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Managing editor @TheProspect . Cohost & producer of @LeftAnchor podcast:

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@ryanlcooper
ryan cooper
2 years
they're never going to forgive this women for being braver than them
@Phil_Lewis_
philip lewis
2 years
The mother who rescued her two boys from the #Uvalde gunman says she’s being harassed by cops at her own home Angeli Rose Gomez said she had to separate from her boys "just so my sons don't feel like they have to watch cops passing by, stopping”
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ryan cooper
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no idea what Elon is going to do with this thing, but it is pretty alarming that one dude can spend the GDP of Botswana and buy up a central global artery of communications on a random whim
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ryan cooper
2 years
just reading up on how Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.) met his wife
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ryan cooper
6 years
you better call your senator dude, this doesn't sound good
@JeffFlake
Jeff Flake
6 years
I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful.
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ryan cooper
7 years
I'll take 1/2 my kids candy, store it in a Cyprus tax shelter, then declare bankruptcy to teach her about capitalism
@DonaldJTrumpJr
Donald Trump Jr.
7 years
I’m going to take half of Chloe’s candy tonight & give it to some kid who sat at home. It’s never to early to teach her about socialism.
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ryan cooper
2 years
conservatives are in their absolute favorite place right now, snatching away the liberty of millions while also squalling about how they're the real victim
@megynkelly
Megyn Kelly
2 years
The pathetic spineless leak of a draft SCOTUS opinion has the feel of something a sad little woke 20-something-year-old would do. The kind of person who thinks their personal agenda is “more important.” Whoever did it should lose their law license.
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1 year
Lord give me the confidence of this terf lecturing a porn star about what her own genitals look like
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ryan cooper
3 years
the narrative that iced up wind turbines are behind the Texas blackout is total bullshit. in fact wind was overproducing estimates yesterday
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2 years
man, when I was a kid casual homophobia was absolutely rampant but we never had anything like this
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ryan cooper
2 years
still incredible to me that neither of New York's airports has a direct subway link. can somebody figure that out
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ryan cooper
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ICE deported a guy to Iraq who was not born there, never lived there, spoke no Arabic, and HAD TYPE 1 DIABETES. he died
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1 year
the fact that CNN is now Fox News Lite, and a fascist Afrikaner blew $44 billion to turn Twitter into stormfront, tends to demonstrate how important right-wingers think control of the media is
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ryan cooper
3 years
happy birthday to Trayvon Martin, who would have been 26 today
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2 years
it was an assassination. they just straight up murked an American journalist
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ryan cooper
1 year
yup. for those who don't know, Dan White was the guy who assassinated Harvey Milk
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Tom Scocca
1 year
"Dan White Society" was young Tucker Carlson's joke about how it's funny to murder gay people. This is what he's about.
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ryan cooper
2 years
"I have done several abortions on women who have regularly picketed my clinics, including a 16 year old schoolgirl who came back to picket the day after her abortion, about three years ago."
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ryan cooper
3 years
solidarity, folks
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ryan cooper
4 years
this was a revealing moment
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ryan cooper
5 years
hoW wiLL we aFForD meDicaRe for aLL
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ryan cooper
2 years
so basically the only condition of Musk buying Twitter was that he's not supposed to disparage the company in the meantime, and he's been doing that nonstop ever since, do I have the right?
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2 years
I didn't appreciate how Biden has all but halted the drone war, especially compared to Trump
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ryan cooper
3 years
realizing that the 30 year mortgage is basically middle class rent control unlocked a lot of things in my thinking
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ryan cooper
2 years
lefties cut Fetterman some slack because he has a good vibe, but they also do it because he brutally crushed the party establishment's handpicked future pharma lobbyist
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ryan cooper
4 years
incredible that this article does not mention the US lack of paid family leave, a child allowance, or free day care
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ryan cooper
6 years
soaking broke-ass grad students to pay for a private jet subsidy. all out class war on the 99 percent
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ryan cooper
1 year
the palpable eagerness of Very Serious political reporters to see a huge GOP victory was something else
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ryan cooper
4 years
I will not vote for Mike Bloomberg against Trump
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ryan cooper
6 years
tired: abolish ICE wired: prosecute ICE
@SimonWDC
Simon Rosenberg
6 years
This is an extraordinary scandal. One in five migrant kids recently placed by HHS into “foster care or whatever” have been lost.
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ryan cooper
5 years
howling
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ryan cooper
3 years
the nursing subreddit is full of dire stories. the stress of the pandemic is just burning up medical staff
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ryan cooper
4 years
TIL @JoeBiden was instrumental in halting a @BernieSanders effort to stop Big Pharma from price-gouging with publicly-funded research
@ryangrim
Ryan Grim
4 years
Wellstone's amendment comes to the Senate floor, where there's a motion to table it, which means kill it. Joe Biden votes to table it. It's defeated. /5
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ryan cooper
4 years
care to reconsider this one Nate
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Nate Silver
4 years
It's not at all beyond question and people who say it's beyond question don't know what they're taking about.
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ryan cooper
3 years
. @BernieSanders sticking up for the good ol minor leagues
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ryan cooper
5 years
in countries where they have the rule of law, this is called "bank fraud"
@Fahrenthold
David Fahrenthold
5 years
NEW: How did @realDonaldTrump inflate his net worth to lenders? --Added 10 stories to Trump Tower. --Added 800 acres to his winery. --Added 24 ready-to-sell lots to his property in CA. We've got (some of the) inflated docs investigators now want to see.
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ryan cooper
2 years
Dems have not been able to get more than a handful of Republicans on anything for 20 years, but the leadership can't accept the implications of this, so they invent reasons why it's The Left's fault
@cascamike
mike casca
2 years
an absolutely bonkers paragraph here from thomas friedman that, sadly, summarizes how too many in power inside the democratic party feel. if you want to understand why cuellar is backed by so many, this is 50% why. the other 50% is he’s a reliable vote for the billionaire agenda.
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ryan cooper
4 years
there is some stuff to chew on in here but this nitpicking would be far better directed at the NYT's own routinely-dogshit political coverage
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ryan cooper
3 years
pretty clear at this point that if Republicans control Congress in 2024 a Democrat will not be allowed to win the presidential election. simple as that
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ryan cooper
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absolutely incredible find from @MattBruenig here about @marcorubio 's atrocious ""paid leave"" policy
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ryan cooper
1 year
flexible spending accounts are one of the most baffling policy ideas out there. who even came up with this
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ryan cooper
4 years
so Warren is coming in 3rd in her own state and may have tipped Biden into victory in Maine and Minnesota. what exactly is the point here
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ryan cooper
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tired: IRS builds free tax filing software wired: IRS becomes the national payroll processor so most people never have to file anything
@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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The IRS has quietly built its own prototype system to allow Americans to file tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to three current and former agency officials, essentially creating government software that could disrupt the industry.
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3 years
Thailand and Vietnam have absolutely rinsed all of so-called western civilization on this thing
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@opinonhaver anecdotally a decent number of them have exclusively used mobile OSs which make it incredibly annoying to even find the file system
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ryan cooper
4 years
half of Bernie's family was murdered in the Holocaust, while this lady has celebrated her Nazi collaborator grandfather. so, both sides,
@dcexaminer
Washington Examiner
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Sen. @BernieSanders may be ethnically Jewish, but @TianaTheFirst says his campaign is rapidly turning out to be the most anti-Semitic in decades.
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2 years
you gotta be kidding me
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ryan cooper
3 years
America using its vast wealth to buy up a huge chunk of the vaccines only for them to spoil en masse because the country is too politically diseased to take them or give them away to poor nations being wrecked by Delta, that's the good old USA alright
@tonyleys
Tony Leys
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Despite the delta variant's threat, Iowa demand for COVID vaccine has dropped more than 90% since April, and state may soon have to start tossing tens of thousands of expiring doses. via @DMRegister
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ryan cooper
2 years
airstrikes are still virtually at a standstill compared to Biden's two predecessors
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ryan cooper
2 years
just straight up stealing Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves in a cynical political stunt while the country slides deeper into famine. tantamount to mass murder
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Breaking News: President Biden is moving to split $7 billion in frozen Afghan central bank assets between 9/11 victims’ families and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. The highly unusual set of moves is expected to be announced on Friday.
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ryan cooper
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set up Jim Crow dictatorships in swing states, and use them as a springboard to seize permanent control of the federal government. that's the plan
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ryan cooper
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for fucks sake
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ryan cooper
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Markey's been a party man for 40 years, doing what progressives are "supposed" to do -- work within the system. here's the thanks he gets
@greggiroux
Greg Giroux
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Joe Kennedy received a $5,000 campaign contribution yesterday from Speaker Nancy Pelosi's PAC To The Future, per FEC filing today: #masen #mapoli
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ryan cooper
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it's an apartheid state. straight from the horse's mouth
@haaretzcom
Haaretz.com
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'Israel belongs to Jews alone': Netanyahu responds to TV star who said Arabs are equal citizens
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ryan cooper
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lose the popular vote by more than 8 points, win 64 percent of the seats. open authoritarianism
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ryan cooper
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1) SF narrowly elects a mildly reformist DA 2) enraged SFPD stops enforcing the law in response 3) media blames DA for modest increase in crime 4) right-wing big money funds a recall effort, w/centrist assist 5) new DA restores total cop impunity
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Brendon Woods
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New SF DA just fired staff responsible for the prosecution of cops, the resentencing of people found to be innocent & data transparency. None of these decisions will increase public safety. They'll just increase the number of people caged in jail & prison
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ryan cooper
4 years
a hearty thanks to Barack Obama for dumping Islamophobic oppo on Keith Ellison so disciplined organizational mastermind Tom Perez could run the DNC
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ryan cooper
5 years
classic fascist propaganda technique: whip up a storm of murder frenzy, then operatically play the wounded victim
@RepDanCrenshaw
Rep. Dan Crenshaw
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This week was a new low in partisanship & dishonesty. I watched in disbelief as some covered for Omar by coming after me with lies & absurd claims that I don’t support 9/11 victims. What a disgusting, dishonest tactic. Why turn this into a political football? Full NBC int:
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ryan cooper
2 years
gotta be the most purely wasteful invention in human history
@Noahpinion
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦
2 years
Bitcoin's energy usage is currently estimated at around 130 TWh per year, approximately equal to the entire energy consumption of Sweden. The price of BTC has fallen by 2/3, but energy use has only fallen by 1/3.
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ryan cooper
2 years
the point of the "groomer" blood libel is to whip up terrorist attacks on LGBT people, and it is working
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Well that didn't take long. We decided to take a trip on Amtrak with the kids for spring break. 9 hours into a pleasant ride, a man was suddenly standing next to me, shouting across me at my 6yo son, "Remember what I told you. They stole you. They're pedophiles." 🧵
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ryan cooper
3 years
credit where due, striking entirely the right tone here
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philip lewis
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Joe Scarborough went off on Capitol police live on MSNBC: “You opened the fucking doors for em!”
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ryan cooper
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delightful post about how Danish unions broke McDonald's over their knees
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ryan cooper
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doing some book edits and man I forgot how Microsoft Word is the worst program ever made by man
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ryan cooper
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as a journalist, it's important to be clear that if a source pisses you off online then you are going to publish all your private communications with them
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can't decide what is better, RBG not retiring in 2013 years after getting both colon and pancreatic cancer, or Breyer *still* not retiring
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ryan cooper
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looks like we're not getting Omicron-specific vaccines because Congress can't get funding passed
@MattGertz
Matthew Gertz
2 years
Moderna and Pfizer are developing updated vaccines tailored to the newer variants, but...
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ryan cooper
2 years
so weird. maybe if we give the cops *even more* money they will stop not doing their jobs
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ryan cooper
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every time I point this out the main reaction is astonishment. both Biden's people and the press are falling down at communicating a real basic fact about the world
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ryan cooper
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airstrikes are still virtually at a standstill compared to Biden's two predecessors
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ryan cooper
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@pblest every accusation is a confession, it seems
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ryan cooper
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Klobuchar clearly shares our visceral hatred of Mayor Pete. not really sensible to attack him but she can't stand him. respect
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ryan cooper
6 years
extremely 2018 America moment is bleeping out the cursing in a school shooting video, but not the gunshots
@CBSEveningNews
CBS Evening News
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JUST IN (warning, disturbing video): Cell phone video inside the school as shots were going off at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
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ryan cooper
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still chuckling at "antifa is an idea, not an organization"
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ryan cooper
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getting a sneaking suspicion that the right-wing UK press is a bit biased against Labour
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ryan cooper
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it is nice to see out in the open what the establishment requires for a career in Dem politics
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ryan cooper
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Joe Biden "was personally involved in almost every bad policy decision of the last 40 years"
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ryan cooper
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nationalizing Tesla is in the best interests of the people imo
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
4 years
Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo
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ryan cooper
6 years
BREAKING: Koch-funded libertarian think tank analysis finds that Medicare for all would save $300 billion over 10 years
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ryan cooper
5 years
all else aside, a great example of why tipping is bad. people like Brooks love using money to dominate the lower classes. if waiters just got a living wage they wouldn't have to bow and scrape to every asshole who walks in the door
@nytdavidbrooks
David Brooks
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Waiters are 87% friendlier as they hand me the bill and I’m about to decide the tip amount than they are at any other point in the meal.
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ryan cooper
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absolutely *howling* errors in here. Taibbi mixed up a government agency and a nonprofit and overstated the number of tweets flagged for takedown by a factor of ~7,600
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ryan cooper
4 years
"One of the sex pics problems started when Jerry [Falwell] was sending some nudes of Becki to Ben and accidentally cc’d most of the executive staff of Liberty University."
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ryan cooper
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"After a Republican lawmaker was accused of sexually assaulting 15- and 16-year-old girls he had taught and coached, he was made chairman of the House education committee."
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ryan cooper
6 years
ICE is deporting its political opponents
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ryan cooper
5 years
in the #DemDebate , it was clearly Bernie and Warren against the other candidates *and* the moderators -- and they won easily
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ryan cooper
7 years
get a load of Henry David Thoreau over here
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ryan cooper
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"A newly-unearthed photo of Sen. Kelly Loeffler with yet another leader of a Georgia white supremacist group undermines Loeffler’s claim that she didn’t know the former KKK leader"
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ryan cooper
1 year
"we don't think the courts will allow us to do it so we're going to preemptively fold" is such beta shit
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ryan cooper
3 years
they actually ... learned? from a mistake?
@mikememoli
Mike Memoli
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Manchin says on Morning Joe that Biden told him, we can’t do what we did in 2009 and negotiate for 9 months only to have Republicans still not vote for package in the end
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turns out Dallas cops lied about suffocating a mentally ill guy to death. they laughed and mocked him while he begged for mercy
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