Mike Jordan.
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Sr. Ed @AJC. Writer. James Beard Award winner. Husband, dad, unc’, cuz, mentor, mentee, homie. Alto sax player. Drum major. Salad king. Gentleman. Connie's son.
Atlanta, GA
Joined August 2008
Ah it's once again that magical holiday weekend in ATL, where traditional college football fans collide with Black LGBTQIA+ dragons over house music, and discover with their own eyes that Atlanta both is and is not a real place.
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Not sure what just happened at Lil Wayne's #A3C2018 show but I know cats started running and I ran widdem.
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Weeks ago @davidwaltbanks & I got a tour of where @defendATLforest is occupying parts of land near the Atlanta Prison Farm ruins, trying to stop development of the Public Safety Training Center, or what some call "Cop City." Here's my report at @guardian:
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Live right now from the Atlanta Jazz Festival, minutes before Andre 3000 hits us with that flute wave
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All great Atlanta neighborhoods deserve a proper kudzu monster
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Here’s what I learned about the dispute between The Gathering Spot and Greenwood, in today’s @ajc. Please feel free to share widely — it’s based on facts, interviews and court documents. Any way you slice it, it’s an unfortunate situation for ATL.
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Even if/when/though I may not agree with him, @KillerMike is the best rapper alive. Let's have some new @runjewels videos instead of NRA though. LOL.
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Um… to explain that earlier tweet, I’ve been nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award apparently, and I might need to sit my ass down somewhere with a French 75 because wow and whoa is all I can think to actually say right now. Wow though. And whoa. FRFR.
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@40acresproject @ShaunChavis My father-in-law in Kansas is one of them; from over a thousand acres to literally 40. I wrote about others with similar stories of not just loan denials but predatory practices at USDA (couldn't include him for obvious reasons. )
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I mean dang y'all could've just asked/credited/retweeted but whatever
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My latest for @EaterAtlanta: The return of Westside #ATL soul food restaurant Bankhead Seafood (shouts to @goodiemob), with new owners @Tip and @KillerMike. Same location, new buildout. Same recipe for famous fried fish. Adding beer. No extra hush puppies for sale. Read it!.
Atlanta rappers Mike "Killer Mike" Render and Clifford "T.I." Harris reveal plans for the reopening of the legendary Bankhead Seafood, including a new food truck and expanding beyond Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy in the future
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A #BlackLivesMatter chant led from atop the graffiti-tagged @CNN logo at CNN Center in Atlanta.
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Atlanta should consider a public statue of Rico Wade. Maybe specifically in East Point, maybe even the airport. It's hard to overstate how much he impacted music/culture/ATL. Sure, we can + should do murals but Rico really was a changemaker for this city's global identity.
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Breaking News: . Greenwood (@bankgreenwood), the Black-owned banking platform by @KillerMike, @AmbAndrewYoung, @pauljudge + @iamRyanGlover, has acquired @GatheringSpots, the membership club for Black + Latino professionals. Here's my exclusive for @WSJ:.
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Dear Atlanta: Walk. Bike. Skate. Scoot. Skip. MARTA. Beam. Whatever. Just don't get in your car and drive it today, or you will have chosen the path of doom. DON'T DRIVE TODAY. (honestly though do as thou wilt; I'm not driving today but go off -- free country and all that).
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I know Andre’s fans have all kinds of takes on Flute 3000, but as for me I’ve played it every morning since Friday and straight-up, I think I can see my future a little clearer.
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UPDATE on the pre-#SuperBowl demolition of an Atlanta #ColinKaepernick mural: Artist @fabianism and a crew of volunteer artists are painting @Kaepernick7 murals all over Atlanta today. Williams is calling it #Kaeperbowl. Read about it:
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Good morning #Atlanta and America, and a big salute to my friends + colleagues leaving @AtlantaMagazine -- those I worked for several years attempting to reconnect the city's namesake magazine to its diverse reality. I hope this "woke" some people up.
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If by "off the market" you mean married to a very attractive lady who didn't date Future, you are correct
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One of Atlanta’s best restaurants closed tonight. Shouts to my man Zeb. Long live Redbird.
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Today I did my daughter’s hair, which I admit I’m still learning to be good at (she has a lot) but with her help I pulled off a really nice ponytail + sent her to school looking cute, which might seem basic but I must report I feel like the greatest man alive this morning. 👧🏽💪🏾🏆.
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According to a new report, Atlanta ranks 39th among cities when measuring the true value of a $100k salary. Memphis is #1 ($86.4k), 10 Texas cities beat ATL, and coming in last is NYC, where $100k = $35.7k, after taxes/cost of living. 😬. Good morning.
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The new editor-in-chief of the @ajc, @AJCLeroyChapman, just called me "a Swiss Army Knife of a journalist" in front of some very important people this morning, and I'd never heard myself described that way but yep, that felt great.🇨🇭🪖🗡️🖋️📰.
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Meanwhile folks are tweeting today that Mike should be working more. This is why I leave Twitter alone for days at a time, as y'all should. What some call "the work" is actually just "the talk." Meanwhile, a huge federal infrastructure bill is coming. Good morning.
What’s this pic, Mike? Oh it’s the contractors, school instructors & students who have earned their GED’s and are now training to be contractors with 80 other young folk in Ga. How did u do that Mike? Met wit the Governor N sat on da Mayors Transition team. 😉 Work beats Tweets
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My recap at of last night's "FUBU" episode of @AtlantaFX. This is the best show on TV, and my only scientific evidence is that I hate TV, aside from this show. #AtlantaFX
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If you like Keith Lee, you'd LOVE Amethyst Ganaway. She's an actual chef, smart as hell, hilarious, and a brilliant storyteller. Also, if Keith Lee goes to NABJ's convention they'll let him do whatever he wants. Meanwhile they barely acknowledge Black food journalism. 📠.
aite so simply put, im glad K*3th Lee is getting his bread and recognition. but there are so many actual Black food journalists, food critics, and chefs/food personalities that should have been given the platforms he has now. he does a lot of good for the communities so this isnt.
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A man who absolutely changed my life passed away at midnight. Thanks to everyone checking in. I’m OK but obviously it’s an emotional day for the family — hell, the world. Black folks especially. But yes, he was a great, great man, in real life. I’ll miss him dearly.
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This crazy, blurry, mixed-up photo I shot last night at @Tip's #TrapMusicMuseum includes @Usher, @zaytovenbeatz, random people mugging, someone's "ENFORCEMENT" t-shirt and a styrofoam cup, and was a total accident that somehow makes total sense
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You have no idea bruh.
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Good morning from Greater Atlanta. You’re all welcome. Send beer.
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Here's a funny-but-true story: I actually published the original viral video of this Katt Williams Wanda Smith roast. I was the digital program director at V-103 back in 2018, and we posted it just after Katt left -- ask Frank Ski. What a time to be alive in #ATL.
Since he’s trending imma bring the FULL video back to the timeline. Katt Williams roasts Wanda
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Taylor Swift and Janet Jackson are both in Atlanta and brunch is only a few hours from now. Pray for ATL.🙏🏿.
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My latest story, an @ajc x @propublica investigative partnership: . Ryan Millsap, a powerful #Atlanta movie executive praised for his diversity efforts, shared racist, antisemitic sentiments in texts.
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Now that the announcement is out that the @MichelinGuideNA is coming to #Atlanta, I'd say it's a great day/week to visit your favorite ATL restaurant — the chef is probably going to be cooking her #$$ off. 👩🏾🍳👨🏾🍳😋.
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Big news for #ATL nightlife: . Popular Atlanta DJ Ree de la Vega has taken over the lease of beloved former lounge The Sound Table, sharing her plans for continuing its ethos but as a new venue called "Pisces," due to open in July. Read it here:
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Congratulations to all my brothers, the faculty and staff at @Morehouse College, and the entire Class of 2024 at Clark, Morris Brown, Spelman and the whole #Atlanta University Center. There’s nothing like the #AUC. 🎓🫡👏
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If you didn't die at Tracy's waves at the end of @AtlantaFX's second episode you were never alive. #AtlantaFX
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Imagine if Atlanta traffic flowed more like the people who regularly navigate DeKalb Farmers Market. It’s always packed and there’s never a serious crash. That’s because we’re all there to do something that feels good. Driving in Atlanta should feel that way. I’ve had wine, FYI.
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All I’m gonna say is if it’s not just #Georgia but also #ATL, but then also #Southside #CLAYCO that ends up calling the presidency. sheeeeiiiit don’t even talk to me I’m buying a mink coat.
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I'm not saying @KillerMike is above critique, but dissing him on Twitter for meeting with a sitting governor — no matter how you/I feel about Kemp's legitimacy — doesn't change the fact that Mike probably did more for Black people this morning than y'all's spicy lil' tweets did.
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We’re outchea at Piedmont Park where Herbie Hancock is about to perform for free and the weather is super-perfect; summertime in Atlanta is the future of humanity.
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For the record I've never dated Lori Harvey but as the original Michael B. Jordan I would still like to request privacy and I appreciate your thoughts and prayers even if you were aiming in a different direction, thanks.
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One quick thing: When GA is called, Biden will likely have 306 EC votes. If NC stays in GOP territory, Trump will have 229. Consider that Biden got 4M+ more popular votes, and how hard it is to beat an incumbent, and this was NOT a close election. It was just different and crazy.
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@barenaissance We can uplift and promote other HBCUs that would benefit from more donations without tearing down @Morehouse, @SpelmanCollege and @HowardU. Yes, I attended Morehouse; I'm biased. And yes, all HBCUs deserve more. Please refocus that negative energy though. It doesn't help. Peace.
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Pretty exhausting to see people insulting @jemelehill while simultaneously pretending to defend black people's dignity. Has the holiday started yet?.
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2 years ago I pitched a story to the editor of a famous magazine, after Fulton County's D.A. hit a famous ATL rapper w/ RICO charges + was moving towards the same for a former POTUS. The working title: "Fani Willis Got Bars." . They slept on it. I stopped writing for them.📶📊🍫.
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Good morning ATL! You should start seeing the October issue of @AtlantaMagazine — the Best New Restaurants joint, on hiatus since 2019 — on local bookstands and on racks (on racks on raaaacks). I hope you'll read it; I know who wrote the cover story. Actually, so do you! 😋🦞
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Good morning #journalism Twitter!. We're hiring a Black Culture Reporter at the @AJC. Tell someone you think would be a great candidate to apply here, now:.
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Honestly I'd love to hear Andre 3000 rap about his eyesight + needing a colonoscopy. that's his truth. Plus he's capable of such lyrical feats that he might lead more hip-hop fans of a certain age to take health care more seriously. The key element, as always, is great beats.
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It arrived today. I’m still wowed. Gonna frame it, buy some good wine from @3ParksWine and stare at it at least one day over the holidays. Big thanks + shouts out to the @beardfoundation, the judges, #Atlanta and everyone that tells me they enjoy reading words I write. ✍🏾💪🏾🏆
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If you use the internet, stop what you're doing and protest the repeal of #NetNeutrality, dammit.
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Warnock wins. Fulton and Dekalb still coming in. The lead will increase. Trust me; I live here. Shouts to Morehouse College.
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For the 2nd year in a row, I've been nominated as a finalist for @beardfoundation's Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award for covering the most influential city in America, #Atlanta. 🍑. Tremendous thanks to former @AtlantaMagazine editors @Samuel_Worley, @JumpAtTheSuns, @BetsyBRiley.
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For the record, I am happy for Damson Idris and Lori Harvey; I wish them nothing but the best. — Michael B. Jordan.
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Everybody in Atlanta — journalists or otherwise — felt like we knew Jovita, and those of us who did get to meet her know how absolutely genuine and almost shockingly cool she was in real life. RIP.
It is with great sadness that we say farewell to #JovitaMoore, a dynamic journalist, tireless advocate for ATL, and a friend of Butter, who passed away last night after a battle with brain cancer. Sending our condolences to her friends, family and colleagues at @wsbtv. #RIP 😔
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May George Floyd rest in peace. May all police be increasingly held accountable for their actions, good and bad. May more justice be served. May less Black men die at the hands of police. May we all respect human life of all kinds.
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Y’ALL! TERRY KOVAL OF THE DEER & THE DOVE WON BEST CHEF SOUTHEAST AT THE @beardfoundation JUST NOW!! AYEEEEE!!! DECATUR IS LITERALLY WHERE IT’S GREATUR!! #ATL
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Good morning #ATL! Welcome to a new chapter for #BlackCulture coverage at @ajc: Welcome to @itsuatl. Follow us here and all over social (same handle), as we roll out with stories from new + established voices who know the culture, plus events + much more.
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It absolutely sucks that Loca Luna was apparently evicted yesterday because some idiot shot up their parking lot last weekend. This is where cool folks in ATL have dressed up and gone on salsa-dancing dates for decades. This is how we kill culture. 😔.
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Originally my first @WSJ story was gonna be something else, but then Beyonce inspired Popeyes to sell its uniforms as a fashion collection, and, well, the rest is history. Will be in the print edition tomorrow. Shouts to @BrittonThomas and @jacintahoward!
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"I want Atlantans to start expecting more from restaurants that are overcharging them for mediocrity.". Read more from my friends at @EaterAtlanta + I here: .
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Can't believe we lost C.T. Vivian and John Lewis on the same day. Two great men who changed the world. Atlanta and beyond will miss them. RIP.
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Good Morning Atlanta: Some friends and I have been working quietly for 18 months on a new journalism model. Introducing @canopyatl. Here's a thread explaining who we are, what we do, when and where we're starting (now, in West End), how you can get involved, and why it matters.
Meet Canopy Atlanta, a new digital publication that will tell unforgettable stories about metro Atlanta—in partnership with communities looking for more thoughtful, nuanced news coverage.
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Being out in Atlanta today was heavy but also beautiful. When tragic situations occur here, you really get to experience and understand what's so special about the city. It's the spirit of the people that define Atlanta and defy what folks thought they knew about the South.
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First, before somebody starts heating up a pot of grits to throw on me, this is NOT a "ranking" of Atlanta soul food restaurants. It is a MAP, with 13 suggestions for you, who I love. Now, read it, go eat, and lighten up on the salt.👩🏾🍳👨🏾🍳🍽️✊🏾
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No it is not my birthday but thanks to everyone sending all of the mistaken but well-intended DMs! Happy Birthday to the GOAT!
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My first story for the @ajc, currently the homepage feature: A look at challenges faced by Black-owned restaurants in #Atlanta, from access to capital to #COVID, community support following #BlackLivesMatter protests, and what the future may hold. (@NABJ)
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In keeping with the tradition set by Atlanta United FC (⚽️🏆🍑💸), the ATL James Beard #AwardTour made an important cultural stop in downtown Atlanta last night. (✍🏽🥇🍗🍑💸)
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@jduffyrice A Bosch dishwasher. I was not ready to know dishwashers aren’t cheap when mine broke (we almost went back to by-hand), but listened when folks recommended it, and let me tell you I appreciate owning a quiet dishwasher - that actually works - more than I thought I could. ✨.
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Some news! I've joined @butter_atlanta as EIC. #YEET. We've got a newsletter called #TheChurn, and it's launching today. Tell your folks and sign up now; it's lit.
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Whenever I see someone misspell Atlanta as "Altanta," I imagine a parallel universe where OutKast includes Ceelo (as the group originally did), Bill Campbell as Al Gore's VP pick (which almost happened), and Super Bowl LI with 28-3 as the final score. Didn't we almost have it all.
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@McClint_SA "Privacy" is a strong term here. The kid was about to be the face of an Adidas campaign, and I'd say Pusha wanted to hit Drake by scooping the announcement in a diss sort of way — which wouldn't have been possible had Drake not kept it secret that he'd fathered the kid.
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Watching Usher tonight was amazing but I’ll admit it hit a little bit harder if you were a late-‘90s LaFace Records intern-turned-copywriter-turned-marketing assistant-turned-culture-journalist
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Also, who else noticed the sun immediately came out in ATL as soon as the announcement came? 🌞😎.
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There is no place in America more politically interesting than Georgia.
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Even at 30++ years old I still push the grocery cart hard enough to get a good roll going and jump up on the back bar and ride that thang to my parking spot 🛒💨.
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Remind your awesome, qualified-but-quiet friends today that the price of letting "imposter syndrome" keep them from going for a perfectly matched opportunity is often watching an actual imposter step up, claim that mismatched opportunity, fail up and become a loud thought-leader.
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@Outkast I have this OG printout from the LaFace Records office, from the old Blue Cross Blue Shield building conference room, in my office. I dropped it off at Stankonia and the homie Kiera Lytle got Big Boi & Dre to sign it for me. Cheat code: I worked at LaFace.
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Hey y'all, I wrote a 4K-word oral history of @Magiccityatl for @AtlantaMagazine. Read the story and hear audio clips straight from the mouths of club founder Michael Barney, @BigBoi, @jermainedupri, @ryancameron and others, right chea:
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Your favorite restaurants, if they're still able to be open for takeout orders, are doing some of their best work right now, despite all odds. Support them if you can. Atlanta and beyond.
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One of my last freelance stories completed before I joined The @AJC: very fun interviews with folks who manage the door at 3 great #Atlanta bars (@mjq_concourse, @ourbaratl + @rocksteadyatl) . Read it here at @punch_drink;.
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My dad told me he voted early in the southern primaries today, for Bernie Sanders. I'm starting to think Hillary is in trouble.
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