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Executive editor @madison_365 (). Host of @TalkinFlock , the #FullMingo podcast. Journalism, soccer, amusing parental anecdotes. He/him.

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@JCriswell4Him @ray_loux It’s “in addition to,” not “instead of,” you ghoul
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@CollinRugg How many times have you said “he shouldn’t have been resisting” when someone gets shot by police? “He shouldn’t have been attempting to climb into the Capitol to disrupt congress”
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Me: *watches soccer from 4 am to 3 pm* Me at 7 pm: is there any soccer on?
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@_JasonOsborne @JakeSherman @Bencjacobs Frankly I’m ok with the GOP wasting its two years of majority on infighting
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@ohlanie @piper4missouri “I hate Medicaid because my private profit driven insurance is awful”
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@JohnathanPerk where the Wisconsin legislature met while the Capitol was being built. The hotel burned down and he opened another one elsewhere in the city. A bank was built on the original site of the hotel, and it is now the offices of 4 Black-led organizations. 2/
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@JohnathanPerk Eston Hemings Jefferson is buried in Madison and there’s a proposal on the table to rename Thomas Jefferson Middle School after Eston instead. 3/3
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@JohnathanPerk Some additional Black history: Sally’s son Eston married a multiracial woman and moved to Madison, Wisconsin Territory. Their son Beverly - not sure how many “drops” he’d be considered to have - opened American House Hotel … 1/
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@nandoodles @indystar @CNN @harmeetkaur This seems to me a case of the police feeding a narrative to a reporter and the reporter just eating it up
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@nytimes Serious question: has there been any introspection in your newsroom about the role you played in this? Where did those headlines come from?
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@CollinRugg You paid for twitter lol
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@StockViking @CaseyNewton You paid for twitter lol
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@radleybalko @deray @DrRJKavanagh I mean. This is the lede, right? “Authorities are investigating whether police munitions caused a fire that apparently killed a 14-year-old …”
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@npthree @TaylorLorenz It’s a male issue because the dude would not have done this to a male journalist.
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@AlexSwiftQuinn1 @DannyRamirez Are you telling a latino guy how to be latino?
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@karencheee I love this so much. My grandma liked a bunch of my Facebook posts then called me to tell me she had done so
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@mattyglesias Sometimes I kinda feel like you find humanity inconvenient. There was just a mass shooting in which three 9-year-old children died. It’s front of mind whether or not those candidates choose to emphasize it.
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@AU_Dick @jemelehill I’ve seen this increase from 10 seconds to 15 seconds to 30 seconds over the course of this morning
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@radleybalko @deray @DrRJKavanagh The very last paragraph of the news story. Inexcusable.
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@justkelly_ok @aurabogado The words are copyrighted but publishing an excerpt for news purposes is absolutely fair use
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@paulkrugman “Inflation” to most people means “prices are too high.” We’re still paying $7 for a dozen eggs. While that’s technically not inflation that’s what’s on people’s minds
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@navyhato What is it you conservatives used to say? Something about America … love it or … what was it? Oh yeah gtfo
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@The_JUDii @ErickFernandez @RNCResearch You don’t get paid for being on the news. New members of congress members don’t get paid until February. How’s he supposed to pay a few months in advance before that? Also it’s “you’re”
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@VivekGRamaswamy @MSNBC @jrpsaki @JoyAnnReid you're just describing things you don't agree with and calling that 'woke' that's not how words work, buddy
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@MusicFck @tnwhiskeywoman I wonder if “amateur aesthetic” really just means amateur
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@Laustin676 @ShitpostGate Very very easy to say as a white person
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@RealSaavedra Suspended ≠ permanently banned
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@kylenabecker @geronl This is the most hilarious self-own
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@elonmusk None of the suspended accounts did that
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I Get It Now: My Weighted Blanket Journey
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@foreverkath62 @JustinGrayWSB @wsbtv It’s funny how many small-government conservatives think it’s fine for government agents to kill people
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@alecegarra @QueenBDeb @npthree @TaylorLorenz Has that ever happened to you? Never to me. Yet it’s happened to lots of women in our field. Let’s not pretend this isn’t a gender thing.
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@PplsCityCouncil @AWolfeful They realized it should have been “fewer”
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History is made: for the first time, white people are the minority on the Madison Common Council.
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@adaminaction @_JasonOsborne @JakeSherman @Bencjacobs Eh. What’s better, a functioning GOP Congress or a Congress that’s kinda takin a break until the adults are back in charge?
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@SiempreSeattle @AdubbsWinner @roywoodjr it's superstition at this point
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@mattyglesias Matt, you often (correctly) criticize people who argue against points that weren't really made, right? That's what you're doing here. Maybe read the letter and rethink?
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@wcarr1980s @GeirJordet Had he gotten a yellow for tossing the ball (as one could argue he should have) he would not have engaged in further verbal sparring. He would have found the line and backed away from it.
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@nhannahjones “This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral” is a refreshing moment of self awareness
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@CoreyCiorciari Yeah no, it’s illegal in California.
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@KeishaBankhead8 I went back at 44. It was kinda fun being the only one in class who actually remembered many of the professors' references to stuff from the 80s and 90s. You'll do great!
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RESISTERS: there will likely be Madison365 reporters in Madison and Kenosha tonight. They’ll have press badges. They are there to tell your story & amplify your voice. We will not publish identifiable photos of you. Please consider this in how you interact with them.
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@The_JUDii @ErickFernandez @RNCResearch Also on the landlord who agrees with their politics thing: you can’t give special deals to members of Congress, and members of congress can’t accept specific deals. This is pretty basic ethics stuff
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@mattyglesias Garden State Finding Alaska Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 500 Days of Summer Scott Pilgrim vs the World Almost Famous London Nights The Perks of Being a Wallflower Along Came Polly Etc
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I Get It Now: My Weighted Blanket Journey
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@RobbySlowik Honestly took me like four seconds of “why, does he not like lady Gaga?” before I got this
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@jonfavs Did NOT expect this to be the thing Lovett was "working on"
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@Tako1Fall @IAmNickReynolds @davidgura @elonmusk Except that even if you find NPR "shameless" and biased, that bias doesn't come from the government
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@deeniemedia @AlexSwiftQuinn1 @DannyRamirez Nobody said there's a Latino 'race.' Lots of people are Latino and Indigenous, Latino and Black, etc. When the OP said 'white' he means non-Latino, and we both know that, and I don't think we need to be all 'well actually' about it.
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@frankieboy1 @MLSist @PaulTenorio What privilege you have to be able to “get away from this stuff.” Guess what man ... no getting away from it anymore.
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@heymrsbond If I may suggest a test, once you have it narrowed down. Take the full name. Put "President" in front of it, "PhD" behind it, then yell it loudly followed by "GET UP HERE AND CLEAN THIS GODDAMN ROOM RIGHT NOW" If it feels good all three times, you have a winner.
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@steefenstein @AggroWill @elonmusk That wasn’t twitter’s price tag. He offered considerably higher than it was actually worth
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@StanFritz @normcharlatan @MsLaFitteTweets And I don’t think you understand “jokes”
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@JohnathanPerk Last year I had two life-threatening issues - burst appendix & heart attack - and I am doing great today because no nurse or doc or med student or ANYBODY ever questioned me or what I was feeling. Not enough people recognize this as white privilege.
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@cringed_un @steefenstein @AggroWill @elonmusk Imagine if I went into target and saw the price tag on a tv was $579 and I paid $1,000 Tell me again about price tags
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@JohnathanPerk I’m at a conference for businesses owned by Black & brown people and there’s a white couple here selling granola Feels about white
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@Prada Were any people of color involved in any step of the process?
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@adamcarrara1 @ScottEaglen It’s not a gender thing buddy
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@Chris_1791 @RepSwalwell Yes definitely tolerate and enable threatening behavior in order to protect the feelings of those doing the threats
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@JRubinBlogger @SykesCharlie Never Trump but always racist
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@StankAttitude @AsteadWesley Being a professional journalist who gives a damn about a subject doesn’t make you an opinion columnist. Give it a rest.
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@LoganPaul This was explained in the movie. You gotta listen better maybe? It was attributed to stuff falling out of an airplane.
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@_MiszUnderstood @SixBrownChicks For one, those two things are not the same temperature. One will melt more easily. Secondly, sublimation. It's really very simple.
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@KristiWonk @justinemusk The word “legally” is doing a lot of work there
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@Xio_Javadd @andrewperezdc Yes, people are actively discriminating against LBGTQ people. And yes, this group is free to buy ads, and we are free to point out who’s buying the ads and what their agenda is. That’s free speech too.
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@nhannahjones We're also taught to always explain WHY we granted them anonymity. Haven't seen a hell of a lot of that lately.
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@Schilling1776 @SundaeDivine No, your point, that she chose a name for a specific purpose, does not stand. Also, you paid for twitter
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@barrysacks1 @davidmackau @fangsbites Joked about Jada making GI Jane 2. Reference to her baldness
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@SamoSmece @t0nit0ne Nothing hard-wired about it. That’s entirely cultural.
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@laurenboebert Are you under the impression that the Secretary of Transportation is also tech support for the FAA?
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@GENERALizati0n @laura_nelson Freelancers, independent contractors, entrepreneurs, startup employees often don’t get direct deposits.
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@ohlanie @piper4missouri Oh, you said "any government health care would be worse" so I thought that meant you weren't on Medicaid. Still, you're fighting a private insurance company that's getting medicaid funding, I take it? That sucks, either way.
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@NoSidesEver @michaeldweiss @elonmusk When you have 100 million followers, yes. Anything he responds to gets massively amplified.
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My son was in Mt Horeb Middle School when a shooter opened fire. He’s safe as is my daughter who was in the school next door. I’m posting updates @madison_365 and on the Madison365 Instagram.
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@mattyglesias Which is not the same as real time location
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@MowgliPark @nandoodles @indystar @CNN @harmeetkaur This is false nostalgia, I’m afraid. Journalists have always deferred to authority generally and specifically to this case, believed and published whatever police told them. This process is really just now being meaningfully challenged.
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@josie_huang So when they said you didn’t identify yourself as press and “admitted” you didn’t have credentials on, they were lying. I am shocked, shocked I say
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I bought my daughter the new @ForwardMSNFC away kit. She slept in it and this morning I found her looking at herself in the mirror. She turned to me and said simply “I look nice.”
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@walk_colb @SenMikeLee @POTUS There are more receipts though.
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@CBSNews That’s ... not cliff diving.
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@mattyglesias People … who, like … care? About equity?
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@Tita_Mae23 @beetlegooose @speakingcode @fuckyouiquit For you. It is for lots of jobs. Do you think nobody should work remote because you can’t?
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We've graduated from Disney Jr to @MLS highlights #TheyGrowUpSoFast
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The student is now the master
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@lpbradley @DrSamiSchalk Average outstanding student loan debt is just over $28,000. $10,000 will make a significant difference for most people with student loan debt.
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@mattyglesias Which … real time location via airplane is publicly available info and publishing it shouldn’t get you banned but just not a good comparison
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@mattyglesias see though ... for example, the presence of the abolitionist movement isn't evidence that America wasn't founded on racist systems, because, you see, that movement was the *resistance* to the racist system.
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@TheOddOtto @npthree @TaylorLorenz Guys compete all the time. But would you seriously call a guy and say hey can you change your lede so I can use it? No, you’d just put in the effort to write a better lede.
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Literally every @ForwardMSNFC fan seeing someone wearing a Mingo jersey in the grocery store
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@JamesRPagel @Zachwalsh9 @JimOwczarski I interviewed the organizers of the upcoming rally in Madison. They *say* they're non-partisan, and were also critical of Trump. But for the most part this "movement" looks to be funded / supported almost entirely by Republicans / conservatives / libertarians.
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@andreavbecker Probably the same time I stop dreaming about being in a play despite not having rehearsed at all, or learned the lines. I was last on stage in 1997
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@rapgrant9700 @oneunderscore__ If you know you know. And if you know, you’re probably over 45
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All are finally reunited, home and safe.
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My son was in Mt Horeb Middle School when a shooter opened fire. He’s safe as is my daughter who was in the school next door. I’m posting updates @madison_365 and on the Madison365 Instagram.
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