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Lydia Polreen

@lpolgreen

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@lpolgreen
Lydia Polreen
2 years
The dissonance on the timeline between Roe news and Met Gala is truly unbearable.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Oh you mean, the ancient civilization that has recognized third gender identities for hundreds of years thanks to cultural categories like hijras and kothis? Ok!
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Jason S. Campbell
1 year
Ben Shapiro: "Starbucks is now exporting the transness to India"
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
Not to get in the way of anyone’s schadenfreude but: Is anyone else super creeped out that there is night vision video of the audience of a random regional performance of a musical?
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1 year
India had been losing its democracy slowly. Now its happening all at once. This is a classic move in the elected autocrat playbook: use a pliant justice system to make your most powerful opponents ineligible to run against you.
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1 year
I'll never forget @connie_walker telling me how her in the late 1970s, her father, then a policeman, pulled over a man for driving erratically. It turns out he knew the man. He was a Catholic priest who had abused him at a residential school for indigenous children.
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1 year
My wife @candyfight who literally spent years photographing transgender women in India just said "Wow are they also exporting ‘chai tea’ to india too?"
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Lydia Polreen
11 months
I really admire how Oliver has done his job over this insane period. Total pro and unflinching in covering his own shop.
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Oliver Darcy
11 months
Bulletin: Chris Licht is out at CNN.
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
Lol is this a picture of Northampton Mass
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8 months
Democrats will never win small-town America again.
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Lydia Polreen
11 months
Happy Loving day from the child of an interracial marriage who is in a long and happy interracial same sex marriage! Lets keep all those unions protected!
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Libraries are so important for vulnerable kids - a free, safe place to go after school and on weekends. This is a terrible proposal.
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Emma G. Fitzsimmons
1 year
Here’s the statement from New York City’s three library systems about Mayor Eric Adams’s proposed budget cuts: “We would need to suspend Saturday service at a number of locations… and completely eliminate Sunday service.”
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Lydia Polreen
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@mckaycoppins God bless. The children need to be taught!
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Guns.
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Tom Gara
1 year
It’s amazing how cigarettes kill their users in such a direct and unambiguous way and they’re still legal, is there anything else like it?
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Listen to this amazing show wherever you get your podcasts.
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Lydia Polreen
10 months
A hill I will die on: Fauci telling people masks are not needed early in the pandemic despite evidence that they were caused incalculable damage to government credibility.
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Jennifer Senior
10 months
Wonderfully sophisticated analysis of this moment from ⁦ @michelleinbklyn ⁩. A true old-school reported essay. I’ll be thinking about it all day, I’m sure.
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Lydia Polreen
2 years
Some personal news!
@NYTimesPR
NYTimes Communications
2 years
We’re excited to announce that @lpolgreen will return to The Times as the newest columnist for @NYTOpinion
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1 year
@thomaschattwill Was the Montgomery bus boycott madness too? Because one could apply the same logic!
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Lydia Polreen
7 months
“Breeding ground for aggressive lesbians” - way to threaten me with a good time.
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7 months
Unfortunately this is very funny
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
I am not sure how you recover any kind of sense of safety in the world after a trauma like this. I grieve for this child and hope he can find some measure of peace and comfort.
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Seung Min Kim
1 year
Just devastasting. Ralph Yarl’s mother, Cleo Nagbe, says her son is “able to communicate mostly when he feels like it, but mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.”
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But the answers she found point to a civilizational crime. The genocide of a whole culture and way of life. Children ripped from their homes and forced to live in horrific conditions with priests and nuns who sexually and physically abused them.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Can someone please write the definitive piece on whatever the hell is going on with the NY Democratic party? Asking for myself.
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Lydia Polreen
10 months
One thing that this Supreme Court has made clear: *theoretical* harms to the holders of status quo power must be addressed with urgency. *Actual* harms to out groups must be ignored or or better still declared a figment of a long ago past.
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He beat the man to a pulp and left him by the side of the road. She told me she wanted to find out who that priest was, and what he had done to her father. I wanted to know too. It was the beginning of an incredibly arduous reporting journey.
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Lydia Polreen
9 months
Ramaswamy is the perfect politician for late capitalism - he somehow got very rich while producing nothing of value.
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We need Vivek as our paramount leader because we need to build an America where everyone can become rich off a failed company whose investors lost all their money when the company cratered.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Turkish election is the biggest story in the world right now. If Erdogan goes it is a hopeful sign that elected autocrats can and do lose power, despite their seeming omnipotence.
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Kilicdaroglu: “we are ahead”
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
The crimes against indigenous people, committed by settlers in countries across the globe, must be answered with justice. There are many kinds of justice, and @connie_walker 's storytelling is a powerful step along the road to true accountability.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Connie is the most dogged and indefatigable reporter I have ever known. She will run down any document, find people long hidden, unearth buried secrets. The story she tells in Stolen is the story of her family, yes.
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1 year
Connie approached the most intimate of stories - that of her own father and family - with the meticulous care of the first rate investigative reporter she is. They found and named abusers. They held institutions to account.
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Lydia Polreen
10 months
"An obvious lesson from the gargantuan success of both “Barbie” and the Eras Tour is that there is a huge, underserved market for entertainment that takes the feelings of girls and women seriously."
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1 year
Even more importantly - they kept the stories and agency of victims at the heart of their work. At Connie's insistence, Episode 4 features the voices of survivors, in their own words, unmediated by narration. It is a devastating episode.
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Lydia Polreen
11 months
Support for same sex marriage in the US remains above 70%, per new Gallup poll. Republicans at 49 percent; weekly church goers at 41%. Interestingly, people who attend church nearly weekly/monthly support it at 67%.
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Lydia Polreen
7 months
Some real hateful stuff from Ramaswamy on trans kids which is not surprising but also just so cruel and awful.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
I am so grateful that Connie chose to tell this story, and that she trusted me and the team at Gimlet to do help her do it justice. It is an incredible piece of work and I hope you will listen to it.
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1 year
This madness is weird and unpopular.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Why do we remember some things and forget others? @maddow 's terrific new podcast about a forgotten anti-semitic sedition plot, abetted in part by sitting members of congress, got me thinking about whether and how we'll remember Jan. 6th.
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The absolute disgust this judge has for queer people, coupled with his total contempt for the bedrock concepts of the American constitution, is breathtaking. Same judge as the abortion pill ruling. Just making things up, legislating from the bench based on his prejudiuces.
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Mark Joseph Stern
8 months
Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk refuses to grant relief to Texas college students who may be punished for hosting a drag show. His condemns drag as “vulgar and lewd” “sexualized conduct” that harms children and is likely unprotected by the First Amendment.
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
Everyone knows that in a real “democracy” your opponents accidentally fall out of windows or ingest errant nerve agents.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
I went to Alabama last month to try to understand the strange whiplash I've been feeling lately as a queer person. I met some extraordinary people. These are their stories, and mine.
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
This is such a great example of the time tax - saddling doctors with this admin work gums up the whole system and hurts patients.
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Christopher Ingraham🦗
8 months
Infuriating datapoint on why American medical care is so expensive: a single New Mexico oncology practice spends $350,000 a year fighting insurance company coverage denials.
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7 months
Crucial context on the relationship between Hamas and the people of Gaza.
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Hamas was elected in 2006 and has never allowed another election since. They never won a majority of the votes, and most of the Gazan population today was too young to be eligible to vote in 2006.
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1 year
One of my most prized honors: being named an honorary Sister of Perpetual Indulgence by the amazing queers I met in Birmingham, Alabama last year. These are incredible people helping alleviate suffering in their community. The Dodgers don’t deserve to be associated with them.
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NYT Sports
1 year
The Dodgers, caught off guard by the blowback to their decision to rescind a Pride Night invitation to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, are internally discussing potential compromise solutions, according to a team official. Via @ScottMillerBbl
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
@hl_rowe It is even worse than you think!
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
The MAGA base is a minority group in American politics whose needs we must all apparently bend over backwards to accommodate. This was the "lesson" many journalism leaders took from 2016 and are now fighting the same war. It is nuts.
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there is something to write about how folks like licht insist on transmogrifying the trump base — a distinct minority of americans — into something like a majority
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Republicans seem to think that transphobia is the perfect post-Roe wedge issue. But the abject cruelty of their post-Roe lawmaking blitz has only alienated the swing voters wedge issues are meant to peel off.
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Lydia Polreen
10 months
My spidey sense tells me Twitter is about to turn on menswear guy. Watch this space.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
The real welfare queen.
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1 year
George Santos, who's currently demanding stricter work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries, is accused of fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary, a felony offense.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
A gentle reminder that you don't need to watch the video. You can know the horror of what happened without watching it. It is ok not to watch.
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Lydia Polreen
9 months
What's more - there is simply no demand for this "compromise." Efforts to make anti-trans policy a major issue in competitive elections have failed. It is madness to concede something that barely matters to anyone but the most rabid and unreachable of your opponents.
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Whether this is a slight of hand or just poor reasoning, the problem is that this argument fails to distinguish between “compromises that ameliorate injustice” and “compromises that entrench injustice.”
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
*whispers* or we could use the money to forgive student debt
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ryan cooper
1 year
Larry Summers calls for all the depositors at Silicon Valley Bank to get bailed out 100 percent
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
This is the mother of all glass cliff cleanup jobs. A man has made one hell of a mess and he hires a woman to clean it up.
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Kara Swisher
1 year
Here is my first best guess here: ⁦ @lindayacc ⁩ of NBC. I will have more. (Musk says has found new CEO for Twitter | Reuters)
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Who could have predicted this from Musk? Oh wait, me. I did.
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Ryan Grim
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🚨🚨 @ElonMusk complied when India’s right-wing prime minister asked him to block a BBC documentary critical of him, and even deleted MP tweets by me & @mazmhussain
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I wrote about the excruciating cruelty of the rich world's treatment of refugees from the poor world, connecting the dots from a fire on the US-Mexico border to a biblical earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Finally putting us freaks who are still on here out of our misery?
@elonmusk
Elon Musk
1 year
And soon, ladies & gentlemen, the coup de grâce
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Lydia Polreen
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I haven't gotten around to seeing Barbie yet (I know, I know) and need to see it somewhat urgently for work, but just discovered the 10:40 am showing at the Brooklyn theater near me is sold out. 10:40 am. On a TUESDAY. People love this movie!
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Lydia Polreen
2 years
This feels like a miracle. I hope it holds.
@emzanotti
Emily Zanotti 🦝
2 years
NYPD: although 8 people were shot, there are no life-threatening injuries from NYC subway attack
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Lydia Polreen
9 months
It is wild that these people want to stop helping Ukraine and go to war with Mexico.
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Lydia Polreen
7 months
"A top library staffer estimated that a team of 11 people spent 40 hours per week on her challenges last school year." Imagine feeling entitled to drain so much from our public resources.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
@MollyJongFast Imagine if you went to see a comedian and, like, Bill Gates came on stage. No thanks!
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1 year
“I’m the eldest boy” is some seriously sad shit.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
The horrifying laws being passed to punish trans people in states the GOP controls are a harbinger of what’s to come and ordinary people, unsurprisingly, want no part of it.
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1 year
Thoughts and prayers to congressional reporters tonight.
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Sarah Ferris
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Some members have been told there could be 90 mins of debate, followed by 3 votes on rules themselves. One told me "best case" scenario might be 3 am
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Lydia Polreen
11 months
I don’t think Chotiner has ever Chotinered quite as hard as this and boy was it worth it.
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Lydia Polreen
2 years
So many transportation problems in NYC would be solved by blocked off, dedicated bus and bike lanes.
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2 years
“Most urban bike riders will tell you they'd rather ride on a quiet street with literally no markings at all than a very busy one with a painted lane and nothing else.”
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Lydia Polreen
2 years
Has anyone on here successfully improved their handwriting in adulthood? If so, how?
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
America, in one handy chart.
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Lydia Polreen
2 years
This whole thread. Using a journalist’s work without attribution for your podcast is not ok!
@brendankoerner
Brendan I. Koerner
2 years
This podcast series is a shameless rip-off of my @TheAtlantic story from last April. No credit is given and the creator did zero original reporting. He even mispronounces the main character's name through all 8 episodes. (It's "kuh-SEE," not "KEY-see.") 🧵
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
The unspeakable cruelty of calling these victims of murder "illegal."
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I’ve announced a $50K reward for info on the criminal who killed 5 illegal immigrants Friday. Also directed #OperationLoneStar to be on the lookout. I continue working with state & local officials to ensure all available resources are deployed to respond.
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Lydia Polreen
10 months
Children do not get gender reassignment surgery. It is just not a thing!
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Michael Tackett
10 months
"Beshear, a Democrat seeking a second term in a race that could test the political potency of Republican messaging on transgender issues, said in an interview that he has always opposed gender reassignment surgery for children."
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Living in the dumbest possible timeline.
@Shayan86
Shayan Sardarizadeh
1 year
Conspiracy Twitter is currently in meltdown after finding out Elon Musk's likely Twitter CEO appointee Linda Yaccarino is an executive chair of the World Economic Forum, an organisation they view as one of the roots of all evil in the world.
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It is extremely confusing to have a major DC story involving someone named Jordan during a huge Middle East crisis tbh.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Centrists of a certain type seem to have become convinced that supporting trans rights is a liability for Democrats. They are working in a long tradition of sacrificing queer lives on the altar of so-called moderation. This is wrong and cruel.
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What are we really doing when we police bathrooms? I wrote about bathroom bans, and how toilets have long been a site of humiliation and degradation along the lines of race, class and gender.
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Lydia Polreen
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@lyzl Have your friends ever heard of WhatsApp???
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Lydia Polreen
11 months
I went to the border between Sudan and Chad to try to understand what is happening in Darfur. What I found was terrifying and heartbreaking.
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9 months
Long before he was famous for his Weinstein reporting, @RonanFarrow was famous (to me) for his thinking and writing about global diplomacy. This makes his investigative report about merchant statesman Musk the perfect marriage of journalist and subject.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Protest happening today outside NYT HQ over coverage of trans people.
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We’ve had enough. We’ve joined over 100 organizations and leaders to demand that @nytimes stop printing inaccurate and harmful misinformation about transgender people and issues. Today we are outside of the Times building to send a clear message.
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1 year
Absolutely incredible to watch the great @connie_walker accept a DuPont award for her phenomenal podcast, Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s. Brave and personal investigative reporting at its finest.
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It’s the McDonalds coffee injury all over again (that woman was very badly injured with third degree burns!)
@kendallybrown
Kendall Brown
7 months
I keep seeing articles about a woman suing Disney after getting a “wedgie” on a water slide. To be clear: the woman was injured so badly that her intestines protruded through her abdominal wall & blood gushed out of her. Disney is trying to downplay her VERY SERIOUS injuries.
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Lydia Polreen
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It is an outrage that in a city this rich, with this many problems, there aren’t more wealthy people willing to support local public service journalism. But it also demonstrates that billionaires will not save local journalism - we are going to have to find another way.
@maxwelltani
Max Tani
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New: New York nonprofit newsroom The City has seen a major drop in support from donors, including the Ford Foundation and Craig Newmark. The organization and staff reached an agreement for employees to take a 20% work hour reduction.
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Lydia Polreen
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Sabrina is an exemplary journalist who was doing her job, and doing it well, when she asked Modi about the treatment of minorities in India. The harassment she has faced is brutal and unacceptable.
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Lydia Polreen
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Update: saw Barbie at a packed theater in Times Square this afternoon and loved it with all my heart. I laughed, I cried. 100 percent will watch it again. Perfect cinematic experience. @AmericaFerrera is exceptional and wow Ryan Gosling can commit. Oscars all around! Go Greta!
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
Abortion rights and trans rights are two sides of the same coin, and the anti-trans bills have demonstrated that clearly. Republicans want to police your body. Is it surprising that Americans are rejecting this? Of course not.
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Lydia Polreen
1 year
My god, have we truly learned nothing?
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Glenn Kessler
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The full Ginsburg for Trump’s plane
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Lydia Polreen
8 months
When you are supposedly the party of the working class but also don’t want a senator to wear shorts and a sweatshirt.
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Lydia Polreen
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What is truly amazing is that Menendez miraculously got away with a hung jury and was like, oh cool let's keep doing corruption.
@semaforben
Ben Smith
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"The next day, NADINE MENENDEZ texted MENENDEZ, 'Seems like halal went through. It might be a fantastic 2019 all the way around.'" What a story.
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