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I have an honorary degree in theoretical math from a fictional university.
Feb 24, 2020 16 tweets 3 min read
I have been waiting to vote for Elizabeth Warren since the first time I saw her on TV.

My number-one qualification is a curious, grasping intelligence and a heart oriented toward the right people and thus the right ideas.

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Elizabeth Warren in the CA She has command of the facts. She sounds like no Democrat has sounded since Lyndon Johnson -- a vision of government that does big things for little people like you and me, like Medicare, Medicaid, the Great Society, the War on Poverty --

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Elizabeth Warren in the CA
Nov 10, 2019 13 tweets 7 min read
Many people say it's ridiculous to compare our current troubles with the Nazis and the Final Solution.

Imagine.

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#Kristallnacht Imagine someone saying the torture of little girls and boys is necessary to nat'l security.

And people being, for the most part, okay with that.

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#Kristallnacht
Nov 8, 2018 16 tweets 7 min read
@quinncy Hi, Ms. Cummings, I forget whether we met back in the day.

At the time, I had the 2nd longest tenure as one of her assistants, at 9 months.

If we're sharing stories around the campfire, I have a few, if you'll indulge a (THREAD) @quinncy 1/ Story #1

I booked David Ogden Stiers for some Disney celebration in Florida.

He lived in Oregon.

He had an audition in L.A. right after.

Disney offered travel both ways, but I needed them to okay a) OR to FL b) FL to L.A. 3) back to OR.

So I asked the Disney guy --
Sep 15, 2017 15 tweets 8 min read
Let us turn our thoughts today, to borrow a phrase from James Taylor, to #BenAtBerkeley -- and why students might be, ah, opposed. (THREAD) (1) #BenAtBerkeley is/was/whatever a frequent "contributor" to Breitbart and an associate of Steve Bannon, who famously said --