Isaiah J. Poole

Veteran journalist, editor and progressive activist. Views expressed here are my own.

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@Deggans @HP I left the HP universe years ago. Sorry to hear they haven’t gotten any better.

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@edlazere @alexgdodds Congratulations! Looking forward to what you will accomplish.

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@briebriejoy Consider not voting for the political party that opposed student debt forgiveness and approved three Supreme Court justices who made student debt forgiveness impossible.

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@jdprose Don’t sell yourself short, bro!

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@Deggans Congratulations!!!

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@froomkin The reason ABC is near the bottom of my list of news sources. They often have a Fox-Newsish framing of stories on top of some high-profile reporting missteps.

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@Deggans This article resonated with me a lot, largely because it draws the distinction between performative gestures and "gamification" too frequently associated with affirmative action and real structural changes to address structural racism at its roots. https://t.co/VEs0M6GTQF

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@jeremiah4dc Is it wise to build up new transit infrastructure based on 2019 commuting patterns or adjust to a new normal based on more dispersed commuting needs of work-at-homers? We need to rethink public transit based on what is clearly a new normal.

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@jeremiah4dc I hear you @jeremiah4dc . I also see the two Metrobuses in the graphic, so the jury is still out on whether this is really only about making K Street car-friendly. There are bigger issues at play, though, about the future of DC mass transit given declines in downtown office use.

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@Deggans Welcome to DC! I’m miffed you didn’t invite me to your table but I still ❤️ you. I’ll see if I can spot you on my tiny TV 📺 screen.

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@billscher "They have everything for you men to enjoy. You can hang out with all the boys."

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@robvato @unlv Congratulations!

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@Deggans Eww!

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@billscher @monthly Breaking my Twitter boycott to give you my heartfelt congratulations. Looking forward to what you will bring to the publication. Godspeed!

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@Deggans 💯

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@AdamTuss @ggwash @nbcwashington Another sign @washingtonpost is not a local newspaper worth the Washington in its name. I can’t find any Post coverage of this more than a week after the fact. Can they not even read a police blotter anymore?

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@StokesNeuro I don’t know you but I wanted to say that I am often comforted by a passage in the New Testament that says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Wherever you are destined, love awaits. Thank you for your frankness and fearlessness. Continue to be unafraid.

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@Bakari_Sellers @elonmusk That’s easy. Amazon.

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@MadisonSiriusXM Twitter is now officially a compost fire. Why feed it? We need a mass exodus to #Mastodon https://t.co/Yyka35UMgC

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Those who care can find me on #MastodonSocial as
@[email protected]. (Sorry, @dcproud, but I'm the real queer-ass OG Freedman's baby.) A digital town square should not be a plaything for billionaires. It should be owned and governed as a public good.

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I am truly humbled by the total disinterest in anything I post on Twitter. So I suspect it's of no import that I won't be posting on an @elonmusk-owned Twitter. At least not until it adopts standards like those set by @MastodonSocial.