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"We got deep-throated?!" - things that can only be said in a newsroom.

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We updated our bill tracker again! A lot of things died, folks. Some key legislation that's still alive: - unemployment for striking workers - expansion of hate crime protections - student privacy protections - rent stabilization - tribal representation on health boards - local journalism support

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If @lpangborn.bsky.social and I hosted a @rangemedia.co bike ride that started at City Hall and ended at a cool brewery for beers and chats, would you come?

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This story is full of nuance & brings up complicated feelings on who gets sympathy, but the most important points are: - police should not get to decide when an arrest warrant turns into an execution - there needs to be more accountability in our system - we need to prioritize the funding for it.

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The legislative hotline is 1 (800) 562-6000 to tell the gov to support the full wealth tax. (The governor’s line is (360) 902-4111 but you can’t even leave voicemail after hours so you have to call Monday through Friday between 9 to 5 or thereabouts.)

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BREAKING: Cory Booker Says He is Saving All the Urine Stored in His Bladder During Record-Breaking Senate Floor Speech to Piss on Strom Thurmond’s Grave

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guys may i lib out for one moment

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kinda wild for a city to want to tell their cops to do additional work for other agencies (likely on the city's dime) and in the next breath ask their citizens to pay for already increasing law enforcement costs with a sales tax.

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Please pause your doom scrolling and enjoy a moment of levity, courtesy of the @rangemedia.co intern opossum fashion design, @valerieosier.bsky.social’s collection of critters and my meme-making :)

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I just visited family in NC and hung out with a lot of not-news people and can confirm that an alarming amount of people: 1. have no idea what's going on 2. don't have a sense of curiosity and therefore don't ask questions 3. do not care about people outside of their immediate circle

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I am once again clocking in for work* * visiting my sister in North Carolina and making all her friends get library cards and telling them about Libby

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Shout out to the two other girly pops also knitting on my flight! It felt like a lil knitting club

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A beautiful letter - invoking internationalist solidarity against the imperialist, apartheid formation of the US and Israel. 'Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities.' mondoweiss.net/2025/03/lett...

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i feel like now that I've started the @newmarkjplus.bsky.social AI in Community Engagement program and I actually know what an API is, i can start unironically referring to myself as a #womaninSTEM

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Perfect quote to encapsulate @rangemedia.co : "You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty." - Jessica Mitford

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Important NYC sites: ✅ Gossip Girl steps ✅ All the guys from Night at the Museum ✅ Park bridge where Olivia Benson took down bad guys What else am I missing?

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A friend once brought me as a guest to an airport travel card lounge and since then Ive been a bit obsessed with them. Today marks the first time I get to use my own and I'm just stunned to get "free" food and alcohol in an airport. I wish I brought a Tupperware.

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It's absolutely wild how quickly people are willing to excuse real harm and dehumanize a person because they may have possibly done a crime.

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This is a killer story borne out of @merrywanderer.bsky.social's insatiable curiosity and eagerness to dig out the truth among wildly different views. Give it a read or listen!

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Remembering a mentor and friend tonight. Rest in Peace, Matt. I hope you're enjoying the best beer and music right now. Thank you for helping to make me and so many others the journalists we are today.

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i love teaching the youths

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Miller and Homan must be so pleased with themselves. Fucking monsters: A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

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speechless and furious

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can he even legally drive? (i know laws apparently dont apply to him but still)

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In my influencer era (helping with marketing for the bakery) and toasters are hard.

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We need more home painting parties, more yard work parties, more moving parties, more time helping each other and connecting

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It's office hours time, baybeeeee! Come get some bread or treats or sammies and hang with your favorite local #spokane journalists!

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wfh =work from hammock

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Come hang out on Saturday! Great Harvest is our worker-owned sibling biz!

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I'm pretty excited to learn how we can use AI for good in this program!

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Asking my MAGA uncle in his anti-trans FB comments why he's so obsessed with people's genitals and suggesting he should get a different hobby is a little cathartic. Democrats should've leaned way more into the "republicans are weird" point.

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i know the economy is going into a tailspin rn but @rangemedia.co could really use some big fuck you money from rich ppl who care about worker-owned news (esp in #washington) & want to help us empower working-class people. Send it to our fiscal sponsor for tax write off! pls & ty bit.ly/4ko8NZU

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It would be good for more Americans to know that detaining someone costs around $5000 a month (per the article). It’s a similar figure we pay to push around homeless people with cops and sanitation. It’s expensive to be racist jackasses!

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RANGE is raising money for deep, community-embedded, Spanish-language reporting and we need your help. rangemedia.co/no-one-will-...

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My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

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I'm a worker-owner at Spokane Workers Co-op, which owns RANGE and Great Harvest bakery. If you're in #Spokane, esp the South Hill area, check it out! (It's so much better and cheaper than certain sandwich chains that don't take coupons anymore)

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It's the first gloriously 60 degree & sunny Saturday in Spokane, so naturally I'm dragging my hammock stand around the backyard to get it properly half in the sun and half in the shade

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Elon Musk's businesses have received at least $38 billion in government funding, helping seed the growth that has made Musk the world’s richest person. From data reporters Emmanuel Martinez & @dtkeating.bsky.social and a great team: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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