Freelance journo: written & radio. IRE-awarded book and NPR-syndicated podcast via CalHumanities, SRJC, UMD. North Bay life; Long Island energy.
Joined March 2009
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31 Oct 2024
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31 Oct 2024
Other newsrooms’ ownership have found themselves in the spotlight lately. We want to take this opportunity to let you know about ours. 🧵👇(1/5)
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29 Oct 2024
My kiddo scored one of the Halloween buckets and this ⬇️ was all I could think of. #prettyplease @McDonalds
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25 Oct 2024
The same people who say “Democracy dies in darkness” just turned out the lights. @washingtonpost
25 Oct 2024
On political endorsement wapo.st/3YmeD3T
This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty. @realdonaldtrump will see this as an invitation to further intimidate owner @jeffbezos (and others). Disturbing spinelessness at an institution famed for courage.
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16 Oct 2024
The Bay Rays would work just fine.
15 Oct 2024
The city of Oakland has a chance to do the funniest thing of all time
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30 Jun 2024
Please forego the use of fireworks this Fourth of July. The hot and (already) dry conditions will make ignition easy, and rapid fire spread likely. This graphic explains how fires can spread quickly, especially in an area like ours with lots of grass and steep terrain. @CAwx 🔥🔥
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23 Jun 2024
Whoever is handling social for @IRE_NICAR deserves a raise. 💀
23 Jun 2024
When someone asks about your ex
#IRE24
ALT Sign for IRE24 panel: Reporting on natural (and human-caused) disasters on Sunday, June 23.
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23 Jun 2024
Honored to accept @IRE_NICAR award for investigative journalism for “Inflamed: Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country’s Deadliest Firestorm.” The hall was filled with incredibly impressive reporters and editors doing extraordinary work. Totally rad to be among them.
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18 Apr 2023
SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR LOCAL PAPER. NOW. Local journalism is CRITICAL.
And perhaps we all throw a few bucks to the McCurtain Gazette-News while we’re at it. If nothing else, they’re going to need to enhance their security. #mccurtaincounty #mccurtaingazettenews
17 Apr 2023
On secretly recorded audio first reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News, GOP McCurtain County, Okla. officials — including the sheriff — talk about hiring hitmen to assassinate local journalists and complain that Black people now have the right to not be lynched.
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L.A.Spates retweeted
13 Apr 2023
This was first reported by Mission Local, but goes uncredited here. We are a small, non-profit newsroom, and we work hard to break news.
This is bad form.
13 Apr 2023
Breaking News: The police arrested a tech consultant in connection with the fatal stabbing of the Cash App creator Bob Lee in San Francisco earlier this month. nyti.ms/3o6fTtv
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4 Apr 2023
This makes me proud to be both a journalist and a native NYer. ✊🏻🍕🐀🖋️
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1 Mar 2023
Can we get a Bono episode, @HenryLouisGates? He looks just like President Grant 👀⬇️
1 Mar 2023
every american president, but they're all cool and they all sport a mullet
46. Joe Biden
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17 Feb 2023
Hail, alma mater! Giant killers, always. ✊🏻🐢❤️
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31 Jan 2023
100%. (When I was 11, mom gave birth to my youngest sis, the last of 3 girls. People passed all sorts of comments to my Dad — “Oh man, Jay! No luck this time?” “No wrestlers to carry on the tradition, huh?” — IN FRONT OF ME. I (and other sis) were not good enough, apparently.)
30 Jan 2023
So let's talk about how women are demonized before they ever leave the womb 🧵
In 2019 I found out that I was pregnant with twins. In 2020 I found out that they were fraternal girls. These are SOME of the responses from the people I told: 1/11
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13 Jan 2023
Waitttt a minute there. You mean to tell me it’s @TKMaxx_UK across the pond but @tjmaxx in the states?! What?! TK, not TJ? WHY?! #Spare
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12 Jan 2023
I’m glad #Spare wasn’t translated to American English (maths to math, trews to pants) because we’d lose Harry’s Englishness otherwise. But I’ve read many royal bios and don’t recall the same. I feel like they usually translate the vernacular to American English. No? #PrinceHarry
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5 Jan 2023
I recorded and edited two stand-ups today re: atmospheric river, both with my 3yo in the backseat after school. I just heard the first on the airwaves @norcalpublic @KRCBNews I feel like this:
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