Erik Hane @erikhane Twitter profile

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Erik Hane

17 hours

So, today is the day: I am reopening to book queries. My submission portal is linked here. I also want to talk for just a minute here about what I'm hoping to see this go-round.

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Erik Hane

@erikhane

3 years

One reason that younger people might be inclined to detach from their work or take mental health breaks or "quit" or whatever is that, at basically every turn, our caring deeply about our work is used to exploit us

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6 months

The bits don't hit the same when you're actively supporting genocide

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6 months

Today in the Senate

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2 years

you guys don't offer that either

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2 years

Abortion is health care.

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5 months

Humanity used to want to be great. We used to push for the stars

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3 months

I really think Israel and its mouthpieces have totally misjudged public sentiment. I don't think basically anyone looks at something like this and sees a "badass woman" and a "terrorist." I think they see a guy who's had his life destroyed and the person who helped destroy it

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3 months

Badass IDF woman vs Terrorist

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5 months

Do not ask me this while I’m talking to senator bernie sanders

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2 years

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2 years

Found all ur boyfriends at the liquor store

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13 days

If this is your response to someone who is out at a protest getting thrown to the ground by police, I’m certain you are not interested whatsoever in actual solidarity or building power of any kind 👍

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1 year

in terms of best tweets ever I'd like us not to lose sight of this one

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2 months

You are supposed to feel irreconcilably uncomfortable in the wake of that. It should be unbearable to think about. What you're seeing is people trying to anesthetize that feeling rather than confront it

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6 months

Why is Gavin newsom committing offensive fouls at a primary school in Beijing

Sharing Travel

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6 months

Dribble charging! Gavin Newsom,The governor of California is in a primary school in Beijing.

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4 months

So, the coffee at Dunkin is not good, and the donuts are not good. What’s going on here

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2 months

The “mental illness” convo currently unfolding is one of the most pernicious co-optings of protest I’ve seen in my life

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6 months

It’s the meme that dares to ask: what if there were underground tunnels in New York City

Ⓜ️ idan segal

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6 months

@nypost Wake up.

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2 months

The Uncommitted voting movement in MI feels like such a perfect compromise with liberals—they’re expressing dissent within the confines of a system that liberals constantly say is the only good way to do political expression. Naturally they now hate that

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3 years

it's definitely a cudgel in the arts and publishing. the fact that you care about it is rationale to pay you less because they think you'll do it anyway. it's true in any field where there's supposed meaning attached

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5 months

Saw someone say that the Midwest is “a dead zone full of NPCs” and it’s like. Just because I need someone to bring me five trout so that I can make my special stew, and am willing to offer a rare shield in return, doesn’t mean you have to insult me

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2 years

As Pamela Paul starts churning out low-effort reactionary garbage piece and after piece in her new job in the op-ed section, spare a thought for how this person may have affected the NYT Books section she ran for many years

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5 months

Missing the era when people would tweet about essays/articles like “I wrote about soft serve, Foucault, the moon, and the new politics of crying for @ TheGlurbo”

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3 years

if that happens for long enough it might turn people into cynics, or it might lead to behavior that scans to others as "self-centered" or whatever. oh well. you shouldn't have made everything people care about absolutely suck to participate in

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5 months

“What’s going on in publishing Twitter” well I’ll tell you my friends. Someone is trying to copyright the sun

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3 years

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3 years

@CIS_org Immigration done right can be a tremendous benefit to the United States, rejuvenating and up-skilling the American nation. But the evidence is .... we're not doing it right, and this latest border surge only makes the work of correction harder.

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8 months

BYU's defense looks loaded this year

petty bourgeois protestant

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8 months

Instagram is the actual hellsite

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2 years

Every time

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2 years

I cannot with these people, me me me, gimme gimme gimme.

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3 years

The novel coronavirus

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3 years

What motivated you to get vaccinated?

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10 months

they're literally making up fake people and cases to strip rights away, and there are still folks who think this is an institution we should care about or respect. that is so wild to me

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3 months

the amount of advertising legally allowed in society needs to dramatically slashed and then regulated

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3 months

What is your most unique or rare political view?

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1 year

if you work in book publishing at any level you should look at that Vance result and think very hard about what your outfit is choosing to acquire and promote

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2 years

@NYTimesPR @NickKristof @nytopinion can you name even one person who is thrilled

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3 years

How come no one ever makes her say why she thinks that

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@USATODAY

3 years

During a press conference with House managers after Trump's second impeachment trial, Nancy Pelosi said: "I think our country needs a strong Republican party. It's very important."

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1 year

@sullydish @bentarnoff Andrew quick question, how come none of the horrible stuff you guys do is ever your fault or a function of you having agency over your own actions

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10 months

Absolutely incredible update from the guy who got fired from a newspaper for doing Hitler apologia on here

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2 months

It’s because “fiction writer” is no longer a feasible way to make a living for the vast majority of even the most talented artists in our country

sṫǔttsiiso’ōḱǎasim

@MrHWM

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what are peoples thoughts on why fiction writers are producing so much less work than in the past, say up into the 80s but moreso w/r/t the writers of the early part of the 20th c. for the most part we dont have major writers who publish 10, 15, 20+ books anymore.

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29 days

I'm sorry but only one quote ever comes to mind when people start debating Men's Inner Lives

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6 months

Imagine if this was literally the last thing you ever saw

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@BoredApeYC apefest was a vibe. Apes gone wild

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3 years

Jacob Frey is definitely the template for future national Dems btw. Young, knows all the progressive vocab words, a spineless little weasel, loves the cops

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1 year

I have to speak my truth: “I believe that we will win” is the worst sports chant I’ve ever heard

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3 months

I am never going to forget the sheer volume of horrifying images and videos from these last few months that were *willingly shared* by the IDF because they think it makes them look good or brave

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3 years

Ah dang I hate when these unrelated things both happen

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3 years

American Special Forces flew to Guinea to train an elite military unit. But before the course was over, the Guineans stormed the presidential palace and violently seized power.

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12 days

Is this good

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2 years

YIMBY, NIMBY….. how about you let Him be, your lord and savior

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3 years

okay Laura will get mad if I don't use this to plug the fact that we do a whole show on the publishing industry that relates very specifically to this topic. We're at @printrunpodcast and I bet you will like us

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3 years

I will keep unmasking singers until my demands are met

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3 years

starting a series called "Capitalism or You," where I tell you if your problem is because of Capitalism or You

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3 years

schoolyard bully: oh, should I call the waaaaambulance? me <between sobs>: ...that depends, is it in network

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13 days

Privilege discourse has its place but we have got to do better than this

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2 years

Sally sure does catch a lot of stray shots lol

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2 months

"performative virtue signaling" we have GOT to do something about language like this trying to make its way into material politics

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2 months

@erikhane It’s not a protest to kill yourself for a cause you have literally nothing to do with. It’s extreme, stupid, and the highest form of performative virtue signaling that exists. Get over yourself.

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1 year

@jacyanthis @thehill do you think that maybe we should finish up some human rights movements first

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2 years

worst account since I've been on here, don't think it's close

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2 years

🐾 Oh my paw! Welcome to Gilead…

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6 months

i'm getting my crew together for one last job

NBC4 Washington

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6 months

PANDAS ON I-66 🐼🚨 Chopper4 video shows the FedEx trucks carrying Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and Xiao Qi Ji to Dulles airport, where the panda plane awaits.

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7 months

in light of his recent posts I have changed my mind. John Fetterman needs to put some damn clothes on

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3 years

next time you're at the store, be sure to buy some green bananas--after a few days you might just have yourself a special treat (normal banana)

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3 years

You're going to have to be way more specific

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3 years

We have just learned that someone we invited to CPAC has expressed reprehensible views that have no home with our conference or our organization. The individual will not be participating at our conference.

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6 months

There is no magical combo of words that is going to get the Slogan Critics on board. It’s like “defund the police.” They are not mad at the slogan, they just don’t want to defund the police

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3 years

increasingly clear that this is not a site for political analysis and discussion. It's a site for ranking pasta shapes. It's a site for announcing that you'd let the Hamburglar ruin your life

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2 months

as dead-eyed a psychopath as any of the freaks the Trump admin stuck up there

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"You keep saying that you don't wanna see any Palestinians dead...but you saw the numbers I am sure you did today...30k dead, 70k wounded...7k are missing would you respect math; many people in the Muslim world don't believe you?" Matt Miller: "What's their solution to Hamas"

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1 year

I’m not a good political theorist so maybe someone has better words for what I felt here in MPLS on May 28, 2020. I saw the footage of this and felt, genuinely for the first time in my life, that I did not know what was going to happen next, that all possibilities were available

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3 years

I reject all instances of Pikachu being employed. Detective, Wal Mart greeter, any of it. That rat doesn't work

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11 months

This is a truly cutting and precise piece of writing that, apart from dismantling the art show in question, has a lot of terrific thinking that I believe applies to a lot of contemporary cultural production

With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum

The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges.

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8 months

On 9/10/01, the Denver Broncos played MNF against the Giants. WR Ed McCaffrey broke his leg in that game. The next morning we picked my friend up for carpool and asked “did you hear what happened” and he goes “I know. Ed’s out for the year”

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2 years

Huge development in weed law

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3 months

those soldier tiktoks don't seem whimsical. they seem straighforwardly psychopathic

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3 months

Just to be clear they will still lay you off if you do all this

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No. What it comes down to is, if you wanna make it/survive, you have to make yourself indispensable. You have to be able to do 100 things. Can't just be a writer. Have to be a podcaster, a Tik Toker, a blogger. It's just reality. It sucks. It's grinding. It blows. But it's true.

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2 years

This is straight-up TERF shit. Why should I believe trans/NB writers were getting fair consideration in book coverage

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2 years

remember that viral clip from a libertarian debate where the guy said "what's next, a permit to make toast in your own damn toaster?!" well those guys make every decision now

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2 years

This seems like a pretty consequential decision

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1 year

@emmaogreen it is amazing that major publications are still running work about this fake subject

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@erikhane

5 months

Yeah this is one of the least accurate things ever posted on here

Tao Lin

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5 months

One thing I like about "rich" people, or anyone with sufficient money, is that they don't waste time trying to figure out who has money, antagonizing people with money, and having biases against people with money.

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4 months

Yesterday I saw a thread that argued that YA readers have trouble finding more books to read after they age out of YA. Then I got sad and walked around my house

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@erikhane

2 years

Just frustrates me because mainstream books coverage is so sure of itself and its own smug politics and the idea that they are this cultural vanguard when in actuality they are frequently just garden-variety reactionaries. That will never change though because they’re all friends

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3 years

If I worked at a YA imprint I would say "wow... smells like teen spirit in here" every day at the office coffee machine

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7 months

Figure she would have found this one and deleted it sometime over the last ten years. guess not

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@erikhane

1 year

This person killed two kids driving 80. I cannot believe this framing and photo lol

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Rebecca Grossman’s perfect life became a perfect nightmare. “Everything changed in a split second—overnight,” she tells Los Angeles during a half-hour Zoom call from her lawyer’s office in October.

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2 years

no it isn't

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9 months

(Public universities to their students now) um, it’s not my job to educate you???

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8 months

@EoinHiggins_ I’m crying

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2 years

Someone who thinks this was the most influential person in book coverage for a long time

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5 months

remembering how he hit a 63-yarder and went to the sideline and immediately adjusted giant dip he had tucked in his lip. absolute legend

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15 days

how many prominent journalists, writers, and media people ran with "Yale student got stabbed in the eye"? Here's the video. decide for yourself.

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Maxine Waters hit Michael Tracey harder than this

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@erikhane

4 months

"i will not eat the bugs" yeah you will dude. open up here comes the lil bug. choo choo

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@erikhane

2 years

As someone who works with a lot of writers on the “far left” who deals with questions of whether their work will “get reviewed,” I find that fairly concerning! Maybe it’s just me

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1 year

Can’t imagine a worse piece of copy for what this show is on even a basic, literal level lol

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@erikhane

5 months

wind was in his face and Janikowski takes only a three-step run lmao. Lane Kiffin dialed this up btw

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9 months

The eurodance parody guy has produced a truly breathtaking fumbling of the bag. Defeat from the jaws of victory. My god

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2 months

major publishing really should just make the effort to bring short story collections back as a premier sellable form. There are writers doing awesome things in that form and I believe there are readers waiting for it

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6 months

One thing Chotiner underscores is that there’s an actual practiced skill to giving psychos a platform and doing a good job of being critical and pressing them, and none of the free-speech idiots who think it’s important to hear fascists out have that skill at all

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6 months

Happy thanksgiving!

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10 months

Who still talks like this. What year is it

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Now that the bro left has fully expelled her, I’d like to officially welcome AOC to Warren World. It’s safer here.

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5 months

every single thing that whiny centrists and reactionaries say about the left's lack of decorum and manners--tonight, prove them right

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2 years

now here is a conversation I would like to have (screenshot because I don't want to bother the poster, who asks a great question that is gonna Bring It Out of people)

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@erikhane

3 years

Yeah... ugh 🥴 I know right. I’m actually waaay to the left of DSA on most things. But as a jet ski dealership owner,

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@erikhane

3 years

I'm finding the Havana Syndrome coverage to be singularly insulting to our collective intelligence and I'm having mean feelings about anyone working on it or even taking the phenomenon seriously 😌

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@erikhane

2 years

sports twitter did a great job in finally identifying advanced stats guys as nerds. time to do the same thing for book Twitter. Instead of literary criticism I'm simply saying "he got that dawg in him" about writers I like

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6 months

@PGourevitch Do you think the point of this protest is to appeal to staffers at The New Yorker

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2 years

@jkass99 @eeberquist God damn it

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1 year

@DavidSacks It’s very funny that you guys are making “paying for Twitter” a culture war issue

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3 years

dang when it came to Voting Blue it sure seems to have Mattered Who, huh

Jennifer Epstein

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3 years

"I hear all the folks on TV saying, 'why doesn't Biden get this done?'" Biden says of voting rights. "Well, because Biden only has a majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republicans friends."

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3 years

Here's a bleak thread lol

Ayesha A. Siddiqi

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3 years

british people reacting to american pharmaceutical ads during the harry/meghan interview

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