Candi Bolden

Social Media Manager for @thebarbedwiretx @SMU grad, and craft Enthusiast. she/her

[The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwiretx]

🧵After the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, at least 11 Black-owned bookstores opened in Texas — and customers who wanted to learn about race in America poured in. But keeping them open today is a challenge. And it’s not just financial.

https://t.co/rs6MmPOAgG

[Olivia Messer @OliviaMesser]

Read this one.

From @CandiBolds for @thebarbedwiretx

[Robert Downen @RobertDownen_]

Tomorrow, @TexasMonthly will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

Also as a former striking journalist for McClatchy support the @PacNWGuild
https://t.co/n0AfUYFgTh

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

I'm proud of my time at McClatchy and all that I got to do and part of that was working for a news org that helped expose abuse of power. 🧵

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

There's a good chance you wouldn't have heard of the name Epstein without Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald. The Pulitzer Prize foundation recognized her. https://t.co/u0ySeslotc

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

She along with my former colleagues at McClatchy are witholding their bylines AI generated content. And you should support them. McClatchy can do great work if they respect their journalists. https://t.co/LOsDseCs8o

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwiretx]

“My introduction to Texas was not the metroplex. Nor was it SMU,” writes @CandiBolds . “It was Selena Quintanilla.”

On April 16, Texas celebrates Selena Day, honoring the birthday of the iconic Queen of Tejano music.
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[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

Help the book I’m reading for fun is being mean to me!

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

Tonight I'm producing an election night live stream panel on the Democratic Senate Primary for The Barbed Wire. Tune in to experts talk about electability, voter turn out, and more: https://t.co/f5DJR7CNvQ

[The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwiretx]

EXCLUSIVE: @stevanzetti reviewed data from at least 300 Texas residents who created accounts on a white supremacist dating site with an eye for what it could illuminate about the state of extremism.
https://t.co/jxDeK341ft

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

What?!??

[Megan Menchaca @meganmmenchaca]

Editor of a major Ohio news organization says they have removed “writing” from certain reporters’ workloads.

Reporters collect facts and an “AI rewrite specialist” writes the article.

That article is then reviewed by editors + reporters before publication.

[Lauren McGaughy @lmcgaughy]

ICE is arresting refugees in Minnesota who are in the country legally, flying them to Texas, re-interviewing them and then releasing them without a way to get home.

https://t.co/OWLzZeCH8y

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

What Can I Teach? Will Martin Luther King’s Work Be Censored Next? https://t.co/pq1Dhq6vXS

[Fort Worth Reporters Guild @fwrguild]

We, the journalists and non-management staff of the Fort Worth Report, are unionizing with The NewsGuild and Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA).

We ask our management to voluntarily recognize us.

[Fort Worth Fire Department @FortWorthFire]

[Google Earth Image of Evacuation Area]

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

I want to live tweet my five year old nephews baseball game. For me it is way more entertaining then World Series

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

Just got the @startelegram editor to ask us to get pictures of Spider-Man

[Candi Bolden @CandiBolds]

As a bit, since I got married I’ve been sending my husband the same George Bush picture every few days and not saying anything about it.