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@HayesBrown

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Writer/editor with @MSNBC Daily. Previously: @buzzfeednews . I make dumb jokes for smart people. As such, my tweets vary in quality. He/him.

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Joined August 2009
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@HayesBrown
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This is going to be the dumbest dystopia.
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I’m still stuck on using tear gas in the middle of a pandemic that hits the respiratory system
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the wind is antifa
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We have gas in Atlanta. Most of it is blowing back onto police.
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my cousin’s friend took the vaccine and two weeks later BOOM! he got bitten by a møøse. do your research.
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@HayesBrown
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So something interesting that could be developing at the UN: Ukraine appears to be laying the groundwork to challenge whether the Russian Federation is the legitimate successor to the USSR’s seat and veto on the Security Council
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So what you’re telling me is that Zaila Avant-garde is not only the spelling bee champion, she is also The Most Interesting 14 Year-Old in America
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Biden including a $15 minimum wage in his stimulus plan is huge Biden moving to abolish the tipped minimum wage and sub-minimum wage for people with disabilities in his stimulus package is even bigger IMO
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Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney out here with that strong New York Irish cop energy as he gets Sondland to say clearly that the investigations Trump wanted would benefit Trump
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@HayesBrown
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Warner Bros. Your franchise is in shambles. Make Superman black. Destroy the internet. Do it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Do it.
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@HayesBrown
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It was a very stressful few hours okay
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@HayesBrown
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5 years
OR YOU COULD NOT HIT ON THEM. AND TREAT THEM LIKE PEERS. MAYBE THAT WILL WORK.
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does...does gen z know about "metrosexual"? that there was a time we had to make up a whole term for "man who grooms himself?"
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ANGEL: ok we've got death, childbirth, and strife, any other punishments for the humans GOD: i call it the "empty carbohydrate." they eat it and it will do nothing to fuel their body ANGEL: and it will taste terrible? GOD: it will be the center of their fucking world
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guy who invented daylight savings time: and then in the fall you get an extra hour to sleep! us: wow yeah that sounds great him: [under his breath] and in exchange you get months of darknesss and sadness us: wait what? him: what?
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GOD: [designing marsupials] ok ok. are u ready for this one? GOD: [holds up kangaroo] LOOK AT IT. ANGEL: stop. i can't. GOD: And... ANGEL: ??? GOD: IT'S GOT POCKETS ANGEL: STOP. WHAT.
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Manti Te'o's girlfriend didn't not die for Deadspin to go out like this
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@HayesBrown
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3 years
1) the trans community must halt all uranium enrichment 2) the trans community must close down the plutonium enrichment facility at Fordow 3) the trans community must allow the IAEA access to all areas related to any nuclear program, civilian or military
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Honestly this story has everything: - rich people in trouble - proof you were right about Those Rich Kids at your college - prosecution under the RICO Act - a Balkan water polo coach - a chance to yell about systemic inequality - FULL HOUSE JOKES WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR.
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@HayesBrown
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4 years
this is from the episode where lisa sees a politician take a bribe and tears up her speech about american exceptionalism in anguish that the country she loves is actually rife with corruption at the top
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I can’t believe this didn’t work.
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millennial culture is being hyped to get your second vaccine dose because any side effects mean you can be unproductive without feeling deeply guilty
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@HayesBrown
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noooo don’t throw away your literal chains stopppppp
@Faytuks
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Angry police across France have thrown their handcuffs on the ground as they feel "insulted" by claims that they tolerate brutality and racism.
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Overlooked in all of this: KellyAnne Conway seems to think Inspector Gadget was an inspector of gadgets, not a gadget-filled inspector
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@HayesBrown
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the people of the North when Grey Worm and Missandei roll up
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@HayesBrown
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He’s here He’s there He’s teaching how to share ROY KENNNNNNNT ROY KENNNNNNNT
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@HayesBrown
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It only took them [checks notes] 55 days, 17 hours, and roughly 25 minutes to delete this
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@HayesBrown
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6 years
Trump says if we brought George Washington back, Democrats would vote against him 100% I mean. Does he still own slaves?
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4 years
This is a rejection of the very concept of civil disobedience
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Barr: “When people resist law enforcement, they’re not peaceful.”
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@HayesBrown
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So...Juneteenth. In the city where the Tulsa Massacre took place in 1921. As he’s pushing back against anti-racism that he sees as a threat to his presidency. This symbolism sucks.
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Kaitlan Collins
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President Trump says his first rally since March 2nd will be in Tulsa, Oklahoma next Friday.
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Trump: [tweets about the NFL] everyone: ugh pls focus on real issues Trump: [tweets about North Korea] everyone: wait shit no stop
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@HayesBrown
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5 years
I dunno but people clap to it on the 1 and 3
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@HayesBrown
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4 years
I can’t believe this is a thing I’m about to tweet in a US context but: any plan to disband a police/paramilitary force needs to learn from the lessons of de-Baathification in Iraq and figure out what to do with former security forces, preferably with a DDR program in mind
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BREAKING: A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members will announce today their commitment to disbanding the city’s embattled police department following the killing of George Floyd.
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I dropped my wallet on the street last night. No sign of it after retracing my steps three times. Our apartment buzzer just rang. No response when I answer. I go down and it’s an older deaf man with a note. He found my wallet and returned it intact. New York City: it’s good.
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WHEEEEEEEN THEEEEEEEEEEE PRESS WANTS SOME FACTS AND SAYS “SIR ARE YOU VAXED” THAT’S A-HIPAA
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@HayesBrown
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I’m watching “Romeo + Juliet” for the first time and imagine my surprise when I see Paul Rudd’s ageless immortal ass just Paul Rudding it up all over this movie
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@HayesBrown
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el*n m*sk has nine children. nine. nine children, two of whom were secret until [checks notes] today. those two were born "weeks" before his second child with grimes, which was also a secret until it wasn't.
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it feels like having a sound system blaring at you on full blast for years and then suddenly cutting out. there’s phantom music in our heads. we can’t process things at normal volume yet. our ears are ringing with the last four years in all this relative silence.
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"Hail Hydra"
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This one is going to stick with me for a long time, not least because it’s a plan he came up with -after- spending four years as president
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KRIS JENNER: give me the 'you're damn right i stole those puppies' BARBER: say no more, fam
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me: okay, remember the vote counting and reporting tonight is going to be weird and we probably won't know anything before the morning. so stay calm, everyone my brain: except you. me: except me.
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You guys, think of how much brain space this will clear up. Like deleting a massive file that was constantly overheating your computer but you still couldn’t shut down
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The most terrifying part of today has been realizing just how many people for any multitude of reasons don’t realize how real this is yet
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Here’s the ambassador citing the part of the charter that deals with admission of members during his speech at the UN Security Council earlier tonight
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human psychology is wild, we spent literal months telling each other that Election Night is a Myth and that things will be shaky and then the SECOND polls close, we're like "DELETE ALL PREVIOUS COMMANDS. RUN PROGRAM SCREM.EXE"
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And here’s his demand for the documents that show that the Russian Federation was welcomed to the body by the UNSC and General Assembly. Those documents don’t exist as he noted because the UN legal counsel made the call
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is it: 🔲 a cold 🔲 allergies 🔲 Covid [NEW OPTION UNLOCKED FOR YOUR REGION] 🔲 wildfire smoke
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@HayesBrown
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[kicks in door late as shit] YOU GUYS, KNIVES OUT IS A REALLY GOOD FILM
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...the company was named fraud guarantee. The company was named Fraud Guarantee. THE COMPANY WAS NAMED FRAUD GUARANTEE
@kenvogel
Kenneth P. Vogel
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SCOOP: Indicted pro-TRUMP Ukraine researcher LEV PARNAS told people he paid RUDY GIULIANI hundreds of thousands of dollars to work for his firm, Fraud Guarantee. Giuliani first seemed to admit working for the firm in 2018, then said he couldn't confirm.
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I have never more wanted to skip ahead like five days and see where things are
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@HayesBrown
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Shoutout to every digital journalist who’s just realized how many articles they now have out there full of broken embeds
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shoutout to every one struggling at 6:45 PM not to turn into the sleepy time tea bear complete with little hat
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@HayesBrown
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Mississippi, where Black people make up the highest percentage of its population than any other state, can no longer effectively teach why that is
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Now: Mississippi Senate just passed legislation that would prohibit the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 public schools and in the state’s public universities and community colleges.
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I’m sorry but “Rich Nephew” is a very funny name for an anti-corruption czar
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@HayesBrown
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you, a fool: it’s laurel you, also a fool: it’s yanny me, who is wise: it’s
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@HayesBrown
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The UN Charter was never amended after the USSR broke up. It still references the Soviet Union as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council. The Russian Federation just ascended to that seat after 1991.
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Trans…formers?
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Lily Simpson is putting the T(rans) in YouTube
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I mean this sounds awesome
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what could go wrong about a tax that must be paid before access to the polls.
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@HayesBrown
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This photo of Trump and the first Vader scene in "Rogue One" is beyond iconic (📷:: Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images)
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@HayesBrown
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Anderson taking a sip of coffee at 2:44 is what elevates this to art
@KFILE
Andy Kaczynski
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Quite the fact check from @ddale8 of Trump’s speech.
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This is my new favorite tweet on this website
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@HayesBrown
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damn if this isn't the most searing indictment of digital media hiring i have seen
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Negotiating that new year salary increase like:
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Twitter is a great tool for figuring out who aced the writing section but bombed the critical reading section on standardized tests
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the mole in the Cruz group chat earlier today:
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@HayesBrown
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My screen time is crazy high right now and I can both feel and see how it’s affecting me negatively but I can’t look away from the disasters unfolding in the little box in my hand
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@HayesBrown
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The idea of sending the “healthy” back to work falls apart when you take into account that we do not know who the healthy are because of the lack of testing
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@HayesBrown
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If Infow*rs hasn’t violated your terms of service maybe you need to review the terms of service I am just spitballing
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@HayesBrown
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So that could (maybe??) be Ukraine’s goal? To have the UNGA pass a resolution declaring that either the USSR’s seat is empty or that some other state should be the -real- successor to the Soviet’s
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@HayesBrown
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The problem the Trump campaign is facing in its legal challenge is you get in very big trouble when you lie in court.
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@HayesBrown
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Oh no the company that decided to stop making six racist books is being rewarded by having all their other books sell like hot cakes Whatever is the lesson that we should draw from this
@DineshDSouza
Dinesh D'Souza
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Karma is a bitch department. Dr. Seuss Books Hold 42 of Top 50 on Amazon Sales Ranking Chart
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@HayesBrown
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Omfg. Bolivia, who called today's Syria meeting at the UN, holds up Colin Powell's 2003 picture, saying to remember that ISIS was the result
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@HayesBrown
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oh so this is how we die. neat.
@TheAVClub
The A.V. Club
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MIT scientists created a "psychopath" AI by feeding it violent content from Reddit
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my dearest hope for the missing $5K Japanese whiskey is that it was drank by some beleaguered low-level foreign service officers
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@HayesBrown
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spicer: I HOLD IN MY HAND THE NAMES OF FORTY TERROR ATTACKS THE MEDIA HAS REFUSED TO REPORT ON media: can we see that list? spicer: ...no.
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A black president lives in the White House that's lit up by a rainbow. America. http://t.co/vouFAeV3iX
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@HayesBrown
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1 year
I just texted my cousin and…I think the answer is yes???
@jmcunning
John M. Cunningham
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Wait, is the woman in this @nytdavidbrooks anecdote @HayesBrown 's cousin?
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“I'm simply saying the racists believe he's a racist” is gonna go down in political dunk history
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As my grandmother used to say — a hit dog will holler.
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@HayesBrown
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HRC: And that one's...Charizard? aide: [slams flashcard on table] IT'S MAGMAR DO YOU EVEN WANT TO WIN THIS RACE
@LizKreutzNews
Liz Kreutz
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Per an aide, Clinton was briefed by staffers on Pokemon Go yesterday while flying back to DC.
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@HayesBrown
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Do I think it would work? Hell if I know but it’s fascinating and will be wild to see how it develops. Especially since it took IIRC ten years for the PRC’s supporters to overcome US opposition and procedural delays in the UNGA.
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@HayesBrown
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7 years
A Tale of Two T-Shirts: A 5 Train Story
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amazing. simply stunning work that would in past ages been confined to a newsletter with maybe 200 readers or spoken aloud at a party where the topic of conversation is awkwardly and abruptly changed.
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@eiffeltyler @delia_cai It is literally my favorite joke in the movie
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@HayesBrown
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4 years
tl;dr: this isn't world war III! It is, however, a thing that will: - likely trigger more, not fewer, attacks on US personnel - increase the tit-for-tat btwn US and Iran - result in cyberattacks, attacks on oil lanes, etc - push Iraq closer to Iran - see blowback agains Israel
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I’m just gonna go ahead and set my international relations degree on fire now thanks
@atrupar
Aaron Rupar
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Trump offers an interesting historical interpretation of the fall of the Soviet Union: "Remember the Soviet Union? When it was all together. Before they decided, 'we have to call ourselves Russia.'"
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A) he’s an alien from another world, his skin color can be whatever. make him literally orca colored who cares. B) a black Kal-El who lands in RURAL KANSAS as a baby and still decides for Truth, Justice and the American Way is 9000x more interesting
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ANGEL: Sir have you made up your mind as to which team you want to win GOD: ANGEL: You have no idea GOD: I have no idea send some rain
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The first black slaves got to Jamestown in 1619, so we will be at the point where black people in the US have been free longer than they were slaves in ~about~ 2112. Mark your calendars now, friends.
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The bar and restaurant industry has been gutted this last year. Making it so that when its safe for those people to go back to work that they can make an actual living wage instead of hoping their customers aren’t jerks is exactly what they deserve
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This is the best quote/sentence you will read in any story about Trump’s new Supreme Court nominee via @dvergano + @Zhirji28
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And because I’m not allowed to swear in my copy, let me just be extra clear here on Twitter dot com: Sha’Carri’s suspension is bullshit
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He got bored. So they let him leave the hospital to wave at people. Because he was bored.
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@HayesBrown
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Let nobody say that Croatia...coasted to the semi-finals ... I said COASTED TO TH- Look Croatia has the 15th longest coastline in the world despite its small size that is the genesis of this pun
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4 years
Did y’all just have that...lying around? Like was it in someone’s garage since 2018
@AlexHolleyFOX29
Alex Holley
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A giant Eagle is now making its way down the streets of Philadelphia
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@HayesBrown
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3 years
how did we essentially eliminate commute time and yet still have net negative three hours to get things done every day
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@HayesBrown
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Vaccinate your kids "But I believe th-" Fuck you. Vaccinate your kids. "Parents should have a cho-" No. Fuck you. Vaccinate your kids.
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@HayesBrown
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@KMurryByrd Proud of you for taking the picture for posterity before he could get out
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@HayesBrown
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3 years
ah yes the rare abortion rights/climate change anxiety doubleheader special tonight, I see
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@HayesBrown
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7 years
That a bunch of bros with tiki torches think they're genetically superior to me is just the best
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