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Doing things at @GoogleNews/@GoogleNewsInit. Previously @NBCNews, @CNN. @ColgateUniv alum. Californian.
Mar 12, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
President Biden addressing the nation on the one year anniversary of the Covid pandemic: “While it was different for everyone, we all lost something. A collective suffering, a collective sacrifice, a year filled with the loss of life and the loss of living for all of us." Biden condemns "vicious hate crimes against Asian-Americans who've been harassed, blamed and scapegoated" for Covid-19.

"It's wrong, it's un-American and it must stop,” he adds.
Sep 18, 2020 5 tweets 3 min read
There may be 6+ weeks until Election Day 2020, but early voting in Virginia actually starts today — and there are dozens of voters in line to vote in person even before the building here in Richmond, VA opens Here’s what it looks like when you go inside to vote in Richmond, VA today:

5 voters are allowed inside at a time. They check that they’re registered to vote, receive their ballot, fill it out and then have it scanned to count. Sanitizing happens in between voters at the booth.
Mar 2, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read
Protestors are outside Klobuchar’s MN event holding signs and banners and chanting “free Myon!” - referencing Myon Burrell the man that Klobuchar put away for life as Hennepin County DA of which the case was reported to have misleading evidence The protestors then walked into the event space
Aug 19, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
.@DrBiden brought up her husband's electability over other candidates at an education discussion: "I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that, but I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race.. .@DrBiden: "..so if you’re looking at that you’ve got to look at the polls, and you know a lot of the times I say oh you know polls don’t mean anything...but if they’re consistent and if they’re consistently saying the same thing, I think you can’t dismiss that...
Jul 12, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
I asked @SenGillibrand about this moment today:

“When a woman with a young baby boy, a white woman with a little boy named Alexander, my mind immediately went to my own sons and that they will have a different life than a lot of black and brown young men in this country. “If my son was ever caught smoking pot with his friends, the likelihood of him being arrested would be far less than any black or brown young man the same age who tried pot for the first time. That's exactly what we're up against and what I wanted to convey to the woman is that..