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Sep 29, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
1. Last night, a juror in the Breonna Taylor case who claims the attorney general mischaracterized the panel’s deliberation came forward via his attorney. It’s the latest ripple in this complicated case which has left the community in Louisville frayed: nytimes.com/2020/09/28/us/…
2. The juror, who remains unidentified, is asking in a court motion to be allowed to speak publicly in order to set the record straight. He’s also asking for the attorney general to release the transcripts of last week’s proceedings so that the public can judge for themselves
3. Yesterday evening, less than an hour after the juror’s complaint was filed with the court, @nytimes was the first to sit down with the juror’s attorney to understand what happened. The juror came to him Friday, two days after the panel disbanded. He was confused & “in turmoil”
4. At issue is the fact that the Kentucky attorney general in his press briefing last week repeatedly presented his findings as being decision that the grand jury agreed with him on. The juror is suggesting that that was - at best - exaggerated.
5. The juror is also concerned that the panel was not given a choice of criminal charges for the two officers who shot Ms Taylor. The attorney general made clear no such charges could be filed b/c the officers didn’t fire first. They returned fire when her boyfriend shot at them
6. I burned the midnight oil speaking to legal experts like longtime criminal defense attorney Ramon McGee to understand this little-known institution called the grand jury. He argues that the prosecutor is within his rights to only present the charges he feels are justified:
7. But what Mr. McGee says is problematic is the attorney general’s press conference in which he repeatedly said “and the grand jury agrees with me” when presenting his rationale. The issue is one of potential misrepresentation, he said.
8. But the unidentified juror’s motion had an immediate impact. Just hours after it was filed, the officer of the attorney general announced that recordings of last week’s session would be made public this week:

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1. I've been waiting for @StejarelO's book on the legendary Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci to come out in English and it's finally out. So many scoops between these covers: Image
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3. Everyone in Romania wanted a piece of Nadia and the secret police began spying on her when she was just 13. According to the files he was able to consult, @StejarelO found that the Communist regime deployed dozens - maybe as many as hundreds - of informants to spy on the teen.
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1. The discovery of ~1,000 graves at schools for indigenous children in Canada has cast a spotlight on a dark past. But long before those discoveries, Native American activists have been asking the US to provide an accounting of how many children died on this side of the border:
2. Along with Navajo photographer @Schischillyy, I set out to Colorado to one campus, Fort Lewis College, which was built on the bones of a former boarding school known as the Fort Lewis Indian School and which has been wrestling with its complicated past since 2019:
3. For decades, the university has provided a tuition waiver to Native American students as a kind of reparation. But it wasn't until two years ago, when a Native American professor @theoreticalfun rode her bike past these panels that the college began its own, full-on reckoning:
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1. More than 400 universities in America have instituted vaccine mandates. But the rules were devised with domestic students in mind who have access to the three vaccines available in the US. What about international students who can't get those vaccines?nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/…
2. In the US, students are considered vaccinated if they received the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Most universities are telling international students they will accept those three plus any others vetted by the WHO. That leaves out students like Milloni Doshi:
3. Milloni is from Mumbai and is due to start her masters at Columbia this fall. She's been vaccinated with Covaxin, which is not WHO approved. Columbia and many other colleges in the US are telling students like her that they will need to be revaccinated once they come on campus
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May 22, 2021
1. More than 400 universities have announced students will not be able to enroll next fall if they haven't been vaccinated for Covid-19. A look at a map of where they are located shows that 92% of these colleges are in states that voted for Biden:
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2. A tracker compiled by @chronicle, which is updated every day, shows that just 34 colleges out of 404 are in states that voted for Donald Trump in the last election: chronicle.com/blogs/live-cor…
3. The electoral map serves as a near exact proxy of which colleges have imposed the vaccine requirement, speaking to our divided politics and to how politicized the pandemic has become. To understand what was happening I interviewed 2 dozen university leaders, like Katie Conboy
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1/ Three million. That's the estimate of how many children have dropped out of school as a result of the pandemic. To see in slow motion what it's like when a child falls behind, @tamirbenkalifa & I spent a week with 11-year-old Jordyn as he tried to learn nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/…
2/ Jordyn's single mom, Precious, earns $12-an-hour as a security guard at a casino in Tunica, Miss. She is just below the cutoff for government assistance, and on her salary all she can afford is a $400-a-month apartment. It has no stove, no fridge - and crucially, no internet
3/ What does that mean for Jordyn in the age of remote learning? It means that he needs to wait for his mom to get home from work in order to use her cellphone to log into his virtual class. We sat next to him on this couch as he struggled to do math class on this phone:
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In Year 2 of the pandemic, more colleges than not are doing some version of an in-person commencement, albeit with restrictions. That has sown frustration at the minority of schools sticking to a virtual-only ceremony: nytimes.com/2021/04/30/us/…
At the University of Tampa, a group of seniors took matters into their own hands. @allilark11_ turned to Instagram to ask classmates: If we were to put on our own in-person event, would you attend? Overwhelmed by the support, they rented a convention center for a DIY graduation:
3. And at the University of Michigan - home to the largest stadium in the country - parents stood on the streets of Ann Arbor hoisting placards demanding an in-person graduation for their children:
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