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Staff writer for @washingtonpost . Reach me at meryl.kornfield @washpost .com, DM or Signal. Forever proud of my @thealligator / @ufjschool roots 🐊

DC (but Floridian at ❤️)
Joined August 2011
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Meryl Kornfield
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👩🏼‍💻 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.
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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.
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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.
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NYT has really opened the floodgaetz
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it was a draw
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The Pulitzer Prizes
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No prize was awarded in Editorial Cartooning.
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when my editors ask about a story I haven’t started writing yet
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pour one out for transcribers
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Best spoiler warning ever
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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 ->
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Charles R. Gallagher
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And one of our medical expert's child has it too.
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Earlier, one of the parents suing DeSantis was asked who she knew has had covid and she couldn't even name everyone. "Dozens," she said.
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I just opened a court filing and it is a scan of the USB drive that the document is on..... is PACER punking me?
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Yep, this is true.
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@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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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The Lincoln Project
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RFK Jr’s racist, crazy ideology betrays the legacy of heroes that came before him. This is a new kind of Kennedy.
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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.”
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sir, you are quote tweeting a local reporter
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Read Let This Radicalize You
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If it wasn’t for Twitter I’d literally have no idea that Louisville has been protesting for Breonna for 82 days.
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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
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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
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super chill headline I wrote today
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Full story is up here:
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copy editors are infrastructure
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This woman is selling shirts outside the farmers market at Bo Diddley. The shirts say “This is not normal. Stay mad & resist.” #SpencerAtUF
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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
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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:
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A brief photo story from #Game7 : Fans toss a scooter onto the ground as the crowd chants “fuck that scooter.” DC police intervene.
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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
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so much for the party of law and order
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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
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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.
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“checked”
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Alexandria Villaseñor
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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!
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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.
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📍journalists | | | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ | 📍self-care | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | | | | 📍scrolling through twitter instead of doing something more impt like SLEEP
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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
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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.
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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.
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Jim LaPorta
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I was just kicked out of @TheMessenger slack along with a lot of my fellow colleagues. I guess I should kill these news stories I’ve been working on.
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@TerryWardWriter How awful. I hope you're feeling better.
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I’ve introduced myself to *several* people today who responded “I love your last name” .... this only happens to me when I’m in Indiana
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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.
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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!
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Washington Post PR
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. @MerylKornfield joins The Post's general assignment news desk
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“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.”
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today is a great day to donate to your college’s student newsroom
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I talked to a Democrat in Florida last week who didn’t know Biden was running
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce you to the actual American electorate.
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they teach why this wouldn’t work in fourth grade in Florida
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Elon Musk
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@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.
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I can’t tweet longer quotes because of char limits but this was one part of Ryan’s address to Richard Sackler:
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“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
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how's your friday? I interviewed the guy who cracked the zodiac killer code
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so you could say there’s.... an uptick?
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Tick encounters are expected to be frequent this year. Here’s what you need to know.
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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
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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!
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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student newspapers reporting Greek orgs told members not to speak to student newspapers: a collection
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NEW: More and more Air Force service members tasked with operating nuclear missiles have reported cancer diagnoses, raising alarms and investigations.
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new york bagel shops should address the cream cheese shortage by getting rid of silly flavors like “birthday” or “s’mores”
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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.
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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.’” 🙃
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✨ personal news! I’m excited to announce that I’m currently working on a story that’s not utterly depressing
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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
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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
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my first ~in-person~ WH briefing and presidential remarks ✨
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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.
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roses are red my name is not jeff public records people, stop sending data in a PDF
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it’s 2020 and news sites still won’t recognize I’m a subscriber when I click on an article on twitter vs. my browser huh
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it’s 2021. bagel places should stay open later/eating a bagel for dinner should be more socially acceptable
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debate night national coffee day 🤝 my rising blood pressure
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brb struggling to come up with a parachute joke that will land
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I’m so so grateful for the scientists who made this moment possible ❤️
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Wynwood, Coral Gables, Brickell, the Keys
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Robinson Meyer
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NYMag, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harpers
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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.
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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
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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
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“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.
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Not sure why I’m pictured in this tweet about Phillips talking to students 🤔
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Team Dean
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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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be active on twitter
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The Objective
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hey early-career journalists 👋 tell us: what's the *worst* journalism advice you've gotten before?
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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.
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student journalism doesn’t beat around the bush
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Andy Thomason
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Here’s @dailytarheel hitting some kind of nail right on the head
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vaccine promo program where you stop getting spam calls about your car’s extended warranty if you’re vaccinated
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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
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~audience engagement~
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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.
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David Weigel
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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.
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@LizMair pls forward the job listing for a local journalism job where you can write one story and get paid six figures. asking for a friend
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: livestreams of public comment at Florida local gov meetings is an underrated genre of film
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one of my editors just asked me if I’m comfortable going into a hurricane zone........ sir I was Born in a Hurricane (zone)
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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.
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I had a TV spot that was canceled tonight but can we take a moment to appreciate that I put on a nice shirt and makeup? please clap
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Still, what was the most exciting for me was to see people proudly holding up tomorrow’s front page of the @washingtonpost , their local newspaper.
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an investigation I’ve been working on since August publishes this 🙃 week 🙃
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a predicted how it started/how it’s going
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There were more than 500 arrests in DC during the two weeks after George Floyd died
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Emmanuel Felton
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So far, DC police say they've made just 13 arrests.
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this is actually how I imagine covid would look and act if it was a person
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Billy Corben
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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
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@seungminkim I'm so sorry. It really shows how little they know about good reporting
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