I received rape threats, homophobic slurs, etc etc for writing this piece. The NYT can go to hell.
Normally I don’t make a fuss about being ripped off. It happens frequently. But I was viciously attacked on Twitter and email for writing that article. It actually affected my mental health.
NYT just edited the article to include this

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I keep seeing Al Frankel brought up like all he did was tell a bad joke. He sexually assaulted 9 women. businessinsider.com/ninth-woman-ac…
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This is Enron if Enron's managers were intelligence assets.
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It is not too late to move the swearing-in ceremony inside.
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For scale, Trump has issued far fewer pardons than almost any other modern President. The difference is the fact that he is implicated in some of pardons (past and present)
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