Sam Sanders @samsanders Twitter profile

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Sam Sanders

8 years

Whenever u think ur carrying the weight of the world on ur shoulders, stop, take a deep breath & remind urself--that's not how gravity works

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Jimmy Fallon

@jimmyfallon

3 years

Let’s be very clear, what we saw yesterday was an attack on our country and on democracy. This was an act of terrorism - not patriotism.

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Really don’t understand why 2020 is trying to be 1918 and 1968 at the same time.

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Dear everyone who is uncomfortable right now: that’s the point.

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Sam Sanders

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3 years

Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you don’t have to wait for a global pandemic to wash your hands

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Donald Trump just shared a video of a supporter yelling “White Power” and I can’t help but be angry all over again at all the editors who kept their reporters of color from using the word “racist” for the last several years.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

I usually don’t write back. But sometimes I do.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

My brother in Christ, you are… a sitting US House member…

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.

@JamaalBowmanNY

2 years

Sending nothing but love to Nia Long. We’re not letting a man, who didn’t recognize the luxury her presence was, dim all her beauty and glory. Matter of fact, we need a Nia Long national holiday!

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

Twitter is very nice some days

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

One thing I’ll say about @politico : they don’t hold vital reporting hostage until a book release

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

“That’s not what I meant.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., probably

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

7 years

Can we finally stop pretending America will eventually "age out" of racism? Lot of those guys in Charlottesville look pretty young to me.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

It’s like an Onion article

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

I hope this email never finds you. I hope you are hidden. Hidden in rest and relaxation. I hope your Outlook crashes and that you just spend the rest of the day outside. I hope you don’t think about emails while you’re there. I hope you are free.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Gonna burn some sage around my TV

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

No other professional athlete in US history has been asked more completely stupid questions over the course of their career.

Bleacher Report

@BleacherReport

5 years

Serena was asked about whether she should stop fighting for equality and focus on tennis Her response: “The day I stop fighting for equality and for people that look like you and me will be the day I’m in my grave.”

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Sam Sanders

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3 years

One of the worst outcomes of this political moment is that it’s led a lot of us to mistake decency for bravery.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

I need to know I’m not alone. Who else is NOT watching Game of Thrones tonight?

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

A lot of y’all haven’t googled Marianne Williamson yet and it shows.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

There’s a lot I can’t say right now and a lot that I’ll probably never say but know this: when a person of color working in audio/radio/podcasting is telling you how they’ve been hurt by the industry, believe them. Always believe them. We are not making this shit up.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

1 year

“Technically, it was 90% cheers” is one of the saddest and funniest things I’ve ever seen a billionaire write

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Jesus make it stop

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

The true appeal of Wordle is that it’s not too difficult. Most players win more than they lose. It’s a small daily win that is predictable and rarely overwhelming. What we all need more of these days are things that *aren’t too difficult* *THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK*

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

I can’t stop thinking about Elijah McClain

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Thinking a lot about Trayvon today and the courtesy never extended to him that many wish to extend to MAGA hat kid now.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Don’t say “suburban voters” when you mean “white suburban voters.” Don’t say evangelical voters when you mean “white evangelical voters.” Don’t say “working class voters” when you mean “white working class voters.” It’s best when journalists deal in specifics, not avoidance

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

1 year

“This doesn’t happen to people like me” is the most white privilege-iest thing to ever be uttered at an awards show ever for all time

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

“That’s not what I meant.” —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (probably)

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

1/ If your story abt "low black voter turnout" in states like Alabama doesn't include a discussion of laws that typically diminish black turnout in states like Alabama, it is incomplete, and most likely deceptive.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Y’all, it’s not the avocado toast. Or even the lattes.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Someone please find a way to livestream Bong Joon-Ho’s afterparty situation

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

1/ I've been thinking about this a lot the last few weeks, and I can't let it go. Dear everyone: Stop letting your bosses tell you the company is really "like a family." It's not, and that kind of talk is often used to manipulate employees, especially younger employees.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

I take it all back the Internet is perfect

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

I miss Mare and I really hope she is having a great Sunday and taking care of herself.

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Sam Sanders

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4 months

We always talk about classic Christmas movies, but are there any classic New Year’s movies? Please advise.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

Keep thinking of this exchange with @annkpowers and how it totally changed the way I’ll look @taylorswift13 going forward, in a good way

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

No it’s not. He built his political career on claiming the first Black President was born in Africa. This is not new for him.

Josh Rogin

@joshrogin

5 years

The President of the United States telling minority AMERICAN Congresswomen to go back to the countries they came from? This is a new, terrible, racist, sad low, even for Trump.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

I still think about them. I do.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

When your friend makes sense of it all in only one text

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Your job is not your life

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

1 year

What if the point of political journalism is not to predict outcomes but to clearly lay out what’s at stake in our political choices?

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

People who should not have to buy their own drinks this weekend: -Stacey Abrams -Steve Kornacki -Gritty

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

When groups of people who have experienced racism for centuries say, “Hey, that’s racist!” you could just believe them. Take them at their word. Trust their lived experience. That is a thing you could do.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

I was yesterday years old when I figured out that “BIPOC” actually does NOT mean “bisexual person of color.”

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Every day we stray further from God’s light

New Scientist

@newscientist

5 years

Creepy human-like skin makes your phone ticklish and pinchable

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

I have a problem with journalists who feel like their job is to publicly mourn a dead politician as if they’re family. It’s not. Stop being so damn sappy. We’re journalists, not paid funeral criers. We should ALWAYS hold politicians at a healthy remove, even in their deaths.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Trayvon Martin would have turned 25 years old today. Remember him. Say his name.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Where is Andy Cohen? He could handle this.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Some personal news: Abt a month and a half ago — in the midst of social distancing & pandemic life and WFH forever — I put my stuff in storage and went home to San Antonio. I’m closer to my momma and my brother and my nephew now. And I’ll be here as long as it feels right.

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Watching Kamala Harris drop out of the presidential race to avoid going into debt the same month Michael Bloomberg shoved his way into the competition with his billions means we should probably have a conversation about money in politics. But we probably won’t.

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Sam Sanders

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7 years

A Twitter drama, in four acts

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Today is one one those “let me not tweet that cuz I really need this job” kind of days...

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Kimmel playing dead on the ground right next to a black woman accepting her rightful place in the future of tv is such a stinging metaphor

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Every Zoom meeting should just be a phone call.

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

I love these two with all my heart and soul

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Everything is literally on fire and legacy newsrooms are telling reporters to watch out with their little tweets. It’s so dumb.

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

I will apologize to The New York Times for believing the Great Wordle Conspiracy when they apologize for telling me to put peas in my guacamole.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Stop yelling “Thank you Black women!” Give them your microphones instead.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

We're about three or four shutdowns away from the federal government becoming a seasonal pop-up

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Me in the Zoom tryna figure out if we’re having technical difficulties or if someone just forgot they’re on mute

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

Good morning! Don’t forget that the oldest Millennials are 38 at this point, so that snarky think piece you just wrote/read/shared is probably all wrong and just full of someone who hates the attributes of youth that have been a constant kind of since forever.

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Good morning! I think we should share pet photos today. I’ll start. Here’s mine, falling asleep while, I guess, studying for midterms?

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Tina Fey out here pullin' the scam of the century and I love it.

Variety

@Variety

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Tina Fey Announces Movie Adaptation of Broadway’s ‘Mean Girls’ Musical

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Sam Sanders

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6 years

Piece idea: what’s it like to walk around as a person of color, a Jew, or a member of the LGBTQ community in a political climate in which hate crimes against these groups have increased, in some cases astronomically. I’d do it but... oh, wait

Bethany S. Mandel

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Piece idea: what it’s like to drive around with a MAGA bumper sticker in a liberal enclave. I’d do it but I can’t afford to replace tires.

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Sam Sanders

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6 years

I really just want to quit everything and create a six-part investigative podcast about the actual, secret lives of the people who run social media for all the fast food places.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

6 years

Does threatening nuclear war on Twitter violate Twitter's terms of service?

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

Imagine a scenario in which the first-in-the-nation presidential caucus happened in a place that was as black or brown as Iowa is white. What do you think would happen?

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Flight agent getting people on this plane has been boarding every group most beautifully: “Now boarding group B, as in Bantu knots. Now boarding group C, as in cornrows.” Group D, as in dreadlocks.” I am trying to find out everything I can about this man. Will report back.

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Sam Sanders

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5 years

One of the most disappointing side effect of the Trump era is that it’s convinced us that decency is bravery.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Tell me your Weirdest eating/drinking habit you had as a kid! . I’ll go first: When I was like 8 years old, I used to carry a little bottle of apple cider vinegar around wherever I went, taking a swig every now and then like a lush w/his flask.

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Now That’s What I Call COVID Volume 7

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

If you pick the J. Cole-verse version of Beyoncé’s Party over the Andre 3000 version, I know everything I need to know about you.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

Sometimes Twitter works

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Tip. Tip everybody. Tip the guy who runs your apartment building. Tip your ride share driver. Tip the lady who delivered your food. Tip whoever cleaned your hotel room. Tip the person who changed the oil in your car. Tip your waiter. Tip the host/ess, as well. Always be tippin’!

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

In other news, I started a new job this week, and I already got some swag.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

I would like for white people to stop quoting MLK, at least for a few days.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

4 years

The most stinging truth of 2020 is seeing how unprepared the majority of newsrooms across the country are to adequately cover this moment. Whether for financial lack, or editorial misdirection, or antiquated views of what a journalist should be. Our industry is Just. Not. Ready.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

Black people are superhuman. We shouldn’t have to be.

Bobby Allyn

@BobbyAllyn

5 years

Wow I've never seen this before at a sentencing hearing: Botham Jean's brother asked the judge if he can hug Amber Guyger after a jury sentenced her to 10 years in state prison for killing his brother. He said he forgave her and they embraced as sobs rang out in the courtroom

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Gonna tell my kids this is America

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

10 months

I’ve been quiet on because my mother died a few days ago. The funeral was today in Texas. I’m sharing her obit here if you’d like to read more about her life. I’m also using this tweet to remind you to go hug a loved one today.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

He can’t tweet for 12 hours but he still has the nuke codes 🙃

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

1 year

You can mock the Grammys, but DO NOT mock the woman who made one of the greatest breakup songs of all time

Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me

Official Music Video for I Can’t Make You Love Me performed by Bonnie Raitt.#BonnieRaitt #ICantMakeYouLoveMe

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

The same David Brooks who appointed himself an expert on ethics and morals also left his wife and married the 20-something assistant who helped him write his book on ethics and morals. The book is called “The Road To Character,” and y’all I literally can’t.

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Need my prayer warriors to keep Wordle lifted up. Something is not right with her. I am troubled and we need intercession.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

We are the only species begging for our own extinction

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Sam Sanders

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8 years

NOT ALL MINORITIES LIVE IN INNER CITIES. NOT ALL MINORITIES LIVE IN INNER CITIES. NOT ALL MINORITIES LIVE IN INNER CITIES. NOT ALL MINOR...

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

“Subways are a good example” (He has never ridden a subway)

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

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@JohnnaCrider1 @stats_feed Underground tunnels are immune to surface weather conditions (subways are a good example), so it wouldn’t matter to Hyperloop if a hurricane was raging on the surface. You wouldn’t even notice.

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Elmo and Rocco

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

2 years

Who do you think should host this year’s Oscars?

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

New York Magazine Communications

@nymagPR

2 years

We are absolutely over the moon to announce @samsanders is joining @nymag to develop and host a flagship culture podcast for @vulture . Read more in @business :

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

5 years

All these candidates talking about what they’d do for Black people but what I really want to ask is if they’d ever send their children to a majority black public school if they were zoned for one.

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Twitter: I’m mad! Instagram: I’m hot! TikTok: I can dance! Facebook: I think I hate most of the people I grew up with…

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Sam Sanders

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5 years

Vine

The Immunity Haver

@JonIsAwesomest

5 years

Who has actually been "canceled" that didn't deserve it?

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

Peace

Macho Poppa 🐾

@poppahershey

2 years

Since women are known for stealing men’s hoodies, is there something men are known for taking from a woman’s home?

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Sam Sanders

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2 years

And another thing: anyone close to me knows I will TELL YOU — loudly and clearly — if and when I am constipated!!!

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

All of us pushing through 2021 without any time to recover from 2020

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Sam Sanders

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4 years

I will be laughing about this one for the rest of my life

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

3 years

Alec Baldwin listens to the show! Honored!!!

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Sam Sanders

@samsanders

2 years

. @hbomax has yet to let me down. I've LOVED -Sex Lives of College Girls -Euphoria -Righteous Gemstones -Hacks -The White Lotus -Succession -Love Life (Season 2!) -The Other Two -Insecure -A Black Lady Sketch Show I really can't think of another streamer THIS good, SO consistently

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This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen in my life

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