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Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Ian, that article is about an event at a restaurant at a college. What’s it like having a big ol’ bowl of soup where your brain should be?
It’s possible “community college” means something else in Malaysia, where Ian lives and has lived the entire time he’s been an American right-wing commentator. If so, apologies!
Ian used to have a column on Milo Yiannopoulos’ site called Incel Corner. This is true, btw.
I have been on this beat too long, I know too much stupid garbage and all I got was this lousy harassment campaign. Let me cover dog weddings for a year or something.

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Mar 31
So, as you may know, I've taken some time off and I've come back with an exclusive story — and a sentence I never thought I'd have to write.
She #DiedSuddenly.
New from me:

On the internet, she #DiedSuddenly. In real life, she's very much still alive.

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Mar 30
Trump Jr. starts his podcast: "Well, guys, I guess I got some news at 10-15 minutes ago...

"Apparently, Soros-backed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is indicting my father. Let's be clear folks: This is Communist-level shit. This is stuff that would make Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot blush."
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Mar 30
New from @JoYurcaba + @erikjhortiz + me:

Here's what is ACTUALLY known about the Nashville suspect's motive and gender identity.

After days of the far-right seeking—or inventing—ties to a trans rights campaign, the evidence simply isn't there yet.
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(It's not uncommon for trans people to come out to only certain people in their lives—or at all.)
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Mar 24
New and exclusive from me + @jonathan4ny + @ryanjreilly:

We spent the week working with extremism researchers, who warned Alvin Bragg was being targeted with threats to “take him out” on pro-Trump forums.

Bragg just received a letter with white powder.

nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
Users on TheDonald, a forum whose users helped plan Jan. 6, threatened to “blow up” the DA’s office and “take out” Alvin Bragg.

Others on TruthSocial called for running enemies "through a tree limb chipper," urging each other to "go in guns blazing."

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Mar 20
I’m at the pro-Trump protest put on by the NY Young Republicans Club. Not a joke, there are more reporters here than Trump supporters.

This was supposed to be the big one.
It’s just a bunch of cameras taking picture of a guy who is putting on a rat suit next to a guitar with the words Hang Fauci on it. This was supposed to start a half hour ago.
Chris is also here and had a nice song written for him.
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Mar 16
The No. 1 way to permanently and irreparably nuke your chances with the Gen Z electorate is to be the party that takes credit for banning TikTok.

And, remember, they're going to outlive us all.
I don't know how to navigate the TikTok situation in practical terms, which is deeply complicated.

A lot of the security issues are overhyped and tied into a much larger geopolitical game, but the hidden keystroke logging being real made is very bad.
nytimes.com/2022/08/19/tec…
You ban TikTok, or force a sale that effectively neuters the algorithm, you open up a political Pandora's box that you cannot contain or predict. It'd be like if George HW Bush banned MTV x 10,000. You're not gonna hear the end of it, even if it's the right thing to do.
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