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Gregg Hurwitz

@GreggHurwitz

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NYT Bestselling Author of the Orphan X thrillers. Co-president, International Thriller Writers. I write TV, screenplays, and comics too. It beats working.

Los Angeles
Joined July 2009
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Gregg Hurwitz
6 years
It is essential for Democrats to draw a line where behavior on the left is unacceptable regardless of anything to do with other political parties. As a lifelong Democrat I denounce this behavior. #DrawTheLine
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Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈
6 years
This is the type of street anarchy that routinely happens where I live. Here is video from 6 Oct showing Antifa directing traffic in downtown & threatening people who don’t obey with violence. Mayor @tedwheeler , who really runs this town?
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This is one of my favorite hidden secrets about certain antique books -- vanishing fore-edge painting. Dates back to the late 17th Century.
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3 years
I suppose if SOMEONE has to bump me off #1 ....
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
Through my research writing spy thrillers and my pro bono political work, I've had the benefit of learning from people all across the political gamut. Whatever good will I may have earned I'd like to spend by recommending this email chain from Rep Elissa Slotkin 1/
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Rep. Elissa Slotkin
2 years
We’ve been watching this thing in slow motion for months now. The Administration declassified unprecedented amounts of intel to try to prevent Putin from taking this course of action. But this man has a deeply distorted view of the world. 1/9
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When I'm discussing polarization/politics, I'm often asked whether the media is to blame for all this. Which dodges the essential reality that WE are to blame for the media. 1/2
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Just this second found out I made the New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover fiction for the first time! I've been lucky enough to get there for other categories but this is the biggy. It took me 20 novels and 20 years to get here. I owe it all to my readers. Thank you.
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5 years
Check out #15 on the list!!! Congrats ⁦ @GreggHurwitz ⁩ for OUT OF THE DARK!! ⁦ @MitchRappFans
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
My first four-legged baby girl just joined the family. Nala “Peppermint Patty” Hurwitz
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
As Democrats, we have to be more responsible in our language. Sitting Congresspeople can't make claims backed by no evidence but "I'm pretty sure there's something happening there." We don't accept claims like that from Republicans. This isn't right.
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Aaron Rupar
5 years
On CNN, Ilhan Omar tries to defend tweet in which she called Lindsey Graham "compromised," saying, "I'm pretty sure there's something happening w/him...he is somehow compromised" After host points out she has no evidence for her claim, Omar walks it back, says it's "her opinion"
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In which I provide context to a two-year-old Tweet response from @jordanbpeterson to one of my posts.
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Some renegade political talk at the @TFOB with @TheRickWilson , @DavidCornDC , and @Isikoff .
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
And to augment this: Only those who have embraced the terrible self-knowledge that they could have taken part in historical atrocities might stand a chance of not participating in future atrocities.
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Ayishat Akanbi
4 years
It’s naive to think that you wouldn’t have taken part in historical atrocities once considered normal if you embrace all the trendy ideas of today.
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3 years
Simba Navi Hurwitz. 2008-2021. Writer's best friend.
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3 years
Waiting on owner-person to be done writing so we can walk.
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
It can happen here. It IS happening here. A commercial we released Oct 27. The events of yesterday, as horrific and violating as they were, needed to be seen in full light of day. We cannot have reconciliation without truth. The truth is now undeniable. Even to Pence.
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Misha Collins
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It IS happening here — and the only way we can stop it is with a landslide Democratic victory. This is our moment, America. Stand up & make your voice heard. VOTE!!! #ItCanHappenHere #VoteBlue
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"If it feels like society is crumbling under an onslaught of unprecedented new pressures and no one is willing to stand up and say the emperor has no clothes, bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz has a modest proposal: break the frame."
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One of the deepest explorations of the human condition I’ve read. The perfect marriage of psychology and spirituality, Screwtape gives us a splendid, charming, satanic “how to” guide for pursing myriad paths for our corruption.
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Honored that San Francisco created a Batsignal for Evan Smoak.
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
WE are the clickers and posters and readers and subscribers and viewers. They are servicing us and if we demand sugar highs rather than sustaining nutrition, that is precisely what they will feed us. 2/2
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Gregg Hurwitz
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Who'd want to read a short story with Orphan X, Joey Morales, Candy McClure, Aragón Urrea, and Tommy Stojack?
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
Who wants to know the next Orphan X title? Who's ready to see the new cover?
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
@NAChristakis This is helpful and essential. Thank God for your training and expertise. Thank God we have people like you here now. Thank God you weren't canceled over Halloween costumes.
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Gregg Hurwitz
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Cairo Magnus Hurwitz. September 6, 2013 - July 26, 2022. Writer’s best friend.
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Who wants three more Orphan X books? I'm delighted to have re-upped with @MinotaurBooks through 2023. As long as you all keep reading X, I'll keep writing him.
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5 years
New friend. Keeps the writing brain lubricated.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
I’m not urging you to blindly take on her positions. But I can promise that she’s not a politician. She’s a stateswoman. And she’s worth listening to. /6
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
When your mother reaches the cliffhanger at the end of your novel and you are forced to remember the Fourth Commandment: Never Make It Personal.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
I’ve known Representative Slotkin since she first ran for office. She served three tours in Iraq as a CIA analyst and also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. 2/
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Gregg Hurwitz
11 months
The main wall in my house is filled with books. They are what hold the house up.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
Write. Walk. Rest. Write. Walk. Rest. Etc.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
Tracked down this set of childhood favorites. I have every last cover burned into my memory.
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6 years
First advance reading copy off the press. Even 20 novels in, there’s no feeling like this feeling. —Coming 1.29.19.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
We missed typing human who went out on book tour and now we shall pin him down with our chins for pack bonding.
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1 year
This one can't be trusted.
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1 year
The Story of X continues. Lone Wolf. Pre-order now.
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1 year
Happy holidays from Lego Evan Smoak!
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
Orphan X returns soon in.... DARK HORSE. We reveal the cover here.
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Gregg Hurwitz
10 months
Ring….ring….
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
A big thank you to Orphan X readers for putting Evan back on the New York Times Bestseller list with Prodigal Son! He sends pencak silat open-hand slaps of gratitude.
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5 years
Who wants a peek at the next Orphan X cover? Big reveal here.
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She is staggeringly smart, tough in every good way, and honest even when it’s inconvenient. I have never heard her say anything privately or publicly other than the truth as she understands it... 3/
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
The puppy has landed. Meet Zuma "Evan Smoak" Hurwitz.
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4 years
Who wants to see a cover and title reveal for the next Orphan X thriller?
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4 years
Wait -- what's this? A short story? Starring who?
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It was a packed house (church) at the Savannah Book Festival for my crime panel with S.A. Cosby and Charles Soule. What a highlight.
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2 years
Happy Independence Day! A good moment to remember that the vast majority of Americans agree on many core values, despite a politics and culture designed to weaponize our differences for power and profit. 1/
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
These children will be immediately recruited into the Orphan Program.
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Rex Chapman🏇🏼
5 years
These kids are way tougher than I am. Not all heroes wear capes.😇 The things we do for our dogs, bruh...💪🐶😍
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4 years
UNPLUG FROM THE MATRIX: The latest op ed from me and @MHerskovitz . "This matrix of fear and loathing has flooded our lizard brains for the last four years, overwhelming our ability to differentiate fact from fiction."
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
It was the honor of a lifetime to help write the World Cup opening ceremony with pals Samar Ali and Laeta Kalogridis. So many nations and fans from the world over brought together by the beautiful game!
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2 years
Writing co-pilot. It seems the new Orphan X will be told entirely from the perspective of Dog the dog.
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2 years
Politically you may be to the left of her. You may be to the right of her. You may have disagreed with her in the past. You may disagree with her now. Welcome. Given what we’re facing, we need all of the best ideas from all of our best parts. 5/
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2 years
Launch day: Today. We turn X loose.
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5 years
Today marks the return of Orphan X. Every mission before this one was just practice. OUT OF THE DARK, on sale everywhere.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
International Man of Mystery.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
A buffet of X.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
May you write what you love in the new year!
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Gregg Hurwitz
6 years
Talking with @RubinReport about Batman, Orphan X, Jungian narrative, and polarization in politics. Believe it or not, there is a common thread.
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Dave Rubin
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Can the Democrats be Saved? @GreggHurwitz is more bullish on the idea than I am. Full hour here: YouTube: Podcast: Ad-free:
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Gregg Hurwitz
7 months
Though not a political writer, C.S. Lewis was a master diagnostician of the ills of an age, connecting spiritual meaning to the deeply psychological. Reading him is like reading Orwell, a great blast of genius from a past that is always present.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
Dog the (little) dog.
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... and never once have I known her to put any political matter—no matter how small—over good of country. 4/
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1 year
What's inside the Vault?!
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
Behold The Ten Commandments.
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Gregg Hurwitz
10 months
Let the next mission begin.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
We have reason to believe a figure from the past is making a return. Multiple sources have identified the date February 2023...
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
If I were to lead a virtual book club revisiting classics how many of you would be interested in joining? If we do it, should we read it over the course of a month or two months?
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4 years
The always thrilling arrival of the First Book Off The Press.
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6 years
Honored to be getting these rave reviews. "Gregg Hurwitz is incapable of writing badly." (Take THAT, Mrs. Bear from Argonaut Elementary!):
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
Can't convey how excited I am to collaborate with Scott Frank on this series of films based on my books. Now and then a writer lucks into a deal that promises pure joy and fun. Can't wait to get going.
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Tom the Vodka Guy collected every single vodka mentioned in Orphan X books through INTO THE FIRE (except the multi-thousand dollar Stoli Himalayan). Quite a pretty lineup. Evan approves.
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1 year
Preparing for February 14, the release of The Last Orphan, with a wedge of vodka on ice. Promises to be a tumultuous Valentine’s Day.
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Should this make me nervous?
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1 year
Descending into LA after the best book tour I’ve ever had. Big thanks to readers, listeners, booksellers, and librarians for making the launch of The Last Orphan such a delight. Remember: Orphan X is out there!
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If you think Kathy Bates in Misery was scary, imagine what Orphan X would do to me if I bailed out after book 9.
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TC🌳
2 months
I am disappointed having finished this book. Not because it’s badly written. Disappointed because it’s the last of the nine in the series. I hope Evan will be back in the future. Book #18 of 2024
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 years
Thank you for making SWEET GIRL the #1 Netflix movie in America!
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5 years
Orphan X returns January 28, 2020.
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Gregg Hurwitz
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The two best words in the English language? Next time. ‘Next time’ means the world is wide open to you. ‘Next time’ is possibility. ‘Next time’ is freedom. Here's to fresh starts. Happy New Year! And here are my resolutions for 2024...
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2 years
Nice to wind up on an end cap hanging out with a few pals.
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4 years
Super-secret footage of Orphan Program training just leaked.
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jamie
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You want more of this? Come at me bro!!
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2 years
Orphan X partakes of the world's finest vodkas. For now, he will only be drinking Ukrainian vodka. Might he recommend Nemiroff Lex? The name is Latin for "law" and is meant to evoke feelings of greatness, success, and courage for those who drink it.
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Gregg Hurwitz
3 months
At last! The day hath arrived. The mission begins. Get your copy of LONE WOLF everywhere books are sold.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
Pre-order now.
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Gregg Hurwitz
4 years
January 2021. Orphan X's most personal mission yet. Available for preorder here:
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Never ever ever ever ever give up.
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@katyjohnson30 That is absolutely one of my responsibilities and I am on it.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: X readers are the best readers. Thanks for putting LONE WOLF at the top of a bunch of bestseller lists right outta the gates.
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Gregg Hurwitz
1 year
This Valentine's Day, choose suspense and mayhem, brought to you by your favorite assassin.
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3 years
I'll be sending PRODIGAL SON out into the world tonight with a vodka toast. Orphan X respectfully requests your attendance.
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Gregg Hurwitz
5 years
Thank you to all the Orphan X readers out there who made OUT OF THE DARK debut on the New York Times Bestseller list! I wake up every morning and ride a wave of gratitude to my desk because of all of you. Onward!
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Dear @elonmusk , Orphan X digs this rebrand.
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Yes I am.
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Our boy from the Orphan X litter is getting ready to come home to us in a few weeks.
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It is hard for many of us even to comprehend the level of courage this takes.
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Ragıp Soylu
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Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg, Russia. Wow
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Orphan V silently plots her revenge.
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A huge thank you to X readers for making this the most successful mission yet.
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Gregg Hurwitz
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Hans Gruber Dying Hard as we count down to Christmas.
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Gregg Hurwitz
2 years
Happy Saturday!
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I need ammunition, "not a ride." A painful blessing that we get to see a righteous and courageous leader in the face of the terrible. It's people like this who wake us up to history. I haven't seen America this unified over anything in years.
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