Jack Herrera @jherrerx Twitter profile

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Jack Herrera

@jherrerx

4 years

Hi, I'm a reporter: Are you a landlord whose tenants missed rent, and so you're now trying to figure out how to evict them this month? If so, please get in touch. It's not for a story, I just want to beat your ass

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Talked with a cop outside the grocery. She said shoplifting of food has gone up, and I said "That's sad—so many people have gotten desperate during the pandemic." And she said "Well it's mostly homeless people; I haven't caught many normal people stealing" ...

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CDC says ponte Vicks y ya

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4 years

Journalists: Are you available for an interview in the next 89 seconds? Also journalists: Hey so sorry it’s taken me 30 weeks to reply to this email

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3 years

We toss around the word "dehumanization" often enough that it's easy to forget that it's a coherent, easily observable process.

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4 years

Folks in my mentions defending landlords, uh, *evicting people during a pandemic* should know that bootlicking can spread the virus

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8 months

Feinstein dies, suspect arrested in Tupac’s murder case, New York is underwater. God is doing a classic Friday newsdump

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4 years

BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the Mesa Verde detention center just announced a labor strike: "Mesa Verde runs off of our labor. We are the ones who prepare and serve the food, who clean the bathrooms and the dorms. We are paid $5 per week for our official jobs..." 1/x

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Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He wrote this poem in 2013.

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4 years

I hate that "diversity" in newsrooms is framed as a social justice issue and not a journalistic failure. It should be clear: Out-of-touch white pubs spent decades ignoring police brutality bc their limited experience w police blinded them to what policing looks like for black ppl

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Jack Herrera

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7 months

I'm proud our paper has the integrity to independently investigate all claims. Politicians will always criticize journalists for doing our jobs. But we've learned our lessons: "Iraqi has WMDs"; "Palestinians killed Shireen Abu Akleh"; "We blew up Kunduz hospital by accident"

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7 months

Below is today’s lead headline at @latimes . The Times simply accepts what terrorist organization Hamas said even though it’s false. This both sides journalism is factually wrong. A true headline would say “Rage spreads over Gaza hospital blast amid false narrative from Hamas.”

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4 years

During the Bush admin, the average number of detained immigrants increased from 19,500 to 31,700. In 2003 he also, uh, created ICE.

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

Got verified. Please use usted when addressing me in Spanish now

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@weischoice Gonna get into loose leaf tea

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4 years

idk I just think it's a bad idea to let uber literally write laws

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3 years

Biden's pick for DHS, Alejandro Mayorkas, came to the US from Cuba as a refugee. It is important to remember that, when it comes to the agency that oversees ICE and CBP, identity can mean very little. The current head of ICE under Trump, Tony Pham, is a Vietnamese refugee. 1/2

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

This BS rhetoric has a deep legacy in US history. Prior to the Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese immigrants were portrayed in the press as a "diseased horde." The US has more Covid cases THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. And asylum seekers are not at fault.

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3 months

What gets me f*cked up is that fact that these "nontraditional media forms" are not new kinds of media! TikTok news anchors literally make our stories their video backgrounds Social media's profit model is using our work and not to paying us for it. It's a rip-off engine.

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Jack Herrera

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2 years

DHS and Border Patrol are working together to eventually deploy Ghost Robotic's "dogs" on the border, in particular desert terrain. Terminator dogs will supposedly act as a "force multiplier" for CBP in patrols and interdiction.

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4 years

Just wanna make sure non-West Coast people know that the effects of the smoke aren't just that it smells bad and looks like actual hell—it makes people sick. My partner and I had to do a drive today and we've been nauseated and migrained since

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

44% of the families locked up in ICE detention right now are Haitian. "Every single aspect of the immigration system is nasty, but the U.S. makes it especially nasty if you’re Black," says Joyce Louis-Jean in a pre-recorded video.

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3 years

This should be bigger news: ICE has been mistakenly arresting, detaining, and even deporting *US citizens.* Journalists have been reporting on this phenomenon for years, and now an internal government review confirms it:

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4 years

, and the rest we do for free. We will not work and we will not collaborate with @GEOGroup . We refuse to make it easier for you to continue unnecessarily caging and murdering us.” 2/x

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Jack Herrera

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2 years

Will we accept Ukrainian refugees? The US has condemned Maduro but has slammed the door on Venezuelan refugees. The US condemns Assad but hosts less that .3 percent of the world's Syrian refugees. The US condemns the Taliban, but only evacuated special visa holders.

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Jack Herrera

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7 months

Not okay with people referring to Selena Gomez as just "Selena." Only one Selena, we retired that jersey. Call her Selena Gomez.

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4 months

BREAKING: The entire Austin Bureau* of the LA Times has walked out. *it’s just me

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4 years

This election could possibly mean the end of MPP refugee camps on the border; alternatively, it could mean the complete end of the US refugee system as we know it. In other words, this vote means a lot more to the people living in tents in Matamoros than to most of us.

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4 years

There's a simultaneous hunger strike in the Yuba County Jail. In communication with one another, the people detained in Yuba's immigration pod and the people in Mesa Verde have drafted unified demands, in solidarity with one another: 3/x

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4 years

The hunger and labor strikers addressed demands to @GavinNewsom and @XavierBecerra : 1. Stop transferring people who are released from California custody into ICE detention centers; 2. Halt the expansion of immigration detention facilities in the state... (cont) 4/x

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

Looking over Biden's current list of transition plans, I don't see any planned action on ICE detention, the "Remain in Mexico" plan, or the CDC asylum ban. That could of course change in the weeks to come, but right now thousands of lives are in the balance. Thread: 1/7

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4 years

@amalykinz happy to share my sources if you also want to beat they ass!

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2 years

Actual sentence from this brief: "In this case, Man’s best friend comes with a very futuristic twist."

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3 years

If Mexico develops a vaccine they should call it Pfabuloso

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4 years

3. Immediately inspect all ICE facilities in the state to oversee the standards of care in these facilities and independently investigate the deaths that have occurred there during the pandemic. For background: 5/x

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4 months

Well that was a waste. Got laid off today, and locked out of my company accounts. Had a feeling I was playing myself lol

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4 months

Monday. Rushing to finish up an investigation and other long-term projects in case I'm laid off this month

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4 years

Biden was these families’ last hope. I hope he doesn’t let them down now.

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4 months

I'd give up if I thought journalism was the pony express, and the steam engine had just rolled into town. But it's not. The work hasn't been obviated. You still need us. AI can't write shit without us reporting and writing it first. We gotta keep at it, cause someone has to

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4 years

Now that white & non-black journalists are taking rubber bullets to the face, the industry is finally realizing that police brutality is a fact of life in the US. There should be a reckoning among the white old guard about how much they failed in their mission to report the news

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Jack Herrera

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1 year

In June, I'll start as a national correspondent for the @latimes . For now I'm staying in ATX, but I'll cover everything from here to the Sierras. Gonna see how many ways I can get my boots dirty: in caliche dust, dune sand, Rio Bravo mud, alpine scree, etc

Jack Herrera to join The Times as a national correspondent focused on the American West

He most recently worked at Texas Monthly and was recognized in March by the American Society for Magazine Editors with a Next Award for journalists under 30.

www.latimes.com

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

The border has been closed to asylum seekers for a year, allegedly because of the pandemic makes it too risky to admit them. Yesterday I crossed the border into the US in 10 mins. My temp was not taken. No one asked me a single question about potential symptoms or exposure.

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

In January I’ll move to Austin to work as a staff writer for @TexasMonthly (w/ the title senior editor). I’m coming in with the humility of an outsider, but also with nostalgia: Herreras have lived in what’s now Texas for 400 years. I’m going south to spend time with this history

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4 years

They also issued the following demands to @ICEgov , @geogroup , and the Yuba County Sheriff's Department: 6/End

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

Many people are about to start their first journalism jobs in the midst of a rough year. I want to be a resource that I wish I had had: I live with bipolar disorder. If you want to talk through working in journalism while dealing with mental health, my DMs are very open

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

Obama deported more people, at a faster rate, than any other president in history. Obama deported 3,066,457 people (that’s greater than the population of Mississippi). At ~383,000 ppl/year, Obama’s deportation rate is far greater than Trump’s ~275,000 ppl/year removal rate.

justice for #WinRozario

@aaronnarraph

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Deportations are a right-wing, white supremacist policy that Democrats should have abolished decades ago.

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

The Coalition on Homelessness ( @TheCoalitionSF ) helps unhoused people organize to fight for basic human rights and to find solutions to my city’s homelessness crisis. Please consider donating:

Coalition on Homelessness

Since 1987 we have organized alongside homeless people and front line service providers to create permanent solutions to homelessness. In 2020 we will continue to build power and fight back: We will...

coalition.networkforgood.com

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4 years

🚨People detained by ICE in the Mesa Verde detention center began a hunger strike today in honor of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor: "Almost all of us have also suffered through our country's corrupt and racist criminal justice system before being pushed into the hands of ICE.”

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

Extreme drought in Madagascar, Brazil, Hawaii, and California. Hottest temperatures in history in western Canada, Mexico, Moscow, Finland, Utah, UK, and California. Horrific floods in China, India, Indonesia, and Germany. Forest fires in Siberia & Canada.

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

There are multiple active lawsuits against private prison companies that allege that these $1-a-day type jobs in ICE detention amount to forced labor. More here:

In ICE Detention, Forced to Pay for Soap

The for-profit model of private prison contractors has created artificial scarcity—and serious danger during the pandemic.

www.thenation.com

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4 years

Miles Taylor, now best known as the author of the "Anonymous" op-ed, also had a major role in some of these greatest hits: -Family separation, which he helped implement during his time at DHS -The "Remain in Mexico" plan, which has created refugee camps on the border

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Jack Herrera

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3 months

In 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a law that granted amnesty to 2.9 million undocumented immigrants. It notably did not create a one-party Republican state.

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Biden’s strategy is very simple: 1. Get as many illegals in the country as possible. 2. Legalize them to create a permanent majority – a one-party state. That is why they are encouraging so much illegal immigration. Simple, yet effective.

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10 months

Spoke to 15 ppl experiencing homelessness in Phoenix this afternoon, where it’s 116F. Four were Native—Navajos. Native people are 2.8 percent of Maricopa County, but represent 6 percent of the unhoused population. But hundreds more Natives were forced on the streets in May. 1/3

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3 years

An editor asking if we could “hop on a call to talk about your draft” fills me with the same dread as my mom texting me “call me” at 11pm

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11 months

People forget, but Wyoming was México

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5 years

To state that Mexicans (a) experience privileges Central Americans do not and (b) often contribute to the oppression of Central Americans, in particular native people, is not the same thing as saying Mexicans don't also experience oppression. This isn't difficult, compas

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4 years

The majority of families locked in the Berks ICE family detention center are Black, according to @BridgetCambria8 . I'm live tweeting @RAICESTEXAS 's FB live stream, "Immigration is a Black Issue." 1/x

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

Considering switching careers from “journalism” to “being really hot on Instagram”

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4 years

Just spoke to a man in ICE detention in Jefferson County Jail, TX. He told me 8 ppl in his 24 person cell, including himself, have coughs, shortness of breath, fevers. They’ve sought medical attention, but have only been given “pills for pain” when they visit the clinic 1/2

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Jack Herrera

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3 years

More relevant is Mayorkas's policy experience. As head of USCIS under Obama, he was instrumental in crafting the DACA program. But he also spent his first years at USCIS retooling the agency to go after fraud—a function of USCIS that has been supercharged under Trump. 2/2

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Jack Herrera

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3 months

“Back to you, just small edits”

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getting praise at work for what I thought was the bare minimum

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3 months

So many huge accounts on TikTok, IG, FB make their bread by reposting/riffing off of real journalists' original work. Google makes its money by bringing you the answers journalists found. All these companies are making billions off of people looking for *our work*

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4 years

Wait....you're trying to tell me that Latinxs in different parts of the country....vote differently? Do white people in different states also vote differently??

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4 years

Reporters need to ask ourselves how we would report this story if it were a foreign country. Trump has repeatedly said he's sending federal agents specifically to cities run by "liberal Democrats." If a LatAm leader was sending troops to opposition-led cities, we'd call it a coup

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2 years

In the 20s, movie execs brought a herd of buffalo to Catalina to serve as a backdrop to westerns being filmed there. Buffalo are still on the island today. I'm hoping that the money behind this movie will build a high speed real to NY and then just leave it there for us to use

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@DiscussingFilm

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The English-language ‘TRAIN TO BUSAN’ remake is reportedly titled ‘LAST TRAIN TO NEW YORK’. (Source: Deadline)

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3 years

Guatemala: Where the CIA deposed a democratically elected president and pushed the country into a civil war where US-backed death squads committed genocide against Indigenous ppls. The country was split up among US corps like a fiefdom. Now Harris tells Guatemalans not to come

The Recount

@therecount

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“I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.” — VP Kamala Harris during news conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei

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So many parts of this are inexplicable: Why are pepper flakes in a dime bag? Who is shooting up olive oil? Does someone intend to snort finishing salt? But the part that does makes sense is the Colombian Peso, cause this is the NY Post and so the content has gotta be mad racist

New York Post

@nypost

3 years

Oregon law decriminalizing all street drugs goes into effect

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

ICE, CBP, and now DEA are now all being re-tasked to engage in police counter-protest. This is an unprecedented expansion of federal power within the States, and we're kidding ourselves if we think it's going to go away anytime soon.

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"The Drug Enforcement Administration has been granted sweeping new authority to “conduct covert surveillance” and collect intelligence on people participating in protests over the police killing of George Floyd" according to memo obtained by @BuzzFeedNews :

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4 years

More people have died in ICE custody the first nine months of this year than any full year in the past decade

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NEW: A 50-year-old Honduran man who had been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody died at a Texas hospital after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a source with knowledge of the death.

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3 years

Whenever there’s political unrest in the US, the media elite immediately starts saying, “what are we, brown people???”

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Jake Tapper: “I feel like I’m talking to a correspondent in... Bogota.” - sure, just throw out the first Latin American capital that occurs to you

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3 years

On the first day of Black History Month, ICE deported dozens of Black families, many with infants, in the midst of pandemic. To an island with less than 100 ventilators for a population of 11 million.

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@JakobJohnston

3 years

Today, @ICEgov removed 102 Haitians on a charter flight from San Antonio, Texas to Port-au-Prince, including 17 children aged 2 and under. In the middle of a pandemic, and in the middle of a political crisis in Haiti. Another #ICEAir flight is scheduled for Thursday.

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There's a market for journalism, there's a market for reporting, there's a market for analysis. The reason journalism is dying is because these fucking tech bros know that, and they had the genius idea to create "platforms" that can get people to pay *them* for *our* work

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3 years

One of those moments where it becomes painfully obvious that “illegal” is just a racial slur

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@obedmanuel

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The New York Post is really calling people who are in their own countries "illegals."

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3 years

“I told the refugees to stay in their own fucking country Joe”

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1 year

This is a small but shocking victory for the Uvalde families. HB 2744, the bill they're in Austin championing, would raise the minimum age to buy an assault rifle from 18 to 21. As early as this morning, the Republican chairman said he wouldn't even bring it to a committee vote.

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BREAKING: HB 2744 is reported favorably 8-5. By my initial count, 2 Republicans vote for the bill. Room breaks out into applause (missed one senate bill before the vote)

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4 years

@gabydvj Someday cultural studies students are going to watch “Cats” in classes on the decline of American empire

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4 years

Okay glad it’s not just me

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1 year

Crazy that some kid that looks like this is on top of the Billboard 100 singing corridos tumbados

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3 months

Need to travel from the 10th largest city in the United States to the 4th largest tomorrow. It’s a 2 hour and 45 minutes drive, just barely over 150 miles. Here’s my public transit option.

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3 years

As a reporter I was adversarial and suspicious of the Trump administration, and I will be adversarial and suspicious of the Biden administration. These are the most powerful people on earth. I don't care that the press sec is friendlier now

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4 years

Are there careers that don't involve being incredibly stressed all the time

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3 years

Yeah sex is great but have you ever been just literally left alone in peace

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4 years

Confirmation from @TheNation that the unmarked agents in Portland are CBP’s specialized BORTAC unit. @kenklippenstein got a hold of an internal PR memo about how to respond to questions about the arrests.

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Jack Herrera

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4 years

I just spoke to a Salvadoran mother detained with her 8-year-old son in a family detention center in Texas. She described how, yesterday, ICE offered her an awful choice: Stay in detention with her son, or agree to being separated, and have him released to a sponsor. 1/5

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Reporting this week from our climate future: Phoenix, going into its 18th day in a row with heat over 110 Fahrenheit, with no end in sight. Last time the heat was this high, for this long, was 1974. Even a city as adapted for heat as Phoenix is struggling.

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4 years

@kenklippenstein Today was not a Good Day

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4 months

real quick, here's the front page article I published two days before getting laid off

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4 years

Lol republicans spent $10,000,000 trying to unseat AOC and lost by 37%

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3 years

Thought of a new engagement strategy, I’m going to post a link to my own articles with the caption “why isn’t the media talking about this??”

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4 years

🚨BREAKING: Attorneys working with immigrant families detained with children in the South Texas FRC and Karnes FRC confirmed to me that ICE is requesting families sign a binary choice form: the choice bw indefinite detention and family separation. 1/3

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4 years

This is insane. There’s now going to be zero accountability in ICE detention centers ***because the official govt watchdog thinks the detention centers are TOO DANGEROUS for their own people to enter***

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5 months

I've often wondered what explains the disintegration of the pro-immigrant coalition that formed under Trump. In 2018, these same measures would've seen protests in the streets. No longer. I have two hypotheses: 1/4

Camilo Montoya-Galvez

@camiloreports

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NEWS — The Biden administration has indicated to Congress that it's open to a new Title 42-like border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as an expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to get GOP to back Ukraine aid.

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4 years

@Moony20044 this is the sort of landlord response I welcome!

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3 years

No matter how successful I become in journalism, my friends who went into tech and finance are always going to treat me like I’m pursuing a funky hobby

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4 years

Tear gas (CS) is designed to cause so much pain and psychological distress that it forces crowds to dissipate and retreat. Shooting it into a crowd of people who have no place to run is akin to torture

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Vine St. Expressway, Philly. THEY ARE LITERALLY TRAPPED.

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3 years

it's truly unbelievable how good food is in Mexico

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4 years

@madeleinewhat I say “did you know that guy was a eugenicist?” at least 5 times a week

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5 years

Silicon Valley's grift works by vacuuming up kids who have always been told they're special. It trains them, convincing them they're altruists. And then it puts them to work at fucking Snapchat, where they remain somehow convinced they're making the world a better place.

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@jherrerx

2 years

The US is quick to condemn. But when people come to our country, fleeing the same atrocities we so vigorously condemn, we slam the door in their faces. Today and in years to come Biden has a chance to prove he actually cares about the Ukrainian people, and not just geopolitics

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Jack Herrera

@jherrerx

3 years

Sometimes I think about how Lin-Manuel cast Black people as white slave owners, but couldn't bring himself to cast Black people as NYC Dominicans

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Jack Herrera

@jherrerx

3 years

Useful reporter tip: Just because it’s your first time hearing about something doesn’t mean that it’s the first time anyone has heard about it

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Jack Herrera

@jherrerx

4 years

Someday I want a job where I dont literally have to beg people to send me the money that they owe me for work Ive already done

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