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Matt Ford

@fordm

5 months

We got a belated Christmas gift this year. Welcome to the world, Samuel!

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

I guess you would’ve had to be there.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

Love reading the “that’s what you get for not complying with police” replies here from folks who thought the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders were tyranny.

BNO News

@BNONews

4 years

BREAKING: Police shoot non-lethal rounds at people as they stand on their porch in Minneapolis

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Matt Ford

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6 years

Maybe we shouldn’t give $100 billion in weapons to people who think we’re this stupid.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

5 years

2008: Twitter is a fun microblogging service you can use to keep track of Ashton Kutcher 2018: Twitter is the president's preferred tool for witness tampering in a federal criminal investigation

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

This tweet was more effective for me than 1,000 Dr. Fauci interviews.

Jessica Peck, DNP APRN CPNP-PC CNE CNL FAANP FAAN

@DrPeckPNP

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This is how far back we have to put the swab to test you for #COVID19 . You might want to follow medical recommendations and #StayHome .

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

Sherwin-Williams found out it employed one of the few millennials who was truly passionate about their job and fired him for it.

A College Student Behind A Massively Popular Paint-Mixing TikTok Page Was Fired From Sherwin-Will...

Tony Piloseno even used his wildly successful and viral TikToks as part of a digital marketing pitch to the company to appeal to younger members of Gen Z.

www.buzzfeednews.com

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

Pretty cool how we can’t eat indoors at food places right now, but years of anti-homeless urban design mean there’s almost nowhere comfortable to eat outdoors either.

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Matt Ford

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1 month

Only 89 percent coverage of the son at totality here in D.C.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

Just drove through a small North Carolina town where three motels had “we back the blue” on their signs and a fourth motel literally said “ACAB”

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Matt Ford

@fordm

7 years

The U.S. Army detonates a massive swastika at the Nuremberg rally grounds, 1945.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

I think about this tweet a lot.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

11 years

It makes me feel so good to hit "sleazebags" back -- much better than seeing a psychiatrist (which I never have!)

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Inbox: DOJ seizes the Epic of Gilgamesh from Hobby Lobby

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Matt Ford

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3 years

That guy's hoodie says "Camp Auschwitz."

Mike DeBonis

@mikedebonis

3 years

This was the Founders' nightmare. (via @itvnews )

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

We have a ninth justice

The Local Sweden

@TheLocalSweden

6 years

Eight-year-old Swedish girl pulls Viking era sword from lake

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Matt Ford

@fordm

7 years

It's less of a "news cycle" these days and more of that BSG episode where the Cylons attack every 33 minutes.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

1 year

Menswear Twitter is terrifying. “I got my info from your tailor” is right up there with Ozymandias and “I did it 35 minutes ago.”

derek guy

@dieworkwear

1 year

@jacksonhinklle I got my info from your tailor and from the photos you posted. I called him to ask him about his process. Even he said that his base price is not the full bespoke standard, although he can do that if asked.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

7 years

They're not even good statues.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

11 months

This one?

Ashton Pittman

@ashtonpittman

11 months

NEW: Mississippi Sen. Kathy Chism is calling for the state to bring back its old Confederate-themed state flag. "A lot of our people fought and died under that flag," the Union County Republican said at a political rally.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

America has three branches of government: the Senate parliamentarian, the White House counsel’s office, and the shadow docket.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

I can’t stress enough that the Amy Coney Barrett discourse is a trap.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

The third most-watched cable news program in America is a white-nationalist variety show.

Andrew Lawrence

@ndrew_lawrence

6 years

Tucker Carlson really really really really does not like living in a diverse country

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Matt Ford

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6 years

Young Trump staffers in D.C. are having a hard time dating and socializing because most of this city loathes them

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Matt Ford

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3 months

Surely there is a middle ground between “I am immune to all scams” and “I would give $50,000 to a stranger in a shoebox.”

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Matt Ford

@fordm

2 years

In a solo concurring opinion, Thomas says the court should reconsider rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

5 years

Ideally, a medical school graduate would be able to remember medical school pretty clearly.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

Happy Confederate Surrender Day to one and all!

Matt Ford

@fordm

9 years

150 years ago today at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee unveiled the Confederate flag's final design. http://t.co/47NbFlxN3Z

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Matt Ford

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9 years

150 years ago today at Appomattox, Robert E. Lee unveiled the Confederate flag's final design. http://t.co/47NbFlxN3Z

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Matt Ford

@fordm

11 months

Can't wait to find out if this is a racial gerrymander

Taniel

@Taniel

11 months

Here's the Louisiana congressional map that is being challenged on similar grounds.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

7 years

Had a rough day today, but at least I didn't get in an argument with a Holocaust museum.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

Everybody whining about Biden's vaccine mandate also grew up in an era largely free from countless deadly or debilitating diseases because of...vaccine mandates.

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Matt Ford

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4 years

It’s just staring us in the face at this point.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

All these voter purges are a fun reminder that the U.S. was more or less dragged into liberal democracy by the Warren Court and the civil-rights movement, and we can be dragged right back out of it.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

5 years

He’s running

Count von Count

@CountVonCount

6 years

Two thousand twenty!

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Matt Ford

@fordm

11 years

I'm a big fan of the Confederate flag's final design: http://t.co/gNTRBt76Hx

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Matt Ford

@fordm

7 years

Computer, show me the most Parisian crime possible

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

The Nashville bomber's girlfriend told police that he was building a bomb last year. They didn't interview him, but they did give her a psych evaluation.

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Matt Ford

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4 years

Womp womp.

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Matt Ford

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7 years

2016: Build the wall and make Mexico pay for it 2020: What if the real wall was the friends we made along the way

David Weigel

@daveweigel

7 years

The wall, explains Lindsey Graham, has become a "metaphor for border security," i.e. not a literal wall.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Can’t emphasize enough it was just luck that the rioters didn’t assault or kill a member of Congress on 1/6. Sheer dumb luck.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

The universe is really testing how far teams will go before signing Colin Kaepernick.

Yahoo Sports

@YahooSports

3 years

The Broncos reportedly don't have any eligible QBs on the active roster due to COVID-19 protocol. ➡️

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

TIL that the median U.S. rent has doubled since 2006.

Alex Tanzi

@atanzi

3 years

Rent actual $$$'s from Census up almost $200 a month #inflation

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Hell of an opening to this piece on the South Dakota AG scandal.

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Matt Ford

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The urban-design war on homeless folks hasn’t actually reduced homelessness, but it’s sure made public spaces miserable for everyone else.

Alexis

@alex_i_s_

3 years

Amtrak employees in Moynihan Train Hall are asking travellers sitting on the floor to stand up “you can’t sit on the floor. You must stand up.” There are no seats in the entire station. @StreetsblogUSA @StreetsblogNYC @Amtrak @WeTheCommuters @_KennyUong_

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Matt Ford

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2 years

Someone announced plans to create/sell Magic: The Gathering NFTs, promptly heard from Hasbro’s lawyers, and is now hoping to get some “clarification” about the mysteries of copyright law.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

4 years

I can't stress enough that asking a foreign power to gin up investigations into your likely election foe is impeachable in and of itself, and the quid pro quo stuff is essentially a bonus offense.

Jonathan Allen

@jonallendc

4 years

Talk about quid pro quo all you want -- and that's important for a bribery charge -- but Sondland's testimony on the president using his office to force a foreign country to investigate his leading rival for the presidency is jaw-dropping in and of itself.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

My thinking over the last 48 hours has gone sharply from "my God, this was the worst-case scenario" to "this could have been a hundred times worse and we're lucky as hell."

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Matt Ford

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7 years

Fun fact: We didn't always have a Justice Department. President Grant created it in 1870 to protect black civil rights and smash the Klan.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

3 years

This is the first time The Onion has updated this piece since February 27, 2020.

The Onion

@TheOnion

3 years

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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Matt Ford

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7 years

Leaving Dulles now to file from home. Gender disparity was striking: probably 70 percent of lawyers volunteering there are young women.

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Matt Ford

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6 years

“4chan Nazis devastated by Taylor Swift’s TN Senate endorsement” is the energy I needed to carry me into Monday.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Can’t stop thinking about this fantasy Metro map that someone posted in the D.C. subreddit.

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Matt Ford

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4 years

Re-reading the Mazars transcript and I’m just agog at how poorly Sekulow did. Assertion after assertion with little reasoning to tie it together. Barely answered questions from most of the justices. Amazing.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Have you tried bribing the White House in exchange for a pardon recently? If so, please contact me by email, DM, or Signal!

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Matt Ford

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4 years

Cruz suggests that Democrats' growing opposition to felon disenfranchisement means they want Charles Manson, "who is serving multiple life sentences," to vote. Manson died in 2017.

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Matt Ford

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7 months

Members of Congress should not wear military uniforms of any kind on the job, not for this country and certainly not for a foreign one.

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@AndrewSolender

7 months

Rep. Brian Mast is wearing his IDF uniform for the GOP conference meeting today. “Tlaib has her flag, I got my uniform.”

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Matt Ford

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6 years

Impersonating victims of sexual assault to discredit reporting about sexual assault is...really something.

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Matt Ford

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5 years

Can’t believe AOC is complaining about housing prices when she’s living in so many conservatives’ heads rent-free

Washington Examiner

@dcexaminer

5 years

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory is not quite as impressive as the moon landing

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Matt Ford

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5 years

Indonesia announced today that it's moving its capital because Jakarta is sinking into the sea.

Indonesia's planning minister announces capital city move

Jakarta, home to 10 million people, is sinking and has one of the world's worst traffic problems.

www.bbc.com

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Matt Ford

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5 years

Can’t stop thinking about the time my cat suddenly bolted across the house and dove under the couch two seconds before an earthquake hit.

Will Hurd

@WillHurd

5 years

I have made the decision to not seek reelection for the 23rd Congressional District of Texas in order to pursue opportunities outside the halls of Congress to solve problems at the nexus between technology and national security.

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Matt Ford

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"Jim Jordan called me crying, groveling… begging me to go against my brother…That’s the kind of cover-up that’s going on there."

Jim Jordan’s name comes up during Statehouse testimony on OSU abuse victims bill

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan’s name came up Tuesday during a Statehouse hearing on a bill that would pave the way for victims of former Ohio State University doctor Richard Strauss to sue the university for...

www.cleveland.com

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Matt Ford

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3 years

This guy rules and I hope he lands on his feet somewhere that appreciates him.

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Matt Ford

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2 years

You will never convince me that you are a hero or a champion for liberty because you won't wear a simple mask. I am sorry the pandemic is mildly inconvenient for you. It is a lot more inconvenient for a lot of other folks.

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Matt Ford

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4 years

Good footnote here from Kagan's dissent in tonight's WI ruling at SCOTUS, calling out Kavanaugh's Trumpian framework on late-arriving votes:

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5 years

The questions from Gohmert, Jordan, Gaetz, etc. are more or less incomprehensible unless you're fully up to date on the Fox News Cinematic Universe.

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2 years

I’d wondered how an 18-year-old could afford the two rifles he bought. Turns out the manufacturers have financing plans.

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This took me all of 90 seconds.

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Matt Ford

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FAUCI: Please, I’m begging you, stop turning all the doorknobs in this building with your mouths WH STAFFERS: No

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Matt Ford

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8 years

Black smoke. Still no president.

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Matt Ford

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It’s insane that the national Adderall shortage is getting this bad. Not seeing any real sense of urgency to fix it from manufacturers or regulators. I’ve only seen one (1) elected official mention it.

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Matt Ford

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I got this exact same thing done for my cats

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Trump retweeted himself from the official presidential account, thereby ensuring the National Archives will preserve that tweet for all time

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Matt Ford

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Found these a while back, seems relevant now: Trump once called for Snowden to be executed for treason for "giving serious info" to Russia

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Matt Ford

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2 years

Is there a constitutional right to eat dinner? I tried some originalism to find out:

There Is No Constitutional Right to Eat Dinner

Claims that Justice Brett Kavanaugh had his rights violated by protesters outside a D.C. restaurant fail on originalist grounds.

newrepublic.com

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Matt Ford

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4 years

Can’t believe it’s been two months since Steve Bannon was arrested on a yacht by the Post Office.

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1. Babies on the Senate floor 2. Baby eventually gets seniority 3. Baby becomes president pro tem 4. Trump, Pence, and Ryan resign 5. President Baby

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WSJ published an op-ed where the author gets mad at herself for not ruining a night out with her friends by refusing to wear a mask:

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Matt Ford

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3 years

We reorganized half of the federal government after 2,977 people died in one day in 2001.

Jim Sciutto

@jimsciutto

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Sad milestone: Johns Hopkins has reported 2,658 reported new deaths today from Covid - the highest single-day death toll since the pandemic began.

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Matt Ford

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2 months

Baffling stuff. If Chuck Schumer had engineered a 6-3 liberal majority on SCOTUS for a generation, Democrats would rename Manhattan after him.

House Freedom Caucus

@freedomcaucus

2 months

Our thoughts are with our Democrat colleagues in the Senate on the retirement of their Co-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-Ukraine). No need to wait till November… Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY elect a *Republican* Minority Leader.

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Matt Ford

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7 years

"See you in court" is kind of a strange response to one's defeats in two consecutive courts.

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Matt Ford

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2 years

Really hard to understate just how mad Gorsuch is with Kavanaugh et al. for the Castro-Huerta ruling.

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Matt Ford

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5 years

Alexa, show me the worst sentence in the English language.

C-VILLE Weekly

@cville_weekly

5 years

Monument supporters say bill would discriminate against those of Confederate national origin.

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Matt Ford

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What idiot called it “fighting 30-50 feral hogs” and not “serving in the Boar War”

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Matt Ford

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2 years

Kagan, dissenting: “The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decision- maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening.”

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Also: "We are the reason that mask mandates still exist." Mask mandates are almost completely gone. Congratulations, you won. Enjoy your stirring victory over the least obtrusive public-health measure in American history.

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1 year

?????

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3 years

In which the justices learn that a Guantanamo detainee has had a habeas petition pending for 14 years:

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Matt Ford

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5 years

Imagine going all the way to Dulles and *then* getting arrested. Injury upon injury.

Rebecca Ballhaus

@rebeccaballhaus

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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman had lunch with Rudy Giuliani at the Trump hotel in Washington YESTERDAY, a source who saw them tells @nataliewsj . They were arrested later that night at Dulles, where they were awaiting an international flight.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

ICE's Twitter account ( @ICEgov ) appears to have disappeared.

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Matt Ford

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4 years

The opening chapter of someone's book on all this will note that this is where Hillary Clinton was set to give her victory speech in 2016.

Sarah Boxer

@Sarah_Boxer

4 years

The seemingly miles of beds being set up at Javits. It is absolutely unreal to see what the National Guard & first responders have put together here in just days.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

6 years

"a detained 1-year-old"

NYT National News

@NYTNational

6 years

“It’s inhuman to take a baby from its parents,” says the mother of a detained 1-year-old who has not seen his parents in days

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Matt Ford

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1 year

Has this man ever met a lawyer in his entire life

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A memo from the Dallas County Hospital chief after JFK's assassination 54 years ago today. The ending comes to mind a lot these days.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

I'm worried about inflation and the economy is running too hot. Let's explore means-testing here to make sure we don't create an entitlement society.

Roxana Tiron

@rtiron

3 years

BREAKING: Senate defense appropriations bill is out giving the Pentagon more than $10 billion than requested, $725.8 billion

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3 years

Impressive that Biden’s testing mandate is wreaking this much havoc when it doesn’t actually exist yet (OSHA still hasn’t issued the rule)

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Matt Ford

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6 years

A lot of things have happened on this website over the years, but I’m pretty sure “using Google Maps and Zillow to strongly insinuate a random guy committed sexual assault in the early 1980s” is a first.

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Matt Ford

@fordm

2 years

This guy is *seething* that this didn’t play out like he thought it would.

jordan

@JordanUhl

2 years

Welp...

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Matt Ford

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3 years

In a perfect metaphor for cancel culture, Marjorie Taylor Greene is wearing a face mask that says CENSORED while literally speaking on the House floor.

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Matt Ford

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3 years

Some background on the ACAB one, h/t @recordedvoice

Inn owners in Maggie Valley say 'no regrets' after posting divisive sign

MAGGIE VALLEY, N. C. (WLOS) — Two owners from a Maggie Valley Inn are going viral after posting what some are calling a gross message on their kiosk. Caption: Maggie Valley Inn owners say ‘no...

wlos.com

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Matt Ford

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The national discussion around climate change would be unrecognizable if New York City and D.C. switched places with San Francisco and L.A.

Jon Schlosberg

@JonSchlosberg

5 years

This looks apocalyptic--dramatic situation unfolding near a lot of structures in #Vallejo right now. Follow @abc7newsbayarea for latest on this breaking situation-- they are live on the air right now:

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I’m still stunned that Republican senators hired and paid someone just to avoid talking directly to Ford, then pushed her aside so they could apologize to her alleged assailant and praise his anger.

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