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@JenAshleyWright

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History Author, TV Writer. Latest: Madame Restell: Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist. Married to @Kibblesmith . Mom to toddler.

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Jennifer Wright
1 year
‘MADAME RESTELL: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist’ is on sale now here and wherever books are sold:
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When attacked in the press, the infamous Fifth Avenue abortionist Madame Restell published her own retorts — today, Jennifer Wright suggests in her new biography, she “would be fighting on Twitter constantly.” It was, after all, free advertising.
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4 years
Thinking about how often I've heard Republicans say they hate illegal immigrants because "they don't pay taxes."
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After 2020 I'm never going to question why they keep opening up Jurassic Park despite obvious safety issues.
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Imagine if Republicans had moved on COVID as quickly as they're moving to replace RBG.
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Brett Kavanaugh can still eat at restaurants in other states, I don’t know why he’s so upset.
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Well, millennials finally stopped going out for avocado toast. Can everybody afford a house now?
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Sometimes I wish we knew what happened in Germany in the 1940's but they tore down all the statues so it is impossible.
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If you think girls are too irresponsible to make life decisions without their parent's permission, maybe don't force them to become a mother.
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BREAKING: Girls under age 18 will have to get a parent's permission before having an abortion under a bill passed by the Florida Legislature on Thursday; Gov. DeSantis is expected to approve the bill.
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When this is over, are you still going to tell the people who risked their lives so you could eat that they don't deserve $15 an hour?
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I take it everyone without a uterus will now stop yelling for Planned Parenthood to be shut down.
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"Women in the past were modest and had more respect for themselves." Here's Agnes Sorel, who had her gowns tailored to expose her favorite boob in the 1440s.
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Every woman sobbing on election night knew what was coming.
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When they said “History repeats itself,” I wasn’t expecting all of the twentieth century in two years.
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You will never end abortion. You will only end safe abortions.
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Pence: Abortion in the U.S. will end "in our time"
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FYI: My parents are both immigrants. I’m a first generation American. This has come up in my life, precisely zero times. Because it’s not about the law, or jobs, or resources, it’s about skin color.
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If you’re worried about putting on a few pounds during this time I have a GREAT tip for you. Ready? Okay: Stop worrying about that, you’re living through a pandemic. You can have a cookie.
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7 years
If you’re a democrat, please get out and vote. If you’re a republican, thoughts and prayers are sufficient.
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Hey women: retweet if you've ever been shown a penis you did not want or expect to see.
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This aged poorly.
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Betsy DeVos owns a $40 million yacht. She could sell it and fund the Special Olympics and she wouldn’t even be out of yachts.
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If kids are worried about getting suspended for protesting gun violence and ruining their college prospects I PROMISE YOU “Why I Was Suspended For Fighting the NRA” is a better college admission essay topic than “How Soccer Made Me a Team Player.”
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You can’t take organs from a corpse without the deceased’s written permission, even if it will save lives. When you outlaw abortion, you’re allowing women less bodily autonomy than the dead.
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When people say abortion is only okay in cases of rape, they're telling women they only get bodily autonomy if they've already been punished sufficiently.
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7 years
How many children are supposed to die so random guys can maintain an irrational fantasy that they could be a “good guy with a gun”?
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Perhaps the Democrats, who currently control everything, should consider doing literally anything.
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I’m waiting for a reverse Hallmark Christmas Movie about a small town girl who realizes her community’s politics are terrible, moves to Manhattan, gets a high pressure office job, meets a businessman, and they host a non-denominational holiday party at their penthouse.
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I spend a lot of time thinking about how Dan Quayle misspelled potato and we all laughed and said, "Well, CLEARLY he can never be President.”
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People seem to be debating which underage women are okay to have sex with. It’s none of them. Not the ones who “look older.” Not the ones who seem “flirty.” None of them. We have laws to help you understand that, but thanks for outing yourselves as creeps and would-be rapists.
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Your sexuality isn't determined by a book you read in Kindergarten. It's determined the way God intended -- by watching Labyrinth, starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
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U.S.: If only there were some way to beat coronavirus, but no one knows Every country that's beaten COVID: We listened to scientists and paid people to stay home. U.S.: We'll just never know
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In my early 20's, I worked in a bar. Sometimes drunk guys would try to start fights. The very nice bouncer would then basically pick them up and carry them out, so everyone else at the bar could have a good time. Precisely zero people present thought this was "cancel culture."
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Our plan up until now has been firing *none* of them, so let's give this way a shot.
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NBC News
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Opinion | Firing every man accused of harassment won't fix the system via @NBCNewsTHINK
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Jackson Katz, a social researcher, asked men what they do on a daily basis to avoid being sexually assaulted. Then he asked women.
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Boomers in 2019: “LOL Millennials can’t cook they have no practical skills.” Boomers in 2020: Willing to risk death to go to Buffalo Wild Wings while Millennials post their thousandth picture of homemade bread.
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I just want to vote for someone time travelers don't have to kill.
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After 4 months of social distancing I feel like Jack in The Shining could have kept it together a little better. He had THREE people to talk to and a HUGE HOUSE with LOTS OF GHOST FRIENDS.
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Conservatives: “What if BILL CLINTON was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's sex ring? WHAT THEN, HMM?” Then I think he should be thrown in jail. There, that was simple. Now you do the same with Republicans.
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For everyone freaking out over the scant outfits worn by J Lo and Shakira last night: here is how cheerleaders dress, I'm sorry you've never seen them before.
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I'm currently 7 months pregnant and every morning at dawn I get woken up with cool little kicks. I just thought "after she's born it'll be so great to get some real sleep again" and OH GOD. HAVE YOU PARENTS ALL NOT BEEN SLEEPING FOR YEARS!?!?
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Stay past the credits of Little Women to see Jane Eyre step out of the shadows and tell Jo, “I’m putting a team together.”
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If a woman tells a joke and you do not laugh, she'll look away, embarrassed. If a man tells a joke and you do not laugh, he'll repeat it, louder. If you still do not laugh, he will explain "that was a joke" Somehow this has lead to men concluding that they're the funny gender
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A lot of people jealous that @lizzo can play the flute, when they can only dog whistle.
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Mel Gibson beat his girlfriend when she was holding their infant child, and when she asked him about it on tape, replied "You know what—you fucking deserved it."
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Mel Gibson to Star as Santa Claus in ‘Fatman’ Comedy
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Everyone sobbing on election night knew what was coming.
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Joe Biden is a devout Catholic who quoted Ecclesiastes and the hymn "On Eagle's Wings" in his speech last night. I think you're gonna be okay.
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They don't think a fertilized egg is a baby. They just want to punish sexually active women.
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Okay, what are the best things from your childhood that no longer exist? Mine are Blockbuster, Chili’s Hi and Mighty Ice Cream Pie, and the common understanding that Nazis were bad.
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Here's a graphic we apparently need to post every goddamn day.
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If women were making up rape allegations for fame and fortune, 1. Some of these women would be rich and famous by now, 2. There’d be a million rape accusations against, say, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, and hell, probably Oprah. You know why there aren’t? Because they don’t rape women
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Hello, fellow Christians. Jesus was a refugee. Jesus was Middle Eastern. Jesus was Jewish. Jesus told us to take care of the poor. In a season that ostensibly celebrates his word, these are things to consider. Merry Christmas!
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An easy solution for men in my timeline who say they are adamant about stopping abortion is to never have sex with a woman unless she wants to get pregnant. Unplanned pregnancies don’t happen without your sperm. It’ll save you the trouble of telling women to “shut their legs.”
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Raise your hand if pregnancy and childbirth only made you *more* pro-choice.
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One thing that bothers me about vampire novels is that vampires are essentially just very old people. They should act like it. I want to see a sexy vampire who looks like they're in their 20's go on a rant about Woodrow Wilson while chewing hard candies.
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If Donald Trump was the villain of a novel I was writing, my editor would tell me I had to give him *some* redeeming quality or it wouldn’t be believable. HE DOESN’T EVEN HAVE A DOG.
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A five-year-old girl on the street just yelled "I deserve respect" at a tree, and I feel this very strongly.
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6 people got blood clots as a result of the J&J vaccine. 8 people were killed in this week's mass shooting. Maybe we're restricting the wrong thing.
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Well, Greta Thunberg is officially “she’d look prettier if she smiled more” years old.
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@JenAshleyWright But she's so strident! Just her speaking style, if we can set aside for a moment what's she's speaking about, which is critically impotant I agree. All the more reason to win over a broad base with an agreeable presentation; you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
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I will never stop thinking about how the emoluments clause meant Jimmy Carter had to give up his peanut farm.
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BREAKING: House Oversight is investigating whether US military expenditures have been propping up Trump Turnberry. A peculiar refueling stop in Glasgow by a US Air Force crew, who stayed overnight at the resort—there & back—tipped them off. Our exclusive:
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I never thought living through history would be so fucking stupid.
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These dudes think the world is ending because women don't want to fuck them.
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People talk about caterpillars becoming a butterflies as though they just go into a cocoon, slap on wings, and are good to go. Caterpillars have to dissolve into a disgusting pile of goo to become butterflies. So if you’re a mess wrapped up in blankets right now, keep going.
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Being in the U.S. right now is like watching a train go off a cliff, except half the people on the train are screaming “I LOVE THIS, THE REST OF THE PEOPLE ON THIS TRAIN ARE SO OWNED.”
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The most unrealistic part of You is that Joe is a social outcast. If a man who looked like Penn Badgley ran a charming rare book shop in the West Village he’d be on some Most Eligible Bachelor list in New York Magazine and dating Jenny Slate.
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The older I get the more I feel the real villains in The Devil Wears Prada were Andy's insanely unsupportive friends.
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Us: Gun control? GOP: NO Us: Treatment for mentally ill? GOP: NO Us: Health care for bullet holes? GOP: NO Us: Anything? GOP: More guns
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Grassley should smile more. His voice is very shrill.
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For all the guys who wonder why women sometimes rely on non-verbal cues rather than loudly shouting “I don’t want to have sex with you!” Here you go:
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Have they tried preventing shootings by making sure there’s only one door on [checks notes] parades?
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Wait. Why is it called ghosting? Ghosts stick around. THAT'S THEIR WHOLE DEAL.
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There's a video of men shouting to you that they need access to showers. We all saw it.
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CNN is so dishonest. Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.
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Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
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This is, perhaps, the best summation of the “men’s rights movement” I've ever read.
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If we survive this, the movies about this administration are going to be fantastic. If we don’t, the puppet shows performed in the post-apocalyptic rubble will also be pretty good, I guess.
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All those times I wrote, “No worries!” There were, in fact, worries.
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Have we tried offering a personal pan pizza to everyone who gets vaccinated?
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Every time you get dressed remember that, if you die, that's your ghost outfit forever.
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Just saw Tucker Carlson called Tammy Duckworth "deeply silly and unimpressive". Duckworth lost both her legs in combat before becoming a U.S. Senator. Tucker Carlson came in 11th on Dancing With the Stars.
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Every government official who’s praying for the victims. We HAVE religious leaders. We have priests. We have rabbis. We have ministers. We have imams. None of them can write and enforce laws. Their jobs are spiritual leadership. Your job is legal action.
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The sixth love language is texting your partner everything you saw on the internet that day.
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So, a fun art history fact! Flies are used to represent rot, wasting away, decay, death, melancholia. A fly hovering over a church official or nobleman indicates disfavor with the king or corruption and dereliction of duty.
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For God’s sake, stop allowing nearly unrestricted access to guns to a populace that can’t stop eating tide pods.
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This woman is both my hero and history's greatest villain.
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Covid took so much from us but the one I really miss is eavesdropping on the table next to you having the craziest conversation you’ve ever heard.
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You’re a government official going after a private citizen, so, this actually says a lot more about you.
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Last night I was told by the owner of Red Hen in Lexington, VA to leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left. Her actions say far more about her than about me. I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so
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I spend a lot of time thinking about whether Ron and Hermione got a divorce and I’m 70% sure that they did.
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Often I see this situation play out re: abortion. 1) A man says he’s anti-abortion 2) A woman painstakingly explains why she needed one 3) The man says “oh, *yours* was fine, I meant other ones.” That’s all of them. They’re all exceptions. They’re all unique. You’re pro-choice.
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Part of being an adult is just accepting that this is the way your back feels now.
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Guys: Women make up sexual assault claims to get famous! NARRATOR: Meanwhile, the number of women who became beloved stars after coming forward about sexual assault held steady at 0%.
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May be crazy but I don't want to live in a dystopia where everyone walks around with a gun shooting at each other and there's no health care
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So, here’s why trickle down economics does not work: when you give rich people more money, they put it in the stock market. They do not think “Now I, a banker, will open a small wedding cake business and hire teens!”
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I know it’s controversial, but I think Conservatives should be allowed to get married.
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Why do people worship Elon Musk when the person who thought of adding wheels to suitcases is just anonymously out there? Build a statue of them.
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In retrospect, maybe the people crying on election night weren't "fragile snowflakes" but "people who rightly predicted incompetent leadership would end in unnecessary death.”
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If you're worried about there not being enough competent people in the army, maybe it's not a great time to ban experienced trans people
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As I watch millennial men struggle to lift their bags into the overhead bin I am reminded how f'd we are if there's a draft.
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The year is 2035. AOC is President. I'm washing dishes after dinner with my teenaged child. Child: Mom, can you tell me about 2020? The glass shatters in my hand.
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This is how I wish to approach everything in life.
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The bravery of women who speak out against men like you.
@BillOReilly
Bill O'Reilly
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There is something wrong in this country when a person like Stormy Daniels can go on a national TV program and be applauded by a live audience. What exactly are these people celebrating?
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Just a reminder for anyone who needs it that ”you have to love yourself before you can be loved” is bullshit. You’re still worthy of love and kindness even if you’re depressed, or anxious, or unhappy.
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Just a reminder that the aphorism is "one bad apple spoils the barrel" not "one bad apple should in no way reflect on all these other apples in the barrel.”
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Retweet this if there's no amount of money that could get you to ruin your life by dressing up as a Nazi in front of thousands of cameras.
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Bill Powers
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The Boston free speech rally today is 100% a left wing set up, the white nationalists are paid Democrat Party actors. Don't be fooled.
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