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My daughter has cancer - earlier threads nested within each other. I'll post the start in a reply. Updates in this thread.
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Makenna is again in remission. She is on oral kinase inhibitors (a form of chemo) and is... Normal? This may not last forever but for now we are breathing and trying to do as much as possible with our kids. (I'll link the other threads here, this one is her recent metastasis).
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In today's episode of "That's not how the law works":
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My daughter (now 14) has cancer. I want to talk about one of the most frustrating, painful, angering, parts of that experience. Not nausea, or hair loss, or even our health insurance. I'm talking, of course, about @MakeAWish , the worst charity I've ever dealt with. Thread: 1/
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"Nuked from orbit," a story in three pics.
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@_SAFECAMPUS @CUNY_Prof You learned all that and couldn't bother to actually learn what the Character and Fitness exam actually reviews? Probably should have done that first.
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@SeanPenn Oh no what ever will evangelical leaders do if the Vatican won't allow them to be Catholic anymore?
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ @13thirtyCancer @AnnasWish @WillieBeeCares Ok one more. The whole family getting ready to head out of Magic Kingdom (and home the next day). Fin/
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@hungrylikeme @crazykarens Because so many people misunderstand that phrase. "The customer is always right" is not a customer service philosophy. It is a marketing and sales philosophy. It means to deliver the product the customer wants without regard to what you as a business like or think it should be.
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@sphinxium @RightWingCope Actually it's a fake tweet but good try.
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@Seinfeld2000 "Hello, I'm front line medical worker Dr. Van Nostrand, I'd like my first dose please."
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ @13thirtyCancer @AnnasWish @WillieBeeCares In the meantime here's a palate cleanser. Mickey Mouse came through lunch. He saw me holding Makenna's button saying "celebrating cancer survivor." Mickey (the person inside) was genuinely taken aback, and gave Makenna the longest, tightest, hug I've ever seen from a character.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ there from Day 1 offering support right in the hospital. @13thirtyCancer the coolest group ever for teens & young adults with cancer. @AnnasWish makes Christmas magic for cancer families. @WillieBeeCares the "little charity that could," always popping up to help.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Yes, I know, I got something for free. But did I? If someone promises you a trip to Disney World when you have a life-threatening illness, and 2 years later they take you to a booth in the mall selling knock-off Mickey Mouse shirts and wash their hands of you, are you happy? 52/
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Things that make me emotional now (emotions screwy due to crisis) Teenagers displaying A+ civics. They observed bad speech. Instead of calling for government, they thought, organized, and determined the best way to address bad speech was with better (funnier) speech. Hallelujah.
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Still more counter protesters show up, this time with “legalize ranch” and “I hate signs” signs.
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See the whole cancer story in my pinned tweet but essentially she was diagnosed in March 2021 with osteosarcoma. Multiple surgeries and chemo and now only has a tiny single tumor in her left lung. Not perfect but she's strong and living. Outlook is... Ok? Better than 50/50. 2/
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@TorquilMacneil @SaraBWarf Fun fact: The nurse is Majel Barrett, later to be Majel Roddenberry and the only actor to appear in every Star Trek series (she is the voice of the computer on all the other series and also plays Lwaxana Troi on TNG).
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@DrBrittaniJ Ahhhhhhh, now I get it. This is a grift.
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@irresistumble @netflix To be precise: It is a stupid person's concept of what smart people are like.
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English class gonna be lit.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld I don't know what I want. First and foremost, I want no more kids to have to suffer as mine did. I beg you to find some charity doing good work to end childhood cancer and donate your last dollar to them. Second, I want my daughter to be healthy. But after that? 50/
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@timrhughes @cjciaramella @radleybalko Greetings, traveler from outer space, and welcome to Earth!
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ @13thirtyCancer @AnnasWish @WillieBeeCares None of these organizations would DREAM of putting a cancer family through what @MakeAWish did to us. Because they GET IT. They know the last thing I need as a cancer dad is another goddamn house project to plan and pay for. The last thing my daughter needs is a letdown. 55/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ @13thirtyCancer @AnnasWish @WillieBeeCares Good charities like those don't miss details. They don't miss deadlines. They don't miss communication. They just help people. Maybe that's a lesson for all of us - don't promise to help someone. Just help them. 56/
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After the doctor left the room, one of the nurses said (about the @MakeAWish comment), "Ugh, we really wish he wouldn't do that." That should have been my first inkling of trouble, but in my post-diagnosis fog it didn't occur to me. A sign of things to (not) come. 4/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld I don't want to seem ungrateful, but what (in @MakeAWish ) do I have to be grateful for? If they'd done nothing, fine. But they promised something and then did less than nothing. There are so many other charities that GET IT. That know what cancer families are going through. 53/
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Narrator: Big Bird is, of course, a fictional character designed as a teaching tool to help preschool aged children understand their world.
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Big Bird is a communist.
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@xVLFx @DavidSFOX4 @Walmart @PlanoPoliceDept @FOX4 You had me for a second there fella but you're alright. I like your humor.
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From stories we've heard, @makeawish can be opaque in terms of how "serious" someone's illness or situation needs to be to "qualify" for a wish. Nevertheless, in pediatric cancer world (the best family no one wants to be a part of), everyone qualifies. Score one for Big C. 6/
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When she was diagnosed and we were in that shock period, her oncologist, looking to deliver any sort of good news, said the team would make a referral to @MakeAWish and there was a good chance Makenna would qualify. It did give her hope. And something good to think about. 3/
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END THE WAR ON DRUGS for fucks sake. Tell cops they are warriors in a battle zone instead of tie-wearing public servants, and this is the shit that happens.
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Jan 2022 we had the first Zoom meetings. The wish "granter" almost immediately said "no trips." COVID was still a thing and @makeawish wasn't doing trips. Concerning for me - an organization which gave out thousands of trips a year hadn't figured out a COVID plan in 2 years? 8/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld I really want Makenna to see her vision come to reality. She put such thought & feeling into her wish and @MakeAWish just ignored it to get *something* done and cross us off. I want those moments back I wasted on the first real vacation I've taken since she was diagnosed. 51/
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Makenna shared specific details in these meetings with @MakeAWish folks. I remember them fondly. She clipped pictures and picked rugs. I thought her ideas were terrific. She wants to be an interior designer when she grows up, so trust me - she had an eye for this stuff. 11/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld @curekidscancer_ @13thirtyCancer @AnnasWish @WillieBeeCares I'll finish the she shed and it will be perfect for my daughter. I don't know how or when or with what money but I will. I just can't get all the time back, especially my soured vacation I'll add it to the project list along with son's car, college, my car, house stuff, etc 57/
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@theoctobear @MakeAWish She was diagnosed in March 2021, so no, at the time she was growing a giant tumor in her left femur, she was not a recipient of the COVID vaccine. Frankly I blame her enjoyment of circus peanuts for her diagnosis. It's as good a theory as yours.
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@Wagnersfamily They/them army? Bro this video looks like a kids' taekwondo demonstration in the US. If we did this with 10 year olds in a gym half the moms in the room would be looking at their phones. 😂😂😂😂
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On her revised list, she moved the trips down and put her new #1 at the top - a "she shed." She described it as a hangout where she could watch TV, have juice and snacks in a little fridge, chat with her friends, and escape the treatment life (and her brothers). 10/
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Months went by during treatment. The first step in @makeawish process is a "wish box" - a shoebox thing for Makenna to put her wish ideas into. I remember jubilation at our house when this arrived. Along with it was a letter saying she was "medically qualified" for a wish. 5/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Part of my email. I think I was holding back, really. After 2 years of screw ups, only to deliver something my daughter did not want, failing to keep their promise to her, I was measured in response. (My wife convinced me to say "face" instead of "dick") 48/
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@makeawish folks told us they reached out to Town officials to clear permits, etc. The problem was, they spoke to the wrong Town. Not our Town. A different one, in a different County. This isn't huge, it's happened to us before, but it was the first big thing I had to fix. 15/
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Then, @makeawish goes silent. Months go by. No one has told me any details of the shed or when to expect installation. No one has told me if I need to run electrical or if they will. I inquire but no one responds. My daughter keeps asking. She has (and beats) a relapse. 19/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld We took this vacation because we don't know if we will ever be able to take a vacation as a family of 5 again. Yes, I mean what you think I mean. That's how special this vacation was, and how much we needed it to be peaceful and stress free. Somehow we made it 1250 miles. 34/
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Nov 2022 - a strange truck pulls in my driveway. It is the owner of the shed building company. He literally says he did not know if we were still alive. He hasn't heard from @MakeAWish in months and the shed is on their lot collecting dust. Awkward for me, to say the least 22/
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@msolurin @fodderyfodder Look, we are only like, two or three thousand bad apples away from fixing this in policing. Just a few more bad apples to go!
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I HAVE A NEW BIT AND IT'S FANTASTIC.
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@JulieMFaenza @Jack_Forge13 This was from your 'hood so tell them. Put a sign up or something. 😭
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Fall 2021 Makenna's primary treatment ended, and she went into remission. Around December 2021, @makeawish folks reached out to collect Makenna's wish box and meet with us via Zoom to discuss her wishes. 7/
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@makeawish folks were similarly enthused. And in Feb 2022 they congratulated us - "Makenna has been chosen and we are going to make her dream "she shed" come true!" We were grateful. But the minor foibles we saw before this point were nothing compared to what was to come. 12/
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Makenna's top 2 wishes were both trips. #1 was to go to California or Canada (for @GAfamilyTV filming) on vacation and meet with @candacecbure & Jodie Sweetin of Full House/Fuller House fame. #2 was Hawaii. So she re-ordered her list, saying she didn't want to wait. 9/
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I got them connected with our Town officials and was copied on a conversation about permits. Then almost two months went by. @MakeAWish employee asked me if I'd heard from the Town. I was confused... I forwarded them the email **they already received** resolving the issue. 16/
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March 2023 goes by with no word. Then April. We are well into Spring weather. No one contacts us. Instead, I email the regional director of @makeawish . I share my concerns that this is taking ridiculously long for a shed, and that the details have not been shared with me. 24/
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May 2022. About 6 months into the wish process and 3 months since they promised my daughter her she shed. The shed builders call us to ask about colors and stuff. We had already given this to @makeawish but we relayed the info once again. Make-A-Wish hadn't told them?? 17/
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March 2022, @MakeAWish contacts me to get pictures of my yard, details of where we want it placed, and challenges of the spot. Our yard is virtually flat and to bring the shed to this spot would be just a matter of driving across grass. 13/
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The shed makers contact me a few times asking me if I had heard anything from @makeawish . They are also out of the loop. In October 2022 @makeawish once again promises a call from someone. It never comes. I beg them to just help me find some gravel and I will do it myself. 21/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Two days later, I get this. When I tell you that I admire the sheer freaking audacity of @MakeAWish , I am being sincere. If everyone had this level of absolute balls-to-the-wall audacity to ask this after the ridiculous mess I went through, we'd be living among the stars. 46/
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Finally, in late Nov 2022, @MakeAWish tells me they are going to wait until Spring. Apparently they can't dump gravel in winter. A very mild winter goes by, with plenty of chances to do just that. We hear nothing from Make-A-Wish. We are a year into the process. 23/
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Aug 2022, @makeawish tells me someone will be contacting me about placing the shed and "leveling" the ground. No one does. I write back 3 weeks later, they again say someone will be contacting me, weeks go by again, no one does. This is their pattern. 20/
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Many people are asking about donations. That wasn't my point in posting but childhood cancer is slowly breaking down my will to not ask for help Be warned, at Makenna's discretion anything you send may be forwarded to charities she feels have helped her.
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June 2022. Shed builders call us - hooray! They are done building the structure. Now @makeawish needs to find someone to prep the site and do the details/inside, says shed builders. I ask Make-A-Wish for details on her shed. They defer. This would become their pattern. 18/
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I have been the only one dealing with @makeawish since March 2022. Yet now, Make-A-Wish calls my **wife** to, yet again, "get details" of Makenna's wish from her and from Makenna. They give the same details again. They also ask for dates we will be away. Hold on to that bit 30/
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Aside from the fact that **I** had to chase them down, I get a little positivity from the response. The director assures me this is a serious issue and they will get to me within the week. The week goes by. No response. I get an email from his VP two weeks later. 25/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Needless to say, I wrote yet another long email detailing the process and everything we went through. I made it clear this was NOT Makenna's vision, it was NOT usable for what she wished for, and it was essentially just a monument to their ineptitude. 47/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld AFTER this, I get a text from @MakeAWish saying they "don't think we can stop" the shed builders from doing the work and "on the upswing Makenna will have a nice surprise when she comes home." The incredible tone-deafness is something to behold with these people. 43/
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Along with the pictures, I sent them specific details. This is just one of several emails where we've described Makenna's vision in writing We believed they were taking this in and collecting these thoughts for the final delivery. We figured that would be Spring/Summer 2022 14/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Sure enough, we come home and it's there. Roughly in the right place (thanks to the owner coming out previously) but piles of dirt all around where I didn't want it. And the inside of the shed is.... Barren. Literally nothing. Bare wood and splinters and a wasp nest.
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Here is his response. Nothing detailed. Nothing addressing my concerns. Just this. And an assurance they would follow up within the week. They did not. 27/
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Here is my very long email to the director. 26/
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Note that I **specifically** say in my email that I am bothered by their inability to answer direct questions, and their foisting me off on other people instead of answering me. Their response, of course, is to ignore my direct questions and foist me off on someone else. 29/
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Three weeks later (May 19 2023) I get an email from his VP, telling me the shed builders are "2-3 weeks out" from installation. This is news to me. They are doing it now? Not another company? And what about all my other questions I asked the director?? I reply yet again. 28/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Literally as we are walking on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a favorite I hoped to share with my kids, I am on the spot with the shed builders You see, @MakeAWish , of course, had not given them any heads up there was any problem with the install day. Until that morning 41/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Oh! I almost forgot. Leading up to our Disney trip, Makenna had been receiving packages in the mail. A small battery operated lamp. A single bean bag chair. Some kind of shelf and nesting tables that needed to be assembled. It appeared to be items for the shed. 37/
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@AGJeffLandry This you bro?
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Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. Just no. No. A thousand times no. From the publisher-supplied PowerPoint for my book this semester:
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@MakeAWish Note this person is someone different yet again from the others we've been working with. This person copies my wife on an email back to the people in the office we've been working with, containing all Makenna's details and that we will be away for 2 weeks starting 7/5/23 31/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld And that brings us to now. They replied. They want to speak to me like some kind of customer satisfaction survey.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld The next day (Thursday 7/13) @MakeAWish responds asking "if we need to reschedule." I reply and say I wasn't aware we had "scheduled" in the first place and that, given the delays and misunderstandings already, I don't want it done without me there. Radio silence. 36/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld I am sick that this will be done without me there, but I don't really have much choice, I figure. The shed builders are a small business trapped with this shitshow just like me. I say "whatever". I tell my wife she'll be coming home to a shed. 42/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld But no word on what these things were. They just showed up. No word on who was to assemble them. I brought all this up in my 7/13 email to @MakeAWish . You'll never guess what their response was. No, of course you will... They ignored my questions. 38/
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This one is pretty epic, all things considered. #YouGotSchencked @BadLegalTakes
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Wife & 2 younger kids flew home Monday. My older son and I went on a 28-hour-straight drive all through the night to pull our RV home by Tuesday 7/18. We are exhausted. I don't want to think about the shed, but there it is. It looks cute from the outside. But it's unusable 45/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld We are alright financially. But between expenses of cancer, my older son going to college, and the potential of Makenna needing to enroll in a trial in faraway Philadelphia, we are stretched extremely thin. But Makenna is on her 3rd relapse now. 33/
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@jkosseff It has a certain ethos. TikTok: Look at my dance! Snapchat: Look at my filter! Instagram: Look at my food! Facebook: Look at my grandkids! Twitter: Look at this shit.
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@AskTSA @NewellLab It cannot be overstated how much you should not fucking exist.
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@rockmom @radleybalko "Literally no one thinks about crime in terms of rates." Good, you've identified the problem. The same problem he was trying to illustrate. By the way four years ago there was *more* crime in NYC by most measures, not less. Again, you've unintentionally identified the problem.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld July 12. Our 2nd day in Disney. I get an email from @MakeAWish saying shed people are going to install "this weekend." I reply within an hour saying we are in Disney until 7/18. They reply asking if "a family member" can be there. Our family lives 300 miles away, I reply. 35/
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld They call my wife. Because, dear readers, you know my wife is a nice person, she picks up. I hear her telling people I'm here. It's the shed builders. It's Friday ( @MakeAWish said "this weekend") and they are en route to our house to dig up the ground and place the she shed. 40/
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Vote for this guy if all he does is sues fewer people than Devin.
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Eric Garcia
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My name is Eric Garcia. I’m a Democrat and disabled Marine running against Devin Nunes. When I took my oath to defend our democracy, never did I imagine that I’d have to defend it from my own congressman.
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@MakeAWish @WaltDisneyWorld Friday, 7/14. We head to WDW Hollywood Studios. Suddenly, there is an email from @MakeAWish and my phone is BLOWING UP. They "need" me to call them. I say the hell with this. I need to enjoy my vacation. I told them 7/18 I'll be back. It can wait. 39/
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@ltreac @benkesslen This whole notion is so fucking dumb. After we JUST got done convincing boys it's not "girly" if they want to play with dolls, now we're like, "oh if you exhibit superficial female traits it means you're trans."
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@MakeAWish We hear nothing from @makeawish . We shortened our trip, but 7/9 we left to drive from our home to @WaltDisneyWorld . We were towing our RV to stay at Fort Wilderness. A brief aside on this trip... 32/
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@tandigi @ntkallday @JoshuaPotash Ugh imagine your whole life you just love caring for kids and you find out one day you married a man who is abusing the kids you thought you were caring for. Fuck, I feel for her.
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@senatorshoshana I had someone argue the other day government should break up the "tech monopoly," and then listed Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter, 5 competing companies, as examples of the "monopoly."
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@jessesingal @Popehat More generally, few beliefs are more foolhardy than believing government officials won't use 110% of any power they are given.
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@JoshDenny @AriCohn @Popehat Ask your lawyer if it's going to hurt your case that you acknowledge and repeatedly make fun of the fact that whether someone is a "white supremacist" depends on the perspective of the person observing them, and is therefore not factual but a statement of opinion.
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@VICENews Great reporting by Vice since we all know the number one job of journalists is to defend politicians from criticism.
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JFC. And people will say the officers who acted this way *shouldn't* lose their house to these victims.
@GeeDee215
The LeBron James of Pig Feet.
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there’s so much in this @NewYorker story abt the vise grip the police of Vallejo have on the city and its politics, but *this*? No words.
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Based on this thread and many others, I'm going to recollect all of my interactions with police over my life. As a white kid in the country and later as an upper middle class white man.. The difference will be mind boggling.
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When I was 16, I had two white police officers follow me for 20 mins coming from my aunts house. When I pulled into my parents driveway, they turned their car lights on, got out the car, and unholstered their guns. For failing to signal. Into my own driveway. On a cul de sac.
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OtHeR nAtIoNs HaVe HaTe SpEeCh LaWs AnD tHeY hAvE fReE sPeEcH tOo
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A Polish artist has been fined by an appeals court for hurting “religious feelings” (blasphemy) with a painting he brought to a protest.
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@ridiculoustimes @City_of_Anaheim That's not really how the First Amendment works, since the city is the government and is bound by it. I'm very curious to see the messages that were sent to the facility or whomever cancelled the event over the city's "concerns".
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Clueless CEO writes an op-ed threatening her employees jobs because she wants them to come back to the office to sing happy birthday and smell each other's shit in the bathroom, employees revolt, she blames lack of "editor."
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Washington Post Opinions
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"Everyone needs an editor," Cathy Merrill, chief executive of Washingtonian Media, tells @ErikWemple . "I wish I had run my piece by mine."
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