National correspondent @NPR covering race and identity. Pods: On Our Watch, American Suburb. she/her. RTs not endorsements. on signal: sandhya_.96
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Journalism has a power problem: The way we give power 2 authority and let it set narratives (#powerbias). The way we fail to see r own power. A central myth/saying in audio journalism is that listening is an act of love; I argue it's an act of power: rb.gy/hnfyon
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So far, there’s not the disruption there was in 2020. Detroit was able to preprocess tens of thousands of absentee ballots before election day, thanks to new state election laws.
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Detroit police confirmed someone called and threatened to shoot up a polling location on W 7 Mile.
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I’m struggling to understand this analogy by Jeff Bezos and how it relates to journalism.
People distrust voting machines — which are extremely reliable — because they have been told lies about them.
Therefore we must … reform voting machines?
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Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao announced a $2m federal grant today to support Ceasefire.
“In less than a year and half we have reversed a 4-year trend in violence and homicides.”
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signs Senate Bill 402 into law, officially recognizing Diwali as a state holiday. nbcnews.com/news/asian-ameri…
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fwiw Vancouver, Washington was a hub for fascist groups like Patriot Prayer & the Proud Boys during the Trump presidency, & where they often gathered before driving to Portland to rally/attack people
Burning ballots were pulled from inside a smoking ballot box in Vancouver, Washington, this morning, hours after police responded to an arson at a Portland ballot box
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The AP reported that hours after the Post announced its endorsement decision, Trump greeted executives from Blue Origin, the space company owned by Bezos that has a $3.4bn contract with Nasa to build a spacecraft to carry astronauts to the moon and back. ft.com/content/7ef6cc0d-2fd7…
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Reporters in the Post newsroom will continue to do our jobs. We will report fearlessly on whoever becomes president, and so many other things that really matter, because we are independent and care deeply about holding the powerful to account.
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Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said apnews.com/article/ai-artifi…
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UPDATE: Robert Kagan confirms to NPR that he has resigned from WaPost editorial board after disclosure it would not make an announcement.
Kagan has been a persistent conservative critic of Trump, tying him to an autocratic tradition.
Uniformly outraged response from staff.
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I try to ignore the racism on this website, but the fact that a member of the NY Post’s editorial board said this publicly shows what’s considered acceptable when it comes to Muslims in public life.
They want us to be silent, but I’m sorry Michael, we’re not going anywhere.
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Yesterday, Rep. Byron Donalds told @NPRinskeep that Donald Trump did not tell the DoJ to "go after" Hillary Clinton during his first term.
In fact, the Mueller Report found that Trump asked AG Jeff Sessions to do just that.
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My friend Mariel Garza just resigned as editorials editor of @latimes after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president. cjr.org/business_of_news/los…
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Americans split on idea of putting immigrants in militarized "camps" trib.al/8G9zpbg
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Trump Rally In Gwinnett County
This Turning Point USA event at Gas South Arena is underway.
It features Trump, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Jason Aldean, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. & others. #gapol
More on Kirk's stop at Georgia State University on Monday. wabe.org/charlie-kirk-vivek-…
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JUST IN: The Justice Department has sent a letter to Elon Musk's super PAC, warning that his daily $1m giveaway to registered voters in swing states might violate federal laws, sources tell CNN. It's illegal to incentivize registration with cash/prizes. @evanperez @HBRabinowitz
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The chair of the Republican Party in Lee County, North Carolina, is on video instructing volunteers that if they see new voters "and they've got Hispanic-sounding last names, that probably is, is a suspicious voter." cbsnews.com/news/election-in…
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NEW: For two years, Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine has controlled the trust of a woman with dementia — a violation of Texas' judicial ethics code, experts say. The woman's niece + three friends also allege that she wanted nothing to do with him.
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