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Elliott Turner
Elliott Turner

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Dec 21, 2021

Managing Breakthroughs

Managing Breakthroughs In August, my fully vaccinated teenagers were excited to return to school in Northern Houston. Both had struggled with the virtual learning option and missed their friends. However, there were some major problems that crested all at once. First, their younger baby brother was asthmatic and not eligible…

Covid

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Covid

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Nov 10, 2021

Lies my tankie and sapos told me

There are really only two classes of people who are supporting the Ortega regime: tankies and sapos. Tankie is a Spanish term for individuals from foreign countries with cursory knowledge of another place but defend that place’s autocratic regime because it claims to be “Marxist.” …

Nicaragua

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Lies my tankie and sapos told me
Lies my tankie and sapos told me
Nicaragua

6 min read


Jan 6, 2021

Operation 400 Days

The Dems have a once in a generation opportunity to reshape US policy on key issues to ensure a more just society. However, given breaks in Congress, the clock is ticking. …

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Dec 31, 2019

Cups, Highbury Park

The fact that something about Mikel Arteta’s hairline has always vaguely unsettled me, the fact that maybe Freddie should have been given a bit more time or until the end of the season, the fact that the problems run much deeper than the gaffer, the fact that Ozil has at…

Sports

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Sports

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Nov 14, 2019

Evo Morales: the Caudillo that wasn’t…

My last story was colored by my own family’s experience with the violent repression by the Ortega regime in Nicaragua. And also Ortega’s comical electioneering and disregard for the Constitution. Undoubtedly, Evo Morales was on the precipice of similar evil. Unlike Maduro, he did not engage in electioneering around the…

Politics

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Politics

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Nov 11, 2019

Evo Morales is not your friend and you shouldn’t miss him

Evo Morales is not your friend and you shouldn’t miss him So, the “left” in America, the kids who grew up wearing Che Guevara t-shirts, are crying about Bolivia’s current leader Evo Morales leaving power after a series of protests. A few key facts and timelines: Evo Morales held a…

Politics

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Politics

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Sep 5, 2019

The Texas Governor’s Xenophobic Lies

Governor Abbott wants you to be scared about immigrants. Like Donald Trump, he wants you to believe there is a “crisis” at the border. In an email for a fundraiser, he said that “40,000” people were apprehended at the Texas-Mexico border in a single month. …

Immigration

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Immigration

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Aug 16, 2019

Copy Fail — “La iga”

link to ESPNFC article

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Aug 14, 2019

Copy Fail — “Pull of”

link to CNN article

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Aug 12, 2019

Copy Fail — Right-wing Brazilian President “Bologna”

link to Reuters article

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Copy Fail — Right-wing Brazilian President “Bologna”
Copy Fail — Right-wing Brazilian President “Bologna”

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