When elected officials like @CoryBooker and @KamalaHarris do their job and hold administration officials accountable, our political press dismisses them as grandstanding because they may run for POTUS someday.
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Helpful hint: as much fun as it is for get high fives from the cool kids on Twitter (Good luck on your campaign for a Shorty Award!), as an actual reporter you might consider not typing things inside quotation marks that the speaker did not say.
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That framing — the “shorter” — is a long-used framing on Twitter, it wasn’t done for “high fives,” and I don’t think it caused you to think that I meant she actually asked that question. It is a rhetorical device to make a statement more briefly.
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"All the cool kids are doing it!"
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Yeah she’s supposed to just go to sleep up there right? California sent her to Washington to take tiny naps.
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I didn’t say it was a negative thing. Why are you reading that into what I wrote??
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You could have said nothing. Or you could have commented on the specific questions Harris asked demonstrating that DHS isn't honoring the spirit of the DACA ruling. But you made your choice. Please just own it.
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I have owned it. That’s why I’m sitting here explaining it.
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Thanks for responding to my tweet. I've heard what I need.
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Clearly I would rather not have spent the past two hours explaining things, so I will try to tweet more carefully and clearly in the future.
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Always good advice for people who earn their living writing. Thanks for acknowledging my concerns.
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Gotta read the room, man. My unsolicited advice: say my bad and take the L
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I am explaining myself. That’s all I can do in this instance.
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