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30 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
🧵 A few thoughts on the Ben Smith piece on Politico (which seems like a crazy thing to write about in a detached way considering he was one of the big figures who launched the site. The anecdotal lede hints at a conflict w/o directly addressing it) (1/4) nytimes.com/2021/08/29/bus…
"A workplace culture *some* employees described as grinding and *sometimes* sexist" is an insane thing to write as a person who worked there—either you were too high up in the Politico caste system to know or you're being intentionally obtuse about the place (2/4)
Politico Pro is just Congressional Quarterly! Politico is getting credit for creating a product that already existed. Now that Politico sold for $1B, The Economist Group looks like an asshole for gutting CQ for parts WHEN IT ACTUALLY WAS AN EXTREMELY GOOD, VALUABLE PRODUCT (3/4)
Robert Allbritton's views on unions are classist and wrong, especially given the boom in media and arts unionization. Actors (creatives!) always have had guilds. A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY should have employees compensated fairly, and media unions are good. Fin (4/4)

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20 Aug
🧵I shared this privately yesterday but I think it’s important to share with everyone #onhere: the more I think about it, the more I feel like there is a pre-1/6 me and a post-1/6 me. (1/4)
I went into the Capitol building daily for seven years believing certain things, about our republic, about my personal safety at the Capitol, and all those beliefs have been violated and shattered. Worse, those like me who feel this way are being gaslit by powerful people. (2/4)
No one here outside of DC (*other than @jzembik) really understands the depth of these feelings. And I’m incredibly angry, especially with the White House and Senate Democrats who centered on “move on” as a strategy (3/4)
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11 Aug
Two years ago, in a hospital bed and irreversible labor, I had a lot of time to think about what was happening to me, how I was swiftly approaching an outcome we didn't desire. And I thought about Republicans attacking Ralph Northam over this interview: cnn.com/2019/01/31/pol…
I thought about how what Ralph Northam described was exactly what I was experiencing, how the mainstream media had taken the GOP bait and made this into a "controversy" when what the actual medical doctor was describing was palliative care within the bounds of medical ethics.
In my sadness, confusion and anger on that day two years, I also felt *presence* because I knew everything would be fleeting, a burst of energy in our lives that never would be recaptured. So I focused on our family, but I also promised myself something.
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23 Jul
I have an idea on how to react: we don’t value women as a society and so there is no consensus around “sexual assault is bad.” There are literally reporters who not only say “cancer is bad” but also actively fundraise to end cancer and are therefore actual activists.
Don’t get me wrong, cancer *is* bad. But it’s wild reporters will put on hats to symbolize their belief that cancer is bad to fundraise for cancer research but we can’t agree sexual assault is bad. Likely because for years, men in power exerted their power by ignoring consent.
Reporters should be allowed to fundraise to end cancer because cancer is bad! They also should be able to disclose that they are sexual assault survivors (or even fundraise for RAINN) because sexual assault is bad and there are no “both sides” to that issue.
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15 Feb
In @newrepublic, I ask, if an attempted mass execution at the Capitol—where reporters could have died and Republicans were both accomplices to the crime and rejected for history that their lives mattered—doesn’t end both sides journalism, what will?
newrepublic.com/article/161361…
Editors and outlets have an obligation to protect their reporters. This used to mean from bullying sources who were unhappy with stories. We are now asking Capitol Hill journalists to divorce their humanity from their reporting, which is dangerous both for them and for the public
Watching the impeachment and professionals who were both survivors and chroniclers of the crime contort themselves into treating both sides as equivalent when one side clearly tried to get them killed was deeply painful for me.
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5 Feb
A THREAD:

The rarest, most beautiful thing in journalism is finding an editor you love, and let me tell you, there was no one I loved working with more than @jerryadler. He was based in NYC when I was in DC, and though we talked every day, it was months before we first met IRL.
On the day we finally met, I remember walking into the @YahooNews news room and just yelling around, "Where's Jerry?!" (Because I am truly insane). As it was the #beforetimes, when I found him, I gave him the biggest hug. @jerryadler is smart, witty and a writer's editor.
Typical Brooklyn, @jerryadler uses his top-notch snark to mask his softness of heart. This dichotomy inspired me to start calling him "JerBear," at first as a kind of joke. But then it stuck because I meant it. Every time I gave Jerry a story, it came back better—and quickly!
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10 Jan
A picture posted by @careyseuthe of her and Miss Rose, a gregarious cashier in the small carryout restaurant on the Senate side of the Capitol, has made me sad anew over just how devastating it was to see the confederate flag in the building, with a primarily Black support staff.
In 2013, the sandwich maker in that small Capitol restaurant died during Ted Cruz’s ill-fated shutdown of the government. For a few days I thought maybe he was furloughed but when I realized he wasn’t, I wrote a eulogy for him in @rollcall. rollcall.com/2013/11/05/cap…
These maintenance and food service jobs at the Capitol do not pay enough but I will say that in a complex that often can feel like a high school, you get to know the people who keep the lights on and senators fed. They take great pride in this work.
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