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12 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This @TimAlberta profile is an amazing piece. Long,but worth reading. Haley has potential to be a leader of the non-Trump wing of the GOP. She was the only member of Trump's personal team to call out the insurrection, but then said on Fox that folks needed to give Trump a break.
One intriguing takeaway: Near the end of the piece, @TimAlberta discusses Nikki Haley's fractious relationship with Fox News. Tucker Carlson, the biggest racist on Fox and the worst misogynist, who has targeted her. But she handwaves him--which is ballsy.
The part not in this piece is how dark-skinned Haley's parents are compared to her and how that will play with the racist GOP who currently choose to read her as white, not brown, while also claiming her as "their" POC. Her race and religion will definitely be in play, though.
The GOP will propel Haley forward as their answer to Kamala Harris. So this profile is Haley's opening salvo on 2024 and the timing is specific: She wanted to come out as anti-Trump BEFORE the impeachment vote. This is a rebuke of Cotton, Cruz and Hawley--all 2024 contenders.

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11 Feb
Claiming Alexander Nazaryan speaks for all reporters who covered Trump as I and others did over the whole 4yrs is truly absurd. Nazaryan completely ignores the abject terror Trump created for huge swathes of Americans and others. This seems about selling his book on Trump.
Nazaryan loves saying repeatedly that he had access to the President and was hanging out with the likes of Steve Bannon and it was so cool. He utterly ignores the facts of the Trump presidency and claims fact checking made for boring copy (and thinks it's entre nous to say copy).
Nazaryan's piece is meant to drive traffic--though I want to meet another person who actually read to the end of this piece other than me--and to allow folks who hate the press irrationally, which is a disturbing number of folks I otherwise like on here, to hate us more.
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4 Feb
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Working a story on the trauma people have experienced due to the Trump presidency. Everyone I have interviewed thus far has said they feared for their lives or someone else's over the entire 4yrs, but that the months just prior to and after the election were the worst.
I have been speaking with Immigrants, LGBTQ, BIPOC, disabled/chronically ill people thus far: so people directly targeted by Trump on a near-daily basis and who were subjected to a constant barrage of damaging policies plus attacks from Trump supporters. The fear is real.
People who are in marginalized communities have a different perspective from those who are confident their privilege will protect them. And people who have already been subjected to threats and/or violence due to their identities are already living with hyper-vigilance.
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2 Feb
Remember the 1st debate and how abusive Trump was? Trump gave men permission to be as abusive as he was. He abused women. He normalized it. He was accused of rape, but shrugged it off. He and his GOP cohort abused and targeted WOC. AOC was a prime target, yet it was normalized.
I put this thread📌 up so we don't forget the past 4yrs and what happened--how we were collectively gaslighted into believing that we were over-reacting and being hyperbolic when that was not the case at all. Trump tried to turn us into a nation of cynical, empathy-less monsters.
So if you are one of the people who claims to be a Democrat or progressive and you are spewing GOP talking points about VAW, slither on over to that side where you belong. Every time VAW is dismissed it makes it harder for the next woman to disclose and perpetuates rape culture.
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31 Jan
I am having a very tough time with heart and lung problems from the virus. 40% or more of people who get #COVID will have long-term damage to heart, lungs, kidneys, more. You really MUST protect yourselves and others. Please--#WearAMask, stay home🏡 #WashYourHands and stay safe.
Here are some data on common long-term impacts of having had the coronavirus, notably the heart. These issues are not to be confused with #longhauler syndrome, which is different and acutely disabling.

health-desk.org/questions/what…
The German study was even more concerning than the WHO study. 78% of covid patients had heart complications (like I have had). But even at 40% with some complication that is 10.4M Americans currently. Hardly a small number of people impacted.
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27 Jan
Nobody's talking about this, but since I was assigned a story about it, I think it's crucial. Biden signed these EOs:
▪Ordered DOJ to end use of private prisons
▪Affirmed Tribal sovereignty
▪Disavowed Asian-American xenophobia
▪Address biases and discrimination in housing
Racial equity is a hallmark issue for Biden-Harris. And Biden also invoked George Floyd's killing and the racial justice protests that murder we all were witnesses to.
I don't think we can overstate the significance of Biden addressing racism and also repeatedly referencing white nationalism as a significant threat to the nation.
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25 Jan
When men say things they are protected by patriarchal assent.
When women says things it is always perceived as a provocation to that assent.
Lauren Wolfe did nothing wrong. And if we don't start addressing the breadth of misogyny in mainstream media, we are in deep trouble.
Misogyny literally gave us Trump, enabling his every anti-normative action whilst also demonizing every attempt by Hillary Clinton to hold him accountable--always using misogynist language to do so. When you frame truth-telling as "shrill" and "strident," you dismiss the message.
Also, the question of accountability of journalists seems to accrue solely to women. The NYT is concerned that Wolfe might be "soft" on Biden because she got "chills" that we made it to the other side of the insurrection, but men who sexually harass women are still on NYT staff.
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