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Mary Katharine Ham Profile picture
@mkhammer
Jan 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Starting a thread of my favorite videos of Venezuelans and people who understand Venezuela's struggle begging Western leftists to, ahem, decenter themselves and their Trump hatred. Love seeing this stuff on my feed.

instagram.com/reel/DTEBaX6Cb…
Instagram links are trash, so I'm going to put a little of his video here in case you didn't get to it. He is @zzamtair on X and Insta and has a 3-part series in English on Insta.
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Mary Katharine Ham Profile picture
Mar 27, 2025
My below tweet is mentioned in Chait's "Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided," as evidence of conservative assumptions that "mainstream media are as ideologically rigid as conservative media," which caused me to miss the robust reporting on these deceptions in the @nytimes. Image
"But Times readers had been following this debate for years," he writes and people like me just didn't see it bc we're blinkered in ways liberals are not. The important part of my tweet is "lied to you on purpose," Collins and Fauci, specifically. Simple way to test this.
Let's look at the links in Zeynep Tufecki's "We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives, which says clearly in 2025 the part I contend the Times had not. If the Times covered this scandal in real time, her links will be to @nytimes.
nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opi…
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Feb 17, 2025
You should watch all 13 minutes of @60Minutes coverage of German speech policing. Framing is absolutely wild.

Protagonist German "prosecutors argue," the VO intones, "they're protecting democracy & discourse by introducing a *touch of German order* to the unruly World Wide Web."
There is ONE critical question. This is it: "You're doing all this work, you're doing investigations, finding people, sometimes putting them in jail. Does it make a difference if it's a World Wide Web and there's a lot of hate out there?"

cbsnews.com/news/policing-…
The criticism is CAN YOU EVER REALLY PROSECUTE ENOUGH SPEECH?? From an American press outlet, THAT is the question as they follow a band of German authorities on armed raids on people's houses taking phones and computers for insulting people online.
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Mary Katharine Ham Profile picture
Feb 6, 2025
Three Things To Say To Someone in Crisis 🧵 I get asked about grief pretty regularly and this came up a couple times this week because of the tragic plane crash that affected many families in our area.

First thing to remember, say *something.*
Grief is really uncomfortable. It reminds us of our own mortality when someone loses a loved on. People don't want or know how to be around it, but it's good to push through that discomfort so you can be a friend who is there. You're not reminding them of anything they forgot!
So, what to say? A few ideas.
1. "How you holding up?" Simple, acknowledges that there's something going on, doesn't sound potentially flippant like "How are you?" Which, duh, very bad.
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Mary Katharine Ham Profile picture
Aug 6, 2024
Slandering someone based on a shitpost is indeed propagating misinformation and really bad behavior and it would be a “this is very bad” story instead of a “Republicans are complaining” story if I made a concerted effort to go on TV and imply Gov. Walz fucked a traffic cone.
Yes, yes, I know, you’re a prude who can’t take a joke if you point out that telling lies about a public figure fucking an inanimate object is bad and juvenile. And it’s such a fun trick bc the public figure can’t defend against it without elevating it and debasing themselves!
All the misinformation reporters can go fuck traffic cones.
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Feb 25, 2024
Hi, female athlete here. I ran this exact trail every single week of my college career. I guess I could have been snuffed out before I graduated, had a career, family, and the professionals at the AP would lie about the suspect bc it fits a preferred narrative. Ibarra is not merely an “Athens resident,” and Laken Riley and every other student was put in danger by not enforcing laws and allowing a man arrested 3x after crossing the border to hang out and work on campus. He had to escalate to alleged murder to be held and/or risk deportation. Good policies. Good work.

This story even cites the 2018 murder of Mollie Tibbetts in IA as a reason solo female runners should be worried, *also without noting her killer was an illegal immigrant.* Just stop lying!

Here’s the local news station doing actual journalism on this.

wsbtv.com/news/local/cla…
I should correct myself. Ibarra has a handful of offenses to his name— crossing border, unlicensed driving/unregistered car, endangering a child (arrested, charged), now this (arrested, charged)—not 3 *arrests*.
The more I look at this AP story, the dumber it is. It talks about a real fear, a real threat. It doesn’t attempt to give context that would help readers rationally evaluate how scared they should be aside from a brief mention of unspecified stats that such attacks are rare. Then it takes a sample size of two murders of female joggers and doesn’t even then identify the common thread, which was attacks by strangers (still alleged in the case of Riley) who were also illegal immigrants!
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May 11, 2023
Matt Araiza case shows actually due process is still good and media should probably make a nod to it in coverage every now and then. Me @Outkick!
outkick.com/matt-araiza-ra…
Shades of Duke lax, of course, which is still framed lazily in retrospect as a "national conversation about privilege and race" when it was a story of a false accusation over which DA lied about evidence and NC AG had to take unusual step of declaring 3 defendants innocent.
It brought another story to mind, too. Brian Banks was a blue-chip HS player out of CA, wooed by USC. At 16, he was falsely accused of rape and did 5 years in, 5 years probation bf he caught his accuser on tape saying she lied. He couldn't claw back 10 yrs of life and career.
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