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Matthew Ismael Ruiz

@PoRican

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writer / editor / producer

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Joined February 2009
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
1 month
for earth day, I’m proud to share the grand opening announcement for Audiodrome Vinyl, the first 100% solar-powered vinyl record press in the U.S.
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1 year
@rebecgeo restocking fee seems appropriate here
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4 months
it’s official: I was laid off from Pitchfork today, along with what appears to be half the staff. While on parental leave. if you’ve got work, i’m extremely available: reviews, news, and features, but also bios, curation, copywriting, and consulting. mir83nj at gmail dot com
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4 months
rip pitchfork
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1 year
@Crystalejandro @BadFatBlackGirl i’m sure plenty have thought it but the check was too loud
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7 months
@shharine @ReggaetonXGata diplo deserves some of the blame for this
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3 years
and this latest lawsuit alleges he attended a "pedophile-themed" party hosted by THE SUICIDE SQUAD director James Gunn
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5 years
Zack is one of the funniest people I’ve ever met but this fake news
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5 years
we didn't know it at the time, but earl & solange gave us a peek here at the music that influenced "Some Rap Songs" and "When I Get Home" I also produced this recording in LA from the dance floor @ Griessmuehle at 3 AM because technology is crazy and work/life balance is a myth
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3 years
ok this shit is legitimately sickening (TW: abuse, pedophilia) but it doesn't happen in a vacuum. people knew about this.
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3 years
this is not a secret. dude has been a self-identified pedophile since the 90s. wtf?
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1 year
@MorphiousPrime because a) i’m an adult and b) i don’t drink to get drunk
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2 years
@DegenDefiYT @nypost raped. u mean he got raped for the fourth time in a day.
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3 years
at my last two apartments, by the time FIOS finally arrived I could no longer afford to live in those neighborhoods. never had to beg so hard for a company to take my money
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3 years
don't let Verizon's pandering 5G super bowl ad to 'real gamers' that no real gamer would ever use distract you from the fact they stopped expanding FIOS and new york city had to sue them for 6 years to finish wiring low income households
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I’m generally loathe to give unsolicited advice but I’d like to offer some insight into what it means to be a full time freelance writer. no one wants to talk numbers, but here we go 🧵
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I’m obviously devastated, and not just for my five-week-old daughter, or for my brilliant colleagues. this is a major L for journalism, criticism, and music in general.
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@RhinoLeGrand @MLBPA_News @grantmcauley @MLBPA @PELOTEROS_MLB @MiLBAdvocates if a business can’t exist without paying workers a living wage, it shouldn’t exist!
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@allisonhussey From: Anna (no subject) You're fired.
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10 months
musicians responding to reviews is good, actually. did the critic get something wrong? correct them! disagree with an assertion? share your own! but thats not what we get. we get ad hominem insults because we didn’t like something enough to appease their ego.
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1 year
@gfro i actually had to pay extra for that; they don’t tell u until you see the receipt. “Cash Discount Waived: $1.08”
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1 year
@ethanjxo DIY shows are typically still under $10 but between M.A.R.C.H. and real estate prices they're not as common here as they used to be
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11 months
In 2021, when he was paid $246 million (yes, for 1 yr), I noted in my book Zaslav made $675,000 per day. Using data from #PayUpHollywood , avg WB support staff at the time (SIDE NOTE THEY RARELY WORK 52 WKS/YR) made $185/day. That was him making 3600x more than entry level workers
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1 year
im still trying to wrap my head around "she sent them '212' and they dropped her from the label" like WHAT
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dj franzia
1 year
this part of the azealia dazed profile *chefs kiss* ive been saying this for years and connor garel put it so concisely
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
4 years
y'all aint ready for this: An Introduction to Urbano in 50 Songs, in English & Spanish, on the pitchfork dot com. we have entered a new era:
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1 year
@CarlSetterlund yah i think they have cans of pacifico or some shit that's a little cheaper ($12?) i just asked for a pilsner and it came out to $20 after tax + tip + credit card fee
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4 months
rip pitchfork
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@PaIIahAbdul are you a liar or just ignorant? please tell us which part of castle hill is “basically in Westchester”
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3 months
but there’s the rub: you only get the opportunity for those comms gigs with visibility from that underpaid, overworked editorial work. and condé nast is taking that away from the people it already put out on the street with no job. it is truly fucked.
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3 years
@_pem_pem @Muna_Mire Looks like Brooklyn barista on wyckoff. Got a great Pastrami egg and cheese
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1 year
@DIOWARUUDO @pasghetti__ @ElectricbumSky i’ve heard these “jokes” offline from grown ass men. it’s not your place to dismiss or downplay others’ experience. stop making excuses and listen to women.
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5 years
Spent some time talking with @Icryduringsex and his family about the bonds that hold them together even when they’re apart, and how there really is no place like home
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@Lexcellent15 @MaxwellFrostFL they can pay them less
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4 years
@SenSchumer please stop. people are dying and you’re on vacation
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7 years
back in March, @chona_kasinger and I went to South Texas to visit a town I had heard so much about from afar:
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3 years
@Batmancanceeu yeah, the photo on the left was included in the suit as part of exhibit C, along with this one
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@royalpratt for others, it raises questions about your editorial judgment
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2 years
@daisandconfused thanks i hate this
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hits so much harder to see these names all together. an absolute bloodbath, just massive amounts of talent cast aside
@thefineprintnyc
The Fine Print
2 months
The wave of media job losses continues, and so we’ve updated our list of those affected, which now exceeds 600, including at The Intercept, NowThis, Law360, Engadget, and Vice, as well as earlier cuts at Vox, New Yorker, Wired, and Washington Post
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so if this mythical reporter with their dream scenario of having twelve print cover stories in a year without ever needing to spend time pitching would find themselves well below the poverty line, how do you think actual freelancers are making a living? it’s simple: they’re not
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i don’t write a lot of personal essays so this feels like coming out, an admission of an intense obsession I’ve carried for most of my life
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they’re living with their parents. or working at a coffee shop. or substitute teaching. or drop shipping on amazon. the lucky ones take corporate comms work they don’t talk about because it’s often ethically sus
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@Muna_Mire my life significantly improved when I realized this was me
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legitimately shocked by this. and it is absolutely wild to come at philip for a blog post that lavished praise on the work joe and his team did at the daily and stressed how vital it is to the industry/culture at large. what is going on here?!?
@jason_koebler
Jason Koebler
7 months
The editorial director of Bandcamp posted the following on Instagram while his colleagues were unionizing: "Bandcamp United is privileged tech workers cosplaying as Amazon warehouse workers. TL;DR: Fuuuuuuuck Bandcamp United."
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just a reminder that the bandcamp daily still exists, and will likely continue to do great work. there will just probably be a lot less of it, done with fewer resources.
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no bells
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bandcamp editorial being gutted is particularly dark because some of the smartest writers and editors were over there covering scenes that *nobody* else would. 1 of the last music pubs that demonstrated unabashed curiosity, that treated music as an endlessly expanding world.
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2 years
my dad was upset i wanted to spend my first summer after college working as a lifeguard (“i didn’t pay for you to sit around the pool all day!”) so I know he’ll be happy Anna Wintour paid me to write this
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Pitchfork
2 years
Check out Frank Ocean’s $25,000 diamond-encrusted cock ring
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
4 years
really impressed with this @HexPositive profile of @sanbenito ; a great example of using the first person to offer meaningful and insightful perspective. it's also a reporting triumph, amid unprecedented circumstances.
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2 years
@adamkoplik @joonlee yeah i don't see how the yankees collapse tilts this argument in ohtani's favor...he literally scored all the runs in the tampa series, is practically winning games by himself. without judge they would already be out of first place...clearly shows how valuable he is
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4 years
@billwolffsju @BrBabblingBooks A library is quite literally the definition of “available to the public”
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3 years
@MrMovieMafia @JamesGunn good for him! this lawsuit isn't really about that, though. it's about his friend, a self-described pedophile, who is being accused of sexual battery of a minor.
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@andrewcuomo shut the fuck up and fix the subway
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1 year
they're closing libraries and crippling schools to give 25 year olds who beat up turnstile jumpers a *raise* equivalent to a teacher's salary, which they will then take out to long island to fund the schools their kids actually go to. we do not accept this
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Rebecca Kavanagh
1 year
Eric Adams and the PBA have negotiated a new NYPD contract that will cost the city $5.5 billion. Pay raises are across the board and retroactive to 2017. For example, cops who are 5 years in will now earn $130,000, a $40,000 increase. That's not including overtime.
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1 year
@xeniarubinos this would be well-received, make no money, and be incredibly boring/tedious to make hope it happens!
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
3 years
@pancakesmacker Who’s “they?” This is a lawsuit filed by someone who claims a musician groomed and abused them as a minor. Gunn is not being sued, the plaintiff merely mentioned he hosted this party, which is being submitted as evidence that the musician had an interest in pedophilia.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
7 years
my latest column @REMEZCLA : exploring the parallels of agency between @rihanna 's and @malarodriguez 's careers:
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2 years
loved this @CineMasai_ x @denzelcurry jawn. blown away that he'd even seen the soulquarians mini-doc i wrote, let alone made everyone who came to the studio watch it. it's wild to imagine a rapper getting charged to write bars by listening to bars u wrote
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1 year
@estarLA it was a beer. they charged $7 for a soda water with bitters.
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5 years
there's a certain art house cinema tracker that i will not name that is technically piracy but in practice is the greatest film archive accessible to the general public. when you decentralize archives you make it impossible for any one bad actor to destroy it completely.
I should write a piece about how my attitudes about piracy have turned around in the last 5 years. Now I feel like anybody who circulates files of classic cinema is the equivalent of people in Ray Bradbury‘s Fahrenheit 451 who keep literature alive by memorizing & reciting it.
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@Dok845 it's all "jokes" until actual pedophiles show up
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3 months
for simplicity’s sake, let’s say each of those cover stories pays $1/word and runs at 3000 words. not the best rate, but a reasonable standard for print in 2024. that’s $36,000/year, before taxes.
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@CoralBendersDC @MorphiousPrime it was a craft pilsner and it was delicious. and yes, i do enjoy the experience of drinking a beer on a rooftop while listening to music.
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5 years
I quit tobacco but I’ll never quit yelling “pasameeee la hooookaaaaaaahhhh”
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Pitchfork
5 years
Bad Bunny's X 100PRE, reviewed by @PoRican
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@eleven8 Joe is wrong but so are you. Cuba is black AF. If you mostly see white Cubans in the US that’s because only the most privileged were able to get out.
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7 years
In the latest Intersect, my column @REMEZCLA , I explore Yoruba's persistence as an antidote to Afro-Latinx erasure
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7 years
I spend a lot of time thinking about how we listen to music, and @pitchfork let me explore a particularly mystifying niche of the experience: hi-resolution digital audio
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4 years
have always wanted to do one of these, and Tom Morello did not disappoint. a generational guitar talent Black guitar god.
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1 year
@pussyonamonday @MorphiousPrime relax. not saying i've never done this, i just don't do it anymore.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
3 months
let’s say you’re a wildly popular and talented reporter who gets assignments without having to pitch. let’s say you’re crushing it so hard that you have a cover story come out every month. sounds like success, right? well, let’s see
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
5 years
what rosalia *does* as a white european is literally colonize latin music created by black latinx. the distinction is important! you can like her music and acknowledge she's not latin and benefits from colorism.
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1 year
@EyezrStarry no smoking inside the staples center
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think about the reporting, research, and edits that go into a 3,000 word feature. how much time would you have for other work each month? because you’ll need a lot more to afford housing and health insurance in most cities.
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2 years
just saw a podcast producer job listing that opens with "applicants for this unpaid position must have a Ph.D..."
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6 years
these are gonna sound great on yr crosley
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Pitchfork
6 years
They would allegedly have higher audio fidelity, louder volume, and longer playing times than regular LPs
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@Batmancanceeu Yes, the first link in the thread is a report on it from last night
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7 years
. @jabladoraaa and I been sick of seeing seeing Latinx stories getting fumbled. hire better. try harder.
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1 year
if any of you tweet over 280 you’re getting muted immediately
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
1 year
Elon Musk says Twitter is still working to increase the character limit on tweets from 280 to 4000
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3 years
Idk how u show up to work the next day after being embarrassed like this live on air
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5 years
I need more time to unpack this but wow what a smart, clear-eyed discussion of who and what gets erased in the name of Hispanic & Latinx unity. Important work.
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@gfro i usually bring cash. didn’t think i’d need $30 for a beer and a soda water tho
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@NotTimClaridge @pitchfork It’s a lawsuit in the public record bro take it up with the Supreme Court
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@uwucarlee I did not know that but it sounds gross
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1 year
@professor_peon @AyeeYoBruce @islandthembo @mattjxseph that’s not how any of this works. you can charge for a cover but the publishing goes to the songwriter.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
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ask and ye shall receive
@greerdraws
greer 🍉
7 months
the connection adult swim has with the hip hop community is honestly really interesting. are there any deep dives or video essays on this
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confused as to why that "dr dre global impact award" video didn't include the impact of him knocking out dee barnes
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
3 years
this is extremely tight really proud of everyone
@p4kunion
Pitchfork Union
3 years
. @p4kunion , @newyorkerunion , and @ars_union are thrilled to announce that after 2-and-a-half years of negotiations with @CondeNast , we have reached an agreement in principle on our first contracts and averted a strike.🎇Here are some of our wins: (1/9)
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got the chance to talk to @PUSHA_T about his new album, his formative years in the Bronx, and that arby’s/McDonald’s fish beef shout out to @davyreed for the look
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
5 years
truly grateful for every opportunity I had @rbma & @redbull_radio . everyone at yadastar has a genuine love for the art and the culture. the academy in Berlin last fall was one of the most incredible experiences of my life and will remain with me forever.
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I will ALWAYS stand in solidarity with the victims of colonial oppression everywhere. I will NEVER support genocide, ethnic cleansing, or apartheid for ANY reason. If you want to put me on a list for that, go ahead. I will never apologize. It is the bare minimum of human empathy.
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5 years
two numbers missing from those @spotify year-end graphics: A) how much $ the artist cleared in royalties B) how much their label got. the rest is mostly irrelevant.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
3 years
pitchfork’s nonwhite staff and contributors are, for some reason, expected to answer for all the awful shit published back when the site didn’t speak to them at all
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J. Escobedo Shepherd
3 years
telling that the p4k convo is still centered on cis white male sins rather than the woc helming it/working her ass off to right its exclusionary history
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happy record release day to mi hermano @HeladoNegro . it's been a privilege and a pleasure to watch him grow—and others take notice of his immense talent and warmth. PHASOR is gentle & gorgeous, and like all his music, a soothing balm for my young family
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3 years
DMX was complicated man who was still finding himself when he left us. I hope he was able to find some peace
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6 years
check in on your strong friends
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1 year
this app cannot contain my rage towards eric adams. closing libraries on weekends (the only time most people can take their kids!!!) while spending 100x more (literally) on police overtime OVERAGES for ONE QUARTER is fucking criminal.
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Matthew Ismael Ruiz
3 years
@tslaw5 @jlyucloud @katiejoyofosho @vornietom Lol that money is for weapons not for “citizens” Make of that what you will
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@edgycomicsfan “To catch a predator” is about pedophiles…
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