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Opinion I Got Conned By An Alt-Right Troll
My super-secret CIA contact had been working me for a year, feeding me supposedly “inside information,” before I began to suspect that he might not be totally on the level. I first “met” the magical “Mister Smith” in July of 2017. I was relatively new to the extremely online lifestyle which I have now (for…
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Fast Forward Here’s What Other Michael Cohens Think About THAT Michael Cohen
After Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, plead guilty to eight felony charges on Tuesday, other Michael Cohens began to weigh in. These Michael Cohens have been under attack in the past by Twitter users confusing them with Trump’s Cohen. Now, after receiving months of harassment that was not yet for them, they’re trying…
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Fast Forward Does Trump Actually Respect Adam Schiff?
After former FBI Director James Comey’s hearing last March, President Trump reportedly declared begrudging respect for Democratic rival Adam Schiff, Axios reports. As the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Schiff has become one of the most prominent critics of Trump, even garnering himself the nickname “Liddle Adam Schiff” from Trump. Finally, Liddle’ Adam…
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Fast Forward Obama’s Favorite Author Won’t Discuss Parenting-Work Balance Until Men Do
Lauren Groff respectfully declines to talk about it
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Fast Forward Twitter Thinks Jake Tapper Is About To Blow A Gasket
CNN anchor and chief political correspondent Jake Tapper has seen it all in the past few years. But some Twitter users are worried that the coverage of the Trump Putin summit has broken him. feels like we’re a week away from the CNN chyron just reading ‘FUCK IT’ while Jake Tapper sits there naked eating…
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Fast Forward Congressman Takes Daughters To West Wing, Remembers His Childhood Tour
New York Republican congressman Lee Zeldin took his family on a tour of the West Wing on Thursday night, embracing the nostalgia of when he first experienced it as a kid in 1986. “Last night, I took three VIPs to the West Wing for a tour of history, where Presidents have tackled some of the…
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman And Piers Morgan Get Into An Ugly Twitter Feud
Sarah Silverman has called out British journalist Piers Morgan, for shouting at an anti-Trump protester in London in a video that “Good Morning Britain” later posted. Silverman tweeted: “Shouting your narrative at a guest [because] she has answers that don’t prove your point does not even resemble journalism. What if you listened to her instead?…
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Life Twitter Debilitated Me. Here’s Why You Should Quit.
On July 15th, 2017, I went off Twitter. I closed my account and waited for the digital tremens to hit me. As it happened, my bout was brief; I picked up my phone with intent, the way 25 years ago, having sworn off smoking, I’d rummaged around for a stale pack of cigarettes. But now…
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