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@uofnorthgeorgia Rhetoric prof. My opinions. Bonhoeffer, Merton, UF Gators, & @aaup . My book SEVEN MOUNTAINS set for Fall 2025 with @wjkbooks

Gainesville, GA
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🚨🚨 I'm writing a book about Christian Nationalism!! SEVEN MOUNTAINS will be published in Fall 2025 by @wjkbooks . No matter who wins in 2024, the sweeping plan to Christianize America and destroy democracy won't fade because it has a heir: Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA.
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As a reminder Turning Point USA let Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro, speak to its 2022 summer event crowd.
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The governor-elect of Louisiana called for this professor to be fired two years ago after the professor called out the GOP leader’s Covid lies. LSU has waffled in its support. Now after seeing writing on wall, the professor steps down. Academic freedom dies one threat at a time.
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I have this morning informed my dean that I will step down from my position at LSU at the end of the school year.
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@ClintSmithIII @saragoldrickrab They had tacos and turkey sandwiches for lunch, according to today’s menu.
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Remember most every word of Biden hatred from Charlie Kirk is actually a truth about Trump. #bidenspeech
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@AP_Politics Putin did this before McConnell. That is the tweet.
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Let’s make a list of public/state schools with Gaza protests: 1/x
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There have been a ton of Gaza protests at many state schools and even HBCUs but only the ones at NE/Ivy League school are always in the news. My theory is it’s because many U.S. news outlets are based out of NYC (and they employ many grads of those schools)
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In May a company run by a sex offender sponsored a Turning Point Faith pastors summit. A company sponsoring this weekend’s Turning Point Action conference is owned by a man sharing name and likeness of a man convicted for cocaine trafficking in 2007: 1/x
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Path for Trump win narrowed with CNN calling Wisconsin and NBC calling Maine for Biden. Arizona still called by some and Georgia Trump lead now only 80,000 votes. And that is without mentioning Pennsylvania. Keep counting and watch that USPS court hearing. #CountAllTheVotes
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My thesis for a while now: No one is coming to save us. And those coming for us want to end higher education.
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Claudine Gay didn't do herself any favors but I'll say what I said when Penn's Magill resigned: This will be used by the very worst people to make higher education worse, not better. It will be used to cut funding, end diversity, stifle academic freedom
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If you shack up with Satan don’t expect God to pay the rent #churchsigns near Bishop Georgia
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The Harvard president resigned today. Also in academic integrity news, in Ohio a public college hired as its new president a GOP congressman who spread the Big Lie. Are students at Youngstown State now going to be able to argue Trump won in 2020?
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Bill Johnson submitted his letter of resignation today to the U.S. House of Representatives, effective Jan. 21, and will start the next day as Youngstown State University president
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@maggieNYT If it wasn’t clear before now, Vice President Pence is a sycophant Christian conservative Republican. In that order.
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@TheRickWilson “The more pudding you put on your fingers, the more Disney will slip through your grasp.”
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The PragerU threat to public education is spreading
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New Hampshire's State Board of Education is voting tomorrow on whether to allow PragerU to offer public school classes in NH
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Man, if settling a lawsuit is an admission of guilt to Charlie Kirk, man, he needs to know about a proprietor of a fake university and charity who got elected president by settling and paying millions...
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In one of the “reddest” places in America, in Gainesville, Georgia, on short notice, there was still a #ProtectMueller rally. #gapol #NobodyIsAboveTheLaw #TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw @MoveOn @Public_Citizen #MuellerRapidResponse
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The Ted Lasso callbacks from the finale are below. With so many it nods to other finales that did callbacks. I’m thinking Seinfeld and the button. This may be what allows Ted Lasso to seep into cultural zeitgeist like Seinfeld without latter’s one-liners. #TedLassoFinale
#TEDLASSO : a full circle moment
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A mega-thread on all my articles, podcasts, media comments, and anything else on Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk. I start with the 2022 definitive history and turn to Christian Nationalism in @PRAEyesRight 1/x
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@ashtonpittman
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You may have heard this week that Melania Trump is the 1st first lady to visit a war zone. Incorrect. First Lady Hillary Clinton visited troops in what was considered a combat zone in Bosnia in 1996; Pat Nixon visited one in Vietnam; Eleanor Roosevelt visited war zones in WWII.
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University presidents should take moral stances on issues like this: Turning Point USA harassing one of its professors. Arizona State University president does it well here.
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Dr. Larry R. Nittler 🚀🎹🌖☄���
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Michael Crow sent this letter to the whole ASU community. Fuck Turning Point USA
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As a reminder the Jacksonville shooter targeted an HBCU, was thwarted by campus police, and then fled to shoot similar people that he hated in a nearby store.
@ewctigers
Edward Waters University
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🚨 EWU CAMPUS SAFETY UPDATE 🚨
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@ByronYork Overturning: abolish, invalidate, reverse. A Senate conviction is none of that. Nothing erases or reverses Trump 2016 win. Hillary doesn’t come into office, history does not change. Please stop being so stupid.
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New from me on @PRAEyesRight the definitive history of Charlie Kirk & Turning Point USA’s turn to Christian Nationalism, how Kirk learned from his CN mentor Rob McCoy, how early Fox News cameos by Kirk propelled TPUSA, and its future in culture war.
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The Herschel Walker campaign has disintegrated in the last few hours. Even last few minutes. He was chaos and red flags from the start. But “muh Trump…” In a sane world Walker is the Alvin Greene of Georgia. #gapol
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@charliekirk11 Kirk spin is wrong . New York Times reports “the White House never followed through with the complex bureaucratic work it would have taken to strip the clearance, according to a person familiar with the process.”
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@RonFilipkowski Donald gonna use that same archway for Tuesday’s announcement
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For those who don’t remember Charlie Kirk applied to West Point for the free tuition.
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Charlie Kirk attacked the military and the benefits highlighted by military recruiters: “The military now exists as basically a social welfare program with missiles. …The way they recruit for the military now is like, ‘Look at all the perks and benefits.’ It’s disgusting.”
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This is beyond adopting a Hillsdale curriculum. This is like spending tax money on Candace Owens’ show and saying it meets some professional education “standard.” Or putting Rufo on a college trustee board.
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@JasonSCampbell Same guy who was *cheering* for the US women’s soccer team to lose…. So his “I had to look at Russia win” is just… deplorable
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If you think Charlie Kirk is a nobody you can ignore and who has no real power, remember that a month ago Kirk publicly questioned the Christian courage of the House speaker. Now they text regularly.
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Charlie Kirk is Texting Speaker Mike Johnson to Go After the Competitors of His Show's Sponsor, Patriot Mobile Why is Johnson even allowing Kirk, who attacked MLK and Black pilots, access in the first place?
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Replies to people against #studentloanforgiveness 1. “They should pay their fair share.” A: If you graduated pre-2008, later grads paid more than you for same degree, with less salary, more inflation, etc.
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When you start attacking the student newspaper, you have lost the plot.
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The @Harvard Crimson refused to publish @AlanDersh piece which criticized President Gay’s testimony while publishing a piece which defended her. President Gay’s ‘commitment to free expression’ is alive and well at the Crimson. And consider that the Crimson is training our
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FFS: PragerU Says Florida Schools to Adopt Its Conservative "Curriculum"
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Sponsor of Georgia’s “divisive concepts” bill (now law) uses fake MLK quote (W Bush actually used it first and a lot) to implicitly criticize “the left” for revisionist history. My head is spinning. 🤔🤷🏽‍♂️ #gapol
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👀 Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk in tax year 2021 gave $50,000 to Conservative Baptist Network @BaptistNetwork the hard-right group that has backed but failed to elect Southern Baptist Convention president to push its conservative agenda
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This Missouri parent lost the debate, FYI. Shocker. Mandate adopted by the school board.
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Nathan Vickers
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One parent speaking out against masks and vaccines: “I have a bachelor’s degree in logic, a master’s in motherhood, and I’m board certified in American freedom”
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“Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk was vital, the strategist said: "He had his people posting senators' office numbers and was giving them out on his show. Driving the senators absolutely crazy." And Paxton tweeted his thanks.
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@TheRickWilson Celebrity Apprentice, Insurrection Edition
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@Phil_Lewis_ They literally grounded all planes. Then they created new rules for “using” planes.
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If you are a faculty member in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, or Georgia, the @AAUP would love your opinion on the impact of politics and tenure changes to your job. Please fill out the short survey here: #highered
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@jonkarl If it wasn’t clear before now, Vice President Pence is a sycophant Christian conservative Republican. In that order.
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@RightWingWatch There is no course at the University of Rhode Island called Feminism 101. And @RealCandaceO was never forced to take it. Majoring in journalism, she took gen ed hours like all students. They take courses in broad categories but choose the courses. …
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Civil war rhetoric. But badly educated about the Civil War rhetoric.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene to the Georgia GOP: “Washington DC …is in the hands of the enemy. …They want Georgia more than any other state because Georgia is the economic hub of the South. …and if they take Georgia they can take the South.”
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@PeacefulYogini8 @ErikWemple @Bencjacobs Basically NS sued any media who reported on him. He got some $ from Wash Post but had no case against these outlets
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@JackPosobiec "Posobiec.... tweeted the falsehood that Mr. Vindman had been advising the Ukrainian government on how to counter Mr. Trump’s foreign policy goals. Mr. Posobiec cited The New York Times as his source — in fact, The Times reported no such thing."
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@dchiasso Repetition is the rhetorician’s road to memory.
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@RobertFoster4MS it's principles... and you are not living out anything related to Christianity with this tweet
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@aldemocrats
Alabama Democrats
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how bout that 🐸☕️
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@jgumbel
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Do not use Christ or purity to keep women out of the workplace or the press from covering you. Your douchery is attacked. Not your faith.
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The Georgia @AAUP begins a statewide protest over the @BORUSG university system’s #Covid policies on September 13. We want at minimum a mask mandate. All faculty, students, & staff are invited. For details, DM or email. Our current situation:
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@LanceUSA70
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Conservative pastor Loren Livingston is preachin’ and teachin’ while putting Trump, the Bible he’s selling, and Christian Nationalism in their place.
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@davidfrum Sewer testing… damn Twitter
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@mschlapp Hahahahahaha. (Breathe) hahaha. Constitutional... hahahahaha... order... hahahahaha
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And let’s note the FBI policy of not doing anything in political arena 60 days before election. We are 100ish days out and if it is the doc trove, then the need for speed here is essential. IOW this search and its warrant couldn’t wait.
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@Popehat My two cents
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His safe. I’m thinking the document trove discovered there weeks ago. Not the *other* obvious investigation.
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Legal work after 5pm only means one thing: they want this done tonight. It’s my guess that Fulton DA sped up case to get in front of reports about Tuesday which gave protestors a timeline.
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Charlie Kirk calling the #TrumpIndictment a “Rubicon” moment. He also called the 2020 election that as well.
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Today @AAUP and partners release an extensive survey of faculty in the South. About 4,250 faculty in Florida, Texas, North Carolina, & Georgia are deeply dissatisfied with #highered due to impact of political interference and attacks on tenure. Key findings... 1/x
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@SarahLongwell25 Ron DeSantis will be a visiting professor at New College of Florida in two years.
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@charliekirk11 Man, if settling a lawsuit is an admission of guilt to Charlie Kirk, man, he needs to know about a proprietor of a fake university and charity who got elected president by settling and paying millions...
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@ddale8 Sadly Rep. Scalise, himself a victim of violence, lies about what the president said. It is clear to anyone (else) the audience didn’t cheer for “ribbing.” They cheered the violence and the “he’s fights like me” rhetoric. It is sad supporters still cover for this “leader.”
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@ErinInTheMorn I’ve been writing about Turning Point USA and Charlie Kirk for years:
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New from me on @PRAEyesRight the definitive history of Charlie Kirk & Turning Point USA’s turn to Christian Nationalism, how Kirk learned from his CN mentor Rob McCoy, how early Fox News cameos by Kirk propelled TPUSA, and its future in culture war.
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Co-conspirator 6 may have ties to Arizona and its fake electors which included two Turning Point USA peeps: State Rep. Jake Hoffman and Tyler Bowyer, TPUSA chief operating officer
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We had a nice run, writing teachers: “Arizona State plans to use ChatGPT to build personalized AI tutors and offer writing help to students in one of its largest classes, Freshman Composition.”
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@JeffSharlet @jfrickuga @CNN It’s likely that the Pal Authority only told CNN how many Palenstinians died, while Israel is saying the 200 may not be limited to “Israelies.”
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@markberman @brianstelter My god. The king doesn't want us to see he has no clothes.
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I also think it’s the doc trove because of the claim by Trump he had been working with prosecutors. Even if exaggerated, likely it means law enforcement has contacted him about getting those docs and he has slow played enough that FBI went to get them itself
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Maricopa County 62,000 ballot drop tonight. About 400,000 left. (At that rate 6-7 days.) But… results: Kelly way ahead by 95,000. Hobbs up 13,000. Checking in on Charlie Kirk: #azpol #azpolitics
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Good catch here. Charlie Kirk systematically cleaning his connection to Students for Trump. IOW “ending” the org after Trump admitted defeat (website still up). No longer on his Twitter bio. While it remains in TPUSA bio, recall TP Action bought Students for Trump.
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@kenolin1 @jonathanalter He also deleted his name as Chairman of @TrumpStudents , which he said was helping send the 80+ busses of “patriots” to the March For Trump Bus Tour.
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Then you may ask why they “deserve” cut when u didn’t get one? Well you deserved one too. State lawmakers have abandoned #highered and tuition you paid in 2000s reflects that. Likely before. Don’t begrudge them for what you didn’t get. Begrudge those who didn’t give it to you.
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Turning Point USA staffers charged in Arizona State University professor assault
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Making her Twitter debut now that her adoption is final, Nora, 18 months. She likes to ride in a wagon and explore new places. #ADOPTION
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Belmont University Denies TPUSA Chapter on Campus: TPUSA “was determined (by Belmont) to be a partisan national advocacy organization.” 😆 Yep.
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@ettingermentum This aged poorly
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We are in the midst of the red shift
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As the Georgia Board of Regents meets this hour to name Sonny Perdue finalist for chancellor of the university system, let’s examine qualifications the system named for that job as it began its search in 2021. Spoiler alert: Perdue falls far short: 1/x
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Biden’s list of allied moves stands in direct response to Trump and America First. And then adding “we will be OK” is great way to bring it to kitchen table. #teamrhetoric #SOTU
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Last week, Greene was confronted by a constituent for using a derogatory term for people with Down syndrome and she tried to play it off as slang. #gapol
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🧵 Much has been said about the Christian Nationalism of new House Speaker Mike Johnson. Charlie Kirk lays out in a concise tweet this ideology he shares with Johnson. Follow along to see the future 1/x
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@davidfrum UGA doubled its known Covid cases last week, and sewer eating shows it is getting worse.
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@soledadobrien She shook his hand after he called her nasty.
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@jayrosen_nyu @semaforben I don’t know, how about “democracy and immigration?” Or how the economy might look under an autocrat. Though I only have a degree in journalism.
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