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To anyone following this twitter feed: I will no longer be tweeting from this handle after today. You can follow me on @jmerline
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Yikes, quite a burn from the former prime minister of Sweden -- a country that @BernieSanders often praises as a model for the US -->
25 Feb 2019
Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Soviet Union in 1988 and praise all its stunning socialist achievements before the entire system and empire collapsed under the weight of its own spectacular failures.
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Fight for $15 an Hour? At this fast food drive through, the person taking your order might not be a person at all. Instead it will be an artificially intelligent voice assistant. sfgate.com/business/article/…

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This sniveling communist patsy in his formative years as a Fidel Castro ass licker... #BernieSanders
🚨Uncovered video🚨 @BernieSanders in 1985 praising the Communist Castro regime in Cuba and admitting on camera that he traveled to Nicaragua to advise the Ortega regime on how to successfully fight the United States.
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After having pursued the original hate-crime narrative on behalf of Smollett, CNN's Don Lemon seems concerned about, er ... the loss of the narrative. "Jussie has lost the... hotair.com/archives/2019/02/…

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There's a jobs recession in NYC, and you can thank the $15 min wage for that. ow.ly/tVym30nMBwN

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20 Feb 2019
Sen. Dick Durbin: After Reading the Green New Deal He Thought ‘What In the Heck Is This?’ mediaite.com/a/jhawn
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George Will on socialism, and some thoughts on its eternal appeal - AEI pllqt.it/odD4MR
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Paraphrasing Democratic presidential candidates: If you're tired of historically low unemployment, rising wages and keeping more of your own money, vote for us in 2020! ow.ly/8XC130nH13O #ElizabetWarren #Bernie #OcasioCortez
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Never-Trump Derangement Syndrome: George Will can't even get through a column on the Green New Deal without bashing Trump. ow.ly/Q8Qu30nHl7G

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Groups you dislike "buy influence." Groups you like "change policy."
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that's pretty much true any day that Mtt Yg writes x.com/whpresscorps/status/10…

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“The first time in American political history that a politician attempted to explain his innocence regarding one racist blackface incident by pointing to another one that he recalled participating in,” @jaketapper says of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. trib.al/DggTXAp
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House Majority @LeaderHoyer: “The State of the Union is off.”
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Apple iPhone Inventories Go 'From Bad To Worse,' Carrier Survey Shows ow.ly/5Gnb30nl1z8 $AAPL
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