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@ijbailey

2 months

I've finished up my reporting on this. I'm a professor at Davidson College, a veteran journalist, and I helped lead the efforts that produced the first Commitment to Freedom of Expression statement for a school like ours in North Carolina. Here's what I found. A thread. 1/

Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

2 months

“So, are you saying that all white people are racist?” “Yes.” “We would also say that it’s only white people that could be racist, that are racist.” You have to watch this clip from a film Davidson College required all its student-athletes to watch.

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@ijbailey

2 years

A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/

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@ijbailey

3 years

This is not “unskilled” labor.

Vala Afshar

@ValaAfshar

3 years

People work very hard to put food on our tables

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@ijbailey

17 days

Ok? Do we want rich students to not care or sacrifice for others?

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17 days

On the students arrested at Columbia: “A Post deep-dive into the backgrounds of the protesters shows many list multimillion-dollar mansions as their home addresses, according to arrest records, and come from wealthy and powerful families.”

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@ijbailey

2 years

If they cannot stand up and say something about the devastation they caused that boy's family - without being forced to - that's gonna boil my blood even more than it already is. 10

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@ijbailey

2 years

Every journalist should heed this call from that boy's mom: "I call for law enforcement to halt the practice of disclosing unfounded leads and names of potential suspects without credible evidence. Doing this has real-life consequences and a lasting disparaging effect."

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@ijbailey

2 years

Here is the family's press conference from a few days ago. And as you can see, there are no law enforcement officials around. This is (still) America, 2022. 6/

Family of Timothy Taylor speaks on Brittanee Drexel case

The family of Timothy Taylor, a man once accused in the disappearance and murder of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, spoke out publicly for the first time on Th...

www.youtube.com

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@ijbailey

2 years

Just recently, they found Drexel's remains and charged an old white dude who has an extensive criminal sexual record. And when they announced it during a press conference held by officials from every law enforcement agency, they didn't mention the 16-year-old boy's name once. 5/

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@ijbailey

2 years

They devastated the family of that then-16-year-old black boy. They never directly charged him in her case but used his past mistakes to try and pressure him to confess. On national TV, he was called an animal. His mug shot is everywhere. 8/

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@ijbailey

2 years

I frequently jog by the makeshift memorial dedicated to the girl. And every time, I have given a quick-silent prayer. I'm a parent; I understand that pain the Drexels have endured these past 13 years not knowing. But they aren't the only ones hurting. 7/

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@ijbailey

2 years

It's just that there's no way all the folks involved should just be able to walk away without grappling with how this happened - and that must include media who helped the FBI push the narrative about that boy despite no charges and zero evidence. 14/

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@ijbailey

5 months

This is just sad. A cold-hard fact: The overwhelming majority of students who can do the work at top colleges won't get in to their top choices - because there are not enough slots. But they've been convinced getting one of those rare slots is the only way to be successful. 1/

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

5 months

In the first college application season since the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, Asian American families are more stressed than ever about college admissions

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@ijbailey

2 years

They used the local media to pressure that 16-year-old boy into confessing to the crime. They based it all on a jailhouse informant. And it was all a lie - which is typical of jailhouse informants, if you don't know. 4/

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@ijbailey

2 years

As a journalist at the time at the only daily newspaper in the area, I have never stopped thinking about this case, even after I left the paper. I've covered different cases like these, and I understand the complexity at play. I truly do. 11/

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@ijbailey

2 years

That boy always declared his innocence. He never wavered no matter what was being said, when or why.

‘Suspect’ In Brittanee Drexel Disappearance Denies Allegations of...

A Young Man Accused denies allegations he had anything to do with the 2009 disappearance of Brittanee Drexel. Claims “I was in school.”Dr. Phil tells compel...

www.youtube.com

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@ijbailey

1 year

Woke was a positive term used by folks (mostly black) who wanted to be aware of things larger and more important than themselves and their own experiences but is clearly just a slur when used by Bethany Mandel and others. There's no reason to pretend otherwise.

The Vanguard

@vanguard_pod

1 year

LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness"

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@ijbailey

2 years

They began spreading a story about him - a boy who lost one of his arms in an accident at the age of 4 - and a group of other black dudes about supposedly kidnapping Brittanee Drexel gang raping her and...it's even worse than than. 2/

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@ijbailey

2 years

Some reporting I did helped led to the uncovering of remains of a different woman who was raped/kidnapped. Can't tell you how often I felt like I let the Drexel family down because my reporting was of no use to them all this time. I get we can't solve everything. But still. 12/

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@ijbailey

1 year

This is a great illustration of arrogant ignorance. They don't know what they hell they are talking about but are supremely confident anyway. Only unserious folks don't know about the exhaustive time, energy and effort black people spend on this topic outside of police shootings.

Eric Abbenante

@EricAbbenante

1 year

"Like Chicago: Most of the shootings are young black men killing other young black men. Is that not correct?" [Yeah] "Much more than what the cops do. Why doesn't anyone talk about that? Why aren't there 100 giant black celebrities saying 'What are you doing to yourselves?"

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@ijbailey

2 years

Here's the press conference during which law enforcement officials announced the big arrest in the case. They repeatedly talked about how professional and dogged they were for 13 years. 9/

Arrest made in Brittanee Drexel disappearance & death — May 16, 2022...

Thirteen years after Brittanee Drexel disappeared, an arrest has been made, giving friends and family the long-awaited closure they have been seeking.

www.youtube.com

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@ijbailey

3 years

People, don’t do this. Please. No one’s reputation would survive the kind of standard being set here. The fact is this country’s racial history is complex as hell and I suspect not one of us has avoided everything that was once racist, or maybe even still is. No. Don’t do this.

The A.V. Club

@TheAVClub

3 years

Oh great, Ellie Kemper is yet another rich white celebrity with a racist past

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@ijbailey

2 years

They claimed they used her for human trafficking. They said the 16-year-old boy's father was involved. They said they beat her, murdered her and threw her body in a gator-infested lake. 3/

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@ijbailey

2 years

There's some reckoning that must happen in our industry as well on cases such as these. 15/

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@ijbailey

3 months

As a black journalist who was born in the Deep South in the shadow of Jim Crow, this resonates with me and is why I empathize with the trans community as a journalist AND as a black man. A thread.

Katelyn Burns

@transscribe

3 months

This is unironically the editorial position at NYT Opinion.

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@ijbailey

2 years

I don't even really blame them for saying the awful things they said about that black boy and his family, because they were hurting and grieving and believing what the FBI was telling them. 13/

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@ijbailey

2 years

This is some background about how this rolled out after the FBI began circulating that false story they got from a jailhouse informant.

'They're monsters:' Brittanee Drexel's mom talks to Dr. Phil about teen's death

Brittanee Drexel's father tells Dr. Phil he handed the teen's killer a missing person flier.

www.syracuse.com

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@ijbailey

7 years

@DanScavino @ericbolling @POTUS @TheFive This clearly shows Bush handed Obama a s-show. Obama cleaned it up and handed Trump an economy on a record-long job creation streak.

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@ijbailey

14 days

What should the punishment be for those who help lie us into disastrous wars of choice that upend entire regions and leaves an ungodly number of innocent people dead?

David Frum

@davidfrum

15 days

No student loan forgiveness for students arrested for disrupting other students' educational activities.

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@ijbailey

8 months

McConnell isn’t too old to be Senate minority leader. He’s too sick and frail to be Senate minority leader. Let’s stop conflating health with age. There are some people older than 81 in good enough health to do all sorts of jobs well, and many who aren’t.

Billy Binion

@billybinion

8 months

Republicans constantly point out that Biden is too old to be president. I agree. In that vein, Mitch McConnell is also way too old to be Senate minority leader. I have compassion for him, but it's bleak that this is a regular display from the most powerful people in the country.

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@ijbailey

4 months

You see, good people. When Bill reaches back into the academic work of a black woman to demonize her because she disagrees with him on things like DEI and the right of students to hold pro-Palestinian views, it’s righteous. When it happens to his wife, it’s an unfair attack.

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

4 months

We do not yet know whether this initiative against my wife @NeriOxman and family is led by the @MIT board, its Chairman Mark Gorenberg and/or the administration or certain member(s) of the faculty. And to be clear, we do not know for a certainty that @MIT is behind this, but we…

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@ijbailey

7 months

Mainstream media must admit this immediately and be transparent about how it screwed up so royally no matter where the story leads: It was highly irresponsible to publish a story as important as the hospital one based on one source without credible-independent confirmation. 1/

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@ijbailey

2 years

The people insisting it was good Kyle Rittenhouse had a gun to protect himself have never said they wished Trayvon Martin had one to protect himself from a guy who chased him down for the sin of walking home from the store. They would have called Martin a thug if he carried one.

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@ijbailey

3 years

FYI: We had 4,100 reported covid deaths today, the most in a single day so far. What a day. What a day.

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@ijbailey

2 months

Why in the hell should heavily-armed representatives of the state give a darn about Senior Skip Day?!!!!

Miami Beach Police

@MiamiBeachPD

2 months

The Miami Beach Police Department has been made aware of a “Senior Skip Day” across Miami-Dade County Schools. Students are to be reminded that skipping school, whether given permission by your parents or not, is considered truancy and you will be taken back to school if caught.

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@ijbailey

2 years

Nobody wanted student loans. People took them as a lifeline out of generational poverty.

Jon Levine

@LevineJonathan

2 years

Nobody *wanted* a PPP loan, people took them as a lifeline when the government forced their businesses to close during the pandemic. Comparing that to student loan forgiveness seems shaky to me

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@ijbailey

2 years

More context on how this family was treated by media and law enforcement. Father and son were accused in horrific crimes for which they did not commit. But their arrests led to this type of framing in media:

Brittanee Drexel: Father, Son Allegedly Implicated in Case Have Previous Arrests

Three men from the same South Carolina family have each allegedly been linked to different crimes against young women – including, with the father and son, the alleged slaying of Brittanee Drexel

people.com

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@ijbailey

3 years

When they tell you that math is always “objective” without reminding you that the people who use math aren’t...

Caroline Ellert

@Caroline_Ellert

3 years

An appraisal valued Carlette’s Indy home at $110K. Then she took out all African artwork, pictures of her family, and had a white, male friend sit in the house posing as her brother. After that? The home was valued at $259K.

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@ijbailey

3 months

Look at the recently-released unedited video - not the version the NYPD initially put out - and the story becomes clear. Cops went up to a group of Hispanic dudes and told them to leave an area, seemingly for the sin of just standing around chilling on the sidewalk. 1/

Scott Hechinger

@ScottHech

3 months

For weeks now, Republicans & Democrats have been raising alarm about an "unprovoked attack" against NYPD in Times Square. NYPD only released a highly edited 45 second video. Now new videos contradict them. Show police illegally harassing & attacking.

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@ijbailey

13 days

Please stop trying to make this point about black students. It means you know next to nothing about what black students have long faced on campus. Good grief.

Bari Weiss

@bariweiss

15 days

For a second, imagine that black students at Columbia were taunted with chants of "Go back to Africa." Or imagine that a gay student at Yale was surrounded by homophobic protesters and hit in the eye with a flagpole. Or imagine if a campus imam told Muslim students that they…

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@ijbailey

2 years

New York Times headline: "Fetterman, Showing Stroke Effects, Battles Oz in Hostile Senate Debate" Philadelphia Inquirer headline: "Pa. Senate Debate: Fetterman and Oz faced off on economic issues, abortion in first and only debate"

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@ijbailey

1 year

Here’s Halle Bailey with her military vet maternal granddad during Bailey-McKelvey Week to celebrate the #LittleMermaid . We call him Mr. Colonel. I’m still waiting on the fish fry and kickball game, which will be held back in our hometown of St. Stephen, SC, this weekend.

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@ijbailey

3 months

Why are they searching for a man doing something not only legal in that state, but an act open-carry activists say makes us all safer?

WJTV 12 News

@WJTV

3 months

#BREAKINGNEWS : Jackson police are searching for a man who was seen with a gun near Jackson State University.

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@ijbailey

5 months

For parents and ambitious students everywhere: You can get a great education at any number of colleges and universities, public and private, no matter where they are ranked compared to other institutions. That's just fact. Really. Seriously. 2/

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@ijbailey

1 year

This began with George Zimmerman but was supercharged by Kyle Rittenhouse. It’s only gotten worse. I don’t think enough people understand how dangerous this mindset is and why it won’t end well.

Thomas Zimmer

@tzimmer_history

1 year

It’s really hard to overstate how acutely dangerous this is: All strands of the Right - leading Republicans, the media machine, the reactionary intellectual sphere, the conservative base, the donor class - are openly and aggressively embracing rightwing vigilante violence.

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@ijbailey

5 months

Except that it doesn’t matter if crime goes up, or down, or stays the same, or is under control, or out of control, we hear the same thing: “In the name of safety, we must police you more and harder, even if that means harming and stealing the rights of innocent people.”

Darvio Morrow

@DTheKingpin

5 months

Remember when I told yall that it’s bad for everybody when crime gets out of control cause when that happens, the government will inevitably overreach in response? Well the overreach has begun.

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@ijbailey

3 years

This doesn't feel like a proportionate consequence for the offense. An angry encounter between strangers in a park doesn't need to be resolved this way.

Frederick Joseph

@FredTJoseph

3 years

I��ve been told that @DerekjAndersen and @bevyhq have let go of Emma Sarley, as her racism against me and fiancé doesn’t align with their values. I hope this is a lesson in accountability and consequences for Emma and others.

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@ijbailey

2 years

@JamesSurowiecki @AnthonyMKreis You really think the conservatives on the court care about that? When they gutted the Voting Rights Act - which is clearly constitutionally and vital - all bets were off. They. Don't. Care.

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@ijbailey

2 years

If I can grow up in the Deep South and endure daily racism from birth without turning anti-white, a white dude can survive a bad 90-minute DEI session without becoming David Duke. That is if he chose not to. 1/

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@ijbailey

2 months

Is there a dumber man on Earth with more unearned confidence than Maher?

RG | Sarge

@RG_Sarge

2 months

NEW: Bill Maher suggests that President Biden should ditch Kamala Harris and replace her with Nikki Haley to help his chances in 2024. Nikki Haley being on the Democrat ticket is actually a perfect fit for her. Maher also said it would be a good fit because Haley is a "woman of…

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@ijbailey

1 year

Sorry, but a hard disagree. Biden's granddaughter was having a private wedding and was deciding who they wanted to cover it. That's all that happened here. To conflate that with the lies told by the Trump administration, or real lies by the Biden administration, is way off.

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

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We cover the small lies politicians tell because they can give way to bigger ones, for folks wondering why this is news. That’s what the press is supposed to do.

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@ijbailey

1 year

Why do y'all hate trans people so much? Please, someone explain. It's beyond irrational.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

1 year

Florida restaurant owner says on Fox Business that Bud Light partnering with a trans person has led to "the most difficult two weeks we've ever experienced in our life."

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@ijbailey

10 months

I did an investigation of local cops awhile back. They said this is what they found suspicious and likely to convince them to make a traffic stop: a young black man obeying all traffic laws. To them, it wasn’t a sign of a law-abiding citizen, but a drug dealer avoiding detection.

🥀_ Imposter_🥀

@Imposter_Edits

10 months

The excuse the cop used for the stop was he was "driving 65 in a 70" When the cop has him stopped he starts fishing, poking around in his business trying to find a reason to escalate the stop. In the end, when the cop realizes he's being filmed, the harassment stops quickly.

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@ijbailey

3 years

@ScottMGreer Did you think for more than 3 seconds before tweeting this?

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@ijbailey

1 year

It was just weeks ago that journalists who raised these types of issues were demeaned by other journalists as "emotional" "woke" "activists" who want to destroy journalistic standards, including at @nytimes . That's what's been so frustrating. 1/

How a Few Stories of Regret Fuel the Push to Restrict Gender Transition Care

In the campaign to ban gender therapies for minors, Republicans have amplified a group of activists who no longer identify as transgender, overriding objections from transgender people and medical...

www.nytimes.com

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@ijbailey

11 months

This profile reveals something I wrote about recently, the growing tendency of top news execs and editors to take on an anti-woke mindset while deluding themselves that they are the ones being "objective". It's clear that applies to Licht. 1/

Inside the Meltdown at CNN

CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?

www.theatlantic.com

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@ijbailey

3 years

Y'all, even Ruby Bridges is Critical Race Theory now @ijbailey

Y'all, even Ruby Bridges is Critical Race Theory now

The little black girl who integrated schools is now a threat to white sensibilities. Or something.

proudblacksoutherner1972.substack.com

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@ijbailey

1 year

A short word from my niece Halle Bailey before the prescreening for #LittleMermaid .

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@ijbailey

4 months

Notice what you don't see in this post by Bill: a call for his wife to be smeared and to resign or be fired from whatever post she now holds. He wants grace for her but had none - absolutely none - for Claudine Gay. The hypocrisy is astonishing, but not surprising at all.

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

4 months

You know that you struck a chord when they go after your wife, in this case my love and partner in life, @NeriOxman . I am one of the most fortunate people in the universe in large part because of Neri. Please see her post below about today’s Business Insider piece about her…

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@ijbailey

1 year

I’ve experienced lots of white Evangelical Christians treating/viewing black Christians like this when we dare not bend the knee to them.

Erick Erickson

@EWErickson

1 year

I didn't realize there was a Christian pastor running in Georgia. I thought it was between Warnock and Walker.

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@ijbailey

4 years

@icecube Quick question, Cube: Do you know which party has been trying to suppress the Black vote and which one has been trying to prevent that suppression?

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@ijbailey

1 year

Not enough free speech folks grapple with how drastically the spread of hate speech can suppress speech overall, especially the speech of those targeted by it.

Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find (Published 2022)

Problematic content and formerly barred accounts have increased sharply in the short time since Elon Musk took over, researchers said.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

This is an even more damning indictment of that CNN "milk" family story this morning. It left out this critical information and said nothing about the fight in DC to extend these benefits to help families like these even more. This type of narrative shapes policy - in bad ways.

Brianna Keilar

@brikeilarcnn

3 years

The child tax credit has been essential for them and they’re very thankful for it. It spared mom and dad from taking on second jobs and helped offset the rising cost of food, gas and utilities, but they’re still feeling the squeeze on their grocery bill.

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1 year

@elonmusk Does this mean you will finally address why you spread an ugly homophobic story about the attack of an 82-year-old man?

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@ijbailey

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@DavidAstinWalsh I don’t get the logic here?

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@ijbailey

5 months

I've taught at public Coastal Carolina University, Harvard's Extension, Columbia University and Davidson College, and have done work at many others. At each of those places, I've found great people doing great work, students, faculty and staff. No lie. 3/

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@ijbailey

5 years

@NumbersMuncher The sentence "AOC is underwater with every demographic group EXCEPT women ... nonwhites ..., 18-34 year olds" is kind of fascinating. You don't see how odd that is?

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@ijbailey

4 months

Dear boys and men, this is the opposite of how a real man would behave in the world, spending lots of time smearing people you disagree with then crying like a toddler when your behavior boomerangs.

DebttoValue

@debttovalue

4 months

@BillAckman Dear boys and men, this is how a real man fights for his wife, family, and children. While many others abandon their families at the first sign of trouble, learn from Bill Ackman's posts what it means to be a man.

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@ijbailey

20 days

You knew the martyrdom was coming. He broke NPR protocol all employees have to adhere to, and repeatedly disparaged his colleagues in an error-filled essay. But he's the real victim. I'm sure Bari Weiss or someone like her will welcome him with open arms.

Uri Berliner

@uberliner

20 days

My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher

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@ijbailey

10 months

This is bullshit. Complete and total. Black people were enslaved BECAUSE of their skills. Can you imagine anyone in polite-mainstream society making this argument about the Holocaust? Of course not. But I’m supposed to believe white supremacy and anti-black racism are behind us.

Acyn

@Acyn

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Watters: No one is arguing slaves benefited from slavery. No one is saying that. It is not true. They are teaching how black people develop skills during slavery in some instances that can be applied for their own personal benefit

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@ijbailey

3 months

They violated this woman in every way possible. Let this sink in: She wasn’t even trying to have an abortion. Her body decided to miscarry. And still, they treated her like a criminal. Yes, I believe race played a role.

Ben Crump

@AttorneyCrump

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Brittany Watts, the Ohio woman charged with a felony crime after suffering a miscarriage at 21 weeks, speaks out for the first time to tell her story and educate the public so her tragedy doesn’t repeat itself with anyone else.

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@ijbailey

2 years

Reminder: "In California, many public schools were closed well into the 2020-21 school year, and some students never saw a classroom that year. But the declines were similar to those in Texas and Florida, where schools were ordered to reopen much sooner."

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@ijbailey

4 months

This is what you call plain talk, straight-up truth telling.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 months

Crockett to Republicans: "Let me tell you why nobody wants to talk to you behind closed doors -- because y'all lie."

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@ijbailey

5 months

This is the dumbest, most ill-informed thing I’ve ever heard Fareed say. I suspect he’ll pat himself on the back for supposedly being brave, but top journalists are not simply supposed to go where the wind blows. We are supposed to think deeply and report completely. He failed.

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@ijbailey

4 months

South Carolinian here. This is utter horseshit. Haley is a racial opportunist. She wasn't the reason the flag came down. It came down because 9 black people were slaughtered by a white supremacist. Haley spent most of her tenure defending the flag. THAT was her position.

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

4 months

Haley: "I knew half of South Carolinians saw the Confederate flag as heritage and tradition ... my job wasn't to judge either side ... that is the way we have to work on issues that try and divide us ... a leader doesn't decide who's right."

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I know I’m just supposed to just accept these things or be labeled a poll truther or someone with my head buried in the sand, but I’m stubborn. Blame my mama. Please read Nate’s analysis before you read my short thread about this analysis. I don’t want to bias you first. 1/

Nate Silver

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2 months

Democrats are quite rapidly losing support among Black, Hispanic and Asian American voters in polls and at least some recent election results.

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@ijbailey

10 months

It’s astounding that we are back to the happy slaves version of American history this late into the 21st century, but far from surprising. The Lost Cause 2.0 is in full effect. If you ever wondered why there was such a violent reaction to #1619Project , now you know.

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@ijbailey

2 months

Even after news like today, folks will find a way to spit on Meghan Markle, even though she has absolutely nothing to do with this. Just...amazing.

Caitlin Flanagan

@CaitlinPacific

2 months

Maybe Kate's prolonged and worrisome convalescence *wasn't* the right time for Meghan Markle to launch "American Riviera Orchard?"

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@ijbailey

2 years

Letting kindergartners know about the existence of gay and trans people is no more teaching them about sex than allowing teachers in traditional marriages to display a photo of their spouse in the classroom.

Erick Erickson

@EWErickson

2 years

I’ll never understand how it is conservatives are the “culture warriors” for thinking maybe we don’t need to teach kindergarteners about sex.

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5 months

Again: The vast majority of qualified students will not get into their top choice of school - because there are not enough slots! That's THE reason why you are unlikely to get in, not because someone else "stole" your place or that those slots are going to the unqualified. 8/

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10 months

@CathyYoung63 @dadmetalfan You realize these were real-live people who had lives in African before they were stolen, right? You think they all were just standing around doing nothing waiting to be enslaved, that they needed no skills to live in Africa? Are you kidding me?!

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5 months

What's frustrated me about this particular conversation, though, is that a small group of Asian-American students were used to advance anti-black narratives and stereotypes that were essentially codified by the Supreme Court to uproot affirmative action. 7/

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@ijbailey

1 year

My God, the number of candlelight vigils, sermons from the black pulpit, programs and non-profits and mentorship efforts, and so much more, in Chicago and elsewhere is too large to count. Only willful arrogant ignorance makes all of that invisible to you.

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@ijbailey

2 years

I'm still not sure enough of us understand what's happening. Tens of millions of Americans believe things like "Dems are running a child sex rink and drink the blood of children and Donald Trump is going to stop them" conspiracy theories. And it's not just on the fringe.

Ben Collins

@oneunderscore__

2 years

lol I'm doing great. The people who spent the weekend writing Paul Pelosi erotica on 4chan, though? I'm not so sure.

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6 years

@EdWhelanEPPC Seriously? It wasn't possible for teenagers to travel 10 miles to a party back then?

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@ijbailey

2 years

Listening back to some of the podcasts that dealt with this case is painful. This one includes Drexel’s father. While I empathize with him, it’s still hard to hear him describe the Taylor family in such ugly ways. Listen to the final 22 minutes.

‎Pauly Guglielmo Show: 12 - Chad Drexel (What Really Happened To Brittanee Drexel) on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Pauly Guglielmo Show, Ep 12 - Chad Drexel (What Really Happened To Brittanee Drexel) - Jul 12, 2020

podcasts.apple.com

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@ijbailey

3 months

So let me get this straight. Israel made ugly allegations against a dozen people in a 13,000-person humanitarian organization who routinely let Israel vet its employees. They provided no evidence. Without an investigation, the U.S. cut off funding to millions of starving people?

jeremy scahill

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Israel’s so-called UNRWA dossier, which was laundered by the US government and the WSJ as some smoking gun, has now been seen by other media. Channel 4 says it “provides no evidence to support its explosive new claim that UNRWA staff were involved with terror attacks on Israel."

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This is a major reason why there’s huge opposition to things like DEI and the #1619project , because lots of folks are convinced that (white) America was more unified when there was mass ignorance about how this country really came to be.

Etan Thomas

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2 months

Tom Hanks discusses never being taught about the Tulsa Massacre

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@ijbailey

5 months

To parents of ambitious students: Don't waste your money with essay consultants and the like. They improve your admissions odds only slightly. Invest more time in helping your kid understand who they are and want to become and use that as the basis for the college search. 14/

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@ijbailey

5 years

@NumbersMuncher @HC_Richardson I think you’re missing the point. Your framing is problematic. Not sure why that’s so hard to see.

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7 months

What Norman says here is absolutely true, even though many in media don't want to admit it. Also, there's this: In times of crises, Democrats have been willing to compromise even when it hurt their political prospects. The GOP has not. A few examples... 1/

Norman Ornstein

@NormOrnstein

7 months

There is a lot of commentary on why Nancy Pelosi was able to succeed with the thinnest of majorities while Kevin McCarthy failed miserably. Of course, the biggest reason is Pelosi’s skill and tenacity. There is more. Democrats, who have many factions, want to solve problems 1/

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It's true that the more elite universities and colleges have more resources per capita, which provides students a wider variety of opportunities not available at schools who don't have the same level of resources. But that's not the only thing that makes for a great education. 4/

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@ijbailey

5 months

I get the allure of the elite institutions. I really do. But you should not be disappointed or terrified because you had to "settle" for some college that isn't an Ivy or near-Ivy. You can launch yourself into a successful career, and life, from any number of places. 6/

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@ijbailey

5 months

Y'all. I've done a little digging to figure out who this woman is. She's one of the sources that pushed the bizarre - and very false - claim that hospitals in NC were transitioning toddlers.

Fact check: Are NC hospitals providing gender transition treatments to 'toddlers?'

Duke Health, UNC Health and ECU Health rebutted social media claims that their systems provide transition care to toddlers.

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Sloan Rachmuth

@SloanRachmuth

5 months

Jew hater Isaac Bailey made a visit to my feed today. He is a columnist with @theobserver and a professor at @DavidsonCollege . Let’s check in to see if he’s creating a hostile environment for Jewish students. He spends his days trolling Jews on this platform. @ijbailey

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5 months

Parents of ambitious kids: It's the rare college or university where your bright kid can't make a name for him or herself, can't carve out their own path. If that's what they want, they can be well prepared even at schools that don't have massive endowments. 5/

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@ijbailey

4 months

Surely we should not “lower standards” on a subject as important as plagiarism for a wealthy white woman when we refused to “lower standards” for a wealthy black woman. Right?

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

4 months

A few questions: How can one defend oneself against an accusation of plagiarizing Wikipedia for a dissertation written 15 years ago in 2009? Isn’t the whole point of Wikipedia that it is a dynamic source of info that changes minute by minute based on edits and contributions…

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I’m not the originator of this point, but it’s an important one concerning “objectivity” journalism. @nytimes recently released a poll saying most Biden voters think he’s too old. Why didn’t they ask Trump voters if being held liable for rape by a court makes Trump unfit? 1/

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@ijbailey

1 year

I'm gonna go out on a very strong limb and say that it is very easy to understand the difference between educational debt and vacation home debt and why it's in the public interest to cancel the former and not the latter.

Sarah Isgur

@whignewtons

1 year

“If Trump tried to unilaterally order the cancellation of vacation home mortgage debt, a lot more people would recognize the problem. But because young people…feel like it should happen—many in the press think it’s complicated or entirely justifiable.”

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@ijbailey

2 years

The real problem? Covid ignited a public health crisis in a country drunk on the myth of individualism when only collective effort and selflessness can win the day. Differences in risk tolerance is a part of this. But the heart of it is the lie that we are only individuals.

Ezra Klein

@ezraklein

2 years

I'm seeing this too, and I...don't think it's great. There are more options here than, as @EricTopol puts it, inevitability vs. avoidance. This is what I've been trying to tease out pushing for a clearer description of goals.

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4 months

I spent weeks shouting that ousting Harvard’s president under these circumstances would worsen higher education, our discourse and lead to more witch hunts. The Very Serious People said I was just being tribal and lowering standards for a black woman. Well, look where we are now.

Bill Ackman

@BillAckman

4 months

This is an excellent idea. We will review the work of the reporters and staff at BI for completeness.

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@ijbailey

2 years

I don’t buy these arguments, that “the left made me” conservative or reactionary. People should own their choices instead of pretending the only reason they did what they did is because of others. It’s lazy and the opposite of personal responsibility.

Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

2 years

Michelle Goldberg: "This vibe shift was predictable; when the left becomes grimly censorious, it incubates its own opposition."

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