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Jessica Karl
3 months
tortured newsletter writer, reporting for duty🫡
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Did Taylor Swift break the way we listen to new music? For my latest @opinion column, I explore why fans (like me!) felt pressured to stay up until dawn to finish a 31-song double album as if were a college paper they had to complete by the morning
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AOC is on IG Live spilling the 🫖 about her little chat with Rep. Paul Gosar...
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4 years
So does my quality of life immediately increase now that I don’t have alerts for @realDonaldTrump tweets?
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First SoulCycle First Lady
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Been in Hong Kong for less than 24 hours and I’ve already discovered a vending machine that only sells corn🌽
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4 months
in case you needed any more evidence that the ticketmaster bots are alive and well, the waiting room for gracie abrams at radio city (a venue with ~5k seats) is over 28K ppl long. and this is *only* the artist presale! she used a standard code that was released 45 mins in advance
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| ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄| read this if you know nothing about 🏀🏀 |___________| \ (•◡•) / \ / --- | |
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2 years
I made this little Venn diagram and put it in the @bopinion newsletter. You're welcome.
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3 years
What if…I ate latkes for dinner every night
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4 years
“The best way I can describe how I am now, at the end of this strange, horrible year, is that I wake up most days feeling like I drank a six-pack of beer the night before.”
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Jessica Karl
1 year
idk what’s worse: making your book look good by manipulating quotes, orrrr making your country look good by manipulating data. either way, i’m *not *buying it!! my latest for @opinion
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2 years
IT'S CORN! A BIG LUMP WITH KNOBS. IT HAS THE JUICE. I CAN'T IMAGINE A MORE BEAUTIFUL THING. IT'S CORN! I CAN TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT. I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS THING...WHEN I TRIED IT WITH BUTTER, EVERYTHING CHANGED
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9 months
If Ethiopia were to put out a Craigslist “wanted” ad for some costal land, @JavierBlas imagines it would look something like this:
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Taylor Swift tuned into the debate before endorsing Harris. What do you think was the last straw for her? Was it when Trump called himself a leader on fertilization? Or did the pet-eating rant give her pause? My latest for @opinion , free to read:
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6 months
🍫📈 How come cocoa prices have reached Nvidia-levels of delusion? That's the question I explore in my latest newsletter, featuring @opinion 's Chief Chocolate Correspondent @JavierBlas . Here's a free-to-read link, as a treat:
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9 years
English major things: writing a sex scene at 9:30 am on a Monday!
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Jessica Karl
3 months
The consensus from my @opinion colleagues? Dems are in crisis mode. 🔗 @TimOBrien on Biden: 🔗 @niamalikah on Kamala Harris: 🔗 @Erika_D_Smith on Gavin Newsom:
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1 year
@DanAmira are there bonus points for sisters or
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Jessica Karl
2 years
Hello! Some news: It's my last day on the @opinion social team. I'm moving on up to newsletter land, writing daily dispatches for Opinion Today. Pls subscribe (it's free!) for the opinions, the memes, the occasional sass. Can't guarantee feet pics, sorry
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2 years
HELLO ⁦ @matt_levine ⁩ IS BACK FROM VACATION AND HE HAS THOUGHTS ABOUT BED BATH AND BEYOND
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Jessica Karl
7 years
Thrilled to announce that I am joining @business as a social media editor for @BV and @gadfly !
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Jessica Karl
11 months
What do Ray Dalio, Jamie Dimon, Bill Ackman and Bill Gross have in common? A) They are very rich! B) They are very worried! Read my latest @opinion newsletter, feat. @johnauthers , @JonathanJLevin , @ghoshworld & more:
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11 months
Surprise! I'm writing culture columns for @opinion . My first piece is about how TikTok is turning the publishing world into fast fashion. If you have no idea what "Fourth Wing" is, you're in for a wild ride. Literally, because there's dragons:
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5 years
Dad: “Why is the Potential Spa calling us twice a day?” Me: *laughs uncontrollably* Mom: “Leo, that’s potential SPAM.”
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Jessica Karl
4 years
Rarely do you hear the name of a journalist pop up while unintentionally eavesdropping on pedestrians. Yet I've overheard many New Yorkers — and not just the midtown uniform type — express reverence for @matt_levine . He‘s just that good⬇️
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2 years
Ummmm what did I just made the prettiest salad of my life
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2 years
i feel like this is a game of battleship and i just got hit
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2 years
Asia’s richest man got accused of being the biggest corporate con in history. Then he lost $5.5 billion in less than a day. I wrote about it in the @opinion newsletter, feat. @andymukherjee70 , @shuli_ren and more
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I created a fake 4/20 Google calendar for @elonmusk for the @opinion newsletter. pls enjoy 🙃
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Jessica Karl
4 months
Think you had a bad day at work? Be happy you're not an Indian election pollster. My latest @opinion newsletter on the India election, featuring @andymukherjee70 , @mihirssharma and more:
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11 months
@v_dendrinou janet yellen: yeah, um, can i get that animal style ??
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5 months
you wouldn't last an hour in the asylum where they raised me
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6 months
These are currently on sale at American Eagle. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
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10 months
Someone needs to figure out who decides which snacks get put in protective custody at Duane Reade. Oreos, Tate's & Fudge Stripes are locked up while the other unwanted cookies are left vulnerable 🥹 It's an insult to every Lorna Doone in America
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Jessica Karl
11 months
In order to have chickens in your backyard in Lewiston, Maine, you need to meet the following requirements: 🐔You're only allowed six female chickens 🐔You must buy them from an approved source 🐔You can't sell eggs or engage in breeding 🐔You can't slaughter the chickens
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Jessica Karl
3 years
Spotted at @iflyCHS : the #StarWars plane
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Jessica Karl
1 year
“Does it REALLY matter who gets into Harvard?” Someone has finally dared to whisper this question. And that someone is @AllisonSchrager . Find out what she thinks in my latest newsletter for @opinion ⬇️🎓
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Jessica Karl
3 years
Sure Wordle is cool but have you heard of the “How Many Times Can I Microwave My Coffee Without Finishing It” game? I play it every day and I am very, very good at it. Requires little to no effort!
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Jessica Karl
7 years
En route to become a pi. It's been a livetime goal of mine to become a thanksgiving staple. Thank you @IndianaADPi for making this possible.
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2 years
"If you were trying to get the votes to become speaker, I don't think that the smart thing to do is to insinuate something that isn't true to your own party in order to get them to vote for you." – @AOC
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Jessica Karl
2 years
It takes an estimated $300,000 for a middle-class family to raise a child to 18. Seriously: You can buy six Tesla Model 3s…or have a kid
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4 months
"We could actually have a scenario occurring in which Trump was sitting in the White House and had to turn himself in to the NY corrections department for incarceration in a state prison. That would be one of the oddest events to have happened in US history." – @NoahRFeldman
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Bloomberg Opinion
4 months
Would it be bad for US democracy if Trump is sentenced to jail? Is it even reasonable to expect jail time? 🎥 Harvard Law’s @NoahRFeldman is LIVE to discuss
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Jessica Karl
2 months
🧵 Romantasy books — ACOTAR, Fourth Wing and the like — are everywhere. But one thing is conspicuously absent from the discussion: data. To remedy that, @taylotyson and I charted the current landscape in @opinion . Here's our top five takeaways:
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Jessica Karl
6 years
💥 Exciting news! @bopinion is LIVE. Check it out:
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Bloomberg Opinion
6 years
We’ve officially launched our new site! Head over to for opinions on business, tech, markets and more
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7 years
This tweet will never lose its news peg.
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7 years
does Donald Trump genuinely think he is supposed to eliminate someone each week
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5 years
young body, old ideas
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7 years
Hi here’s what I did all weekend (Christmas cookie thread):
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Jessica Karl
7 years
This is me in squirrel form.
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Jessica Karl
10 months
Target took the L this weekend after a customer discovered its Black Friday TV “deals” weren’t really deals at all. Read my latest @opinion newsletter, featuring @leticia , @KarishmaJourno , @LionelRALaurent and, incredulously, @Grimezsz
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Jessica Karl
1 year
@milkkarten hi my name is "Psychotic About the Little Details," welcome to this episode of micromanaging 101
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6 years
“And yet I continued to work for him.”
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2 years
If you know, you know
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Jessica Karl
10 months
Here's a shocker: The cheapest item on Shein is a 13-cent mini folding chair that holds your phone. In May, the retailer's valuation was worth 507,692,307,692 of those plastic chairs — $66B. Read more in my @opinion newsletter feat. @shuli_ren :
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11 months
ok NOW we've reached peak pumpkin spice
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2 years
VCs forgot about that one time in 2008 when they had to pay $87 for a bottle of Aloe at the resort gift shop. Latest @opinion newsletter is out, feat. SVB commentary from @MarcRuby , @shuli_ren , @matt_levine and more
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3 years
Is Martha Stewart gonna pop out of one of these windows or what
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10 months
My latest newsletter for @opinion is 🔥hot off the press!!!🔥 Sure, it arrived in your inbox a little later than normal, but delays are par for the course w Elon's Cybertruck...
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Bloomberg Opinion
10 months
Elon Musk’s last 24 hours were strange and baffling even to those familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the world’s richest man
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Jessica Karl
8 years
The world is crumbling and so is this sad sidewalk cookie I stumbled upon on my way to class. It's too fitting.
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Jessica Karl
1 year
Careful what you read on the internet. The best source of information about @opinion is @opinion :
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Careful what you read on the internet. The best source of information about the SEC is the SEC.
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4 years
Reminder: In my junior year at IU, Pence signed an anti-abortion bill that mandated that women have funerals for fetuses — whether she’d had an abortion or a miscarriage, and no matter how far along the pregnancy was
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Jessica Karl
7 months
Are you an overachiever suffering from chronic feelings of underachievement? Cure yourself by reading this @opinion newsletter:
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5 years
Adding another reason here: In 24 states and D.C., infant care costs MORE than housing. Read @skgreen 's latest:
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When people chastise millennials for not having or delaying starting their families after growing up in a recession, here’s one big reason why:
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4 years
Ok has anyone ever seen such a large clove of garlic??
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5 years
The WeWork saga, in GIF form
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Bloomberg Opinion
5 years
In Adam Neumann's first encounter with Masayoshi Son, Neumann told others "that Mr. Son appreciated how he was crazy—but thought that he needed to be crazier.” @matt_levine likes to imagine that conversation went something like this
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Jessica Karl
3 years
🚨 If you only listen to one thing today, make it this. @Mylovanov is extraordinarily smart and strong — coordinating supplies and fundraising for Ukraine all while running the Kyiv School of Economics
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Bloomberg Opinion
3 years
LIVE now on @TwitterSpaces : @skominers speaks with Ukraine-based @Mylovanov on the economic shock of war
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5 months
is this what i look like after i file to my editor
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7 years
Cheers to a cheesy 2018🥂
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2 years
My latest newsletter explores America's abundance of banks (and Jessicas)...
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Bloomberg Opinion
2 years
North Dakota has more banks than Canada. There's something really wrong with that
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9 years
What a curious email http://t.co/Bn1mZz4M3g
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7 years
What kind of sick world do we live in
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1 year
gonna tell my kids this was the mojo dojo casa house
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10 months
um hi this might be the first newsletter in history that combines Godzilla, the Monroe Doctrine, nuclear reactors and National Cookie Day. I don't know whether I should be horrified or proud about that but what's done is done!! My latest for @opinion :
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Jessica Karl
6 years
Such a big compliment coming from the master of Twitter threads, thanks @Noahpinion 🙌🏻
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
6 years
1/I can't find it now, but I saw someone saying that when people think of an "expert", they tend to think of a man. Well, here is a thread of women who are experts on topics of interest to me - and not just experts, but my #1 go-to expert in that field.
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7 months
consider this my petition to make @matt_levine 's "edgy poetry press" a real thing
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Jessica Karl
3 years
🔴🎙To all the crypto enthusiasts and skeptics: Check out this recording of an epic @TwitterSpaces between @roybahat , @parmy and @harper . From DAOs to NFT souvenirs, there’s something for everyone in their convo about web3…
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Bloomberg Opinion
3 years
Web3 was supposed to be a more transparent and decentralized place. But now that it’s here, does it fall short of reality? At 4 p.m. ET, @roybahat , @parmy and @harper are chatting about the next era of the internet on @TwitterSpaces
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8 years
So proud of this organization.
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5 months
huh, i guess Kristi Noem didn't read the newsletter i wrote in august last year
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8 months
Let's talk about NYC's new R211T subways. At first, I worried about open gangways. How will people escape awk situations and awful smells? But the skeptics — myself included — shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the benefits. Read my latest for @opinion :
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Jessica Karl
4 years
Never thought you’d see it on Fox News: “DON THE CON IS GONE”
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8 years
You know you're at Miami of Ohio when a girl is playing lacrosse in her @CanadaGooseInc jacket because it's below freezing.
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Jessica Karl
1 year
SHUTDOWN EXPLAINER FOR THOSE CONFUSED you have 12 spending bills that need to fund the gov't next year you can either extend existing bills or negotiate new ones if you don't do this by 9/30 then funding expires and the gov't shuts down! that's basically all you need to know
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FOOTBALL EXPLAINER FOR THOSE CONFUSED you have 4 tries (downs) to go 10 yards, if you do you keep the ball and the cycle repeats, and if you don’t the other team gets it you can score touchdowns for 6 points or kick a field goal for 3 thats basically all you need to know
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2 years
There’s perhaps no greater metaphor for America’s health care crisis than the unhealthy discourse around Ozempic. Read about it in the latest @opinion newsletter, feat. @adwooldridge , @nfergus and @lisamjarvis
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Jessica Karl
1 year
The debt ceiling debacle, as illustrated through pizza. My latest newsletter for @opinion is fresh from the oven! Read it (and try not to burn your tongue)🍕🤑
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Jessica Karl
8 years
The supermarket on Valentine's Day is a weird, weird place. Lots of men wandering around aimlessly looking lost.
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Jessica Karl
3 years
That Friday evening mic drop
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Shannon Vavra
3 years
Biden, when asked to clarify if that's what he meant, that Putin has decided on invasion: "Yes"
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Jessica Karl
4 years
Fun activity: Constantly refreshing @TheAmandaGorman ’s Twitter profile and watching her follower count explode📈 #Inauguration
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1 year
wildfires in canada be like
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10 months
It’d be fun if the Brotherhood of the Traveling Tie was a secret society that actually existed among heads of state. Read my latest @opinion newsletter, feat. @hchuaeoan
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Jessica Karl
1 year
i was not prepared for the met gala to be a full-on recreation of the Cats musical
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1 year
victory is mine
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Jessica Karl
3 years
Wrote the @bopinion newsletter today and in honor of Biden's first #SOTU I decided to unleash a very embarrassing progress report I hid from my mom in the sixth grade
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