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Oct 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Thread: NYC Sunday ✨️ ☀️🏃‍♂️❤️ 1/
NYC Sunday - at the Whitney /2❤️
NYC Sunday-skylines 🗽❤️/3
Now just some gratuitous NYC weird beauty 4/ #Whitney
Not a NYC trip without getting an update on the state of things from a cab driver. In this case a Romanian immigrant convinced Russia will defeat Ukraine who believes Putin's a badass for "taking on the whole world". Thinks the media is full of ÷%^# too. 🗽😏🤷‍♂️ 5/
Good night NYC. Thanks for the beautiful Sunday ❤️/end

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Thread: Want to think out loud about what I've seen and experienced since joining NPR a few years ago. I was hired during NPR's "North Star" era when diversity was established as a priority. I'm an aging rural white man (58 years old). Never graduated college. Didn't see NYC...1/
...or visit Boston until I was in my 30s. I was hired and am supervised by bosses who are women, people of color or both. Almost all much younger than me. I've felt welcome, supported, heard and respected by my colleagues. I hate to be boring, but it's just not weird or scary. 2/
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Our reporting at @NPR has found no substantial link between #fentanyl smuggling and immigration. Overwhelming majority of smuggling from Mexico comes through legal ports of entry and does not involve undocumented migrants. Republican politicians continue making this false claim.
Here are some receipts on #Fentanyl disinformation, some linked to partisan Republican messaging. npr.org/2022/10/26/113…
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Thread: Seventy years ago, Tolkien imagined a world defined largely by the racial ideas of his time. White is broadly speaking good. Dark or black is broadly speaking bad. It's not 'woke' for us to reimagine his world. It's the very definition of art. 1/ cnn.com/2022/09/03/ent…
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I'm really enjoying Rings of Power. That's it. That's the tweet. 🧙‍♂️
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