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Kelly Weill

@KELLYWEILL

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Writer in books and blogs. Author of OFF THE EDGE ( @AlgonquinBooks ) and MomLeft newsletter. Bunch of other words @NYMag , @TheDailyBeast , @TheAtlantic , ect.

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oh my god the book is real
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I voted for a candidate in my little town’s election and he just won by 1 vote. Haha hell yeah
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"Fellas, is it gay to wear a suit and marry a woman?"
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been laughing at this for 1.5 months
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change in headline
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My childcare costs actually exceed my paycheck. We're working on moving somewhere cheaper, but this isn't sustainable, and childcare costs are rising. The "normal" being advocated by Vance et al is a pretty clear project of keeping mothers out of the workplace. (im a mom btw)
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A Biden staffer sent me this picture from inside a campaign bus in Austin yesterday. Said these pro-Trump trucks slowed down in front of the bus, trying to stop it on the highway or run it off the road.
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ironic khive posting is unironically the most energized the twitter Dem electorate has been in about a year and I think there’s probably something optimistic in that. call yourself ‘coconut-pilled’ or whatever. declare yrself a context fan. we might actually twet thru this one
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couldn’t write it much crueler
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the next mile is sponsored by frogs
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get in everyone, Minnesota crowdsourced suggestions for its new state emblem:
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Torey Van Oot
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!!!!! NEW MN STATE FLAG DESIGN SUBMISSIONS LIVE --->
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4 years
my weirdest moment of today was, while walking around in a black dress moments after the announcement, having an older woman shout “Biden won, vampire girl!” at me in an upbeat tone. still can’t determine whether this was pejorative, or friendly outreach to goths
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3 years
everyone predicting a post-pandemic athleisure renaissance is way off, everyone in New York today is dressing like they’re headed to a 5-year high school reunion
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“Multiple sources within the postal service told Motherboard they have personally witnessed the machines, which cost millions of dollars, being destroyed or thrown in the dumpster.”
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3 years
incredible things happening in this thread
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3 years
time to make my big hunter-gatherer brain look at a screen for 8 hours again
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2 years
Mesa County, CO clerk Tina Peters and one of her deputies just got indicted on a combined 17 counts for an alleged breach of their own county's voter data. Peters is accused of leaking the data to conspiracy theorists before giving a speech at Mike Lindell's "Cyber Symposium."
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3 years
Seems a little extreme
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Two men accused of driving with an AR-15 and a Samurai sword in a Q-bedazzled SUV to a Philly vote-count center are facing new legal woes after they were accused of participating in the Capitol riot while out on bail:
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4 years
NYPD plowed an SUV into a crowd of people last night. No acknowledgement.
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Edward A. Caban
4 years
To the Members of the NYPD: What you’ve endured these last couple of days and nights—like much of 2020, so far—was unprecedented. In no small way, I want you to know that I’m extremely proud of the way you’ve comported yourselves in the face of such persistent danger...
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Two groups convened in VA on Thurs. to protest trespassing charges. An anti-ICE group got arrest papers. A Boogaloo group breaking an open-carry law got milk and a PA system from cops.
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Yesterday the National Butterfly Center announced it was closing its doors for three days due to a weird encounter with a GOP candidate and an upcoming MAGA rally. We got audio of the brawl with that candidate and it is ... something:
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4 years
thinking about how Alex Jones got his start as an OKC Bombing truther and here we are 25 years later
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3 years
i'm buying the dip, i'm meditating i'm listening to 3 audiobooks a day with titles like 'be the wolf: thinking like a billionaire,' i'm accidentally locked in my tesla and i need the sheriff to come get me out soon please, i'm taking my multivitamins, i'm bullet journaling
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"hey folks, it's me: the biggest expense in your life. just checking in to underscore that the rent i set is arbitrary and exploitative, and to firmly associate myself with one candidate. have a good one!"
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remembering fondly the prominent news anchor who complained to an editor when i said police posed a greater risk to reporters than protesters did. i’ll delete momentarily, but i did want to Say
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School board meetings in IA, MI, PA, and ME have heard urban legends about furries. Parents are using furry fears to harass foes. Politicians are citing furries in school crusades. The right's dumbest new moral panic just dropped:
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1 year
this thread from a bond hearing of people charged with "domestic terrorism" at a Stop Cop City music festival is nuts. denied bond for having legal support phone number on them. extremely common (often advised as best practice!) at protests of all stripes
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Hannah Riley
1 year
jesus. the next person is denied bond. being held against them is the fact that they had a jail support number on them. that's being painted as evidence they came to commit a crime, when in fact, it's evidence that we live in a horrifying police state
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oh, are YOUR bathrooms spotless? let him live!
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4 years
should i transcribe these interviews, or should i buy a plot of rural land under a shell company, drive there in a stolen car, and slip from this identity like a hand from a glove
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Conservative PAC-backed newspapers are showing up in mailboxes in competitive districts. The papers look local—but the writers and billionaires behind them are located out of state.
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3 years
the Proud Boys believe in small government, that's why their federal informant leader is getting federal funding
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4 months
teens will mock this assignment, but it's absolutely derailed the groupchat where i play a 25-person 1820s-themed geopolitics board game with a bunch of dads, so who can say whether it's good or bad
@CaitCamelia
Cait🧃
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my 16 year old sister just sent this to me, the American education system is in shambles
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4 years
increasing convergence of earnest pro-trump and lefty shitpost sentence structure
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Kayleigh McEnany
4 years
Love seeing our President @realDonaldTrump return home to the White House & stand strongly on the balcony!
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2 years
it's the 2-year anniversary of my favorite NYT Cooking comment (from "vegan caesar salad with crisp chickpeas," which is actually very good)
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Protesters in Utah face life in prison for alleged vandalism, after the DA they were protesting gave them gang-related charging enhancements. It's the latest incidence of prosecutors ratcheting up charges against activists:
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“i’d like to enter into the public record that i’m all sticky”
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BNO News
3 years
WATCH: Anti-vaccine nurse attempts to prove false claim that COVID-19 vaccines cause magnetism at Ohio legislative committee
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In 2006, the FBI compiled a report on white supremacists in police forces, then redacted it so heavily that most of its contents remain secret. There's a new push to release the investigation in full and update it for 2020:
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lmao
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TikTok influencers love HOME HACKING, the COOL TRICK that lets you LIVE FOR FREE by PURCHASING PROPERTY and charging TENANTS inflated rates! HANG ON, you say—isn't that literally just being a LANDLORD?
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Footage from Sunday night shows Atlanta police arresting a clearly marked NLG legal observer at Stop Cop City protests. The NLG and SPLC say one of their lawyers was arrested while working as an observer, and is now facing domestic terror charges:
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3 years
This story about the digital Pokemon Go debris that U.S. troops left in Afghanistan is wild. A cartoon monster turf wars geotagged to memorials for people killed in irl wars, veteran talking about going back to Afghanistan to retake a Pokemon gym one day:
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Amanda Golden
4 years
And here’s a preview of what those plexiglass barriers look like inside the debate hall. VP Pence will be seated stage left, with Sen. Harris seated stage right
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Kelly Weill
4 years
look, it’s really simple: we’re making mail-in ballots widely available because of the pandemic, but cancelling the democratic primary because of the pandemic, but keeping downballot races because we shan’t interfere with the voting process
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Zach Montellaro
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(Also, to be clear: Downballot primaries are still on. Those are not canceled! I just said the presidential primary was canceled in my original tweet, but I see some folks are misunderstanding that)
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3 years
you better watch out / You better watch out / You Better Watch Out / YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
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EPCSheriff
3 years
Guess who came in to receive his Concealed Handgun Permit today? 🎅 Did you know the El Paso County Sheriff's Office has issued 49,750 Concealed Handgun Permits with another 2,560 awaiting to be issued? For more info please visit our website:
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Incredibly revealing leak of Oath Keeper communications from November. In it, members share tips on recruiting law enforcement, while talking about "executing lefties openly and violently" and "killing the news media live on air."
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Libertarian political candidates are dropping out. Entire Libertarian state parties are dissolving. It's the result of an intra-party battle between an old guard and a new hard-right faction that swept internal elections this year:
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Kelly Weill
4 years
This is a big deal. Much as Trump et al want, domestic groups like the anti-fascist movement can't be formally labeled terror orgs. But tying them to foreign groups like the YPG (based on <12 people, incl. those who don't ID as antifa) opens them to otherwise-illegal surveillance
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Ken Klippenstein
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DHS is gathering intelligence on activists in an attempt to tie them to foreign militant groups, per intel report leaked to me. One target was Brace Belden, co-host of the popular left-wing podcast @TrueAnonPod :
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oh my god, a certain conspiratorial movement is about to lose its mind
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TODAY
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Tom Hanks' Blood Will be Used To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine
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3 years
what if we bought a boat
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3 years
Oath Keepers site down, apparently
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the trump mugshot is important in case he goes missing and we need to know what he looks like
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4 years
New: a massive leak of Boogaloo chats, first published by @UR_Ninja reveals a violent movement that, for all its public anti-cop talk, has disturbing ties to law enforcement:
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Kelly Weill
3 years
Mark Meadows has an all-timer narrative arc. Congressman till 2020, pivots to WH CoS for a few months till his boss lost reelection, talks about overturning the election, now getting recommended for contempt charges by former colleagues in Congress. Real Icarus shit
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4 years
Proud Boys held a flash rally in Philadelphia. Afterward, a large caravan of cop vehicles accompanied them back to their meeting spot, where Proud Boys were filmed chatting and shaking hands with an officer—an "extra friendly" sendoff, the city's DA says:
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An ex-SEAL who posted Soros conspiracy theories is accused of throwing IEDs at protesters. Other ex-SEALs share QAnon content with threats to act on it. What happens when violent theories reach special forces?
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3 years
America's worst city council race is happening in Huntington Beach, where the former councilor (an anti-vax ex-MMA guy) endorsed a far-right figure who attended an anti-Islam event with the Rise Above Movement and stormed a Jewish center with Baked Alaska:
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9 months
hey boss. bad news, I’ve got the—yeah, that’s right. the Marburg virus, pretty bad. yeah, i left my phone on. my goof. can i get the week off
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4 years
come on man
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4 years
Thin Blue Line Mickey is the purest distillation of American culture. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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Jared Keller
4 years
Disney security guards have freaking challenge coins and we have to talk about it
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4 years
made my high school yearbook quote “release the kraken” as a joke, so you can imagine how exciting all this is for me
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4 years
🎵historically speaking, bad idea to let the hard-right nationalist party appear to run to your economic left during financial crisis, imo🎵
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Kelly Weill
3 years
Parler, 2020: hello PATRIOT join us and UNSHACKLE yourself from the TYRANNY of CORPORATE tech ELITES Parler, 2021:
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2 years
i am going to put this in a prius
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2 years
It’s 2/22/22! My book is out today! I am emotional and very very grateful to a lot of people who made this happen! 🌎 Available online and in bookstores:
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4 years
ah yeah, see, i literally interviewed this woman at a Flat Earth conference in Nov. please buy my book, OFF THE EDGE, after i finish writing it
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2 years
the Rogan vax+climate disinfo stuff undoubtedly sucks, but there’s got to be someone smart writing about how so many US political conflicts are just proxy battles thru customer service complaints
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Kelly Weill
3 years
Ahead of the Capitol attack, the Oath Keepers attended violent D.C rallies, called for civil war, and organized other far-right groups. They did so while explicitly claiming to work with armed cops, and advertising 1/6 on a politician's livestream.
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Kelly Weill
4 months
doing this at the national guard 8th St-NYU bag checkpoint
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brendle
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Hello sir, I-*briefcase full of jellybeans falls open*
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3 years
Can't undersell how insidiously dumb it feels to watch the coup powerpoint. You click through and some little animated arrows swoosh around like it's your 3rd grade presentation on giraffes, but it's Trump officials arguing to declare a state of emergency and invalidate votes.
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10 months
Some novel prosecution moves here. Pretty easy to envision this kind of sweeping, conspiracy-style prosecution being used in states that are currently trying to criminalize abortion funds and/or the act of driving a person to get an abortion. (Texas has recently tried both!)
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Georgia charged 61 people with RICO related to the Stop Cop City movement. Among them are a legal observer arrested while monitoring a protest, bail fund organizers, people accused of distributing fliers, and people accused of trespass or property damage:
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4 years
the two discourses online today are "if you're a woman who doesn't want to be photoshopped into exploitation material, simply never be photographed or perceived" and "cut the guy some slack for cranking hog in front of colleagues"
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Kelly Weill
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Student journalists on the radio shouting “where do we go?” at police who are closing gates and telling them to leave. “I don’t know how we comply.” “No one is left here to document”
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Bill Grueskin
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"We just saw an uncountable number of police ... entering from both ends" of campus Via the excellent student journalists at @WKCRFM Listen here:
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3 years
dribbling a soccer ball near the dog, did a fancy little move around him. never seen him so pissed in my life
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4 years
here he is: mr. birthday
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3 years
incredible coincidence
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One of the anti-ICE protesters had been handcuffed by armed cops in her Philly home in front of her two young children, detained overnight, and extradited to VA on trespass and litter charges. The law just doesn’t work the same for everyone.
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3 years
alas poor yorick but i’m different
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4 years
@scottbix Can't believe I'm getting conned into defending the monarchy but here we are.
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4 years
“the Portland operation involved clandestine aspects...Several members of the US Marshals Service (USMS) sent to Portland claimed to be affiliated with a private firm called ‘Strategic Oil’” and “did not identify themselves as law enforcement.”
@kenklippenstein
Ken Klippenstein
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Feds intercepted protesters' phone communications in Portland this summer, intel sources with knowledge of the operation tell me. “You’re getting an inside view into your targets, who they are, who they’re talking to—the hierarchy."
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lol this is the guy who made fun of mike huckabee so much that huckabee filed a bar complaint against him
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Kelly Weill
3 years
one time Neera emailed me to chew me out for a tweet i hadn't written or RTed (i think she had me confused for someone else). anyway, Posters' Rights.
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Kelly Weill
3 years
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@SebBronislaw still very possible they will, but sites like GP were ready to call fraud over anything but a night-of GOP blowout
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Kelly Weill
3 years
from the depths of my soul: lmao
@maricopacounty
Maricopa County
3 years
BREAKING: The #azaudit draft report from Cyber Ninjas confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win.
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Kelly Weill
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The "pro-natalist" movement claims low birth rates will bring societal collapse. Those rates reflect declines in teen pregnancy. If they want adult women to pick up the slack, it's time for governments to start paying moms like the world depends on it.
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Kelly Weill
4 years
Three current and former military members who allegedly planned violence at a protest were followers of the Boogaloo movement. The emerging Boog scene is full of service members and veterans:
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Kelly Weill
4 years
sir,sir am i being detained
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@RonBrownstein
Ronald Brownstein
4 years
Stone's list includes: evoke Insurrection Act, declare martial law: arrest Zuckerberg, Tim Cook & Clintons, send federal agents to "physically stand in the way" on Election Day, seize NV's ballots; take Harry Reid into custody; "nationalize" NV police, arrest Daily Beast staff
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comment on nyt recipe “vegan tantanmen with pan-fried tofu”
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Kelly Weill
4 years
Trump’s debate comments on the Proud Boys were bad. But it was his comments about poll-watchers+the actions of regular MAGA types at an early voting site that could make his paramilitary appeal most troubling for elections:
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Kelly Weill
4 years
Filed story on election disruptions Friday. One day later:
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@thedailybeast
The Daily Beast
4 years
NEW: As America hurtles toward one of its most contentious elections in history, law enforcement officials and security experts are warning of increased potential for violent attacks targeting the vote
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Kelly Weill
3 years
how many elected officials are involved in multilevel marketing schemes for health supplements? last month, when i asked if Va. State Sen. Amanda Chase was getting a covid test, a spox told me no, in part because she leads a healthy lifestyle "as a Shakeology coach."
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