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Clara Jeffery

@ClaraJeffery

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Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones. ASME board. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Migrating to Threads (and BS), same handle.

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Joined May 2009
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@ClaraJeffery
Clara Jeffery
7 months
1/ I want everyone to realize that Elon has set up his site so that these snuff videos will be monetized for his blue checks.
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Hamas now saying it will begin killing civilian hostages, starting with one, and broadcast the execution in audio and video in front of the world, unless Israel stops killing civilians in Gaza.
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“Nobody can tell me to wear a mask but I can tell you must have a child”
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Hillary had fucking pneumonia and attended a 9/11 memorial anyway and fainted and Trump and his supporters went bonkers and said she was about to die. Trump won't stand in the rain for a few minutes to honor the veterans of WWI. It's astonishing.
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COVID now 4th largest mass casualty event in US history. Topped only by the Civil War, WWII, 1918 flu pandemic.
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. @CoriBush is a complete breath of fresh air. Asked by @chrislhayes about GOP members evading metal detectors she starts off with "first of all, THIS IS A JOB. you work at McDonald's and you don't wear the uniform, you don't work today....Have these people ever had a job?"
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Is it possible to lose all respect for an anchor, a show, and a network with one tweet?
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Savannah Guthrie
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Sitting down with Nicholas Sandmann - the student at the center of the protest controversy at the Lincoln Memorial. Airs tomorrow on @TODAYshow
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perhaps gay stylists, designers, caterers, and planners should start withholding services from Christian conservatives and see where that goes.
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The Secret Service agents guarding the Vice President called loved ones to say goodbye, thinking they would die. Let that sink in.
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I covered mass shootings for 10+ years. The “motive” is almost always the same. The man/boy was enraged about something. And he had a gun. We have a gun problem. And a broken men problem.
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The new Omen movie looks lit
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5 years
I am truly dismayed by how many in MSM got worked—yet again—by conservative claims that one video exonerated these kids. I've watched them all. None put them in a better light, unless you're really reaching. Some are a lot WORSE than original.
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"You could kill the baby at 9 months or after it was born" Goes unchallenged. This a journalistic abomination.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this—EVERY RUNNER IN AMERICA—but it is your responsibility to give a way wider detour around any pedestrian than six feet as you speed past them huffing and panting.
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Mayor of San Juan is a woman and a person of color who dared to criticize Trump. His fury says it all.
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Today we saw journalists pull people from flooded houses and throw themselves between violent protestors. Trump says we hate America.
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“Grand Theft Auto has a more progressive health care system than the United States of America”
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Those 5,000 troops sitting on the border waiting for a few hundred bedraggled migrants to show up a month from now could be digging fire lines and helping to evacuate people and livestock from California instead.
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Dana Bash reporting that Hicks, Trump, Stephen Miller, Bill Stepien, Chris Christie, among others were basically in a small conference room, unmasked, for days prepping for the debate.
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City worker does her job, tells guy he has to clean up his yard. He shoots her, kills her, lights her truck and the house next door on fire, in which 4 dogs die. We have a gun problem. We also have a toxic male rage problem. Together they are horrible deadly epidemic.
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Mercury News
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She was killed after telling him he needed to clean his yard
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I don't just want Biden to name his VP. I want him to start talking about who's going to run every department, agency, effort, investigation, initiative.
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4 years
To review: Pelosi's staff asked if w/in guidelines to go to salon. Stylist double checked with owner, who gave ok. Stylist and Pelosi alone in salon. Owner leaks tape to Fox. In a 2 -party consent state. Owner herself violated SIP orders repeatedly. Facebook makes #1 story
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1/ When I heard that Scalise had multiple myeloma—which my dad died of—I wondered if he'd get stem cell treatment despite having voted and campaigned against stem cell therapy. My dad was too old for this option. Lucky for Scalise, hypocrisy is no barrier.
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STEVE SCALISE will be out of DC until February. He is getting a stem-cell transplant. House GOP has 220-seat majority. Bill Johnson is out Jan. 21. After that, w Scalise out, GOP will have a bare bones 218-seat majority.
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4 years
Either nobody in the Trump administration has the balls to tell Trump the truth or he is 100% insane. There's really not a lot of middle ground.
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She was 14. He was an assistant DA. He found/groomed her in a custody hearing. He kissed and groped her against her will. He rose to power demonizing sex between consenting adults.
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Both women in this photo have accused @realDonaldTrump of rape
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David Frum
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The White House today issued a statement from President Trump denying that he ever met E. Jean Carroll in his life. Here's the @NYMag photo of the two of them talking in 1987
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Somehow this is not national news.
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WCCO | CBS News Minnesota
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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: MnDOT footage shows a man firing several rounds at a Minneapolis school bus on I-35W Tuesday. The bus driver was shot in the head. |
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A thing that needs to be said is that all this amazing reporting on the profound ethics violations at SCOTUS by @propublica and others begs a question: Why weren't the name-brand, long-time Supreme Court reporters digging into this stuff all along?
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White House is now setting the goal posts at 100-200K dead as a good job. That is 2-4 times the US casualty rate in the Vietnam War.
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5 years
Just a reminder that Susan Collins put Kavanaugh over the top.
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2 years
If advisers close to Biden aren’t urging a purging of @SecretService leadership and a deep dive into all agents on Presidential detail he is being badly advised. This is some Pretorian Guard stuff.
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4 years
An ethical person wouldn’t allow themselves to ascend to great power in an unethical fashion.
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6 years
Whe @maddow is too choked up to finish a segment you know we are in deep fucking shit
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7 years
So many Silicon Valley startups are about dudes wanting to replicate mom: carpooling, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, bodegas
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The entire country is awaiting a biopsy result
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6 years
I never want to hear that women are too emotional for stressful situations (or to hold public office) again
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To be clear, Trump can't do shit to force churches/temples/mosques to open. Little thing called the 10th Amendment
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6 years
One member of the GOP Judiciary Committee is up for reelection in 33 days: Ted Cruz.
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7 years
If universities have to get rid of any remaining affirmative action programs they should have to eliminate legacy preferences too.
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Reminder: anyone who said there was no difference between Trump and Clinton should never be listened to again, on any subject.
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Just to back up: So it looks like the President, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State are all implicated in a criminal conspiracy?
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4 years
1/ I am enraged. Excellent reporting from WSJ's @dseetharaman and @EmilyGlazer finds that Facebook engineers—with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR
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Truly amazing how those who spent 5 years studiously avoiding reading Trump's tweets claim to be such experts on @neeratanden 's.
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4 years
If your vote didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to keep you from voting.
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you'd think with all those billions they could buy the services of a stylist who would provide guidance on what is or is not appropriate to wear to a goddamn White House state dinner!
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It will take awhile, but journalists will track down and document who was behind each bit of plunder in this bill.
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6 years
He made you change your name because it included "Romney"
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Ronna McDaniel
6 years
The hatred that exists on the Left for @realDonaldTrump truly shows no bounds.
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1/ Whenever I think about Hunter Biden, I can’t help but remember that as a little kid, he watched his mother and sister die. He and Beaux were critically injured in that crash and in Hosptial for long time, during which his 29-yo dad was sworn into Senate and began commuting…
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They lost 7 hrs of Jan 6 President schedule details. They erased text message on 1/5 and 1/6. They smeared Cassidy Hutchinson. Some not small portion appears to be openly pro-Trump. Pence did not trust them enough to get into car.
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He should get a full state funeral.
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3 years
Come on. This one is not close.
@CNNPolitics
CNN Politics
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Democrats are now at odds over whether to immediately seek Postmaster General Louis DeJoy's ouster
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We are living through a mass trauma event, arguably the most far-reaching in human history, so cut yourself and everybody else some slack.
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Listen if a Democrat other than Inslee wins, they should create a Department of Climate cabinet position and put him in it.
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Re Bannon: A thing women are all-to-familiar with is that a man arguing vapidly but aggressively is over indexed as smart by other men.
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1/ As someone who spent a year, three decades ago, reporting on breastfeeding and formula support/access/tradeoffs, first for @ChicagoReporter and then for @wcp , please allow me to provide a few basic fucking facts
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Clara Jeffery
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“A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier notified senators and the F.B.I. but the F.B.I. did not investigate”
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Huh I seem to remember a different GOP stance re Franken...
@AP_Politics
AP Politics
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House Speaker Paul Ryan says the House Ethics Committee would not look at wrestlers' claims against Rep. Jim Jordan because the alleged events occurred before he was in office. '
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It is impossible to underestimate the damage that Mitch McConnell has done to our country.
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Gonna be wild when the Playmate/abortion story turns out to be true.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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For the first time since Roe v. Wade, America has a Pro-Life President, a Pro-Life Vice President, a Pro-Life House of Representatives and 25 Pro-Life Republican State Capitals!
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Survey asked black women to say who's among their top three candidates: Harris: 71.1% Beto: 38.3% Biden: 25% Booker: 24.2% Warren: 22.3% Abrams: 15.2% Bernie: 12.1% Bernie's never going to be the nominee unless he turns these numbers around
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McCain came around. But it was Collins and Murkowski who had the guts throughout.
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But Jared already has five jobs he sucks at.
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Grace Segers
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. @MajorCBS confirms: Jared Kushner is under consideration for White House chief of staff.
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Layoffs at Gannett, Verizon/Oath/HuffPo, Buzzfeed. Another bad bad day for journalism. Support the news organizations you value.
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Reminder that some in media put the dots re Russia and Trump together two years ago and were mocked for it.
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My kid had long complained that most of the boys in his class are huge fans of Andrew Tate. He’s so pumped right now and texting all the girls.
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17/ And breastfeeding is only "free" because the value of our time is set at zero.
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The depressing thing is that Cindy Hyde Smith posed in Confederate gear and made racist comments and she won a runoff and nobody remembers.
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👀 AARP is coming for anybody who votes for Trumpcare.
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Very dumb Congressmen questioning smart scientists does not look the way they think it looks.
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So "actual verification" would totally disappear. Worse, people could pay for the check mark to impersonate actual celebs, journalists, scientists, etc.
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Bright's testimony is pretty devastating. Shows up Jared and in particular as a dangerous fool.
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. @Maddow reporting that the outgoing Trump administration is destroying Clear Skies Treaty planes designed to keep an eye on Russia's troop and nukes moves, without consulting Congress, and with no replacement planes in the pipeline. Just a gift to Putin on the way out the door.
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Gawd. He's not an "independent." He's a sociopath.
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The New York Times
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Trump was elected as a Republican, but in many ways behaves like an independent, upending 150 years of 2-party rule
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People who think they can stage a coup and then just board airplanes have a) not watched enough spy movies b) are white
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Kirstjen Nielsen belongs in the Hague
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6 years
Just like to thank Jill Stein, Susan Sarandon, and any other "there's no difference" lefties.
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1) Trump uses Navajo Code Talkers as political prop to lash out at opponent 2) Trump deprives Code Talkers of their rightful honor in process 2) Trump tries to destroy their sacred place 3) Navajo sue Trump all in one week
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Matthew Koehler
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BREAKING The Navajo Nation and partners are suing @realDonaldTrump over his illegal decision to shrink America's #BearsEars National Monument by over 1 million acres: #SaveBearsEars #MonumentsForAll #KeepItPublic
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"Maybe a Democrat [congressperson] should go into every district where a Republican won't hold a town hall and explain [Trumpcare]" 🔥🔥🔥
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Kyle Griffin
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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney to GOP Rep. John Faso's constituent: If this guy won't stand up and explain the health bill to you, then I will.
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Why the fuck can't the US Military air drop these people food.
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The Daily Beast
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Mayor Rafael Surillo estimating 5,000 residents face starvation
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The more you look at this, the more you recognize Kellyanne's play: one who flaunts their indecorousness as ultimate signifier of privilege
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If 1000 people were missing and presumed dead on the East Coast there'd be wall-to-wall coverage.
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The comma 👀😹
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Subtle new ad from the Trump campaign...
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Clara Jeffery
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Reminder that when we first reported that Stephen Miller's grandmother died of COVID, he denied it, despite her kids statements and her death certificate
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Clara Jeffery
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Reminder that anyone who said there was no difference between Trump and Clinton should never be listened to again, on any subject.
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The New York Times
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Trump education official: 90% of campus rape complaints "fall into the category of 'we were both drunk'"
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Clara Jeffery
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Your dad ran a campaign centered around dumb red hats but ok
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
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Whats w bedazzled red cowboy hat Maxine Watters is wearing criticizing T party? Easier 2 take u seriously when u dont look like a stripper;)
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Clara Jeffery
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Reminder that the recall cost the taxpayers of California some $276 million. (Plus the gobs donors spent.) Seems like that could have been put to better use. In a pandemic. And a climate crisis. And a housing crisis.
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Do not work for Fox. Do not appear on Fox. Boycott Fox's advertisers. Do not act as an enabler. Make spewing poison have consequences.
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Clara Jeffery
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Every woman I know is deeply enraged. Like you thought you'd reached a limit of rage, and whole new basement opens up.
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6 years
Nobody accused Neil Gorsuch of attempted rape. No women. Nobody who partied with Georgetown Prep boys. No Ivy League classmates. No Democrats.
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Clara Jeffery
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In addition to being a prime example of why Facebook is a garbage company, it's a prime example of sexism in political coverage. Meanwhile, where and by whom are the Trumps or McConnell or etc getting their hair cut?
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My assignment today is to write my father’s obituary.
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Clara Jeffery
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oh. my. GOD. Javanka wouldn't let their Secret Service detail use any of their SIX bathrooms, so they had to go to neighbors INCLUDING THE OBAMAS to find a toliet. Finally rented a studio, at taxpayer expense. THEY ARE THE WORST
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The men who died in those trenches and fields often went months in muck with maggot-ridden food, gas attacks, picked off by snipers, sleeping in their own filth. Trump can't get his fat ass out of a limo.
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Clara Jeffery
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Not all men are monsters. But men are a minefield. Not every inch has power to devastate, but devastation lies hidden everywhere.
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