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Had 2 billion followers on Twitter (mostly marsupials)
Am writing: novel.
Have written, way back: NYT, Gizmodo, Gawker, The Awl, Splitsider, Time Out NY. Ex Cambodia Daily.
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Howard Eissenstat

Trying to determine how often candidates have come back from these deficits in July

There is something about that idea and photograph that captures the lunacy of these times in a singular way. I could imagine it in history text books. The Nazi boot-licking impulse coupled with the cognitive disfiguration required to view that as a thing that can and should be done.

Die harder fascists! Slava Ukraine!

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Michael Tae Sweeney

this qualifies as a disaster. has anyone come back from this deficit 4 months out?

this was helpful

I just pulled this together. I feel somewhat confident that Biden will lose, and we should try Kamala. I didn't feel that way after the debate, but here we are.

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Dan Lavoie

I had to grind it out; it's pretty fucking terrifying.

The layers of brain rot here are astonishing. The false framing. The naivete. The willful refusal to properly recognize or articulate the threat. The passive voice. The both-sidesing. We are not threatened by this vaporous, abstract "division," we are threatened by fascism.

I have this weird feeling that many fascists are not interested in being healed

11 black men who support trump. I would almost rather see a more in-depth 1 on 1 where the Times pushes back more.

I’m really ready to see some good news

The seal account is just a vile troll. Why would anyone bother engaging rather than blocking? It is never worth your time to engage someone like this.

False. Democratic means did not stop Hitler.

A good reason for people who engage in dissent and nonviolent protest to remember that their means should match the end. You’re no longer defending democracy if you take up anti-democratic means to do so.

This cocktoach is a great example of why Bouie left. I had not heard about the Jia’s parents’ “trafficking” issue until I saw this douche’s skeet. I checked it out, TLDR, to ding Bouie for this response is just such a toxic troll move. Please block, Bort is the worst.

Don’t get mad. Get (a tiny fraction of 1%) even by blocking this cockroach

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Cooper Lund

I don’t understand how this hasn’t blown up.

Huh. Joe Kahn’s daddy co-founded Staples, so Joey was born into a rarified (and toxic) level of privilege. Goes a long way toward explaining … why I no longer subscribe. Fun fact: Ex executive editor Bill Keller’s daddy was the CEO of Chevron! It’s really fucking gross.

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Paul Guinnessy

Still surprised this has not blown up more here

Shot chaser. Still not saying it’s a foreign opp but … !!??

Damn On the one hand you have to congratulate. On the other hand, maybe there’s a policy fix here that doesn’t target individual people who visit because they respect and admire your culture.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: The Birthday Beast

Great alternative to doom scrolling right here.

Super original take

3/ garbage like this is costing you subscribers, rightfully so.

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The New York Times

2/ I'm glad to see that your fascist coverage is costing you more subscribers.

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The New York Times

1/ One reason I'm glad I dropped my subscription is that you publish op-eds by enemies of representative democracy, without telling your readers that they are enemies of democracy

I had no idea and that’s crazy.

I just want to point out that this election was already 10x more intense and hairy than any election should be *before* all of this shit hit the fan.

Ok, POTUS can’t be charged for official acts? I’m not kidding: Biden should just arrest Trump and stick him in Guantanamo for the rest of his fascist life. Needless to say I am, yet again, shocked and appalled at what is happening to this country.

For context

Huh, Harris's disapproval is right about where Hillary's was.