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@BobSaietta

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Reporter and whatnot. Bylines: @thedailybeast @Deadspin @HuffPost @politico @ESPN @newrepublic @VICE @nytimes and whatnot.

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Robert Silverman
3 years
Tim Pool was told beforehand that Trump supporters planned to storm the Capitol on 1/6. He kept it secret from his 3.3 mil YouTube subscribers, while pushing election conspiracy theories. And whitewashing the far-right paid Pool $600,000 in Aug. 2020 alone
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Rob Manfred, $11 mil/year
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Marc Luino
2 years
Who has the worst contract in MLB right now?
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Robert Silverman
5 years
[kisses fingers like Italian chef for five hours]
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Robert Silverman
2 years
My uncle who works at Nintendo says the same thing
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Robert Silverman
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So I guess Libs of TikTok and Andy Ngo are out of business, right? Right?
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X’s Rules strictly prohibit the publication or posting of other people’s private information without their express authorization and permission. This includes contexts suggesting abusive intent, harassment or incitement to harass, as well as the distribution of media that may…
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Robert Silverman
2 years
the prophecy has been fulfilled
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Andrew Lawrence
2 years
pathetic
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2 years
literally
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Robert Silverman
2 years
If you're seeing some lunacy about a person of interest who was detained re: Waukesha, here's a brief window into how the right-wing disinfo machine works. It starts with Andy Ngo, of course. First, another reporter—not Andy—does the actual work of finding the POI's record. 1/x
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Robert Silverman
1 year
Tim's been screaming "groomer" for months now but this is an escalation. Even after five people were killed, he's promoting the same bigoted lies.
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Robert Silverman
2 years
congrats, @Hegelbon
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Stephen A Smith
2 years
I want to make one thing clear, I am AGAINST antisemitism! Listen to today's episode of @KnowMercyPod and hear why I believe there is a lack of civility in America today! The link is in the bio. #KanyeWest #KyrieIrving #civility #newepisode #knowmercypod
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2 years
A wave of foreign nationals have swarmed into #Ukraine to stop the Russian invasion. @anthonycwalker , a Canadian comedian, decided to join them on Thursday. As of this AM, he's at the border and serving as a combat medic. Read his incredible story here:
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Dave Levinthal
1 year
🚨 NEW: @RobertKennedyJr has filed paperwork to run for president as a Democrat. Team Kennedy's campaign treasurer confirms to @RawStory that a formal campaign launch is being eyed for later this month in Boston. w/ @fawfulfan
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Robert Silverman
8 months
SCOOP: For years, Barstool Sports has run an apparent system of organized copyright infringement, using "burner" Twitter accounts to swipe countless hours of highlights owned by teams in every league. And they apparently have no intention of stopping.
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2 years
To be clear: none of this excuses the alleged crime nor the person who perpetrated it, regardless of whether it's the POI or someone else. But connecting it long before any of the facts are known to BLM is how the far-right triggers and then monetizes their audience. 9/9
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1 year
Tim literally dropped out of school in the 9th grade.
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Just realized right wingers are just dudes whose brains never developed past Jr. High
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2 years
That seems quite damning! What Ngo doesn't say is that the FB post was from a cop (who was later fired) and bragged about being able to get away w/running over protesters b/c of the privileges afforded members of law enforcement Not the same thing! 5/x
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2 years
By the time a motive (if any is learned) neither Ngo nor Pool will correct any of their inflammatory or outright false reporting. They'll have moved on to the next target. Some percentage of their audiences, though, will forever remain convinced BLM targeted parade-goers. 8/8
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2 years
The news site YouTuber Tim Pool founded to combat the mainstream press—which he hates because they "lie all the time," he's said—is staffed with far-right figures, runs fluff interviews with white nationalists, and... plagiarizes from the mainstream press.
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Robert Silverman
1 year
@MikeIsaac @kenklippenstein Mumford is the name of the scientist. Son is the monster
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Robert Silverman
2 years
Here's my article on Ngo, Pool, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, and how random Facebook posts from the alleged perpetrator were framed by bad faith actors to blame Black Lives Matter for the tragedy in Waukesha. @thedailybeast
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Robert Silverman
2 years
Ngo then digs up a FB page allegedly belonging to the POI and posts some screenshots. But not before adding his own editorial slant, which at best could be described as inflammatory (if not outright false) and designed to get the attention of the online right. 2/x
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Robert Silverman
2 years
Naturally, Tim Pool made a video. The headline is "Police Refuse To Rule Out Terror In Waukesha Attack, Person Of Interest Detained Is BLM Supoorter" [sic] Pool's source for this is Ngo's tweets. He says though it hasn't been proven that the POI is a member of BLM... 6/x
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2 years
... clearly the POI has "ties to Black Lives Matter." (To date, this is false) Doesn't matter to Pool, who then speculates that since the cops haven't ruled out terrrorism this could be a "revenge attack" for the Rittenhouse verdict. The video's received 54k views in 2 hrs. 7/x
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Robert Silverman
2 years
There's no posts with a BLM hashtag (though Ngo added one in his tweet), or images of him attending/supporting BLM protesters, at least not that Ngo has found to date. For his audience, it doesn't matter. They've linked the POI to BLM. But take a look at the last sentence. 4/x:
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On FB, the POI allegedly posted some antisemitic dreck, a cartoon about police brutality, and a photo of a mural of George Floyd. The latter two were enough for Ngo to say he'd posted "in support of BLM causes." Nowhere did he find anything directly linking the POI to BLM 3/x
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Robert Silverman
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Barstool published an unfunny blog about a young woman who'd been missing for two weeks, along with cheesecake pics culled from social media. Hours later, after the police said she'd been murdered, Barstool tried to quietly scrub the post. @thedailybeast
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Rolling Stone
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BREAKING: Appeals Court Bails Trump Out of Having to Post Massive Fraud Bond Story:
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2 years
"When the civil rights game was on the line, Dr. King wanted the ball in his hands," Mayor Eric Adams said before tipoff of today's Knicks-Hornets game.
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Robert Silverman
2 years
Andy Ngô has made his bones recirculating videos of civil unrest he didn't film. Two photojournalists are suing him and alleging IP theft. Their goal: to stop him not just from stealing their work, but take a stand on behalf of those who can't fight back.
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1 year
Make no mistake, he's blaming the victims
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Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, greets a baby during a campaign event at Sun Valley Barn in Pella, Iowa on Wednesday.
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10 months
The far right is responding in an extremely normal way to the indictment
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Robert Silverman
4 years
Clay Travis, Covid Truther, has built out a website in his own image: factually-challenged, heavily invested in the cuture wars, and powered by conspiratorial, far-right grievance politics, even to the point of defending a white nationalist. @thedailybeast
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4 years
those horses shouldn't have gotten so political
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4 years
Viewership trends: NBA Finals Game 1: -45% to all-time low Stanley Cup Final: -61% to 13-year low U.S. Open (golf) final round: -56% to all-time low Kentucky Derby: -43% to all-time low Indy 500: -32% to all-time low All of them May and June events moved to August and September.
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3 years
After 9/11, MLB wrapped itself in the flag, but one athlete refused to play ball: @carlosdelgado21 . Months after photos from Abu Ghrabi were made public, Delgado rightly called the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan "the stupidest war ever." @thedailybeast
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1 year
Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Toilet Paper $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at pooping please help me budget this. my family is dying
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Jason Whitlock
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Dude, it's $8 a month. A Big Mac and fries. Good lord, I probably use $8 a day in toilet paper.
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4 years
TPUSA regional meme organizer
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Out of Bounds
4 years
What does it look like Gordon Hayward does for a living?
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3 years
Only two of those are actual jobs
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3 years
Every job will be automated until four remain: engineer, entrepreneur, investor, artist.
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5 years
Amazing
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3 years
lol
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@BrandyLJensen We're Just Normal Men
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@BrandyLJensen If a 9-year-old gets hurt in Brooklyn, she has to be taken to a Manhattan hospital. Those are the rules
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Robert Silverman
4 years
someone On Here said Trump stands like he's a centaur but the horse half is invisible.
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Barb O'Toole
4 years
Just standing in the absolute weirdest way possible. @david_j_roth
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Robert Silverman
2 months
Tim Pool is really leaning into white nationalism these days. Today he's hosting Patrick Casey, a white nationallist and one of the leaders of Identity Evropa/AIM. (No, Pool doesn't tell his audience who Casey is.)
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2 years
To be clear, it’s nonsense but all your fave right wing influencers are running with it
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2 years
Maybe Elon Musk shouldn’t get his news from the Santa Monica Observer, “notorious for publishing false news,” including “that Hillary Clinton had died and that a body double had been sent to debate Donald Trump.”
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1 year
The Tim Pool-Milo Yiannopoulos-Nick Fuentes version of the Algonquin Round Table ended after about 20 minutes. Ye stormed off in a huff after Pool had the temerity to suggest that maybe a shadowy cabal of Jews weren't the cause of his troubles.
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Robert Silverman
10 months
Tim Pool fascism update: advocating for the extrajudicial killing of protesters.
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Tim Pool spent his Sunday getting mad at Clippy
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Robert Silverman
4 years
Still half in shock and half crying, but I wrote about the life of Kobe Bryant. Even now, when emotions are understandably raw, if we are to celebrate this brilliant, beloved athlete, we can't ignore that he was a flawed human being. via @thedailybeast
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Robert Silverman
8 months
The Daily Beast found over 40 "burner" accounts Barstool controls. The burners rip and post highlights & seconds later, Barstool embeds it. Why? If caught, the burner is hit with a DMCA strike and possibly suspended, not Barstool's valuable legit accounts
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PizzaGaetz is real
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@Esqueer_ @MattBinder examining any situation using logic and sound reasoning would lead to a result that's anathema to their conservative audience. Critical thinking is not economically viable
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3 years
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@oneunderscore__ "We'd all watched the spectacular rise and fall of the Wallet Inspector, one which ended in an 11-year prison sentence. But when they complimented the leather stitching and sleek profile of my wallet, I couldn't help but think, 'This is a person who cares about craftsmanship.'"
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Robert Silverman
1 year
oh for sure man
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@RepMTG
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸
1 year
Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists anti-semitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him. Do you actually report real news or just use CNN for your political activism? Have you questioned Democrats if they denounce Israel hating Ilhan Omar?
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During the 1st week Pulp Fiction premiered, I saw it in a packed house near Columbia. LL Cool J was also in attendance and kept shouting "oh dip!" whenever someone was killed. Finally someone sitting near him loudly stage-whispered "shut up, LL!" The whole aud. burst out laughing
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Tell me about a great movie-going experience you'll never forget. Not as a memorial, but as a chance--right now--for us all to tap into that communal joy of the cinematic experience.
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*civil rights battle. A few sentences later, some fan yells, "Shut the fuck up!"
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Robert Silverman
5 years
woo. my favorite team—Money—won. This tweet might be the purest distillation of Darren's fealty to brands above all else, even basic congitive functioning, we've ever seen. Impressive, really
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how it started v. how it's going
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Robert Silverman
10 months
My "Not involved with human trafficking" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by this 2.5 hour Twitter broadcast
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This is just getting very, very sad.
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Robert Silverman
1 year
You owe Defector $500k
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1 year
media companies spent the last couple of years distracted by ideological, non-business issues and self-indulgent union drives, & now they’re imploding If half that energy was focused on profitability & product, these companies would be thriving
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Robert Silverman
5 years
so close to getting it
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Robert Silverman
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Paying far right freaks, scammers, and blithering idiots to post. I’m sure advertisers are thrilled 🙄
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Robert Silverman
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The easiest and most lucrative get-rich-quick scheme is fading Tim's political predictions.
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Robert Silverman
2 years
yes, if there's one thing I'm known for it's uh trolling Andy by posting three tweets over the course of 2.5 years and [checks notes] defending antifa. Spot on. I guess my article on how Ngo selectively edits and crams together half-truths to serve a political agenda was wrong.
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Robert Silverman
8 months
Barstool's prominent personalities are certainly aware they're running this crudely effective IP theft racket. Like Big Cat, who mentioned the "burner" Twitter accounts on air when they used a song for too long.
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Robert Silverman
2 years
... and that's the story of how Dilbert got himself a mail-order bride
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Robert Silverman
5 years
Mariano Rivera will enter the MLB Hall of Fame today. He's also spent the last three years serving at the pleasure of a racist president, cozying up to apocalypic bigoted loons, and doing propaganda on behalf of an apartheid state. @thedailybeast
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@abughazalehkat And he knows it
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Robert Silverman
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@realChrisBrunet @jaredlholt then she posts where they work and, often, how to contact their employers, Then she falsely refers to them as "groomers" and frames them as dangerous and predatory. Then the bomb threats arrive. Wanna try again?
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Robert Silverman
5 years
Cool and good sign at Yankee Stadium
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Robert Silverman
2 years
This Timcast story copied paragraph after paragraph straight from CNN, of all places.
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Robert Silverman
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Antisemites and far-right grifters have glommed on to the tragic death of Adam Johnson, accusing the player who accidentally collided with him of murder/manslaughter because... he's Black.
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Robert Silverman
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mom, age 82, and dad, age 92, celebrating on the Upper West Side.
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Robert Silverman
3 years
One silver lining to tonight’s game: Knicks legend Dr. Dick Barnett in attendance wearing a #1619Project hat
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Robert Silverman
4 years
How much of an outlier were the 58 #COVID19 tests perfomed on the Jazz? It equaled 60% of Oklahoma's peak daily testing capacity and 20% of their total available tests. And of the 7k tests at state-run labs in the U.S., it equalled .8%. @thedailybeast
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Robert Silverman
2 years
NewsGuard told Pool about two plagiarized articles in May. They were deleted & Pool promised an "investigation." We found 7 more over two weeks . When we contacted him, Pool deleted those. Then we found two more after looking for 10 mins. They're still up.
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cool, cool
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5 years
COME ON
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Robert Silverman
1 year
Bari, BARI! Your boss has a question and you're not answering him quickly enough
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Here's his explanation as to why: He was too smart for his teachers.
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Robert Silverman
2 years
@oneunderscore__ Ben, they have FREE MOVIES. It’s practically full communism at the public library
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Robert Silverman
2 years
The right spent months downplaying Rittenhouse's associations with the far right. It's been less than 3 weeks since the trial ended and he's sitting down w/Schaffer, who posts Nazi imagery and just hosted a pillow-soft 2.5 hr-long interview w/Nick Fuentes.
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@attackerman TAYLOR: maybe we shouldn't do crimes? [hours pass] SUNDLAND (realizing he needs to cover his ass and not leave a digital footprint saying "we *should* do crimes!"): new phone who dis
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Robert Silverman
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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver: We are left with no choice but to learn to live with this virus. No options are risk-free right now." That's not really true. There is one risk-free (and yes, extremely expensive) option: Cancel the season.
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Robert Silverman
5 years
New from me, Darren Rovel, who now works for a gambling information site, ran afoul of Gambling Twiter, after he post hoc edited two oddly large bets he'd made in Jan. When confronted, Rovell said he did it b/c he wasn't familiar with some gambling terms.
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Robert Silverman
5 years
Some fine, hand-crafted NYC subway graffiti
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Robert Silverman
2 years
Walker never in his life thought he’d take up arms on the other side of the globe while his wife and three sons, ages 2, 5, and 7, remained back at home near Toronto. “Having a wife and kids isn’t a reason not to go,” said Walker. “It’s a reason to go."
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Robert Silverman
5 years
RT and like for the culture
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Robert Silverman
8 months
Why do this? Because Barstool's growth is pegged to social media growth, according to Barstool. They're influencers, really, and social media is where Barstool encounters its largest audience. Their legit accounts can't be suspended b/c of a DMCA strike
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1 year
that's my quarterbaaarghhhhhhhhhh
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Robert Silverman
9 months
Congrats, Elon. You’re paying an unreconstructed gutter racist
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Robert Silverman
10 months
It is nazi iconography, dipshit
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Robert Silverman
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@davehill77 I picked up Ataraxia in the 12th round of my fantasy draft. Could be a sleeper
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