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Journalist @voxdotcom covering social policy // [email protected]
Joined August 2009
.@iamcardib just said "the youth don't really rock with Joe Biden because he's conservative" and that Obama picked Biden as VP to get the conservative vote.
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I’ll never forget my freshman year of college meeting graduates of nyc private schools who expected I would recognize their schools’ names and know general stuff about them.
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there have been several stories I've reported where sources who have worked on an issue for years and years told me things really shifted politically for them once John Oliver ran a segment on it. just happened again today. kind of remarkable.
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this has real asking your grandma to give up her driver's license energy and it's pretty depressing.
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i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year.
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the texts I’ve been having with my covid positive doctor friends recently…
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inbox: nearly 800 nurses in Pennsylvania are set to strike tomorrow over dangerous staffing levels.
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youth voter turnout last night was disappointing. it would be cool if our leaders and political analysts treated it like a crisis to fix, and not something to be smug about.
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not everything is complicated and nuanced. the rail companies can and should give their workers sick days.
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something I've been thinking a lot about with the student loan conversation is how a lot of the (college-educated) people angry about it keep acting like it was simply some voluntary decision of students, not something urged, recommended + promoted by the state in 1st grade.
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the Alexandria city council voted to remove the 5 police officers assigned to patrol public schools, and reallocate the nearly $800,000 used for school police to student mental health programs
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one of the biggest things I think young, healthy people could do to help on Election Day is volunteer to be a poll worker. They're often elderly, retired folks who likely can't/shouldn't this year, and many states legally have to shut locations if they lack enough volunteers.
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everyone in U.S media should be telling their viewers/readers about what the U.K is planning to do for its workers
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just days after Trump declared himself the "fertilization president" the entire team focused on Assisted Reproductive Technology (which includes treatments like IVF) was laid off at the CDC.
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Per @darbysaxbe, from a program officer at the National Science Foundation, federal grants can now be pulled for containing any of these keywords. Absurd and dangerous
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"Publicly, his biggest gripes are about the cost of the bill. But privately, Manchin has told his colleagues that he essentially doesn’t trust low-income people to spend government money wisely."
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feel like 85 percent of people who write about politics shouldn’t.
#National Democratic Primary, Head-2-Head:.Sanders 54% (+21).Klobuchar 33%. Sanders 54% (+17).Buttigieg 37%. Sanders 53% (+15).Bloomberg 38. Sanders 48% (+4).Biden 44%. Sanders 44% (+2).Warren 42%. @YouGovUS/@YahooNews 2/12-13
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I forgot Bloomberg spent nearly $10 million to re-elect Pat Toomey in 2016. Toomey beat Katie McGinty, a Democrat, who would have been Pennsylvania's first female senator
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Illinois poised to have a big win for labor tonight!. Amendment 1 would be the first time voters codify collective bargaining via ballot measure, and Illinois would also become the first state with a constitutional ban on “right-to-work”
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i feel bad for this poor fired Twitter engineer but on the whole this story is so funny
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"Nearly everyone who has a second-trimester abortion was prevented from having an abortion earlier in pregnancy, even though that is what they would have preferred."
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I’m seeing a lot of lefties talking about a failure to appeal to the working class but I think we should be more specific about some of the tensions embedded in this conversation, and I’m going to start with one of Biden’s signature policies - the expanded child tax credit /1.
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Both manufacturing and construction have hundreds of thousands of vacant positions right now
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don't know who needs to hear this but Wall Street still hates Warren, Warren is still swearing off private fundraisers with rich donors, and Warren is campaigning hard on a wealth tax.
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wow, Oakland teacher strike ends with a tentative agreement for an 11 percent raise. Before they went on strike, the school district said its final offer was a 5 percent raise
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"I felt like a walking coffin". Kim Paseka learned she was carrying a non-viable pregnancy in Nebraska, which has a 12-week ban on abortion. Because she wasn't sexually assaulted, and it wasn't immediately threatening her life, her doctors said there was nothing they could do
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this is absurd. House Republicans want to gut federal funding to low-income public schools by ~80 percent
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Lamont signed it! Connecticut becomes first state to make prison phone calls free
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*Warren comes out for impeachment immediately after reading report*. News media: political opportunist. *Buttigieg, Gillibrand, Booker, Harris come out for impeachment after Mueller rehashes the report on TV*. News media: we, too, are shocked.
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this kind of campaigning Biden physically could not do.
Harris “spent more than 10 hours Sunday placing calls to over 100 party leaders, Members of Congress, governors, labor leaders, and leaders of advocacy and civil rights organizations,” per a source familiar.
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something particularly moving from the #BernieIsBack rally: Tiffany Cabán's speech was all about how AOC inspired her and woke her up to politics, and AOC's speech is about how Bernie did that for her.
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this is an actual question from Harvard's Center for American Political Studies survey. come on
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i hope that if @ewarren stays in the race, her campaign and her supporters will realize, very quickly, how destructive her growing attacks on Sanders and his campaign are to the progressive movement. moderates understand the progressive wing is something to be crushed.
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Courage begets courage. Choose to be courageous. Be the first person in the room to say, "That's not right." #AOCIntercept @AOC.
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remember all the million takes after Jon Ossoff lost his Georgia special election to Karen Handel in 2017? Karen Handel lost last night
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Howard Schultz is so excited to tell us what we can’t afford.
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"We need to get away from the idea that we should only care about ourselves, and assert and believe that our destinies are tied" @AOC at #AOCIntercept --> refreshingly needed.
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Some personal news! 🥳💫. After a deeply rewarding, certainly challenging, and endlessly interesting 4.5 years freelancing, I am so, so excited to join @voxdotcom next month as a senior reporter covering social policy. It's a dream job.
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GOP activists hired consultants to survey voters and "identify the best words and phrases" to shape their talking points around weakening unions. we published their full 86-slide powerpoint presentation
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Cuomo published a book in October on his Covid-19 leadership, which he received a $783,000 advance to write
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says a lot that our democratic system is literally ill-equipped to handle high voter turnout.
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I don't think Harris lost because of misogyny, but this is misogyny .
The dirty secret of Kamala Harris is that she’s extremely dumb. That wasn’t fixable.
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Instacart shoppers are planning a nationwide strike on Monday until the company agrees to its safety demands
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"We find robust evidence that reopening Texas schools gradually but substantially accelerated the community spread of COVID-19. school reopenings led to at least 43,000 additional COVID-19 cases and 800 additional fatalities within the first two months."
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Biden had one decent debate (out of ten!) and gave one good speech in South Carolina and now every Democratic fundraiser and politician has decided to completely shrug at his campaign performance for the entire preceding year. Cool great and reassuring!.
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I'll prob regret posting this but I've seen a lot of talk lately on Twitter about how Warren supporters should vote Sanders now, or they'll be to blame if he loses. It's a weird argument, as if it's not the job of the campaigns to win the votes /1
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Biden calling for the congressional eviction moratorium to extend through September 2021 is a big deal.
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this @TheAtlantic story cites zero "liberals who won't acknowledge" a crime problem. the editors required not even a single example of this alleged "orthodoxy"
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NEW: Connecticut is considering a bill to make phone calls from prison free — it would be the first state in the nation to take this long-overdue step
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“Youngkin also touted a tip line for parents to report to the state any school officials they find to be behaving objectionably — including teaching ‘divisive’ subjects”
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no one at @TheAtlantic thought hm maybe we should pressure-test these sweeping over-generalizations from a college sophomore before publishing? poor editing on a really disorganized piece
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so recklessly cruel and irresponsible. These were ongoing affordable housing projects in over 1,000 communities nationwide
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this data is really worth sitting with, and thinking about.
Pew survey finds low-income, minority respondents overwhelmingly support keeping schools closed until teachers vaccinated. Upper-income, white, and Republican respondents more likely to want schools reopened as soon as possible.
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NEW: Cities are losing families with kids, and not all want to decamp to the suburbs. But even in cities that are adding new housing, developers are mostly building one and two-bedroom apartments. I wrote about what needs to happen beyond zoning reform .
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recognize that @AOC has been the only national Democrat so far to acknowledge the teachers are fighting against privatization
These LA teachers striking against privatization + demanding smaller classrooms/more support for their students is a whole 2019 mood .💃🏿💃🏼💃🏽 .
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so @politico updated its story with her tweet, but didn't include the part with her saying "this is completely false" and kept the original headline. uhhh
This is completely false - I never even have a direct interaction with him today. When did Politico turn into TMZ?.
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this is a big deal! And a good sign that Biden is willing to break with at least some norms.
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walking outside in dc and just hearing a chrous of people reacting to their Stephen Miller push notifications.
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no, I would not think that.
CNN’s Jim @Acosta nailing it: ‘You would think the president would be humbled by being wrong so many times.'.
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I've got a story in @TheAtlantic today looking at what might happen if instead of distributing housing vouchers to landlords, we just gave renters cash. It's an idea well worth studying, and HUD is actually talking about it!
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.@AOC talking about advice a mentor once gave her: "Give people a 'golden gate of retreat' — enough rope so someone can change their mind and still look good" #AOCIntercept.
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we got heavily discounted ubers in the 2010s. Gen Z is getting massively subsidized AI chatbots
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Denying families a virtual school option for the fall is going to be pretty untenable soon.
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also not sure how many times @matt_barnum and I will have to point this out (we expect for eternity) but no matter how many times columnists say the public was big mad about school closures in 2020, we must reiterate that surveys of both Americans and of parents never showed that.
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Larry Krasner: “Anyone, including federal law enforcement, who unlawfully assaults and kidnaps people will face criminal charges from my office.”
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what i've found dizzying about recent Covid coverage is that this new wave is arriving *exactly* when people predicted in January and early Feb that it was likely to happen, and yet people who know better are acting surprised.
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NEW: Over 100 doctors in Houston have signed a letter condemning @RepDanCrenshaw for "spreading dangerous disinformation" on COVID-19 and undermining their ability to keep Texans safe.
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please please please please please please please cancel tomorrow's primaries this is so insane.
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if your rebuttal to Warren's plan is "but we'll obviously lose power after midterms because HISTORY" what kind of movement are you building? what kind of Green New Deal do you envision to pass? first 100 days are critical, but this haughty determinism is going to kill us all.
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one month after the Sandy Hook massacre, Mike Bloomberg compared the New York teachers union to the NRA. His campaign spokesperson says he now regrets that and it was uttered "in the heat of the moment."
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