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Made in West Virginia | occasional talking head | frequent VA patient | Editor @ordinarytimemag | Writer @wv_watch & Fayette Trib | @heardtellshow SubStack/Pod
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What I do:
Writer/Editor
@ordinarytimemag
covering culture & politics
WV Commentary
@WV_Watch
& The Fayette Tribune
Host
@HeardTellShow
turning down the noise of the news cycle wherever you get your podcasts
Serving up
#twittersupperclub
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Eat. She is trying to eat the toddler.
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Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy and paste commands, dies at 74.
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy and paste commands, dies at 74.
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I can see I'm going to have to take the slow path here, so let's try this again slow w/small words.
Folks that can't afford $4-5/g gas without major hits to their budgets cannot fix that problem by suddenly dropping $40K+ for the cheapest Tesla to save money per gallon on gas
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We fought and won two wars so Stephen Colbert doesn't have to tell the palace diddly sqaut
Telegraph: Stephen Colbert didn’t ‘warn’ the palace about the Rose Hanbury jokes
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I usually do this on 9/11 but since it's a weekend will share today. Each year on the date I make myself re-read this.
One of the finest pieces of writing, of any kind, on any topic, by anyone. Ever.
The Falling Man by
@TomJunod
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Five years ago today, this was me at Duke because my body revolted every time they tried to bring me back up off the ventilator following heart surgery (3rd major surgery in as many weeks). Very easily could have gone another way.
Take nothing for granted. Every day is a gift.
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I've already heard a couple talking heads say something really stupid, so lets clear it up now: There isn't a bridge ever made that can withstand a 300m/95000 ton container ship slamming into a support without major damage or collapse. The force you are talking about is immense
The crew of the ship that collided with Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse, is still on board according to the latest information, Baltimore’s fire chief says.
Sonar has also detected vehicles in the river, he said, but the number is not yet known.
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My father has suffered a stroke. He is now in WVU's NCCU and being treated.
If you would pray and keep a good thought my family and I would appreciate it.
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Coupled w/her previous statements re: Sen. McCain, her intention to campaign with Cernovich, and other factors, Kelli Ward is failing the test of being a decent human being, let alone worthy to represent AZ in the Senate; and polls show AZ isnt buying her.
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Scientific fact: hotdogs at the ballpark automatically taste 10% better just for being at the game
#twittersupperclub
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@joanwalsh
This is silly criticism of the first lady. She's a model by trade and training, she is framing the shot for the media (this is photo-op first and foremost) & doing exactly what she should be doing at an official function - adding to without taking away from the focus of the event
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You can tell me how great your generation is when you get this kind of high-end glassware from McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Cause that happened for us.
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The Sikh people have a proud warrior tradition going back centuries, along with a strong cultural ethos of honor and service. This is a proper accommodation to make and our forces will be the better for their inclusion.
Sikh airman becomes first allowed to wear beard and turban in Air Force
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I have heard no convincing argument why a city with far less population than Columbus, Ohio should have two sitting US Senators, among other reasons I'm against it.
Absolutely in favor of DC statehood and ready to fly the 51-state flag.
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Never change, American college student. Never change.
Penn State students are holding a candlelight vigil for their local Taco Bell that is closing down.
Some things are bigger than sports
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The first Waffle House location in Decatur, Georgia, back in the 60s. Note the sign, back when WH was selling chicken sandwiches from a fellow local upstart food company, Chick-fil-A.
(Photo Paxton Holley, Flickr)
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Feels like the former prosecutor who tried to cover up the Ahmaud Abery murder being indicted for it last week didn't get the coverage it deserved.
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HOAs are for folks who don't think the local PTA is fascist enough
🧵Last month, retired Texas couple George and Kathleen Rowe were sued by their homeowners association for feeding ducks 🦆. The requested relief? Up to $250,000, plus lawyer’s fees and a court order to never do it again.
✏️
@RASchuetz
📸
@egconley
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The fact it took one of the most famous people in the world 14 years and the collective outcry of many others to get one person one ruling out of the court system ought to spark a conversation how little chance most folks have of getting anything good out of it, let alone justice
"Free Britney" was an amazingly successful niche protest movement
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The Jets season wasn't over when Aaron Rodgers popped his Achilles, it was over when the Jets decided to blow money on Rodgers buddies instead of getting an offensive line, a viable backup quarterback, and an OC that doesn't call plays like he's seeing color for the first time
The Packers' seven wide receivers are making a combined $7.5 million this year.
Former Packers WR Alan Lazard, inactive today, is making $12 million this year with the Jets.
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If your church invites Charlie Kirk to speak, find another church. Rapidly.
Charlie Kirk was a guest speaker yesterday at Calvary Chapel Oro Valley in Arizona.
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Sunday School teacher Alice Cooper walks the walk...
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Some of you folks did not eat at Long John Silvers when you had to enter through ropes and a fake dock wearing a pirate hat to get your crunchy fried groove on, and frankly it shows in your tweeting...
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A stain on the fabric of American history we are yet to reckon with properly.
Woodrow Wilson. 1919.
Happy birthday to Woodrow Wilson. Born on this day in 1856.
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Good history lesson here. The religious communities like the Mennonites here, the Quakers, & many others have a long history in America of involvement in racial issues. Quakers were so successful freeing slaves through manumission states started passing laws in 1820s against it
The Amish came out yesterday in Minneapolis to join the George Floyd protests.
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@AP_Politics
7-2 on a 9-person court is not only the opposite of narrow, it is resounding with the current SCOTUS makeup.
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It's on video, junior, along with decades of your wackadooism.
You wanted the spotlight, you got it. Enjoy everyone getting to know the real you beyond the last name you've coasted through life on.
@nypost
@LevineJonathan
I demand the editors of the
@nypost
retract, and that
@LevineJonathan
apologize for this false, underhanded, and inflammatory article.
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Good mute and block list there
Folks I recommend on this:
@ggreenwald
@Cernovich
@mtracey
@SohrabAhmari
@ClintEhrlich
@emeriticus
@Vermeullarmine
@davereaboi
@JordanSchachtel
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The enabling/excusing of Bill Clinton the man because Bill Clinton the politician was too good to pass up is the interstate exit that got us to Trumpland, but most folks will never be ready for that conversation
Former President
@BillClinton
: "Two days ago, I turned 78. The oldest man in my family for four generations and the only personal vanity I want to assert is that I’m still younger than Donald Trump."
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Pete Davidson has the chance to do the funniest thing ever...
New from me: Nancy Mace has hit a rough patch.
Mace and fiancé call it quits after 18 months - now fighting over their multi-million-dollar homes - as staff leave office in droves and she's accused of openly talking about her sex life with aides
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WITHOUT googling, name a famous historic battle.
WITHOUT googling, name a famous historic battle.
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Why, no, I'm not the least bit interested in what Edward Snowden has to say on the phone from his state-sponsored flat in Moscow. Thanks for asking.
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I microwaved bagged shredded cheese onto Doritos for
#twittersupperclub
I apologize for nothing
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Hell to the no
I’m starting to think Elon Musk would make one hell of a great president of the United States. Anybody else feel the same way?
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An update for those asking:
Had my repeat scope at VA this morning. We expected bad news, & that is what we got.
Not unexpected, have good doctors, & we've known this was coming for some time. No panic, just work the problem. Courage now. Appreciate all y'alls support & prayers
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"You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt,
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the company store..."
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I dont talk about it much, but someone might see who needs one more day today
String enough one more days together and you get a pretty good life. Very thankful and blessed.
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Zero cause it's never happening
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@colincampbell
I'm hard on President Trump on many, if not most, things but this is silly. He famously abhors alcohol for valid personal reasons. In public I frequently do this myself since it's more low key than explaining I'm 14 years sober and nothing stronger than Coke is going in my glass.
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If you would indulge a personal request, thoughts and prayers appreciated for my family this evening. My daughter (15) been struggling with her migraines last two weeks and now this afternoon has been admitted to the hospital as they try to get it lined out.
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There is a bad decision making, then there is "Imma going to kit up with 1/5th of a Rubbermaid trash can then jog into that police line over yonder like they done called my name in red rover" level of bad decision making
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As we observe Memorial Day, reminds me a few years ago I was tweeting about my great-uncle who was killed in Korea, someone read it, & DM'd a pic of his headstone at Rosecrans which touched my WV family who'd never seen it. Good reminder we can share/spread good on this here site
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The replies here are an excellent list of candidates for unfollowing, muting, and blocking. When wretched folks tell you who they are by assuming and reacting to show you what they are, believe them
This is the moment Ben and his husband Aaron met their daughter Charlotte for the first time 🥺 ❤️
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Completely as predicted. The clown show of the out-of-their-depth Cyber Ninjas and assorted associated grifters selling that they are going to accomplish the impossible and don't know what they are doing in the first place is going to be very expensive to the tax payers
Breaking: Maricopa County announces it will not use any of the voting equipment that has been in the hands of Cyber Ninjas again.
County was required under subpoenas to give most of the $6 million in equipment it leases from Dominion to the Senate for the audit.
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This video is America at its very best because the list of places in the world where a group of women have this much total public freedom is a lot shorter than folks think. That's worth celebrating, protecting, praising.
But thanks for telling us all we need to know about you
Just smile politely y’all. We’re witnessing mental illness
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Discuss
I saw somebody say that Joel Osteen looks like Martin Short pretending to be Tim Allen and I can’t unsee it now, it’s the most accurate statement ever uttered.
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Reading transcripts of CNN Climate event. Policy and politics aside the amazing thing is this: we have gone from politicians promising everything but the kitchen sink as electoral strategy to this group promising to take away/restrict everything but the kitchen sink as strategy.
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It's Ann Wilson and it isn't even close.
The woman sang Stairway live, in front of Led Zeppelin, and made Robert Plant cry from the power of it. Top that.
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This should be what you are shooting for
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A special day. Youngest youngin turns 16 today. They were holding her up like that so the webcam on the wall got a good look at her, since I was in Iraq and watching her delivery from afar. She was 4 mths old when I finally got her in my arms. A special and talented young lady.
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Democracy dies in the dark, also please read this op-ed we are promoting by a dictator who has over 100 journalist sitting in prison for committing acts of journalism.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan writes in Opinions: "The New Zealand killer and the Islamic State are cut from the same cloth"
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Enough is enough. Rise, rise good people everywhere for the battle of our time is at hand, the enemy is near, and we must meet and defeat this present darkness. Forth, and fear no evil...or stupid Hollywood remake idea.
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Let me tell you there is bacon on my sandwich without telling you there is bacon on my sandwich
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They aren't leaving Twitter. They never do. We've seen this movie. Ignore it.
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I give Mike Pence as much credit as I do every average person who walks into a gas station and leaves without robbing it.
You don't get credit for doing what you are not only supposed to do, but he swore an oath to do. That "pressure" was political self-serving bargain he made
“To his credit, Mike Pence understood that — and he got legal opinions leading up to it — and despite all the pressure that he got, he stood firm and understood what that role was.”
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Zelensky, who is 44 and up until a few years ago was an actor, is making an absolute mockery of the feckless rhetorical gasbagging of most elected leaders by showing what real leadership in crisis is with his actions.
President
@ZelenskyyUa
just posted this video in front of the “Chimeras house” across from presidential office. “We are here. We are fighting. Glory to Ukraine”.
#StandWithUkraine
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When you are preemie with health issues even after two weeks in the hospital you are still pretty small. This was her first day out of the hospital. She turns 19 today and is almost as tall as me, on scholarship for a degree in education, and I couldn't be prouder of her.
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This pic always gets to me
Hundreds of British Paratroopers have dropped into Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
On the 5/6 June 1944 more than 13,000 paratroopers spearheaded the initial D-Day assault, carried from British bases to Normandy on more than 800 C-47s. For many,
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We thank Mike for his service to science.
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I don't like when my president lies to me. I didn't like it when the last guy did it, I don't like it when this one does it.
This statement is obviously, verifiably, one or two Google clicks worth of checking on it false.
Following criticism of the United States' conduct in their withdrawal, Biden says he has seen "no question of our credibility from our allies around the world."
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Oh get out of here with this staged nonsense. That is Vish Burra, long time NYYRC and Bannon lackey last seen slithering around DC as designsted George Santos handler during that reporbates brief desecration of a congressional office
Black New Yorker to Biden:
“I don’t see you anywhere. I hope NY turns red because we’re NOT voting for you.”
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This is a warcrime
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It really is the perfect Trump statement
Behold:
-I know nothing about it
-The nothing I know nothing about is terrible & I disagree, even though I know nothing about it
-I hope the terrible thing I know nothing about does well doing whatever it is that I have nothing to do with
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The shattered hopes and dreams of Generation X school children who died of dysentery on the Oregon Trail
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I hate doing math, but when provoked I can, and math tells me my Honda Civic can do that trip-using conservative estimates & national average gas prices-in 1/3rd of the stops for at least $70 bucks less.
And I've drove cross country enough I could push it past that if needed
You can drive from New York to LA in a Tesla for about $300. The average EV hater will never understand
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2016: my father taking me home from my 5 months inpatient at Duke
This afternoon: Me taking my father home - ahead of schedule, legend that he is - after he has been in hospital and rehab at WVU since a New Years Day stroke.
Who has it better than us? Nobody, that's who.
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Debated whether or not to even mention this, but I wouldn't feel right not, given how I try to be open. On this day, April 24, was last time I drank. Been one day at a time keeping it that way, w/lots of help from others. 15 yrs later, still going. Change & own the things you can
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Your only public response to a major natural disaster should be asking how you can help the folks affected. If you can't help, but can only make a political statement over the not even recovered yet bodies, please do shut the hell up
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Nuke it from orbit
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HOAs are for folks who found PTAs not dystopian enough and feudalism too upwardly mobile
Florida nurse “on the front lines against COVID-19, is now also battling her homeowners association” for bringing “family’s recreational vehicle into her driveway in case she needed to self-quarantine, but got threatened with up to $1,000 in fines.”
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This is gross
Do you know how to properly search your child's room? 🤔👀📦 If not, stick around for our first episode of
#ParentAware
with Sgt. Gunsolley. Remember:
🌱To support and guide pre-teens and teenagers, you need to monitor what’s happening in their lives.
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I see dignity and courage from a man completely at peace with a life well lived who is willing himself through one last public appearance for the love of his life, knowing his own time is near.
This is beautiful, moving stuff, and an example to us all. Live your life likewise.
Former President Jimmy Carter arrives at memorial service for his late wife, Rosalynn
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Jason Garrett commenting on the game is NBC's way of making the audience suffer as much as those sitting in the cold of Arrowhead.
Brutal.
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@leandralynnw
I do not agree; there's nothing out of bounds, or critical other than editting for structure. The comments are rather tame and well within professors right to critique. Unless there is more to story this seems like making an issue where there is none. TBH, not 200-level writing.
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This is ignorant sycophantic nonsense. Gerald Ford was the captain of two national title winning Michigan football teams. W ran 7 minute miles during his presidency, Obama had abs, they wrote a whole book about Eisenhower's Army team playing Jim Thorpe, HW Bush played baseball...
Donald J. Trump: the most athletic President in US History
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The absence of India and China in the list of countries on board with sanctions is noted.
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Plain English:
Stephen out hustled a bunch of folks that should have been all over this story but weren't.
Good for him.
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Would pay cash money to have seen Josh Mandel's reaction when he heard...
Trump endorses JD VANCE in the Ohio GOP Senate primary. A big boost for the author who has struggled to break through to the top tier. Primary is in three weeks.
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White kid who went straight from high school to a multi-million dollar grifting operation because he was really good at schmoozing rich white guys has thoughts on privilege
White privilege is a racist myth that has no basis in facts or data.
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Met the daughter's new feller friend and he made a point to come up to me, called me sir, and shook my hand with acceptable conviction of grip and steady eye contact. Good start.
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Health Update after today's festivities.
Forgive the longer write up but if you share the most precious thing you have with me & my work-your time-you have a right to know what is going on since it there is going to be noticable changes to how much I'm working
Appreciate y'all
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You took the tour. Live there and get back to us.
I’ve been to Cuba. The government provides housing, healthcare, higher education, and a monthly ration of rice and beans to prevent hunger.
The US could learn a lot from Cuba.
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