
sandhya dirks
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National correspondent @NPR covering race and identity. Pods: On Our Watch, American Suburb. she/her. RTs not endorsements. on signal: sandhya_.96
Oakland, CA
Joined February 2011
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:
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RT @sgonzalezkelly: Records show ICE made TPIA requests to the city of Houston for information (DOBs, addresses, license plates) on everyon….
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The records request came as Mayor John Whitmire has said the city wouldn’t work with...
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RT @AzmatZahra: Many people believe that civilian casualty strikes that states identify as “mistakes” cannot be war crimes. In this just-….
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RT @IsaCNN: “Right now, it seems like any path people take here it leads to death. If it’s not the bombs & the strikes, we’re seeing famili….
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RT @washingtonpost: At least 231 children have been killed and 1,330 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. .
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At least 231 children have been killed and 1,330 injured, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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RT @jkbjournalist: Breaking: Sources for Miami Herald/McClatchy confirm that the Ethics Report is "highly damaging" -- the report could be….
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RT @hrw: NEW: Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 a….
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RT @ProfKori: @JoyAnnReid makes it plain:. What shifted the outcome of this presidential election was white voters, who turned out to becom….
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RT @Will_Bunch: The other big loser Tuesday was the mainstream media, which has all but imploded in public trust and as a force in American….
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As an electorate besieged by disinformation turned to Trump, trust in traditional media has imploded. What comes next?
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RT @glcarlstrom: "Petropoulos says that the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under wh….
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RT @nicholaswu12: Bernie Sanders in statement issued as Harris is about to give her concession speech: ."It should come as no great surpris….
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RT @michigan_public: So far, there’s not the disruption there was in 2020. Detroit was able to preprocess tens of thousands of absentee bal….
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RT @megoconnor13: We tracked the outcomes of protest arrests at 22 campuses where prosecutors are up for election. Here's what we found: ht….
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The Appeal reviewed 935 arrests of pro-Palestine college protesters that occurred on 22 college campuses last Spring.
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RT @AJEnglish: Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones,"….
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RT @andreamsahouri: Detroit police confirmed someone called and threatened to shoot up a polling location on W 7 Mile.
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RT @MLNow: Mayor London Breed decried shifting the mayoral election to a presidential year as a leftist "power grab." . But that's not what….
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Far from being a left-wing power-grab, shifting the mayor's election into a presidential year has been a huge boon to wealthy candidates.
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RT @abdallah_fayyad: Wrote about how thoughtful many Arab American and pro-Palestinian voters are being about their votes. If Trump wins by….
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Pro-Palestinian voters are facing a moral dilemma.
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RT @AP: A Gaza medic realizes he's carrying his own mother's body, killed by an Israeli airstrike
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A Palestinian ambulance worker in Gaza was devastated to realize he was carrying his own mother's body.
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RT @Reuters: Israel voted to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from operating within Israel, alarming some of Israel's Wes….
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RT @Mike_Hixenbaugh: I’m struggling to understand this analogy by Jeff Bezos and how it relates to journalism. People distrust voting mach….
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