Director of Member Content at Atria Institute. Former books person @Medium @TIME and more. Drop everything and read.

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About all of those viral Instagram stories... xitter.cf/Newsweek/status/159258…
We've corrected a number of articles to remove references to the Iranian Parliament voting for death sentences. A majority of the parliament supported a letter to the judiciary calling for harsh punishments of protesters, which could include the death penalty.
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Have you updated yet today? Mobile editing is back in our @medium apps!
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When women don’t have the right to make reproductive choices about their own bodies, we lose a foundational right. When we lose foundational rights, all rights are threatened. 2/5
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I am more certain of this than I have ever been. Stop lockdown drills in all schools, immediately. It does nothing to protect kids. All it does is traumatize them, and in the worst case, plant the idea for some of them.
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Q: Are you comfortable with the protests that we saw outside the homes of Supreme Court justices? Schumer: Yes. my house, there's protests 3, 4 times a week outside.. That's the American way to peacefully protest.. [his phone rings].. that's my wife. Maybe there's a protest."
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The death penalty is fundamentally a poor person’s issue. I have never met a single person with money or resources on death row. Capital punishment means “those without the capital get the punishment.”
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Best feeling: when you loan a book you love to a friend, and she loves it as much as you do.
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Yes, Colin Powell was vaccinated. But he also had blood cancer, which devastates the immune system. What his tragic death illustrates isn't the futility of vaccines but the importance of everyone else getting vaccinated to protect society's most vulnerable.
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I took this photo twenty years ago on 9/11, just as the South Tower began to collapse. I’ve identified seven people in the photo. Please help find the rest. #911Anniversary
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(1/3) We’re seeing some questions around the rules to the #MediumWritersChallenge. We’ve updated the language to clarify our intent: 🧵 ➡️ You own the copyright to your work, as with all work on Medium help.medium.com/hc/en-us/art…
👋 Calling all storytellers: We’re excited to announce the #MediumWritersChallenge. Four writing prompts. Four weeks. $100K in rewards for your writing. Read more: 👇read.medium.com/He590Rx
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say it again for the people in the back. ;)
"A job can be fulfilling, but counting on it as a main source of satisfaction, political expression, or identity is often a losing proposition," @Kantrowitz writes. read.medium.com/M27SmjM
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“I think my decision not to do certain things, including avoiding certain medicines, was rooted in not wanting to be like everybody else. Subconsciously, I wanted to have special knowledge,” a former anti-vaxxer said in a conversation with @AmandaMontell. read.medium.com/fo6omzJ
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"Blogging isn’t just a way to organize your research — it’s a way to do research for a book or essay or story or speech you don’t even know you want to write yet." —@doctorow read.medium.com/F8S2lni
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Today, @Medium launched the #StopAsianHate blog to create space for the AAPI community and allies to share their stories. Here are some of the powerful stories you can read on the blog now and how you can submit your own essay to be featured 🧵 medium.com/creators-hub/intr…
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I wrote a book about strangers and interaction and it all happened before Covid but maybe that subject is more relevant than ever as we’ve become more & more “distanced” from each other? 👀
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"Much like the trick of using your fingers to do your times nine multiplication table, once you know it you’ll never forget it." from @SCBegley medium.com/creators-hub/a-si…
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In her new book, 'Listen Like You Mean It,' @xsvengoechea offers a guide to listening for our times. Next week, the UX researcher and author will discuss improving relationships through effective listening with Senior Editor @kozemoze. Join: read.medium.com/T78jTUR
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"Don’t judge me but I collect VHS. I swear I’m not a hipster. I’m a first-year Millennial and VHS truly are the sacred texts of my people." read.medium.com/IOeUsZC
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"True justice is about much more than a single verdict in a single trial. True justice requires that we come to terms with the fact that Black Americans are treated differently, every day." @BarackObama reacts to the Derek Chauvin verdict on Medium. read.medium.com/8sx2xpj
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George Floyd was murdered. We can all say it now.
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