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Felicia Sonmez
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Growth and development reporter at @BlueRidgePublic Radio. Former Washington Post national political reporter. Ex-@wsj and @afp in Beijing. ✉️: fsonmez@bpr.org
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Apr 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Emily Yoffe has a history of unethical professional behavior, and her actions have caused significant harm. I am sad angry to see that has done so once again. You should not have had to go through this, @SleepyOktobur. 1/ A lengthy correction request I wrote in 2019 after Yoffe and Reason Magazine published an error-ridden piece about my sexual assault: 2/
Nov 28, 2022 • 17 tweets • 9 min read
This piece is a sparkling example of how *not* to write about sexual misconduct allegations.

It leaves out a host of key facts and context, including the full scope of the public allegations and Díaz’s own contradictory statements on the matter. 1/x One person not mentioned by @semaforben in his piece is Alisa Rivera, who wrote that, after an interaction in which Díaz used a racial slur against her,

“Junot grabbed my wrist and pulled me out of my seat and into his lap, wrapping his arms around my waist.” 2/x
Jun 9, 2022 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
I stand by what I wrote in that email. In 2018, I was punished after I told my editors I needed to take a walk around the block after reading a difficult story.

Other colleagues have been punished for their trauma far more recently, but their stories aren’t mine to tell. 1/ I’m not “discouraging reporters at the Post from seeking help they need.”

Far from it.

The Washington Post’s own actions are doing that. 2/
Jun 7, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Is this the culture that the Post says it wants to foster?

In her email to the newsroom on Sunday, here is what @SallyBuzbee wrote: As the Post’s own internal report on social media use shows, employees have raised various issues—not related to Dave Weigel—with leadership and Human Resources, and they have not been addressed “promptly and firmly.” 20/x
Jun 7, 2022 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
In early 2020, @stevenjay and @loriamontgomery, then the Post’s National and deputy National editors, commissioned an internal report on social media use in response to newsroom-wide outrage over my suspension.

Two years later, nothing has changed. 1/x int.nyt.com/data/documenth… The report, spearheaded by now-National editor @mateagold, was based on interviews with more than 50 of my talented colleagues on The Washington Post’s National desk. It was the result of weeks of hard work by 9 of my colleagues. I was among those interviewed for the report. 2/x
Jun 7, 2022 • 16 tweets • 13 min read
Simply objecting to a retweet of a sexist joke — and a colleague’s false accusation of “bullying” — leads to … this. And this.
Jun 5, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Update: For those who, like me, are blocked from reading my colleague’s tweets, here is his thread from this afternoon. No apology, but a whole boatload of more false accusations and mischaracterizations. To be clear:

- There was no “unrelenting series of attacks.” 1/x - I saw no comments intending to “tarnish [Jose’s] personal and professional reputation.” The replies to Jose’s tweets are still up, for anyone who’d like to check.

- There were tweets objecting to Jose accusing me of “bullying” and “clout chasing” for… objecting to sexism. 2/x
Jun 5, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
When women stand up for themselves, some people respond with even more vitriol.

Last night, a Post colleague publicly attacked me for calling out another colleague’s sexist tweet. He first hid any replies objecting to his attacks, and now seems to have deleted his account. 1/2 Objecting to sexism is not “clout chasing.” It’s not “harassment.” And it’s certainly not “cruelty.”

Does the Washington Post agree? @SallyBuzbee @mateagold

Here is a personal thread I wrote last night about why speaking out matters to me and other women. 2/2
Jun 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Banner week for Twitter, where the natural response to a person condemning sexism appears to be … sexism at ever-greater orders of magnitude. It’s a delight!
Jun 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Longtime observers of Google’s struggles to promote [DEI] say the fallout fits a familiar pattern. Women of color are asked to advocate for change. Then they’re punished for disrupting the status quo," @nitashatiku writes.

Read her important story: washingtonpost.com/technology/202… @nitashatiku Two days before Soundararajan’s presentation, seven Google employees sent emails to company leaders and Gupta “with inflammatory language about how they felt harmed and how they felt their lives were at risk by the discussion of caste equity," @nitashatiku reports.
Feb 3, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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 Aboard AF1, a reporter asked WH press secretary Jen Psaki for evidence to back up the claim that Qurayshi denotated a suicide bomb.

Psaki asked whether skeptics think the U.S. military is "not providing accurate information and ISIS is providing accurate information." 2/x
Feb 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This. 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
Jan 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"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… @19thnews “I don’t feel safe,” Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) tells @cjnorwoodwrites & @marielpadilla_. “I would feel differently if it felt like we had learned something here and we could see change. ... There’s nothing.”
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Rep. Brenda Lawrence announces she will not seek reelection: washingtonpost.com/politics/rep-b… Michigan’s new district maps were approved late last month, and the state will no longer have two majority-minority districts. A group of current and former Black legislators is preparing to sue to block the maps’ implementation. Lawrence alluded to this in her video last night:
Dec 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“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.
Nov 24, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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… In a statement to the Post, RNC spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett is “lying” about the steps the national party plans to take as part of McDaniel’s recent move to form the first-ever “RNC Pride Coalition.”
May 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
During his ice cream stop in Ohio, a reporter asks Biden: "What's your message to Republicans who are prepared to block a Jan. 6 commission?"

Biden holds up his ice cream cone: "Eat some chocolate chocolate chip." 1/2 He then answers more fully: "I can't image anyone voting against the establishment of a commission on the greatest assault, since the Civil War, on the Capitol."

Biden then adds, lifting up his cone to the crowd of onlookers: "But at any rate, I came for ice cream." 2/2
May 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Member after member of the House GOP conference is denying key facts about the Jan. 6 insurrection. This is a big deal. The most astounding thing about this (and there are many) is that these lawmakers are denying a violent insurrection that took place *at their own place of work.*

They were there! Their own lives, and their own staffers’ lives, were literally in danger.
May 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
When it’s dinnertime and I take too long to deliver, the books start dropping. For some reason, her favorite books to drop on my head are @panphil's Out of Mao's Shadow and Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
May 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
An excellent fact check by @GlennKesslerWP that I somehow missed two years ago! Many of McCarthy's claims about his small business experience don't add up... @GlennKesslerWP Whoops. *Three years ago.