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D.C. native • political reporter for • Host of “The Next Four Years” on • All politics is identity politics

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    Apr 1

    Lifelong head cheerleader 😅

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    2 hours ago

    May we all be as smooth as was during his interview today when his son wanted a morning hug.

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Morris Brown College was founded by formerly enslaved religious leaders at Big Bethel AME Church in 1881, it is the first college in Georgia to be owned and operated by African Americans.

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    22 hours ago

    Tasers look and feel different from pistols, and most police forces have protocols to prevent a mix-up. So how could the officer who shot Daunte Wright in Minnesota on Sunday grab her gun instead of her Taser, as the police chief said?

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    15 hours ago

    Finding out that George Floyd’s girlfriend was Daunte Wright’s teacher reminds us that Fred Hampton’s mom babysat Emmett Till. It’s devastating to grasp the violence & collective trauma of systemic racism across families, communities & generations—& know how little has changed.

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    15 hours ago

    For years, the Boston police kept a secret: the patrolmen's union president was an alleged child molester. Patrick Rose kept his badge and ascended to power in the police union. He went on to allegedly molest five other children.

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    13 hours ago

    Marvin Scott III’s family said they did not receive any communication about his arrest and death in the Collin County Jail in March until the next afternoon, when they received a text message from the medical examiner’s office.

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  8. 5 hours ago

    “Biden has vowed to put equity at the center of his administration, but the White House meeting brought into focus the issues by which Black voters will judge his tenure.”

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  9. 5 hours ago

    “The reality is that the U.S. has big strategic interests in the world,” a person familiar with the deliberations said. “The main threats to the American homeland are actually from other places: from Africa, from parts of the Middle East — Syria & Yemen.”

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  10. 14 hours ago

    These are the people and neighborhoods I think about first and mostly when reflecting on declining trust in the media’s ability to accurately tell a community’s stories

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    22 hours ago

    These interactions happen to me OFF camera regularly. I'm used to it. It just so happened this was on live TV. I also have interactions w people all the time who thank us for being here and telling their truth. It is okay to question us.

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  12. 17 hours ago

    Long-term unemployment among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the first quarter of 2021 surpassed that of Blacks, Whites and Latinos, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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  13. 18 hours ago

    Doubt that the average American has even been to half of these ...

    Here’s how Americans rank the 50 states, per YouGov.
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  14. 18 hours ago

    “White supremacists are closer to restoring Jim Crow than at any time in memory. They are staging an assault on the right to vote: reducing early voting, restricting registration and reversing the rollout of voting by mail,” ⁦⁩

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  15. 18 hours ago

    🥴

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  16. 18 hours ago

    Domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right.

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  17. 20 hours ago

    Watching the family of and thinking about just how drastically people’s lives change in a matter of days

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  18. 23 hours ago

    “63% of white adults believe Blacks are treated less favorably than whites by the criminal justice system; and that 84% of Black adults believe Blacks are treated less favorably. Do white folks ever wonder why a full 21% more Black folks believe this?”

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    23 hours ago

    NEW: Former Pres. Obama on fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright: "Michelle and I grieve alongside the Wright family for their loss. We empathize with the pain that Black mothers, fathers, and children are feeling after yet another senseless tragedy."

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    23 hours ago

    40,000 white flowers in front of the Capitol today — honoring the 40,000 Americans who die every year from gun violence. Just yesterday, a high-schooler was fatally shot in a school bathroom in Tennessee.

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  21. 23 hours ago

    “If Vance wants to make outrageous insinuations about the vile ruling class, that’s his choice, and it might benefit him politically. But it also raises the question of why exactly he has spent so much energy making sure he is one of its members.”

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