Eight years ago I joined Project X, which later became known as . There were 26 of us at launch. I never could have guessed how much it would change my life or how hard it would be to step away.
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Formerly VP . Currently: Taking a sabbatical. Mostly vegan cooking, vintage shopping, and getting outside.
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And there's so much more happening tonight: follow along with our guide to the 21 elections you should be tracking.
We know the results of just 8 so far.
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Would love to see a CBO score of what it would look like if we rolled back each major tax cut back to 1981. Guessing we could stop wringing our hands over Social Security pretty quickly.
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Remember a time when you would have been at least pretty confident that a jury finding a man had committed sexual assault would've at least put a dent into his chances of being a major-party nominee for president?
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“To have doctors refuse your care then at the same time tell you your life is in danger is unimaginable.”Mylissa Farmer on
Yet another woman, water broke too soon. Was told her pregnancy was no longer viable, and turned away from two hospitals.
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WHEN DO THE GUNS START MAKING US SAFER? Texas keeps weakening its gun laws and selling a record number of guns; meanwhile, the state’s gun homicide rate has increased 90% since 2011.
Shouldn’t Texas be one of the safest states in the nation? Or at least getting safer?
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This 🧵 is about one of my oldest friends, who I've admired for literal decades, and who is Sudanese.
I met her in Cairo, a million years ago when I was desperate to *not* live in Brooklyn and the Arab world felt like a revelation...
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58% of adults oppose hormone treatments for 15- to 17-year-olds.
Headline: "Most Americans support anti-trans policies favored by GOP"
58% support a clean debt-ceiling bill with zero spending cuts.
Headline: "Americans split on who they’d blame if U.S. defaults"
Same number!
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When you end gerrymandering and finally have a legislature that reflects the will of the people for the first time in 40 years, a Michigan story 💪
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My flight leaving Houston is delayed because bees have congregated on the tip of one of the wings. They won’t let us board until they remove the bees. But how on earth will this happen? Won’t they leave the wing when we take off?
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I can't stop thinking about how so many journalists claim they became journalists to work on behalf of the vulnerable, to challenge power and hold it accountable, and maybe they believe it, when in truth, they are a part of power and so far too often simply reflect and justify it
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Witnessing the public suffering of the homeless is indeed uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable because it forces you to see the depths of state and communal failure, and to acknowledge your own complicity.
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Much of what’s called “burnout” in healthcare has less to do with poor working conditions—no worse than they were 20 years ago—than growing disillusionment. It’s increasingly hard to believe that our work is part of the solution rather than perpetuating our for-profit problem. 7/
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It’s systems that offer meaningful, rewarding, and organized opportunities to both give & receive care that we most need to rebuild community, health, and safety in America. Rather than doubling down on failed police and prisons models, we need an entirely different paradigm. 5/
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Which would make America safer?
a) continuing to spend ~$280B per year on police, prosecution, and prisons
b) using that money to build a national community health & safety worker corps that employs 4 million workers from criminalized communities, paying each $70,000 per year
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But this work of living is especially challenging in a society that doesn’t support people in the task of meaning-making and offers so few sites for cultivation of purpose with others—and many of those that exist are destructive.
It’s why I want us to build systems for this. 4/
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What many psychiatric patients need is not a drug but community, economic support, and sense of purpose. “But we can’t prescribe that,” it’s said. Why not? Why can’t we build community health worker systems in which receiving care involves being empowered to give it to others? 1/
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What many psychiatric patients need is not a drug but community, economic support, and sense of purpose. “But we can’t prescribe that,” it’s said. Why not? Why can’t we build community health worker systems in which receiving care involves being empowered to give it to others? 1/
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A thing that needs to be said is that all this amazing reporting on the profound ethics violations at SCOTUS by and others begs a question:
Why weren't the name-brand, long-time Supreme Court reporters digging into this stuff all along?
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always take note of passive voice in headlines and who it protects
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I'm sorry but what, no. This is naval gazing bullshit. There are publications that pre-date Buzzfeed News and Vice and some that came out around the same time that are neither NYT / BBC like nor out of business. This is a false binary.
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In the 1990s, Paris was one of the most polluted, traffic-clogged cities in the world.
Today, the city is a world leader in sustainable urban development.
Here's the story of how Paris took back its streets from cars.
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🚨The only Frank Lloyd Wright house in the most beautiful town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Westhope” just hit the market. The home was built for Tulsa Tribune publisher Richard Lloyd Jones, cousin of FLW in 1929 for a little over $100k at the time. The residence has over… Show more
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Jesus.
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For years, some U.S. doctors have disregarded the expertise of midwives - particularly Black midwives. That tension is highlighted in the story of infant Mila Jackson, who was taken from her parents by CPS in Texas last month. My latest for @19thnews 19thnews.org/2023/04/black-
NEW: Ralph Yarl, 16, was shot twice by a white man in Kansas City after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. The man shot Ralph in the head through his glass door, and then when Yarl was already bleeding out on the ground, shot him again: kansascitydefender.com/justice/kansas
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U.S. prison & jail conditions are utterly deplorable despite massive investments in incarceration that dwarf those in education. No human deserves to be eaten alive by insects while awaiting trial. We must end the profiting off of human suffering & tragedy
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Trump, his campaign, Fox. Everyone knew the Big Lie was a lie. They just wanted to keep making money. Trump victimized the voters who supported him.
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Alex Wagner just broadcast audio of a Trump campaign official acknowledging during a phone call with a Fox News producer in December 2020 that there was no evidence of physical issues with Dominion voting machines
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Tonight, Succession underscored something very essential and true about our lives, and it did so in a way that it's been building to all series long.
Was that vague enough??
I wrote about this tremendous episode for !
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Yes. I am shocked at how little attention this has gotten. See the Senate Report, the Mueller Report, and ’s terrific piece on this. The deal was for the US to stand aside while Putin took Ukraine, and when Trump lost in 2020, Putin tried to take it fast, militarily.
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In his book, former Mueller prosecutor @AWeissmann_ recounts Paul Manafort meeting with a Putin ally over a proposed deal allowing Russia to take control of part of Ukraine with #Trump's implicit approval.
"It was such a clear indication of what Vladimir Putin was trying to do."
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If we don’t know anything else, we know this: Every goodbye ain’t gone. and , we’ll see you again soon. The latest from on
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Lawmakers call for investigation and ethics reforms in response to story that showed how Justice Clarence Thomas has, for decades, failed to disclose luxury trips he received from a real estate magnate and conservative megadonor.
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“We called on you all to ban assault weapons. And you respond with an assault on democracy,” Tennessee State Rep. said as the GOP moves to expel him and two other Democrats for protesting with students rallying for gun control.
Full video: tiktok.com/t/ZTRcp5eBC/
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What we are seeing in the Nashville legislature is an authoritarian scene worthy of the bleak history of Europe in the 1930s.
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I’m sad and in shock watching this.
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Tennessee legislators have just taken a crowbar against American democracy.
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On a serious note, no Democratic politician from the coasts could ever go visit a Republican-led city in the South & then go on a liberal media outlet & call it repulsive, smelly, & disgusting. No way. A reminder of the double standards, & asymmetry, in our politics & our media.
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BREAKING: Kansas Republicans have successfully overridden the Governor veto to now authorize genital inspections of children in order for kids to play sports. A very dark & disturbing day.
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BREAKING:
NBC News projects Janet Protasiewicz (N) wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Liberals just gained control of the Wisconsin state Supreme Court for the first time in 15 years.
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DC Council's legislative meeting is starting. Of interest: A bill regulating food delivery apps, says companies can't bury restaurants on platforms based on commission paid. tells me it was the topic of much debate during this AM's breakfast.
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