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All media; corporate media, social media, local media, national media, state media, non-profit, for-profit and the tattletale kid down the street.

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“She used to go to school with our parents and Mr. Porter. I heard she was a tattletale back then. These days there aren’t many Remarkables who aren’t afraid of her.”

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“You once said that using the debt ceiling as a negotiating wedge just could not happen,” she harped like a little tattletale.

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He has established a tattletale line to complain about teachers.

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A good friend of mine calls this “the Texas tattletale law” and adds, “I don’t like laws that encourage spying.”

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