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Tessa Stuart
4 years
Good news for the federal government as it mulls plans for a big economic stimulus: @AOC has already sketched out a massive jobs program to fight climate change. A year later, she talks about what it would take to implement a Green New Deal
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28 days
Abortion will officially be on the ballot in Missouri this November. Organizers just received word the signatures they submitted have been certified.
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2 years
“Exit polls indicate Laxalt was right to worried: Abortion was, by far, the most motivating issue for Democrats who came out to support Cortez Masto: 89 percent reported that it was the most important issue to them.“
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2 years
Democrats Clinch Nevada, the Senate, and a Chance to Be Free From Joe Manchin —⁦ @tessastuart
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9 months
Today, a Travis County judge tearfully granted Kate Cox permission to obtain emergency abortion — and Ken Paxton immediately threatened the three hospitals where her doctor has admitting privileges:
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7 years
Weinstein's apparent obsession with Mila Kunis made me think of this "open letter" she wrote last year
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4 years
I spoke with @staceyabrams yesterday about why she would have ordered Georgia to be shut down, why Kelly Loeffler should resign, and how politicians like Brian Kemp are trying to use this crisis to disenfranchise voters:
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Tessa Stuart
3 years
Reality Winner got her ankle monitor off yesterday. In an interview, she blasted the Intercept's handling of her case and accused First Look of falling behind on legal bills (a claim they deny)
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
I talked with @ewarren about country music, growing up poor, pressure to get married, her republican brothers, working with Obama, battling Joe Biden and more for January’s @RollingStone :
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1 year
"Anyone who thought he’d be a strong candidate clearly just hadn’t seen enough of him. Now we all have. Ron DeSantis comes off as a dangerous, extremist Dwight Schrute."
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Tessa Stuart
1 year
As GOP lawmakers push increasingly aggressive bans at the state level, internal polling done by ‘24 GOP candidates shows abortion is not even among the TOP FIVE issues to Republican voters… New from @swin24 & me
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
Reactions from Nunes' hometown: "You'd think someone who grew up on a dairy would know how not to step in it."
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Tessa Stuart
4 months
Nowhere in the country has embraced the fetal personhood movement like Alabama, where today women are feeling in the fallout in everything from IVF access to miscarriage management to pregnancy criminalization:
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Tessa Stuart
4 years
Stacey Abrams had a lot to say about that NYT analysis about the share of the black vote decreasing in Georgia decreasing in 2020
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
When you lose the gropers...
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Arnold
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As proud as I am to label myself a Republican, there is one label that I hold above all else - American. My full statement:
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9 years
If you're surprised Carson is endorsing Trump, just remember who was there for him in his toughest moments
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Tessa Stuart
11 months
Remember the guy suing his ex's bffs for $1 million for allegedly helping her obtain an abortion? According to a new filing, he allegedly promised to drop the lawsuit if she'd have sex with him:
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The guy who bought is the same guy who squatted on in 2016. He sold it to a Trump-affiliated marketer for $15k, after Clinton campaign only offered $2k. ( @jeremypgreen , who appears to have deactivated.)
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
Here's how this interview ended
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
Today in Texas, you can't get birth control without your parents' permission. You can't get an abortion after 6 weeks. And 60% of rural Texas hospitals will no longer deliver babies.
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
would you say it feels like... being pushed from behind into a bedroom by two assailants who locked the door behind them and turned up the music to drown out your cries for help?
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Philip Rucker
6 years
"I feel ambushed" -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), visibly outraged, tells reporters as he ticks through a series of process grievances with Senate Democrats.
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
I spent some time trying to understand why California can't solve its housing crisis:
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6 years
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1 year
Imagine being the NYT photo editor calling a freelancer for this assignment: "Well, he's a sour character who lives atop of a remote ridge, and he just shot someone who drove up his driveway... Anyway, we're going to need a pic of the house."
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
God bless the Seychelles official who saw this as a good branding opportunity
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
I personally would much rather live in a world where the cat litter was a nice gesture to furries, rather than the reality, where its there in case kids need to defecate while barricaded inside a classroom for hours because there is an active shooter on campus.
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Tim Onion
2 years
Cat litter was handed out in Columbine's school district for active shooter situations five years ago. Since then, the "litter boxes in schools" rumor has evolved into a way to mock LGBTQ youth. It's now being used as a culture war ammo by over 20 GOP politicians nationwide.
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Tessa Stuart
12 years
Jennifer Lawrence helping Kristin Stewart with her crutches #oscars http://t.co/PSFAa9UXMM
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Tessa Stuart
4 years
She weighed in on the debate in over whether policies like M4A, GND and Defund the Police are helping or hurting Democrats
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Tessa Stuart
3 months
Happy Pride month, everybody!
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
incredible that after so many of these we still ask "why did the shooter do it?" instead of "why do we continue to allow this to happen?"
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Tessa Stuart
9 months
An 889-page document details the GOP's plans if they win the White House in 2025: - revoke FDA approval for mifepristone - revive DOJ enforcement of the Comstock Act (a de facto federal abortion ban) - use the CDC for "abortion surveillance"
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
brb, just had a great idea for a children's book.
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Tessa Stuart
3 years
On the 11th anniversary of her shooting, and one year after January 6th, the former congresswoman reflects on the consequences of letting violent rhetoric go unchecked:
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Tessa Stuart
9 years
Let me tell you a little story about a conman, his dairy cow Ponzi scheme and the wily P.I. who cracked the case:
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
wow did not know @morninggloria was a trained assassin
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VICE News
8 years
Suspect arrested in assassination of North Korean leader’s half brother
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Tessa Stuart
1 year
Anti-abortion orgs think women are just going to forget what the GOP is doing. “The last election [was] the high watermark for the side in favor of abortion bc they were angry, and anger is a big motivator… It doesn’t get better for them. They can’t keep up the anger forever.”
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Tessa Stuart
3 years
Here's a story I wrote about the small team of (mostly) women who crafted the plan to destroy 1,200 tons of Assad's sarin, VX and mustard reserves on a boat in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
"Are you media? Get in your media pen." <- a real thing security just said to a journalist outside Trump Tower
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Tessa Stuart
3 years
This was the last story I did before going on maternity leave. (I actually went into labor while we were closing it!) It was a treat to write about these women, including two new moms who hammered out some of the particulars in the agency's lactation room.
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Tessa Stuart
4 months
An account associated with GOP Leader Matt Hall’s personal email appears to have gambled $73,000 in in a span of just 33 days in 2018 before he led the charge to legalize sports betting in Michigan
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
I talked to Stephen Miller about the ban for about 45 minutes yesterday. He said some pretty wild stuff!
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
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@elonmusk
Elon Musk
2 years
@TheTexanNews @MayraFlores2022 I voted for Mayra Flores – first time I ever voted Republican. Massive red wave in 2022.
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In 2006, when Biden was still saying he did not believe abortion was "a choice and a right," Tim Walz won a deep red district running as a vocal supporter of abortion rights
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Tessa Stuart
11 months
Mike Johnson has railed against "abortion as a form of birth control" but it turns out he's not big on *birth control* as a form of birth control, either:
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
Chants of "Hillary for Prison" at the protest watch party outside the DNC
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Tessa Stuart
4 years
We talked about Doug Jones' criticism of DCCC "lunging from candidate to candidate," looking for a "shiny new penny"
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
look, I like the theory, but I just want to note that "lodestar" was @MerriamWebster 's word of the day just last week...
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Merriam-Webster
6 years
Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'lodestar'
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
we are so fucked
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Erica Werner
7 years
McCain just saw WP: "We certainly don't want any president to leak classified information but the president does have the right to do that."
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Tessa Stuart
11 months
In the same alleged conversation, a transcript of which was filed this week, he threatened to post intimate videos of her unless she did his laundry:
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
hmm, yes, I wonder whomst this unnamed Trump ally could possibly be...
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
lol, Steve Bannon's film company's latin motto is the same as the Beast's from Beauty and the Beast
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Tessa Stuart
1 month
Georgia State’s basketball arena is packed to the rafters for Kamala Harris. Totally at capacity, fire marshal won’t let anyone else in. Ton of folks watching the Jumbotron from the sidewalk.
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Tessa Stuart
11 months
In the new filing, the woman's lawyers call the lawsuit an effort “to intimidate, harass, control, and traumatize [his ex-wife]—and force her to sleep with him.”
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
I like that this is where Don Jr.'s head was at while he prepared for 7 hours of grueling testimony before the House Intelligence Committee
@TrumpsAlert
Trump Alert
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DonaldJTrumpJr liked this tweet:
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
In honor of Pete’s birthday, my gift to all of you is this photo of him discovering his first love, sticks.
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
Jill Stein supporters, rejoice!
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NPR
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U.S. Army Corps grants the final easement for the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
And here's how Breitbart covered that interview
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Tessa Stuart
1 month
Harris acknowledged Trump’s unhinged @NABJ rant in Houston this evening: “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us — they are an essential source of our strength.”
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
The guy supposedly in charge of Ted Cruz’s ground game basically mocked Ted Cruz’s ground game when I asked him about it
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
Constituents at MacArthur's town hall in Willingboro chanting SINGLE PAYER! SINGLE PAYER!
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
One interesting thing I learned reporting this story... There is very little a court can do if a federal agency simply refuses to comply with an order
@RollingStone
Rolling Stone
2 years
EXCLUSIVE: A rogue Trump judge is in position to ban an abortion pill. Democrat Ron Wyden says President Biden can, and should, protect access for millions of women — even if that means breaking the law.
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7 years
Comey just indicated he was aware of incriminating evidence about Sessions
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
The results out of Kansas are a relief but they shouldn't feel like a surprise. 6 in 10 Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Returns in Kansas right now? 66% of voters opposed restricting abortion, 34% support
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
attn New Yorkers congressman @reppeteking — one of the people behind the Muslim ban — is up for reelection in 2018
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Evan McMullin 🇺🇸
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According to Giuliani, Congressmen @RepPeteKing and @RepMcCaul , and Michael Mukasey were involved in designing Trump's Muslim ban.
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
it's, metaphorically, a slippery slope, folks.
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
"When it comes to terrible music from the vault of collective cultural memory, i'm the janitor with the broom" - the incomparable @robsheff
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
new healthcare bill: poor people will be extorted if they lose coverage & CEOs will be able to deduct pay over $500k
@kyledcheney
Kyle Cheney
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Under GOP bill, anyone who goes w/o health coverage for two months or more would face a 30% surcharge on premiums for a year.
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8 years
I talked Jane Sanders about the DNC leaks & Bernie or Busters & she was refreshingly frank!
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
MacArthur asked again, by a 17-year-old, if rape is considered a preexisting condition under the bill; won't answer
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1 year
omg THANK YOU @hellgate for writing about this!!
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
ah yes being a woman and a minority — the easiest ways to get elected in this country!
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Shannon Watts
5 years
BREAKING: New @NRA President Carolyn Meadows says Rep. Lucy McBath was elected because she's Black. "...it's wrong to say the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. ...it had to do with being a minority female."
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NO FIXED ARMRESTS is the new jet fuel can't melt steel beams
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Tessa Stuart
4 years
I wrote about Raphael Warnock, how he became pastor at MLK's church and how he could become the first black Georgian elected to statewide office — despite the explicitly racist design of runoff elections like this one:
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
Marianne Williamson is still running for president, but last month she quietly launched "The Williamson Institute," asking fans to pay for access to blogposts, podcasts, book recommendations and more:
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
Delighted that @TexasGOP gave me a reason to dig up my old interview with @BetoORourke about his band Foss, and the time Feist traded her brother's lockpick for a ticket to their show!
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
::licks finger, touches wind:: the time is right to re-promote my old story THE BIG COW CON
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Tessa Stuart
7 years
please subscribe to my new podcast "Gossip Girl on the Globalists" tagline:
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Tessa Stuart
4 years
Shortly after we closed this piece for the June issue Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia became the first ICE detainee to die from complications of COVID-19. After reporting it, I'm worried his will be the first of many unnecessary and avoidable deaths:
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Tessa Stuart
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there are... a couple other things going on this morning, but I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago! I'll have more to say about it later, but for now, please enjoy this charming story about Appropriations chair Nita Lowey's first concert
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
(That's Katy Perry.)
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TMZ
8 years
Lil' Kim Is Completely Unrecognizable With Her New PLATINUM Makeover (via @PopCrush )
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Tessa Stuart
9 years
musicians' cause of death, by genre Metal: Accidental Rap: Homicide Blues: Heart-related http://t.co/jTItVYn5GW http://t.co/gEJDeIezKr
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Tessa Stuart
1 year
That's Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth with his former aide Cole Wagner (on the far right, blue jacket) who was arrested last week on charges of child sex abuse:
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Will Ainsworth
3 years
I am proud of my staff and their hard work serving the people of Alabama. We survived the legislative session and were happy to welcome Charlsi Lee to our staff this morning. We look forward to getting back to work making our state better and appreciate the opportunity to do so.
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Tessa Stuart
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One thing that didn't really hit me yesterday is that this New Hampshire law bans abortion at 15 days gestation — that's not just before some women *know* they're pregnant. It's before some have even conceived!
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Tessa Stuart
8 years
no more essays explaining your vote please! they are bad.
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Tessa Stuart
2 years
NEW: @ejdickson and I wrote about Phexxi, a new non-hormonal birth control that some women have reported getting pregnant on. As one of them put it: "Like putting lemon juice in your vagina and hoping for the best"
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Tessa Stuart
5 years
Brad—panicked, sweating—looking for a way to see himself out of this conversation
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Tessa Stuart
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Pete, known for mercilessly ripping apart books that don’t impress him, was so engrossed in @annamerlan ’s REPUBLIC OF LIES that he ignored me for hours. It’s out April 16, but you can pre-order on Indiebound!
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Anna Merlan
5 years
Thank GOD @tessastuart offered my book to Pete and he didn’t totally disapprove
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Tessa Stuart
11 months
I spoke to dozens of people at Kennedy's rally. Most were ex-Dems, many had voted for Biden. The sole Trump supporter I found said he liked RFK better than some GOP candidates, but “If they threw [Trump] in jail, I’d probably still vote for him.”
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Tessa Stuart
6 years
whooooooooooo could it be
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