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writing things @ProPublica . Cali kid who left her heart in Idaho. Previously: @CalMatters @Statesman @IdahoStatesman . Co-founder @VocesInternship .
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name's on the website so it must be real...
👋I'm
@ProPublica
's new Ancil Payne Fellow!
if we used to chat in California, Texas, Idaho, please reach out! I'm still interested in labor, ag, immigration, Latino communities & whatever else they throw at me!
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wild how after four years of these journalistic forays into “rural America,” nobody seemed to figure out that Latinos live in rural America, indigenous people live in rural America, Black people live in rural America........
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katy can I interest you in buying an entire newspaper
one of my favorite sounds ever is the sound of a crisp new newspaper being read over breakfast for an hour or so… The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword… I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world. It is too romantic. 🗞️♥️
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In November, I interviewed several Latina women in Rupert, Idaho who had all had COVID. This was a time when COVID was ripping through that area & the Latino community especially. They said many families couldn't afford to buy good reusable masks for all their kids
#idahocovid19
Parents encouraging kids to burn masks on Idaho Capitol steps
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just here to remind national news reporters that it costs zero dollars to link back to the local newspapers and tv stations whose reporters worked all night to confirm their local people were indeed present at the Capitol
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Y’all STOP CHASING FAMILIES DOWN THE STREET WHO DON’T WANT TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED OR INTERVIEWED. Did they send every callous journalist to Uvalde or what
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It’s really such a failure of the media at large that we rarely highlight how common it is for injured & sick immigrants to refuse/delay medical care. Instead other narratives proliferate
I’ve covered pesticide exposures, accidents, workplace injuries & more where this happened
As soon as I read that one of the construction workers who fell into the water refused medical treatment I just knew these were immigrant men.
Because what do you mean you fell down with a bridge and just walked it off? 🙁
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what if West Coast and East Coast journalists beefing about who is better at handling wildfire smoke spent a little less time doing that and a little more time writing about the people who still have to work in the bad air? just a thought
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I understand the....intent...behind the “I miss 9/12 when everyone loved each other” posts, but my hometown’s Sikh community basically puts out a “please don’t do hate crimes” PSA every year on Sept. 11 because that was obviously not what everyone experienced
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explain why Latino stories are “niche” yet this is a fully formed Disney Chanel hit series waiting to happen
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the really really frustrating and enraging thing about Idaho is that people of color who live there — and have lived there for a long time— raise concerns about this level of racism all the time, but it’s brushed off until there’s some national embarrassment no one can ignore
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Every day it brings me joy that the state’s biggest celebrity is a Latino from rural Idaho
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a lil update from me: This is my last week
@statesman
.
incredibly excited to share that I’ll be joining the
@CalMatters
California Divide team and reporting from the Central Valley, where I grew up
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for absolutely no reason at all, I'm still thinking about this story
"On average, each person who has died of COVID has done so roughly a decade before their time."
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people forget how gossipy this industry is. Nothing travels faster than news of how people mistreat colleagues
We all find out eventually, even states away & we’ll remember these things when building better systems for the next generation, because, phew, can’t stay like this
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well, I have Some News.
July 1 will be my last day at
@IdahoStatesman
I'll share where I'm going at a later date, but I will be leaving Idaho.
The last 3.5 years writing about Latinos in Idaho have been the honor of my life
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I am sorry to everyone who woke up this morning to the cold, hard truth that racism exists in Boise.
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it feels so wrong to talk about the trauma of journalists covering Uvalde given the families who lost everything, but, man. The Statesman, like so many other Texas newsrooms, has a lot of Latino/Hispanic journalists. Many of us were sent to Uvalde because of this. It hits hard
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Enough is enough.
@statesman
journalists are picketing at the Congress Avenue Bridge as part of the nationwide
#GannettWalkout
.
@Gannett
has left us no choice. Local journalists deserve more support, a living wage and more ✊
Support
@AustinNewsGuild
and local journalism!
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the Uvalde mom who was briefly arrested by law enforcement before hopping a fence and running into the school to get her 2 kids is a farmworker. she had the reporter interview her in the fields, as she described hearing the shots as she looked for her kids
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El Progreso Memorial Library staff in Uvalde kept their lobby (featuring AC & Wifi) open for journalists past closing hours, firmly insisting on dragging out power cords & tables for us so we didn’t sit on the floor. Tonight I filed my story under this mural & inscription
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Truly, I have never laughed so hard in my entire life
Thank you, sir. But I write like a girl.
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really tired of hearing how POC candidates with enormous potential, hometown ties and bilingual skills "aren't ready" or "qualified" for the most basic local journalism job
It's not that you "can't find diverse candidates." (I hate that phrasing.) You don't really want them
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BIG NEWS for your Friday I’m still struggling to share, because how do you sum up a dream come true?
After years of talking & wishing, we did the thing: Introducing Voces Internship of Idaho, a paid journalism internship program for Idaho Latino students
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I’ve been making my own coffee at home for 9 months now, why are my student loans still here???
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I love this story for many reasons, but I mostly adore that it breaks the ag stereotype that Latinos are only farmworkers, not farm owners, too. The Census of Agriculture tells us there are many Latino farmers, even in Idaho! Should I be writing about you?
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stop using "rural" when you mean "white" challenge!!!
For a lot of people “rural america” has just become a catch all term for white politicians mostly in the south, but rural America isn’t just a bunch of white republicans. There are rural communities in every state, with diverse populations (even if not always well integrated).
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Some News once again: Really excited to share that I'm joining the
@statesman
as their Local Accountability Reporter. I start August 2.
I'm excited to work with such a great team, be closer to family & tell stories in a new city & state
also...I've heard something about tacos?
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Is this headache:
(A) dehydration
(B) COVID
(C) staring at 3 screens for hours
(D) clenching my teeth
(E) existential dread
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love me a well-documented lawsuit
Scene reporter Eli Motycka (
@ejmotycka
) was arrested by Vanderbilt police while reporting on student protests.
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Evergreen journalist tweet
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thrilled to share I'm starting 2022 with a move to the
@statesman
's investigative team
I'm grateful for a chance to serve Austin & Texans this way. Please send tips on all the things to nfoy
@statesman
.com, especially about workers, workplace issues or inequities you can't ignore
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If you hire reporters of color to cover communities of color, then constantly undermine them w/ accusations of “bias,” you are part of journalism’s diversity problem.
We already wonder if we deserve this seat at the table. Let us do our jobs.
(Disclaimer: This is not about me)
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they used to measure the length of our skirts and shorts with rulers
“Wearing a mask is a personal choice, and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them,” the superintendent of a Georgia school district wrote in a letter after a widely circulated photo showed a packed hallway on the first day of classes
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the pipeline of talented reporters seeking advice for dealing with editors who don't let them do their jobs or report on marginalized communities with care & precision, to quitting journalism entirely and taking PR jobs is just entirely too strong
i am tired. editors, be better
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so is this photo causing them suit-worthy emotional distress and harm or are they putting it on Christmas cards
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absolutely howling at this 1977 article from a newspaper in Burley, Idaho accidentally chronicling the time's anti-Mexican sentiment
a litany of racist complaints basically boiled down to "I once had Mexican neighbors who painted their house purple"
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people questioning the relevance/accuracy of this story simply do not understand that many immigrants, POC and other vulnerable groups live in conservative, rural and very anti-vax areas that rarely made outreach efforts in their languages or communities before & barely are now
Nearly half of unvaccinated Americans say they would get vaccinated but are dealing with a lack of transportation, scheduling challenges and other hurdles. by
@MerylKornfield
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Before this week's massacre, Uvalde schools were part of the Chicano movement's historic student walkouts. Many still live in Uvalde, and
@psskow
,
@fotornelas
& me spoke to some.
“Most walkouts were one day or one hour. Uvalde’s walkout was six weeks.”
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I’m off work today, but as my timeline is flooded w/reporters rushing to Middleton to write about these photos, here’s my request:
Please talk to some Latinos.
They raised the alarm. Their kids saw this. Their families live with this. It’s not the first time. It’s not the last.
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I finally listened to 2 messages thanking me for the same story this weekend, and just cried
It's been a long, horrible year in this job. People are emboldened to say evil things to others in ways I've never seen. But today I'm grateful for kind people who call strangers
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Every single line of this
@latimes
story is insane
Critical report faults LAPD for mishandling summer George Floyd protests
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again,
@Gannett
, can you REALLY call it a "town hall" when you announce massive, company-wide financial impacts in a meeting so short that half the employees miss it
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No one goes as hard in the comments as the Emmett folks reminding everyone that Ammon Bundy is really from Nevada
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My mom’s the bilingual office aide at a California school & got this homemade mask from a parent just arrived from Guadalajara. My mom told her how pretty it was & how she couldn’t wait to show me
The next week, she returned & “gave me an extra one for ‘mi hija,’” my mom said 😭
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there are so many people yelling at the Statesman's Facebook page right now for sharing this national story and ruining their Thanksgiving that I figured I should probably share it again here
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so many people left journalism this year because they were burnt out, pushed out, or literally couldn't afford to live on the salary.
but sure. journalism is failing because _____
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Hello. Starting today, I'm taking some time off for a much-needed break. I might be hard to reach on here
Something I've been trying to remember: This is a hard job (harder than usual this year). We can't do it well if we don't take care of ourselves
Be back soon
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some of the unvaccinated filling hospitals right now received the first significant COVID info in their native language in the form of conspiracies & malicious misinformation — partially because of government agencies that didn’t prioritize these communities until it was too late
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For everyone not aware how...different...conditions can be for Farmworkers in states like Idaho
Workers in Parma Idaho pick bell peppers by hand. The peppers are then placed on a conveyer belt to be sorted and have trash removed. The work is fast paced and the days can be long since farm workers do not get overtime in Idaho.
#WeFeedYou
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just admit you don’t have the sources and only feel comfortable doing the “rural white people react to things” category of stories!
Also hire people of color and immigrants and indigenous people to cover rural America!!!
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this is such a valuable resource, I could cry. Look, we've all had a coworker or editor who didn't get why we did what we did, or even accused us of bad journalism because we practiced caution w/ vulnerable sources. Bookmark this. Use it as a shield. Do it
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I adore everything about this complicated story
"Just because it's a predominantly Latino community does not mean that one, everyone speaks Spanish fluently; two, they pronounce those things the way you would pronounce them in Spanish"
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I am just a girl, standing in front my local news subscriptions, asking them to remember my login information JUST ONCE
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Journalists: If you're interviewing a child who says both parents are in ICE custody, I'm going to guess you didn't get parental permission to use that child's name, photo and age.
Children of immigrants also deserve ethical reporting.
Please reconsider sharing these photos.
just read a
@WJTV
story about the raids that not only photographed several crying children, but used one 11 year old girl’s full name, who said she wanted both mommy and daddy.
I get that everyone is frazzled but this is when our ethics and standards matter the most.
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I’m at the Cathedral of the Rockies in Boise today. They’re beginning the process of removing Robert E. Lee from the 50-year-old stained-glass windows
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You can’t process the media scene at something like this unless you’re here. Just watched a Latino family w/matching Uvalde schools shirts try to navigate the scrum & jumble of cameras in front of Robb Elementary. They’re just trying to put a teddy bear down.
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This is why I've started pushing back when newsroom leaders have described their Spanish efforts as a "public service" or "the right thing to do."
Sure. But data shows Spanish-speakers are a growing audience segment that mainstream journalism can ignore at their financial peril
Apparently the most shared
@NPR
podcast on Spotify last year WAS IN SPANISH. If your newsroom hasn’t gotten the memo about how important Spanish is, here is that memo again.
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Everywhere in Uvalde, you see signs of the deep impact this has on a tight-knit town
I stopped at the H‑E‑B to grab food, and an employee in the parking lot said workers were pulled from stores in Eagle Pass or Carrizo Springs, because so many local employees were effected
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you think you can hurt me??? in Idaho I used to read allllll the Facebook comments every time we published anything about Latinos
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I don’t know what to say about this, beyond that I’m deeply touched & very grateful I get to do this job — writing about Idaho Latinos
Latino stories have always been a crucial part of Idaho & the West. We deserve to be here, taking up space in history & telling our own stories
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First day in the books 📝🦇
send all your Austin and local government accountability tips to nfoy
@statesman
.com
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the best way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo is to diversify your newsrooms and also hire
#MoreLatinosInNews
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someone said it’s the most Latino journalists ever in one room in Idaho (and we were still missing like six people)
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Journalists don't get to put time limits or metrics on how long it takes to rebuild decades of fractured or purposely strained relationships with historically underserved communities.
You either care about the work, care about the PEOPLE, or you don't. It's as simple as that.
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Finally got a chance to see
@BobbyGaytan
’s Idaho farmworkers mural in Mountain Home and I just...
*sighs in total happiness*
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Hope everything is okay with the folks who canceled their appointment but um!!!!
I am just feeling overwhelmingly blessed I got the chance to help protect my community — and do my job safely once again.
#idahoCovid19
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California changed the way farmworkers can unionize this year, allowing card-check elections advocates said would help them unionize w/o fear of retaliation
@UFWupdates
said it’s already working —CA just certified a new union in the San Joaquin Valley
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You know what my editor
@ChristinaLords
did last week? Drove around Boise dropping off N95 masks to reporters (because we don’t have a building!!!!!)
Please read this thread & join our protest of
@mcclatchy
’s callous decision
This hurts our newsroom. This hurts Idaho local news
🧵 Today, the journalists of the Idaho News Guild sent a letter to
@mcclatchy
management to formally protest the abrupt and inappropriate firing of editor Christina Lords.
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do you think the men who send really rude, sexist emails to female reporters would still do that if they knew how much we laugh at them in the group chat
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this TikTok tribute from the daughter of Roberto Padilla Argüelles, who died in the Boise mall shooting Monday, is really the last thing I can handle this week.
que descanse en paz
@ RosaMora31, hija de Roberto Padilla Argüelles, compartió este video en TikTok. Incluyendo fotos y videos de la vida de Roberto.
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raise your hand if you had to get a (non-COVID) vaccine before you traveled somewhere
👋👋👋
Vaccines are being required for travel — here's how unvaccinated people feel about that
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I finally had to tell them to just push their way thru & make their way to the officers in front, who would help them. They did, & had to keep turning down interview requests the whole way, followed practically every step
Like, I’m here to report, too. But this can’t be the way
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everyone got cool new journalism jobs in 2023 and I'm so happy for all of us
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another round of Gannett layoffs announced today, planned for Dec. 1 and 2
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~some news~ this is my last week
@CalMatters
Covering my home state & the Central Valley where I was born & raised was a dream. I'm so grateful for the chance to do it with such a smart & passionate team of journalists who fight fiercely for Californians. More on what's next soon
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again, I think we need to be a lot more clear-eyed about who exactly is “killing journalism”
Our publisher took down this story online after laying off half the newsroom. Luckily print lives on.
@EverettHerald
@EverettGuild
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I don't think men fully realize that for every woman they disrespect, there's an entire group chat plotting his demise
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nobody shades Idaho like Utah
Feels like a good day to remind people how lucky I am to have the best Lt. Governor in the country.
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I've struggled to find the words for this because it's deeply personal & painful for me. As it stands, Latino communities coverage is a beat that gets some of the lowest pageviews in the newsroom
That's because building coverage of communities is about building trust, too
Journalism can't be reduced to clicks. Despite ours and our readers’ protests, the owner of the
@IdahoStatesman
is pushing mandatory pageview quotas for its journalists.
Join us in telling
@McClatchy
this is wrong by emailing management here:
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please do not blame POC journalists for not applying to your job opening
that's it. that's the tweet.
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Can someone explain why folks cite a Latino tendency for "big family parties" as a main reason for COVID spread among Latinos.....in the same counties allowing large church services, parties & events (featuring elected officials!) proceed w/o masks or social distancing?
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hi :) send tips plz
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There’s a parade heading through the streets of Boise, Idaho today, led by Inclusive Idaho.
The message?
#BlackLivesMatter
, and “Joy is the Revolution.”
I’m covering this today. Follow along:
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I’ve always thought the most amazing part of this job is that ordinary people decide to talk to us at all
Journalists,no ordinary citizen owes you an interview. It’s a privilege to have someone share time and thoughts with you-even people who espouse the worst of sentiments.
Elected officials & those who possess the power to alter our lives have a different level of accountability.
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I've returned to this thread often today because I'm so angry
1)Doing this to Alice, of all people, is unbelievable. She's a pro who many look to as a model for this reporting
2) this is the NYT. Imagine what this can look like for local news in the same town as these companies
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once again, as a Bakersfield kid I’m contractually obligated to hate Fresno. HOWEVER, if this lady from San Francisco keeps calling it a “disgusting cesspool” I might fight her right here in the Fresno Yosemite International Airport
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my parents always think I can fix life problems by telling people I'm a journalist, as if people tend to respond positively to that information
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the kind of mom who was almost too embarrassed to take an awards ceremony picture with her kids because she was still dirty from her early morning work in the fields, and the kind of mom who told cops “give me a vest” and braved a shooter to get her kids. sheesh
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Idahoans started a petition to rename Robert E. Lee Campground in the Boise National Forest. But forest officials didn't have any record of it & were unsure it even exists
Except it super, super does.
@NMBlanchard
and I drove out there to prove it.
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people will literally write stories like “this town of mostly Latino farmworkers hasn’t had clean water for 5 years” and then in the same county write dispatches from “deep red Trump country” where “the urban-rural divide is evident.”
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anyone who knows anything about the Central Valley or California agriculture knows an apparent new
@UFWupdates
unit at The Wonderful Company is...a big deal
Well, just confirmed with ALRB there's now a union at one of the biggest farms in the country
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the family of one of the two victims of the Boise mall shooting started a GoFundMe to cover costs to bury him in Mexico
“Agradecemos mucho cualquier tipo de ayuda y esperamos poder hacer descansar a nuestro hermano.”
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really hope 2021 is the year we all ditch our crippling imposter syndromes considering how many actual imposters we've got running around here
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