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I had two hard conversations today with two completely different friends who love me enough to tell me tough truths about myself

You're going to see some changes in how I approach my self-promotion, starting with releasing a lot of old things I've been holding onto /1 I've been terrified to #selfpublish thanks to my very bad previous experience, but I'm going to try it again with my novel so I can release both it and its backstory from my body and into the universe to see if anyone buys it. Then I can show agents a proven track record /2

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#AMessageToElonMusk & everyone like him on this Twitter Blue thing to explain why you all need to stop joking about it & why it's really important to keep the Verification process for its intended purpose: protecting our identities 1/? Donald Trump blocked me in September 2015, but by then I was already a MAGA target even with something like 7K followers. I had tried to get @verified because I had been on the radio in Portland, but was denied. In Sept 2016, the MAGA cyberharassment really amped up 2/?

One year ago today, Matt Gaetz began harassing me online when he QT’d this tweet & nothing has ever happened to him while I got death threats /1

https://twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1435031556507111429

Then Matt Gaetz did a whole segment of his dumb Firebrand podcast about me where he encouraged his followers to “seek out” my social media profiles, and they sure did! /2

https://twitter.com/repmattgaetz/status/1441114475323559936

THREAD: This is what it’s like when a restaurant closes during #coronapocalypse:

Today we picked up our final checks. We are all laid off & are eligible for #Unemployment. Our GM & Chef/Owner set up the dining room like a grocery store so we could walk around & take food home /1 It was incredibly sad. We tried to maintain our social distance, but we’re a family so some people hugged. I tried to be logical with my food choices, but it felt so overwhelming because of feels, plus most was perishable food /2

Hey y'all, strap in. I got a brief thread to throw at you & it's a tough one. But it's important for me to get this story out, because I want to make sure no one goes through what I & others have gone through thanks to my former podcast partner, @jwadetaylor #MondayMotivation 1/ Last May I was approached by con man Jason Wade Taylor (@jwadetaylor), aka “Randy Hahn.” He skillfully appealed to my desire to find a radio audience again & used me as the “talent” so he could impress others with his skills as a “producer” & "activist". Nice mug shot RANDY