Tony Dokoupil
@tonydokoupil
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Co-Host, @CBSMornings . Author of “The Last Pirate.” Husband to @KatyTurNBC . Father of four.
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@USPS
says you should give mail in ballots at least 14 days round trip. No guarantees.
So if you plan to vote by mail, election day isn’t November 3rd.
It’s October 20th.
Or sooner.
Don’t be one of the *tens of thousands* of people whose vote wasn’t counted in 2016.
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My mom has been a teacher for 30 years. Now, because of mass shootings, this is part of her back to school training: learning how to staunch a giant sucking bullet hole.
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@KatyTurNBC
is anchoring her third straight hour of Mueller coverage while fully nine months pregnant, and I am in complete and total awe.
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Breaking news from the luckiest man on earth and best day of my life file:
MSNBC Live's Katy Tur and Husband Tony Dokoupil Expecting Second Child Together, a Daughter
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Kinda lost it on TV today. Sheesh.
“My dad wasn't around. She raised me. And in her work, she also took thousands of kids under her wing over the years.”
@tonydokoupil
shares an emotional tribute to his mother Gail, who is retiring as a public school teacher after 41 years.
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Mike Bloomberg’s $34M ad buy is the equivalent of the typical American writing a check for $39 bucks.
I’ll say that again.
Mike Bloomberg spending $34M of his own money on politics is like the median American family spending $39 on a movie night.
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Here’s one of the many moments I’ll miss once we all stop working from home.
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I said “irregardless” on TV today. I regret the error.
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Three years today! Happy anniversary to “Katy from the make up room,” the one who asked if I’d like to “get a coffee, a fanta, or a frozen daiquiri sometime.” Thank heavens I chose the daiquiri. I love you
@KatyTurNBC
.
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Today in Heroic Husbanding: I left
@KatyTurNBC
the last serving of iced coffee concentrate and went to work—on a morning show, on a holiday—totally caffeine-free.
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February remains an unexplored continent.
"You know you're a fake, you know that," Trump says to
@PaulaReidCBS
, who is repeatedly pressing him on what his administration did during the whole month of February. He doesn't answer that part of it.
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Visual confirmation:
MSNBC Live's Katy Tur and Husband Tony Dokoupil Expecting Second Child Together, a Daughter
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Happy Anniversary
@katyturnbc
. Thanks for bearing with me and sharing my love of bad puns. The rock we got married on is a thousand million years old and I’ll love you at least that long.
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🚨🚨🚨
The Postal Service says it “cannot guarantee a specific delivery date” for your mail-in-vote and voters should allow “at least 1 week” *each way* for ballots in the mail.
DO NOT WAIT.
Tens of thousands of votes went uncounted in 2016 because they arrived late.
Record numbers of Americans are expected to vote by mail in November.
@TonyDokoupil
tested the system to see how long you should give yourself, to make sure your vote counts.
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The first member of the Turkoupils to get the shot. Well done, Jamie!
Here’s my baby brother, James, getting the Pfizer vaccine today. He’s a doctor in the Covid ICU at
@UCDavisHealth
. I asked him if he was nervous and he laughed at me. “No. Not at all. I trust science.”
We’re so so so proud of you, bro! 👏🏻 👏🏻
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This morning
@GayleKing
asked the bishop of St. John’s church if President Trump attends that church. He does not, she said.
We asked Trump if that was his family Bible he was holding up. He didn’t hear at first, amid sirens sounding near St John’s church, so we asked “Is that your Bible?"
“It’s *a* Bible," he answered.
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Now that
@chrissyteigen
has retweeted a plagiarized version of my vote-by-mail reporting and
@realDonaldTrump
has retweeted a mislabeled version, I think I’ll do my next story on misinformation.
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Happy Birthday
@KatyTurNBC
! I promise you a lifetime of birthday cake far tastier than that window.
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Whoever came up with the phrase “sleeps like a baby” didn’t have a baby.
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It's one thing to cover "unaccompanied minors." It's quite another to learn that your family in America started with one. We should all take a look in the mirror. What exactly is so different about our families and the families on the border today?
.
@CBSThisMorning
’s
@tonydokoupil
’s great-granddad was an unaccompanied minor from Italy. He “fought in WWI, his kids in WWII..classic American story.”
What’s different between then “& 15 year old on border today?”
Historian Mae Ngai:
“Color of his skin”
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@KatyTurNBC
and I are co-hosting the 41st annual
@newsemmys
Monday night, live from home, steps from a sleeping baby! Help us not wake Teddy while celebrating the best work of the past year! Rehearsal pic/two non-Emmy winners below:
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It’s true! Everyone is happy, healthy and not at all resting comfortably.
Introducing Eloise Judy Bear Dokoupil. 💕 👶
Congrats to
@TonyDokoupil
and
@KatyTurNBC
who recently welcomed their healthy baby girl into the world on Thursday.
"She weighs 6 pounds, has strawberry blonde hair, and is rarely quiet. She fits right in."
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It’s 2pm in the east, 11am out west — and the BBC (Basement Broadcast Center) is live for
@KatyTurNBC
:
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Said this before, but I’ll say it again:
@GayleKing
is the most authentic person on TV. She’s also among the bravest and she showed that again today.
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In a Gallup poll last year, six percent of Americans defined SOCIALISM as “talking to people, being social, social media.” That is all.
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Yesterday I sent out a cloying tweet about
@KatyTurNBC
and how I think I am luckier in love than I deserve. I think the record should reflect her private response to me: “🤮”
#keeper
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Bonus material: asked if his new album should be understood as fiction or memoir, Harry said memoir.
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For all of you celebrating your stock portfolios today, a reminder that there are millions of Americans out of work and unable afford the basics — like going to the dentist.
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@Twitter
is not the new town square. It’s the local bar—and you can be tossed out.
@realDonaldTrump
just proved it.
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Another improvised diaper change, because men’s rooms don’t have tables.
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The worst part of
@ratemyskyperoom
is not that it gave
@KatyTurNBC
a 5/10 last month—noting, “she has a plant growing out of her head”—but that Katy then made me clean the entire kitchen before her next interview. Before and after (with toy car left behind in protest):
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So far today I’ve stepped in dog poop, got a cavity filled, took a toddler to the doctor, and got a tax bill. If you plan on dropping a piano out a window later, be sure to look for me first.
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Almost no one says the wealth gap is their top political priority.
But maybe that’s because almost no one realizes how crazy wide the wealth gap has grown.
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Bye bye ”Brooklyn Broadcasting Center.” Hello suit pants and shoes. Excited to be back on the big set, first time in weeks, with a special extra large table for social distancing on
@CBSThisMorning
.
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What a day. I couldn’t be more excited.
JUST IN:
@NorahODonnell
has been named anchor & managing editor of
@CBSEveningNews
.
@GayleKing
will be joined by
@AnthonyMasonCBS
&
@TonyDokoupil
as co-hosts of
@CBSThisMorning
beginning May 20.
@JDickerson
will report for
@60Minutes
as a correspondent
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Among the triumphs of the
@SpaceX
launch is
@KatyTurNBC
forgot I accidentally broke a plate (“one of the nice ones”) about 30 seconds before launch.
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The DC national guard marching outside the Capitol this morning.
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In 2017 the federal government took in $1,600,000,000,000.00 in federal income tax, according to the CBO. The head of that federal government
@realDonaldTrump
contributed $750.
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Since there's so much in the news, right now, and people seem to really care, right now, and it feels so important, right now, here's a note for later: 100 million Americans didn't vote in 2016. Don't be one of them in 2020.
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Joe Biden presser is stepping on
@KatyTurNBC
maternity leave big goodbye and it’s bumming me out.
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What’s the religious equivalent of “stolen valor,” of presenting yourself as a member of a church that you do not actually attend?
“Does President Trump go to your church on a regular basis?”
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde on
@CBSThisMorning
: “No. No. he is rarely in church. The only time he has been to St. John’s to my knowledge was on the morning of his inauguration.”
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It's been a day and I'm still speechless.
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The typical American can’t afford a new car or truck without taking on years of massive, record-breaking debt—in what’s supposed to be the best economy in a generation.
Something isn’t working.
Can a middle-class budget buy a new American car? Probably not.
Americans were paying about 38% more for a new car or truck over the summer than they were just 10 years ago.
@tonydokoupil
tries to figure out why.
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I love the way this came together. Producer Mark Hudspeth and editor
@LaurenBarnello
worked wonders. And it only took *87 smart puffs* to keep Baby Teddy quiet long enough for
@KatyTurNBC
and me to interview each other.
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It’s Friday. Otherwise known as the day I go around the house clearing up
@KatyTurNBC
’s countertop clutter. Also known as the day before this exchange:
@KatyTurNBC
“Where’s my stuff?”
@tonydokoupil
“If you put it away you’d know where it is.”
It’s Friday. Otherwise known as the day I get to go on a scavenger hunt around the house for
@tonydokoupil
’s dirty laundry. Socks in the living room. Shorts under the couch. T shirts in the basement. Nothing in the laundry basket.
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The only four entities to ever put a human being into orbit: China, Russia, America, and, as of today, Elon Musk.
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The unemployment rate for African Americans went UP in May, a month the president just called “a tribute to equality.” White unemployment fell.
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@KatyTurNBC
Full disclosure: we’re married. And in love. And best friends. So, yeah, she *may* be biased. A little.
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The one problem with shopping local for xmas is when
@KatyTurNBC
walks into the local store where you bought her local gift and picks out and prepares to buy the exact same local gift you have for her under the tree.
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To give you an idea of how sweeping this ruling is, it orders the release of 188 out of 189 redacted paragraphs, including all the info pertaining to how much Purdue, its executives, and the Sackler family made in Massachusetts.
A Massachusetts judge ordered the release of redacted information in a lawsuit against the maker of the painkiller OxyContin.
@TonyDokoupil
explains:
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The Postal Service is also telling Americans to give every ballot 14 days round trip. That means if you want to vote by mail, and you want to feel good about your vote being counted, Election Day is not November 3.
Election Day is Tuesday October 20th.
Spread the word.
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Please let all this worry about a long, uncallable election be the political version of Y2K.
23,975,574 Americans who didn't vote in the 2016 election have already voted.
7,816,118 of these voters were voting for the first time in their life.
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Whenever I think
@KatyTurNBC
can’t get any better, I remember what she’s already accomplished — “as the BEST HITTING PITCHER IN PALISADES SOFTBALL HISTORY.”
#basementfinds
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When Grandma’s got the baby, but mom and dad’s night out means covering the Trump rally. Hey
@KatyTurNBC
, can we at least get dinner later?
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Perhaps now I’ll finally get some respect around the house.
Just had to make one little adjustment to this onesie...
Congrats
@tonydokoupil
! Teddy and I can’t wait to spend our mornings with(out) you!
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Just over an hour before the News & Documentary Emmy’s, live online, hosted by
@KatyTurNBC
and me, aka the best basement broadcasting team in the tri-state area. See you at 8 you untold millions you!
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In recent years, black men and boys have had 1-in-1,000 chance of dying at the hands of police, aka better odds “than a lot of scratch off lottery tickets.”
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Thanks for a wonderful 40th birthday,
@KatyTurNBC
. Get some rest.
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New jobless claims could top 2M this week, making all of us wonder how bad this could get. But before we start the hunt for bottom, consider the baselines: 15M families in poverty *right now*, most ppl w/ less than 1K in savings *right now*, and the CC debt avg $6200.
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If you REALLY want to surprise a Mom for Mother’s Day, try catching her a day late. 😉Well done, Teddy D. We love you
@KatyTurNBC
. Thanks for making a life of it.
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Like I said on our wedding day, Katy, I wear the socks in this relationship.
Thank you
@GayleKing
for locating my socks this morning. Apparently they were on set at another network. Here I was thinking they walked off on their own. 👀
@tonydokoupil
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Can confirm.
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The threats against
@gayleking
for asking a legitimate question in a long, sweeping interview were disgusting when they surfaced and they’re disgusting now. Journalists ask questions and Gayle is first class at it. Glad to see so many people agree.
The chief of CBS news calls threats to journalist Gayle King “reprehensible” as backlash grows against rapper Snoop Dogg and others critical of King for an interview where she asked about a sexual assault charge against the late Kobe Bryant.
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You can hug me. I’ve been much worse at sports at a much lower level.
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This is so powerful. Please watch.
#EXCLUSIVE
: Breonna Taylor's boyfriend Kenneth Walker talks to
@GayleKing
about the night police raided her home as part of a narcotics investigation into Breonna's ex-boyfriend. Neither Walker nor Taylor has a criminal history and no illegal drugs were found in the home.
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Enjoying my first non-birthday morning ever of sitting in a comfortable chair and asking my wife to bring me things.
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Dolly Parton can pick all day -- even with acrylic nails. Ahead on
@CBSSunday
, this Grammy weekend, the 2019
@RecordingAcad
's
@MusiCares
Person of the Year talks style, songwriting, and feminist legacy of "9 to 5."
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Not the Queen or his grandfather — really shortens the list.
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To all you church-going farmers out there making the long horse-drawn journey into town to vote, you’re welcome. You’re why we decided to make election day a Tuesday.
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Very sweet,
@jacobsoboroff
. Thank you! We’ll keep you posted. 👶🧸🎈
Today's super sweet moment when
@jacobsoboroff
sent some love to
@KatyTurNBC
&
@tonydokoupil
. Bring on the baby!
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I don’t make a habit of tweeting out the work of other morning shows, but when a journalist is arrested in the middle of a live report all our work — the work of journalism — is on the line.
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Is this your family? Sally and Corbett Rochelle of Teaneck, NJ were the subjects of a 1964
@CBSNews
documentary on segregation. Though affluent, they could not get real estate brokers to work with them or homeowners to sell to them. I want to know what happened. Please DM me.
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My wife has the knives out this morning, but it’s all to celebrate our one year anchor-team-aversary on
@CBSThisMorning
. Thanks for the special delivery
@KatyTurNBC
. I’ll try not to eat it all
@GayleKing
and
@AnthonyMasonCBS
Tune in at 8:30!
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Very proud of myself for not cursing
WATCH Behind-the-scenes:
@CBSThisMorning
co-host
@tonydokoupil
gets stung by a bee.
He encounters voters and local wildlife as part of
@CBSThisMorning
’s
#AtAmericasCrossroads
series traveling to battleground states - kicking off TOMORROW.
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I’m on the other side of the world and I just heard Pete Hamill died. He once told me that the secret to happiness is a library, a garden, and a friend. He had all three in Brooklyn. I hope he still does. So long Pete.
Worth your time:
@tonydokoupil
's Oct. 2019
@CBSSunday
interview with Pete Hamill about his career and the
@hbo
documentary "Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists."
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No trouble at all, love, since I stay awake anyway just to see you dreaming.
Get yourself a husband who will smash the mosquito that buzzes your head at 5am. 💜
@tonydokoupil
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Hey
@KatyTurNBC
, I brought home some creamy comforting peanut butter cups. Are we even? (Please redeem soon. I already took a bite.)
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Well, actually,
@KatyTurNBC
, I wasn't choosing the coffee and I wasn't choosing the daiquiri. I was choosing you.
2 years ago today I emailed
@tonydokoupil
to ask if he wanted to get a coffee or a frozen daiquiri with me. Lucky for me he chose the booze.
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I’m Tony Dokoupil and I stand by the way I cut pies—the statistically accurate way, like mom taught me.
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At IN's largest early voting site today, I found more Kasich voters who flipped to Trump...than Cruz.
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You gotta watch this now, before the music rights expire and we have to take it down. The incomparable Linda Ronstadt says she’s already burned her old letters, she’s embarrassed by her old songs, and she’s terrified by the idea of her songs living online.
Linda Ronstadt will be recognized as the “voice of a generation” this weekend at the
#KCHonors
.
But years after losing her singing voice to Parkinson’s Disease, she tells
@TonyDokoupil
that she’s her own toughest critic.
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Lies about a stolen election are not the whole story
In the 1970s, the population of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was 97% White — by 2020, it plunged to 31%, a factor researchers say may have contributed to many Americans’ desire to participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
@tonydokoupil
investigates
@CBSMornings
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“Social security, unemployment benefits, FDIC-such programs never would have passed without the Depression. They would have been called Socialist. So, yes, I think the Depression left the country better off.”
Imagine that.
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I don't believe that Forrest Fenn's treasure has really been found. And I'm certain that if it has been found, the finder has no idea what he or she is holding. I'll explain, but first here's the news today:
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THIS is how American capitalism divides the American pie.
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
WEALTH INEQUALITY: The richest 1% controls more wealth now than at any time in more than 50 years. But what does wealth inequality really look like?
@TonyDokoupil
turned America’s economic pie into a real one and asked people a simple question: Who gets what?
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Fraud is almost nonexistent with mail in ballots because you need not only the ballot but lots of personal information to forge a vote:
- Date of birth.
- DL or SS #
- Official address.
- Full name.
- Plus signature.
If missing, the ballot can be rejected. And is.
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Here's a radical idea: find out how your parents or grandparents bought a home.
WATCH:
@TonyDokoupil
reflects on how his family benefited from government housing policies that were denied to Black Americans. He looks at how those policies contributed to America's wealth gap and asks what should be done about it.
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Fascinating to see that
@KatyTurNBC
's new book, "Unbelievable," just debuted at
#2
on the NYT bestseller list. Not bad for "zero access."
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Dad fixed it. All is well.
Nothing is coming out of the vent and “cool” is inexplicably blinking.
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Today on
@CBSThisMorning
,
@GayleKing
mentioned my interview with Tiger King Joe Exotic. It was years ago. For a story that got shelved for other things. But I suppose now’s the time to dig up the records. Standby.
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I love this story, but it depresses me too because we are so accustomed to rich kids getting in to elite colleges that we want to celebrate when a non-rich-kid gets in. It should bore us. That would be progress.
WATCH: The moment a 24-year-old former sanitation worker finds out he was accepted into
@Harvard_Law
.
@vladduthiersCBS
has more on Rehan Staton’s story of perseverance.
#WhatToWatch
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The Dow is now lower than it was when President Trump took office.
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These are working FAA inspectors, risking their jobs to talk to us, warning that if things don’t change, they’ll have a crash on their conscience.
THURS. ON
#CTM
: Whistleblowers within the FAA tell
@tonydokoupil
FAA inspectors across the country are being pressured by FAA management to delete findings against airlines, ignore compliance issues & stop looking into things that would force airlines to make changes in operation
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