Brooke Crum

Feminist. Freelance reporter based in San Antonio. She/her.

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

“An analysis by ⁦@AP⁩, Stanford University’s Big Local News project and Stanford education professor Thomas Dee found an estimated 230,000 students in 21 states whose absences could not be accounted for…

“In short, they’re missing.” https://t.co/MDHKhciy3t

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

Do you ever speak a poem out loud and forget to write it down?

No? Just me then.

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

This is passive language that doesn’t really say much, and it removes all responsibility, which of course is the point.

Better hed: What to expect from SAPD when an officer shoots someone (article doesn’t discuss other shootings)

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

Informative read. But can we please stop using police jargon like “officer-involved shooting”? It sanitizes what really happened — an officer shot someone — and removes responsibility

What to expect from SAPD following an officer-involved shooting  https://t.co/9dv9zf5LjZ

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

I can always find the perfect places to hide in libraries.

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

@SteveBoggs2 @dallascowboys Probably better than that guy 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

My sister: “Are you going to watch the @dallascowboys game tonight?”

Me: “I don’t know…”

Her: “They’re playing Tom Brady!”

Me: “Just him? Or will the rest of the team be there?”

#DallasCowboys #cowboysvsbucs

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

Me: “Did you know horned frogs shoot blood out of their eyes?”

@fullglassofsoul: “I feel like that’s something you would do.”

#TCUFootball #TCUvsGeorgia

[Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson]

And now that we're watching it in another country, what does it look like to us?

[Fort Worth NewsGuild ☀️ @FortWorthGuild]

Big news:

We are back at work.

Over 24 days, the Fort Worth Newsguild protested @mcclatchy’s unwillingness to negotiate fair conditions and made history as the first Texas newsroom in modern history to go on strike. 🧵

[Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath]

Journalists suspended from Twitter so far tonight:

• @atrupar (WaPo)
• @drewharwell (WaPo)
• @rmac18 (NYT)
• @donie (CNN)
• @mattbinder (Mashable)
• @micahflee (The Intercept)
• @webster (freelance)

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

Who’s next?

Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about Elon Musk - @AP https://t.co/TVVjRMjRPD

[Sarah Kaplan @sarahkaplan48]

"He ran away. He’s the publisher of a news organization and he wouldn’t take questions from his staff. Democracy dies in darkness, huh?”

🔥 from our extraordinary Guild co-chair @kemettler
https://t.co/bknW0IlR37

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

I just want them to beat @TSpoonFeed’s alma mater 🤙

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

I am so into this @UTSAFTBL game, like on the edge of my seat.

Who am I?

#UTSA #BirdsUp #LetsGo210

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

I hate that whenever I get a new tattoo that all I think about for weeks afterward is what my next new tattoo should be and all the inspiration I see for new ones.

Sorry, Mom. She was not happy at Thanksgiving.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I told you so! Bye everybody bye!

[Brooke Crum @broocrum]

“If our sins were scrubbed away, what would be left?”

“Nothing interesting.”

[Matthew Watkins @MWatkinsTrib]

Breaking from @zachdespart and @williammelhado https://t.co/BMxbIBOFC1

[Meep Meep Nation @MeepMeepNation]

UTSA needs this. San Antonio needs this.