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News editor, writes editorials @decaturdaily . Purveyor of fine Generation X ephemera. Opinions not my employer's. @AuburnU '93. A Quinn Martin Production.

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@FranklinH3000
Franklin Harris
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The same primordial instinct that led our ancestors to seek an angry god behind every clap of thunder drives people today to see a conspiracy, a deliberate policy, behind everything that happens. Social media did not invent this. That belief itself is a example of the instinct.
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"Are you ready for some football?" Pats: "No." Rams: "Not really."
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@lara_hogan When someone asks me what time it is, I just throw up my hands in disgust because there's like 37 time zones, and how dare anyone priviledge the one they're in.
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I lol'd.
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@FranklinH3000
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4 years
Blue checks can't tweet...
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@FranklinH3000
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4 years
Imagine thinking the problem with Wiemar Germany was too many "centrists" and liberals and not enough radicals.
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The Nib ✒️
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Great moments in history, reimagined by centrists:
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@ewarren This is one of those ideas that sounds great for the 2 seconds it takes to realize if it'd been enacted 20 years ago, this would be your device charger by law.
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@FranklinH3000
Franklin Harris
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Then why did he kill all of those people, some for just being gay?
@jacobin
Jacobin
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"The life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man on earth." Che was executed 50 years ago today.
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3 years
Only California could legalize marijuana then regulate it so much there's still a black market.
@sfchronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
3 years
Inside the Bay Area's biggest-ever marijuana bust: Sheriff deputies arrested seven people whom they believe are leaders of an organized crime ring, which may have provided low-cost cannabis to licensed dealers and dispensaries. Read more:
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@FranklinH3000
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Gen X watching as Zoomers turn on Millennials...
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@FranklinH3000
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@YumiZYoko It's all in Spader's delivery, but Ultron is low-key the funniest character in the whole MCU.
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@FranklinH3000
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4 years
Narrator: These ballots were already not in the reported totals.
@seanspicer
Sean Spicer
4 years
No way to call Pennsylvania for now: #SCOTUS Justice Alito issued an order that ballots received after after 8pm on election day in Pennsylvania be set aside - state leg did not change the voting laws per the constitution- state court did. This could be huge for @realDonaldTrump
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@FranklinH3000
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4 years
Josh Hawley pulled a Karen and it worked. That's why there are Karens.
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@FranklinH3000
Franklin Harris
3 years
AP should not fire someone because a College Republicans chapter got angry. More generally, no one should be fired because any college students demand it. Stop listening to college students.
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Just great. Now when *I* google "Sexy Vixen Vinyl" it's mostly pictures of Brit Hume.
@Mediaite
Mediaite
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Fox News' Brit Hume Posts Screenshot Revealing Interest in 'Sexy Vixen Vinyl'
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Keaton literally dressed like Adam West's Bruce Wayne.
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Given the number of people who have recurring dreams well into adulthood about not going to class, not studying for the final, and missing tests, I think it's safe to say schooling is the most traumatic life experience most people face this side of war.
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@FranklinH3000
Franklin Harris
4 years
Processed cheese melts in a microwave which means, based on the D&D Sixth Edition manual, I am the king of Spain!
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
4 years
700,000 ballots were not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which means, based on our great Constitution, we win the State of Pennsylvania!
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There is a Gorilla Channel, but you probably flipped right past it because they don't even show gorillas anymore.
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"Who the hell is Jim Caviezel?"
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8 months
Me sowing vs. me reaping.
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@FranklinH3000
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Look, guys, that mysterious sarcophagus is from the Ptolemaic period. You don't get curses or living-dead mummies from anything not at least 1,000 years older than that. Calm down.
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@FranklinH3000
Franklin Harris
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No, no. I'm interested to see where he's going with this.
@torriangray
Jean-Michel Connard 좆됐어
4 years
someone stop him
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Franklin Harris
6 years
Correspondent for The Federalist doesn't know the Federalist Papers were published anonymously.
@BlueBoxDave
David Marcus
6 years
Let me put this as bluntly as possible. People who express anonymous political opinions on Twitter are cowards. The founding fathers risked their lives for their beliefs. These people, for all their bluster, won’t risk their jobs.
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Franklin Harris
4 years
I bet the Venn diagram of people excited for this movie and of people who think Citizens United was wrongly decided is close to a circle.
@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
4 years
In the eye-opening documentary “ #UNFIT ,” premiering in virtual cinemas Aug. 28, psychologists and former allies of President Trump diagnose why he’s a danger to America
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@FranklinH3000
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@DarrigoMelanie Imagine the phone company asking you, the customer, to dial your own number so they can eliminate jobs, then tell you it’s for your own convenience.
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Oh, sure. Bumble Bee tuna is trending.
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5 years
I don't know why Dionysus is trending, but it's about time.
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5 years
@JoyceWhiteVance As a journalist, I've learned prosecutors believe and promote a lot of junk science.
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8 years
I may have slipped a Star Trek: The Next Generation reference into tomorrow's paper. #partylikeajournalist
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Franklin Harris
4 years
You can nibble around the edges all you want, but if you want to stop things like the killing of Breonna Taylor, there is one way to do it: End the freakin' drug war. That's it.
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@FranklinH3000
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I'm old enough to remember when the Right canceled the Dixie Chicks because they were against the Iraq War. Now left and right are switching sides because of their freakin' name. We are not a serious country.
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Franklin Harris
7 years
@raykwong @cmclymer @vicciho Well, you see, North Korean generals wear medals like that because they double as bulletproof vests.
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4 years
The Decatur (Ala.) Daily calls on Rep. Mo Brooks to resign immediately.
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Franklin Harris
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What if I told you Nikole Hannah-Jones has no idea about when the distinction between Europe and Asia happened, why, or by whom?
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Franklin Harris
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I mean, thank God the refs spared us that Chiefs, Saints Super Bowl, amirite?
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2 years
@Thatoneguy64 Did everyone forget about this?
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@mtracey @HeerJeet See, that's digging. Please stop.
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What the Dickens is this crap?
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@ACLU This is a lie. It is gun control that has been used to disarm blacks from after Reconstruction to the civil rights era.
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Nothing here about freedom, individual rights, or even the Constitution. Not even lip service toward free markets. Nothing here Mussolini wouldn't have said.
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I keep having this experience at Publix, and it unnerves me.
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There literally is a tweet for everything.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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Congratulations to @KingJames on winning Athlete of the Year in last night’s @ESPYS . LeBron is also a great guy!
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He's gone Patty Hearst.
@ryanstruyk
Ryan Struyk
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Sen. Lindsey Graham on Fox News: "This idea of moving forward without Donald Trump in the Republican Party is a disaster for the Republican Party."
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Franklin Harris
6 years
Hey guys! Guess which employees Trump is happy to have protest against their employers' wishes!
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
6 years
Chicago Police have every right to legally protest against the mayor and an administration that just won’t let them do their job. The killings are at a record pace and tough police work, which Chicago will not allow, would bring things back to order fast...the killings must stop!
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If we have "wide open borders," why do people have to be smuggled in?
@RepBoebert
Rep. Lauren Boebert
1 year
The cartels are making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants. I wonder if they are giving “the Big Guy” his 10% in return for the wide open borders we have?
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@Yamiche Do you like store shelves that look like Venezuela's? Because this is how you get store shelves that look like Venezuela's.
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@benshapiro Look what happens when you Google.
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Um, just because it's called a "decision desk" doesn't mean it literally decides who wins.
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Look. I realize some of you are new to this, but I've been watching this stuff since the '90s, and no one -- *no one* -- believes just one paranoid conspiracy. A person who believes in one will believe whatever your selling, because it's a way of looking at the world.
@chicagotribune
Chicago Tribune
4 years
"That’s another one of those Clinton murders." Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in newly unearthed 2018 video: Obama secretly a Muslim, Clintons killed JFK Jr., Pentagon plane attack on 9/11 is questionable Via the NYT:
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@FranklinH3000
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2 years
@krazgreinetz So, he's winning over people who look like Weather Underground members.
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3 years
I had to check these weren't Photoshops. Zelenskyy really made a movie called "Corporal vs. Napoleon." This war was pre-memed.
@PopulismUpdates
Populism Updates
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Oh no Russia he's back
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@hereandtherean1 @BFriedmanDC If that's a map of audits, the areas in the Deep South correspond exactly to majority black population centers. It's almost like the people the IRS targets are actually the poorest on average.
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4 years
Booger-eating moron on local talk radio just said Twitter banning Trump made Section 230 unconstitutional, and this is the dumbest 230 take ever, and blood is coming from my ears.
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Paging Werner Herzog.
@nypost
New York Post
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Bolivian orchestra stranded at 'haunted' German castle surrounded by wolves
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@SahajKohli "it’s considered a name-based microaggression" By whom?
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@JohnCena Is this you?
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I know this is hard to wrap your heads around, but it's not a question of how much money you make. It's about how chummy you are with the people you're supposed to be holding to account.
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@FranklinH3000
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First their editor defends (then deletes) the Bolsheviks' murdering the Romanov children. Now Jacobin has defended (then deleted) the East German police state.
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"Very clever, Lt. Colombo, but you haven't proven I *am* the murderer, only that I *could be*"
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This was actually the worst-case scenario: Trump gets a mild/moderate case, downplays it, and a whole bunch of people start taking COVID even less seriously than before.
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For billions of years, most water (including rainwater) contained pathogens. The best was filtered in mountain streams filled with rocks. Capitalism invented water filters.
@GadzooksB
Gadzooks Bazooka
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Here is my art, I am sharing it here.
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He's still fuming about tiny desk memes.
@realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
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.....Therefore, if the very dangerous & unfair Section 230 is not completely terminated as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), I will be forced to unequivocally VETO the Bill when sent to the very beautiful Resolute desk. Take back America NOW. Thank you!
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@Weinsteinlaw Which one?
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Today I learned there are people who think Spider-Man's quips when fighting thieves and killers are mean, hurtful and "punching down," and that makes Peter Parker the real monster, and I don't know why I'm surprised because this is the hell level into which we've descended.
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I'm pro-choice, but pretending men and women don't have almost the same views on abortion and roughly 44% of women self-identify as "pro-life" probably isn't going to do much for abortion rights. (Polling data to follow.)
@Alyssa_Milano
Alyssa Milano
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Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike . Pass it on.
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@nypost South Park is still undefeated.
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@APStylebook Manifesto is a morally neural term, and I count on readers to figure out racism is bad, umkay? (If they don't already think so, calling a "manifesto" a "screed" ain't gonna convince them.)
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Franklin Harris
6 years
OK, this is Pizzagate territory, where every pizza topping is code for something sinister.
@MichaelAvenatti
Michael Avenatti
6 years
Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: "FFFFFFFourth of July." We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F*ck them, Forget them. As well as the term "Devil's Triangle." Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta
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@afetherolf @CatoInstitute Ah, yes. The "cowards" who have been on the police brutality beat since they opened their doors.
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When you put the "kick me" sign on your own back.
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Someone seems really obsessed with manhood.
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One way to "defund police" would be to end the outrageous practice of civil asset forfeiture that not only funnels money directly into departments but incentivises their activities toward those that result in big hauls.
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Franklin Harris
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The look of a man just now realizing Frank Luntz focus groups are BS.
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California high speed rail has gone from costing $40B to $128B without laying a single mile of track, but still has delusions of grandeur.
@CaHSRA
CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨
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Imagine how sweet it would be to take high-speed rail to the Sweet Sixteen! #MarchMadness Base map credit to @alfred_twu
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@KenTremendous I get that you think this is a cheaper way than therapy to work out all of your childhood issues, but all we're going to do is tell you you're crazy and that cornbread dressing is awesome, because it is.
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@mikekelton Not even remotely now universal health care works.
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I'm old enough to remember when Existential Comics was a sometimes amusing comic strip and not an utter batguano crazy Stalinist.
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Walmart-supported pro-government group promotes making it harder for poor people to get jobs.
@thinkprogress
ThinkProgress
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Koch Brothers’ anti-government group promotes allowing unlicensed, untrained cosmetologists
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Franklin Harris
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Also, imagine thinking the Nazis weren't going around committing acts of violence and terror and were just saying mean things before they took power.
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This is literally not true.
@ZubyMusic
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Being surrounded by sheep is more dangerous than being surrounded by lions.
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@Scholars_Stage @CathyYoung63 The new conventional wisdom: Schoolchildren must be exposed to uncomfortable truths, but NYT readers must be coddled.
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Lots of talk show hosts have a pattern of partisan lying, but can any of them top Reid's pattern of just not knowing what the hell she's talking about? It's 538 because that's the total number of electoral votes. She's constantly failing Basic Civics for Pundits.
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Here's what's gonna happen folks: The FDA is going to outlaw vaping then limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, then everyone is going to act surprised when criminal gangs and drug cartels get into the cigarette smuggling business.
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