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Jill Hopkins

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New Media and Civic Events Producer @MetroChicago / @GmanTavern / @SmartBar Host: Making Beyoncé, and The Opus podcasts Live host: @TheMoth Writer, Chicagoan

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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
I have a joke about En Vogue, but you're never gonna get it.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
2 years
We lost two greats. Two people who changed their respective games. Two Black Icons. Rest easy Nichelle Nichols and Bill Russell. And thank you. 🖖🏾🏀
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
If you went ahead and assumed he stole that horse and posted about it, this is on you to donate to fix the aftermath of your wrongness.
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Block Club Chicago
4 years
A South Side cowboy was harassed and had his car egged after false social media posts claimed he stole a police horse.
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@Jillhopkins
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@clueless_1337 @McJesse The point is that y’all get upset over the dumbest shit that literally has no affect on you. Clueless is right. I
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
If you thought April was cool,
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1 year
@mattxiv Joke's on them. I'll bully a Nazi child too.
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3 years
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@Jillhopkins
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11 months
Shout out to the people who already had to work at the Margaritaville on Navy Pier on a holiday weekend, who now also have to work at the Margaritaville on Navy Pier on a holiday weekend after Jimmy Buffett died. I will pray for you.
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@Jillhopkins
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1 year
@nypost Man, fuck y’all.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
Someone on here called Chicago Italians “Tomato Irish”, and Chicago Irish “Potato Italians” and I’ve never forgotten it.
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Jeremy
1 year
Obsessed with The Bear's decision to portray an Italian-American family exclusively with the most Irish-looking actors in the business
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
5 years
#LilBub has died and nothing else matters today. Rest well, sweet kitten. You were a good cat and I love you.
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@Jillhopkins
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5 years
@brownandbella Someone I was dating asked me if I could reschedule my period so it didn't coincide with his birthday. We did not make it to his birthday.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
2 years
@mavericksmovies The Williams Sisters:
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
All of our dogs think we quit our jobs to spend more time with them. All of our cats think we got fired for being the loser they always knew we were.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
6 years
Nancy hittin' 'em with the "per my last email" block. That's professional office talk for "I know your simple ass heard me the first time." #SOTU
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
I spent a lot of time in Wicker Park in the early 2000s, so I think I know a coked-up jagoff when I see one.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
Stevie Wonder Woman #Halloween
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 years
@thetaclaire @Target Whatever, Clove. No one likes you, probably not even your made up cousin.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
2 years
Everyone you know in Chicago who works in the music and/or service industry is about to have their asses handed to them this week. Be kind.
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@Jillhopkins
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1 year
@notcapnamerica EMILY WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
10 months
No, we know. *typed from my bed at 12:49pm on a Saturday*
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@anothercohen
Alex Cohen 🤠
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I don’t think people without kids understand just how much free time they have
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@Jillhopkins
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1 year
@lizzzzzielogan This is like when they left the Korean War out of MASH
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@Jillhopkins
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7 months
@hebennigatu Because, baby, that’s INFRASTRUCTURE
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
This episode of #UNHhhh is weird.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 years
Shout out to all the theatre kids getting their whole entire lives in their living rooms! Spouses seeing whole new sides of people right now. #PattiLuPone #GRAMMYs
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@Jillhopkins
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1 year
@SheFell4Russia Nigga, get a life.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 months
My husband ran the carpentry shop for the initial build for that gorgeous show, including the apartment in Lakeshore Tower and the spaceship. I wish more people saw it, because he and his crew did so much incredible work.
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limp brittzkit
7 months
Station Eleven was one of the most beautiful and profound series i’ve ever watched and i feel like it got lost in the shuffle?? it was nominated for emmys but every time i ask someone if they watched it they’ve never heard of it
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@Matata_oss @JarrettBellini You tried and failed to White Knight + you RT Joel Osteen. Please take whatever flavor of religiousness this is off of my African-American internet.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
2 months
How do you not buy a book hard enough that it actually literally takes money out of the author's bank account?
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@notcapnamerica I like it when people you irrationally never liked give you a reason to. Thanks, Rebel!
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
Whoever wrote this article and took this picture is not allowed within the city limits for at least five years.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@LisaAnnWalter Miss Ma’am On behalf of the bad bitches of the Greater Chicagoland Area, may I ask whomst we have to fight for you? We don’t even need an address, just a neighborhood and a general description.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@SomaKazima I mean, you’re waking up as Beyoncé. Jay is going to be right next to you. You’d have to put in effort to just ignore the man, and it would be rude of you do so.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 months
I want to bully the person who posted this waaaayyyyy more than the person lying horizontally on the train.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@notcapnamerica She looks like every member of The Police rolled into one person.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 months
We do not need to Sam and Diane them. Work/friend relationships are interesting and mineable enough without having to make them bone.
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tara
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s3 realization, s4 mutual pining and confession, s5 break up, s6 exes to lovers, s7 wedding and endgame PUT ME IN THE WRITERS ROOM
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@chancetherapper First: that chicken isn't even that good Second: the LGBTQ community has been asking us for literal years to stop going there for good reason. Why do you need bland pickle chicken more than you need to support an entire community?
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
5 years
I'M HOSTING A PODCAST ABOUT BEYONCÉ!!!!!!
@WBEZ
WBEZ
5 years
Coming soon from WBEZ: Making Beyonce.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@sueonthetown How are the dress AND the gloves both ill-fitting? Like, how do you fuck up a GLOVE?
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 months
I’ve seen a lot of 30 Rock discourse today, but not nearly enough of it is about Tracy Morgan - the literal glue holding that whole show together.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
11 months
Regular take: The Cubs have maintained their popularity despite not having a decade long success in ever, because of one thing: WGN TV
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Jon
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Hot take: Chicago wouldn’t be such a “Cubs town” if the Sox could put together one decade of sustained success. If you had a run where the Sox went to the postseason 7 times in 10 years, you’d see attendance and fandom jump permanently.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
6 years
@ARINZEACO Imagine thinking like this, yet calling yourself this.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
5 years
@IamJoquan @RoyKinsey Those dudes couldn't handle that smoke. Nas is 20 years old, and has been in the industry for under a year. His POV is important, but he needs a bit of time to find that loud - out-loud - voice. Billy found his in the 1970s, and will leave nary one edge in that barbershop.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
@roywoodjr People forget that before he went to law school, Uncle Phil was about that life.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
My fall plans. The Delta Variant
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Jill Hopkins
7 years
I mean, good for @21pilots , but after that video/speech, I'm starting to think I'm the only one who remembers @blink182 exists. #GRAMMYs
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@Felonious_munk All that talk about education, and she's still dumb enough to pay for Twitter
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
5 years
I honestly have no idea how it's all going to shake out, but my mind just allowed me to think about two black women in a run-off for Mayor of Chicago for the first time, and it made my breath catch in my throat. #ChicagoElection #ChicagoMayoralElection
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
6 years
I had a wonderful talk with @JinkxMonsoon yesterday, and I can't stop laughing at the last bit where we agreed that @VanessaVanjie is a genius for giving us so much.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 months
Lack…of…EVENTS?!??!?
@abehyde
The Councilman
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I want know why isn’t Chicago a popular domestic summer destination like miami/nyc/La etc Is it because of the crime? Lack of events ? I genuinely want to know c
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@jonnysun @ClaudiaStellar Oh, the work you're required to be grateful you have and can't complain about because you'll look like a tone deaf asshole because so many of your friends are unemployed, so now you have a nice pile of guilt next to your pile of work?
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
6 years
@Luvvie I think they pulled it from under the Grafitti Bridge.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@SamanthaTaghoy Congrats on your organ removal and/or coming out as a trans woman!
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 years
Good morning to everyone, except people waking up and JUST realizing Lena Dunham is trash.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@WizzKhaleesi I wouldn’t be in a psych ward, I’d be in JAIL. Happiness would be denied one way or another idc idc
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
8 months
I have a bit of news to share. Starting in early 2024, I will be joining the team at WTTW Chicago as an on-air personality, dropping into your favorite programs to recruit new members to my favorite public television station.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@LoveisBlindShow I hate you so much right now
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 months
I have to sit with this for a minute. I spent nearly ten years making radio and podcasts at @Vocalo and @WBEZ . I made my career there and now just…poof. This is a HUGE loss for Chicago and for me and my people personally. I am stunned.
@pksmid
Patrick Smith
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. @WBEZ leadership just announced the elimination of our podcast unit, the end of the Vocalo radio broadcast and the layoffs of 14 people. It's only been two years since we were big enough and financially healthy enough to acquire the Sun-Times.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
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@naima Damn. The rhythm really got her, as the prophecy foretold.
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Jill Hopkins
4 months
Jolene’s identity finally revealed
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Jill Hopkins
6 years
"Yo. Leave us out of this." -The Blue Apron people, probably.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
Some ✨personal/professional✨news! After 8+ years hosting and producing amazing radio for @Vocalo , I’ll be leaving the station in January. I’ve accepted a position as the New Media & Civic Events Producer for @MetroChicago / @SmartBar / @GmanTavern .
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8 months
@BriHallOfficial “Fo shiz! Fo shiz! Ginuine!”
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Jill Hopkins
2 years
@lisatomic5 Mick Foley
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Jill Hopkins
1 year
@prodfulcrum So, you’re a loser? How’s that feel?
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@KillerMike and @therealelp make a great rap duo and an amazing interracial couple's costume.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
I still love this city and its people more than the things in its stores.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@ira I bet he doesn't. I mean, I bet he TRIES. But, I bet he doesn't.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
6 years
@pitchjokes - memories of a particularly good tangerine you had once - whispering the word "peach" into a stranger's ear - a really scary dream, but at the end, you got a blueberry
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@crissles "I'd rather my child be dead than autistic." is such a weird stance to have.
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Jill Hopkins
3 years
@BuddyNoLove This you?
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2 years
@NickAdamsinUSA I hope James Woods sees all your tweets and you guys fall in love and get married.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
Sure, sex is great, but have you ever arrested the officers that killed Breonna Taylor?
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Jill Hopkins
1 year
@notcapnamerica Co-headline tour with VanVan
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Jill Hopkins
2 years
@So_Los06 @YoloAkili @_Laur92 Whitley Gilbert in Season 1
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Jill Hopkins
5 years
@VicVela1 @feliciasonmez For an even fuller context, consider that there was no reason to call this 10 year old aspiring journalist "good looking."
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
2 years
Roger Taylor’s son/the drummer from #Queen and @thedarkness looks so much like Taylor Hawkins right now. Holy crap. #taylorhawkinstribute
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
7 years
Happy anniversary to the reason why #RTJ3 isn't on any "2017 best of" lists.
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Jill Hopkins
1 year
@Rollitupk He would have drawn back a nub.
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Jill Hopkins
6 years
@Karnythia This is just called "being an actor." Imagine being on the #1 show of the 80s and having people expecting that to just be your life til you die. That ain't how it works. Maybe if Cosby hadn't been out here raping people, dude would still be making residuals. But, here we are.
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@TheRecLeaguer @TMZ To be fair, she hasn't started to either.
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Jill Hopkins
1 year
@Charlie_Carrel Paying to get ratio’d like this is wild.
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Jill Hopkins
3 years
Dear Japan, With all due respect, you can keep him. Love, Chicago
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Jill Hopkins
1 year
*record scratch* You may be wondering how I ended up here…
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1 year
@JonathanPieNews I don’t think Sam Smith or their people ever asked you, nor are you in their target audience. Not everything is for you and that’s okay, ya big geezer.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
Chicago, it would be great if -while you're at Lollapalooza- you ignore DaBaby and his homophobic DaBullshit. Let him play to no one. It's what he deserves.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
1 year
@kit1049 @Blackamazon And how do they think most African American’s ancestors came to America? They ain’t slick.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
3 years
@thatonequeen The most honest exit interview I've seen in a while, though.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@Stephamaybe Just say you've never been to Chicago and go.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
Wuhan: They got us all in check.
@nowthisimpact
NowThis Impact
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Wow. Wuhan, China — once the global epicenter of the coronavirus — hosted an EDM concert at an outdoor water park that saw thousands in attendance. Wuhan hasn't seen a single case of COVID-19 since mid-May. The U.S. has surpassed 5.4 million cases and counting.
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Jill Hopkins
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@cmclymer Whenever Black women assert ourselves, we are called "Angry" or told that we need to dial it down. Kamala didn't lose her cool. She just acted like the white men on stage with her, but she did it better.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
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This was Peak White Boy. Y’all haven’t been this cool since.
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Jill Hopkins
4 years
@NY_Wiseass Now it's time for the breakdown.
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@Jillhopkins
Jill Hopkins
4 years
@crissles Jada said, "This could've been us!" Granny said "That could've been Y'ALL."
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