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Journalist who started in hot-lead operation, now desperately seeking something pithy to say several times a day.

Glens Falls, NY
Joined February 2008
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Whether it's Joe Biden telling his son that he loves him or Donald Trump fantasizing about sleeping with his daughter, presidents on both sides have transgressed many family boundaries.
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Yeah, my mom and dad's interracial marriage was illegal until I was a year old and then--later--they struggled to buy a home in their Long Island community because people didn't want to sell to a Black lady. Good times!
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Will Doolittle retweeted
A quick tour of the medieval Glens Falls police station led Will Doolittle @trafficstatic to believe a new station should be a priority for the city. @poststar @lgmirror kentingley.substack.com/p/ou…
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"What Hokusai and his successors affirm over and over is that there’s no such thing as a pure 'culture' divisible from others — not even the culture of a shogunate whose subjects couldn’t leave on pain of death." @jsf nytimes.com/2023/06/22/arts/…
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In the Arts, we need to go in the direction of The New, and not continue to rehash the past. Rehashing is all #AI does.  It’s a parlor trick. @byjacobward @NBCNewsNow
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Holy shit. Vanderbilt University Medical Center turned over the records of LGBTQ+ patients to the Tennessee Republican Attorney General. If you're a woman or LGBTQ+, you are absolutely NOT safe going to VUMC for care. tennessean.com/story/news/he… – at Columbia, MS
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Will Doolittle retweeted
Donald Trump is America’s first ex-president to be charged with a federal crime. The real injustice would have been not to indict him. Read why he must be subject to due process: econ.st/42K39aH Illustration: KAL
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Will Doolittle retweeted
Replying to @mikefreemanNFL
“Griner became a target of the right for the same reason she became a target of the Russians: She's a queer Black woman. You'll hear other excuses and lies about why they don't like her but those are the reasons.”
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Will Doolittle retweeted
Tara Reade told Putin-backed Sputnik news,"I'm still kind of in a daze a bit, but I feel very good. I feel very surrounded by protection and safety." Biden denied Reade's 2020 accusation that he sexually assaulted her in a Senate hallway in 1993 on his way to catch a train home.
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US 🇺🇸 RESPONSE “❗️We have made it very clear to Ukrainians that we do not encourage attacks outside Ukrainian borders. But I think it's important to remind the world that Russia started this war. Ukraine has the right to decide how it wants to conduct its military operations. But the aggressor in this war is Russia." Matthew Miller, US State Department 🇺🇸 Spokesman on the situation in the Belgorod 🇷🇺
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This really does work every time Watching them try not to say it is kind of hilarious
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Will Doolittle retweeted
If you still believe there is a place for local commentary and discussion, make sure to sign up for “The Front Page” to read the musings of former @poststar editors Ken Tingley and Will Doolittle @trafficstatic . @MountainLakePBS @lgmirror kentingley.substack.com/
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Ken’s essay and Maury Thompson’s reporting last week on the so-called Self Defense legislation are the basis of this week’s Mirror editorial. The community needs conversation. Help keep it going. – at New York, USA
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"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality,” said President Kennedy in 1963.
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A black man was murdered after expressing hunger & throwing his jacket down on the subway. We immediately see his entire criminal history as if an explanation. Yet legacy media withheld the name of the white man who killed him speaking only of his decorated career as a marine.
It now is confirmed that some news outlets had the name of the vigilante who killed Jordan Neely, Daniel Penny. One of the outlets inadvertently ran his last name in a photo caption while concealing his name in the story.
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Will Doolittle retweeted
Do yourself a favor and read the thread in question. You will thank me.
5 years ago today, I told this story and people liked it enough that I got to quit my job and write full time. It's still weird, and mildly embarrassing, to reckon with just how much it changed my life. But it did, so please accept a sincere HELLO GUYS from me on its anniversary.
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Will Doolittle retweeted
If you don’t like gender affirming care then don’t get it. Simple as.
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In case you're wondering how things are going in Texas, our district canceled all sex ed classes this year but is now required to offer kids training in bleeding control techniques, including "tourniquets approved for use in battlefield trauma care by the armed forces."
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Will Doolittle retweeted
Raising awareness about the #loneliness of #dementia. (image: @tonyhusband1) #Alzheimers #mentalhealth
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This month in the US, people were shot for ringing the wrong doorbell, getting into the wrong car, using a leaf blower, delivering food to the wrong address, driving into the wrong driveway, and for asking a neighbor to stop shooting so a baby could sleep. It’s the fucking guns.
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