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Twitter is often a hellscape of pile-ons and bad opinions, but once you find your people, there’s nothing like it. Here are the most thoughtful, vexing, delightful tweets I bookmarked in May and early June—with special appearances by Tom Hanks, Moby Dick, and Ellie Kemper:






Letters of Note @LettersOfNote
Eton College writes to Boris Johnson's dad in 1982 https://t.co/pIVbsOdZIG
DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES @BreeNewsome
Yeah... folks have pointed this out but you really can’t assume “history will judge” anyone because historical remembrance itself is a battle between the oppressor and the oppressed.











Thee Hannah @hannastasia
@ChrisQRG1917 @WB_Baskerville A fancy event put on by our local KKK, of which Ellie Kemper was once the Queen of Love and Beauty https://t.co/6xgwa788Ck
















Jason Campbell @JasonSCampbell
CNN's Rick Santorum: "We birthed a nation from nothing. I mean, there was nothing here. I mean, yes we have Native Americans but candidly there isn't much Native American culture in American culture" https://t.co/EMxOEYDbg7

See you next week! Until then, you can find me on Twitter and Instagram, and the books we’ve mentioned on Bookshop and Amazon.
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