState campus cops watched and did nothing.
The DC police not only escorted the Proud Boys around town, gave them directions and at one point chanted with them... also gave them fist bumps while smoking s stogie.
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As the Proud Boys walked, one officer with @DCPoliceDept held up a first to "Pound it" with a cigar in his mouth.
Well this is fucking wild. Checking into my large chain hotel and in Silver Springs MD and I'm told that there will be daily room inspections. Basically to make sure that no one is constructing an explosive device or something.
Got this wrong myself, #Pewdiepie is NOT wearing a Iron Cross, he is for some reason wearing a Georgian Bolnisi cross. The shirt is by the Georgian designer Demna Gvasalia. Why he decided to wear this in a video talking about retracting a donation to the ADL is your own guess.
I'm not sure I have words for how horrific this is. The cops used a dog to drag a dying unconscious man across the street as opposed to literally do their jobs.
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A 37-year-old man was shot and killed by San Diego police officers after leading police on pursuit, then exiting his truck with a handgun. A K9 was used to drag him away from the weapon and into custody for medical treatment. The suspect was later pronounced dead. 
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“TELL MOMMY YOU LOVE ME OR ELSE YOU GET THE PEPPER SPRAY”
My mom bought me a bulletproof vest for Christmas. I have never felt more loved.
Seriously, this isn't a joke.
Keep it out year round. After Halloween put a Santa Claus outfit on it. After that put a big red heart in it's chest for Valentines Day... and so on.
I’m old enough to remember Prager’s friends calling for people with AIDS to be sent to an island to die.
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Dennis Prager: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users...had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable"
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[in extremely Ben Shaprio voice] If they hated slavery so much they should have convinced their captors to free them using debate.
They're just so so close.
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Fox & Friends complains that charges being dropped against Jussie Smollett "shows that people can get away with anything ... if you're famous, if you know certain people, you can even get out of crimes."
Rochester Police just retook the fence in space with a full court charge with about a hundred officers using rubber bullets. And pepper bullets. This was one of the more violent things I've seen in my years in journalism. Almost every single person here is affected I got hit too.
If you need a twitter detox, here's a couple photos of my puppy, Bowden.
Police at #PennState just charged protesters with horses. Zero warning several media including myself nearly got trampled.
Here's the moment that a right-winger went into a crowd of anti-ProudBoy protestors trying to start a fight. Then pepper-sprayed the people around him (including me and ). The police watched, not doing anything.
I'll add my coverage of the #PennState protests here.🧵
A Nazi flag owner (make your own assumptions there) ran a U-Haul into White House security gates. All the top comments are from verified Twitter uses. All of them are claiming it’s a false flag or some version of that. Everything that made this site great is gone.
I should also note that even I told three different officers on the scene of the crime, I still haven't been contacted by #CVille Police
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I took this image and I was JUST yesterday contacted by the FBI by e-mail, thanks to @ShaunKing - I'll be talking to them Monday. Stay tuned twitter.com/ShaunKing/stat
Can't wait for their "It's been 50 years since My Lai, we check in on how the American soldiers that murdered men women and children are doing in their retirement homes in Florida."
Other people have pointed out that the crossword has an interesting layout this week. I thought, “There’s no way this actually made it to print.” I had just bought the print copy… and we’ll shit. I did nahtsee that coming. (This is real, I just took the photo)
This is why a lot of the people who want to ban these books want to ban them.
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A 10-year-girl in Delaware picked up “It’s Perfectly Normal” while at the library with her mother. When they came home, she showed her mom the chapter on sexual abuse and said, “This is me.” She was being abused by her father, and it was the first time she’d spoken about it.
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I just got pepper sprayed and they're currently shooting rubber bullets the size of a child's fist at the crowd. #Minneapolisprotests #Minneapolis
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This is the true line of succession.
Justice is rare these days but the white supremacist with the shield (right) was just found guilty by a jury in #Charlottesville. If it wasn't for 's video, the persistence of and activists on the ground he'd still be free.
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Earlier in a parking garage in #Charlottesville - white supremacists beat this black kid w/poles. [Photo for by @zdroberts @NationofChange]
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NAHHH We're all investing in rubies. Oh, & trying to pay back 25K in student loans while unemployed
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So um... whatever happened with the suicide bombing in Nashville last month? Feel like that should still be news.
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I mean I've done interviews with many checked-out celebs. You play into their comments and at least get that he's not talking about the Vanity Fair after-party. Also, talk to him about a film he's in for more than 120secs.
Reminder the police will always protect Nazis first.
Uvalde Mayor calls media "chicken" for releasing video from school at City Council meeting. Another member of the council follows up with calling it "chickenshit."
Resident followed up, asking he they thought that cops were "chicken?"
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The extra $500k you'll have from not having kids will though.
This is a San Francisco area police outfit threatening the life of it's citizenry.
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“IF YOU DO NOT MOVE, YOU WILL BE DEAD” WALNUT CREEK, CA
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Imagine how working for him on Mars would be. “You’ll find out if you still have your job in the morning whether your oxygen works when you wake up.”
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So basically we’re in the early 1900s again
You told a story that is inherently Alex’s story made it about yourself and about how you struggled and hold it to one of the biggest anti-trans propagandists working today. I can’t imagine hating a child as much as you must hate yours.
If you're just hearing about a member of Patriot Prayer being killed or another being arrested in Washington you should catch up on who they are. SPLC has a good example. They're not a "conservative" group. They're at minimum alt-right/fash
Here's the current front runner, the guy everyone says is 'the candidate who can win' telling a likely Democratic voter to "vote for Trump" when confronted with a question. He doesn't argue the point, compromise where he'll be as a candidate, just tells this voter to fuck off.
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We should not nominate someone who told a young man to "vote for Trump" simply because he was concerned about the millions of people Obama & Biden deported.
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She must have confused Native Americans with Jamestown settlers. Who cannibalized a 14 yo girl.
Jesus Christ, they're trying so hard to stop people from voting nationwide. It's the worst I've ever seen it, and I've been covering voter suppression for 12 years.
I just got tear gassed and ricochet hit by a rubber bullet on my leg. These cops are fucking monsters. #JusticeForGeorge #Minneapolisprotests #policeriot.
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You wrote an entire piece about DeSantis and didn’t include a single thing about any of his extraordinarily right wing (even for the current Republican party) policies. You don’t need to criticize them but to not point them out comparing to “80” year old Biden is embarrassing.
"Antifa" saved my journalist ass several times during the Unite the Right rally. The medics helped me out after I got sprayed with something. They are 100% are the reason why there weren't more casualties at the rally.
You know this will more likely be used on activists than on shooters, right? You're literally giving the cops a way to stop protests in America.
If you're a photo editor or journalist and you're choosing images like this for Bernie raising money... You might want to consider your subconscious beliefs.
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George Santos on Jan 5th 2021 in Freedom Plaza:
“Who here is ready to overturn the election for Donald J Trump” [audience cheers]
Like, yeah that's what they were there for, but you don't say it. lol
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The reveal is they really do not need another child.
I don't know who needs this but here's a photo of my dog.
A fascist group is marching on DC's capital right now being aided and protected and given directions by the DC capital Police. They've already thrown me aside once and several other members of anti-fascist groups.
[THE GHOST OF HOWARD ZINN HAS JOINED THE ZOOM CALL]
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The protesters are fucking heroes.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I took the photo.
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Compare this horrific photo by @zdroberts today of white supremacists beating black kid in Charlottesville to Freedom Riders attack in 1961.
13.5 million Germans served in WW2. Most of those were not members of the Nazi party voluntarily.
6% of the USA in 2019 is part of the far-right.
That means there are more Nazi and Nazi adjacent people in America in 2019 than there were Nazis fighting in WW2.
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Before I go to bed I wanted to share these images I took.
The police presence at the #PennState protests was unreal. Horses, riot cops, a Bear Cat & SWAT w/ rifles. I'll talk more tomorrow about how PennState and the cops endangered the safety of their students. More hear soon.
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Are you all ok? Like this is just getting weird.
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I am heading back to the car back to the place I’m staying my arms are still burning like they’re on fire. Thanks to everyone at the protest that helped. Police later once again attacked with horses. Photo and video soon. #pennstate
How about giving the guy credit? And giving the site that actually get them out credit. thenib.com/pittsburgh-pos
Here's the pulled clip with captions.
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Uvalde Mayor calls media "chicken" for releasing video from school at City Council meeting. Another member of the council follows up with calling it "chickenshit."
Resident followed up, asking he they thought that cops were "chicken?"
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Were the witnesses other border patrol officials?
Get better now, ! We need you for all the laughs, all your wonderful toys and of course your wonderful touching monologues at the end of your movies. #SNOOGANS
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You're a gahdamn student loan company and you're celebrating making boatloads of money off of kids trying to get an education? Holy shit this is why people are talking about guillotines.
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And it wasn't sent days ago because....?
. is up for reelection in just TWO years. We need FEDERAL protection for the right to vote immediately. Congress needs to walk and chew gum.
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@ReverendWarnock is up for re-election in just two years (not the normal six) and Republicans in Georgia are doing EVERYTHING they can to block Black voter turnout.
This fight is happening right NOW and it needs YOUR HELP. twitter.com/nowthisnews/st…
Everyone and I can’t emphasize enough EVERYONE. Do not quote tweet or reply to Trump. Screenshot the tweet if you must comment on it and post that. Do not give these accounts traction more than they already have. This goes for all troll accounts.
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You already work for the Free Beacon, we all know that you say it.
Here's the end of the clip - after pepper-spraying a bunch of journalists and anti-fascists the right-wingers just run by cops, giving one a check-in as they ran by. #PennState #Protest
I am the media. I'm tweeting it out for that reason
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I don’t know how Jon Stewart, who is a intelligent man has not become aware of that no one gives a shit about hypocrisy anymore on the right. This is fun for liberals to watch but honestly it’s boring. Especially as John Stewart defends transphobes who are friends of his.
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They're a threatening to hit "antifa" with this.
I blame all my friends for not physically forcing me to listen to 's literally perfect album Cuz I Love You.
Ok, I know it's my fault I didn't listen to the internet. I haven't listened to an album where I loved every song since Bruce Springsteen's The Rising.
Maybe we could use some of those private planes that Tom Price and Mnuchin like so much to fly aid to #PuertoRico
I’m here covering the Moms for Liberty conference in Philly. Follow me for what coverage I can gather. Access is pretty much nonexistent for media.
. here's evidence of a hate crime in #Charlottesville - I'm happy to turn all the photos over to the and
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Earlier in a parking garage in #Charlottesville - white supremacists beat this black kid w/poles. [Photo for by @zdroberts @NationofChange]
Not all graphic designers are bastards but the one that did this sure as hell is.
If only Musk would be the one getting sentenced along with the Tasla drivers.
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Where are the medical associations? Where are the doctors protesting this?
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"An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions"
This is Bloomberg's legacy.
People talk about respecting the dead whenever a war criminal bites it, but for some reason we can never respect the hundreds of thousands of killed in their illegal wars.
Just casually saying on a national broadcast that people should take up arms and start shooting immigrants. This is where we're at.
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Under Bloomberg #OWS crackdown I witnessed dozens of people beaten bloody. I was trampled and beaten with batons after his order to clear the park. Later I was arrested while working as a journalist. Hundreds were arrested as well.
If you’re reading Toni Morrison as a white dude and having nightmares you might want to look into what that says about you as a person… not what it says about Morrison books.
Out of Sight is still my favorite movie with , but jesus christ if she doesn't get an Academy Award nomination for this, I will personally burn down the Dolby Theatre, Inglorious Bastards style.
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A Thread: Ok, I was going to write this up in a longer form but I ran out of time, I'll get to the point. The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) & Georgia Republican Party seems to be directly working with Ali Alexander's "Stop the Steal" Organization. 1/9
Nothing I love more than this response on a well researched excellent piece of journalism. The point is there is proof of his corruption now. Not just a bunch of people saying "I'm not surprised" because nihilism is so fucking cool.
I was there dude, you said it. Don't be chickenshit and back out of it. The crowd loved it and you loved their attention at your mind-blowingly terrible jokes. The photog sitting next to me asked "Is this guy trying to be a comedian? 'Cause it's not working."