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28 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
A short story, set in Philadelphia. Image
I've watched this conversation grow over the past month or so and it's been a real rollercoaster.
OK while I have you there's a great book coming out in January and guess what...I wrote it. Maybe you'd like to buy it? simonandschuster.com/books/The-Eagl…
It's both heartwarming and a little melancholy how many responses to this tweet have been "I miss Philly." It is indeed a good city.

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27 Oct
If you don’t know what you’re talking about please, please shut up for the next seven days.
Good advice generally, but especially relevant when I see like 10 tweets a day with objectively harmful voting advice.
This morning Marc Vetri told his 30,000 followers to rip up their mail-in ballots and vote in person and I wanted to pull all my hair out.
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7 Oct
In 1942, as the U.S. government was rounding up 120,000 Japanese Americans, a question arose: what about orphans? The response: "...if they have one drop of Japanese blood in them they must all go to camp."

That's what I think of when I read this story.

nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/…
More than 100 kids were imprisoned at Children's Village, in the Manzanar concentration camp. If you're interested in that story, here's some more info from the awesome folks at @DenshoProject: encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar%20Chi…
Tens of thousands of kids spent up to four years in the camps, and thousands of others were born in them, their birth certificates bearing the names of hastily constructed towns surrounded by barbed wire.
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12 Sep 19
Did not expect to be emotionally gutted by a utility pole this morning
“I hope you made it home. I hope I do too.” goddamn
If anyone in Philly would like to pay their respects, The Corner Pole resides at 3rd and Federal, in the southeast corner of Jefferson Square
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19 Mar 19
I graduated from Saint Joe's in 2006, so Phil Martelli has been an extended part of my life for 15+ years. I have one story I’d like to share about him.
In December 2002, the end of my freshman fall semester, Saint Joe’s was supposed to play Boston University. Problem was there was a huge snowstorm in Philly that day: roads closed, schools closed, everything closed.
That of course means one thing when you’re 18: you get absolutely blitzed on Captain Morgan’s and go sledding on cafeteria trays.
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12 Mar 19
This is the most bizarre technique for blowing out birthday candles that I’ve ever witnessed. Mitt Romney is a deeply weird dude.
In a movie this is how you’d learn that the person you thought was your friend was actually an alien who’d invaded your friend’s body.
The one thing the internet doesn’t get enough credit for us giving us immediate access to the unsettling mannerisms of the rich and famous. We used to have to wait years until, like, Robert Cato wrote about LBJ’s fingernail-trimming techniques or whatever.
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23 Jan 19
If Lara Trump would like to pay my furloughed wife’s $600/month law school loans, our $2,100/month rent, or our $1,350/month day care bill, my email address is in my bio. newsweek.com/shutdown-lara-…
These are, in fact, just a few of the bills that we’re currently using our savings to pay, savings that had previously been set aside for a down payment on our first house. So I’d say it’s more than “a bit of pain.”
These people want for nothing and gleefully profit off this presidency and then tell *us* we’re financially secure? Fuck out of here.
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