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1 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
OMG: as Donald Trump speaks in Hickory, North Carolina the structure holding up the American flag collapsed behind the crowd and the press area.
Video from right after the scaffolding fell over.
The American flag has now been removed from the scene and caution tape has been threaded around the press area
How it started vs how it’s going
I wrote about the American flag collapsing at Donald Trump’s rally in North Carolina. I wrote it in a car because I had to move out of the area where the flag had been because security was afraid something else would fall and kill the reporters. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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1 Nov
At least 13,000 people are already here at President Trump’s rally in Hickory, North Carolina, per a Secret Service agent on the scene. The line to get in snakes at least a mile around the airport.
Well ok then.
Sometimes when the helicopter takes too long, they just start “Fortunate Son” over again until Trump has landed at his rally. I’m not mad bc CCR rules.
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25 Oct
Nothing is ever spicy enough for me and I finally encountered a chef who views this as a personal challenge, so he’s just bringing me various hot sauce concoctions waiting until I finally start crying. This is honestly my dream. Love you @SazonRestaurant 🧡💛❤️
Paging @voraciousbrain
Y’all. I stumped him. I’m so proud.
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24 Oct
As I was interviewing two QAnon supporters in New Mexico at a pro-Trump demonstration, a volunteer who said she was with the Trump campaign — and wore a Trump credential — came up and told me she was instructed by the campaign to stand next to me and monitor my interview.
At political events, this has occasionally happened to me. During the Dem primary this year, for instance, a staffer working for Michael Bloomberg tried to follow me around as I conducted interviews with people who showed up to a debate watch party at a Bloomberg campaign office.
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15 Oct
President Trump opened his rally in Des Moines tonight with a rant about Hunter Biden and the NY Post story. 20 days before Election Day, in the middle of a pandemic and an economic crisis, this is his message to voters.
Besides being an issue that probably won’t motivate any voters who aren’t already a part of his base, another issue with this message is that President Trump cannot pronounce “Burisma.”
Trump‘s Hunter Biden Hail Mary is an attempt to replicate their argument against Hillary Clinton (that she embodied “the swamp” he would drain). But they didn’t make that case on their own. Republicans spent over two decades calling the Clintons corrupt before Trump ran.
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12 Oct
The fucking geniuses at the Trump campaign changed the venue from where they’d initially scheduled it but it still says the wrong address on the invitation for supporters.
Ran into a Trump supporter outside the arena, a flag waving from his truck, who was trying to figure out where they’d moved it. He raised his fist as he drove off.
No official reason for the venue change, but it seems like this is a way smaller room than Rudy Giuliani was initialed booked to speak in. Image
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10 Oct
South Sudan’s civil war has displaced more than two million people. In Bidibidi, the second largest refugee camp in the world, the women sew milayas. Thanks to @milayaproject, you can support these artists directly by buying their beautiful work: milayaproject.org/pages/story
I got a cow wall hanging, which I want to frame even though @NinaStrochlic told me when she showed the artists a picture of one of their framed milayas hanging over a customer’s couch, they burst out laughing. milayaproject.org/pages/story
This project started with @NinaStrochlic’s reporting for @NatGeo. You can read all about the incredible women @milayaproject supports in her original story: www-staging.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/…
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