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Deputy Commissioner, Public Affairs & Customer Experience @NYCSanitation (personal account obvs). Huge fan of good government + some other stuff: 🌹📻🥑🏖️🚲🐕
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it took leaving and coming back to New York for me to truly understand just how incredibly deranged the "hot coffee in a brown paper bag" thing is
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CONSERVATIVES: Abolish ICE? Sounds like you're calling for open borders.
LIBERALS: Look, no one is saying "open borders."
ME:
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West Hollywood developed as an LGBTQ enclave specifically because it was outside the jurisdiction of the bigoted LAPD
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@adamxvillela
@AliceAvizandum
I have the pleasure of talking to Director Grayson just about every day and I can tell you that he absolutely does.
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@AMLazear
@AliceAvizandum
@mattdpearce
It has been part of the logo since 1929. As you can imagine, a municipal sanitation force had a large role in stopping the City's then-frequent cholera outbreaks. The Department is even headquartered in the old City Health building, atop what used to be Five Points.
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the last time i was in Quebec i saw chips that Americans can only dream of
biden also says America is “leading the world in chips” which isn’t REMOTELY true, we don’t even have All Dressed!!!
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really struggling to understand what's happening in the mind of whoever left this bizarre five-star google review of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
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biggest cheer of the night at this humiliating Mets loss - by far - was for this pigeon they just put up on the big screen
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garlic knots...garlic braids. Is there any shape in the Lord's geometry into which garlic cannot be tied
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I have an idea for
@SpeakerRyan
. What if we all paid into one giant health savings account, and then that paid out all our medical costs?
Paul Ryan discusses the benefits of Health Savings Accounts for a tonsillectomy and Lasik eye surgery.
Now let's discuss it for cancer!
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not to "get political" but the FDNY repeatedly begged the Giuliani administration for funding for new radios that he denied. we will never know if the relatively inexpensive equipment they asked for could have saved hundreds of lives.
Remember my firefighters and police officers and all first responders who gave their lives to save others on 9/11/01. Today thank God for them and pray for them and their families.
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the hot dog car sketch gets all the attention as the most politically relevant but every time someone talks about respect for norms i think of the guy who doesn't want to share his nachos and tries to get the waiter to tell his date that she's not allowed to have any more
What should a history of the last five years be called? I'm torn between "Many People Are Saying" and "We're All Trying to Find the Guy That Did This."
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obviously this is a joke but it actually is something government could fix - the reason recipe blogs do this is to maximize space for digital ad revenue, which is an unregulated industry in serious need of reform
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@Boringstein
my dark-horse pick: cristin milioti as the jezebel-type writer in hiding; just about the most self-aware the show ever got about its generational politics, and i die laughing every single time at her self-righteous and defensive delivery of "i'm a *very* sexy baby"
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Press who have attended
@NYCSanitation
events at our salt sheds know you're not allowed to stand on the salt. You can fall in and literally die. It's extremely dangerous and not funny.
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ah yes, that classic East Village late night spot, which closes before 11pm, costs $40 per person, and isn't in the East Village
If your never ate here after a late night in east village did you really ever experience NYC..
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every candidate debate should include the question, "was John Brown insane, or was he the only sane American in an insane time, the only one with the clarity of vision to see that the great evil of slavery must be ended at all costs, and that the slavers would never go quietly?"
tbh we should definitely talk about how cool john brown was way more often
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preview of the first audience question during tonight's town hall style debate
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as a New Yorker, i'm very interested in AI
"A, I-m walkin' here," that is!! 😂🗽🤖
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one thing i will always respect about
@BernieSanders
is that he asks the questions others are afraid to
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Key legal difference - in 49 states, if you're in line when polls close, you have a right to vote; in NY, you must be ON line by then.
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Hundreds of
@NYCSchools
will continue to serve as sites where any New Yorker in need can pick up 3 meals/day Monday-Friday, no sign-up or questions asked. You can find the closest one at
NEWS: NYC's public schools will remain closed through the end of the academic year in June.
It's a necessary yet disastrous scenario for the city's most vulnerable children in particular: 3+ months of regular schooling gone.
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just interrupted someone on a true RANT at Williamsburg Pizza on Broome to tell them that the MTA is controlled by New York State, not New York City
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went into a bagel shop that had opened 90 seconds earlier, there's three people in front of me, and i get stuck for 10 minutes because they're all getting their bagels toasted. who toasts a bagel at 7am?? it literally JUST came out of the oven
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Miranda Rights
NEWS: Andrew Cuomo just announced that he's granting all parolees in New York the right to vote by executive order.
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if you think that criticizing John Kasich, who busts unions and supports a near-total ban on abortions, is "turning against our allies," i really don't know what to tell you
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Really interesting conversation, but do NOT believe the hype about pizza boxes not being recyclable! In NYC we can take them even if they have a little grease on them.
NEW podcast:
The Future of NYC Trash, with City Council Sanitation Chair Sandy Nurse
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"living rent-free in your head" probably the worst new addition to online political discourse in the last 5 years. oh yeah, you caught me, i sometimes think about people and things i don't like, and how to stop bad policy from taking effect. busted, guilty as charged.
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interesting. i seem to recall some people arguing that a pause in congestion pricing would remove it as a talking point for Republican candidates. But i guess that didn't turn out to be correct, as a Republican candidate is now spending $5M campaigning on it. Interesting
NEW: For the first time this election cycle, congestion pricing has entered the airwaves w/ a $5M ad buy from
@RepMikeLawler
&
@NRCC
taking credit for
@GovKathyHochul
's shift- something Hochul &
@MondaireJones
scoffed at. Scoop from
@NickReisman
:
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I've been called many, many things by the
@nypost
over the years, but never "cringe" before. I'll be as cringey as it takes to get the streets clean - it's what New Yorkers expect and deserve and I'm not going to apologize for that.
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they say the first crunchwrap was invented by the Earl of Crunchwrap, who refused to put down his cards to eat a chalupa during a poker game
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the train looked like it was literally coming RIGHT AT the audience. terrifying
Hit me with your worst movie theater experience of all time
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"I support a robust social safety net, but the electorate will never go for it."
*the electorate goes for it*
"Ah, well, nevertheless,"
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auto insurers should track how often you honk your horn. Car horns are for emergencies and if you are honking a lot, you are clearly in life or death situations frequently and your rate should reflect that.
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not a trash can. That's the whole point
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you know, people say this (it's a paraphrase of a quote attributed to LaGuardia) but it really isn't true. should the trash be containerized? what should the collection workers' union contract be like? how, where, and how much do we recycle? of course there's ideology in it
"There’s no ideological way to pick up the trash"
@AndrewYang
says when asked by
@BrianLehrer
if he's left, right, progressive or moderate. Yang says New Yorkers just want their city to work better, they don't care so much what political box you put yourself in.
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TIP FOR ANYONE NEW TO NYC: when someone asks if you "want to split a cab," they're asking if you'd like to share a crisp, refreshing head of napa cabbage, which is a treat we all enjoy
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@keithellison
@NY31Alcantara
Congressman, you know that she caucuses with the Republicans, keeping them in power in the NY Senate despite a numerical minority?
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@tedlieu
@jordansdiamonds
@JeffFlake
We need help, yes. But these are just empty words. He's purposefully running away from the opportunity to actually do something to help.
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I also want to point out that Berkeley students spent weeks asking the admin nicely not to host Milo. Protests were after that was ignored.
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Every piece you see floating around - plus whatever 15,000 people leave behind - will need to be cleaned by one of 254 Sanitation Workers, plus 56 backpack blowers, 36 mechanical brooms, and 50 hand brooms. They all gave up their holiday to get Times Square clean by morning.
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ME: it's weird how people think they have personal relationships with celebrities just because they enjoy or appreciate their art
MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD, MADONNA: you're right Josh
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amazing that John Yoo is a professor at Berkeley giving his opinion on Kavanaugh and not on trial at the Hague for his role in the US torture program
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@ten24get
@60th_Street
@thebasslady
Bill she specifically said it was "never, ever going to happen." She still opposes it.
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this is an attempt to break a strike and get people to cross a picket line, and it's completely unacceptable,
@lyft
@AskLyft
(CC
@josheidelson
@ceodonovan
@MikeElk
)
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the best thing about marching with the DSNY costume characters is that New Yorkers, the most unflappable people in the world, still get so surprised and excited to see them - including the consummate New Yorker,
@SenSchumer
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After the ball drops in Times Square and
@ericadamsfornyc
becomes Mayor tonight, the work will just be beginning, as 250
@NYCSanitation
employees work to clear ~45 tons of confetti & debris. Commissioner Grayson and I (+
@katie_honan
!) will be here all night - more pics to come.
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here's full statement i provided exclusively to my dear friends at Streetsblog. really looking forward to learning from this weekend's storm and the
#bikenyc
crew.
This just in from
@NYCSanitation
as it preps for snow: The agency wants
#bikenyc
to tweet about the performance of the new narrow snow plows and brining equipment during their “1st big test." If it goes badly, spox
@jshgdmn
says agency will make "whatever changes may be needed."
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed one week into nationwide protests following the murder of MLK Jr. The federal government coming together to do anything in seven days - especially something that protects communities of color - sounds like a description of another country.
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i'm standing next to a car that's blasting Ornette Coleman & a really fat corgi just went by so I'm 95% sure this is a Cowboy Bebop episode
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emma stone just got booed to hell at Citi Field for wearing Padres gear lol
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last week i was on Henry St in Chinatown and heard someone on the phone telling their friend they couldn't find a certain address. i knew the place, so i interjected, gave directions, and went about my day.
just ran into them on the F and they told me the directions were wrong.
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at my grandmother's 99th birthday. my mom reminded her that she has to make a wish before blowing out the candles - she says, "my wish is that the cake is good."
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true love is borne of a mutual understanding that both "Power Broker" AND "Death and Life of Great American Cities" are chronicles of the debates of another time (albeit fascinating ones) and that the story of OUR City isn't yet in books, but is written each day in the streets
do you think you are capable of love despite lying about reading The Power Broker?
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Tour Guide: "This is the actual kettle we make the potato chips in."
Me: (in a hushed, reverent tone) "Wow."
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except the Oreo wasn't invented, it was SHAMELESSLY RIPPED OFF of the Hydrox Cookie, created at the Sunshine Biscuits factory in Long Island City, Queens four years earlier
that's right folks: Hydrox isn't knock-off Oreo, Oreo is knock-off Hydrox. Queens stay winning.
Today’s Fun NYC Fact: The Oreo was invented here at the Chelsea Market in 1912 (back when it was a factory) by the National Biscuit Company (NABISCO). It was the largest bakery in the world, & a center for the production & sale of cookies for many years until deindustrialization.
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In Parkchester this morning, a driver who didn't want to move his Audi for ASP pulled a knife on the Sanitation Worker driving the mechanical broom. Can you imagine the entitlement necessary to think you have a right to stab a fellow New Yorker for trying to clean your street?
#NYC
: Full Alternate Side Parking is in effect. Move your car so our brooms can do their part to keep City streets clean, safe and healthy.
#NewYorksStrongest
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@GloriaPazmino
The NYC Emergency Food Home Delivery program has had a vegetarian option since it started in March 2020.
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every morning, i wake up long before sunrise, stare out my window, and think, "there should be a cigarette that's good for you"
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"my job is to tell people that they are not alone. they are not alone in their poverty, in their identity, or in their dignity." —
@Ocasio2018
addressing an engaged crowd of 750 at
#AOCxDSALA
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@ComfortablySmug
Why do you hate decorated veteran and pediatrician Ralph Northam? Did he risk lives by lying during Hurricane Sandy, or was that you?
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@ten24get
@60th_Street
@thebasslady
So when you said she supports Medicare For All, that wasn't true.
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When I was in undergrad we had a student movement to divest from coke over their actions in Latin America, until an administrator told us that a decade earlier the university had divested from Pepsi over Myanmar. We approached RC and they weren't interested.
If you're searching for a soda company that won't get its woke politics in the way of carbonated refreshment... I guess RC Cola's still around?
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wearing this shirt to a wedding tonight. And all weddings i attend for the rest of my life
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SO much context missing here. only about 10% of the contract was ever paid - we fired the vendor for poor performance after just 3 weeks, and the report itself lauds DSNY for doing a great job of vendor management! we independently verified that NYC only paid for goods received.
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The
@nypost
, which loves claiming to stand for hardworking New Yorkers, is now denigrating
@NYCSanitation
staff who worked literally thousands of backbreaking hours in a pandemic to keep our city clean. You think they're expensive,
@empirecenter
? Try living without them.
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@Boringstein
this is sort of tangential but once i was in the car with my sweet sainted mother and "sympathy for the devil" was on the radio. at "i shouted out/who killed the kennedys/when after all/it was you & me," she says, "you know, that's true. we all killed them, with our cynicism."
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@Boringstein
"I'll have to be a redhead this time!"
"Oh, I don't know...with your coloring?"
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Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away
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@themanburglar
"I am convinced socialism is the only answer, and I urge all comrades to struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.”
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NYC residents produce 20 million lbs of household trash per day. 87% of it leaves the city by rail. one sign of what a big deal the strike would have been is that this specific issue wasn't really on anyone's radar (except here at DSNY where we've been working on plans for weeks)
A tentative railway labor agreement has been reached, President Joe Biden said Thursday, averting a strike.
“These rail workers will get better pay, improved working conditions, and peace of mind around their health care costs: all hard-earned,” he said.
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@keithellison
@NY31Alcantara
I know you're not a New Yorker so hoping this is an honest mistake. Please stand with
@NoIDCNY
in their efforts to bring Democratic control.
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The hateful law Edie was famous for challenging was signed by President Bill Clinton.
Hillary Clinton delivered the eulogy for LGBT rights activist Edie Windsor.❤️
Donald Trump didn't bother to say a word about her passing. 😡
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@Shandy556
@tedlieu
@jordansdiamonds
@JeffFlake
You don't think the better way to protest would be to stay and uh, vote against some Trump policies?
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right-wing Jews who fashion themselves as "free speech absolutists" having a real "never thought leopards would eat MY face" moment this morning (or they would be, if they engaged in any self reflection at all)
Kanye's tweets exemplify why antisemitism is so hard to uproot: it’s a self-affirming conspiracy theory. The antisemite claims that Jews control everything. Then, if they're penalized for their bigotry, they point to that as proof. Heads they win, tails Jews lose.
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Good morning! Who's ready to be super mad about This Bad Article in like two weeks?
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@ashleyfeinberg
I went to college with this guy. He once posted on FB that on the day Reagan died he "fell to the floor in tears," and his mom commented calling him "my son of honor."
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NEWS:
@NYCSanitation
is announcing a massive new curbside composting program, drastically easier to use, half the cost to operate, and far more equitable. Details via
@NYCMayor
:
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She's also the subject of one of the all-time great Wikipedia sentences, "Loomer is banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Medium, GoFundMe, Venmo, MGM Resorts, PayPal, Lyft, Uber and Uber Eats."
laura loomer once chained herself to twitter offices in NYC and demanded to post while comparing herself to victims of the holocaust.
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a few different people have replied to my tweets about last night's
@NYCSanitation
Times Square cleanup with variants of "well they're paid well to do it."
to those people, i would like to say: you are more than welcome to take the civil service exam and join the ranks.
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"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory...five stars. But also Never Forget."
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unfortunately there is a large industrial complex that seems to have as its purpose making sure that nearly all NYC Republicans and many NYC Democrats "don't realize" the truth - that our City is safe
There is also a massive partisan difference in the response here. *96% of Republicans* don't realize that New York is, at least statistically, safer than most if not all big cities in the country.
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@TrevorLess
@moongrudge
she married Gamemaster Anthony and i wish them a lifetime of happiness
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folks, i went out to buy some potato pasta, and then i couldn't get back into my apartment. that's right - i had gno cchi!!
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"I'm ready to die now, I just hate this President so much." - my grandmother at her 95th birthday lunch
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@PhilipPullman
Philip, trans people are subject to violence for their identities. Dozens of murders per year. They just want to be allowed to live as they are. What is complicated about that?
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@Fermtech2269
@AliceAvizandum
About 3700 DSNY employees were involved in WTC clean-up. The department is believed to have had 70 deaths from 9/11 cancers, a number that very sadly is likely to grow.
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@GovMikeHuckabee
it's Dogg with two g's. "Dog" refers to the animal like the one your son tortured to death.
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@keithellison
@NY31Alcantara
She and 7 others are actively undermining the will of the voters, and involved in a major corruption scandal.
"I think everything we've done...is in full accordance with not only the constitution but the legislative law"
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