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I interview people for the @nytimes @cnn on-air contributor. former host @npr. Both a dog and a cat person.
Joined February 2011
Folks have asked me why I wasn't surprised by a Trump win (and also not surprised by what they are planning). In the past year, I've done many interviews with people who will shape our next era. A thread: .I started with Edward Blum
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NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ - they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.
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Wow. @NPR's @NPRKelly just now on @npratc says @SecPompeo was furious about being questioned about Ukraine in her interview. Took her into his office, cursed at her, dropping f-bombs, made her point to Ukraine on an unmarked map (she did). It's just. shocking.
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It’s not half the country. One of the most pernicious fallacies is that this country is equally divided.
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My daughter's school just put in place a vaccination mandate for those who are eligible (12 and up) and I think its the right move.
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Thing I just learned @NPRWeekend : the package the President refuses to sign has 400 million dollars to support food banks.
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We exist because we believe in an informed, civil electorate that has access to facts based on trustworthy information and investigation. We reach rural communities where other news does not. Less than 2% of our funding comes from the government. We are part of this America.
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I cannot stop thinking about @SecPompeo's statement that is on official US State Department letterhead, disparaging an American journalist and American journalism. The State Department is first stop for American journalists taken hostage or in peril overseas.
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NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing.
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I think a lot about how if immigrants were parking trucks at border crossings to advocate for immigration reform for days on end how that would be covered.
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@NPR @NPRKelly @npratc @SecPompeo The full interview will be up soon. But here is the part that got him angry. She did her job for the American people. We ask questions because of the PUBLIC RIGHT TO KNOW. We represent you when we speak to officials who make decisions in our name.
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I've been thinking a lot about what happens to journalists behind closed doors. The bullying from people like politicians (and others) who want us to do what they want. There is usually silence around these interactions. I'm glad people are getting a glimpse.
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He’s a citizen. He’s a lawyer. The Feds tried to take his phone at the border.
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Meanwhile in Bethesda MD, a wealthy enclave outside DC. a man assaults a child for putting up anti-racist signs. The park police are now looking for him.
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This is my first #JulyFourth as a US citizen. Happy Independence Day to all my fellow immigrants!.
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I guess what has surprised me the most during this pandemic is how comfortable Americans have gotten with a huge death toll of their fellow citizens.
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That man and his tiny daughter who drowned. this is what they looked like alive. Her name was Valeria. His was Oscar. You can read their story here --->
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This may seem self-serving but please get your news from credible sources of information at this time, that are fact-checked, have editors and give context. Hot takes, opinions and conspiracies are not helpful to this crisis. @NPR.
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In my interview with Julia Louis Dreyfus, I asked her about comments made by Jerry Seinfeld regarding political correctness hurting comedy. This is what she said:
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🪅 Some news from me: I am heading to @nytopinion and I am thrilled to open up a new chapter doing what I love: telling real stories about people and how they move in the world and why they think the way they do.
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Talking to friends who are journalists who were at the Capitol yesterday and one thing that needs attention is the media violence, the threats against working reporters and President Trump’s incitement. A free press is also an essential part of democracy.
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My sister Olga died today, peacefully and surrounded by love. In memory of her please hug someone who matters to you or read a poem (she was a poet). And also please consider donating to @JacksonHealth Transplant Institute. It could save a life. Thank you.
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People leave jobs for other opportunities if they are unhappy with the opportunities they have and the way they have been treated. I'm sad to see this happening but it is not unexpected.
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Been hearing a lot about ‘the media’ causing #coronavirus hysteria among people. Italy didn’t shut down because of ‘the media’. The Dow isn’t volatile because of ‘the media’. Making people distrust facts and information during a health crisis is dangerous. The end.
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Many talks with colleagues who knew Lara Logan when she was a 60 Minutes contributor and Iraq correspondent. The question keeps coming up ‘What happened?’. If you track her public statements though it’s the sadly typical journey to conspiracy we see in the US. A crisis of truth.
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Big picture: With its recent rulings on Immunity and Chevron, the Supreme Court is paving the way for a second DJT term with the presidency having almost limitless powers.
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My question about the new mask guidelines is: how is anyone supposed to know who is vaccinated? Businesses have no way of checking.
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The oldest person in the world has died. She was born in 1900. Think of the history she saw, the wars and then prosperity. The transformation and promise of technology. Then the current peril of our planet. What an extraordinary time to have been alive.
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But it is time to say goodbye. Like much of the US, I need a break! I'm leaving @NPR at the end of October filled with love and gratitude for all I've been able to do to fulfill our public service mission. Please support #publicmedia. And thank you for listening.
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My life is complete. I just helped Sir Michael Caine with his first zoom call. Tune in @NPRWeekend Sunday. (And yes those are the his Oscars, and he wanted to make sure I knew he wasn’t showing them on purpose but he didn’t know how to adjust the angle of his camera 🤣)
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Thinking tonight of all the hospitalized Covid patients who are alone, unable to see or touch their loved ones.
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At this point should they let in the United Nations or Save The Children or another NGO to help? I’ve only seen this kind of treatment of refugees in war zones.
“Children as young as 7 and 8, many of them wearing clothes caked with snot and tears, are caring for infants they’ve just met.Toddlers without diapers are relieving themselves in their pants. Teenage mothers are wearing clothes stained with breast milk.”.
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My 83 year old Mom just got her second dose of the vaccine and frankly, it’s the best thing to happen in both 2020 and 2021.
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My daughter lost her 2nd grade election for class President this past week. She took it pretty gracefully, wrote the other loser a nice note, congratulated the winner and processed it pretty fast. 🤷♀️.
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Written by #AnthonyBourdain in 2014 ‘Some like to claim that Mexicans are “stealing American jobs”. But in two decades as a chef and employer, I never had ONE American kid walk in my door and apply for a dishwashing job, a porter’s position or even a job as a prep cook’.
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My sister Olga who died last year just before the pandemic is finally being buried today, next to my father. I cannot be there for what will be a strange social distanced ceremony . There is not a day that passes that I have not thought of her. A dormir, querida hermana.
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This language does our audience a grave disservice. It’s not a ‘theory’. It’s a lie.
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I wrote this feeling a great deal of anger and shame at my industry. ‘The media failed Latinos in America during what was perhaps our darkest hour in my lifetime. ‘
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We all have #TheMoment when we knew things were going to be different. Where were you and what were you thinking a year ago? We are one year into this pandemic. Tell us @NPR @NPRWeekend.
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Well that was an ugly cry. Now you know. I'm an ugly crier.
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This just in: In a statement, NPR's Senior Vice President for News Nancy Barnes said, “Mary Louise Kelly has always conducted herself with the utmost integrity, and we stand behind this report.”.
I’m sorry @SecPompeo you have made a grievous mistake. @NPRKelly Does. Not. Lie.
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"At your request, I am submitting my resignation." is not really a resignation it is a firing.
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I just don't get how a nation that has produced Silicon Valley hasn't devised a better way to do the vaccine sign-up than a desperate life or death online scramble.
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In 2004, I joined @NPR as Mexico City correspondent and I have been so lucky to have been given so many opportunities by this amazing organization. Yes, I've covered calamities and conflicts, but also the explosions of joy and incandescent bravery that mark the human spirit. .
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Let me get this straight: we have a fantastic creator in Lin Manuel Miranda and some Latinos have decided that we should dunk him cause he is prolific and then complain in the next tweet no one is creating content for us. Por Dios.
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Almost ALL of those killed in #ElPasoShooting were #Latinos. And yet I see no mention of this in headlines or in chyrons. The largest minority in this county was targeted. Why are the headlines about Trump?
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Friend texts and asks ‘how’s your coronavirus experience going’? Recounts how his 4 year old went to school and told the class ‘my mommy has coronavirus’ which wasn’t true. Principal called. School is now shut. Kids, dude. 😂.
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Yup. We are all Mexican.
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Friends I just cried during my last puzzle with Will Shortz. He did a really nice thing. Tune in to @NPRWeekend Sunday.
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It’s been almost 5 years on @NPRWeekend doing the puzzle with #WillShortz and tonight we meet for the first time! 🧩🧩🧩
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Hi 👋🏼 I know there is a lot happening that’s bad right now. But I wanted to talk about something good that’s been life-changing for me. As I’ve said before, the pandemic was really hard for me. Like much of America I suffered mentally and that manifested physically….
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An historic moment: ‘The International Energy Agency (IEA) says the cost per megawatt to build solar plants is below fossil fuels worldwide for the first time. ‘
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TO BE CLEAR, since there is a lot of misinformation, #MeghanMarkle , the Duchess of Sussex granted this interview BEFORE the birth of her daughter Lilibet. And the date of airing was based on the fact that we are a Sunday show. It's not based on whatever is happening in London.
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Someone posts misinformation. You politely point it out. Then are told to keep comments positive. I mean. Help me Jesus. It’s not about agreeing or disagreeing. It’s about things that are true vs things that are untrue.
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The only thing further I’ll say about the #MeghanOnNPR interview is that it was truly astounding the amount of trolling, misinformation and bullying that showed up in some press and my feed. Some people even wrote in to say they’d boycott the show. Folks, please get perspective.
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Happy April Fools Day. @NPR has a yearly tradition where we try to amuse you with a prank. This year, we aren’t doing it. Too much that is too somber going on. Just too much. everything. We will be back next year. Meanwhile, we will still try and bring you joy, amid. everything.
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Literally just had to beg someone I know who is low income and Latino to get vaccinated. She said that it’s unsafe, that in 10 years all these side effects would appear. It’s so INFURIATING the lies that are targeting the communities that can least afford it. 😡.
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A plea please: be careful what you post on social media tomorrow . Do not post rumors from unverified accounts. The results MAY take awhile but that does not mean something is amiss. Democracy is a collaboration. Do your part and stick with the facts. Happy #ElectionDay.
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I don’t know if it’s because it feels like the end is in sight, or that this has been going on so long but everyone I’ve spoken to (including me) feels like they are careening in the way you kind of go crazy at the end of a long horrible journey when you are desperate to get home.
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I was a bad parent this morning. This moment is so hard. To all of you struggling at moments to be your better selves, I see you.
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We are not Mexican but my daughter wanted to honor the dead this year and so we built an altar in memory of my sister who died in January and our two dogs who also passed away and the many others who have been lost. #diadelosmuertos
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I know everything is terrible but I did a double crust pot pie for the first time in my life and it feels like peace.
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For the record, in 2nd gr my daughter had to read a biography for Black History Month and she chose one on Ida B. Wells. I sat with her and explained about lynchings, and put it into context. That’s our history and my daughter learnt not only about savagery but heroism.
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Why do people insist on having me put my camera on during zoom calls. If I wanted to be on TV, I could have been. I don’t want to look presentable some days. I’m working from home. My hair is often a mess. Some days my office doubles as a laundry room. I actually miss the phone.
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This was him - we found him after a hurricane. and he just died in my daughter’s arms. It seems he was bitten by something while out hiking. I cannot tell you how much this year sucks.
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Does this mean that maybe I don’t have to hear about what Joe Manchin thinks about everything?.
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You declined to be interviewed by our team representing black and Latino journalists. We would be happy to sit down with you anytime to discuss your policies and plans!.
After yesterday’s statement, Sleepy Joe Biden is no longer worthy of the Black Vote!.
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My dearest Nena, our 14 year old dog, isn’t going to make it. This has been a terrible year. She has been with us since we adopted her in Mexico. She travelled with us to Israel, Brazil and now she lays her head to rest here in the USA. We love you so much Ratso.
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This Sunday @NPRWeekend a world exclusive. We have #MeghanMarkle, The Duchess of Sussex talking about her new children's book "The Bench" inspired by #PrinceHarry and their son. Join us as our @samanthabalaban interviews the Duchess (the only interview she gave for the book)
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My daughter today announced she is over endless nature hikes. 😂
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This video, played at a Trump event, has shocked me to my core. This is the kind of propaganda that possibly an extremist group would use. I’ve worked in places with anti-media regimes and never seen anything like this embraced by a formal government.
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What happens when a major social media organization becomes a vehicle of retribution by its owner? The underpinning of how they have been regulated is the argument that they are agnostic ‘platforms’. This is a blatant partisan attack on fact-based journalism.
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Suddenly media Twitter this morning is like WOAH, different Latinos vote differently. How did we not know that. 🧐🤦🏻♀️.
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We’ve just opened the sofa bed to watch TV. I think a line has been crossed that we can never come back from.
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This is the thing I needed today. Let this be the moment on your feed. #fierce.
Congrats to Simone Biles! . She is the FIRST person in HISTORY to perform a double-double dismount on a beam 🙌🏾👏🏾
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Well…he could have gotten vaccinated for starters.
More on Djokovic: . “The point I’m somewhat agitated about is, what more could this man have done?” [Judge] Kelly said.
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Week 1 down at @nytimes. 3 days of *very* intense onboarding where they drill into you the very sparse but perfect mission statement ‘We seek the truth and help people understand the world’. Also, I get a free subscription to the puzzle 🧩!.
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This is my personal story. Again, no agenda. But so many friends and family have asked ‘how I did it’ and then have tried to get help in the same way only to face the same obstacles. We need to talk about this more. Thank you.
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I have a pretty prominent position. But the NYT has a lot of power. Not great to silence your fellow journalists, especially when they are trying to speak for others, like Arab journalists, who felt too scared to say what they thought (because the NYT has so much power).
Interesting details in this @DavidFolkenflik piece. After @lourdesgnavarro tweeted about Caliphate, NYT's Barbaro admonished her to demonstrate "restraint" and warned she was hurting the feelings of people at the newspaper. |
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"Melania, standing by, assumed David was the foreign minister and she said to me: 'Julie, will you be coming to my ladies' lunch tomorrow?," ."And I said 'No, David's going to the partners' lunch'. "So this went on until the president explained that I was the foreign minister.".
Australia's former foreign minister Julie Bishop says she was mistaken for the spouse of a politician by US First Lady Melania Trump, in her latest comments on the subordinate role of women in conservative politics
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The main thing I want to know is when will I be able to vaccinate my elementary school kid.
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We are asking folks to tell us your #abortion story. And I don't think it would be fair to ask unless I was willing to tell mine. Here it is.
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Things I’m sick of: women (it’s always women) being called ‘weak’ or ‘spoiled’ when discussing their mental health.
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This made my morning.
Boston health care workers dancing on the sidewalk to celebrate the arrival of the first covid-19 vaccine.
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Apparently not believing in something doesn’t make it less real.
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So strange to be back in my office after 19 months only to pack it up. So many great memories working on fabulous stories with my colleagues. 😭
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