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Philip Bump
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I just replied to someone and apparently it showed up in everyone's feed? Is that accurate? If so, that appears to be a new function — and it's a bad one.
It's easy for people with lots of followers to weaponize that by raising Twitter debates to their followers' attention. Often this can be an intentional move by a bad actor: A quote tweet that effectively serves as a "go get 'im." Why I try to be judicious about quote tweets.
Can also have that effect unintentionally, as it just did. Many people who follow me probably agree with my thinking on things, and naturally show that agreement.

So I'm deleting that tweet and, I guess, being even more wary of replying over the short term.
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Took the Axios schedules for Trump and overlaid his tweets. The realization? There are two types of "executive time." wapo.st/2DV6eMP
Thanks to @axios for publishing the full schedules and to @MattGertz for sharing his data on Trump's Fox tweets.
@axios @MattGertz Here, in all of its complicated glory, is how Trump has spent his time on and off Twitter for the past three months. wapo.st/2DV6eMP
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"I didn't even know where New England was." - Tom Brady, Michigan alum, on being drafted
In the only competition that matters, electoral politics: Bump 1, Brady 0.
Tom Brady, Michigan alum, needs a cue card for "I'm going to Disneyworld."
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Given that the left has drawn massive amounts of fire for Northam's abortion comments, it's bad timing for a devastating photo to emerge.
"We have a word for that kind of timing: Suspicious."
That GIF sucks, but what are you gonna do.
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