Many leaders are calling for police reform. I spoke to @avitale about the limits of that:. "Part of our misunderstanding about the nature of policing is we keep imagining that we can turn police into social workers. But police are violence workers.".

RT @jennygathright: Seething as I think about having to scramble to save PDFs of every obituary I wrote, every young person’s byline from t….

RT @WeMakeWAMU: It is imperative that @SylviaBurwell, Seth Grossman, Erika Pulley-Hayes, and Michael Tribble #UnlockDCist. It’s a matter o….

RT @Sid_Madden: Bad bitches with the bag say ah ya ya 😜 two more days @LouderThanARiot

RT @sorayashock: It was a hard day at work. And it will be an excruciating month long wait to find out who will be laid off. During all t….

Had fun thinking through this question about "sweating" vs. "shvitzing" (aka, when to code switch in/out of Yiddish 😅) with @miraefox .

It's a beautiful Friday afternoon, I am 31 years old, and I will never confidently know the difference between arc and arch.

RT @Bobby_Condon: in 3rd grade we had a prison guard do a “scared straight” speech and we asked what the prisoners ate. he said “nothing go….

RT @jusLikeMike911: Rudolph telling Santa Claus how the other reindeer wouldn't let him play any reindeer games

RT @LilNasX: just got to mexico, i am so sorry to announce that the thick layer of orange sepia tint and yellow saturation from the movies….

RT @AmyDonnella: I recently served on the Controller's Community Council overseeing the Philly police audit. See my op-ed @PhillyInquirer b….

RT @aamnaqureshi_: my editor, gently: what did you mean by this ?.me, sobbing: I don’t know😭.

If you have thoughts about who to talk to, what questions to ask, or where to go (for work or fun), please send them my way! (ldonnella@npr.org, or DM me).

For the next 6 weeks, I'm going to be in Tennessee (mainly Memphis and Nashville, with some stops in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Clarksville) reporting on how Black immigrants + refugees define Blackness — in the context of very different cities towns with very different histories. .

RT @FrogandToadbot:

Someone referred to me as "Dr. Donnella" in an email today and I will be carrying that high with me all the way through the weekend.

Packing is such an unhinged experience. Like I can imagine a life where I need a tartan miniskirt that hasn’t fit me since 1998, but I can’t remember to bring the allergy medicine I’ve taken every day for the past decade.

RT @AskLeezul: Journalists, travelers, countrymen: What are the most important things you pack before a long stretch of field reporting? Wh….