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Patrick Symmes

@patricksymmes

Author ChasingChe, BoysFromDolores. Globetrotter for NYT, Harper's, GQ, Outside. UMKnightWallace Fellow, Fulbright Portugal. Cubaholic, motorcyclist.

 Location? It's complicated.
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Joined August 2009
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Trump praises "wonderful" Duterte, who encouraged thousands of murders. Here's my first-hand investigation midnight in the slums of Manila: The List, on vigilante killings in the Philippines, from the New York Times Sunday Magazine: nyti.ms/2jAFRSv
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Hey @AfghanistanSola can I talk to you? I read you are writing a book. I want to learn about it.
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Rio de JaMurder, by @patricksymmes open.substack.com/pub/patric…
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Teaching my kid the important stuff.
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Teaching my kid the important stuff.
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Great inside look at Italian “ultras” and the criminal/fascist overlap in #soccer. I covered the South American version: patricksymmes.com/articles/p… Football wars: what the murder of ‘the Uncle’ says about life inside Italy’s ultras theguardian.com/football/202…

The Beautiful Game: Soccer Violence – Patrick Symmes

The singing builds, the flags wave, and for a while we are inside the joyous machine of a fan club, exactly where I always dreaded, a stomping, jeering, cheering, and drunken band of warriors. The...

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A Global Theory of Global Theories on The Authoritarians patricksymmes.substack.com/p…
More Trick that Treat.
Now would be a great time for everyone on Twitter to subscribe to a newspaper.
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Nick Heil@nickheil31 Oct 2022
Replying to @evaholland
Let's launch Writter. It's Twitter, but for writers (and friends!).
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The echo of life endures long after.
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90 mins: 2️⃣-2️⃣ FT: 4️⃣-4️⃣ 🍿 Sit back, relax and enjoy the MADDEST stoppage time that you will probably ever see! 🔴⚪️ #cafc
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@MattGertz30 Oct 2022
1. By week’s end, a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe an absurd conspiracy theory positing that Paul Pelosi was assaulted by his leftist gay lover. Allow me to explain.
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Zulu coronation: South Africa's love affair with King Misuzulu bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-…
Zulu coronation: King Misuzulu crowned in historic South Africa ceremony

Zulu coronation: King Misuzulu crowned in historic South Africa ceremony

The coronation of King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini is a watershed moment in South Africa.

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Get-rich-quick schemes drained my town’s wealth. At a Christian conference, their legacy lives on theguardian.com/us-news/2022…

Get-rich-quick schemes drained my town’s wealth. At a Christian conference, their legacy lives on

Life Surge, where speakers include Tim Tebow and a Duck Dynasty star, ties together faith and financial planning

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I still remember the glowing tip of that cigarette lighter. #1968 #ford #mustang
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“we just kind of give it up to the consumers and let them decide on what misinformation is, what’s true or false and what they want to consume…if they’re not reading it on the Cities 92.9 Facebook page, then they’re going to read it on some other page.” washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local

At small-town radio station, the right-wing misinformation effort goes local

The Normal, Ill., radio station has merged activism and coverage, organizing protests and pushing back against criticism of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

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I’m intolerant of the gluten intolerant: “the whole group reported the most severe symptoms after placebo (P = .012). Four out of twenty patients correctly identified the two periods when they received gluten” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
The effect of a controlled gluten challenge in a group of patients with suspected non‐coeliac...

The effect of a controlled gluten challenge in a group of patients with suspected non‐coeliac...

The objective of this study was to characterize the response to an oral gluten-challenge in patients with a symptom-relief when following a gluten-free diet. We found that the majority of patients...

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I thought this was beautiful. So glad I paused in my day to hear this powerful preaching. via ⁦@nytopinion⁩ nytimes.com/2022/10/25/opini…
Opinion | I’m a Pro-Life Pastor, but I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose (Published 2022)

Opinion | I’m a Pro-Life Pastor, but I Support a Woman’s Right to Choose (Published 2022)

A pastor in St. Louis explains in a sermon what’s at stake for the Black population in the abortion debate.

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Sometimes it’s dark and rainy, but my friends call and we laugh our asses off for a while, and everything feels warm and sunny.
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