outgoing @mprnews reporter 〰️ a bisexual from south st. paul who tells it like it is. she/her.
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i’m taking a hiatus from journalism 🙂 here’s what i sent to the mpr newsroom last week announcing my departure:
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PLAYING GAMES: In the great tradition of strike publications, we offer our tech-worker version.
guild-build.netlify.app/
Now you can play and not be a scab. We also want to thank the multitude of @nytimes subscribers who have stopped playing and honored our digital picket line.
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Help the Moturi family recover from Hate Crime Attack. gofund.me/83bd0073
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Doctor. Professor. City Council Vice President.
The reason that a woman might request to be addressed by her actual title is illustrated by these reporters’ responses, which all but call her “uppity.”
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Cyndi Lauper going to the US Senate to change a law that allowed homeless shelters to deny someone a bed based on their sexuality is the most rock star thing I've seen a rock star do.
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has just ruled 6-3 that it is legal to criminalize homelessness.
The Court sided with an Oregon town that made it illegal to camp in public, overturning a decades long precedent that says criminalizing homelessness is cruel and unusual punishment.
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dunking on aisha in this
way could have been saved for the group chat or company slack… posting it to public is a strange choice.
Got a scolding from Council *Vice President* Aisha Chughtai for calling her Council Member and I — just want to know what’s going on with the labor standards board proposal
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Alex G (@SANDYalexg) released 'DSU' 10 years ago today stereogum.com/2268170/alex-g…
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“Minneapolis city officials didn’t want the homeless camping on city land, so they dumped concrete rubble across two lots”
so glad to see @katelyn_vue covering this @SahanJournal 👏
sahanjournal.com/housing/cam…
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Minnesota Public Radio spent $882,690 on anti-union law firm Jones Day for FY ending June 2022. Last year, the public radio station dissolved its unionized investigative unit APM Reports (that made In the Dark). It was also negotiating union contracts projects.propublica.org/nonp…
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CONFIRMED: The next Saint Paul City Council will be entirely women — and majority women of color — making it the youngest, most progressive and most diverse in Saint Paul’s history.
Our full statement: tinyurl.com/HistoricSTPCounc…
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Glad to run it back another year ❤️
Minneapolis’ first independent Black socialist wins again! Congrats to @robin4mpls and @TwinCitiesDSA! Ward 2 is proudly sending her back for another term!
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