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new pod #LifeWithMachines writer @pucknews #HowToCitizen podcast #AmericaOutdoorsPBS BOARDS @BKLYNlibrary @CivicsUnplugged
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2007
Whatever happens, we have lost. Half this nation voted for white supremacy, sexual assault, and more. The Klan is happy. We should be sad.
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I respect your right to protest but think a football game is an inappropriate place to flaunt your politics.
I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.
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I'm reading the Mueller indictments in the original PDF-legalease format. All the way through, because I'm not a Republican member of Congress and think this is actually important.
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Trump speaks out about a Broadway cast respectfully requesting respect but not 400+ hate crimes in his name since election.
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When we ban books in schools before we ban guns, we admit we are more afraid of our children learning than we are of them dying.
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Dear @SenateDems. More of this please. Grind this doomsday device to a halt. You owe us and we have your back. Keep it up!
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"Hidden Fences" - brilliant black women use math to launch Denzel Washington into space where he plays professional baseball with his son.
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I am retweeting Taylor Swift on the subject of systemic racism.
As a Tennessean, it makes me sick that there are monuments standing in our state that celebrate racist historical figures who did evil things. Edward Carmack and Nathan Bedford Forrest were DESPICABLE figures in our state history and should be treated as such.
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Leader assumes power. Millions from every province in his land & 70 other nations protest his existence on day 1. Has this happened before?.
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All this from Trump was not only predictable but actually predicted. None of this is surprising. Not one part.
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President Lyndon Johnson explains President-Elect Donald Trump. (From the book "White Trash")
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I apologize to the Obamas. We dishonor them with these vote results. We never deserved them. Now we have mathematical proof.
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If ever you think the left is being too tough on Trump. Imagine what the right would be doing to Hillary. Remember what they did to Obama.
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If I poop in the pool repeatedly and then remove one turd, I should get no credit. The pool is still ruined. Michael Flynn is just one turd.
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By "we" this sign means decent people. Democracy is a process. Let's keep at it. #WeOutnumberHim #resist #inauguration
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It's friday and Robert Mueller has dropped indicted Roger Stone which means another PDF which means it's time for me to walk through this document amateur legal style. I'm so excited. My PDF reader has never gotten so much use as when American democracy is being undermined
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Tom Brady losing the Super Bowl is America winning the Super Bowl.
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Donald Trump is a denial-of-service attack on the U.S. political system. His campaign is a flood of nonsense, preventing legitimate actions.
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Conservative white man Cliven Bundy evaded taxes, used public land illegally, took up organized arms against the federal government, and he's alive to have his case thrown out of court. Someone should tell James Damore about this guy.
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Things no woman or person of color could do: acquire one of the most powerful jobs in the world and show up looking like this.
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Last week I shared that @ebonymag hasn't paid or contacted me & many others. This week they blocked me. I'm not even mad. I'm disappointed.
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Yesterday @AOC went live on IG and I got a question in. Her answer is beautiful. Watch/read and give yourself some space to be less productive and more human. Love yall! #coronavirus #covid19 #stayhuman
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The people spoke, voted him out, but we are forced to wait for this white man to accept reality and in the meantime do further damage to our institutions. We would not do this for a woman. We would not do this for any person of color. White supremacy is one helluva drug.
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It's like the Russians took two great U.S. innovations: advertising and marketing, and turned it against us with analytical rigor. "The americans lie to themselves all the time. they won't notice if we join them."
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“This is what solidarity looks like.” Right now at LaGuardia. Our tax dollars have funded the terrorization of families seeking refuge. Let’s keep showing up people #FamilesBelongTogether
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Remember when Steve Bannon said he was all about "deconstruction of the administrative state?" NOW YOU SEE WHAT THAT MEANS. Death. It means death for Americans who didn't have to die. Shame on everyone who gave that clown a platform without challenging him.
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I would kill for "binders full of women right now." To have a candidate bragging about the search for competent women, not assaulting them.
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This information warfare campaign was SO. WELL. ORGANIZED. Part of me is like, "Yo, this is great digital marketing." The other part is like, "THIS IS HORRIBLE AND HOW CAN YOU TRUST ANYTHING ANYMORE??!".
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They criticized all candidates "except Sanders and Trump." Serious question: has Bernie Sanders ever acknowledged his online support being amplified by the Russians and said he didn't welcome it?
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OR “In a hyper-divided nation, an overwhelming majority of America’s support US rejoining Paris Climate Accord and World Health Organization.” Headlines matter.
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The president still hasn't imposed the Russia sanctions that Congress passed overwhelmingly. And everybody's just acting like, "Meh. TRUMP WILL BE TRUMP! Undermining national security is just his THING ya know?".
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This indictment isn't just about Trump. It's about us needing a better vision for how we do this whole "society" thing. What forms of power get held accountable. What voices we listen to. This is ultimately about reality and our collective agreement on what THAT is. /END.
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How do you let a mob storm the US Capitol? What an abject embarrassment to have the US Congress under siege. Don’t ever EVER come at me with that nonsense about violent #BlackLivesMatter protests again. If these thugs were black or brown they would have been executed by now.
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Look at how they hid the money! All these LLCs. It's like they read the playbook on How To Be A New York Real Estate Developer And Remain Hidden With No Accountability For Your Actions.
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As a paying subscriber I don’t pay for this. It’s not good journalism. It doesn’t inform the public meaningfully. You’re hurting an already-fragile democracy. Please stop. Center your coverage of Dem candidates on THEM, not what an unhinged bully thinks about them.
Joe Biden is “sleepy,” Bernie Sanders is “crazy” and Elizabeth Warren is “angry.” Since January, Trump has attacked several of the Democrats competing for his job. Here are the candidates the president has insulted so far.
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We build a giant deception machine called marketing and advertising, and an adversary used it against us.
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Kanye and Trump. Two powerful, unaccountable, troubled, famous men playing at matters they do not understand but no one will tell them that or stop them. Neither belongs in the Oval Office.
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We allowed our democracy to become so corrupted by money and self-serving, power-hungry folks that we already didn't trust it, and an adversary used it against us.
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This @nytimes piece is a gut punch. It includes a data visualization that shows the invisible hand of systemic racism at work. An important read. Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites
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A posthumous hashtag is a horrible way to learn of a human being's existence. #TerenceCrutcher.
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OH SNAP YALL. They saved the best part for last. The US Government "will seek forfeiture as part of any sentence!!!" They're gonna use drug dealer laws and TAKE YOUR RUSSIAN SUVs AND THAT HOUSE YOU BOUGHT YOUR MOMMA!.
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Merrick Garland.
Dem filibuster of exceptional Judge Gorsuch means no GOP nominee will B acceptable Can't be 1 rule for Dems and 1 rule for GOP.
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On top of that, one-half of the political establishment (the republican half) is completely uninterested in acknowledging, investigating, or responding to this sophisticated act of information warfare. They've done NOTHING to prepare us for the next campaign.
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And Facebook. Oh Facebook. So happy to monetize the destruction of our civil fabric. They made $7B in the 3rd quarter of 2016. Zuckerberg smugly said 99% of posts are "authentic." We cannot trust this company to do what's best for us. Not just FB btw.
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and look at this. They SOMEHOW got a bunch of social security numbers and used those to do more fake shit. They could have gotten those from almost anywhere thanks to weak ass security by everyone mining our personal data. Hello Equifax, Target, LinkedIn, US Government!
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Last night I raised a glass to Brian Williams, classiest human in the news game. For 18 months he invited me to share my perspective. For longer he's operated with grace, graciousness, and savage wit to help us through hard times. Thanks @bwilliams and @billkristol. #TheBTeam
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and of course they used the pain of black folks cause why not? We're always exploitable. O hai Jill Stein! I see you!
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We build a giant influence machine called social media, and an adversary used it against us.
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Remember. All these are CHOICES and people in power are CHOOSING to let radical white and right wing extremists run amok inside the US Capitol. This is a very big day for American hypocrisy.
Reminder fo what capitol "security" in full military-grade riot gear looked like for Black Lives Matter protests this summer.
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Offset-Cardi and Thomas-Meghan are powerful examples of men feeling entitled to women’s attention, responses, and love and using their power to force the issue. Then other men like this with megaphones make these demands seem normal. Women don’t owe us any of this.
Come on Meghan, do the right thing & call him. He’s your dad.
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That wasn't a debate. It was an assault on all of us. (I made this video for my email list but decided to share more widely. You can subscribe at
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Dear future archeologists. It was the silence and complicity of @GOP @HouseGOP and @SenateGOP that led to the destruction of much of the world for they unleashed and enabled this menace upon us all. Do not forgive them. Do not forget.
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Looks like we used up all the police tanks, pepper spray, and riot gear for black folks demanding justice. None left for #Charlottesville.
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they exploited our open wounds. Facilitated by Zuckerberg's mammoth birthday reminder service and surveillance/influence machine.
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I mean, the Russians literally called it "information warfare." They're like, "Yo, we gonna do some crimes. Who's in?"
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We weakened our press such that all the phony conflict inspired by this information warfare campaign was reported in real-time with little to no vetting, and an adversary used it against us.
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Ok. I made it through the indictment. Yes I was hoping to see Donald Trump Jr's stupid face in there proving he was knowingly wiring money to the Russians. Didn't get that. Instead found a more frightening reality: we got hacked bigtime. Based on known vulnerabilities.
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We left open, unreconciled divisions in our society, and an adversary used it against us.
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THIS IS THE OPPOSITE OF SELF CARE: cable news + Diet Coke . Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation
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Ok now i've hit a long section around pages 26 and on, and it's an itemized list which basically comes down to: "Facebook was an instrumental weapon in this one-sided information war.".
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Muslims, immigrants, refugees, thanks for making America awesome. Sorry our government isn't returning the favor. Most of us love you.
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And then the Russians did dumb shit like write emails to family members about how they were VERY BUSY COVERING UP THEIR CRIMES.
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Ahem *taps mic* Is this thing on? Let's talk about #FireSessions and what we are learning about our republic right now.
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They used the fake IDs and money to buy US server space, set up VPNs from Russia, so all this looked like local traffic. SMART. They set up email accounts in the US & used those to recruit and amplify their messages through media. SMART. I feel like the DNC should have done this.
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If the election had turned out differently, would we even know half of what we do? We only got Robert Mueller because Trump is president but also bad at wielding his power.
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For every 9 people executed on death row, 1 has been proven innocent. Insane error rate.
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Nice to see that the conspiracy of the Russians has now been fully endorsed by the Republican Party.
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I wrote a thing: Empathy isn’t a favor I owe white Trump voters. It has to go both ways. via @voxdotcom.
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I mean, NAACP might as well warn black folks about LIVING in AMERICA not just flying on American Airlines.
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The Russians didn't show up with arrogance and lack of preparations. They did their homework. Digital and IRL. They tracked online metrics. They learned our political language.
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Sad part: I believed in this country. Against the historical record. And I was wrong. America is being real America right now.
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Sean Spicer resigned b/c he didn't like the new comms director. Was fine with the lying and the treason. Had a problem with the org chart.
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And even though the Russians amplified divisions to be greater than they are, those divisions are real now. There is a basic level of trust we have to have in our environment to act appropriately, and that's severely broken.
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Incredible. The Russians used stolen identities to open real bank and paypal accounts to pay for fake ads ad fake rallies and to CHARGE REAL AMERICANS money to promote their political messages on the now-popular fake Russian Facebook pages. Brilliant business.
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WHY DOES ANY DEMOCRAT THINK MITCH MCCONNELL CARES THAT DEMOCRATS THINK HE IS A HYPOCRITE??? THIS FOOL DOES NOT CARE. NORMS DO NOT MATTER TO HIM. POWER MATTERS. MONEY MATTERS. VOTES MATTER. EVERYTHING ELSE IS IRRELEVANT.
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Dear @NPR please stop saying things like “democrats can’t agree on the bill.” There are two. They have names. @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema are the ones gutting provisions like paid family leave and reducing child poverty. Be specific.
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I just donated again to @staceyabrams to help support a FULL COUNT of the votes in Georgia. We should never have candidates in charge of the election process. In the name of fairness, support Stacey's effort to count everyone.
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That Trump is even on this stage is a disappointment and embarrassment to the United States. #debatenight.
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This was all avoidable. And our time and energy have been spent explaining why it’s not a good idea to headline a white supremacist instead of stopping an un-vetted judge from joining the Supreme Court or reuniting kidnapped children with their parents. Or napping.
David Remnick just informed staff that Steve Bannon will not be appearing at the New Yorker Festival.
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Look at CNN, adding context instead of just repeating the latest excrement from the mouth of an alleged billionaire.
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I'd heard about the fake rallies that became real rallies, but I didn't know they basically ran a TaskRabbit system, paying people to stage theatrical demonstrations. Reminds me of the book Daemon which you should read. Too much to get into it now.
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One of the great tragedies of this presidency is that Americans are forced to pay attention to Omarosa again.
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My uniform today. Yes we can. Yes we did. Yes we will again. Love y'all.
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Sam Nunberg acting like laws and subpeonas are optional. Oh white privilege is HILARIOUS. Somebody get this dude a Netflix special.
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They should say it out loud and in public with their names. They should hold press conferences. But this lot are the same who silently endorsed child kidnapping and use of the military against peaceful civilians so. .
"Republican operatives and aides throughout Washington, D.C., are ready for the 2020 election to be over. After two weeks of President Donald Trump refusing to concede on the basis of false claims about voter fraud, Republicans are ready for it to end."
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Quick aside: the party that should be most offended here is the House Intelligence committee. This clown was making a fool of them, and under GOP control, they were SO INCURIOUS about the matter. Again wondering if there's a word to describe coordination between parties.
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As people respond to latest abusive presidential tantrum, remember: the @GOP embraced, funded, and elevated this bad man knowing who he was.
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Mueller got him though. Opening with "In truth and in fact" Team Mueller itemizes the evidence of Stone's false testimony to Congress. BTW "In truth and in fact" is my new favorite substitute for "Well, actually."
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