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Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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Those saying the Andrew Cuomo scandal “brought down” a host of other powerful figures in media and politics are missing the point. Those figures’ own actions brought them down. Their connection to Cuomo — and his to them — just allowed both sides to avoid accountability for years
… and when Cuomo finally *did* face accountability thanks to the actions of @LindseyBoylan, @_char_bennett_ and other brave women, the cascade of investigations brought about accountability for the others. This should be the norm, not the exception.
That it took a national scandal for it to happen just shows how deeply entrenched and protected power is in those industries.

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Feb 3
At today's WH and State Dept press briefings, reporters pressed for evidence to back up U.S. gov't statements about recent events in Syria and Russia, respectively. In response, officials suggested those reporters might be more inclined to believe ISIS/the Kremlin. Yikes. 1/x
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Psaki asked whether skeptics think the U.S. military is "not providing accurate information and ISIS is providing accurate information." 2/x
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I want to be clear: The Washington Post is MY workplace. I want it to be a workplace where survivors of sexual assault are safe, supported and respected. How can it be when a senior editor says a columnist who highlighted assault allegations is “full of shit”? 1/x
I am choosing to stay at the Post and fight for change because I believe this storied institution, one of the country’s top newspapers, needs to do better. Employees and readers deserve a Post where survivors can be free from fear that their trauma will be used against them. 2/x
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"I know that some of my colleagues, when incidents happen, they can blend in and people won’t actually know who they are or what sides they’re on. But I don’t have that luxury as a Black woman in the United States Congress.” Important piece in @19thnews: 19thnews.org/2022/01/januar…
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Jan 5
Rep. Brenda Lawrence announces she will not seek reelection: washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-b…
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“The most interesting and the most distressing thing about American news coverage right now is that we don't treat the end of democracy in America as the story. That is the story." npr.org/2021/12/23/106…
My theory about this is that in most newsrooms, reporters and editors are either specialists in foreign or domestic news, but not both. The foreign news specialists have experience covering non-democracies, but are not covering the U.S. Vice versa on the domestic news side.
Speaking solely for myself, I’ve found my years in China invaluable when reporting on American politics. The experience of covering an authoritarian state is something that forever changes how you see the U.S. And it makes you attuned to the hard reality of how power functions.
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The Republican National Committee is dismissing a call for Ronna McDaniel to resign as chairwoman over her outreach to LGBTQ voters: washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
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“Chairman McDaniel has made it abundantly clear that this does not mean we are advocating for any policy or RNC platform change — Chairman Bennett is lying and it is disgusting that he’d attempt to raise money off these falsehoods,” Alvarez said.
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