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17 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
To all the Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists logging on/showing up to work this morning, feeling shook, horrified, exhausted and invisible, I see you and you’re not alone. 1/
You’re processing the news while putting on your game face to do your job.

Maybe none of your managers or colleagues are checking in on you today.

Or maybe they ARE checking in and you worry about seeming weak or biased.
Maybe you're the only AAPI in your newsroom, or maybe there are no AAPI managers there.

You may be the only one pitching the shooting story today, even if it's not your beat.

There are hundreds of AAPI journalists across the country feeling the way you do today.
You’re human. And that’s okay.

WE'RE here for you. #AAJAfamily is here to support you.

Here’s @AAJA’s list of mental wellness resources for AAPI journalists: aaja.org/2021/02/25/men…
And we will also have two licensed therapists on standby this evening to facilitate an off-the-record mental health conversation for @AAJA members working in newsrooms.

There’s still room to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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12 Mar
A reminder to check in on your Asian American and Pacific Islander friends & colleagues. We're exhausted. We're overwhelmed by videos & images of people who could be our parents/grandparents brutally attacked — spat on, shoved to the ground, slashed across the face & more. 1/
As AAPI journalists, we've been working for a year to try to get our newsrooms and the country to pay attention to the rise in violence and hatred, on top of the burden of everything else that comes with being a functioning human in a pandemic. 2/
AAPI journalists constantly ask me: My boss won't cover Asian violence unless I find a "fresh" angle — how? Why am I the only AAPI reporter at work when our audience is X% AAPI? Why doesn't my company's race initiatives include AAPIs? How do I ask this without retaliation? 3/
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28 Feb
Been thinking a lot about that line in the @nytimes diversity report about Asian American women, and women of color broadly, feeling invisible and unseen. Some thoughts: 1/
That feeling of invisibility is why @seungminkim's experience this week resonated so much with me and others. Being a woman and nonwhite lands you in a particularly vile venn diagram of racism and sexism that so often goes unseen. And here's why:
Women of color are underrepresented in newsroom leadership.

For a lot of people, the incident this week was appalling and shocking. But for so many of us WOC, it's been a constant in our DMs and email inboxes since the day we started working in journalism.
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6 Feb
NEW: We contacted 22 states where state and local agencies paid for security, property repair & legal defense as a result of Trump's lie that the election was stolen.

Here's what @ToluseO & I found: (thread)
washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Of the $519M+, the biggest chunk of taxpayer money spent is $480M in estimated military expenses to deploy thousands of National Guard troops around DC amid fears of additional extremist violence stemming from Trump's falsehoods.
washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Many of the agencies in 22 states we contacted couldn't provide a breakdown yet, cuz they're still trying to tally the cost of rapidly scaling up security to deal with the increased threat of violence from Trump supporters. We'll update as we hear back. washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
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5 Feb
Today is my last day on the @washingtonpost national political enterprise & accountability team. I joined the team in 2017 after fangirling from afar, and will remain the team's #1 fan. Eternally grateful for my teammates, their generosity & friendship. 💕
Thank you @mateagold @thamburger @anu_narayan, who taught me everything in know on the money beat. When I first started the beat, everyone told me I had huge shoes to fill after Matea & Tom. I never forgot that and did my best to live up to even a portion of their great work!
Huge thank you to my editors @mateagold & @sandhyawp, who are among the kindest and hardest-working people I know. I’ve grown so much working with them, and will really miss them. 💫
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2 Dec 20
After calls from GA state election officials imploring GOP leaders to de-escalate rhetoric, Trump ally/attorney Lin Wood and former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell are holding a "Stop the Steal" rally attacking Kemp, Raffensperger, Sterling and Lt. Gov. Duncan.
Lin Wood references MLK to say he is encouraging nonviolent protests, then calls on the cheering rally attendees to drive to Gov. Kemp’s house, circle it, honk their horns until he calls a special session, then make him resign, and then “lock him up.” Crowd chants "lock him up."
Lin Wood now attacks DOJ, FBI, CIA: "You work for us, Attorney General Barr. Do your job. ... Investigate this fraud."
Crowd chants, “Do your job”
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9 Nov 20
Incredible to watch GA Secretary of State's voter information manager Gabriel Sterling meticulously correcting every piece of misinformation and even misunderstandings -- including that GA "suddenly flipped" from R to D. gpb.org/events/news/20…
"We are going to find that people did illegally vote. That’s going to happen," as it happens in every election, Sterling says. "Is it 10,353? Unlikely," he says, referring to Biden's margin over Trump in Georgia.
Final tally of GA military/overseas ballot: 18,407 accepted, and 7,786 not returned in time. Sterling disagrees with Trump's tweet that those unreturned ballots are "missing," noting that they are ballots that voters decided not to return, or were delayed in the mail.
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