well, I guess I'm coming back on to this hellsite specifically for NICAR. Jet was 9 weeks old when I last tweeted and he is now 1 year old and 70 POUNDS?!?

time flies when you're not spiraling online (just spiraling offline tho)

Fun fact: this is the courthouse in Vinita, Ok

The best update we could possibly give y'all: Gal is now a working guide dog!

Gal and her new handler graduated together from Guide Dogs for the Blind in California over the weekend. They are the PERFECT match and we are truly beyond thrilled.

Our wage proposal would help close pay gaps at POLITICO, where POC, women and nonbinary staff make less than their white male counterparts.

Management, meanwhile, has failed to conduct the pay equity study they promised and admits to having no system to safeguard against bias.

Producers are the backbone of POLITICO's newsroom. The journalism we do is not possible without them. They deserve pay that matches their invaluable contributions — and management’s proposal doesn’t come close.

Our current and former producers share why that needs to change👇🧵

packed house for Samantha Sunne’s session on scraping with google sheets! #NICAR23

Y’ALL. Gal finished Phase 8 of guide dog training! SHE PASSED HER FINAL TESTS!

Gal is now fully qualified to be a working guide dog and will be matched with her perfect partner soon 🥹

'There’s an element of dismissiveness and misogyny in the room. The POTS demographic is women who, for the most part, look pretty well.' washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

my toxic trait is always having to panic-download something to watch 3 minutes before my flight takes off

NEW: POLITICO analysis of federal data obtained via FOIA offers the most detailed portrait yet of who is seeking Biden’s student debt relief.

We examined the ZIP codes associated with ~25M applications. Here’s what we found -->

politico.com/news/2023/02/1…

w/ Sean McMinn Taylor Miller Thomas is enjoying iced coffee 🥤

What Dallas Morning News is doing to Al Día Dallas makes it clear how little media companies value bilingual journalists and community-centered journalism.

There's a lot of pieces to this story but the pay disparities Dallas News Guild 🌟 shared with me are alarming: niemanlab.org/2023/02/the-da…