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Fact-based Communicator and Storyteller. www.amyalexanderink.com/
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AmyAlexCA
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This same dynamic sunk Hillary Clinton’s bid. In retrospect (and having worked in the Beltway fishbowl / news biz mass comm industrial complex from 2006-2022), it’s actually a Miracle that PBO got elected twice. #UncoveringRace
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Me, looking at all the Beltway + NE Corridor Nat Politics Journos (including Opinion writers), who either Ignored or BadMouthed Kamala Harris from the moment she first landed in DC as a Democratic Senator….but who now are “reconsidering her viability” for #POTUS 🙄
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Details below 😳🔥🥵🌄 www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...
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**From my current location — #CA’s state capital city, where it is 108 degrees — stares longingly at the current temp in my hometown, a mere 87 miles southwest** 🥺🥵
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Wait, I thought it seemed familiar! I actually did read this when it first published @nytimes.com. I even posted it here on Day Of. But it just turned up again in another sm Channel earlier today, where I RE-read it—and prolly bc we’re all Frazzled about the High Stakes at hand rn, I forgot! 🤣
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The Ros Russell dish-smashing tantrum at the Divorcee Ranch is EPIC 👏🏾
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omg, I LOVE “The Women.” 🤣
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Not sure how I missed this when it first dropped in May: “The second the global agenda gets crowded, women and girls fall off. It’s frustrating and shortsighted.” — Melinda F. Gates, one of the tiny number of BigTech (or BT-adjacent!) Billionaires w civic spirit 👏🏾 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/o...
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Aaanyways: I hope everyone had a Safe and Sane July Fourth 2024 Holiday. Night-Night from Team NorCal www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...
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PS: Among other important Citations, I hope you note the shout-out to San Jose State University 🤣 #TeamNorCal
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LoL, this *may or not be* Me describing my Journey through U.S. Journalism/BigTime Book Publishing/MassComm sectors during late 20thC-Present era 🤣👏🏾 #WomenInCulturalArts #Survivors youtu.be/X9s6xacLyik?...
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Lol, Gatekeeper (done up in clown makeup): “What’s the Password?”
Visitor: “I See Dead People.”
#KendrickLamar #NotLikeUs 🤡🫢😭🎶
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!!!
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Admittedly, I’m not deeply familiar with details of the internecine Beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake —but can say that this video Drop on July 4th from Lamar is terrific: postmodern surreal, weirdly lowkey and very cinematic! Also: Very Californian. #NotLikeUs 🤣🌇 youtu.be/H58vbez_m4E?...
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Btw, here's the Q&A I conducted w Kamala Harris in 2009, when she was District Attorney in my hometown, and laying groundwork for her ultimately successful run for CA Attorney General. I was Commissioned by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund news/info site, "The Defenders." web.archive.org/web/20091212...
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AmyAlexCA
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PS: Can confirm that a NYT OpEd that I researched and wrote in 2018 underwent rigorous fact-checking. WTF has happened over there in recent years? 🫢
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Sigh. The NYT Ed page editors changed the headline from “Why I Don’t Vote” to “Why I Won’t Vote” after belatedly verifying that this author had in fact voted during recent years. No correction Note is appended, worsening an already dismal episode of Bad Judgement www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Terrible messaging — especially as it was delivered to a Black radio show audience: “Asked about his message to voters who may sit the election out, [Biden] said, ‘If you don’t do something about it, you’re to blame.’” 🤦🏽♀️ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Uhhh: “Some warn of a coming societal breakdown that will require armed, right-minded citizens to restore order.” — NYT on the Claremont Institute’s *BrainTrust* fanning out from SoCal to live in friendlier Red States…from whence they’re now plotting a ChristoFascist Takeover. Happy Fourth of July!
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“Fed up by what they see as an increasingly hostile and disordered secular culture, many [RW Christian Nationalists] are moving to what they view as more welcoming states and regions, battling for American society from conservative ‘fortresses.’” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...
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AmyAlexCA
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More on this…dubious *Collab:* 🤦🏽♀️👇🏾www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/marshawn-lynch-gavin-newsom-join-forces-for-a-new-podcast
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Umm, will Gavin be transparent about why Black CA residents are at the bottom of the CASTE ladder in our mutual home state? Tune in to find out! 🤦🏽♀️
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Ok. How is Canada for you?
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AmyAlexCA
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Re Canada: I hope that *Neighbor to the North* has been good for you and yours. I’m currently looking at VancouverBC for….reasons. 😂
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Ugh. So sorry you and your family went through that. 😰
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PS: I have lived and voted DEM in MN, NY, MD over the past 30yrs. Guess what I learned while living in these respective states? White Voters RELIABLY vote against their own economic + social welfare interests.
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Walz, Hochul and Moore are in reliably Democratic states. (Well, Minnesota is notoriously Purple, but still.) 🤷🏽♀️
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Agree. 🙏🏾💙
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AmyAlexCA
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Ack! “…were all…” #grammarcorrex🤣
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Pretty sure the looks btwn VP and Newsom during today’s #Biden + #DemGovs meet up in DC was all…
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Current sitch in California’s capital city. Assuming we survive ‘til Nov2024, be sure to vote accordingly! ☀️🔥😬🥵
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Probably a long shot, since Biden is dug in BUT: my top picks/vision board entries are 1. VP Harris + PA Gov. Josh Shapiro. 2. VP Harris + Illinois JB Pritzker. Whitmer, Newsom et al other viable Dem Govs can cool their heels and learn their ExecBranch chops as Agency Secretaries. Carry on.
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Duh. *Some of us* noted this long ago, while also acknowledging the biggest risk—anti-Black Racism and Misogyny among voters: “Some say Harris could energize Democratic-leaning groups whose enthusiasm for Biden has faded: Black voters, young people and women.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ooof😬
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Last (for now) on our current Plight — and by *our,* I mean Black + other historically-underserved voters: Don’t sleep on the CA contingent in the House.
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Not a *Paradox,* rather an acknowledgment of the stubborn Reality of America’s longest-running Original Sin: anti-Black / anti-Indigenous People Racism. 🤷🏽♀️
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Just mentioned to a family member here in NorCal: “Guardrails-of-democracy are dropping by the day — yet we’re being Boxed In.” 😬 #BlackDialogue
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**Whispers** Literacy / Reading Comprehension is in short supply these days, thus I decline to spend my (increasingly taxed!) energies on OverConfident Fools in these sm channels 🤗
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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take:
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Mario Koran wrote his first news story from a Wisconsin jail 14 years ago. Now he's covering the prison system he served time in as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow. Here's the unlikely story of how he went from jail to journalism.
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Wait — if Steinglass says he and the other Manhattan prosecutors think BiggestLoser’s request to delay sentencing based on SCOTUS’s stupid pres immunity ruling to be “without merit,” then WHY are they agreeing to the delay? 😖 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/n...
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tbc: We understand how quickly the *Camps* can be established, yes? Apology to Aleksandr Soltzhentisyn but we’re DUMB if we fail to consider that a #GulagAmericana is possible. See also: “Japanese-American Internment Camps, 1940s.”
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I have Zero interest in being a *Pious* inmate of a RW, 21stC domestic Gulag: The #BidenWorld (inner-circle) Comms Team has to Grow TF up. It must start hiring Experts who can deliver high-impact Messaging to Black, Latino, LGBTQ and Young voters. It must STOP outsourcing this to sm *Influencers.*🤨
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In conclusion: Obviously, “Vote Harder, Kids,” is a pragmatic TopLine Message by POTUS rn…HOWEVER, I do also despair — having also experienced BidenWorld up close!— that Establishment Democrats’ utter Failure of Imagination will speed our undoing. I’m NOT tryna be the most Pious person in the GULAG.
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Flashback: in 2017, when #BiggestLoser and his Goons first took over 1600, I frequently pointed out on TWITTER that much of what passes for *Power* in the Exec Branch is based on an Honor System, then in late 2018, I went to work FT in VA’s HQ, and saw up close how easily that *Power* gets Abused😬
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Ok — so: “adj., Overflowing, effusive. Gushing forth.” — M-W definition. In which case, I prefer to interpret this in context of Ella Fitzgerald’s formidable “scat” - style singing. 🤣
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Huh—new to me, also! brb, gotta pop over to M-W 🤣
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I sure hope the president’s belief in the Honor System comes with warm, comfy blankets to help us survive freezing nights in the gulag.
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Basically, the Guardrails are gone — yet what we just got in response is Piety and “Vote Harder, Kids.”
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