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@brhodes

Obama foreign policy advisor and speechwriter. Mets fan, Cuba negotiator, dad to Ella and Chloe.

Washington, DC
Joined January 2017
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 13

    What makes America exceptional is that we come from everywhere, welcome everyone, and represent something more than one race or religion. Trump is the antithesis of American exceptionalism.

    1,173 replies 768 retweets 3,075 likes
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  2. 1 hour ago

    LGM

    Envisioning my first interaction w in Spring Training because..........IT’S BASEBALL SEASON!
    4 replies 6 retweets 45 likes
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  3. 2 hours ago

    The Patriots/Kraft/Brady losing a Super Bowl that began with a flyover above a dome and Trump kid bragging about people standing during the national anthem is... well it's something.

    43 replies 212 retweets 1,413 likes
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  4. 3 hours ago

    Brady getting crushed like that feels like a turning point in American history.

    364 replies 2,784 retweets 14,579 likes
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  5. 3 hours ago

    If a guy catches the ball on the five yard line and runs into the end zone, I don't even know why they are reviewing it

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  6. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    "Engrossing." - ​ See ​ in theaters and On Demand now

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  7. Retweeted
    Feb 3

    Trump attacks are so very dangerous: “When the F.B.I. knocks on someone’s door or appeals to the public for assistance in solving crime, the willingness of people to help is directly correlated to their opinion of the agency.”

    72 replies 364 retweets 851 likes
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  8. Feb 3

    After the Trump-Ryan-Nunes attack on the nation's leading law enforcement agency, the Republican Party should never be allowed to cast itself as the party of law and order again.

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  9. Feb 3

    Why was Carter Paige an advisor to the Trump campaign, with influence over the Republican platform on Ukraine, in the first place?

    “Advisor to the Kremlin” —maybe this was in the FISA application as well?
    42 replies 176 retweets 512 likes
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  10. Feb 3

    The governing political party in an all-out assault against credibility of America's top law enforcement and counter-intelligence agency. Most media treating a sophomoric memo as a both sides, political division story. Winner: Putin.

    215 replies 220 retweets 696 likes
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  11. Feb 2

    And for every one of these stories, how many are there that we don't know?

    This hero with 2 kids volunteered to risk his life for our country, came back with PTSD, a brain injury, and a substance abuse issue, and now our government is telling him he's not an American and needs to leave? Is that what we want?
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  12. Feb 2

    Trump appointed the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General, and FBI Director. The investigators who have been smeared by the Trump-Ryan-Nunes game-plan to falsely assault the credibility of the FBI to preemptively discredit whatever Mueller finds are rank and file.

    The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans - something which would have been unthinkable just a short time ago. Rank & File are great people!
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  13. Feb 1

    Including my great friend , the Obama White House had four different women serve as communications director.

    And many before me Loretta Ucelli, , Anita Dunn,
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  14. Feb 1

    All the people enabling the Trump-Ryan-Nunes debasement of the rule of law and respect for American institutions are making a bet that history will validate Trump. That's a bet they'll lose.

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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Reminder: 97% of the Cuban people want full normalization and for the U.S. to lift the embargo. Why don’t you support their wishes?

    Secretary Tillerson on : The future of our relationship is up to Cuba – the United States will continue to support the Cuban people in their struggle for freedom.
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    12 replies 55 retweets 121 likes
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  16. Jan 31

    The problem with picking fights with the FBI is that it's always a safe assumption that the FBI knows a lot more than you do...

    In statement, FBI says it has “grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the [Nunes] memo’s accuracy.”
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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 31

    Former Deputy National Security Advisor talks on 's PopPolitics

    8 replies 12 retweets 51 likes
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  18. Jan 30

    Kennedy is accomplishing something very hard - fighting back while offering a unifying message.

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  19. Jan 30

    Is climate change not happening anymore?

    372 replies 73 retweets 540 likes
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  20. Jan 30

    Exactly. Trump's foreign policy is a projection of a slice of post-9/11 American identity politics, blended with deference to Russia and some family business interests.

    Another foreign policy issue on which the game is to assert an ideological American identity — pro-Israel, tough on Palestinians, tough on “radical Islam” — more so than achieve an actual policy outcome.
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  21. Jan 30

    Trump talks up threat from MS-13 while talking down the nation's leading law enforcement agency

    The Trump Administration may actually be helping MS-13 by excoriating it publicly. The gang's notoriety, particularly among American law-enforcement agencies, has long emboldened members of the gang, both in Central America and in the U.S.
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