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Check Out The Twitter Account That President Obama Definitely Won’t Follow

On Dec. 11, 2012, NYU graduate student Josh Begley set out to tweet details of every reported drone strike in the last decade. He thought it would take him 10 minutes. Unfortunately, he’s still tweeting today. 

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Alvin Melathe

He started with very high hopes.

He came crashing back to reality. 

About a week later…

Josh is still tweeting. About two weeks into the project, he’s only a little more than halfway through.

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