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Head writer, Daily Show. RT = Randy Travis. All opinions expressed here reflect the views of Randy Travis. iamdanamira @gmail .com

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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
11 months
This is a piece I wrote for the New Yorker about all the sick fucks who can’t stop thinking about the Roman Empire
@newyorkerhumor
The New Yorker Humor
11 months
8:30 a.m.—I hop on the L train for my commute to work. 8:32 a.m.—It occurs to me that if the L were a subway in the Roman Empire it would be called the 50 train. I chuckle.
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@DanAmira
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4 years
Weird that Dr. Fauci has worked under 6 presidents and has never needed a security detail before
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60 Minutes
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Once an avid runner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, power walks. Since receiving death threats, he is now accompanied by a security detail.
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Can’t believe the creators of the monster have lost control of the monster, is there any precedent for this in books or film
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4 years
REAL men don’t need a MASK when we go to the store because we’re not SCARED. All we need is an ASSAULT RIFLE and maybe a ROCKET LAUNCHER in case the YOGURT tries anything STUPID
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6 years
I used to think the government was bad, but now I think it is good
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1 year
This is officially the whitest trial of all time
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New York Post
1 year
Gwyneth Paltrow ski crash victim can’t enjoy wine tastings due to injuries, expert says
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1 year
I decided today that I’m going to see if I can find the restaurant with the highest number of brothers. I am on strike and have nothing better to do with my time. Please join me.
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5 years
JORAH: I'll lead the first charge. BRIENNE: I'll command the left flank. GREY WORM: The Unsullied shall protect the gate. BRAN: How cool would it be to fly around and just do like, general bird stuff
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5 years
Trump is stone cold sober but all his ideas sound like something you come up with when you’re super high: - we should just nuke the hurricanes - how much would it cost to buy Greenland - hear me out: SPACE FORCE - fuck it let’s order 600 burgers
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7 years
I swear if Trump randomly, like, tripped on a squirrel or something we'd find an old tweet of his saying only fat losers trip on squirrels
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
11 years
The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!
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7 years
In 1980 Trump demolished two historic sculptures bc removing them intact would have delayed construction of Trump Tower by a week and a half
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
7 years
...the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!
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8 years
did anyone do this yet
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Kamala is absolutely a DEI hire: -Democrat who -Exists -In the context of all in which she lives and what came before her
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2 years
If you ever doubt that you can change your path in life, just remember that this person went on to become the Senate's top defender of hedge funders and private equity #inspiring #inspiration
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4 years
RESEARCHER: In front of you is one marshmallow. But if you can wait 15 minutes, I'll give you-- TRUMP: (eats marshmallow and researcher)
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1 year
I’m weeping. I miss my family.
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2 months
I don’t even know what to say
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6 years
Huh, weird
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1 year
I’m scared. I wish I never started this. I want it to be over. This is a cursed thread.
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4 years
Save this tweet: Trump will come out within the next 48 hours and play the hero by calling for Stars and Stripes to be saved, while tweeting something like “Nobody supports our troops more than Trump!”
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7 years
Why a couple earning $500,000 a year can still find it hard to get by
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1 year
Gonna spend the rest of my life searching for a 16 Brothers deli and also terrified that I might find it
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1 year
Who is giving birth to all these brothers
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1 year
Maybe there is no upper limit to restaurant brothers. Maybe it’s infinite. Maybe we aren’t meant to know.
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8 years
TRUMP: The hand towels on Air Force One aren't soft enough WHITE WORKING CLASS: This guy gets me.
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Dan Amira
1 year
I feel like I’m going insane
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1 year
Gonna go one brother at a time
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1 year
This is absolute madness
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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
6 years
If you use a dollar sign you don't need to also write the word "dollars." The dollar sign means dollars.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!
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8 years
Canada signed the wrong line on the Japanese WWII surrender document and now it looks like shit, thanks Canada
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1 year
Getting to be a lot of brothers but this was expected
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1 year
All right what the fuck
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1 year
No surprises so far
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1 year
@rayyyynell This guy is trying to jump on the brother bandwagon and I don’t appreciate it
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1 year
Fine, sure
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1 year
Gotta be getting close to the end now…
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1 year
Come on really
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@DanAmira
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6 years
Mexican directors have won 5 of the last 6 Oscars for Best Director. Pretty wild.
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7 years
Wow congrats, the woman is 87 years old
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1 year
I…I think it’s over. I’m covered in sweat.
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Dan Amira
2 months
I have no idea if replacing Biden will work but it is increasingly clear that not replacing Biden will not work
@Redistrict
Dave Wasserman
2 months
NEW: @CookPolitical is shifting six Electoral College ratings towards Republicans. AZ: Toss Up to Lean R GA: Toss Up to Lean R MN: Likely D to Lean D #NE02 : Likely D to Lean D NH: Likely D to Lean D NV: Toss Up to Lean R Full analysis by @amyewalter :
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Dan Amira
1 year
Well, guess what this means in Portuguese
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1 year
Fuck yes, let’s do this, I fear nothing anymore
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Dan Amira
3 months
Just remember: whoever tweets the verdict first will be remembered in history forever. Good luck everyone.
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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
4 years
The governor of Florida left his beaches open for spring break, against the advice of everyone, and now he's blaming his state's coronavirus outbreak on (spins wheel) New York
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Dan Amira
2 months
Getting a lot of “Prigozhin stopping short of Moscow” vibes from Congressional Democrats right now
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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
8 years
When Donald Trump calls your wife ugly and accuses your dad of killing JFK and you speak at his convention anyway
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Dan Amira
7 years
Please take a minute today to remind anyone you might know in the Wichita, Kansas, area that there's a special election this Tuesday, 4/11.
@thehill
The Hill
7 years
Republicans suddenly sweating election in deep-red Kansas district
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6 years
@zhubinparang Did you not see the 10 bucks? Whatever they do to me now was worth it
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1 year
I think I’m stuck again. Please, everyone, I am putting out a worldwide call for some kind of food establishment involving 18 Brothers. It can be a restaurant, a deli, a food truck, a caterer, whatever. I need this. I can’t go back to the way things were. We’ve come too far.
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6 years
“Actually there is no heaven. When you die you just rot in the ground and get eaten by worms. Okay Merry Christmas, Timmy.”
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2 years
They forgot Bob Saget btw
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5 years
I hadn’t seen this full Giuliani quote from May. It’s pretty wild. He just states the whole thing out loud.
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Dan Amira
9 months
Biden needs to start tweeting every day like Trump used to— LOW UNEMPLOYMENT. 14 MILLION NEW JOBS. DEFEATED INFLATION AND MADE “SOFT LANDING,” THE BIDEN-HATING MEDIA SAID IT COULDN’T BE DONE. STOCK MARKET AT ALL TIME HIGHS. YOU’RE WELCOME! ENJOY YOUR 401K!
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3 years
Sucks that Joe Rogan has been canceled. Will be interesting to hear what he says about it to his 11 million listeners the next time he hosts the world’s most popular podcast
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8 years
Imagine explaining to a child refugee that the richest strongest country in the world is scared to let him inside. We're pathetic.
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5 years
Very touching moment
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8 years
How come when celebrities drink at the Golden Globes it's "fun" and "humanizing" but when I drink it's "scaring the other IKEA customers"?
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2 years
@TheNBACentral @ShamsCharania That’s very generous of them
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8 years
He's great he's great he's great he's great he's great he's great highly overrated
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4 years
It’s a gift and a curse
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
The United States of America will NOT be cutting funding to @starsandstripes magazine under my watch. It will continue to be a wonderful source of information to our Great Military!
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(guy who learned what Bagram was 40 seconds ago) I can’t believe we didn’t keep Bagram. What a classic blunder. Unfathomable to not keep Bagram.
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1 year
After spending all last night fever-dreaming about brothers, I woke up this morning hoping for some solid brother leads, and Twitter did not disappoint. But whether they qualify is another question. Let’s start with 18 Hermanos in Mexico
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Zac Reed
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@DanAmira Free range eggs… 🤷‍♂️
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10 years
*Tim Duncan fills glass with milk* "Hm, you know what..." *adds squirt of chocolate syrup* "Tonight's a special night."
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1 year
And…Roman, I guess. Look, it counts.
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Dan Amira
6 years
The Daily Show writers won @hqtrivia today and all it took was an entire room of people working together plus one person googling stuff really fast plus an extra life. This is our reaction to winning $3.34 split 12 ways
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7 years
WHOA, Steve Bannon is now on the senate floor sucking himself off, I think this is a good omen
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Dan Amira
4 years
For a long time the smoke detector was silent and then all of a sudden it starts beeping, this is why smoke detectors are bad
@Acyn
Acyn
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Trump: Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of the sudden today she tested positive... This is why the whole concept of tests aren’t necessarily great
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Dan Amira
5 years
Me leaving a boring conversation
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Dan Amira
3 years
I just don't think dogs should be making tax policy, I'm sorry
@JStein_WaPo
Jeff Stein
3 years
Major Biden tax hikes eyed for next bill (not final) include: - Corporate rate 21->28% - Global min tax to 21% - Top income rate to 39.6% - End fossil fuel subsidies - Tax investment gains > $1M as wage income - Tax assets passed on at death NO to SALT
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5 years
Brutal. There’s no recovering from this.
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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
6 years
Racial disparities aside, the idea that it's beneficial to society to lock someone up -- black or white -- for 5 years, break up a family for 5 years, foot the bill for 5 years of prison, all for one accidental vote, is so insane it makes me want to walk straight into the sea
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5 years
Dude in the last Christmas song gave his heart to someone who gave it away literally the NEXT DAY. Didn’t even need to mull it over, just got rid of it immediately. How do you misjudge a situation that badly
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Dan Amira
7 years
Weird, I distinctly remember there being a 2016
@FoxNews
Fox News
7 years
Trump wiping out terrorists
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Dan Amira
6 years
The woman who got the heavy prison sentence broke the law accidentally. The woman who got no prison time broke the law on purpose.
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Dan Amira
4 years
It took Trump longer to condemn the riots than it took Axe body spray
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AXE
4 years
We'd rather be lonely than with that mob. AXE condemns yesterday's acts of violence and hate at the Capitol. We believe in the democratic process and the peaceful transition of power.
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Dan Amira
4 years
Time for Mike Pence to step up for the country and play 4 rounds of golf this weekend
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
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Dan Amira
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You can tell when Trump did something bad because everyone in your feed starts using the phrase "the republic"
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Dan Amira
2 years
@elonmusk @mrddmia I agree it should be illegal to not give money to the world’s richest man
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7 years
Trump is spending Christmas faving his old tweets
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Dan Amira
2 years
Nobody who spent this much time around bongo drums had ever gone on to devote their life to the carried interest loophole, it's historic
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Dan Amira
11 years
Your wife is waiting for you to die RT @realDonaldTrump I love watching the dishonest writers @NYMag suffer the magazine’s failure.
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5 years
Dr. Phil’s house looks like if the Temple of Doom had a lobby bar
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Dan Amira
9 years
The year is 2046. After decades of each party refusing to confirm the other's nominees, the Supreme Court consists entirely of Elena Kagan.
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Dan Amira
8 years
Imagine the recount actually gives the election to Hillary. I'd get on a boat and sail into the ocean and stay there until the war was over.
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Dan Amira
8 years
As Team Clinton talks up potential landslide, please remember that this is the defining clip of the 2016 election
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Dan Amira
9 years
They already had a voice. They elected Obama.
@lesleyclark
lesley clark
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McConnell: “The American people should have a voice ...vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
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Dan Amira
1 year
Another intriguing option is 18 Brothers Hookah Bar. At first glance this seems like a winner, but again, when this started I was looking for restaurants. Many hookah bars do serve food, but it’s not clear if this one does.
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3 years
A huge part of America's labor shortage is people quitting their jobs so they can be available in case JFK Jr. comes back to life in the middle of a weekday
@stevanzetti
steven monacelli
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It's now past 12:29. At 12:29, the crowd recited the Pledge if Allegiance. No JFK Jr. yet.
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Dan Amira
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"So you're telling me the JFK investigation is over but the Trump investigation is still ongoing? How is this possible?" -- John McCain
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7 years
This is so fucked up. I am NEVER flying @united again, unless they are the cheapest flight available, or have the most convenient times
@BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed
7 years
A man was dragged off a United Plane after the airline overbooked the flight
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@dccc @JoeBiden would love to give you my two cents on this graph
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Dan Amira
4 years
Gingrich is ready to ditch the Constitution like it’s a sick wife
@joshtpm
Josh Marshall
4 years
So on Fox Gingrich advises President Trump to have Bill Barr arrest election workers in Pennsylvania and then have the state legislature throw out the results of the election.
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The AP: Yo did you hear about that baby walrus who got cuddles Me: No The AP: He died.
@AP
The Associated Press
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A walrus calf that was found miles from the ocean on Alaska’s North Slope and received cuddles as part of his care after being rescued has died.
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Dan Amira
4 years
🚨Attention procrastinators🚨 If you’re not registered to vote, you can do it ON Election Day in: California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Hawaii Idaho Illinois Iowa Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Montana Nevada New Hampshire R.I. Utah Vermont Washington Wisconsin Wyoming
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18 Hermanos does produce eggs, which is food. But it doesn’t look like they SERVE food, and I think that’s the bare minimum we’re looking for here. So unfortunately I don’t think this counts. Adios.
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Dan Amira
2 years
This photo makes it look like Prince William came to America to get a hair transplant and it went really badly and nobody is telling him
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Dan Amira
7 years
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was stunned. They had hoped to add the sculptures to its collection. "They'll never be made again."
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Dan Amira
1 year
Their Instagram page seems to be their only internet footprint and it’s almost entirely just photos of hookahs. According to the bio you can rent it for a birthday party or marriage party but maybe you’d have to bring in outside food? I will report back if I find out more
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@DanAmira
Dan Amira
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1 - I published this blog post in 2013, incredible foresight on my part 2 - The actual reporting is by the GOP-aligned New York Post 3 - The source is RFK Jr’s journal
@catturd2
Catturd ™
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Lol - they’re desperate.
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