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National correspondent @NPR covering race and identity. Pods: On Our Watch, American Suburb. she/her. RTs not endorsements. on signal: sandhya_.96

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Mike Hixenbaugh is mikehixenbaugh.com on BlueSky (@mike_hixenbaugh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m struggling to understand this analogy by Jeff Bezos and how it relates to journalism. People distrust voting machines — which are extremely reliable — because they have been told lies about them. Therefore we must … reform voting machines?

I’m struggling to understand this analogy by Jeff Bezos and how it relates to journalism.

People distrust voting machines — which are extremely reliable — because they have been told lies about them. 

Therefore we must … reform voting machines?
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Israel voted to ban the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, from operating within Israel, alarming some of Israel's Western allies who fear this will further worsen the already dire humanitarian situation in Gaza reut.rs/3YHvjnN

Abdallah Fayyad (@abdallah_fayyad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wrote about how thoughtful many Arab American and pro-Palestinian voters are being about their votes. If Trump wins by a slim margin, it’s not going to be their fault, as many liberal commentators would like you to believe. 1/2 vox.com/policy/381550/…

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Mayor London Breed decried shifting the mayoral election to a presidential year as a leftist "power grab." But that's not what happened. Rather, it's been a boon to wealthy candidates in San Francisco's most expensive political race ever. From @esksf missionlocal.org/2024/11/san-fr…

Meg O'Connor (@megoconnor13) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We tracked the outcomes of protest arrests at 22 campuses where prosecutors are up for election. Here's what we found: theappeal.org/pro-palestine-…

Al Jazeera English (@ajenglish) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones," forcing the evacuation of the nursery, according to medical staff member Eid Sabbah. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/knfrje

Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones," forcing the evacuation of the nursery, according to medical staff member Eid Sabbah.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/knfrje
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So far, there’s not the disruption there was in 2020. Detroit was able to preprocess tens of thousands of absentee ballots before election day, thanks to new state election laws.

Bluesky Gruesky (@bgrueskin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m not sure that higher ed is ready for what might be coming. Possibilities like loss of nonprofit status, taxes on endowments, toughened visa restrictions on foreign students, and most of all, federal research cutbacks.

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Bernie Sanders in statement issued as Harris is about to give her concession speech: "It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."

Bernie Sanders in statement issued as Harris is about to give her concession speech: 
"It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them."
Gregg Carlstrom (@glcarlstrom) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Petropoulos says that the smell of rotting corpses permeates the entire Gaza Strip. It emanates from the rubble, under which people were buried, and dogs run around with human remains in their mouths." haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social (@will_bunch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The other big loser Tuesday was the mainstream media, which has all but imploded in public trust and as a force in American democracy. Trump won with the most disinformed electorate ever The battle to create a world for truth starts now. My new column🎁share.inquirer.com/bpjtJ3

Koritha Mitchell (@profkori) 's Twitter Profile Photo

@JoyAnnReid makes it plain: What shifted the outcome of this presidential election was white voters, who turned out to become 71% of the electorate while they were 67% previously.

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NEW: Israeli authorities have caused massive, deliberate forced displacement of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since October 2023 and are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. New from HRW: bit.ly/3URhQHT

julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Breaking: Sources for Miami Herald/McClatchy confirm that the Ethics Report is "highly damaging" -- the report could be leaked today. @miamiherald

Breaking: Sources for Miami Herald/McClatchy confirm that the Ethics Report is "highly damaging" -- the report could be leaked today. @miamiherald
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“Right now, it seems like any path people take here it leads to death. If it’s not the bombs & the strikes, we’re seeing families burning alive in their tents”, tells me Louise Wateridge live in Gaza

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Records show ICE made TPIA requests to the city of Houston for information (DOBs, addresses, license plates) on everyone cited for driving without a license in the last 2 years, and the city turned the records over New w/ Matt Willoughby-deGrood houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…