Eric Michael Garcia
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DC Bureau Chief @independent. @msnbc columnist. Author: We're Not Broken. @dailytarheel forever. Six-stringer. He/Him. [email protected]
Washington, DC
Joined March 2009
Some ~ personal news ~ I am excited to be working with @lbsparkbooks for my second book “Manly while Stimming,” an exploration of autism, manhood and how to create a healthy version of masculinity for #ActuallyAutistic men. Glad to continue working with @HJ_Lit for another one.
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White northerners will be like “OMG, the South is so racist.” My brother in Christ, you are from Boston.
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Update: this guy’s name is Parker Short and he is president of the Georgia Young Democrats.
My boy on the PBS News stream was going crazy for Not Like Us
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This is not an inspirational story. It is a tragedy that the law school did not give proper accommodations to this young lady and that her mother had to do all this.
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Back in the day, Lyndon Johnson allegedly tried to spread a rumor an opponent had carnal knowledge with a pig. His aide said “Christ, Lyndon," said the aide, "we can't just call the guy a pig-f**ker. It isn't true.” Johnson says “but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”.
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Lizzo went from living in her car to moving to Minnesota, earned her wealth and multiple Grammys and is a testament to hard work and success, while also expressing a genuine enthusiasm for history. Her story should be seen as an embodiment of conservative ideals.
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I am once again asking for the Hallmark Christmas movie where the high-powered lawyer who moved to the big city sees that her ex boyfriend from her small town is now on trial for being at the Capitol and her mom is completely redpilled sharing QAnon memes on Facebook.
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Capitol Fashion Update: @marypeltola was wearing these awesome Alaska Native boots that she said symbolize the fly for the winter time. These are from her own Yupik tribe.
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Reminder that the only reason Trump is back is because Mitch McConnell voted to acquit Trump after the January 6 riot.
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This was at an event celebrating the Americans with Disabilities Act. Harris was describing what she looked like for low-vision and blind people. A Republican President signed the ADA.
"I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.".
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This language used to cause lynchings.
Trump: "I'm angry about young American girls being raped and sodomized and murdered by savage criminal aliens"
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Autism in movies: He perfectly understood the Pentagon computer. Within seconds, he found the perfect code to intercept the Russian’s hacking of the main frame. Autism in real life: Why can’t anyone else hear the ringing from the air conditioning?.
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Democrats this past month after hearing Biden is too old
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In a weird way, we have a Kamala Harris-Donald Trump election because Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell made the opposite choice. Pelosi chose to shiv Biden, her friend, to save the party. McConnell voted to acquit Trump, whom he loathes, to hold onto power.
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Maybe give credit to the actual disabled person and give them agency. Disabled people do not need to be saved by Abled people. Shia is cool but he is not a saint for doing this.
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Absolutely absurd that Elon Musk calls Twitter a “public square” for free speech and now this app is censoring Pablo’s tweets showing the donors that Ted Cruz is wining and dining in DC and in New York.
NEW. Someone, presumably a staffer, left a folder full of briefing documents on TED CRUZ donors in the Senate Refectory. A THREAD 🧵.
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I am hearing that Kamala Harris is vetting Chloe, Sam, Sophia or Marcus.
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Why does John Fetterman, the larger politician, not simply EAT Ron DeSantis?.
Ron DeSantis is 5'7". John Fetterman is 6'8".
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Back in the day, a reporter asked Lyndon Johnson a question he thought was ridiculous, so he said “You’re talkin’ to the commander in chief of the most powerful military in the world, and you ask a chickenshit question like that?”.
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The most heartbreaking part of this whole thing is hearing Elijah McClain's mom Sheneen say "My son's name is cleared now. He's no longer a suspect. He's a victim." Imagine living with that burden.
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The old malarkey is is dying, and the new context struggles to be born: now is the time of coconuts.
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I asked @AOC what she thought should happen to members who asked for a pardon and she said “I think anyone who commits a crime should be prosecuted”.
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What is a fact that sounds like a shitpost but is 100 percent real?.
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North Carolina literally voted to amend its constitution to ban same sex marriage in 2012!!!.
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I had trouble sleeping after the debate. So I wrote this piece on Hunter Biden, @joebiden, Trump and addiction. Probably the most personal thing I have ever written.
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More interviews in Black churches and Black barbershops, fewer interviews in Iowa diners, please.
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LOL, today when I asked @BernieSanders "how confident are you," before even finishing my question, he said. "I'm not confident of anything, why don't you rephrase the question?".
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A lot of people with disability rights activists I know have said people are withholding lawsuits right now because they don't want the Supreme Court to gut the ADA.
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Tim Walz takes the stage. On top of talking about fertility treatments to have a family, Walz has spoken about not trying to fix his neurodivergent son, but helping him live a fulfilling life.
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Why am I not surprised that Ken Jeong, an actual doctor who went to Duke for undergrad and UNC Med who tries to push back on medical misinformation, walked off while Jenny McCarthy, who is responsible for spreading mountains of vaccine bullshit, is totally ok with this?.
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Kyrsten Sinema opposed changing the filibuster to allow for the codification of Roe.
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Gavin Newsom has an opportunity to do the funniest thing possible.
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A lot of people are tweeting about Jack Black supporting Autism Speaks. Rather than digging at Jack Black for supporting it, I think it's important to explain WHY Autism Speaks has become so prominent and why so many autistic people find it dispiriting.
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Reminder that @AOC's questioning of @MichaelCohen212 triggered Tish James's investigation when she asked "did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company." That led to Tish James's investigation which forced Trump to $364 million.
.@AOC uses her questioning time to ask follow-ups highlighting some figures in Trumpworld who could help answer questions raised by Cohen's testimony -- David Pecker and Allen Weisselberg among them
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This Labor Day, a reminder that federal law allows for employers to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage.
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Didn't Katie Hill resign for an unethical affair with a staffer and for leaked revenge porn photos? Didn't Al Franken resign for sexual misconduct?.
Some brief thoughts. 1. This is terrible behavior. 2. Were Falwell a Democrat, the media would call this a private matter. 3. The reason the media are so fascinated isn't because they hate the Falwells (though they do) but because they hate traditional moral standards.
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Apropos of nothing, one of the first things Nazi Germany did was wipe out the world’s first transgender clinic. This came at the same time at the T-4 program and served as a rough draft for extermination of Jews. My friend @bschillace wrote about this
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Eric Clapton wrote a whole album about being in love with his best friend’s wife.
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Credit to Phoenix Woman, who did one all the way from half court.
@reesetheone1 Here's a sleeper ticket: Walz/Harris or Harris/Walz.
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Meanwhile, when I spoke to @AOC about Manchin, she said, "Manchin has paused all action for the United States to act on climate for the last four years so I don't think he has any authority to speak on climate for the rest of our term here.".
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Manchin refused to answer any questions at all in the hallways. When I asked what he thought about Biden declaring a climate emergency, he said "Just get out of my way if you will.".
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This is the best advertisement for AOC’s 90 percent top marginal tax rate.
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El Paso is so overwhelmed with covid-19 deaths that it is using prison labor. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz is tweeting about Harry Styles, Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton. Seems like a good allocation of time.
I don’t really care about this particular controversy, but I feel obliged to point out one of the odder factoids of the past few years: on Jeffrey Epstein’s living-room wall, we learned, was an oil painting of Bill Clinton in a dress. I have no idea why.
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A lot of people don't realize that if a disabled person is on SSI, the federal government literally monitors their bank accounts, they cannot have more than $2,000 and they can't get married or they risk losing their benefits on SSI.
I'm proud to support a bill to raise the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) asset limit. Folks shouldn’t get penalized for setting aside some modest savings.
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Washington is weird, man. A literal coal Baron is responsible for the biggest environmental legislation in this century while a former Green Party activist who wore a tutu to protest the Iraq War nearly tanked it to protect the private equity industry.
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I love LA.
Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:. ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?. HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck.
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Who was your first big celebrity crush? Be completely honest. Nothing can be too embarrassing.
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One sign of the lack of a Biden footprint: How little he changed our cultural language. Bush had "strategery." Obama had "Let me be clear." Trump has "many such cases" and "Open the schools!" What does Biden have?.
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For the last YEAR, we have heard McCarthy, Jim Jordan and Stefanik blame Pelosi for the riot or the lack of security when her life was threatened. This clearly shows she was one of the few people who stepped up when the president stepped aside.
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Hey that's me asking Marjorie Taylor Greene about Fentanyl.
Question: You mentioned the fentanyl crisis but most of fentanyl comes across the border from US citizens not necessarily immigrants. Greene: Where’s your proof
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.@AOC tells me she is worried about the criminalization in the gun framework: “particularly, the juvenile criminalization, the expansion of background checks into juvenile records, I want to explore the implications of that and how specifically i’s designed and tailored.” 1/.
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There’s this thing called Congress and it makes laws. And may I introduce you to Mitch McConnell and Joe Manchin?.
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Biden tells Howard Stern "no man deserves one great love, let alone two" after he said "I lost my family.".
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I am legitimately so sorry. I was not trying to mislead. I am legitimately embarrassed and humiliated. I never wanted to do anything malicious. I am so apologetic. I should have double-checked the dates.
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I asked Bernie Sanders is Pete Buttigieg shared any of the blame for the #EastPalestine crash and he said “was he driving the train?”.
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I'll start with one: Johnny Cash was the first, if not one of the first, American to know that Stalin died.
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Reminder that Bill Ackman, the guy who helped push out Claudine Gay at Harvard, tried to make sure his wife name wasn't mentioned after her lab at MIT received a $125,000 grant from Jeffrey Epstein.
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Who is a woman journalist who whenever you see their byline, you know you are going to learn something? Bonus points if you list what they cover.
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One reason why disabled people in newsrooms matters: Madison Cawthorn made numerous spurious claims that abled journalists took at face value. @slooterman knew who to call and how to fact check his lies.
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I can’t help but think how he probably misses his first wife and his two children who died. But looking how happy he is with his grandchildren here shows he probably is very loved.
May your time with loved ones be full of peace, laughter, and joy. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. With love, from my family to yours.
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Lotta people who talked about gay people or Disney being "Groomers" seem pretty silent about the SBC report.
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I don't think younger autistic people like @GretaThunberg understand what a big deal it is for #ActuallyAutistic people from my generation to see them openly embracing it. It was a source of shame and self-loathing for years and I wished I was different. It's astounding.
When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning!.I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower. #aspiepower
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Hey remember when Karl Rove allegedly peddled the odious rumor that John McCain fathered a Black child out of wedlock before the South Carolina primary?.
Karl Rove railed against Biden’s call to battle racism and white supremacy saying that particular part of the inaugural address personally “offended” him.
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CHECK THE DATE!!!.
@rev_avocado Walz would be a strong choice for Harris if she were to be the nominee.
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Girdusky worked for JD Vance.
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This kind of embodies who LBJ was and how he would grow up: as a poor kid from the Hill Country of Texas, he was only one or two steps above Black people or the Mexican kids he taught early in his career. Once he realized that, his commitment to civil rights never wavered.
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On @AOC coming up short, @TimBurchett says "I'm happy for us, because the democrats don't realize that in their youth circle, she is a rock star.".
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Many Such cases! John Boehner's daughters are Democrats.
While taking pictures after Sen. Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) ceremonial swearing in, one of his daughters appears to tell Vice President Kamala Harris "I voted for you.". Harris responds: "I could tell."
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Hey, Occupy Democrats. I think y'all are the biggest purveyors of misinformation already. But I retracted the story. Take this down. Now.
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The Nikola Jokic of the Democratic politics.
It’s kind of wild how good Michelle Obama is at political speeches without ever running for office and by all accounts not really enjoying this kind of work.
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@DuBarryPie Hey, my name is Eric Garcia. I am an editor at the Washington Post. Would you want to write about this for our @PostEverything section?.
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It's kind of unreal how we've had breathless debates about whether Democrats are moving "too far left" or "too woke" while Greg Abbott causes a literal blockade at the US Mexico border and saying parents of trans kids are abusing them and he's going to win by double digits.
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“We’re talking, and all of a sudden an employee came out of nowhere and open-handedly slapped [Rudy Giuliani] in the back and said, ‘Hey, what’s up scumbag?”
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Buried lede here: Tucker Carlson went to Mar-a-Lago to urge Trump to take Coronavirus more seriously.
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Barkley vs Tuberville 2026.
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Ladies, if he:. - never responds to your texts .- doesn’t watch your Insta stories.- Demonstrates value.- Engages physically.- Nurtures dependence.- Neglects emotionally.- Inspires hope.- Separates entirely,. He's not your man. He's Dennis Reynolds from @alwayssunny.
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Everyobody's focused on Shapiro's stance on Israel-Palestine. But his stance on school choice and vouchers would probably make him a tough sell for Democrats.
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People who think that Fetterman using a transcription device is special treatment might not realize that almost every reporter on Capitol Hill uses Otter, which does essentially the same thing as Fetterman's transcription. But somehow when disabled people use it, it's strange.
In a hearing with people with disabilities, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) gets emotional showing his cellphone transcription app & addressing those who mock him for his auditory processing struggles:. “How can we become more empathetic, more responsive, and more effective senators?”
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Trump has barely started speaking and people are already leaving his rally in Gastonia.
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I can answer Markwayne Mullin's question about why the US has a higher rate of autism. The United States does a great job screening for autism than other countries. We've actually closed the gap in diagnosing autism with Black and Latino kids.
Jeez -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin defends RFK Jr's nomination by going full anti-vaxxer and questioning whether vaccines cause autism (they don't)
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Honestly, I say this with all sincerity, I don't care, Sia. Your movie portrayed something that kills #ActuallyAutistic people and autistic people begged you to be more considerate and instead you chose to consistently insult them and put out a bullshit movie about autism.
Sia reveals she was suicidal and went to rehab after the backlash to her controversial ‘Music’ film. 🔗:
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Biden and Sanders’s alliance is uncanny. Bernie NEVER went to bat for Obama or Hillary Clinton like this. But Biden was one of the only Senators who treated Bernie with respect and he sent out an olive branch after 2020 and it paid dividends.
Here’s what Donald Trump says when he thinks you’re not watching: He says he’s going to cut taxes for his rich friends, all while cutting Social Security for everyone else. @BernieSanders and I are mad as hell about it, and together, we’re going to stop him.
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Let’s be clear! George Santos didn’t need to yell and make a scene. I was asking him about Jim Jordan’s speaker bid and whether he could get to 217. He CHOSE to yell at the guy who kept a pretty even tone and approach. He did this to get attention and deflect.
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I asked Bernie Sanders what he made about the fact Republicans were retweeting his criticisms of the IRA, he said "What they retweeted was accurate, that's fine." He adds "Look, the truth is the truth." 1/2.
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Officer Michael Fanone tells a video reporter that “Josh Hawley is a bitch.”.
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I also have no room to talk. I was born in Skokie, which was the inspiration for Illinois Nazis and grew up in Southern California.
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How is this any different from Tammy Duckworth or Madison Cawthorn needing a wheelchair? How is it different from many elderly Senators who need hearing aids? CORRECTED.
An important interview with top Senate contender. Will Pennsylvanians be comfortable with someone representing them who had to conduct a TV interview this way?.
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Chadwick Boseman‘s filmography was defined by playing Black heroes. He played Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, which showed the best of what Black men have done in art, sports and politics. Then by playing Black Panther, he showed the best of Black imagination.
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Hillary gets a huge ovation. Weird to think in another world this would be her in her final year as president.
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Reminder that anti-vaccine ideology is inherently ableist at its heart and basically tells parents it is better for their kid to be dead than autistic and makes parents feel like they failed if they vaccinate.
Hundreds rally to preserve right not to vaccinate children amid measles outbreak
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Since leaving the campaign, DeSantis has hit Trump hard and fast, said that Trump has multiple vulnerabilities and posted a humanizing and fun video with his son talking about football. Essentially, the stuff that he should have done as a candidate.
With conference championship games on tap for this weekend, Mason weighs in with his picks and his projected Super Bowl champion.
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I am mortified and legitimately embarrassed. I want to thank @JeremyRedfernFL for flagging. And apologize to Governor DeSantis and Justice Thomas. This is a horrible error on my part.
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The fact the Royal family did more to protect Prince Andrew from scrutiny than Meghan Markle (and the fact the British press was meaner to her) says everything you need to know about both.
Even if you’re a fan of the royals, how do you tolerate a monarchy that’s shielding Andrew?.
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Wait, did Schatz and Murphy do this on a couch on purpose?.
My buddy @brianschatz and l have some thoughts about JD Vance’s really creepy idea to give less votes to people without kids. Give a watch.
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Everyone talks about @AOC or Pressley or Omar but the one progressive member of Congress who fascinates me the most is @katieporteroc. She is in formerly Republican #CA45 Orange County but ran an unapologetically progressive campaign.
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I feel like more people need to see this photo of Bill Walton at UCLA protesting the Vietnam War. He also wanted to send a letter telling Nixon to resign, which made John Wooden mad at him. (Photo Credit: Joe Kennedy/@LATimes)
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