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Daniel José Older

@djolder

6 months

None of us are free until all of us are free.

Daniel José Older

@djolder

6 months

On Speaking Out (2/3)

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Daniel José Older

@djolder

11 days

The NYPD threw a girl down a staircase, knocking her unconscious in front of cameras and with the full permission of the school she pays tuition to, and democrats are here smugly spreading conspiracy theories like trumpers. Don't pretend to care about democracy.

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It will be interesting to learn how many of those arrested in Hamilton Hall at Columbia are actually students.

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2 years

NYT: Yes Sauron Can Be Quite Aggressive But Consider Hobbits Who Go Around Throwing People's Jewelry Into Lava Pits

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1 year

Pleased to be the subject of a flex 🥰

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5 years

any time now would be great

Nancy Pelosi

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6 years

Your Saturday Reminder: Republicans in Washington *will not* hold Donald Trump accountable. He's their guy. We will.

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Daniel José Older

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4 years

We have no choice but to orangustan

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

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4 years

Sandra the orangutang started washing her hands because she saw all the zookeepers doing it repeatedly during the COVID-19 crisis. Wash your hands. Be more like Sandra.🌎❤️🧼🌎

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BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

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5 years

'Exotic' bird turns out to be a gull covered in curry or turmeric

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4 years

imagine thinking cancel culture exists when donald j turmp is literally the president

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Daniel José Older

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2 years

Comedians: NOTHING IS SACRED EVERYTHING IS ON THE TABLE People: so we can make fun of you for not being funny, punching down and using the same tired jokes as always and bullying people?! Comedians: COMEDY IS SACRED YOU CANNOT DO THAT ouch my feelings

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6 years

It's almost like POC excel at any genre we mess with and racism has cost the movie and book industry billions of dollars in missed opportunities wow

The New York Times

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6 years

"Crazy Rich Asians" secured a No. 1 box office slot this weekend, the best result for a PG-13 romantic comedy since “Think Like a Man,” which featured an all-black primary cast.

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5 years

Let me stop you white there

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5 years

These five freshman congresswomen changed history by becoming unlikely leaders on impeachment.

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6 months

This absolutely unhinged take is also the mainstream US understanding of the world and that's part of why we're here.

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5 years

Lot's wife would like a word, but she's too salty to speak.

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5 years

I just feel bad for that Soros guy who now has to pay ALL those people my god

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4 years

Excellent now arrest the cops who murdered her

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4 years

Breonna’s Law just passed in Louisville severely restricting police from conducting no-knock warrants. City Council voted unanimously 26-0.

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3 years

Tiktok Star Wars discourse is undefeated

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5 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now but: -publishers don’t expect writers to take the first amount they offer on a book -editors don’t expect an author to take all their edits just like that with no pushback at all. Fight for what you believe in, including your worth.

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Daniel José Older

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5 years

Right because weed is super hard to find in Louisiana so they drove for *checks map* five hours yessss makes perfect sense amazing story wow

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5 years

Assistant Chief Avery Moore says men drove from Louisiana to Dallas to buy marijuana from Joshua Brown.

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Daniel José Older

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5 months

Back to this

الكسندرا ميراي🇵🇸

@LexiAlex

6 months

Do not engage. They have arrived...the faster you block the less they get paid

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Daniel José Older

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7 years

RT if it's completely recognizable as the same damn party

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The DACA decision confirms it: Trump's GOP is unrecognizable from what it was 5 years ago | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN

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5 years

It's wild how almost 40 years ago the Muppets Take Manhattan had no problem at all showing us how diverse New York City is and today we get all white versions of the city in most major movies and shows

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3 years

America's refusal to be honest with itself about what it is is very much a part of what got us to today.

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3 years

America is so much better than what we’re seeing today.

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Daniel José Older

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7 years

Also known as: innocent.

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7 years

Police go to wrong house while serving warrant, kill man who "wasn't wanted for anything"

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4 years

wife comes at you fast

Baller Alert 🚨

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4 years

Fish Market restaurant in Clinton Maryland denied a customer from entering their establishment for wearing a T-shirt that said “I can’t breathe”. The owners respond after backlash.

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8 years

just killed another career it’s a mild day

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

The record breaking 100+ women elected tonight

David French

@DavidAFrench

6 years

If Beto, Abrams, AND Gillum lose, then who is the Democrat star of the night?

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3 years

the sooner you recognize procrastination as a natural and necessary part of your creative process the better and the more fun you’ll have doing it

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Daniel José Older

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7 years

. @GOP

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

Oscar Isaac and Idris Elba need to just do a bad ass buddy flic where they're just two regular dudes who work at a bodega and they go toe to toe with Batman and James Bond and literally kill them both ayyy

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Daniel José Older

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4 years

wild how not wanting to catch a horrible disease has suddenly become this big controversial political opinion

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5 years

ARYA MOTHAFUCKIN STARK FIRST OF HER MOTHAFUCKIN NAME SAID NOT TODAY MOTHAFUCKA

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

men who have been accused of sexual assault: —Decide what we watch on TV and movies —Decide what books/authors get play —Decide what news we see, including coverage of a candidate who will now —Decide who will be nominated to the Supreme Court which —Decides damn near everything

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⁦ @RonanFarrow ⁩ ⁦ @JaneMayerNYer ⁩ piece with new details on the sexual misconduct claim against Kavanaugh.

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Daniel José Older

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5 years

Mew-Tang Clan ain’t nothingta fuck with

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5 years

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo... #amwriting #amreading #sixwordstory

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Daniel José Older

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3 years

Safely evacuated from New Orleans 💙 #HurricaneIda

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3 years

They gotta start naming storms after lawmakers who block environmental regulations.

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Daniel José Older

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4 months

As a star wars writer I am legally required to RT this whenever it comes across my timeline I dont make the rules

Okiro

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“Politics doesn’t belong in Star Wars” George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars:

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4 years

She’s mad he’s wearing a mask.

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4 years

The way the slippery slope argument has been backfiring on conservatives these days is A+ delicious lmao they're out here like WELL IF WE'RE ENDING RACISM I GUESS WE SHOULD END ALL INSTITUTIONAL OPPRESSION WHILE WE'RE AT IT HUH and everyones like

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5 years

Imagine doing something fucked up enough to get John Bolton shook

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5 years

GIVE TIM CURRY A RETROACTIVE OSCAR FOR THE LAST 20 MINUTES OF CLUE YOU COWARDS

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3 years

This you?

Simon & Schuster

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4 years

#BlackLivesMatter . Black stories matter. We stand against racism and violence. We stand with Black authors, illustrators, readers, colleagues, educators, librarians, creators—now, and always.

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

It only took Rihanna 1.4 seconds to obliterate an entire social media platform

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It only took 14 minutes for Sia to write Rihanna's song "Diamonds."

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7 years

BLACK WOMEN: if you have a project that needs funding, a blog, a youtube channel, an endeavor of any kind, tweet it to me and I'll RT.

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5 months

I know there's mfs on this app who've spent the last month gleefully celebrating the mass murder of thousands of innocent people who tonight are suddenly concerned about how we speak of the dead

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Daniel José Older

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4 years

I have waited my whole life to have chaotic brown space cowboys to look up to WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 😭😭😭

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4 years

pedro pascal and oscar isaac being a chaotic duo for 2 minutes and 12 seconds

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5 years

LATINOOOOOOS IN ESPAAAAAACE!!!!!!

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📣 Game of Thrones' Pedro Pascal will play the lead in the upcoming Star Wars live action series "The Mandalorian":

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3 years

You literally let racists run rampant on this site and it took you four years into a 4 year presidency to boot the loudest most powerful racist in the world. Don’t talk about it be about it.

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

The racist kind

LIFE

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6 years

Today is John Wayne's birthday. He embodied a very particular kind of American hero

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4 years

Publishing

Jen Manion, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🍕🏖

@activisthistory

4 years

What's it called when a group that is 90% white say they have no bias?

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3 years

Um plenty of people hated Columbus in his time too they just didn't get the benefit of a historical record desperate to justify its own existence

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5 years

I don't know who needs to hear this right now but

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4 years

ANYWAY IT'S JUNETEENTH BUY BLACK BOOKS BUY BLACK ART BUY BLACK MUSIC BUY BLACK EVERYTHING SUPPORT BLACK CREATORS (always not just today) and stop being fucking racist thank you goodnight

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4 years

I mean

Daily Mail US

@DailyMail

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Mexico is considering closing its border to stop Americans bringing coronavirus into its country

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6 years

🚨 MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING NOT GOING TO THE LIBRARY 🚨

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⚡️ “More millennials visited a public library last year than any other generation, study shows”

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3 years

People always talk about wanting to avoid "the trauma" impeachment would cause to the nation and I'm like...sounds quite healing actually let's do that plz

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3 years

This Is Just To Say I have not read the piece that was in the Times and which you were probably Tweeting about all day Forgive me but what the fuck so seems there was like a kidney invovled?

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NOT A SITTING CONGRESSMAN USING CASHAPP TO MAKE SURE HIS CRIME DOING IS WELL DOCUMENTED 💀💀💀💀💀

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5 years

Pitch accepted

Kwame the Gr8

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Pitch for a reboot of Indiana Jones except he’s stealing from museums and returning them for the culture

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7 years

Life comes at ya trash homophobic ass faaast

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4 years

This really happened. I'm without words. Can you imagine something like this being done with an aesthetic invoking a mass tragedy that had befallen white people. And folks eating dinner and making self congratulatory toasts around it.

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2 years

sorry to the British i know it's already been quite a month but John Wick would absolutely clean the floor with James Bond in a head to head it's not even a question

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5 months

Lmaoo this is amazing lolol They just keep popping back up just when everyone thinks it's over. Blessed be the protestors

Rafael Shimunov

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5 months

So Congressmen @RitchieTorres and @RepMikeLawler decided to take @92ndStreetY up on their offer to promote Palestinian genocide in Gaza. But we had other plans. And shut their whole event down. #CeasefireNOW Talking about it tomorrow on @BeyondThePaleFM

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5 years

Your literary agent should be like the big dog in this video. When publishers try to get slick, that's whose job it is to step in and regulate.

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What is a piece of writing, on the internet (i.e. not a book), that you return to or at least consider foundational?

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my new favorite argument is "STAR WARS HAS BETRAYED ME, A TRUE FAN, BY HAVING CHARACTERS THAT DON'T LOOK LIKE ME SO I WILL LEAVE THE FANDOM TO THOSE FAKE FANS WHO *checks notes* have always been fans even when no one looked like them ah hmm..."

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

I would like to not see a new Willy Wonka

Pop Crave

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Ryan Gosling, Ezra Miller & Donald Glover have been shortlisted to play the iconic role of Willy Wonka in the new film. Who would you like to see as the new Willy Wonka?

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2 years

We need a redistribution program to give imposter syndrome to people who actually deserve it.

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

Imagine a world where the left manages to trash Trump without playing into bullshit and harmful gender stereotypes and false binaries

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John Kerry mocks Trump: He has "the insecurity of a teenage girl"

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

. @826neworleans had 3rd graders in new orleans come up with replacement ideas for the confederate monuments and whewwww 💜💜💜😭😭😭

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5 years

*checks calendar* has enough time passed? IT SHOULDA BEEN HAWKEYE

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4 years

Lmfaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofjdjdhduxhsdydhdhdy

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6 years

Straight up did one of these

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Daniel José Older

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5 years

E-books are good for the environment, give more people access to books and make moving easier, so they are ultimately good for literature even tho you love the feel of a book in your hands omg

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Daniel José Older

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5 years

white politicians turning out to be racist is not a plot twist

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Daniel José Older

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7 years

Go write that book you keep thinking about

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3 years

man what a fucked up year

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7 months

Ok but "we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate..." is one of the funniest sentences I've read in the year of our Lordicus 2023

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Gabby Douglas: *exists* *gets bombarded by hate* IOC:... Lochte: *lies, vandalizes starts international incident* IOC: KIDS WILL BE KIDS

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Daniel José Older

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7 years

Crickets on Jemele Hill from the #FreeSpeechBros who threw an endless shitfit when dude got canned from Google for being a sexist dickbag

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Daniel José Older

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6 years

Lmao just walked into the hotel room I was assigned and the tv was on and someone's luggage was open on the bed bruh I turned around and got theeee fuck out so fast lololol they're tryna figure out what happened now at the front desk

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He should totally fire whichever one of his ghost writers gave this interview!

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The Academy

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What was your favorite Oscar moment from the last decade?

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8 years

Alec Baldwin showed up more prepared for the #SNLPremiere debate satire than Trump did for the actual debate.

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1 year

Someone used my email to apply to medical school in Colombia and hey we got in so felicidades mi hermano

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5 months

Man Twitter was cooking last night! ... ... ... And so was Henry

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5 years

Love to the Muslims on my timeline on this hard and horrible night

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4 years

The problem with doing more than five burpees is it's impossible to keep count when you're unconscious

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3 years

1 thing that is truly 100% irrelevant when celebs use their huge platforms to cause harm is what their intentions were. It does not matter. But that's always the go to excuse by apologists bc it's a) unprovable anyway and b) draws attention away from the actual harm done.

New York Post

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Jon Stewart defends Dave Chappelle: 'His intention is never hurtful'

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4 years

I'm literally about to start listening to kpop on the strength of 2020 alone

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3 years

I AM WRITING A YOUNG ADULT DUOLOGY FOR @rickriordan 's IMPRINT!!! AAAAAAH!!! IT'S CALLED OUTLAW SAINTS AND BOOK 1 IS BALLAD & DAGGER AND COMES OUT NEXT YEAR!!! IT'S RRP'S FIRST YA ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ I AM OVER THE MOON TO BE WRITING YA AGAIN 💙💙💙💙💙

Rick Riordan Imprint Moves into YA Fiction with Daniel José Older

The two books in Daniel José Older's new urban fantasy series, Outlaw Saints, are the first YA titles acquired by Rick Riordan Presents.

www.publishersweekly.com

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" @PAULAKSCHMIDT : @djolder your medical license please?" http://t.co/oGIkuJJWzm

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5 years

Waiting for the car service at JFK this old Dominican lady very sweetly asks to borrow my phone and proceeds to curse someone clean the fuck out on it lmao then hangs up and hits me with the Dios te bendiga as she handed it back lmfaooooooo 💀💀💀💀💀😘

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5 years

obviously we should abolish presidents day and start calling it Audre Lorde Toni Morrison Literary Brilliance Day

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6 years

*original cast recording voice* IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIFE

The Hill

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6 years

Man who vandalized Trump's Walk of Fame star bailed out by person who did it years ago: report

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"How many students chose slavery as the reason the South seceded? Eight percent." Our schools continue to fail to teach any semblance of what really happened in American history, often because of white teachers' discomfort.

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8 years

"You should see the Malcolm X portrait we put up in the Lincoln bedroom. Softest velvet in the world, Barb."

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2 years

I cannot stress enough that this is 100% *NOT* how traditional publishing works.

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"unfortunately we already have our Hispanic book for this publishing season"

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5 years

Editor just informed me that my use of the phrase "the devil's dickhole" in the final Shadowshaper will mark the first time that has appeared in a Scholastic book, so you know...mission accomplished.

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