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Jersey born + bred. Writer, editor, playwright, wordsmith. Founder @hazmathotel + Media Hacks. Alum @Forbes @MarieClaire @Refinery29 , @LifetimeTV .

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Joined May 2008
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@lea
Lea Goldman
5 years
At the request of my mom&aunt: this is a last ditch effort to find their missing brother, Eli Adler, handed off to a fixer during WWII near Grodzisko/Leszajsk Poland and never seen again. If you have any leads, or would like more info, please message me. Please RT.
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5 years
My 9yo son just told me: “Sorry but this isn’t like the men’s games. This was more exciting.” My work here is done.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Schools in need of space for kids to socially distance...Movie theaters around the nation sitting empty for the foreseeable future...Let them earn federal tax breaks for using their spaces as lecture halls. Welcome to AMC High!
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Lea Goldman
4 years
The debate commission & cable news nets are totally missing the zeitgeist on this one: the massive proliferation of podcasts is further evidence that audiences are willing to sit and listen to actual conversations about issues. The 90-second game show format is dumb and dated.
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Lea Goldman
7 months
HAPPENING NOW: @Columbia students have taken over a building for protests. Jewish students and faculty are pleading with the university to shut it down but are being rebuffed.
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Lea Goldman
3 years
And with that, I post my final Bernie meme.
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Lea Goldman
3 years
God, it feels like only yesterday my feed was filled with folks up in arms about draconian restrictions imposed on women by religious fundamentalists.
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Lea Goldman
2 years
This is deeply moving.
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Aaron Rupar
2 years
Judge Jackson introducing her understandably emotional husband while one of their daughters looks on with pride was a cool moment
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4 years
Tell me again how you're gonna sit out if Bernie's not the nominee?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
During my research on Jim Comey, I did a deep dive on the US Atty of the Southern District (he had the job, too). This may be helpful context for those unfamiliar with the office/its role: 1. It’s arguably the most powerful prosecutor in the US outside the AG....
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Lea Goldman
2 years
Shout out to all my WFH people who have a separate section for fancy sweatshirts.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
How great is this? Who created it??
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Lea Goldman
5 years
Holy smokes this clip. THAT’s how you do a followup.
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Yashar Ali 🐘
5 years
3. Here's a clip from @jonathanvswan 's interview with Jared Kushner. Jonathan mentions that @AOC calls the President a racist and then asks Kushner about Birtherism and the Muslim ban. The entire interview is really good and I hope @HBOPR posts the entire interview on YouTube
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Lea Goldman
2 months
So we're just not gonna talk about how 'American Riviera Orchard' is the name of the real estate development in Glengarry Glen Ross?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
@Bluemermaid3000 @patkiernan This is a good idea. Like the cigarette PSAs featuring people with emphysema.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I’m old enough to remember when Trump told Jews voting Dem made them “disloyal”...and then said they should vote for him to protect their money...and then went to a car plant and talked about Henry Ford’s good bloodlines...
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Lea Goldman
4 years
This is a good ad.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I know it’s premature, but we should rechristen the Sunday b/f Labor Day “Front Line Day”. For the drs, Rns, first responders, delivery ppl, researchers, drivers, orderlies, cleaners who literally risk everything on our front lines. What would our country be without them?
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Lea Goldman
5 years
US women's soccer games now generate more revenue than men's
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Lea Goldman
4 years
As long as I live, I’ll never forget the “I really don’t care, do you” jacket.
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Lea Goldman
3 years
@MonicaLewinsky @HamiltonMusical @Lin_Manuel Am I crazy to think that the people who would love this don't have issues getting the shot?
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Lea Goldman
3 years
Why don’t we do this?
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Lea Goldman
5 years
I’ve watched a lifetime of movies where the shlub gets the bombshell (knocked up starring, ahem, Seth rogen...half of the Kevin James cannon.) I’m ready for movies where our heroine peels off her bra as soon as she gets home from work—and still gets a Hemsworth.
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Movies should romanticize more couples like Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen in Long Shot. (Seriously.)
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Remind me, did H1N1 ever make it into the White House?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
@IvankaTrump @arborday Quick reminder that the president issued an executive order in 12/18 *expanding* logging on public lands.
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Lea Goldman
3 years
The part of Lor was played by Julianne Nicholson. And I want to see her dressed by some serious A list designers for the Emmys because that woman earned her statue this evening.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
On 9/11. May their memories be a blessing.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Congratulations to JPMorgan Chase for ordering everyone BACK TO OFFICE on September 21st. Will always be better than working from home!
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Lea Goldman
3 years
I’d watch @Pixar ’s #Soul alone first before seeing it w/ the kids. There’s A LOT in here for adults, esp at this moment, esp this time of year, as you wrestle with the detours & what comes next. I’ve been thinking about it nonstop since I saw it last night (bravo @Powerkeni ):
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Lea Goldman
3 years
Things I never thought I would say but here we are: Selena Gomez is beguiling in Only Murders in the Building.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
The portrait in the background: The Signing of the Declaration of Independence by Charles E. Armand-Dumaresq, donated to WH by Holocaust survivor Sam Salz, to thank the US for welcoming him as a refugee.
@katierosman
katie rosman
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Mitchell McConnell gave Democratic women, “Nevertheless she persisted.” Now Trump gives them this.
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Lea Goldman
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This is the field where my grandmother’s family was murdered in April 1943. I met one of the witnesses, a neighbor, several years ago. She said she saw them being marched away, was told by a Nazi to get back inside or risk joining them... 1/ #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
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@jonfavs Mask mandates and CRT were very much a part of the conversation in Bergen County.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Brilliant
@NJGov
New Jersey
4 years
REMINDER: Keep AT LEAST one Springsteen of space between yourself and others
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Lea Goldman
4 years
It won’t be long before the NYT identifies who holds the president’s debt.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
The line to see @PeteButtigieg at @92Y is literally 2 avenues long. Wow.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Wow. Wow. Wow.
@AmichaiStein1
Amichai Stein
4 years
Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers: US Navy relieved the captain who sounded the alarm about a coronavirus outbreak aboard the ship - @eslavin_stripes
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Lea Goldman
4 years
You always knew but to see it is something else.
@PnPCBC
Power & Politics
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. @JustinTrudeau , @EmmanuelMacron , @BorisJohnson and other VIPs shared a few words at a Buckingham Palace reception Tuesday. No one mentions @realDonaldTrump by name, but they seem to be discussing his lengthy impromptu press conferences from earlier in the day. (Video: Host Pool)
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Lea Goldman
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Now would be the perfect time for somone to repost that "How Katie Holmes secretly pulled off divorcing Tom Cruise" story, with the burner phones and lawyers in every state...
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Lea Goldman
4 years
@AkilahObviously I’ll be wearing the ring my grandmother survived the Holocaust with, while clutching the siddur my mother gave me on my wedding day. Faith.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
They're pro-life, remember?
@theferocity
Saeed Jones
5 years
In the video, President Trump “strikes John McCain in the back of the neck. He hits Rosie O’Donnell in the face and then stabs her in the head. He strikes Representative Maxine Waters. He lights the head of Senator Bernie Sanders on fire.”
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I would watch a syndicated talk show hosted by this amazing and funny woman.
@TraceeEllisRoss
Tracee Ellis Ross
4 years
I genuinely, really and seriously do not like bugs. They be f*ckin up my sh*t.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Only out of towners would plan a protest on a Sunday morning on 5th Avenue, two blocks from Trump Tower. Probably the quietest stretch of NYC, especially during a pandemic. But you really owned those libs!
@APaolicelli17
Alyssa Paolicelli
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Here is a view from on top of an NYPD barrier. Line of cars goes from 56th street up to 59th street. @NY1
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Lea Goldman
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I’m sure the thousands of truckers trying to make their deliveries appreciate it.
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Lea Goldman
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This is a mind-blowing story. When all is said and done, we'll be uncovering crazy deals this administration made for years to come.
@JesseLehrich
Jesse Lehrich
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FEMA gave a $55,000,000 no-bid contract to a bankrupt company with no employees for N95 masks – which they don't make or have – at 7x the cost others charge.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Wow, this is special.
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Lea Goldman
3 years
How many BILLIONS have been spent on security post 9/11 and it’s this easy to take the capitol.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
Well now I’m sold on a subscription.
@Highlights
Highlights
5 years
At Highlights, our core belief is that children are the world's most important people. In light of the reports of the living conditions of detained children & threats of further deportation & family separation, here is a statement from our CEO Kent Johnson. #KeepFamiliesTogether
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Lea Goldman
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Just here to say that one of the most iconic fashion magazine covers in history was under the brilliant stewardship of @laurabrown99 and her aces at @InStyle . How gorgeous is this.
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Lea Goldman
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Should we tell him?
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HuffPost Women
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Jesse Watter said U.S. women can't go around and "disparage the president" and expect people to watch their games.
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Lea Goldman
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This is an incredible thing for any grandchild of Holocaust survivors to say.
@mikeallen
Mike Allen
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Kushner: "Doesn’t make a difference" how many refugees U.S. accepts
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I would like all my global news served this way.
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
4 years
My man is checking-in with different countries regarding their coronavirus numbers...😂😭🤣
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Lea Goldman
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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Lea Goldman
5 years
I’m on my third viewing. You?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Like he wrecked steaks and universities. Have at it!
@axios
Axios
4 years
President Trump has told friends he wants to start a digital media company to clobber Fox News. "He plans to wreck Fox. No doubt about it," said a source with detailed knowledge of Trump's intentions.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
3) Barr botched it by not reading the fine print, assuming Berman would go gently into that good night. Tho the office conducts business behind close doors, this raises a big question that doesn't go away til answered: What is Berman investigating that Barr wants to shut down?
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Lea Goldman
3 years
Interesting scoop from @Jezebel about Sheryl Sandberg's pretzel-like contortions to justify the company's head of public policy throwing Brett Kavanaugh a party in his home.
@Jezebel
Jezebel
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Facebook Employees Ripped Sheryl Sandberg Over Exec Hosting a Party for Brett Kavanaugh
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Lea Goldman
5 years
The only thing missing from this clip are the names of the Congressmen/women who didn't bother to show up.
@ABCPolitics
ABC News Politics
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"Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time." Jon Stewart receives a standing ovation from 9/11 first responders after slamming lawmakers for failing to fund programs providing healthcare to the first responders
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Lea Goldman
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Video of Jewish students being sequestered by security at Cooper Union right now while protestors bang on doors outside. Cops were called over 40mins ago but still no response. They are worried for their safety. @cooperunion @nypost @NYPDChiefOfDept
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Lea Goldman
2 years
@thistallawkgirl The whole "don't go to bed angry" thing is a myth, imho. I'm actually much more sensible in the morning. It's ok to let a fight fester, and return to it when you're calmer. A night's rest will do wonders for your perspective.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Advice to the 13mm+ unemployed Americans: probably wise not to conduct yourself like that in a job interview.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
Leading with empathy. How powerful is this?
@tommyxtopher
Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher
5 years
As protesters interrupt Elizabeth Warren in Atlanta again, @AyannaPressley comes to the stage. Warren: "What do we do with this?" Watch Rep. Pressley:
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Lea Goldman
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Kate McKinnon would be a great Riddler.
@TheWrap
TheWrap
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#TheBatman : Jonah Hill in Talks to Play Riddler
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Lea Goldman
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This is a VERY good question.
Question: How did J.Lo and Shakira have to split a halftime show and the Weeknd got his own?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I had some calls today w/ ppl who don’t have kids. And when I asked how they were doing, each caveated their feelings w/ “I know it’s harder w/ kids.” And I just want to say, IT’S HARD. I don’t think I have it harder w/ kids. You don’t need to minimize your struggle. That is all.
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Lea Goldman
2 years
That same day The Shawshank Redemption also premiered. What a weekend!!
@RexChapman
Rex Chapman🏇🏼
2 years
28-years ago today “Pulp Fiction” premiered in theaters…
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I believe the correct term for this is 'receipts'.
@ValerieJarrett
Valerie Jarrett
4 years
If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on!
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Lea Goldman
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How is the possible nurses strike in NYC, and ongoing negotiations, not major news at the @nytimes ? I just don’t get it.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
99 bottles of hydroxychloraquine on the wall...
@NatalieABrand
Natalie Brand
4 years
CBS News has confirmed Guilfoyle is in South Dakota tonight but did not travel aboard Air Force and was not in direct contact with the President. h/t @NicoleSganga Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. will drive home from South Dakota in a car instead of plane.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
For god’s sake, can we have ONE DAY for the memories of our fallen men and women that’s not about you? Just one day in peace?
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
5 years
In a hypothetical poll, done by one of the worst pollsters of them all, the Amazon Washington Post/ABC, which predicted I would lose to Crooked Hillary by 15 points (how did that work out?), Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas and virtually all others would beat me in the General Election....
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Lea Goldman
2 years
I’m in Tel Aviv, a km away from the attacks. Made my way back to my Airbnb in wild traffic (several street closures) to find people standing on balconies yelling at pedestrians (including me) to get inside. It was…surreal.
@Yair_Rosenberg
Yair Rosenberg
2 years
At least six people injured in mass shooting terrorist attack in Tel Aviv just now. One shooter reportedly neutralized, the other still at large. Civilians have been told to stay indoors and lock their homes.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
OMG
@CommentOnTWLB
Jim - ‘Yellow Dog Dem’ Club Member
4 years
A few dozen people turned out yesterday afternoon in FL to hear Tя☭mp upon his arrival. Pic 1: Wide shot of actual crowd. Pic 2: White House released image of the event. Pics 3 & 4: Notations of the same people cut and pasted into the image to make the crowd bigger. #TrumpLies
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Lea Goldman
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But this firing of Geoffrey Berman stinks for a slew of reasons articulated by many (including Preet, et al): 1) 5 months before election day. Timing is suspect. 2) Announced hours before Trump rally, an attempt to bury it in news cycle.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
Quit reading garbage and feel good for a second.
@hannadowns76
Hanna
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Our history teacher Mr. Corby has entered the @HamiltonMusical lottery everyday for the past few years without luck so our class pitched in to get him tickets to see the show. He is super excited!!! @Lin_Manuel
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Lea Goldman
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I want to launch a podcast featuring journalists telling their favorite crazy journo stories. All reporters have one! Here’s mine: Eons ago, while at Forbes, hunting billionaires for their rich lists, I traveled to Ukraine to profile a shadowy Russian diamond dealer.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
I’ve always thought @AlyssaMastro44 would be great on this show. Straight shooter, kind and so, so funny.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
4 years
For 25 years the culture at The View has been toxic and an HR nightmare on many levels. That ABC has never taken any meaningful steps to fix the problems at the View is a disgrace. We’re not just talking about backstage drama, we’re talking about major HR issues
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It beggars belief that in a nation as blessed as ours, with a whole category of tech cajillionaires, we have kids dropping out of school b/c of *poor WiFi*. You want to be legends? Wire low income communities.
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3 years
Whenever I’m in a funk, I turn to Brandon Stanton. Doing God’s work in these streets. @humansofny
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Lea Goldman
5 years
This is the most charming thing I’ve read in forever.
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Lea Goldman
2 years
I’ll never understand why the police unions don’t come out full force for basic gun reform. How is it not in their best interest? But “the cops are for gun reform and we back the blue” said no politician ever.
@Acyn
Acyn
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Cruz: Ultimately, as we all know, what stops armed bad guys is armed good guys
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4 years
Question: do you wake up every morning hoping that in your inbox there’s the email that will change your life? (Is that just me?)
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Berman was a Jeff Sessions appointment so Trump could have argued “Sessions was terrible and so were his guy” but that he did it now is obviously loaded. The ‘why now’ is the important piece.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
On all levels, this is a brilliant tweet.
@realsambee
Samantha Bee
5 years
How about you pretend that church and state are families at the border and separate them.
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@secupp This is all feeling a little too Becky Connor for me.
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Lea Goldman
2 years
Just so she gets the credit she deserves: this is EP’d by Brie Bryant at Lifetime, also EP’d the R Kelly doc. Brie makes the kind of TV that stops you in your tracks. Put her on all your ‘22 lists.
@lifetimetv
Lifetime
2 years
✨Happy New Year! It's the moment we've all been waiting for - night one of #JanetJacksonDoc premieres Friday, January 28th at 8/7c.✨ @janetjackson @aetv
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@themaxburns @girlmeetsgeek I’m still paused on the fact that they needed a headquarters.
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At this rate, Charles Kushner will be pardoned before Thanksgiving.
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Lea Goldman
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Don’t be fooled by mortgage forbearance by many banks right now. They may suspend monthly payments but they expect the payment of those months in full (minus interest) at the end of the forbearance, vs tacking on to term of your loan. That passes for “relief” in bank land.
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Lea Goldman
5 years
THE NAKED TRUTH RIGHT HERE
@shannonrwatts
Shannon Watts
5 years
How come the same lawmakers who say gun laws won't stop gun violence believe abortion laws will stop abortion?
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Lea Goldman
4 years
Should be offering social media master classes during the pandemic.
@NJGov
New Jersey
4 years
you rang?
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Lea Goldman
5 years
He has job dysmorphia.
@laurenduca
Lauren Duca
5 years
Now that I’ve had some time to think about De Blasio, I suppose what I’m trying to say is: I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE TRAIN FOR 23 MINUTES TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN YOUR OWN CITY BEFORE YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT YOU FECKLESS BUREAUCRAT THE GROUNDHOG WOULD BE BETTER
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@dave__whiteside Snacks. Good ones. Lots of them. It sounds ridiculous, but after I delivered, I was famished. And at 3 am, when no one was around and I couldn't drag myself from bed, it was nice to have a duffel bag full of them handy. Chips. Juices. Chocolate. Sweet, savory--all of it.
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Lea Goldman
4 years
*The art direction of this era* ( @TIME 6/18)
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5 years
Somebody option this.
@sixthformpoet
sixthformpoet
5 years
ONE My dad died. Classic start to a funny story. He was buried in a small village in Sussex. I was really close to my dad so I visited his grave a lot. I still do. [DON’T WORRY, IT GETS FUNNIER.]
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Lea Goldman
4 years
How about it @IvankaTrump ? I’ll send mine when you send yours.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available. @SteveHiltonx @FoxNews
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