Emily Ramshaw
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Co-founder & CEO @19thnews . Former @TexasTribune EIC/enthusiast. @d_hartstein ’s biggest fan. Balancing a kid & a newsroom with only occasional grace. (she/her)
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Suddenly, today, I panicked about life inching back toward “normal.”
I don’t want to travel endlessly for work. I don’t want my weekends to be over-committed with activities. I don’t want to miss bedtime with my kid. I don’t want to wear blazers — or, hell, even shoes.
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This year has been heartbreaking, depressing, paralyzing — in almost every way.
But some things about it have also been liberating, and I have to figure out how to cling to those things in a vaccinated future — even when others expect me not to.
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The new University of Texas stadium addition has a big light-up uterus in it which is so on-brand
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My daughter is young enough that she won’t remember a time when there had never been a woman Vice President.
And I fucking love that for her.
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It wasn’t just weights. Women players were also given cheaper, less accurate COVID tests than men.
Seriously, what century are we living in?
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Over the last year, our kids have endured catastrophe after catastrophe with a level of grace, patience and resilience most of their grown-ups can rarely muster. I’m so proud of them — and worried for them.
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Several minutes ago,
@ProjectLincoln
posted a series of screenshots of private Twitter DMs showing reporting by one of our journalists — not long after she sent
@ProjectLincoln
a series of questions to respond to for a story.
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Two episodes in:
“I do not know what this Ted Lasso fuss is all about.”
Nine episodes in:
“NOTHING HAS EVER GIVEN ME THIS MUCH JOY.”
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Pretty sure Joe Biden is the first President-Elect to thank transgender voters in his first post-election speech.
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We’re not going to be bullied or intimidated out of pursuing critical journalism.
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“The average pay for teachers has not increased between 2010 and 2019; it instead decreased from $55,433 to $54,192.”
You’re welcome, task force.
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What we’re enduring in Texas is catastrophic — and the distribution of basic, factual, timely information from people and agencies in positions of power has been inadequate and incompetent *at best.*
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Department of the obvious: Oprah is a damn good interviewer.
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And it applies to *couples*
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Could we please just put HEB in charge of Texas’ vaccine rollout? They’ve proven they can do everything else in a pandemic.
H-E-B says its pharmacies in Texas could administer about 100k COVID-19 vaccine doses a week.
The chain has just received 28k vaccines so far.
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The PRESIDENT of the United States just told an angry raging mob of rioters trying to upend our democracy:
“We love you, you’re very special.”
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“Women voters have basically doubled their participation in 2020 when compared to 2016.”
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I don’t doubt this for a second. For weeks (honestly months) after my interview with her, horrific things showed up in my mentions.
NEW: Twitter Data Has Revealed A Coordinated Campaign Of Hate Against Meghan Markle
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Our pediatrician’s office in Austin — a big, robust facility — just sent out an email saying they’re so overwhelmed with COVID and weird summer cases of RSV that they’re asking parents to *stop calling* with non-urgent medical questions and refer to a series of handouts instead.
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Shoutout to all the other parents up before 5 AM on a Sunday because Daylight Savings Time is a farce designed to destroy us
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Me: “So… how the first day of kindergarten?!!?”
Her: “Great! I didn’t steal anything.”
👀
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HUGE NEWS,
@19thnews
friends & fam: Our own
@emarvelous
has signed a two-book deal with Simon & Schuster to write about
@SenKamalaHarris
and the rise of Black women in American politics as voters, organizers and candidates
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Tonight my 76-year-old father revealed that he’s on TikTok and knows a whole bunch of viral influencer dance moves and even demonstrated some for me and I am not even sure how to process this information.
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Kindergartener to me, after I spent an hour volunteering on lunchroom duty at her elementary school:
“Mommy I love you but can you please never come here again?”
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I’ll never forget the day a potential
@19thnews
donor heard my toddler cry in the background on a zoom call and said “sounds like you’ve got more important things to be doing right now than launching a startup.” (He never cut a check.)
🧵: Discrimination against moms is an "open secret" in many workplaces.
Workers are still being laid off while on leave, pushed out of jobs or subjected to comments like, “You probably have your hands full at home."
There is little legal recourse.
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At bedtime my 7-yr-old begged me to promise she wouldn’t have nightmares about guns tonight.
I promised — and then whispered “puppies” and “cupcakes” and “bikes” in her ear until she fell asleep.
It was a lie. Every day is another nightmare we are too selfish to solve.
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I just got to take my child directly to her preschool classroom for the first time in more than a year of contactless drop-offs and SOBBB THEY ARE ALL SO BIG AND SO CUTE
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Salesforce offers to relocate employees after Texas abortion bill
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I’m taking a week-long break from Twitter to go to the beach and turn 40 without you (mostly) wonderful people.
And also to prove to myself and my colleagues that this is a) possible and b) necessary!
See you on the flip side. 🏝
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Archewell has made another round of meaningful investments, including in
@19thnews
!
We are profoundly grateful for all of the supporters who make our work possible. You can join them at !
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My kid overheard someone say “Jesus Christ!” as an exclamation and now yells “Cheese and Rice!” every time she’s worked up about something.
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In a year of awful, one big blessing:
I was on track to spend so much of 2020 on the road, away from my kid, fundraising & speaking & conferencing. It was a treadmill — one I had to be forced off of to see how much she needs me here.
There’s no going back, & I’m good w/ that.
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HUGE:
Darnella Frazier, who courageously shot the video of George Floyd’s murder that rocked the nation, has won an honorary Pulitzer Prize
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We just drove a grueling 19 hours straight from Austin to Palm Springs with a 4-year-old — the only thing we stopped for was gas, which my husband pumped double-masked — and let me tell you, the moment you pass out of an urban core mask-wearing ceases to exist.
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Liz Cheney is the highest-ranking House Republican to back Trump’s impeachment. "What we know now is enough," she said ahead of the Wednesday vote. via
@19thnews
’
@AmandaBecker
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Today is the 4-year anniversary of the day I first thought:
What if there were a news platform that rewrote the national narrative for women?
And the night I first thought:
Holy shit we need a news platform that rewrites the national narrative for women.
💜
@19thnews
💜
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HUGE NEWS: Today we're thrilled to announce the hiring of
@19thnews
' next editor-in-chief, the inestimable
@juliachanb
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At
@19thnews
, we’re hiring a Gender, Climate & Sustainability reporter.
Starting salary: $75K+
Location: Wherever you have the support system you need.
Apply!
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I am sitting outside in Austin and I just got chills when the breeze blew, and FALL IS HERE. It will only be 95 today!
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What went wrong, explained:
Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn’t ready for the extreme cold.
via
@TexasTribune
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White House Comms Director
@KBeds
to
@19thnews
: “I think it’s safe to say that you can expect that
@POTUS
is not going to be breaking news at 1 a.m. on Twitter, so everybody can just take a deep breath and take a step back."
via
@marielpadilla_
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At 21, I lived in a sorority house where I drank three glasses of water before dinner so I would feel too full to eat actual calories. I am overjoyed to never fit into those jeans again.
People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes
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Austin friends will appreciate this:
Today my 4-yr-old woke up and asked if I’d take her to the Ladybird Johnson Cauliflower Center.
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She got the first post-nomination interview with
@KamalaHarris
and now she’s killing it across the airwaves. You make
@19thnews
proud,
@emarvelous
.
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In May,
@staceyabrams
told
@19thnews
’
@emarvelous
that voting by absentee ballot was “the first step to reclaiming our democracy,” and that “we have to have proof that this works for November.”
Read this as you watch Georgia tonight:
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11 years ago tonight I snuck off to a courthouse to marry this guy — a week before our big family wedding. Almost everyone forgave us.
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“You always need a peaceful transfer of democracy, no matter whose administration goes into whose administration.”
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I would love to know the dollars spent trying to save 700 desperate and drowning migrants off the coast of Greece vs. the dollars spent trying to save 5 deep sea tourists desperate to see the Titanic.
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You should’ve heard my 5-year-old squeal when I picked her up at daycare
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So many extraordinary journalists across so many different newsrooms got laid off this week and it’s just… devastating. We have got to keep rethinking how we build news orgs, how we pay for this work, and how we make it equitable + sustainable. These losses are staggering.
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Not much surprises me anymore, but this took my breath away. Many of us are *still boiling snow for potable water* — assuming we even have the gas or electricity to do that.
WASHINGTON – With 3 million Texans shivering in the dark, Sen. Ted Cruz jetted off to Cancun with his family, outed instantly by fellow vacationers and berated by critics for abandoning constituents during an epic statewide power crisis.
(via
@dallasnews
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1 year ago this morning, we woke up at the crack of dawn and pressed play on
@19thnews
. A debt of gratitude to my fearless cofounder
@amzam
, to my partners for life
@emarvelous
@andreamvaldez
@joderlega
, and to our **absolutely remarkable** and **extraordinarily talented** team.
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@19thnews
is thrilled to present an Intl Women’s Day keynote at
#SXSW
2024! On Friday,
@emarvelous
will join Meghan, Duchess of Sussex,
@katiecouric
,
@brookeshields
&
@nancywyuen
for a convo on breaking barriers & challenging stereotypes on and off screen
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These scenes — good God.
"She was a drug user, set to begin serving a 5-year prison sentence. She already had 3 kids at home. She didn’t want to deliver a baby in jail. She dropped to her knees on the tile floor, begging her to perform the abortion."
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This is terrible.
What happened to trusting the doctor-patient relationship?
Austin doctors who treated trans kids leaving Dell Children’s clinic after AG Paxton announces investigation via
@TexasTribune
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.
@alexazura
ranks among the top 5 journalists and humans I've ever had the opportunity to work with. I'd walk on hot coals for her and you should hire her immediately.
I was laid off by The Texas Tribune yesterday after more than 10 years there — most spent centering communities of color in my reporting.
This is my last story, which was set to run before I was called in. This is the kind of reporting I was doing:
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Child to me: “Mommy, for my next birthday I want a stepmother.”
🤔
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I’ve spent 2 years trying desperately to keep my parents (and everyone else we know, but especially my parents) from getting COVID.
Last week, my dad — triple-vaxxed — finally got it.
We think he’s thru the worst. And I’m so beyond grateful for the science that saved him.
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My kindergartener came home from school today demanding to know why I hadn’t told her about Frida Kahlo sooner so I’d say you’re doing a damn fine job
@AustinISD
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“I knew, as I clutched my firstborn child, that I was losing my second.”
Brave words, and a critical message for how we begin to heal, from Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex
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BIG BIG NEWS! Today,
@19thnews
is thrilled to announce a groundbreaking journalism fellowship program for graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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Worth noting: Meghan and Harry (who, disclosure, have supported
@19thnews
) are getting in on this action via their foundation, Archewell.
“Press Forward will use the $500 million to fund grants for existing local for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms, help build shared tools, provide resources to diverse outlets and those in historically underserved areas.”
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Husband and 4-year-old, in a pool.
Husband: “I’m just going to jump out real quick and go to the bathroom.”
4-year-old, without skipping a beat: “Just pee in the pool like I do.”
And suddenly, it dawns on me, I have never *once* had to take her to a pool bathroom. 😳
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Please can we get a reality TV show
Yakei, a female macaque in a nature reserve in Japan, violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in the reserve’s 70-year history.
She presides over 677 monkeys, but a messy love triangle could endanger her status.
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“Mortuary affairs support” — let that terminology sink in
#BREAKING
: Texas has mobilized a team of 36 Texas National Guard personnel to provide mortuary affairs support in El Paso beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.
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New Mexico is the first state to elect all women of color to its U.S. House delegation via
@19thnews
'
@marielpadilla_
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Coming any minute at
@19thnews
:
@emarvelous
with the first national news sit-down with
@KamalaHarris
since she became VP.
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Holy shit.
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff via
@TexasTribune
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Read that again.
1000 men.
45 women.
The United States has had at least 1,000 men governors.
Kathy Hochul, who is expected to be sworn in tomorrow, will be the 45th woman.
@bcrodriguez
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For the first time ever, *two women* are standing behind the president at an address before Congress via
@19thnews
'
@emarvelous
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My kid ran into my room this morning shouting “IT’S CORONATION DAY!”
If you know, you know.
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Feeling so much gratitude today for Texas restaurant workers, who have been battered so hard in the last year and are out in force this week feeding so many thousands of hungry and desperate folks.
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I get to interview Gloria Steinem next week. What should I ask her?
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I’ve received better updates from FedEx in the last week than I have from the state. via
@TexasTribune
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How
@SenGillibrand
and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are trying to get paid leave passed via
@19thnews
’
@ChabeliH
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Commuting is just uncompensated work.
I wrote about the myth of the productive commute — and how the unwritten norms of your industry have been continuously rewritten to benefit your employer:
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Last week we announced the creation of an incredible national fellowship program for graduates of HBCUs.
Now we need someone extraordinary to lead that program.
Starting salary: $125K.
Work from: ANYWHERE.
Please share widely!
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I’d like to tell you a story about a man who forever changed my life before he left us, far too young and far too soon, for that big Longhorns baseball game in the sky. His name is Chris Lippincott (
@texaslippy
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