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President of @MediaGuildWest ยท May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

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I DIDNโ€™T AND WOULD NEVER PAY FOR THIS
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what a year this last half hour has been
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I imagine all the closures and cancellations give people a sense of ominousness. But it's really an amazing act of social solidarity: We're sacrificing so we can give nurses, doctors and hospitals a fighting chance. Start from there and hopefully we can figure out the rest.
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in some happier dimension, this would be an Onion headline
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Mitt Romney goes into self-quarantine after exposure to Rand Paul
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free speech means itโ€™s okay when the boss leaks employeesโ€™ emails to reporters but itโ€™s bad when employees do it to the boss
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NEW: Elon Musk is threatening to sue Twitter employees who leak confidential information to the press. He's asking staffers to sign a pledge indicating they've understood. Here's the email:
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Okay imagine all this, except youโ€™re on Mars and thereโ€™s a limited amount of oxygen.
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they call us millennials because weโ€™ve been alive for a thousand years
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Weโ€™re in one of the worst economic disasters in American history amid a global pandemic, people are revolting against the police, the U.S. president is trying to bring social media companies to heel and has just threatened to shoot looters. What else can we pile on top of this
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1. My train to the inauguration; 2. My train to the Women's March โ€” or it was supposed to be, but it was too full for me to get on.
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Everything I read today is worse than the stuff Iโ€™ve already read. I donโ€™t know how anybody is getting any work done right now.
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Twitter is rotting my brain from the inside yet it feels like the only thing fast enough to track the massive changes happening in the culture on an hourly basis.
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The coronavirus story will also become a health-insurance story in America. This guy went to China, caught the flu, came back, did the responsible thing and reported himself for possible coronavirus โ€” but tested negative and now might have to pay $1,400+.
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I have never in my life seen a police officer beat a pallbearer, which is something you can clearly see happen in this video.
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friends leaking from the group chat to the New York Times is the highest, finest form of betrayal and frankly I donโ€™t know why people donโ€™t do it more often
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Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing.
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I hate that we have to keep reminding people that Puerto Ricans are Americans.
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PUERTO RICO WOULD LIKE A WORD
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One of the Women's Marchers' final acts: leaving their protest signs in front of the White House.
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it can never be overstated how much most voters are totally living in a different reality than those of us who constantly think about and talk about politics
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this Yahoo Answers page gives me life
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Hobby Lobby's robby hobby: Hammurabi
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Mark Kelly has the exact same voters as Sinema and voted yes
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Hung jury: One or more jurors refused to convict border activist Scott Daniel Warren for providing two migrants with water, food and lodging. He faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
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op-ed: everyone more worried than me about omicron is a maniac and everyone less worried than me is an idiot
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may I present to you the entire history of America
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Tucker Carlson
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#Tucker : Why does America benefit from having tons of people from failing countries come here? @FoxNews
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we literally won a Pulitzer for covering one of the things on this list
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Kevin Liptak
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Here's the list the White House sent of attacks they feel "did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources."
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Hereโ€™s my quick take on Kanyeโ€™s new album: The hurricane in Puerto Rico was the deadliest American disaster in more than a century.
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If you work for the government and are now banned from providing basic info to the public, know that journalists will protect your identity.
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copy editors everywhere, take it from a union guy: this is a wildcat strike, not a boycott
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"Ocasio-Cortez told me that she treats Republicans like buffoons because thatโ€™s how theyโ€™ve behaved for as long as she can remember."
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Slightly depressed at the speed with which the conversation pivoted from kid jails to rude restaurants.
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I'm gonna venture that if an entire skyscraper can rapidly transform into death trap, it's not the fault of a guy with a refrigerator.
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Pictured: The man 'whose faulty fridge started Grenfell Tower inferno'
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Open letter: The real cancel culture is hundreds of thousands of employers being able to cancel your job (and your healthcare) for any reason they want, including thinking wrong thoughts. Thatโ€™s a long-standing labor policy consensus moreso than a new culture war. Signed, me.
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The NFL anthem debate isnโ€™t about the anthem but about who is allowed to be disrespectful.
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Alex Mallin
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Fairly striking image -- all of the flags surrounding the Washington Monument are at half-staff, though the flag atop the White House was raised to full staff just after midnight.
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Thank you to the journalists who risked being punched, pepper-sprayed and rammed by a car to cover what happened today in Charlottesville.
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I'm just going to shout this. PUERTO RICANS DON'T HAVE WATER AND SO THEY'RE TRYING TO DRINK WATER FROM ***SUPERFUND SITES***
@DavidBegnaud
David Begnaud
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The EPA cites reports of Puerto Ricans โ€œobtaining, or trying to obtain, drinking water from wells at hazardous waste โ€œSuperfundโ€ sitesโ€
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I am not getting paid to clean up your website for you.
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Accounts like Jones' can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors, so itโ€™s critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people can form their own opinions. This is what serves the public conversation best.
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That feeling when the system is rigged, but then you realize it's rigged in a way that benefits you
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I wrote the article.
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To sum up what's happening right now, the cops killed a guy over a fake twenty, and the people in charge are making clear that they'll teargas peaceful protestors on live TV before they'd change the status quo.
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I salute our 18-year-old comrades who are giving their union-busting parents hell at home.
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To recap: the feds created a scam school to entrap Indian immigrant-visa students, accredited it so it would look legit, took their money, then deported them for not knowing better, INCLUDING students who transferred out after realizing it was a scam.
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The pandemic in the U.S. has had a free-rider problem, in which we have a bunch of people (me) who have given up seeing friends and family for months in an effort to help delay the pace of infection for other people who want to hug various senators and White House officials.
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I'm old enough to remember when the feds banned original Four Loko, which was kind of like the Tik Tok of your cardiac system.
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A little surreal that weโ€™re in the second-deadliest period of the entire two-year pandemic, and also very clearly in the โ€œwelp, time to wrap it upโ€ phase of the public health response.
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For Gen Zโ€™ers too young to remember, youโ€™re probably about to experience a bit of what 2003 felt like.
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It's wild that a huge chunk of the jobs discourse right now, from wages to working from home to wanting customers no to harass workers, is "workers got their expectations raised, and that's a problem."
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Not to be super obvious about this, but when the police shoot somebody in the back a bunch of times and people burn down a bunch of buildings and stuff in response, it's because the social contract has collapsed. To get order you have to have law first.
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TEXAS: We will rebuild! Florida: We will rebuild! Puerto Rico: There's a big ocean. Terrible infrastructure. So much debt. Unfair media!
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"White anxiety" is the term you use when editors won't let you use "racism."
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White anxiety finds a home at Fox News | Analysis by Tom Kludt and Brian Stelter
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โ€œAfter she removes his microphone, Giuliani, 76, can be seen lying back on the bed, fiddling with his untucked shirt and reaching into his trousers. They are then interrupted by Borat who runs in and says: โ€˜Sheโ€™s 15. Sheโ€™s too old for you.โ€™โ€
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Wow. Big scoop by @nbcsandiego : The Trump administration created a "secret database of activists, journalists, and social media influencers tied to the migrant caravan and in some cases, placed alerts on their passports."
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Twitter is the ad-dependent print newspaper bought out by private equity that now needs to service its debt, and the first order of business is to sell off the real estate, lay off staff, hike subscription costs and hope the core customer base doesnโ€™t notice everything is worse.
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Geoffrey Owens speaks: โ€œThere is no job thatโ€™s better than another job. It might pay better, it might have better benefits, it might look better on a resume and on paper. But actually, itโ€™s not better. Every job is worthwhile and valuable.โ€
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Wake up.
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I don't know how "millennial" is still media code for "young person" and not "now old enough that your neck hurts when you point your head in the wrong direction."
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Someone set the limo on fire.
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This is supposed to be heartwarming, but โ€œteacher battling cancer ran out of sick daysโ€ is one of the most harrowing phrases Iโ€™ve ever read.
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This teacher battling cancer ran out of sick days, so school employees showered him with theirs
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that's literally the entire plot of Julius Caesar
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"When youโ€™re going to delight in the assassination of our president, itโ€™s going to have a violent end." - @LauraLoomer #Hannity
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Man, if you want to know anything about the essential nature of social media platforms, just check out what happened to Vine when the people on the service suddenly saw themselves as workers instead of users. From โ€œKids These Daysโ€:
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An indigenous women's march makes its way down Constitution Ave., to cheers.
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Shana Fisher "had 4 months of problems from this boy," her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, wrote in a private message to the Los Angeles Times on Facebook. "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no."
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This tweet violates federal labor law!
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FYI @fdrlst first one of you tries to unionize I swear I'll send you back to the salt mine
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Mark Zuckerberg trying to explain Holocaust denialism on his megaplatform, and newspapers laying off 50% of their trained reporters and editors, are two explicitly connected economic phenomena.
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congratulations to March 17th on its 141st consecutive day
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I know lots of poor white folk who haven't joined the Klan. Richard Spencer has two and a half college degrees.
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Andrew Young: "I feel uncomfortable condemning the Klan types... they are almost the poorest of the poor. They are the forgotten Americans."
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What now is better than it was four years ago?
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NEW: The Santa Fe High School gunman killed a classmate, Shana Fisher, who had turned down his advances, her mother tells us. Shana finally stood up to him and embarrassed him in class, and "a week later he opens fire on everyone he didn't like."
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please try to remain unbiased during the attempted coup
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Gannett sends around a note reminding USA Today folks and others not to "take a political position" on social media today
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why is this โ€œoopsโ€ and not โ€œhuge red flagโ€
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Colorado passed a law requiring companies advertising remote work to disclose a job's expected salary. Many companies have responded by... no longer hiring people from Colorado. Oops.
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A Sinclair journalist, who has been trying to resist from inside the newsroom โ€” but who doesnโ€™t have a union โ€” explains why itโ€™s so hard for TV anchors to refuse the Sinclairโ€™s editorial edicts. They have contracts that penalize them if they quit.
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almost every sport Barstool cares about is heavily unionized
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I, for one, love hiring libel attorneys to shut down criticism of me shortly after I sign an open letter decrying censorship.
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NEW: After being unmasked as a landlord, Sean Hannity said that he was "investing my personal money in communities that badly need such investment." So we checked out one of the neighborhoods that Hannity bought. He's jacked up rents by 50%.
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AHHHH IT'S LITERALLY A PLAGIARIZED PASSAGE ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HARD WORK
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Miami's mayor has tested positive for COVID-19. But he has not had a fever, only had some mild aches and a runny nose. โ€œMy suspicion is that a lot of people have this and they donโ€™t even know it."
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the people who count the votes actually can tell when you refresh the timeline over and over again. it makes them count a little faster
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The โ€œthis wonโ€™t change voters mindsโ€ stuff is beside the point. If you donโ€™t care whether wealthy people are paying their taxes, youโ€™re the mark.
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New: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a law that would disqualify President Trump for Californiaโ€™s primary ballot next year unless Trump releases his tax returns. Expect a big, ugly court fight.
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very interested in this new trading app where you cannot buy stocks
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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noticing a lack of fraud allegations in the downballot House and Senate races the Republicans won. probably a coincidence
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a reminder that President Trump threatened to defund UC if it didn't let Milo speak on campus
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
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my feed today has mostly been liberals disgusted by Kathy Griffin and conservatives asking why liberals aren't denouncing Kathy Griffin
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
6 years
Journalism *is* activism in its most basic form. The entire basis for its ethical practice is the idea that a democracy requires an informed citizenry in order to function. Choosing what you want people to know is a form of activism, even if itโ€™s not the march-and-protest kind.
@JoshKraushaar
Josh Kraushaar
6 years
Journalism isn't activism; it's presenting the facts, honestly and objectively. It's this mentality that's killing trust in our profession.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
4 years
night twitter has been rudely interrupted by day twitter
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
6 years
๐Ÿฆ… THE LOS ANGELES TIMES HAS A UNION ๐Ÿฆ…
@latguild
L.A. Times Guild ๐Ÿฆ…
6 years
The final vote count for the @latguild : 248 in favor, 44 against. A landslide victory, and a historic day for the Los Angeles Times newsroom. ๐Ÿฆ…โœŠ
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
trying to imagine the news cycle we'd have if the word "mosque" appeared in this sentence
@Bob_Grip
Bob Grip
7 years
(AP) - The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
just a reminder that today the president urged police to commit crimes
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
remember that time Trump got elected because People Are Angry At Elites and then he picked former Goldman Sachs guys for the White House
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
Time to dunk on liberals by giving them something they would absolutely love:
@charliekirk11
Charlie Kirk
7 years
The NFL should no longer be subsidized by any government: local, state, or federal End all of their subsidies
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
Trump administration denies Puerto Rico's request to waive the Jones Act, which it did for Harvey and Irma.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
5 years
โ€œHe was known to give jobs to residents who were struggling to get by, some of them homeless. He once gave a pair of shoes to every student at 59th Street Elementary School. He also donated money to renovate the schoolโ€™s playground and basketball courts.โ€
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
Three guys carried out a planned attack and killed seven people. It's actually worth asking what might have happened if they had guns.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
6 years
The Parkland kids are terrifyingly good at Twitter.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
8 years
Why would you plagiarize the personal values of your mortal enemies
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
6 years
A belated round of applause to LAT copy editor Gerard Lim, who, while pulling a holiday shift on Wednesday, was tasked with writing a headline for an AP story tucked inside the paper, and brought his absolute A-game.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
Trump administration getting a nasty case of seeing what it's like to have their internal communications dumped for public consumption.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
8 years
Donald Trump, who is 70, is staking this race on an argument that he has changed since he was 60.
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
7 years
The Los Angeles Times is unionizing. A note left on everyone's desk this morning:
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Matt Pearce ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ
5 years
the guy literally published a detailed manifesto explaining why he perpetrated domestic terrorism. so of course we are talking about video games
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