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Senior Editor: @gamedevdotcom . Game Writer: Zephon, Endless Space 2. Tips & pitches: bryant.francis @informa .com. He/Him! 💖💜💙

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@RBryant2012
Bryant Francis
2 years
Who threw a truck at the literal child
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Marvel Perfect Gifs & Clips
2 years
Captain America: Civil War
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2 years
To everyone saying “Wanda,” That first truck does not have the red glow on it. Someone else saw that teenager swinging forward and thought “he’s gotta die today.”
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2 years
I keep RT'ing stuff about the Amber Heard trial because this feels like a pseudo-Gamergate thing brewing in a non-video game environment. People are being radicalized against domestic violence survivors and you'd only know if you paid attention to instagram reels and YouTubers
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They're yelling "where's the money?" because she pledged her divorce settlement to charity, then stopped the payments because she needed it for her legal defense. She never lied about this and it's irrelevant to the case, but they've spun it into evidence that she's abusive.
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5 years
The Skarsgard family will not rest until they inhabit our collective nightmares as imagined by Steven King
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Rachel Weber 🌺🐻🔥
5 years
The Stand just got 100% hotter.
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2 years
tfw you got the Wanda stans and Peter stans brawling in your mentions
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7 years
"Games should stop trying to tell stories" -Oohs and ahhs, debate "What if games had a skip combat button?" -*terrifying harassment*
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Bryant Francis
2 months
We reached out to Valve and Discord multiple times to ask how a group using their platform to target a company was within the bounds of their terms of service. No answer back yet.
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Game Developer
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Why are Valve and Discord permitting harassment against Sweet Baby Inc.?
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6 years
a literal 'but what about her e-mails'
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6 years
HE'S DOING THE 33,000 EMAILS BIT!
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Bryant Francis
5 years
There's a new Overwatch short story out and uhhhhh Jack (Soldier 76) has a long-standing crush on someone named Vincent???
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@leezeldin @POTUS oh man I hope whatever comes out next doesn't classify as a whoopsie-doopsie, that'd be REAL BAD
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6 years
@Lin_Manuel Trinity Churchyard has Hamilton's grave!
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2 years
Game Workers of SoCal was out here at #TheGameAwards protesting on behalf of Activision Blizzard workers…and right as I started chatting with them, security came up and asked them to relocate out of LA Live.
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@latimes @latimesopinion Hate on Darth Vader all you want but he's tapping into a frustration that the Jedi shouldn't ignore.
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8 years
"I didn't apologize to my wife" #debatenight
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2 years
Holy shit!!!!
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2 years
BREAKING: The National Labor Relations Board just ruled that a group of 21 quality assurance workers at Raven Software are eligible to participate in a union election.
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11 months
Working on a story about Kotick's comments. If you are a current or former employee of Activision Blizzard and would like to share your opinion, shoot me a DM or hit up my email address in my bio.
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Bryant Francis
11 months
Cool cool Bobby is out here on the rehabilitation tour and Variety just decided to let him make some arguments without correcting what I will *generously* call "inconsistencies."
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@DixonPolice you guys do know there's a crooked cop who abuses kids in this movie right
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@HamillHimself this meme gets really weird when two of these folks owned slaves...
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6 years
Omfg this @desusandmero banner is flying over the valley right now
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2 years
Did you know if you search for “Curt Schilling” on Game Developer dot com you get all these stories about he failed to pay back loans he took out? And didn’t pay 38 Studios employees? Fascinating.
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My body my choice? Your loan my responsibility? This isn’t loan forgiveness, it’s a generation of lazy unaccountable uneducated children being covered by hard working debt paying Americans.
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@saladinahmed *loads up on beans before a screening*
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4 years
Some light reading in #DoomEternal #PS4share
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10 months
Lol they wrote all that extra text to bury the fact that Tweetdeck will be pay-to-access in 30 days.
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Support
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We have just launched a new, improved version of TweetDeck. All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via by selecting “Try the new TweetDeck” in the bottom left menu. Some notes on getting started and the future of the product…
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This Richard Spencer video got taken of YouTube because of 'harassing and bullying' I searched YT and found his hate speeches still up
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1 year
Here's my passion project from the last few months—I talked to game developers of all stripes about how they're trying to improve body diversity in games, particularly with depicting fat characters!
@gamedevdotcom
Game Developer
1 year
Ways to inclusively design fat characters in games
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7 years
. @BillKristol So uh this scene made you clap your hands with glee then I assume
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Me: "Oh I guess a plane crashed on the 101 near me." @simoncarless : "It's a Nazi plane Bryant." Me: "Ha ha yes the news is depressing these days isn't it" Simon: "No seriously:"
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Denise Dador
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Small vintage plane down on the 101 @ Liberty Canyon Rd. Pilot not injured. FD responding.
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7 years
NO TOYS R US DON'T GO AWAY SO MUCH OF MY CHILDHOOD CAME FROM THERE:
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1 year
@Jeeshadow1 @xoxogossipgita Ireland is part of the British Ministry???????
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@Jeeshadow1 @xoxogossipgita this has incredible political implications
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11 months
Cool cool Bobby is out here on the rehabilitation tour and Variety just decided to let him make some arguments without correcting what I will *generously* call "inconsistencies."
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6 years
do you want nazis, cause that's how you get nazis
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8 years
Santa Monica is eerie in the wake of the Santa Clarita Fire and oh yeah THAT RED THING IS THE SUN
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2 years
Probably not a good system if showrunners are out here asking viewers to optimize their behavior for it?
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Michael Green
2 years
This will sound stupid (and it is) but if you are savoring a new show dropped on Netflix, if it’s all the same to you, please let the episodes play through right away so the completion is counted in a timeframe that is meaningful to the show’s success.
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@patrickklepek "My kid wants a new console so he can play with his friends. I want to play more Call of Duty/Madden/Minecraft. My TV doesn't have 4K, my budget is tighter this Christmas. Which console should I get?" - Microsoft has done a great job answering this question.
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@GenePark Politico not getting that game review code
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@chrislhayes if an astronaut enters an election they have to win by default it's the law
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@NYCMayor @NYCSchools let kids have a snow day my guy
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@MeghanMcCain so "bullying good." got it
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1 year
@HardDriveMag I know not with what weapons the first Barbie/Oppenheimer War will be fought, but the second Barbie/Oppenheimer War will be fought with sticks and stones.
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2 years
Hi, we got engaged! At the Millenium Falcon @velocciraptor asked, I said yes. ❤️❤️❤️
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@SomervilleCity can the city of Somerville use its authority to procure an English port of Mother 3
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3 years
At #ActiBlizzWalkout , employees walked off the job to protest the company's response to a battery of harassment and discrimination allegations. Despite the friendly vibes on site, this was a huge risk. Here's what I saw in Irvine:
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Bryant Francis
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@its_natclayton “The graphics of this game are serviceable no doubt” “SIR YOU ARE CONTROLLING A GIANT MECH FLYING INTO A RUINED CITY WITH A BEAUTIFUL SNOWY LANDSCAPE ON THE HORIZON AND THAT’S ‘SERVICABLE??!!!’l
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2 years
@IwriteOK It’s not even the army, it’s literally an assembly of revolutionary paramilitaries how is that not rad as hell
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Bryant Francis
6 years
4 guys fly fishing in a Starbucks parking lot is like stumbling onto a glitch in the open world programming
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@RottenInDenmark wow I really hope people don't use cars to exclusively maintain access to their class, tribes, and bubbles
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3 years
The CDC says you should *not* let your pet catch the Blood Plague from Zul'Gurub, dismiss it, then summon it in the Ironforge auction house
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@RottenInDenmark “Leftist” = “not willing to loudly praise the right” I guess
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@HamillHimself I thought people who talked to themselves got thrown in Arkham Asylum!
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4 years
@thelindsayellis also as with all things in conservative humor, his jokes are barely jokes, they're testing the waters for where his rhetoric can head. (See his remarks at the pro-life march about Baby Hitler that are burned in my brain forever)
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4 years
Not for nothing but wow seems relevant that the Golden State Killer turned out to be a cop
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7 years
@HouseGOP Nintendo was founded in 1889. Did you guys do as much research on Zelda as you did on your tax plan?
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3 years
wow get fucked LinkedIn
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8 years
@ManMadeMoon Oh no Duncan I'm so sorry.
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4 years
@GenePark Not just anime but a very popular anime too. If I wanted pictures of thrones in 2014 and searched thrones I’d probably get...Game of Thrones.
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Bryant Francis
7 years
. @WLTaskForce Hi jewish writer here can confirm making databases of people with this info is very helpful for facists xoxo
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@kurteichenwald seriously bro, you thought a serial harasser "had a point?"
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@tomhanks YES SO MANY QUESTIONS
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7 years
Guys I think Okja might have...symbolism?
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@Dacvak @MAGFest Nothing friendly about this jab man.
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5 years
@washingtonpost did a small cow write this
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@emilybuckshot The contract folks should apply for CA unemployment anyway under De Facto full time employment, it’s a thing
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This is just straight transphobia from @CNN .
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3 years
@megganpez Good news, I will follow your niece into battle bad news, our battle cry will be "WAAAAAAAAH"
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Bryant Francis
7 years
The buried lede here is MULTIPLE FEMALE EMPLOYEES RESIGNED AFTER LUCKEY'S SHIT CAME TO LIGHT
@YahooFinance
Yahoo Finance
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Ousted Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says he felt restrained at Facebook: 'I could not cosplay'
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Bryant Francis
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What if Zelda had an amazing, cinematic story? What if Last of Us had incredible, skill based combat? What if Uncharted somehow put all the violence in context? What if Dark Souls was approachable and clear? The answer to all of these questions and more is Skies of Arcadia
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Watched Crimson Peak with @RealGDT and got to ask him about loving machines after ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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@PopCrave Somehow heartbreak feels good in a place like this
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@RottenInDenmark from "all data all the time" to "all vibes all the time." what an arc.
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7 years
@ScienceMarchDC phrasing m8
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3 years
Last day of the name and the 2008-era web layout. 🎵we're gonna teach 'em how to say goodbye🎵
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7 years
Wait am I that tired or did Roger Stone admit to coordinating with Julian Assange about leaked emails on Twitter tonight
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2 years
Tell me you're a weirdo libertarian without saying you're a weirdo libertarian
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@patrickklepek
Patrick Klepek 🎃
2 years
I've spent the last few months talking to developers about what it's been like to watch the rise of cryptocurrency and NFTs come to not just video games, but the companies they work at. The short version: "everybody fucking hates it."
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Hey I wrote about Six Days in Fallujah. This is a conflict defined by the deaths of Iraqi civilians, much of it allegedly at the hands of US Marines. I don’t know how you can make a shooter out of this story.
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@washingtonpost I can't believe you've done this
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@SamMaggs Choosing mutually assured destruction is a heck of a power move here
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So @velocciraptor and I asked @UnburntWitch to dedicate our copy of Crash Override to Grunt and this happened:
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@ACLU ...except what happens when that speech crosses the line and leads to death threats, outings, SWATings, and worse?
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4 years
Come on America we can get 2 more points we can make it nice
@nycjim
Jim Roberts
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*Experts are now anticipating a turnout of 67 percent of the eligible voting population in the US. *That would be the highest turnout rate in more than a CENTURY.
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BUT I HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF YOU LATELY AT ALL
@veronicamars
Veronica Mars
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Hope we can still be friends. #VeronicaMars returns July 26th, only on @hulu .
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@UnburntWitch the woman who tried to run a database of online harassers is now working for a conservative org primarily known for dressing up in diapers *sits down, tries to process this*
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Wrath Month now anointed by the Gods
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
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Incredible 'lightning rainbows' illuminate UK skies
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I WAS POWERING UP THE RED GYM AT THE GRAVEYARD NEAR MY PLACE AND SOMEONE YELLED "BETTER DEAD THEN RED" AT ME FROM OVER THE GRAVEYARD WALL
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I was about to do 20 tweets on this but instead I'm just going to go write on the website I am employed by.
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@IwriteOK a liiiittttle liability for meeeeee and then we're going to come back and not start the show over
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@ViolateGeneva Does this apply even though the Geneva convention was not written “a long time ago”
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5 years
Holy shit the eagle rock fire from last week was a literal attempted murder on a homeless encampment
@mollylambert
Molly Lambert 🦆
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not only was the Eagle Rock fire set by guys trying to murder homeless people, one of them is the son of the president of the Eagle Rock chamber of commerce
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@DavidKHarbour @tide man Tide must be great to work for because they can fill out their own craft services table with their own snacks!
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#7in10forRoe because it's only fair that a woman should make her own healthcare decisions to live her life, not anyone else's.
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Reproductive Freedom for All
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Today’s the anniversary of #RoevWade ! Tweet why you stand with the 70% of Americans who support #Roe44 with #7in10forRoe .
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@mikeBithell 1. Press strategy. Was it super tight, or open with plenty of opportunities to preview the game/talk to the devs? 2. Non-fanbase player interest—how is R/Games, ResetEra, etc. responding to trailers? 3. Steam Wishlists are publicly available—how high is it there?
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Dying from secondhand embarrassment reading this
@LazlosGhost
Male Ally Wearing "Directed By Elaine May" T-Shirt
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Holy shit, that Guardian article on THE NORTHMAN is bad. I would wager 98% of audiences don’t think once about that dipshit, and most of the rest don’t think much of the comparison.
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@kept_simple This photo from when he oversaw a North Korean missile crisis from the Mar-A-Lago dining room
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@ScienceMarchDC Please let there be an LA chapter! We'll march with you!
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this is the day all headline writers dream of
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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“How to Murder Your Husband” writer on trial for allegedly killing husband
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