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Elle Reeve

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correspondent @CNN | ex @Vice | I'm growing my hair longer and my glasses bigger | what do you know, I have open DMs

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Elle Reeve
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I wrote a book about Charlottesville, Jan 6, the alt right, an incel three-way, a death party, a mushroom trip, a book burning, a fascist's cell phone + what I witnessed reporting on extremism for a decade. It's called Black Pill. Out 7/9, preorder here:
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Elle Reeve
1 year
It's true: in 2014, I taught Matt Taibbi keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste. If I had not done that, maybe all this could have been averted. I am deeply sorry.
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Elle Reeve
1 year
it must be said: my wedding dress was in Glass Onion
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Elle Reeve
6 years
the governor of Missouri allegedly took a nude photo of a woman he had an affair with to blackmail her into keeping it secret
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Having been at both Charlottesville in 2017 and the Capitol on 1/6, I'm confident I recognize propaganda when I see it
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Tom Cotton
3 years
Americans should watch this report and decide who to trust: the condescending CNN correspondent or hardworking parents horrified at the racism being pushed on their kids.
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Elle Reeve
7 years
thank you to all who watched the Cville ep--the work of my talented friends, @joshabla @tejarrett @zcaldwelll @terrible_editor @jlocascio
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Elle Reeve
5 years
So excited to be joining CNN!
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CNN Communications
5 years
We are thrilled to announce Elle Reeve @ElspethReeve is coming to CNN from @ViceNews as a correspondent. She reported โ€œCharlottesville: Race and Terror,โ€ the 22-minute documentary on the โ€œUnite the Rightโ€ white nationalist rally & events in Charlottesville in 2017. Welcome Elle!
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Elle Reeve
5 years
the original pitch for our piece on @ContraPoints was 'this is the sanest person on the internet'
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Elle Reeve
1 year
Every 3 to 6 months, the "just ignore it / don't give it oxygen" people become the "how could this happen? / who could possibly have seen this coming?" people. All I'm asking for is some reflection on how that pattern keeps repeating
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Elle Reeve
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Matt Taibbi hired me in 2014 for his political satire website. Imploded immediately. Spent 6 weeks in a rubber room waiting to be fired by a billionaire. Staff used that time to become ~15% more famous with a protest blog, Racket Teen. And THAT really made my career. Thanks Matt
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Elle Reeve
3 years
"The cops were very cool. They were like, 'Hey guys, have a good night.' Well, some of them. It's just crazy. It's really weird. You can see that some of them are on our side." Inside the mob at the Capitol with @DebBrunswickCNN & @DoctorGuff
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Elle Reeve
8 years
my opus on tumblr teen comedy geniuses, whose empires rise and fall without adults ever noticing
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Several years ago an old boss shot down a story pitch by saying, "Everyone knows gymnastics is fucked up, Elle." But, do they really? On why Simone's mental health and physical safety are the same thing:
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Elle Reeve
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A memory: Racket staff gather at a conference table to discuss how our new political satire site will make fun of Buzzfeed. Can't agree why Buzzfeed is bad. Realize Taibbi has never seen a viral video. We play Honey Badger. "Wow," he says, "people just put this on the internet?"
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Our documentary on Charlottesville was used as evidence in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump
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Elle Reeve
2 years
The only show that has ever accurately depicted my reporting experience -- Reno 911
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Former Marine Barton Shively has been arrested for his role in the Capitol riot. He described fighting with police in an interview with CNN, his eyes still watery from being maced
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CNN
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CNN's @elspethreeve speaks to rioters on the scene who broke into the Capitol during the Pro-Trump insurgence.
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Elle Reeve
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A twisted tale of celebrity promotion, opaque transactions and allegations of racist tropes
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3 years
'I get called a crisis actor all the time.' A nurse on the strange reality of watching patients die from covid and then listen to people tell her she made it all up Story with @DoctorGuff and @DebBrunswickCNN
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Anderson Cooper 360ยฐ
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An Arkansas nurse takes to social media to combat insults and disinformation about the vaccine. "All the hate was centered around us," she says. CNN's @elspethreeve reports.
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Elle Reeve
3 months
news: we had a baby
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3 years
Every day we spent in the Ozarks it felt like covid was closing in tighter. Interviewees found out they'd been exposed, or were too sick to talk, and everyone in town was gossipping about who had it and where they got it
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Elle Reeve
3 years
An hour-by-hour retelling of what I saw at the Capitol with @brianstelter
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Elle Reeve
3 years
This is the man who threw a glass bottle at our crew while our backs were turned at the end of the Capitol riot. It smashed at my heels. He wouldn't give his name
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Elle Reeve
3 years
my dog
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Elle Reeve
3 years
And that many more believe in parts of Q without realizing it. Like the man who told me 1/6 that he wasn't into Q, but there would be military tribunals of Democrats and that Trump 'has been appointed from above.'
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Travis View
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There's this weird trend where people try to downplay QAnon by observing that only several million Americans endorse an absurd extremist ideology that fueled the capitol insurrection. And they always ignore the fact that QAnon is an international movement for some reason.
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Proud to be on the latest @QanonAnonymous podcast on the Capitol mob. They've tracked the conspiracy theory, its evolution & its key figures, for years. For in-depth info on Q and how we got here, listen, and browse the archives
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QAA Podcast
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The big fat Coup Anon episode is out and features reporting by @elspethreeve and tattoo-related history knowledge by @GoingMedieval
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Elle Reeve
3 years
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Elle Reeve
3 years
people often ask what's our reporting secret
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Pastor Tony Spell tells his followers not to get the covid vaccine. But his own grandfather did.
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Erin Burnett OutFront
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This pastor says he believes Covid-19 is a โ€œscam,โ€ โ€œpolitically motivatedโ€ and tied to mail-in ballots and getting President Biden elected. "It's not about reasonโ€ฆit's about asking them to trust an authority... they haven't trusted...for decades," says CNN's @elspethreeve .
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"People that I would have sat down and hung out with and traded conspiracy theories with -- now this guy doesn't even like the sight of me." -- story with @DoctorGuff & @DebBrunswickCNN on a man who says he was in an 'election fraud cult'
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Erin Burnett OutFront
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"How did I get caught up in this?" - A former Trump supporter tells @elspethreeve how he fell for Trump's election lies.
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Elle Reeve
7 years
tonight's episode of Vice News Tonight is dedicated entirely to Charlottesville
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Elle Reeve
4 years
This is a huge honor
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Elle Reeve
3 years
My mom made a quilt of clothing labels. She is a master both of crafts and cultural criticism.
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Elle Reeve
5 years
Got married on New Year's Eve. Pic by @mrglu lights, sound, music, flowers, planning by all our friends
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Elle Reeve
6 years
this is the congressman who floated the false conspiracy theory that the white nationalists in Charlottesville were actually funded by George Soros
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Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS
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Today, Congressman Paul Gosar contacted the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking they consider checking identification of all attending the State of the Union address and arresting any illegal aliens in attendance.
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from a source: "We fight for Trump because Trump fights for us. This is our republic. If they don't hear our voices today, they'll hear our muskets tomorrow"
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Elle Reeve
3 years
GIULIANI: 'Lets have trial by combat!' TRUMP FAN IN A PEPE SHIRT: "He just said trial by combat! I'm ready!"
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The Lead CNN
3 years
Talking to the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol @elspethreeve reports
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Elle Reeve
4 years
A reminder to all my sources, new and old: any harassing messages sent to any member of our crew are 100% on the record, even if you're drunk
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Elle Reeve
2 years
One of the most insane moments of mob mentality. They could have literally walked around the corner and cruised up the stairs
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Elle Reeve
3 years
"If you have it, everybody knows it. And they're talking about you." On a small town in the Ozarks, where everyone knows everyone, so everyone knows everyone who's died of covid -- and still so many won't get vaccinated. w @DoctorGuff & @DebBrunswickCNN
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Elle Reeve
1 year
Vice's flaws have been meticulously documented, but every media company faces some combination of: boys club, management consultants, dilettantes, hockey stick graphs. Despite the challenges we all face, Vice does good journalism and makes it look beautiful. I hope it lives
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Elle Reeve
4 years
The Proud Boys say they don't engage in political violence. Their gear is just for self defense, even the aluminum bat. And when they ran after @DebBrunswickCNN shouting 'You wanna get fucked up?' surely they meant it self defensively. w @DoctorGuff
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Elle Reeve
6 years
I'll stop tweeting this article when it stops being relevant every single day
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Elle Reeve
3 years
The consequences for the Capitol mob -- their faces circulating on social media as their own accounts are deleted, losing access to financial services, arrests -- mirror those after Charlottesville. But they're coming much faster. A guide for what's next:
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Elle Reeve
5 years
Here's our full episode on our interview with 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan in the Philippines. "My whole life became about the internet. And my real life stopped mattering to me."
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Elle Reeve
6 years
"He's the alpha gangster of the moment... And I don't quite understand what his taste level was."
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Elle Reeve
6 years
our story on what happened to white nationalists in the year since Charlottesville airs tonight
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VICE News
6 years
Last year's Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was supposed to be the moment when the movement stepped off the internet and into the real world. Instead it was a disaster that had cascading consequences over the next year. See it on VICE News Tonight, 7:30 PM EDT on @HBO
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Elle Reeve
3 years
A Christmas collab by my husband @jdgreenfield , my mom, & my friend @toddigoldstein
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Elle Reeve
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"Schoening knew there were liberal parents lurking in her chapterโ€™s private Facebook group, because her group had some moles in the liberalsโ€™ Facebook group." Moms for Liberty vs the parents who oppose them in Colorado Springs:
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Elle Reeve
2 years
There is a real, nationwide movement to train election deniers to be poll watchers
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Elle Reeve
5 years
@InternetHippo The plan is called Saturday 2. Five day workweek, 3 day weekend. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturday 2, Sunday
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A dream assignment: the Redneck Christmas Parade
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Elle Reeve
3 years
We noticed 'Patriot Party' logos on 1/6 & saw related groups proliferate on Telegram after. It seemed like a potential vessel for the pro-Trump energy that remains on the right. So we went to one of the 1st organized PP rallies. It took a strange turn.
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Elle Reeve
6 years
congrats, team!
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Peabody Awards
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๐Ÿ† Congratulations to Institutional Award-winner @60Minutes & to 12 programs selected for #Peabody 30: @nbcdfw 's "Big Buses, Bigger Problems," @elspethreeve & @VICEnews ' "Charlottesville," @NimaCNN @arwaCNN @NPWcnn , @Gabriel_Chaim & @CNN for "Fall of ISIS in Iraq & Syria," (1/3)
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Elle Reeve
3 years
High ratio of cameras to guns in Richmond
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1 year
it's just outrageous how cute my dog is
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Our story from inside the Chaz, with fantastic footage from @DoctorGuff and @FilmItFreddy
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Anderson Cooper 360ยฐ
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Born out of a violent clash with police, Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is now a six-block region under the control of protesters. "They're still figuring out how to make their own law and order in a cop-free world," reports @elspethreeve from inside the zone.
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8 years
the evolution of American gymnastics in 2 photos: 1) 1991 US nationals 2) 2016 US Olympic team
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"< 6 months after the DAโ€™s office dropped the case, Kasowitz made an even larger donation to Vanceโ€™s campaign"
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Elle Reeve
6 years
what an honor
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VICE News
6 years
โ€œForty years ago in Alabama, thereโ€™s a lot of mamas and daddies thatโ€™d be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney.โ€ Watch @FrankLuntz โ€™s full panel of Alabama voters on VICE News Tonight, 7:30PM EST on @HBO
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Elle Reeve
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she burned y'all real good
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NBC News
6 years
Kayla Moore, wife of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, accuses media of painting couple as anti-Semitic.
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Elle Reeve
6 years
last night's Peabody crew @vicenews
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Elle Reeve
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Our episode on Fredrick Brennan airs tonight
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VICE News
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How did 8chan become a place where Nazis thrive, mass shooters post their manifestos, and users celebrate those shooters in real-time? On a #VICENewsTonight special report, @elspethreeve meets the man who created it. He says โ€œit should never come back.โ€ 7:30 PM EST on @HBO .
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Capitol rioter Brandon Fellows arrested. Affidavit references reporting from @WilliamTurton and CNN
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Elle Reeve
6 years
every paragraph in this story is incredible
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"I hope all the sharks die" is by far the best detail in the Stormy Daniels interview
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Our latest from Tennessee on the consequences of pandemic denialism -- with my fellow diabolical jezebel spirits @DoctorGuff & @laceylrussell
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Anderson Cooper 360ยฐ
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The pastor preaching lies about Covid-19 and vaccines and the family grieving the loss of the loved one that went to his church and believed the mistruths with deadly consequences. @elspethreeve reports from Tennessee.
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Elle Reeve
8 years
gop millennial outreach
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Elle Reeve
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the interview with Barton Shively, former Marine arrested for his role in the Capitol riot. by @DebBrunswickCNN & @DoctorGuff
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Elle Reeve
3 years
Former Marine Barton Shively has been arrested for his role in the Capitol riot. He described fighting with police in an interview with CNN, his eyes still watery from being maced
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Elle Reeve
7 years
full piece on this airs tonight on HBO
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Elle Reeve
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โ€œYou shoot up and you miss, you get a little sore. You donโ€™t take care of your sore, youโ€™ll wind up in the hospital with a hole.โ€ In Philly, fentanyl is cut with xylazine, and itโ€™s causing wounds that wonโ€™t heal. w @DoctorGuff @DebBrunswickCNN
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Elle Reeve
3 years
We just overheard 2 guys on bikes: "dude, did you notice something? Everyone on the street is a journalist"
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It's the third day of deliberations in the Charlottesville trial. Here's what it revealed about the way white supremacists talked about violence and who could be relied on to do it
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Elle Reeve
2 years
welcome to 2012
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Elle Reeve
3 years
However, the question of whether Elizabeth was ready for the revolution is unfortunately beyond the scope of our reporting at this time
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Elle Reeve
3 years
A little debunk of the 'Elizabeth from Knoxville'/ onion conspiracy theory. We talked to her right as she got water to wash out her eyes. She was not carrying an onion to make herself cry. Video from @DoctorGuff @DebBrunswickCNN
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Elle Reeve
1 year
went down a fascist telegram rabbit hole this morning and found this tattoo
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Elle Reeve
7 years
todays latkes go out to all my new teen nazi followers
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Elle Reeve
1 year
By engaging with this tweet you are agreeing to the Elle Reeve Terms of Service, which holds that you must read the article and/or watch the video before fighting about it in my replies
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1 year
Why are college campus debates over the rights of minority groups so often converted into debates on free speech? Story w @DoctorGuff
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Elle Reeve
4 years
You may have heard kids these days hate capitalism! I asked some young democratic socialists about it
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"this deal is SO good that I can hardly wait to read the net tomorrow to hear what people have to say about what we did!"
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the kid likes trains
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Elle Reeve
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We went to Miami to see how this pickup artist makes videos with hidden camera footage of seemingly unsuspecting women. We found a darker kind of exploitation, & caught it on tape
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Elle Reeve
7 years
@jonathanchait just fyi, the alt right literally believes in eugenics, mixed w some evolutionary psychology
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