Terissa Schor Grumer

Would you not like to be sitting on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@TonyCaputo @News12NJ You got Joralemon right. Thanks for your report.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@thezachloeffler Any new updates?

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Much of the mourning for the late great @washingtonpost has rightly focused on how democracy dies in darkness at the national level, which is hugely important. But the evisceration of Metro coverage is every bit as devastating because there is no comparable news outlet keeping local governments and institutions honest.

Eight of my 20 years at the Post were spent on Metro, which was the heart and soul of the Post under the legendary @dongrahamdc1. The undertakers now running the paper have all but wiped out the metro staff, leaving just 12 reporters, according to reports, to cover a region of 6.5 million people.

We had twice that many journalists in Fairfax alone back in the day. And it mattered. Reporters are the eyes and ears of the community, keeping tabs on people in power. We were there for every supervisors meeting, every school board meeting. We pored through planning commission documents and campaign filings.

When county officials wasted taxpayer money, raised taxes on overstretched homeowners, gave sweetheart zoning deals to developers who filled their election coffers, we were there. When teachers who sexually abused students were quietly transferred to other schools to do it all over again, we were there.

We were there for the more uplifting stories too, the cops who broke a cold case, the educators who turned around a struggling school, the residents who rallied to help neighbors in trouble, the student athletes who won the big game, the entrepreneurs who started something new.

Our friend @SariHorwitz who has won more Pulitzers than I can count, wrote so movingly online about the Post (https://t.co/lxame7tiSF). To recognize how indispensable local coverage is, you need only look at her holy-shit investigations of a broken child welfare system, rampant police shootings and the corporate-fed opioid crisis, stories that opened eyes and led to change.

Democracy is not just what happens at the White House and the Capitol but in our own backyards. The Post has just turned the lights down at home too.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@SLessard Your colleague, on the other hand, has broken our hearts.

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@SLessard We appreciate you, Stefan. We know you haven’t been silent.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@nexusofbeing Where are you located?

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@jagrmeister @davematthewsdmb @davematthewsbnd @SLessard @rodrigodmbrasil @corancapshaw @redlightmgmt He’s been very vocal at several shows in the past 13 months.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

Happy International Women’s Day🎗️

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@SLessard Do the rules about not wearing the shirt of the band you’re going to see count if you’re in the band? Are you doubly “THAT guy” if you’re in the band? Or does it cancel itself out?

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@SLessard 😂😂😂

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@davidmarcus

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@pachico @LinkedIn Just got the same

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@Chasten @ABC7Leticia The Hatch can come pretty close.

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@cball1023 @BloomzApp Down here, too.

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@davematthewsdmb Uppers both nights of MSG. Grateful to be in the building.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@athers85 @SLessard This isn’t actually upside down. Vertical presentation like this is acceptable.
I think most Americans would agree our country is in terrible distress, though.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@amyschumer why are you trying to lure me to a prayer app?

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@SaveUSASmallBiz @stoolpresidente Go ahead and provide us with data on all the abortions of viable pregnancies happening in the “9th month.” We’ll wait.

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@c_basta @coffeexacademia @GeorgieMcFletch @jordyvotes US states banning abortion don’t distinguish between “an amount of cells” and a fetus. Abortion is banned the moment you have a positive pregnancy test. You can’t even get a medical abortion (via pills) the day you get a positive test. Are you not understanding that?

[Terissa Schor Grumer @terissagrumer]

@c_basta @GeorgieMcFletch @jordyvotes For those who don’t realize their birth control failed until they get a positive pregnancy test, Plan B is worthless.