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Director of data for a non-partisan think tank, using data science to build legislative analytics products 📊 Country music aficionado 🎶 All views are my own

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@IrfWindnFire
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I'm convinced that Wes Moore was created in a lab for politicians: - Rhodes Scholar - College football player - Afghanistan veteran (Army officer in the 82nd Airborne Division) - Investment banker - CEO of Paul Tudor Jones' Robin Hood Foundation - Understands retail politics
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Gov. Wes Moore shotgunning a beer with Ravens tailgaters
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@NickTagliaferro Yeah he's used this before, at the end of speeches as almost like a quip
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@McKay4Senate Probably surprisingly busy since Sweden is the de facto representative for the interests of a bunch of countries in North Korea, including the U.S.
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@JosephPolitano He has an uncanny ability to get the worst people enraged at him at the best possible times
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@IrfWindnFire
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Can you imagine the ego boost that that sixth grade football coach got knowing that THREE (well known) NFL coaches couldn't figure out how to stop his old school offense? 😅
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lmao I never heard this before during his bountygate suspension, Sean Payton coached a 6th grade football team, spygated the one team that beat them during the season, took the film to Bill Parcells to devise a strategy to beat them… but still lost to them in the finals 😂😂
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@IrfWindnFire
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@bespoKENErd @DragonflyJonez In talking about the day itself, it's "July 4th," but in talking about the holiday, it's the "Fourth of July"
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@IrfWindnFire
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@SaeedDiCaprio Literally that recent South Park episode lol
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@RandanMarie @NancyMace Why are you so obsessed with her and what she's wearing? It's kind of creepy.
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@gavinbena Biden emphasizing populist themes like buying American and bringing manufacturing jobs home plays well with former Democrats who voted for Trump, such as Donald Trump
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@EBITDAddyLBO I see her point though, I am a little disturbed that you'd use the word "charity"
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@seandsweeney @casualhexes @redwood_ryan_a So the answer is no, you do not understand how insurance works
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@nytimes I know a guy who makes great balloon animals if they need a replacement
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@RealAgimKaba @Culture_Crit These people have never looked at data before. They just go off of emotions and aesthetics
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@barstoolsports Barstool drifting into international politics without realizing it 😬 Dwight Howard plays in Taiwan, not China.
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@benigma2017 @Bliv_24 That's kind of embarrassing
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@imbadatlife Actually will be super interesting to see how geopolitics are handled with this
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@Liz_Wheeler Oh wow, reminds me of Carrie Underwood's performance a couple years back -- complete with a Jeep being sacrificed! 😉
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@JennaEllisEsq Is there a reason why you're using the 1863 flag here?
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@pushtheneedle Sorry, i'm as YIMBY and pro-housing as they come (and agree with most of these points), but a twelve unit building with no fire sprinklers should not be legal.
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@IrfWindnFire
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@tolstoybb What an absolutely insane plot twist
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@CNLiberalism Seeing to what extent Alabama vs Auburn loyalties override partisanship would make for such a fascinating analysis
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@darlingube ??? This is literally the candy that comes with some of the military's MREs. This is the same stuff that U.S. soldiers get. You all have a conspiracy theory for everything
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@OGgranolabar @rhcm123 The context for which is precisely not what you want to go for if you want to court Catholic voters
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@LinkofSunshine His face said it all in that speech, he was like "i get nothing when i mention tax cuts, but a standing ovation for this? Most of you didn't even know what trans meant five years ago"
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@ninaturner I mean, I'm a millennial and I don't either. Too many good job openings and desperate employers to waste time on the ones who aren't bending over backwards to attract you, and showing you a position's pay makes it a more efficient market for everyone.
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@StatisticUrban That is true. Also underrated how there would be quite a few Obama-Trump voters who would flip right back to Obama if they had the chance
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@SpaceSandT @BFriedmanDC @elonmusk Yes, wearing a cowboy hat backwards is not cool. It's not the same as a baseball cap. Get off of your knees. It's weird.
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@AaronParseghian @RonDeSantis You've gotta be more subtle with the lifts, man. Everyone can tell.
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9 months
@brett_girth @JustinWolfers Made-up prices aside, why would you choose eggs of all things, a commodity that just went through a supply glut-driven price crash, as your example here?
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@RiverTamYDN Tbh I'm siding with the snobby girl in this situation
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1 year
@FluentInFinance Is this an elaborate troll or do you actually think that this is how you would calculate the mean/median for this?
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@RueDaungier So do you want to explain to me what happened with President Clinton with regards to Rwanda in 1994?
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@mal0fighter Hm? The current year is 2023 btw, not 2003 like your second chart shows
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@Comrade_Yui Maybe you should have paid attention at school?
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@JeremiahDJohns Man some people fell hard for the bait 😅
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@Amina_io @PreciselyPosit1 @opinonhaver Absolutely wild that you lived in Japan of all places and that was your takeaway
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@commieslug @sapphicsandyy So you're a Nazi sympathizer. Interesting.
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@BrickCucumber @cpteban Single car accident*
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@realTomPappert @MillerStream A bible verse in the bio while making fun of the hairline of someone who had brain surgery on that part of her head. You seem like a high quality person.
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@thechosenberg I'm not even a vegetarian, but I agree with her. A good black bean burger has its place as a distinct alternative to a meat burger, not necessarily as a substitute for it (like the impossible meat aims to do)
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@saint_morg Are people not embarrassed to order stuff like that? I would feel so cringey trying to order something off the menu so confidently and expecting an employee to just understand it. Sorry that you have to deal with that
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@StatisticUrban Agreed. Full of annoying suburbanites who think that they're "country" and drive big shiny clean pickup trucks to their white collar jobs
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@catdaddydisco Hm, who was attacked and who asked the U.S. to do so in that situation? Just curious.
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@buckadeath I had already described my next visit to Las Vegas as a "pilgrimage" to see the Sphere, so this tracks
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@ZeroSuitCamus The replies are insane too lol people just casually claiming that humans used to live for hundreds of years. Funny how that stopped happening right around the time that written language and recordkeeping became a thing 🤔
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@mattyglesias Greeks who came of age in the 2010s aren't taking any chances when it comes to banking lol
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@MrChrisCypert @mansurshaheen @BFriedmanDC So then you agree that they should stop trying to argue that they should be classified as a non-profit?
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@REHPICTrader @realDailyWire $7 for a chocolate bar that won't ship until late April. Do you know anything about business? Or are you just obsessed at the desire to virtue signal?
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@DoomerPoster Seems like a good friend
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@Grey_Athena That's not what he said. Don't use quotes if you aren't quoting their words.
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@nataliegwinters Wow, you're telling me that scientific research done at the University of North Carolina got funding from the National Science Foundation? That's fascinating, Natalie! I know this required a lot of exertion for that little mind of yours, so I am proud of you for doing your best!
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@Ian_Gay_briel Just looked up what a "scooped bagel" is. Wtf. That bagel store guy was absolutely right to refuse
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@kareem_carr Yeah he keeps trying to play it off as though "oh this was all a long time ago, I'm different now" but then there's very recent stuff like this
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thinking about the fact that when I saw Hank Jr last week he was like “if you don’t like Hank, waylon, or uncle Kracker we don’t give a damn” like 😭 Waylon and Uncle Kracker in the same sentence lol
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@marcthiessen Weren't you working for President Bush when he signed the PSLF program into law?
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@SwannMarcus89 This reference might be too niche for much of your audience lol
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@TallmanTrades @barstoolsports ...his skin literally started turning yellow from when he started making videos
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@LookAtMyMeat1 This is my favorite part of those interviews 😅
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@kentookal @funandnormal Because memes are always designed to be interpreted literally, right?
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@wolfen_moon @punishedmother People who get new tattoos like to show them off soon after getting them, yes. Did you think that you made a point here?
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@yashar Love that there are two Americans who have infiltrated the royal line of succession
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@BBCWorld Why is chess separated by gender to begin with lol
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@AlecStapp Lol this would be so incredibly frustrating
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@watn_tarnation I'm consistent in my view that we should fight climate change by drone striking these protestors until they clear the road
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@cheeztoung @theSinghMan @gaslightyourmom Full of deep, intellectual knowledge that you are deprived of in traditional schooling
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Feminism is the masculinization of the feminine
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@LPNational This won't change the fact that you've won 0 SEC championships
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@emollick I can't stop laughing at the pigeon standing there in his little office, intently focused on his work on the little screen
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@PunishedLink Man he really hated Calhoun lol
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@U2 Man it must suck that you were just trying to promote your concerts and it kept getting shot down
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@JoePostingg Is this from today? Damn
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@DrewSav Drew, I was removed by force from the voting area for following your instructions. This practice appears to be frowned upon in open-air setups with only cardboard dividers.
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@LisaGalperin @maddkat125 @AP Exactly this. This is a dense area where foot traffic benefits businesses
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@sorkincel uh yeah that isn't good. It's thrown in there with a group of real results
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@HopelessLiberal @mattyglesias Seeing that people who violate the law are getting punished for breaking those laws is something to be happy about.
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@RepJimBanks I'd recommend that you take some time to understand two key concepts: 1) private property 2) the Constitutional right to free speech
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@Emiliezcs @socdarling ...and the Democratic Party. Anheuser Busch's PAC splits more or less evenly most cycles
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@Calebej37 Hard to pin down what his actual politics are, but i feel like you would appreciate his political role models (Glendening was a moderate former Dem governor of Maryland)
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@tomer_stern Supposedly "America First," yet selling foreign cars? 🧐🧐🧐
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This is awful. For those who aren't familiar, this is a major bridge -- the "third longest span of any continuous truss in the world", with four lanes of I-695 traffic. It leads into one of the busiest ports in the country, which is now probably blocked off from shipping traffic
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BREAKING: Ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse
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@business Trying to weasel out of that cage match already? 😅
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@erallover How are these real people
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@badposts12 @whstancil Why are you doing the Houthi salute towards Will?
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@CinemaLord1 @alex_abads @JUNlPER to prevent people from stealing stuff
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@born2snack @thechosenberg Where was the kid being "disrespectful" in this story?
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@lillybilly299 This isn't misandry imo, this is just criticizing unrefined, low class behavior, which I am always in favor of
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@N1CKRICH I want to know if her "KC Potato Girl" name was from before or after this incident lol
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@PierreDelect @mindyisser If more policing on public transit makes it a safer and cleaner mode of transportation for people like her and others, then I'm all for it
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@trad_west_ Pop quiz: How did the town in this image vote in the 2020 Presidential election?
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@thechosenberg It's weird to me how many people seem to center their sense of financial and life progress around home ownership. There's more to life than buying a house lol
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@gavinbena Appears to be some sort of inside Joeke involving the backs of the chairs
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@FrankLuntz I like how he used it like four times in his explanation for why he would stop using it lol
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@lxeagle17 Ehh, the point is absolutely correct, but not sure that Romney is a great example. I always perceived Romney's button-up + jeans as just the standard corporate casual Friday look (especially in the 2010s), not as an attempt to look like or relate to the working class or anything
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@justinboldaji My sixth grade English teacher in 2001-2002 called for a parent-teacher conference because I, a kid who was obsessed with military history, was doodling airplanes on my work and it made her "concerned" 😅
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Getting a clearance really needs to involve passing an unannounced, live fire honeypot test. National security issues aside, this is just embarrassing
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BREAKING: U.S. Air Force employee charged with giving classified information to woman he met on dating site
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@barstoolsports That's how I learned this fact too tbh
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@RihannaFreak20 16%, and mostly older black + hispanic voters + working class union voters
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@man_ditch i like her suggestion of banning poor people from pursuing relationships if the other person is too wealthy lol
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