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Mar 4 4 tweets 3 min read
From my intrepid mother @maureen_orth “When I first met him, in September 2000, Putin was at a very different table, in a private room at New York’s 21 Club, at a dinner hosted by Tom Brokaw” vanityfair.com/news/2022/03/p…
“I learned about two qualities that defined him: the price he put on loyalty, and his reverence for the motherland, which was fueled by a deep resentment for the humiliation that he and his close circle of former KGB agents believed had been visited upon them by the U.S.”
Good going #Harvard
Read the piece for the kicker alone #RussianUkrainianWar #Putin #RussianOligarchs #Russia

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Feb 1
Tom Brady not mentioning NE ONCE…one single time…in his long winded retirement statement is so incredibly fantastic. Greatest “you’re welcome” of all time.
All those years of hero worship and not even an acknowledgement. Just a stunning rebuke of “The Patriot Way” the entire region and fanbase.
Say what you want about #Buffalo —our heroes and legends love their city and their team. #BillsMafia Image
Read 6 tweets
Jan 31
Will be a fun #SuperBowl with many likable storylines and players. 🐅 🐏
1. Sean McVay is 36 and Zac Taylor is 38 —we the Millennials!
2. Smokin’ Joe Burrow
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Dec 10, 2021
Has Congress had a single hearing about the Metaverse? If polled right now I’d guess 80% wouldn’t know what it is. Probably should get on it rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
People are dropping the cost of a real house $450K to speculate on land in virtual worlds. Billion dollar corporations rushing into the marketplace. Is there any semblance of regulation?
This piece from @thehill is a good place to start thehill.com/opinion/techno…
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Dec 8, 2021
To recap--this car was 100 ft from going over the falls. In high winds, rescuer was lowered into the river from chopper, opened the window with an ax, rescued occupant. All tweeted in real time by @buffaloscribe
Condolences to the family of the victim. Doesn’t diminish the heroism of the rescuers. 🙏🏽
Read 4 tweets
Oct 27, 2021
Fun exercise—if you grew up as a kid in the early 90s watching the #Braves on TBS because you were a MLB addict—how many players from that golden era can you name without Google? 1991-1995. I got 15.
Otis Nixon. Terry Pendleton. Sid Bream. David Justice. Greg Olson. Maddux, Glavine, Avery, Smoltz, Kent Merker, Mark Wohlers. Mark Lemke. Jeff Blauser. Ron Gant. Brian Hunter.
Very proud of the Jeff Blauser pull. I couldn’t tell you what I had for lunch yesterday but I remember Blauser crushing as a shortstop.
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Oct 20, 2021
Morning @tedcruz —I know facts are foreign in your office BUT #Nantucket public schools are now majority minority. “The transformation has been driven largely by families arriving on the island from Central America, in particular El Salvador” n-magazine.com/learning-curve/
Nantucket has a long history of welcoming people from all backgrounds. Including present day— “Today, more than eleven different languages and seventeen different countries are represented within Nantucket’s schools.”
Nantucket also has a long history of being on the right side of history yesterdaysisland.com/0806201512-fre…
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