3/ Their houses were built in 1910, all are #Kenosha natives who told me stories about growing up in farm and working families.
4/ Mary Morgan grew up Catholic, one of seven kids in #kenosha put herself through night school while raising her own children. Her ex husband and son were both police officers.
5/ Susan and Richard Hannes have been married nearly 55 years. They met when he was bartending and winked at her. “He said ‘What can I get you?’,” she said. “And my heart just went ‘poof’.”
6/ Susan Hannes feels compelled by the words of #JohnLewis to speak out, but unsure what to say. “I just don’t know how to talk to people with such opposing views,” she said. So she and her neighbor rely on their #kenosha yard signs.
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I spent time in small town #Texas with @AverieDanielle aka #MissTexas who handles rattlesnakes, eats Texas-shaped waffles and posts videos on her viral TikTok about her controversial platform: Diversity and inclusion. With @sflores photo, my video n links: washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/06…
2/Thanks to everyone who took time with us, especially folks in Fairfield, at Miss Texas and @AverieDanielle whose reign ends tomorrow. After watching prelims this week, I'll be watching the finals tomorrow livestreaming.
3/Can you spot the @washingtonpost reporter in her Fairfield TikTok? tiktok.com/t/ZT8efeUkL/
2/Some extra: In Minneapolis’s outer-ring suburbs, Matt Norris, 33, a lawyer and policy director at a statewide youth non-profit, ran for the first time and won with 51% of the vote, narrowly beating a Republican incumbent who belonged to the Oath Keepers militia.
3/In a district with a population of 42,000, Norris said his campaign knocked on 39,000 doors, telling voters how he successfully lobbied to recently pass bi-partisan bills that ensured unemployment assistance for youth/seniors during the pandemic and youth workforce training.
2/Dr. Alan Braid (right) and clinic executive administrator Andrea Gallegos (left) in the clinic lobby explaining what #SCOTUS ruling meant for patients: they could not get scheduled abortions today.
3/Clinic staff consoled patients, gave them handouts directing them to out of state clinics and web sites that distribute abortion medication by mail.
Thread: A day in the migrant camp of about 14,000, mainly Haitians, near the border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
2/@CBP doesn’t allow press to enter the camp from the U.S. and closed the border bridge, so I crossed to the East, drove through Mexico and waded across the Rio Grande.
3/Haitian migrants I met spoke Creole to each other, but many also spoke Spanish, some French and English. These guys told me in French that they were deciding whether to return to the camp or stay in Mexico.
I went up to Kansas to talk to folks at Trust Women clinic about the Texas abortion ban - including a woman who had to travel overnight. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/I also spoke with protesters outside the Wichita clinic who said they were encouraged by the Texas abortion ban.
3/“They told us to get ready because people are going to come from south and all over to get here,” said Joseph Elmore, 73, who was protesting outside the Kansas clinic.
A year ago, I met transgender migrant Mayela Villegas, 27, in a Mexican border tent camp before she crossed legally to claim asylum in Texas. At the end of May, a friend contacted me to say Mayela had died. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
2/ Mayela’s friend had a question for me after she died: “Is there any way you can help us find what happened to her?” Here’s what I found. latimes.com/world-nation/s…
3/Mayela’s friend Deisy Polanco told me she had struggled since arriving in Houston. Mayela lived with conservative, religious family members who called her by her male birth name and male pronouns. “For me, you’re Mayela,” Polanco would tell her. “I don’t know any other name.”