Alex Shephard
@alex_shephard
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staff writer @newrepublic. cohost @mrdifficultpod. founded @fullstopmag with my friends. [email protected]
Brooklyn, NY
Joined July 2010
listing “mass deportation” as a housing proposal is literally fascistic
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“MacDonalds”
Trump is winning right now. He goes to MacDonalds and the Left and media melt down -- and meanwhile, she's doing birthday parties with Stevie Wonder. Which do you think is most likely to connect with swing voters?.
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someone in my neighborhood has live, laugh, loved for the last time
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this arc is the only funny thing in his entire career.
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Luigi Mangione gave The Lorax five stars right before he gave The Unabomber Manifesto four stars lol.
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I’m three seconds in and Justice League is already one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen
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barbie/oppenheimer is doing disturbing things to my brain. walked by a guy wearing a black shirt and pink pants and was like “he must be going to the movies.” he’s just wearing clothes.
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spending $60 on organic grass fed ground beef at america's most liberal-coded grocery store to own the libs.
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If Tony Hinchcliffe costs Trump the election it will be the first funny thing he’s ever done.
POLITICO: Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania. "It’s not the smartest thing to do, to insult people — a large group of voters here in a swing state — and then go to their home asking for votes."
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Jesus Navas is only 17 months younger than Joe Biden.
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it’s amazing watching Timmy effortlessly execute the failed Kamala press tour.
Timothée Chalamet shares on Theo Von’s podcast that he will spend the holidays with his family after the ‘A Complete Unknown’ press tour:. “Be with my family, be with my new little niece”.🤍.
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the worst 12 hour period in American politics in a very, very long time.
🚨The Supreme Court overrules Chevron deference, wiping out 40 years of precedent that required federal courts to defer to expert opinions of federal agencies. All three liberals dissent. This is a HUGE decision.
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Tim Walz and his wife don't own a single stock, according to financial disclosures. No mutual funds, no bonds, no book deals. via @danprimack
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it's not the craziest part of this tweet but if you're projectile vomiting pints of black blood and bleeding from your ass you really shouldn't be cranking it
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it’s been eleven weeks
BREAKING: Pres Trump on AF1:."I think we’ve had one of the most successful 13 weeks in the history of the presidency.".
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the person at the vet's office called my dog "Harriet Shephard" and I was like "no. Harriet has no last name." what is wrong with me.
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the speeches from Kelly and Shapiro have made it very clear that Harris made the right choice for her running mate.
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Employees at Little, Brown, a Hachette imprint, have walked out to protest the company’s decision to publish Woody Allen’s memoir.
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tfw you have acquired another idiot son
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mass deportation vs tax incentives does unfortunately sum up this depressing election rather neatly though.
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Interesting Cormac McCarthy quote… any idea if a sociopathic serial murderer said it?.
One of the most important skills I see in successful (and good) people is to constantly reevaluate assumptions. They make predictions based on various inputs, some of them unknown, and reevaluate based on what they got right and wrong. They trust people not because they're always.
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what are posts that aren’t load-bearing anywhere but your personal lexicon. like the ones that weren’t really popular but are so enshrined in your mind that you just assume they got hundreds of thousands of likes.
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An old, infirm, man who is past his prime is in a terrifying position of power. Despite his obvious physical and cognitive limitations, he is constantly enabled by those closest to him. His ego is imperiling an entire nation. I of course am talking about Cristiano Ronaldo.
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trump telling someone to not stand so close to a classified document because they don’t have clearance is maybe the funniest admission of guilt in the history of america and also crime.
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I am hearing this pretty consistently from Dem canvassers in swing states: They aren’t seeing many Trump canvassers and when they are they’re often knocking on pro-Harris doors. It may not matter! But it really seems like Elon massively screwed up their GOTV operation.
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we’re going to need a smaller tent
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Harris ran an tepid, overcautious campaign, wildly misread the electorate, and was overly deferential (to put it mildly) to Biden, particularly on Gaza and the economy. But it was Joe Biden that put her and the Democratic Party in this position.
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Gavin Newsom is taking a short break from personally destroying the possessions of homeless people to talk about how the Democrats are the party of decency and justice.
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anyone arguing that Democrats need to build their own media ecosystem needs to reckon with the fact that these are the messengers Democrats like.
oh my god, the White House threw a holiday going away party with the Resistance grifters and Hunter Biden. look at my Democratic Party, dawg, we’re getting a third Trump term.
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the new Trump suspect is obviously nuts but this is also very funny
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the hardest job at the euros is “cameraman tasked with avoiding dutch fans in blackface”.
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@erikmbaker forgive me if someone has already said this and I admittedly overweight structural things most of the time but the Academy recently dramatically expanded the number of European voters and my understanding is they love this movie over there because they have terrible taste.
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It’s so funny that Democrats are desperate for what Republicans have (racist podcasts) and Republicans are desperate for what Democrats have (glossy magazines with no power or influence).
“The 39-year-old is everything Vogue claims to champion.”. I dare Anna Wintour to put Usha Vance on the cover of Vogue
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It's been a while since I've read something that fails on every level—writing, reporting, and (above all!) editing—as spectacularly as this does
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the joyce carol oates equilibrium theory suggests she is going to tweet something wildly offensive in the next eight hours.
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seems pretty clear that one reason the studios are holding out on the writers is that they're convinced they can get cheap content from AI, which only underlines just how insanely stupid they are.
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it's impossible to pick a favorite Cormac McCarthy passage but this is up there. RIP
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before dating apps you just let your coworkers use your apartment to have extramarital affairs while you pined after the elevator operator at work.
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and they said we should be worried about the disappearance of literary men
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just remembered that I asked Werner Herzog about Avatar in 2010
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Marianne Williamson talks like someone who just dumped Humphrey Bogart.
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I can feel my most important delusion (that Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, and Neil Young will never die) slowly starting to crack.
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quietly one of the weirdest figures in american political history.
Statement from former first lady Melania Trump: . "Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now. This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends."
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whenever I want to know if something is funny I turn to Malcolm Gladwell
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The Yoffe thing is probably the clearest indication we have that these people hold these children in total and complete contempt and have no actual interest in their wellbeing whatsoever.
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People are rightfully seizing on the cancel culture stuff but the funniest part of the Rowan Atkinson interview is when he talks about the huge burden of being Mr. Bean
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guy looks like he threw 27 INTs for the Chicago Bears in 2009.
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Paul Thomas Anderson has assembled an all-star cast for his next movie: Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall and Sean Penn. The untitled project will likely be the director's most expensive, as insiders say the budget is approaching $100 million.
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really feels like he has been in a final destination situation for the last month.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Trump plane heading to Montana rally was diverted due to a mechanical issue but landed safely nearby, airport staff says.
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possibly the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen
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no band had ever looked more like its fans than Steely Dan
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Martin Scorsese made Killers of the Flower Moon. Biden said he was “the first black woman to serve with a black president.”
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today I learned a city testing site that I found by Googling charged me $1,068.89 for a test I didn't even end up getting 🙃.
I know COVID testing remains frustrating, but we are making improvements. In the last two weeks we have stood up federal testing sites all over this country — and we are adding more each day. Google “COVID test near me” to find the nearest site where you can get a test.
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if there had been an eclipse three days after an earthquake four centuries ago they would have started the most insane religious sects you’ve ever seen. yet another sign of our regression as species.
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bob dylan seems to actually be tweeting from his account
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Have been rewatching Seinfeld for the past three months and a few things stand out:.1. Wayne Knight and Jerry Stiller steal every scene they’re in.2. Julia Louis Dreyfuss is a genius.3. Jerry Seinfeld was dating a teenager during the show’s best seasons.
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There is only a 7% chance the Palisades fire is contained by Friday according to Polymarket.
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if he had been born into a normal family instead of an obscenely rich one, J.B. Pritzker would have fulfilled his true destiny (character actor who appears in six Coen Brothers movies).
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she just found out Juror #2 is only in theaters for two more days.
Kamala Harris is on the move, with her motorcade having just left the Naval Observatory, destination unknown.
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jean-luc godard’s contempt is a movie about how being in the most beautiful place in italy with the most beautiful woman in the world actually sucks.
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ts eliot was right when he wrote "april sucks the most of all the months".
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the only downtown catholic reactionaries that interest me
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Biden boasted about his role in passing the 1994 crime bill in his memoir, which was published 14 months ago
Joe Biden said he made a mistake in supporting the tough-on-crime drug legislation of the 1980s and 1990s
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I am a broken record on this subject, but for every tweet from this account calling out laziness and stupidity in media (usually opinion writing) there are five that are simply opposed to analysis or, for that matter, journalism.
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Julián Castro is finally going to get the attention he deserves
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new york city one week from today
One week from today, sunset in NYC will be at 7:00pm. The sun won’t set any earlier than 7:00pm in NYC until September 19th, 2023.
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I would like to thank Twitter's horrible verification system for forcing me to email Binky Urban about this stupid account.
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If anything, the deference and respect most Democrats have shown him suggests that they still don’t understand just how much most of the country hates him.
Maybe just me but all this dumping on Biden seems mean spirited, gratuitous and not helpful.
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Scranton was huge when Joe Biden was a boy because he was a boy before deindustrialization and the decline of the railroads. 150,000 people lived there!!!!.
Just a girl from a small town in Texas, next to a man who was once a boy from a small town in Pennsylvania. Thank you for everything, President Biden.
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two things that amaze me about Paul McCartney: 1. the man possesses the greatest arsenal of silly voices in rock music history and 2. he always knows *exactly* which silly voice is right for every song.
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Axios does not appear to know what "working the refs" actually means
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religious music??? this was both on the Shrek soundtrack and is about fucking.
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A representative from McCarthy's publisher has confirmed that this is a fake account.
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honoring Joan Didion by harshly judging the people I walk by in California.
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the Meg White sucks thing is so funny to me because we have a pretty big sample size of Jack White playing with other drummers and the music is uniformly much worse!!!.
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how come none of you told me that Dave Eggers just wrote what appears to be the worst book ever written???
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this made me have a stroke.
In which Vice President Joe Biden directly quotes Thomas Pynchon during a rally in Des Moines Iowa on September 17th, 2014
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ah I see we’re doing “we will be greeted as liberators” again. very cool!!.
I’m hearing that Iranian social media networks are going nuts in celebration. Iranians I know are overjoyed. Of course they are.
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I genuinely admire how confident the convenience store in Philadelphia’s 30th Street station is in the number of copies of Henry James’s Portrait of a Lady it will sell
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I wrote about J.D. Vance, a weird little freak who no one likes
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400 electoral votes incoming as Democrats sweep the “drunk driving belt” for the first time in more than half a century.
Since Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is officially being reported as a favorite to become the VP pick for Kamala Harris. Here he is pictured from his DUI arrest where he was going 96 in a 55. He then lied to police about being deaf in an attempt to avoid his arrest.
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