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David Freedlander
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Political Columnist & Features Writer, @NYMag
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Aug 20, 2025
    Mamdani tells the press that Cuomo is still running because “Andrew Cuomo is someone who doesn’t understand that no means no”
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Aug 3, 2019
    In 1987, the federal government banned metal-tipped lawn darts because a single child died from one
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Sep 2, 2021
    Just got a text from ⁦@AOC⁩’s campaign (she is my member of Congress) asking if everything is ok after last night’s storm
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Sep 29, 2020
    SCOOP: Biden camp denies Trump campaign request to cut him open and see if he is cake
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Mar 16, 2019
    Specialized high school parents heckle @AOC at an education town hall and you won’t believe what happens next
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Mar 8, 2020
    Email from my doctor’s office this am: “At this time, despite what you hear from the White House, we are not able to test our patients.”
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    May 18, 2020
    In the last ten minutes Donald Trump has said that all inspector generals should be fired because "they may be Obama people," revealed that he is taking hydroxychloroquine and that the doctors who warn against it should be ignored because they are probably Democrats
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Jan 3, 2021
    It’s been a really short trip from “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides judges” to “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides cabinet” to “We won’t vote to confirm the other sides election victory”
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Dec 17, 2020
    Haven’t followed the news much today, but seems like one side is mad that a staffer called Republicans a bunch of fuckers, and that a First Lady with a PhD calls herself doctor, and the other side is mad that the president is ignoring the pandemic and overturning the election
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Mar 30, 2022
    I know we’ve all lost our capacity for shock, but the president of the United States in the middle of a war asking a NATO adversary to help him politically is really something
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    Aaron Rupar
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    Mar 29, 2022
    Trump calls for Putin to release dirt on the Biden family right now since now "he's not exactly a fan of our country" during new interview with Real America's Voice
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Jan 6, 2021
    Mitt Romney yelled “This is what you’ve gotten” to Ted Cruz and his fellow Senate colleagues as protesters swarmed the building.
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    “This Is Like an Active-Shooter Drill”: Pro-Trump Rioters Storm the U.S. Capitol
    From vanityfair.com
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Sep 3, 2020
    Active shooter drills in schools have become a $2.7 billion industry, and new research shows they have almost no value in keeping kids safe and are responsible for an increase in mental health problems for kids, especially younger ones
    North Miami Police Department and Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police take part in an active shooter drill at North Miami Senior High on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
    ‘We were not okay.’ Active shooter drills may do more harm than good, study shows
    From miamiherald.com
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Jun 25, 2025
    Spotted at the Mamdani election night party: Lina Khan
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    David Freedlander
    @freedlander
    Apr 9, 2021
    It is very weird that one political party in the United States has made combatting sex with minors a major part of their identity and that all of these people are in that party
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