My boyfriend and I were showing his parents The Lord of the Rings movies for the first time and about halfway through The Two Tours his mom goes, "Wait, why is this Frito fellow so small?"
Some news: 1.) I graduated last month! 2.) It's my birthday today! 3.) I'm on the job market!
Wrapping a big freelance project in early August and am on the hunt for my next gig. Need a climate/enviro reporter, audio journalist or podcast producer? Drop a line 🎣
In March I’m moving to Chicago to pursue some exciting freelance & podcast projects!
I’m incredibly grateful for my time in Hawaii and all I’ve learned at
@CivilBeat
/
@OffshorePodcast
.
On to the next adventure!
I know this has been said 1,000 different times in a 1,000 different ways, but it still baffles me that an insurance agent that knows nothing about my medical history can veto a treatment prescribed by my highly trained doctor. That is all.
Our
#GwenIfill
Mentorship Program carries on Gwen’s legacy of uplifting future generations, laying the groundwork for women and non-binary journos from underrepresented backgrounds to become industry leaders.
Get to know our 2022 fellows! 🧵
You guys, I didn’t realize my roommate was home and she heard me have a 10-minute “conversation” with my cat about how he thinks he’s “so fancy sitting on the couch like a real boy!”
My roommate is a literal scientist working on the cure for Alzheimer’s. I’m so embarrassed.
BREAKING: 500 food banks across the state will be open during the Arizona
#RedForEd
teacher walk-out and will provide meals for as long as schools are closed.
When Twitter purged millions of locked/dormant accounts yesterday some AZ politicians took a hit.
@SenJohnMcCain
lost 200k+ and
@RubenGallego
’s dropped by almost 10 percent. My dad, on the other hand, fared nicely.
Due to overlapping local, state and federal regulations, Oahu's next landfill is going to be over a drinking water aquifer. But the Honolulu Board of Water Supply said that's an issue. Because all landfills eventually leak.
All week
#RedForEd
organizers have been collecting nonperishable food & donations for students who rely on free & reduced lunches. One teacher told me she spent $165 of her own money so her students wouldn't have to worry about lunch during the walkout tomorrow.
Me: *has any physical symptom of illness*
WebMD: “The first step is removing caffeine from your di-“
Me: *closing browser window* “I guess we’re just gonna ride this thing out.”
Arizona folks: Do you know of any urban legends/myths about Arizona universities like ASU, UA and NAU (or others in AZ)? Things like "there's a pool on the roof of Old Main" or "the Matthews Center is haunted." Even "myths" that seem fake but are actually real.
Tourism was supposed to be a reliable field but Hawaii has now seen through the veneer of stability. Add that to the many ways tourism hurts Hawaii and how can any reasonable person be surprised when locals are pushing back against rising tourism numbers?
First day of the
@IWMF
Gwen Ifill fellowship program! What an amazing group of journalists — I still can’t believe I’m really here 😳
#IfillFellows
#IWMFfellows
Planning a weekend getaway to the Valley of the Sun? Check out these fun and exciting activities for the Phoenix summer!
- Go stand in the dairy cooler at Costco.
So I started waving at people who drive the same car as me and very few who see me wave back.
This is just like when I followed all the other Claire Caulfields on twitter and one of them blocked me smh.
Currently, female inmates get 12 pads a month for their menstrual cycle.
“I’m almost sorry I heard the bill,” Rep. Jay Lawrence said. “I didn’t expect to hear pads and tampons and the problems of periods.”
Only gym with my ideal COVID safety, price & proximity combo is for pro bodybuilders. Everyone is SO nice & welcoming but it’s lowkey hilarious to see firefighters & lifeguards bench my bodyweight while I run around with 10lb pink dumbbells messing up in every conceivable way lol
Eating pasta in bed is always high-risk, high-reward. That’s part of the appeal right? The danger?
Well tonight it was more risk than reward. RIP white comforter 2018-2018.
Hey middle school teachers: stop making your students create 5 year plans⁉️ I'm talking to high schoolers about their experiences during the pandemic and MULTIPLE students have mentioned that they're stressed out from not meeting goals they set for themselves WHEN THEY WERE 11❗
Dermatologist: "Alright, tell me about your skincare routine."
Me: "I'm always stressed, never sleep and drink coffee instead of water."
Dermatologist: "..."
Me: "So like why do I keep getting breakouts I don't understand☹️"
Usually it's awesome to live with another writer but last night I was knee-deep in a depressing story about climate change and my roommate was knee-deep in a depressing story about domestic violence and the vibes in the apartment were all off.
Went into an absolute rage yesterday when a podcast took SEVEN MINUTES AND TEN SECONDS to get to the intro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Editors people! Hire editors!
⭐️The Catholic Church loves the intersection of Catholicism and high art.
⭐️Unlike other religions, we don’t have sacred ceremonial garments that could be appropriated (crosses are on plastic church camp visors)
⭐️The Vatican sponsored the event
I’ve been really missing my
@news21
team and today’s news that “Troubled Water” won a student Murrow made the memories ever sweeter! Thanks to the
@RTDNA
board!
Not much was known about the Hawaii Department of Agriculture's premiere program to assist small farmers.
So, I analyzed 2 decades worth of tax records for 227 plots of public land to try and suss out the winners and losers of the program.
Last month, nine student reporters from the University of the South Pacific spread out across Fiji to document the ways climate change is impacting the lives of people across the islands.
Here’s what they found. 🧵
#USPNextGenRadio
The cool thing about mineral-based sunscreen is you’re saving the turtles AND getting a full-body massage because it takes 15 goddamn minutes to rub in
I'm in a healthy, stable, loving, long-term relationship so listening to TSwift is all fun and jokes. But if I had heard "You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath" while dating my ex-gf who is, to this day, still in the closet... I would have simply ~passed away~
My apartment had 3 pretty horrific bug infestations during lockdown. And I'll probably carry those psychological scars for the rest of my life lol. But on the plus side, I can kill any bug with my bare hands now. I don't even flinch. Just squish 'em, wash my hands and move on.
We had an air b&b guest from New Zealand who, after a visit to Walmart, came back wide-eyed exclaiming, “everything is so big!” So
@agnel88_philip
took him to Costco.
I’m tired of artificial intelligence being used to commit war crimes.
Instead let’s invest in eye implants that automatically take a photo every time my cat sticks his lil tongue out.
Earlier this morning
@NPR
referred to the president's language only as "an offensive slur," but just now they've decided to say "shit hole" on air. No doubt an interesting editorial discussion happening in that newsroom.
Since I deleted social media apps off my phone (highly recommend btw) I rarely check Facebook. But when I do, there's always 30+ notifications and 0.5% have anything to do with me.
This is not a cake it's a [REDACTED].
@kjzzphoenix
's
#PublicRadioCakeWeek
Day 4: Blueberry, pecan and apple pie enclosed in a buttercream FOIA redaction box. Because we all know where the most interesting (and wild) information in a FOIA lives ;)