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In case you’re wondering how Trump supporters are taking the news rn, the crowd is breaking out into chants of “we won” and singing “we are the champions”
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Police have cordoned off access to PolyU, will not allow press in to the campus unless you’re relieving someone inside. Mixed reports of the truth of that as well. Serious decline of press freedoms in Hong Kong today
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Just thinking back to TWO DAYS AGO when Trump said of Biden on the debate stage: “I don’t wear a mask like him. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 ft away from him and he shows up w the biggest mask I’ve ever seen”
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NEW w/
@bri_sacks
: On the day of the Capitol riot, US Park Police staff were also overwhelmed by protesters. Some had to take cover in the Washington Monument. Records and interviews show they've understaffed and under resourced for yrs
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Still barricades up at CUHK and riot police on bridge no2. These are students barricading themselves on their own campus
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In HK right now... protesters coming out against the NBA and thanking Houston Rockets GM for his support of hk
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its rly wild how much time u spend chasing stuff as a reporter that you can't QUITE prove but know is true my posthumous memoir is gonna be called an ode to all the shit i know went down you can't sue me for libel when im dead
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You can see in this video police aggressively pushing a protester’s head into the cement and police trying to block me w their shields
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The church took precautions like masks backstage and temp checks. But performing / rehearsing are the real risks and when masks weren’t worn. Since the virus can spread asymptomatically, an expert told us they should have all self quarantined. Instead they performed for the VP.
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Here’s my latest about why drug tests in rape cases so often fail and how those results can be unfairly used to discredit victims
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Mitch McConnell’s face is not something I expected to see in HK ever? But here we are at
#CUHK
w an appeal for him to schedule a vote in Senate on HK human rights and democracy act
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After spending a couple months reporting on the HK protests and watching more and more tear gas filling the air, I went back to the states to learn more about one of the factories supplying it to police
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Hundreds still coming off the Manhattan bridge w their hands up. Cops letting them pass, and standing to the side
#nycprotest
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Last yr I was with protesters in Hong Kong as they stormed the legislative building. It was an insane night but one of protesters’ 5 demands was the ability to elect all their leaders!!!! Not trying to shut down election results! Pls stop w ur bad HK/US comparison takes
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I was filming this arrest w my phone and cops grabbed me on my arm and pushed me back w batons. You can see officer’s baton in the video coming at me over and over again “you don’t need to push me I’m press” I’m yelling
#nycprotest
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Maxwell Wong, 22, has been walking around the airport helping ppl handle flight cancellations and explaining the background of the protests if they ask. “This is our city, this is what we have to do,” he said.
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Reading about Hong Kong developments from NY today and thinking of how many young kids I interviewed last year who were willing to do whatever it took to protect their city. This is a sad day and there are likely so many more brutal days to come.
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In October I requested all the reports that the MTR had to submit to the government for its station closures since the protests started. I just got those back and found that many of the closures came directly from police
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After a week of early MTR closures to fix damage from protests, I wrote about how some ppl saw it as a curfew. Current MTR workers also told me they didn’t see technical reasons for the early shutdowns
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Another protest in HK - today the anti- global totalitarianism march. Protesters passing by Wan Chai carrying world flags as riot police are inside the mtr station
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@motelsiren
i’ve been to this bar ! don’t the doors of the bathroom say “there was room” or something like that??
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This is some of the challenge of getting injured protesters off the bridge as a tear gas canister starts going off a few inches from him
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NEW: Before VP Pence spoke at a Baptist megachurch in Dallas this weekend, there was a cluster of COVID cases in the choir and orchestra. Then they performed without masks. W/
@DanVergano
and
@ellievhall
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Undeterred, protesters start another huge fire on the CUHK side of the bridge, and dozens start to walk back over the bridge carrying new barriers and supplies
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Terrifying development in HK as Loya of journos appear to be arrested
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libby influencer alert
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Another person released from detention here at JFK. This is Iman Ismael Ibrahim Alknfushe, who arrived from Iran
@BuzzFeedNews
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Huge crowd still pushing forward across the bridge, using molotovs to gain ground
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Here’s more footage of the pto-Trump crowd chanting “Maga has your back” in Lansing, MI at the state capitol
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I just got to the TCF center in Detroit where ballots are still being counted. Trump party / republican election challengers are outside concerned about fraud and don’t believe Trump has lost MI yet. Armed police are guarding where ppl are still counting ballots
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Protesters have set up a projector and are screening a Vox explainer video about the extradition bill while travelers can’t get to their flights
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Heavy water cannon fire on bridge they also sprayed over the cement barrier where press was crouching to take photos
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These are students, moving behind behind these barriers, under heavy fire
#HongKongProtests
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Plenty of armed protesters out here in Lansing today as well. “Recount Michigan, I know for a fact that Trump won” this woman told me.
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@lostblackboy
@liliandaisies
@WrittenByHanna
lotta men have golden retriever energy- no idea what's going on, can't read the room for shit but happy to go fetch something on command
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I rode around bklyn last night to talk to ppl setting off fireworks. I found groups of friends having fun, a fireworks dealer in the street who said they had a high resell value, block parties and a pair of cops who were idly watching. No big conspiracy!
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A pastor is trying to negotiate with police to be able to send one or two reps into the campus, view the situation and give parents more info about their kids trapped inside. So far police have declined. “We’ll keep trying” he told me.
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Back on bridge. We’ve reached the point where they’re putting the javelins to use. (Earlier this afternoon the shot puts were being used to break apart bricks. )
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Despite police warnings, mtr closures and riot police stationed around the city this am, big crowds are out protesting in HK again on 10/1 National Day
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Some police are still here inside making sure things stay calm but vote count close to being finished here in Detroit
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I requested documents from the HK govt on what facial recognition tech it’s already using as protests get more tense here. Here’s what I found out:
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Social workers are trying to march forward to the police, theyre holding their registration cards in the air, hoping to talk w police about the humanitarian situation of students inside
#polyu
rn
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Airport security v confused why I have a ballistic vest, med kit, helmet and respirator in my carry on bag. “Are you law enforcement ?”
“Uh Im a reporter”
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Overwhelmed by the response after publishing . If you were staff or a patient at UHS let's talk: psych
@buzzfeed
.com
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A Biden/Harris supporter has come to raise his sign in front of the capital and ppl are surrounding him w Trump signs chanting “four more years” and “stop the steal”
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if i can't get an abortion anymore can i at least get a plastic straw pls
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For context, students are defending themselves with milk crates, sheets of wood, garbage cans and plastic buckets of bricks
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Some of heaviest tear gas I’ve seen in part bc this standoff is taking place in a small area, police still on bridge and protesters only a few meters back. They’re doing best w leaf blower to clear all the tear gas smoke
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Pam Murdock, 52 told me her message to Trump today was not to lose faith and that God has a plan. On Biden winning, she said “you can’t catch someone stealing unless you let them leave the store”
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Pepper spray straight to a woman’s face as she says “I’m a medic”
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Protesters are incredibly somehow still moving fwd up the bridge where police are, and despite fire that has been essentially nonstop
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Mackenzie Dickens, 32, told me he came out to the rally today to show that Biden/Harris did lose the state and that there aren’t only Trump supporters in Michigan
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This is nowhere near the full length but here’s how protesters are physically blocking the Departure gate tonight while chanting
“Fight for freedom stand w HK”
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Still heavy fire of molotovs and tear gas and rubber bullets going on. Front line has inched more toward police again
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After I got pushed back couldn’t see rest of what happened. Police cleared queens rd of journalists too, moved us onto side st, was filming for a few secs when this police officer was screaming and shoving me, he also kicked me
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Protesters here ending their march just over the bridge from Mar a Lago, where
@realDonaldTrump
is spending the weekend
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Ran into this music group from Portugal trying to make it to Tokyo for the next stop of their music tour. They said they don’t have Twitter :/ but their group is called Tuna medicina porto
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It’s 1am in HK and there’s still a human supply chain of protesters passing supplies to each other as they hold down bridge to CUHK that was earlier occupied by riot police
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Just arriving to the George Floyd memorial in Cadman Plaza. Starting a new thread for the day’s protests. Outside the park ppl are handing out free hand sanitizer, fruit and water
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I can’t tell how far away the police line is but protesters are still pushing up the bridge, have def reached the point where police were earlier. Bridge is still full of fire, bricks, tear gas
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Me hiding from the water cannon earlier bc they deploy it w PAVA - an acid that is more potent than CS, the chemical in the tear gas. It BURNS
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Protesters coming off the bridge w hands up shouting “peaceful protest” and “hands up don’t shoot”
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NEW from me: an internal transcript of a staff meeting at Memorial Sloan Kettering shows at least three patients and five employees of the cancer hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 while the facility has only a one week supply of masks
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Still lots of ppl occupying the bridge. Im headed home for the night. If you are a student/admin/staff at CUHK and wanna talk Im
@rzadams
on telegram, +1-9178425374 on WhatsApp/Signal and DMs open. Be back in the morning to continue coverage
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I spoke w Kristen Woodward, who drove 5 and a half hours from NJ to visit the Trump House on Election Day after seeing it featured on Fox. She brought her ventriloquist dummy, George, to take photos with (he’s also a Trump supporter).
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I’m back at CUHK today and students are still in prep mode, supplies still coming in. If you wanna quick roundup of what went down last night, here’s my write up.
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No one here seems phased at all by the fact that the race was called for Biden. The running theme of speeches / talking to ppl here is the vote was fraudulent and Trump will prevail. Here’s the crowd chanting “we love you” to Trump from earlier
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Prayer session outside TST police station “praying for peace in this city” as riot police start running through street behind them and black tear gas flag is raised bizarre scene rn
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I cant explain how surreal it is to follow a Univ principle past a burnt out car, a fire and a line of protesters so he can give statement about his negotiations w police who fired tons of tear gas at the athletic field and made aggressive arrests here
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Lots of protesters showing up in support of students trapped at PolyU
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Here’s Jim, who declined to give his last name but said he had worked as a poll challenger in Wayne County, MI and believed it was improper he couldn’t watch the signature verification process. He wants to tell Trump to “hang in there”
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My colleague
@carolineha_
caught the beginning
Police descending on protesters who were completely peaceful. Completely chaos. People screaming. Police grabbed my arms and tried to cuff me but let me go when I showed my press pass.
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I legit don’t even know how they did this but protesters just carried the burnt out car that was on fire earlier this afternoon to the bridge?? And added it to the barrier, and cheered when they lifted it and tipped it on its side
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Some hold up the metal barrier as protesters continue to pour in this is wild
#HongKongProtest
#antiELAB
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Spoke to a couple of the other ppl inside here who said police had to haul out about 8 Republican election challengers throughout the day. Many were taking detailed notes or disruptive to the vote counting process, sometimes crowding around workers
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Getting started
@THECITYNY
this week alongside a stellar team of investigative reporters. Open to tips! Let's 👏 fuckin' 👏 goooo👏
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oh god not ready for the onslaught of bad tweets re: food being “weird” in asia
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A protester just came down the street w a chainsaw revving, walking toward where police are stationed— a group of protesters stopped him, convinced him to put it down, turn it off and encircled him in a huge hug
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Frontline of protesters moved up near bridge 2 - molotovs, tear gas, bricks, rubber bullets
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Still lots of people marching in the 15th week of
#hongkongprostests
... things kicking off peacefully here this afternoon
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There are SO many walls and barriers that protesters have built down Chatham Rd as they try to launch an effort to save students from
#polyu
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Mood today! Heading back out to the protests in Manhattan for
@BuzzFeedNews
. Starting in Bryant Park
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Here’s an inside look at what it’s been like to report on America’s largest chain of psych hospitals– they hired lawyers, launched a $100k crisis pr plan and went after employees
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this is mostly a coded plea to give me documents so i dont have to write a memoir at all i mean who wants that rly
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NEW: I obtained 500 internal emails showing state cannabis officials repeatedly raised flags to Gov. Hochul about the rollout and that the state was making a poor deal with a private equity group to finance vulnerable licensees. The deal went ahead anyway.
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March for Our Lives crowd heading out in Palm Beach, Fl to begin walking toward Mar a Lago
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Theme of “eye for an eye” here still going strong on day 5 of the airport protests. Reference is to a woman who was hit in the eye w a bean bag bullet on Sun
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Hello from Lansing, Michigan where a pro-Trump crowd is chanting “Four More Years” in front of the state capital about an hour after the race has been called for Biden
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Police in tight line at the edge of bridge no. 2 hard to get a good shot bc of their lights, fires still raging
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What I found was low-paid workers making and assembling the tear gas all by hand— even down to the screen printing on the canisters. For $9.50 an hour, they’re working with hazardous chemicals out of metal shipping containers where severe fires have broken out
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Here’s another long line of voters still going strong in Allegheny county- more of a Dem stronghold- w 2 hours to go til polls close. There’s a table of free pizza and water and coffee as it gets dark and the temp drops
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Police fired tear gas and charged fwd this young girl was screaming as she was arrested
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Here’s Kevin Skinner, founder of Stand Up Michigan, who organized anti-lockdown protests in the state earlier this year. He’s calling for ppl to keep showing up at the Capitol every day at noon. “We’re not going to give up on our President Donald Trump!” he says to cheers.
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