Vesna Jaksic Lowe
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she/her. writer & comms consultant. immigration/human rights/intl affairs. #KRWW @Tin_House @MVICW .
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i'm so grateful and humbled that i got to write this essay and share this story about my immigration journey in the
@nytimes
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so i ask
@ZachLowe_NBA
when he thinks he's coming home from the finals and he replies with a whole paragraph including the likelihood of Klay & Durant playing, the Warriors' % of winning Game 4 at home and damn i was just trying to figure out if i should cancel Blue Apron or not
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when your spouse drinks on live tv bc your country made the world cup semifinals 🇭🇷
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someone get
@ZachLowe_NBA
back on tv so he can be forced to shave. our 5-year-old is now passing him her craft scissors and yelling “Cut the beard, daddy!”
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@ZachLowe_NBA
just fyi that tonight, our child got smoothie all over her chin, looked in the mirror and said: "I have a beard. I'm LeBron."
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.
@WangCecillia
of
@ACLU
just destroyed the
#MuslimBan
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@allinwithchris
, explained why courts can't ignore POTUS' damaging tweets
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if your 4-year-old asks ‘Why are you drinking that?’ while you are having wine by yourself, is ‘You. Because of you.’ a normal response? asking for a friend.
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wasn't planning on a Halloween costume for my baby, but does she now need to go as the Grantland ghost?
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i'm so excited to share this essay i wrote for
@CatapultStory
about helping reconnect with my Croatian roots through food, language – and my daughter.
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yessssssss
now please go watch our child so i can listen to this without the sounds of a 5-year-old screaming about snacks and boredom
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"I have often felt like no land’s woman. Yugoslavia was my home, but then it vanished."
I'm so grateful to
@jessicabennett
for giving this former ESL student her first
@nytimes
byline. I hope the essay resonates w/ anyone searching for home & identity.
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@ZachLowe_NBA
that's great, hey next time you travel can you rotate yourself toward your toothbrush instead of taking mine ok thanks 🤪
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daughter added beards to these, said ‘they are lebron and the beard’
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the guy i married is talking to the guy whose life-size poster covered my college dorm room 🤣 🏀
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me, an hour ago: yeay, no NBA games tonight, maybe we can watch a show? news: NOPE
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hey
@ZachLowe_NBA
my mom learned you're in Toronto and she wants to bring you some sarme and good luck telling a yugo grandma that she can't sneak her cabbage rolls into an arena
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As an immigrant from frmr Yugoslavia, I have a few things in common w/ Melania Trump. My piece for
@NYDailyNews
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don't know much abt NFL, but i'll try: imagine a ref who did not count any touchdowns scored by black players from one team. and that same ref didn't allow any points from same team in last quarter. and also, that ref has a long history of stealing every game.
#CountAllTheVotes
Imagine if NFL team was trailing 24-22 but in final seconds hits a 3 pt kick to win. Then AFTER game lawyers for losing team get a judge to order rules changed so that last second field goals are only 1 point
Well that’s how democrat lawyers plan to steal
#Florida
election 1/4
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@ZekeJMiller
@maggieNYT
absolute and utter BS. it is centuries worth of systemic racism in police and every corner of society - and his ignorant and insulting comment is part of the reason it continues.
it's not "some bad apples," it's endless fields of orchards rotting from racism.
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@FLOTUS
@WhiteHouse
will you deck the halls with immigrant children in cages? sprinkle carolers with some tear gas? and nothing shows the holiday spirit like featuring yourself in every photo!
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I wrote about some of the stark differences I face as a Croatian parent in the U.S., for the Washington Post's
@onparenting
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child gets sick, i make her homemade chicken soup - fresh veggies, family recipe, the whole deal. while i am putting sick child to bed, i ask husband to ‘strain’ the soup. he proceeds to dump the entire thing in the kitchen sink.
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and then they came for the hens
The Trump administration has announced plans to withdraw a regulation that would have required organic egg producers to give their hens room to graze outdoors.
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I GOT INTO TIN HOUSE SUMMER WORKSHOP!!! i can't stop smiling because i'm beyond excited about it, and it's giving me a burst of hope and excitement i desperately needed.
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"He leaves an unfathomable amount of devastation in his wake and may not face any consequences for all the wrong he has done. He will leave no legacy beyond the stench of rank incompetence."
@rgay
says it best
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crying. never underestimate croatia. amazing. bravo, vatreni!!!! 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷
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no.
as a parent who's flown cross-atlantic with a young child a few times, someone should be giving me treats for surviving that.
also, i don't need to bribe grown humans b/c i birthed a small human.
also, if this is about "parents" giving treats, why is it a "MOMTROVERSY"?
MOMTROVERSY: Should parents give treats to fellow passengers when flying with children?
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White House press room is funded by taxpayers. banning media is unacceptable & such attacks on media a defining feature of authoritarianism
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raising my daughter in a country different than the one i grew up in means we experience some things for the first time together.
i saw 'pin the tail on the donkey' for 1st time last wknd. next wknd we'll both be at our first chuck e. cheese birthday party.
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hey
@ZachLowe_NBA
, i'm back from the dr. and our daughter's height percentile is up to 80, so your WNBA dreams remain alive. she's got Croatian genes, after all.
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if a member of your household is traveling, it's perfectly ok to eat their advent calendar chocolates for the days they're away, right?
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daughter just screamed at the fire truck to be quiet "because daddy is doing a podcast"
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first family road trip. i got booted out of passenger seat to sit w/ baby.
@ZachLowe_NBA
http://t.co/fZE9TvFo24
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i hereby claim i have won a contest about NBA knowledge in this household. my american husband hereby claims he speaks the best croatian. our kindergartener hereby claims she holds the highest educational degree out of the three of us.
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@ZachLowe_NBA
In other household news, I'll be watching Croatia play in the World Cup tomorrow. When is the U.S. playing again?
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Siri, show me patriarchy, white supremacy, misogyny and stupidity in one photo
Here’s a picture of the Texas city council that voted unanimously to make their town a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”
No further comment necessary
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seeing many americans ‘shocked’ & ‘surprised’ this is happening in USA. and as someone who comes from a country that broke apart in large part due to fascism & nationalism, i ask why? four years (and beyond) have pointed to this. they are doing everything they said they would
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my parents are in croatia and better not complain about the drunks or the fireworks keeping them up tonight
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asked my husband to pass me our kid’s duck towel. he gave me the one to the right, then vigorously defended his decision and now i’m worried about him
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not feeling well so i asked my husband to pick up ingredients for chicken soup. he returned with carrots, parsnips and an onion. he forgot the chicken.
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say you have a family-size burek but you are eating it by yourself and you are more than halfway done. should you just keep going? asking for me.
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to!!!!!!! HRVATSKA!!!!!!!!!!!! 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷
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this hurts. really bad. but i’m so proud of our team. bravo, vatreni. hrvatska zauvijek. 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷❤️❤️❤️
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I just sent out the first issue of Immigrant Strong, my newsletter on writing by immigrants about immigrant life:
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at our place, it's not a long Fourth of July weekend, it's a long free agency weekend
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texas and florida are going to make me break out the croatian booze and my husband is is not here to stop me so this could get ugly. spouses should not be allowed to travel on election night for this reason.
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the third issue of my newsletter, Immigrant Strong, is out
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she would have made an amazing president. but unfortunately, far too many people in this country view being an intelligent and accomplished woman as a threat, instead of a strength
Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
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Nikki Haley advocated for voter ID law that would keep minorities, elderly & others from voting. To learn about these laws, folo
@AriBerman
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my 4-year-old daughter cannot understand how LeBron is not in the NBA playoffs. this morning at breakfast, she again asked: "Did LeBron win?!"
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I took ESL, got highest grade in regular English, went to college on scholarship, worked 3 jobs, became journalist, won awards. screw this crap. skilled or unskilled, immigrants have unspeakable strength, courage & determination. separating children from parents is sheer cruelty.
WH Chief of Staff John Kelly, asked about separating migrant families at the border, tells
@NPR
, “They don’t integrate well. They don’t have skills.” Interview airs on tomorrow’s
@MorningEdition
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damn do i wish i were in croatia right now instead of having to wait another month for vacation. the whole adriatic is gonna smell like booze tonight. bravo, hrvatska! 🇭🇷❤️👏
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hours before trick or treaters arrive, i have apparently eaten every Twix except for one in this bag so i guess i don’t have to dress up and i can just go as THE MONSTER THAT I AM
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our household's pandemic update is that my husband is either in a suit to tape TV or in pajamas. jeans, jogging pants and all other articles of clothing have been eliminated. if he has multiple segments, he just keeps alternating - suit, PJs, suit, PJs.
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do not normalize hate & bigotry. stand up & speak up against injustice. fight for a better & more equal world for the next generation. elect leaders who protect the vulnerable, respect human rights & promote policies that reflect that.
#HumanRightsDay
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up next to resign is the billionaire education secretary who didn't believe in public ed or student loans, worked tirelessly to make education harder to access for students w/ disabilities, LGBTQ & immigrant youth, & focused her efforts on supporting those accused of sex. assault
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around here, zach has been called this apartment's messiest individual, even though a 3-yr-old also lives here
Zach Lowe, a senior writer at ESPN who has been called America’s best sportswriter, says that the Raptors have the most paranoid fan base in the league.
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i worked at
@ACLU
in 2012, when we saw a rise in voter suppression laws - was tough to get media to cover them then. scary to see how widespread these efforts to shrink the electorate have become.
@AriBerman
understood the threat then & has continued to cover this critical issue.
In other news, GOP voting restrictions could swing key races in states like GA, ND, FL, KS, WI & TX. My cover story in
@nytopinion
Sunday Review on how voter suppression is tainting the midterms
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me: chopping garlic and ginger for chicken marinade while baking cookies with our daughter, while doing the dishes and two loads of laundry, cleaning the kitchen and ordering groceries.
husband: i can't talk now because i'm pouring myself instant coffee and i cannot multitask.
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jebote led, u finalu smo!!! bravo vatreni, bravo hrvatska!!!! 🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷🇭🇷
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it's Husband-is-off-to-All-Star weekend, better known to some as Valentine's Day
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this. i grew up in war-torn Yugoslavia. am always struck by how many Americans view war as ‘no big deal’ or something that only happens in far away countries. wars represent the worst of humanity, unleash horror on generations, and must be avoided at all cost, not trivialized.
As a daughter of a refugee who fled conflict, there is nothing even remotely funny about war.
WW3 memes are the epitome of when American imperial privilege meets social media culture.
Put that energy into resisting these escalations against Iran.
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my kid's class photo order form was so ridiculous (photoshop a pre-kindergartener?! option to turn her into key fobs?!)
so i wrote about it for
@SamPsychMeds
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maybe just a few things, you ignorant moron. like getting killed because of racism. or shot. or jailed. or stopped by police. or being denied a job. or education, or countless other opportunities. or being prevented from voting. or being judged or discriminated your whole life.
Fox News guest: "There is nothing worse than being called a racist"
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good morning, parents.
say you live with a 5-year-old daughter and her dad. which of these will happen first?
she learns to put on gloves
he learns to tie her ponytail
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my dad makes my mom freshly squeezed juice and turkish coffee in the mornings and i think this is a secret to their 40+ years of marriage. he also made that tray out of corks from the wine they drank and i imagine that also helps.
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