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@Nicoletta0602 But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell, 1984

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984

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@donmcgowan I get to shut up uncomfortable messages by calling the messenger racist.

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@davidyelland

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@Steven_Swinford

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@bradhoylman We should be able to monitor medical malpractice

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

Our education system favors feminine traits and it has for a long time. I don’t think it’s crazy to say if we want boys to succeed academically we should change up the system to work better for them, rather than just suggesting they need to be more like girls. Boys are not broken girls.

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@EdwardJDavey

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@TheSolarShed @NemesisDivina5 As long as they honestly believed someone had done a racism then it’s Okay.

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@TheSolarShed Sure you could believe the profusely bleeding white guy over the brown guy but ask yourself, is it worth being labeled a racist and losing your job?

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@BBCPolitics Seems like you went over the brink a few years ago.

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@MikeNellis What did the largest immigrant NGO make?

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@alexwickham

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@HistoryBoomer As dumb as the grocery stores are, they’re still not his dumbest idea. The rent control and property expropriation are still worse.

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@DPJHodges I don’t think “clearly” means what you think it means.🤔

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@IsserSteve @kearney_melissa Bahhh… once a field abandons epistemic hygiene, you can’t believe anything published in it. Less than half of sociology findings replicate.

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@FT I think it’s the stabbing.

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@ColMoeDavis Parody account?

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@TheRickWilson https://t.co/zTqNQhB7Kh

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

I bucked all advice from my friends (and resisted my conservative bias) and decided to fully trust the Times journalists.

As they left my home they asked that I not talk to any other outlets and I insisted then and repeatedly over the following weeks that I would keep my word and only share this story with them.

But then the weeks dragged on. They kept coming back to us saying the editors needed more. I needed to go on the record (okay). We need more screenshots (okay). I met every bench mark they set, eager to provide more sources or evidence as needed.

After the story went up I began to ask them … wait, where are the stories from the other women? Where are their accusations of sexual assault? Why am I the focus? Why are there 11 paragraphs dedicated to detailing my work history (more than has been published about Graham’s by far)?

Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them sources that COULD corroborate?

Why did they include an out of context quote from a friend joking “do not call Graham” after I called off my wedding? (Because she knew I would never).

Where were the screenshots they’d said they would use? Or the mention that I’d supported local democrats and that most of my family (and husband) are liberal?

The editors said it was too much, they explained.

The Times also failed to include any mention that I DID confide in multiple friends through the years that Graham had been abusive — long before he was running for office. Those friends confirm they told the Times so.

It dawned on me that this really was a set up all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platner campaign. Violating the trust of his victims. Shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life.

And at the end of my call with them I reluctantly accepted their insistence that this was still a powerful story and that I had done a brave thing. And I thanked them for all the hard work they had put into it.

Still fawning after all these years.

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@Gothamist Why?

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@EllieChowns 🙄

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