Michael Brendan Dougherty @michaelbd Twitter profile

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

4 years

I haven’t found one person between the age of 28-45 who hasn’t found themselves scolding family members over 60 to take this more seriously.

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6 years

Finally, it can be tried as an adult.

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The Phantom Menace is 18 years old.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

Last night EMS in New York took 6,406 medical 911 calls, the highest volume ever, surpassing 9/11/01.

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2 years

The pandemic ends when the internal polling says it ends.

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4 years

So many media outlets did these chest-beating essays after 2016 vowing to get to know the country they cover better. And then, they all retreated into Resistance fantasy and ideological decadence. They know even less now.

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1 year

Pro- @elonmusk , sorry. I have more faith in an owner cutting drastically ahead of a recession, and innovating on the fly than in a management team that was trying to buy more time until it could become the CIA's direct interface for domestic political management.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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2 years

Nice to see CNN almost instantly transforming into its best self. Reporters- not personalities- on the screen, at the site of historical events. More of this.

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@michaelbd

3 years

That’s insane. You don’t become a Billionaire by hiding transactions of $600 from scrutiny.

CBS Evening News

@CBSEveningNews

3 years

“There’s a lot of tax fraud and cheating that’s going on.” Treasury @SecYellen tells @NorahODonnell the proposed $600 IRS reporting requirement for banks is “absolutely not” a way for the government to peek into American’s pocketbooks but to hold billionaires accountable.

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3 years

"In highly vaccinated New England, the hospitalization rate right now for kids under 17 is about 7 per 10 million. That is not a typo." And yet we are still masking 2 year olds.

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1 year

Just- all the chatter on my conservative and GOP channels - is rage at Trump like I've never seen. "The one guy he attacked before Election Day was DeSantis- the clear winner, meanwhile, all his guys are shitting the bed."

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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2 years

We don’t have to go back to the Holodomor to find the NYT publishing fake news. Their story *last year* on the mass graves at Canadian residential schools was completely false. Not a single “mass grave” was found. No remains of a single child on the registries of missing found.

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2 years

We're about five days away from progressive Twitter saying that Inflation is a White Supremacist dogwhistle and that this fact should be taught in the completely non-existent CRT material in public schools.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

The states are doing a horrible job of explaining these 100 percent batches, their delays, and the slowness of counting. Bad election management is dangerous.

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3 years

Just to emphasize this: Joe Rogan didn’t take a horse dewormer and neither did the 90 thousand people or so who were prescribed it by doctors in the last week of August. Saying he did doesn’t damage Tucker Carlson or Alex Berenson; the opposite in fact.

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5 years

Judged just by the answers you’d think illegal immigrants were the swing vote in 2020.

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2 years

Here comes the shift!

Jennifer Truth Over Phony Balance Rubin 🇺🇦🇮🇱

@JRubinBlogger

2 years

As we recognize that covid-19 is not a deadly or even severe disease for the vast majority of responsible Americans, we can stop agonizing over “cases” and focus on those who are hospitalized or at risk of dying.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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2 years

After 11 months it may no longer be politically correct to say this on the right, but Trump’s lies about election fraud were the principle cause of the capitol riot. The texts show that everyone knew it that very day.

Gone Too Far | National Review

The Capitol riot happened because President Donald Trump simply lied, and lied, and lied.

www.nationalreview.com

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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6 years

As 2017 closes, I still have a question. Why did that guy shoot hundreds of people in Vegas?

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2 years

This is insane.

Alessandra Bocchi

@alessabocchi

2 years

Wikipedia defines Glenn Greenwald as a “far-right American journalist”. So anyone who disobeys progressive orthodoxy in any capacity, irrespective of their contributions to the Left, is now automatically defined as “far-right”.

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5 years

I guess people at this event learned from their “role models” how to create a hoax powerful enough to get celebrities and intellectuals to fantasize about doing violence to children.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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3 years

I still think, in evaluating conspiracy theories, we really underestimate how the pandemic erased people's baseline of normality, and lockdown trapped them inside with social media.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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7 years

Imagine how fucking dumb you have to be to hear "Western values" and think it means Nazism.

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6 months

Hamas killed almost as many people in six hours as the IRA did in 30 years. Over half of IRA victims were uniformed police, military or prison guards. Hamas’ October 7th gesture was explicitly genocidal: children and elderly executed. Also the British colluded with terrorist…

Nathan J Robinson

@NathanJRobinson

6 months

This is an important point. If the British had responded to IRA attacks on civilians by launching relentless air strikes on Irish civilian neighborhoods, it would have appeared obviously psychopathic and deranged. Yet in Gaza this is considered a reasonable response to terror.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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6 years

However bad you thought the corruption among Catholic clergy and bishops was, the reality is much worse.

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3 years

People say this about Church but not about United Airlines. You have to wonder why.

John Pavlovitz

@johnpavlovitz

3 years

If churches really cared about loving their neighbors, they wouldn't hold services until everyone is safe. Republicans like @Jim_Jordan will play politics with a Jesus they have no interest in, willfully endangering lives in a way that shows no empathy.

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3 years

After two months, five deaths, and national humiliation he finally commits to a peaceful transition. Too late.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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3 years

It feels like an op to insist on calling this a dewormer when the Nobel winning inventor of it intended it for humans first, and encourages its use for Covid.

NPR

@NPR

3 years

The podcast host Joe Rogan, who has dismissed COVID vaccines, said he tested positive and is taking a cocktail of unproven treatments — including ivermectin, a deworming drug for cows that the FDA warns people should not ingest.

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1 year

Remember when the Martha’s Vineyard stunt was going to hurt DeSantis?

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4 years

Fine, we’ll call it Kung Flu.

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2 years

I see it is "death is better than adoption" day in the media.

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@michaelbd

7 years

Because they don't leave behind videos dedicating their murders to God. Just a thought.

Peter Daou

@peterdaou

7 years

Can someone please explain why religion is never mentioned when an evil coward guns down children in an American school? #LondonBridge

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

3 years

Normally these pictures will be followed up by face photos. lead to fast ID, and a crowdsourced pressure campaign to deprive the subject of their livelihood. Without all that I just assume it’s another Lincoln Project thing.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

Just remember, in an extraordinary gesture Romney argued that Trump was totally unfit for the presidency and then interviewed to be his Secretary of State. These great moral stands have an unbelievably short shelf life.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

The problem with classifying Antifa as a terorist group is that eventually the Pentagon will offer them air support to effect regime change somewhere.

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@michaelbd

3 years

If it saves one Boomer’s life, no matter how many newborns die, it will be worth it.

9News Australia

@9NewsAUS

4 years

Four Newborns in Adelaide have died after being denied lifesaving heart surgery because it wasn't available in Adelaide, and they couldn't be transferred interstate because of travel restrictions. #9News

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3 years

Now that the story would be damaging to Biden, we admit that it was fake.

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@michaelbd

3 years

What measures has Apple taken to make sure it’s contractors don’t use slave labor?

Oliver Darcy

@oliverdarcy

3 years

🚨 New from Apple: “Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues.”

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2 years

That’s certainly one way to not describe it.

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@michaelbd

4 years

If you can’t handle a baby crying on a plane like an adult who lives in society, have some self respect and drink yourself into a stupor.

Mat George

@matchu_chutrain

4 years

NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BABIES ON PLANES NORMALIZE SEDATING BA

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4 years

She who must not be named.

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3 years

Siri, what’s the dumbass thing I’m going to see on the internet today that will become my evening’s intrusive thought?

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4 years

The NYT is made up of people who make over 6 figures and think Bari Weiss tweets are assault, and complain that policemen who make $42.5k should remain perfectly cool after their riot helmet is broken by a thrown brick.

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5 years

Somebody tell the NBA they only have single gender bathrooms in China.

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@michaelbd

5 years

Good thing this guy never had to make gravely serious life-and-death decisions.

The Washington Times

@WashTimes

5 years

John Brennan, ex-CIA chief, offers mea culpa on Trump: ‘I don’t know if I received bad information’

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

Now with two conservatives on the court, we’re finally getting somewhere.

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@michaelbd

3 years

Can someone explain to me why a bunch of modern countries are starting to put out little signals to the public that they may not have energy this winter?

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

6 years

He's from Queens. Ocasio-Cortez grew up in Yorktown Heights. Leafy, Westchester.

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Ocasio-Cortez: Trump doesn't know "how to deal with a girl from the Bronx"

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5 years

Wait, someone working at Facebook just gave the Daily Beast that guy’s info?

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@michaelbd

3 years

We need to have a serious discussion about how disinformation about Russian bounties threatens our democracy. I think the least Twitter and Facebook could do is permanently suspend every single journalist and outlet who spread this damaging, fake news.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

So the bottom line from Cuomo: schoolchildren and Jews are the problem.

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3 years

Here’s one thing I’ve learned in the pandemic. The data is going to come in- and not a single person will say, “I was wrong, and acted like a fucking asshole.”

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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1 year

DeSantis would be well-advised to say nothing. Just let him rage for a while.

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4 years

RIP people whose drinking game included "C'mon."

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Tim Burgess

@Tim_Burgess

2 years

Imagine explaining this to somebody from another planet

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2 years

Democrats wanted Kari Lake, and now they are going to get her. Pretty funny.

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8 years

Okay. That's what it means to be owned.

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4 years

Jack is going to lose control of Twitter just because the public will look at him and listen to him and determine at a gut level that nobody like that should run anything more important than a record store.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

9 months

This keeps happening.

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@michaelbd

4 years

For reference here’s how they covered the Pence choice

Ali Vitali

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4 years

Tomorrow’s NYT front page >>

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3 years

That display by Giuliani and Powell was unhinged, undignified, and came across as a mental breakdown.

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4 years

Coronavirus is an opportunity to learn the lesson that you can't use "the economy" as your sole measure of social well-being and resilience. Delaying sound public health judgements for to avoid economic disruption is causing more economic disruption.

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What Flake doesn’t get is that Trump’s culture war belligerency is the first time many GOP voters feel the party is doing something for them

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2 years

Sorry you didn’t go to college and get good debt like liberal arts students. You started a landscaping business and got bad debt for equipment and a truck. So you’ll be taxed to help keep Universities transforming into spa resorts.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

2 years

Something every vaguely pro-life writer understood decades ago is breaking news to these people.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

2 years

Wow. Today I learned that Europe has more restrictive abortion laws than most of the U.S. did up until this week.

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2 years

Breaking the “with Covid not because of Covid” seal. Oh my god. I think they might shift the subject to natural immunity next.

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4 years

Bill DeBlasio is acting faster to contain Evangelicals than he did to stop the virus.

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4 years

I’m sure Vox and The Atlantic can explain the mechanism that transmutes the beating a of a defenseless woman into salutary social reform.

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2 years

Sounds cute. Show us pictures!

Kamala Harris

@KamalaHarris

3 years

Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories. The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles. Whether you’re celebrating this year with those you live with or over Zoom, happy Kwanzaa!

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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4 years

No harsh tone, overstatement or contested allegations here. Not in my NY Times Opinion Section.

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5 years

Going hard = asking Broward County officials to comply with the law.

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5 years

Republicans going hard on Florida because it worked once before and got them an entire presidency!

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

2 years

Eh… I think people are forgetting how mainstream it got. Kamala Harris was contributing to bail funds during the riots.

Tom Gara

@tomgara

2 years

“the mainstream liberal argument was that burning down businesses for racial justice was both good and healthy” is yet another example of what happens to your brain when “mainstream liberal” becomes like, the 150 people who annoy you the most on Twitter

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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3 years

Okay, I take your point and am now grateful for the politicians.

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4 years

If you don’t want someone fired you don’t write a public letter to the bosses saying he makes you “unsafe.” That word is an undisguised threat of hostile environment litigation. This person knows that.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

4 years

Government subsidy.

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@AnaSamways

8 years

What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?

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3 years

Actually Guy Fieri is a good person and his soft-belly populism has expanded the American diet for the better, and brought attention to a lot of great local businesses. Fight me.

Dan Price

@DanPriceSeattle

3 years

Guy Fieri has raised $21.5 million for unemployed restaurant workers, which means Guy Fieri has done more for unemployed restaurant workers than Congress has in the last 8 months.

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“Dublin was built by immigrants!” “Huh?” “Read a history book!” “You mean the Vikings?” “Yeah” “The Vikings who sacked the monasteries, burned precious medieval manuscripts, and made a slave port here. That’s the precedent you’re invoking here?”

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

3 years

Cowardice is being so afraid of your audience that you knowingly lie to them.

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The Cowardice of 'Never Trump' Exposed.

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@michaelbd

2 years

This “children need N95s” shit has to be stomped out mercilessly

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4 years

Fuck you

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@engadget

4 years

Get ready to eat bugs if you want to live beyond 2050

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1 year

LOL. Not beating Fetterman is embarrassing.

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7 years

Fathers. Just a check in the mail.

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4 years

My 5 year old was watching CNN and freaked. “The great tradition of nationality is being extinguished before me,” raising her voice, “by the Left-Right ambidextrous monster of homo economicus. Tapper is talking about tickets from Iowa. But we are trustees of a civilization.”

Chris Murphy 🟧

@ChrisMurphyCT

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My 11 year just nearly had a heart attack when he saw the exit polls in Iowa saying health care was the number one issue. “Not climate change?” he moans. “It’s like the the house is on fire and all people care about is doing renovations.”

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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3 years

"Follow up, Mr. President: Are they maybe coming because you're so handsome too?"

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

4 years

“That strange revolution which sees the sons of the bourgeois throw cobblestones at the sons of proletarians." - Jean Cau on Paris 1968, and today.

Ian Miles Cheong

@stillgray

4 years

Black Lives Matter protesters at the NY CHAZ brag about their college educations and mock the police for being uneducated, working class, illiterate rubes. They also call a black cop “black Judas” or race traitor.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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It’s pretty obvious that people who worked themselves into a neuroses are having an emotional spiral in light of their positive test and mild symptoms, and clogging up essential services. We need to slow the spread of mental illness.

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4 years

It's wild to see polarization on Coronavirus. One group's panic seems to be driving another's nonchalance and vice versa.

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4 months

The results are in from Iowa, and after 78 years we can declare the Baby Boom a mistake.

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2 years

Hey, so did they catch the guy that raped the Ohio ten year old yet?

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4 years

Just 2 nuclear powers representing 40 percent of the planet’s population having words.

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Indian Army confirms 20 deaths. Toll could go up further.

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2 years

91 percent eligible population vaccinated.

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@michaelbd

2 years

RIP Bob Dole. Amazing that 25 years ago his age was a constant issue in the presidential campaign. And yet he outlived Joe Biden.

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1 year

Losers: Trump, all non-Generic Republicans, Trafalgar. Who else? Winners: DeSantis, Generic Sweater-Vest Republicans, Normie Dems. Biden.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

4 months

People got mad when they sacrificed first Amendment rights like worshipping together only to see the other side-including public health officials- declare the pandemic rules optional so long as you were protesting on behalf of George Floyd.

David Roberts

@drvolts

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"We all need to sacrifice a bit, undergo some inconvenience, to protect the weakest among us." They try to pin it on Fauci or school closings or whatever, but really it was just that -- that basic call for solidarity -- that enraged the right. Fundamental brainstem rage.

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4 years

We aren’t a nation that is divided into two distinct camps, shut-ins and exiteers. Looking more closely you see a relatively united nation of people struggling in good will between two valid impulses and a lack of evidence about how to navigate them.

A Plea for Generosity | National Review

Be charitable to your fellow Americans, because they’re just like you: trying to live the best they can while the coronavirus remains a threat.

www.nationalreview.com

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

@michaelbd

4 years

An absolute horror. Congrats to @Disney on filming here.

Catholic News Agency

@cnalive

4 years

“We’d go village to village, gather all the women, and herd them on to tractors,” the doctor said. “Young women were fitted with contraceptive devices. Pregnant women would have to have an abortion and sterilization.”

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It’s not a good sign when you have to make the guy you beat years ago the primary subject.

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