Katie Herzog @kittypurrzog Twitter profile

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Katie Herzog

2 years

My husband’s reference to our 4-year-old Tommy as a “Little Hitler” was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

If Elon Musk buys twitter I’m moving to Canada

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Turn on NPR, hear phrase “menstrual equity and climate change,” turn off NPR

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Until Joe Rogan had me on his show, which absolutely did happen, I was just an unknown journalist writing a newsletter about dog testicles. Now I’m a podcaster. #ThanksJoeRogan

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3 months

Today on Facebook

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4 years

I just tried to read the Hunter Biden story and Jack Dorsey appeared in front of me and slapped my phone out of my hand

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

This is so bizarre. I’ve called 10 gas stations around Asheville and not a single one has gas. One person laughed at me when I asked. And yet nothing on current gas shortages on NPR and most other national news sites. How is this not the biggest story in the US right now???

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

This might actually be funnier than The Closer

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3 years

🚨 #BREAKING : Dozens of Netflix employees and their supporters staged a walkout outside Netflix Headquarters 📌 #Hollywood l #California To protest the transphobic comments made by Dave Chappelle in his latest comedy special released earlier this month by the streaming giant

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

I see the ban on prayer in public schools has been lifted

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4 years

My favorite NPR interviews are the ones where the host says “Latinx” and the Hispanic guest says “Hispanic”

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

From this moment forward I will only be using ethical social media sites like Facebook, instagram, YouTube, and TikTok

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3 years

“Americans don’t like to talk about race,” says NPR guest on hour 12 of Let’s Talk About Race marathon

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2 years

The Jussie Smollett trial begins tomorrow, which brings back fond memories of the day everyone pretended to believe that a celebrity would eat at Subway.

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5 years

It is incredible how much Republicans care about racism when it serves them

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Katie Herzog

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10 months

I somehow stumbled into the corner of twitter where people are living like it’s April 2020 and Covid is Ebola and it is bleak

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

There’s something awfully ironic about people chanting PROTECT👏TRANS👏KIDS while also advocating for medical interventions that may permanently destroy their ability to enjoy sex as adults

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Katie Herzog

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5 months

Osama Bin Laden pluses: -Polyamorous (5 wives) -Family man (20 - 26 children) -Bearded -Tall (6’4” - 6’6”) -Brown -Mostly vegetarian -Traveled the world -Wide array of interests (poetry, horses, soccer, jihad) Osama Bin Laden minuses: -Baby Boomer

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

I heard a woman on NPR this week say the riot in DC was the most overt act of white supremacy in US history, which has got to be weird for the black guy who organized it.

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2 years

I don’t think trans woman should play in women’s sports except for the US women’s soccer team

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

New from Vice: “The Problem with Private Conversations: How Radicals Are Avoiding Content Moderation by Speaking in Person”

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

This is what happens when you frame everything through one particular contemporary American racial lens

Dan O'Donnell

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2 years

Stephen Colbert: The Nazis would say it's a racial issue. Whoopi: This is what's interesting to me because the Nazis lied. It wasn't.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

As story in three parts:

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Gonna be really fun to see what happens to society when conservatives and liberals exist on entirely separate social media platforms

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Check out the new activist group Comedians Against Comedy

Wanda Sykes

@iamwandasykes

3 years

Standing in solidarity with the Netflix employees speaking truth to power today and sending my full love and support. #NetflixWalkout

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

How interesting

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Katie Herzog

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4 years

Never feel braver than when I stand up for a cause that has near universal public support

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

This is just a wild guess but I think maybe (MAYBE) the guy who got $100 million to move to Spotify has a pretty good contract and they can’t kick him off even if the both the Mamas AND the Papas take their catalogs and go home

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Uhhhh I’m in North Carolina and everything thing was normal when I left the house two hours ago and now all the gas stations are closed. All of them.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

The cancelation of JK Rowling will be worth it if it means I never have to hear another adult say what Hogwarts House they’re in

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3 years

I feel like I would remember doing this

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Katie Herzog

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5 years

I deleted a number of tweets from over 25 years ago in which I referred to furries as “actual fuck puppets” and gamers as “rolly-chaired thumb suckers.” I am deeply sorry for any offense this may have caused.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

How the hell does a 6-year-old know what non-binary means? (Waldorf School)

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

I cannot believe anyone in their right mind is comparing a trans woman competing in women’s sports to Jackie Robinson. Y’all do realize how offensive that is, right?

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2 years

There’s always a silver lining

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Katie Herzog

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4 years

I just listened to the entire Sacha Baron Cohen thing and... good god. He really doesn't seem to realize that his plan (the government working with activist groups to decide what's ok online) could render the vast majority of his content "hate speech."

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Katie Herzog

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9 months

Richard Dawkins on sex and gender. Remember this the next time someone tells you intersex people are as common as redheads.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Woke up, turned on the radio, heard Ibram X. Kendi recommending a kid’s book on being a better white person. Turned off the radio.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Jussie Smollet's absolute refusal to admit what he did shows real strength of character and I for one commend him

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Overweight, middle-aged, and with pre-existing conditions. This is the exact type of person Rogan would say should get vaxxed, and yet Margaret Sullivan blames him for her colleague’s death even though her colleague may never have heard of the guy. Makes sense!

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

A conservative British politician with a fake PhD & a history of owning a sugar daddy business & then lying about it ran a telephone pole, fled, & then came out as trans but said he wouldn’t be changing his name or pronouns and the most common reaction is… to praise him. Okay.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Someone just needs to put a live feed into the WaPo newsroom so we can watch it like a pandacam

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Where my sister lives they start to sex-segregate youth soccer teams by age six because they’ve found that girls continue in the sport longer if they have their own teams. I wonder what that Atlantic writer would say about that.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar, sexual, or pedal.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Disney: Releases kids’ film about male friendship Insider: Why aren’t they fucking?

'Luca' proves Disney's Pixar wasn't brave enough to fully commit to its first queer animated film

"Luca" is a fantastic movie that queer people will strongly relate to, but Disney wasn't brave enough to show Luca and Alberto as more than friends.

www.businessinsider.com

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Just got my tax bill and would like to announce that I’m officially joining the Libertarian Party

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Katie Herzog

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1 year

Good thing this would never happen with gender dysphoria

The New York Times

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Mental health providers are seeing an uptick in teens diagnosing themselves with mental illnesses — including rare disorders — after learning about the conditions online, particularly on TikTok. Some are embracing ineffective or inappropriate treatments.

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NPR airs a piece about how the Asians weren’t actually being discriminated against by Harvard etc and were just being used by white people who wanted to end Affirmative Action while interviewing exactly zero people who dissent from that view

Affirmative action divided Asian Americans and other people of color. Here's how

Myths about affirmative action being discriminatory against Asian Americans helped spread a narrative that college admissions meant to increase diversity were actually racist.

www.npr.org

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Bashing my neighbor’s Little Free Library with a 9-iron to fight gentrification

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Elderly people?

Elizabeth Warren

@SenWarren

3 years

Canceling $50,000 of student loan debt would lift a huge burden from the same communities who have been hit hardest by the pandemic. President Biden can #CancelStudentDebt with the stroke of a pen. @SenSchumer and I are urging him to act.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Over 100 staffers at my wife’s hospital in Seattle have tested positive for Covid so don’t put anything weird in your butt for a while. The guy who would normally take it out is home sick.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

Instead of spending money on diversity trainers the NYT should hire me to explain normal people

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

If you’re a journalist or a pundit and you’re genuinely shocked that Trump is doing so well I would like to gently suggest that you either expand your sources or find a new fucking profession

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

But how do vulva renters feel?

This Is How Often Vulva Owners Masturbate, Plus 9 Tips

Spoiler alert: There’s no such thing as a ‘normal amount’ of masturbation — how often you self-pleasure is up to you and you alone.

www.healthline.com

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4 years

I often wonder what would happen if everyone stopped going to therapy and used that time to help other people instead.

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3 years

ACLU arguing in favor of compelled speech. Love the pivot.

ACLU of Virginia

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BREAKING: Three teachers in Loudoun county are going to court simply because they don't want to use trans & nonbinary students' pronouns. 👀 We and partners filed an amicus brief to tell the court: Refusing to use a student's pronouns because of who they are is discrimination.

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Katie Herzog

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4 years

I suspect this country would greatly benefit if there were more liberals on police forces and more conservatives on campuses.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

I stole this photo from Instagram and can’t take credit but where do I purchase this

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3 years

When you accidentally publish your journal in the Atlantic

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3 years

This headline should really include the part where they crashed an executive meeting

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3 years

Netflix suspends trans employee who tweeted about Dave Chappelle special

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Katie Herzog

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5 years

I can’t believe this needs stating but actually I can: Opposing totalitarian trends on the left doesn’t make someone conservative. Huge shock, I know.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Someday Dave will grasp that getting a little sick is better than getting very sick but today is not that day

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“I’m vaccinated and got sick so you should get the vaccine for the thing I’m now sick with.”

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3 years

Is this chart designed to discourage people from getting the vaccine

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3 years

I really thought this argument would never gain traction outside of the most extremely online activist spaces because it’s just so obviously incorrect and yet here we are

Sarah Silverman

@SarahKSilverman

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I have a podcast. Here’s a clip from this week about Caitlyn Jenner

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5 years

It is crazy to me that this isn’t bigger news. The president of Media Matters has a old blog that has wildly racist and transphobic material and yet... crickets.

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5 years

Media Matters digs up old dirt on Tucker Carlson; Tucker Carlson then digs up old dirt on Media Matters. How about they cancel each other out and we’ll finally be done with both of them?

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3 years

This is somehow worse than when antifa blocks freeways

Film Updates

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James Corden, Camila Cabello, Billy Porter and Idina Menzel stopped traffic in LA for a flash mob with a cover of Jennifer Lopez’s “Let’s Get Loud” to promote #CinderellaMovie

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1 year

Alejandra Caraballo’s completely made-up tweet about Andrew Tate getting arrested because of the pizza box thing got nearly 80 million views/565k likes. The correction: 73k views, 785 likes. The original is still up.

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Katie Herzog

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4 years

I play a little game when I turn on NPR throughout the day that involves guessing whether or not the story currently being aired will be about race. I always guess yes. I’m always right.

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2 years

I know I’ve been critical of cancel culture in the past but has anyone looked into Putin’s old tweets

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5 years

Conflict is not abuse and mocking someone on YouTube is not harassment. Sorry.

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10 months

Is he responding to himself

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2 years

I don’t know why Neil Young is starting all this drama. If he wants to go on Rogan all he has to do is give $25,000 to @TimJDillon .

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Katie Herzog

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1 year

Elon Musk is troll. This isn’t cute or funny and I would rather blow my nose into $8/month than give it to him.

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2 years

Amazon sells Mein Kampf and books about murdering and raping woman and OJ Simpson’s “If I Did It” but Abigail Shrier is just too far. TOO FAR.

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Katie Herzog

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3 years

20 years ago today I was an extremely obnoxious college freshman, a trait later immortalized in my Comp 101 professor’s memoir

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

Folx, I've discovered a word that should satisfy everyone in the "birthing persons" debate. It doesn't limit childbearing to people who idenfity as women and it includes non-binary people and trans men who give birth. Ready? Female.

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Katie Herzog

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4 years

I’m a liberal who has been on far more conservative podcasts and radio shows then liberal ones in the last few years. Why? Because I’m never invited on to liberal shows. That’s fine—invite who you want—but it’s pretty telling about the state of the media right now.

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Katie Herzog

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2 years

The Rogan cycle is getting old. Can someone ask Whoopi if Armenians are BIPOC?

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3 years

Dems and the media have got to ditch this elitist id pol nonsense and find some way to reconnect with the working class or they’re dead. They won’t.

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3 years

A lot of you were not invited to Obama’s birthday and it shows

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4 years

The grand total of trans people murdered last year was 26. The murder rate for both women and men is higher than this “epidemic.”

Ronan Farrow

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With trans issues trending, worth remembering there is an epidemic of violence against trans people of color—especially black trans women. I’ve been shocked, running stories on this going back years, how little attention it gets. The numbers show a crisis:

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1 year

The suspension of Aaron Rupar leaves a huge gap in the selectively edited, out-of-context video market. Some real opportunities there.

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4 years

Trying to imagine the person who voted for Trump after he said he grabs women by the vagina but who thinks taking legal tax breaks is just one step too far

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3 years

Rachel Maddow reports that Rolling Stone reports that Oklahoma doctor reports that gunshot victims are taking horse medication

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3 years

The ACLU should split into two groups: ACLU Sr, which fights for free speech rights, and ACLU Jr, which fights against them

Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis (Published 2021)

An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

It’s possible that the Biden column was sexist AND that people who insist on being called Dr outside specific professional contexts tend to be insufferable

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Why does a baseball team have a gala anyway

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I, for one, am just glad to see people passionate about reading again

Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈

@MrAndyNgo

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Breaking: On 16 Jan., BLM-antifa rioted outside @Powells Books during the sixth day of protests calling for my book "Unmasked" to be banned. Some of the #antifa came armed with weapons during the street brawl in downtown Portland. #PortlandRiots

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Why are people so surprised that Kyle Rittenhouse supports BLM? I mean he killed a man who screamed the n word

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1 year

Please be real

asyakhamsin

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My name is Asyakhamsin tanzanian fashion designer based in houston Texas USA 🇺🇸 I lost my bag 2018 in DCA recently I heard the news on @FoxNews about @sambrinton luggage issue surprisingly I found his images wore my custom made outfitswhich was in the lost bag on 2018 🥹

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3 years

Heard a segment on NPR today about “pregnant people” and wondered if it’s an official style guide change or just a few woke reporters. Still, amazing how quickly this is catching on despite how many bodies with brains seem to hate it.

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Not sure I’ll ever get over the fact that the number one accessory among lesbians my age is now top surgery and a mustache

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This article is insane and I cannot believe Forbes published it

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Megan Rapinoe getting benched for a 45-year-old father of two named Brenda? Seems fair

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I have got to find something to listen to besides NPR. I was trying to go back to sleep after taking my wife to the ferry this AM and heard the host of Morning Edition say. “We’ve lost so many lives to corona virus and police brutally.” Only one of those things is true.

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Beginning to think WaPo doesn’t actually understand the issue

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Updated my name in solidarity with Dr Jill Biden ✊

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No matter what happens next week the important thing to remember is that pro Trump marches will spread the virus but pro Biden ones will not

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I have an old friend who thought her dog was depressed so she hired a pet psychic to figure out what was wrong. The pet psychic told her the dog wanted to do a photoshoot with lots of costumes and props.

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Safetyism: Ben Shapiro's views on abortion make me feel unsafe and therefore he should be deplatformed from speaking at my public university. Not safetyism: My colleagues are posting guillitone emojis about me on Slack.

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3 years

If you’re wondering if the Guardian journalists who amplified the Wi-Spa-is-a-hoax-hoax will do any kind of soul searching after being so thoroughly wrong, the answer is right here and it’s no

Person charged with indecent exposure at LA spa after viral Instagram video

Charges filed two months after woman’s claims about Wi Spa sparked anti-trans protests

www.theguardian.com

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If parents at New York’s most expensive private schools really give a shit about “equity” they would take their kids out of the Gossip Girl track, put them in the shittiest public school possible, and donate the $60k they save in tuition to the PTA

New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege. It Has Not Been Easy. (Published 2021)

In this world — where tuition runs as high as $58,000 — the topic has become flammable. Parents, faculty, students and alumni have all entered the fray.

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