Stories that don't make deadline:
I got a late call for our article about tiny mistakes being met with gunshots.
It was an overnight Walmart worker named Gladybel. She was nearly killed by an armed neighbor.
I just spoke w with a first-time voter who is very interested in Robert Kennedy Junior over Biden, because he said Kennedy has been an outspoken advocate for vaccines and has battled against vaccine misinformation
I landed in Seattle planning to shadow one family whose 85-year-old mom was quarantined in the Life Care nursing home.
She had been doing fine, but overnight her temperature spiked to 104. Then this:
What do you do when you return to a crime scene? Hug. Hug your friends. Hug their parents. Hug the comfort dogs. Hug that one kid you'd never even talked to. Hug your teachers. Hug the principal, even.
w/
@PatriciaMazzei
On a good day, Angela Kelley can make $50 driving Uber while her federal office is shut. Money for groceries, gas, pull-ups for the granddaughter in her care.
We rode along with her. It was not a good day.
A few days ago we interviewed Matt Kampf, a federal wildland firefighter in Colorado going unpaid. His family was trying to save by foregoing Rice Krispies for the store brand.
He sent this photo of what showed up on his doorstep:
So many people I interviewed for this piece described elders as living libraries, walking dictionaries, breathing repositories of Native language and culture.
The virus is destroying them. Tribes and activists are trying to stop it.
“They’ve been telling us to [vote] for so long — and we’ve done it — and look at everything that’s still going on.”
yet another absolute must-read by
@AsteadWesley
Elijah McClain's mother, Sheneen, said she had been praying for charges against the officers and medics responsible for her son's death:
"He never should've been killed. He never should’ve been arrested. He never should’ve been injected with ketamine."
Many Denver journalists who are now getting tear-gassed and risking their safety every night were also furloughed by the hedge fund that owns their newspaper.
I spent the past week with an unvaccinated family reckoning with the consequences.
Dad’s in the ICU. Kids staying with grandparents. Mom wakes up dry-heaving, wracked with sorrow, guilt, regret. And has changed her mind about vaccines.
Cases dip, restrictions lift and then infections and deaths surge again.
Rinse, repeat as health officials plead for caution.
By
@SherylNYT
and a host of contributors
@MitchKSmith
@NickAtNews
@elainaplott
and more.
Lines for food banks. Lines for groceries. Lines for covid testing.
@marclacey
noticed these glaring signs of overwhelming, unmet need and asked me to write about them.
People earning $8 an hour just don’t have an equal voice in the journalism covering this debate.
The Sunday show guests I saw today were senators, WH staff, politicos, prominent journalists — not minimum wage workers. But maybe I missed something.
I worked with
@nytmike
in Baghdad briefly. He randomly went to a garbage dump -- A GARBAGE DUMP -- and came back with secret documents about war atrocities.
It's unreal how these two report.
Debbie and her family were so generous to let strangers into their lives right now. We spent the morning talking about her mom and the family’s grief and unanswered questions.
They still don’t know for sure whether COVID-19 caused her death.
Behind the virus in nursing homes lurks a profound loneliness —
Charlie doesn’t recognize his wife anymore. Ida lost 37 pounds and stopped speaking. Minnie cried at night and asked God to just take her.
Being dumb and lost isn't always bad: Utterly blocked and confused by flooded roads, I asked this lady for directions. Started chatting. "We're fine, but they just rescued 31 people from a church in Ivanhoe"
Ding! Scrapped my plans, headed there.
Last July, 17 people in a Philadelphia congressman’s district complained about mail problems.
This year? 345.
Our story on how the postal crisis is playing out from the White House to your mailbox
In some states, it's chaos. Arizona has two competing abortion laws -- total ban, 15-week ban.
Abortion provider in Phoenix said 40 women lined up today for appointments. Utter confusion. No new patients after today.
"I don't even know what to say," doc said.
It's the middle of Hurricane Harvey, and a reporter sees a hotel worker slogging through the flood to get to work. Because she's
@julieturkewitz
, she wades right into the waters to hear her story. Congrats to the nyt's newest unsinkable national correspondent.
I've been texting back and forth with Brooke's mom this morning since we put up this story about her daughter, a Stoneman Douglas freshman. Her major thought, now:
"Keep in touch. We don't want this story to fade away. We've just begun to fight."
Elijah's mother has spent two years fighting for justice and to preserve and carry on her son's legacy.
"It was my job to make sure the whole world knew about him and how he was killed unjustly and through no fault of his own."
Here’s the box of 3,400 doses of Covid vaccine that just landed at the Sanford hospital in downtown Fargo.
Pharmacy workers will unpack, get ready to start vaccinating staff early this afternoon
One thing that struck me as I wandered around the Phoenix burbs for this story —
Fair number of moderate R’s and Indy voters just weren’t terribly engaged. But Dems absolutely were. And many were spitting mad.
Checking back into twitter after any absence is like coming across a horrible stench in a field and asking yourself, hmmmm do I want to go find the dead thing
Meet Jimena, 6 months old. Her mom spent 4 days hearing bottled water on a barbecue to make formula.
They’re all sleeping in the car in their driveway because they worry about COVID in a shelter or motel.
This fascinating
@samdolnick
story makes me want to ask this guy many questions.
Like, fair enough to ignore D.C. intrigues. But does he care he's not even aware of Parkland? Rohingya? Is there a citizen's obligation of basic awareness?
I did two interviews with lifelong McCain Republicans today — one voted for Hobbs, the other left the governor race blank. They’re part of the reason Lake lost.
A Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office deputy has escorted
@ColoradoSun
journalist Sandra Fish (
@fishnette
) out of the Colorado GOP Assembly.
Fish received a press pass when she arrived. GOP event staff said she was told not to come since chair says her coverage has been “very unfair”
THREAD: I’m helping cover the storm in Dallas, where there’s water pouring from people’s ceilings but not their faucets.
Here’s what they have to say after 4 days of this mess —
You know what the best part of my day is? It’s when I walk into the newsroom and think, maybe this is the day he left to go start a Substack. No party, no Some Personal News, just gone.
Of course that’s your contention. You’re a 1st-year media reporter just out of J-school. You probably just got done watching “Page One” and you’re obsessed with falling print revenue. You’ll be writing about that till next month when you’re convinced digital subs are the future…
I just had a county commissioner from rural Missouri hang up on me after I said "reporter from the New York Times," so it's shaping up to be a fruitful day of enlightening interviews with gracious public officials.
Cannot overstate how much i (we all?) owe Iraqi journalists like Falih Hassan who have risked — and lost — their lives to tell Iraq’s stories and help foreign colleagues
Oh and
@tarangoNYT
writes the hell out of this story
Insurance companies are denying claims from businesses shuttered bc of the virus. This is such an important
@DavidMigoya
story about how small biz owners are being denied a lifeboat they’ve paid for.
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime.”
Read
@kseelye
powerful obit.
I was ending an interview with an Atlanta spa victim’s sons when I saw the
@denverpost
alert. I had to go home.
Now.
Back to Boulder, now another scene of grief and unfathomable loss.
@NickAtNews
and I unravel what we know about how it unfolded —
This is Linda and Alphonso. The rest of Dallas basically got the lights back on today.
Not them. Day 4 without power. Their apartment was 37 degrees at noon. They’re sleeping at Alphonso’s barber shop tonight.