👩🏼💻 A bit of news for me: I am now covering third-party presidential candidates and independent voters for
@washingtonpost
. If you have any tips, story ideas or other thoughts (on the record, on background or off the record) feel free to reach me by DM, email or Signal.
During the hearing on Florida's restrictions for requiring students wear masks, one of the attorneys representing parents has been coughing all day. She told the judge she caught covid from her preschooler.
Stunning moment: At a town hall in Berlin, N.H., Nikki Haley was asked by a voter what was the cause of the Civil War. She said the war was about government interfering in people’s freedoms. The voter then called her out for not mentioning slavery.
This hearing is virtual because the judge said last week that there was an outbreak among court staff. Also, another attorney representing the parents says a medical expert has covid too ->
@MerylKornfield
@PeterSchorschFL
And one of the witnesses, an MD, apologized for the noise her children were making in the background.
They are home from school because both have covid.
It says it earlier in the thread but just to reiterate: The hearing was virtual. The lawyer had a Zoom background on but I would imagine she was home. Also, as I said before, she represents the parents suing DeSantis over the restrictions on school mask mandates, not the state.
I asked Vivek if he condemned white supremacy. Vivek said to “stop picking on this farce of some figment that exists at some infinitesimally small fringe.” He said he condemns “vicious racial discrimination” but would not “bend the knee” and condemn white supremacy.
At a Vivek Ramaswamy town hall, a video just played of former Rep. Steve King endorsing him. King became a party pariah and lost his seat after questioning why white supremacy is offensive in an interview. The endorsement was first reported by
@adamwren
Wow. Lincoln Project really goes after RFK Jr. in this new video, calling him "a long-time heroin addict," "anti-vaxxer extremist," and a "right-wing nut."
Adam Michaelson, who was delayed over an hour, told me: “I realize there are people who have been anti-vaxxers for a while but to take this extra step of trying to prevent other people from getting it just to me seems like a whole new level of evil.”
22-year-old college student Bharti Shahani has died after she was hospitalized from injuries at Astroworld, her family said. The death toll of the event is now *nine.* via
@marisa_iati
On Jan. 6, Guy Reffitt came to the Capitol with a gun to support Trump, urging a mob to overrun police. His son turned him in, his daughters suffered panic attacks, he’s in prison and the family has fallen apart. His kids blame Trump.
@DanRosZiff
Charges from DeSantis’s election police have stumbled in court. But the consequences are felt: One man who was arrested lost his job and health insurance. His adult child has decided not to vote. Via
@lori_rozsa
Today marks a significant moment in the opioid litigation. For the first time ever, victims of the crisis are going to publicly speak out as members of the Sackler family listen during a Purdue Pharma bankruptcy hearing. The hearing is about to begin. Follow along here:
The complete list of times Texas state officials have changed their account via
@markberman
including:
- a school police officer confrontation that didn’t happen
- the armor that turned out to be a vest
- a missing 12 minute gap
Following the news of Biden's win, celebrations let loose across the country — a release of emotions after not just an excruciating four-day wait for the election results, but four years of Trump in office.
@amybwang
Tim Sheehy has said the gunshot wound in his right arm was from combat. But
@lizcgoodwin
found records he told a park ranger that he accidentally shot himself in the right arm in Montana’s Glacier National Park in 2015.
I checked all the major news outlets and NO ONE is reporting about how the entire west coast is on fire. Please STOP reporting Trump's stupid press conferences and tell the world about this!
Texas real estate agent Jenna Ryan flew on a private jet to Washington, D.C. She told a realty blog that she works 15 hours a week and makes “a ton of money and sells a ton of homes." Now she would like you to fund her defense for her riot-related arrest.
when I was in college, a reporter at a newsroom I interned at saw me sign an email to a spokesperson with "thank you" and he said I shouldn't say that because it's their job to provide information. I sometimes think about that advice and how much I disagree with it
More than 100 people say their P320 pistols discharged when they didn’t pull the trigger, an investigation by The Post and The Trace found. In response to this finding, the gun maker cited times other types of guns unintentionally discharged.
People forget stories die when journalists lose their jobs. That’s sources who decided to speak up being silenced, public records that were obtained going unpublished and information that the rest of us won’t learn. It’s bad for everyone.
People in Trumpworld declined to say who was in the video choir of Jan. 6 defendants Trump shared. But The Post identified five of the 15: Four were charged with assaulting police, using weapons, including against Officer Sicknick, who died the next day.
It feels like a strange time to be sharing good news, but I’m excited to say that I’ll be staying at
@washingtonpost
as a general assignment staff writer!
“Being Hispanic, and going through that immigration process, and finally receiving your papers, and then for somebody to start threatening you after you’ve been through all that, that’s crazy,”
@MoniMexicana
said. “It’s just heartbreaking.”
@FrancisSuarez
@CityofMiami
Cars & trucks stuck in traffic generate megatons of toxic gases & particulate, but
@boringcompany
road tunnels under Miami would solve traffic & be an example to the world.
Spoke with
@RonDeSantisFL
about tunnels last week. If Governor & Mayor want this done, we will do it.
“We are starting to encounter a fair amount of pushback from younger folks when you call them up & say, ‘We want to know everyone who was at your party.’ There’s v much a sense of, ‘That’s none of your business,’” said a health expert whose business it is
Writing covid obits holds the “powers that be accountable. When lapses in care lead to outbreaks, and mixed messages hurt efforts to slow the spread, telling victims' stories is a way of underscoring the very high stakes of this moment." -
@clairemcneill
VERY EXCITED to share that today is my first day on the incredible
@washingtonpost
White House team! Got tips or stories you think I should cover? Want to grab coffee? My DMs are open and my email is meryl.kornfield
@washpost
.com. Hmu!
Since The Afghanistan Papers came out last week, +150 ppl familiar with the war zone wrote to
@washingtonpost
. Talking to them has been chilling. Some said they’ve never been interviewed before & only feel they are being heard now bc officials’ thoughts were made public.
If you see a video clip on Twitter of a live event and are wondering why you can’t find a story on it yet, let me explain what’s happening behind the scenes as you are Googling:
1) Reporter sees the news
2) Reporter flags it to an editor
3) Editor assigns the story
(cont.)
BREAKING: Luann de Lesseps was arrested by Palm Beach police on charges of battery on an officer, disorderly intoxication, resisting arrest with violence, crimes against a person. She was booked in jail at 1:25 a.m. this morning.
On CNN just now RFK Jr. says that Biden is a greater threat to democracy than Trump because Kennedy was blocked from posting on social media under the Biden administration. He says Trump trying to overturn the 2020 election is a threat but he argues Biden is a greater threat.
Our newsroom has a place for people to share stories of loved ones who die from covid, which are heartbreaking to read.
But some submissions are really alarming: people living alone send their own names, terrified that they might die and no one will remember them.
My favorite thing about people from Louisiana is how honest they are. I introduced myself to a woman clearing debris and she said “oh, I’ve seen your byline before in The Washington Post, and I thought ‘that poor girl with that name.’” 🙃
even if you’re fully vaccinated the CDC recommends staring at the blank page before you, open up the dirty window, let the sun illuminate the words you cannot find
Gov. Mike Parson did not pardon: Kevin Strickland and Lamar Johnson, Black men who prosecutors say were wrongfully convicted and have spent decades in prison
Gov. Mike Parson did pardon: Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a White couple facing no jail time
This is unusual: You don’t often see a campaign official telling voters to help another campaign in a battleground state, but here’s RFK Jr.’s NY state director telling people to go knock on doors in PA for Trump.
Another reporter followed up to ask about how he could say this about white supremacy when the Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof exists. Vivek said he didn’t know who Roof is.
An Alabama bill would allow yoga in schools — but chants like “namaste” remain banned. “That’s a very colonial way of thinking where you just strip away the indigenous culture and pick and choose” said Nikunj Trivedi of Coalition of Hindus of North America
Months into the pandemic, Leslie and Patricia McWaters relaxed their adherence to covid rules, even going to a restaurant they later said was unsafe. When they got sick, they regretted it, their daughter said. The couple of 50 years died at the same time
“The virus favors gatherings. It does not distinguish between happy events, like a wedding celebration, or a sad farewell, like funerals. It is everywhere,” Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah said.
Spoke with students at Franklin Pierce today—we need universal post-high school education, including college and vocational/technical training, for every American. When I'm President, I will get it done. 🛠️🇺🇸
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@JoshuaPotash
regularly shares local news with captions “why is no one reporting this?” and it’s infuriating. Subscribe to
@courierjournal
because they are doing top-notch journalism that take a hell of a lot more effort than just clicking RT.
since it's ✨ applying for journalism internships szn ✨ I just want to share one bit of advice: now is a great time to reach out to ppl working in the newsrooms you apply to! it could help: 1) your application 2) you figure out if you actually want to intern there
Anecdotally, several voters I’ve talked to in New Hampshire say that they were considering Ramaswamy early on but the more they hear from him the less they like him.
Ramaswamy's Iowa fade is notable in new DMR poll: No change in overall support since summer (4%) but negatives way up, from 20% to 37%. Biggest jump in unfavorables of any GOP candidate.
I had Qs too so I called Miya Ponsetto’s lawyer who said the interview was a mistake. Ponsetto was supposed to apologize, but she was incommunicado before the interview and unprepared. She also refused to remove the Daddy hat when her lawyer and CBS asked.
Paints face and hair like the Joker, goes to South Beach, climbs up on a car with an American flag, screams “Fucking COVID is over baby!” and makes it rain.
#BecauseMiami