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@derektmead

Documentary producer. Priors: EIC of , before that, and once covered a high school basketball game for the Chico E-R.

Joined October 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    24 Jul 2019

    When the haters try to send me some bullshit

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    1 hour ago

    extremely low hood means greater visibility for pedestrians, cyclists and other road users. that rules, to me, and i think more vehicles should do the same!

    This is the new next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your neighborhood by 2023
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  3. 2 hours ago

    I think this fine blog puts a nice point on the overwhelming going-through-the-motions of it all

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    10 hours ago

    Nearly a third of all freshwater fish species are threatened by extinction, a new report released by 16 conservation groups found. Populations of larger species, weighing more than 60 pounds, have fallen by a “catastrophic” 94%.

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    19 hours ago

    In my in-person sessions with students today (for m hybrid courses), they were telling me about their experience using proctoring software and lockdown browsers for OTHER courses (I could never...). Here are some of the things that they just said casually:

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  6. 8 hours ago

    Giraffes are fantastically elegant creatures

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    8 hours ago

    Our nation’s birds, parks, and lands would be in good hands with leading .

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  8. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    All, here is hiring! We're looking for talented News Editors, a housing reporter, a data journalist, an engagement editor and a product engineer to join our terrific team. Here are the posts. Know great people? Send them our way.

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    Feb 22

    Prescient! 💫

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    Feb 22

    "I’m not a stranger to the struggles many families across America face today – I’ve lived most of my adult life paycheck to paycheck," says in prepared remarks for her confirmation hearing tomorrow. Full remarks here:

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  11. Feb 21

    🤔

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  12. Feb 21

    NYT reports on illegal $80 million arms deal from Betsy DeVos relative, close Trump ally, and former Blackwater head Erik Prince

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    Feb 21

    Decision-making at Facebook has become dominated by political considerations & fear of blowback from the right. Our latest explores how the FB policy team & Zuckerberg’s political concerns have come to influence product & content moderations decisions

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    Feb 19

    This is a very impressive chase between a pine marten and a red squirrel in YNP. I was holding my breath for the squirrel! 😱 Seems the squirrel triumphs in the end...for now... 🐿️🙂 Video by Jason Kladiva.

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  15. Feb 19

    nice win for Bauke Mollema, we love to see it. Bauke Dubs, we stans call them

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    Feb 19

    In the annals of tone-deaf HR and PR moves, promising to do better after firing then turning around and firing THE VERY SAME DAY has got to set some sort of record.

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    Feb 19

    Meg Mitchell, lead of the Ethical AI team has been fired. She got an email to her personal email. After locking her out for 5 weeks. There are many words I can say right now. I'm glad to know that people don't fall for any of their bull. To the VPs at google, I pity you.

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  18. Feb 19

    Someone tried to force me off the road with their truck today, that was unpleasant

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    Feb 18

    SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM SWEET FATHER GOD WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN

    Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday.
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    Feb 18

    A stretch of Ninth Street in West Oakland was renamed to honor the Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton. Our photographer documented the ceremony.

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    Feb 18

    Here’s my book. SELLOUT: The Major Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) ⠀ In stores October 26, 2021 from . Pre-orders now available:

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