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Amanda Wilkins

@kcamanda

Small business owner. Past: @mcclatchy, @dallasnews, @kcstar. Tweets about news, sports, TV, gay stuff 🏳️‍🌈

 Raleigh, NC
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Joined February 2009
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I’ve had my name confused a variety of ways over the years — Allison, Amy, Amelia — but this is a new one. I have decided to embrace it
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@jemelehill8 Dec 2022
For those invoking Paul Whelan’s name as a way to denigrate Brittney Griner …
TODAY (@TODAYshow) profile pictureTODAY
@TODAYshow8 Dec 2022
NEW: A senior U.S. official tells @NBCNews they tried everything they could to get Paul Whelan out, but “they are treating him differently. They say he is an espionage case. They said the choice was either one [Griner] or none.”
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@breannastewart8 Dec 2022
BG is FREE!!! 294 days and she is coming home!!! 😭🤍🙏🏻❤️
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Bojangles
@Bojangles25 Nov 2022
England doesn’t even have a Bojangles.
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Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews) profile pictureDallas Morning News
@dallasnews24 Nov 2022
Texas woman’s size 18 feet break Guinness World Record buff.ly/3gEaeHD
Ok young journos! Let’s talk about framing: this lady is on trial for running over two young boys with her Mercedes. Who is centered in this tweet? How is she framed? Who are we supposed to feel sorry for? What message does the photo send?
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@LAmag22 Nov 2022
Rebecca Grossman’s perfect life became a perfect nightmare. “Everything changed in a split second—overnight,” she tells Los Angeles during a half-hour Zoom call from her lawyer’s office in October. lamag.com/article/exclusive-…
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Ms Grossman has been charged with killing 2 children while racing her car while intoxicated. lamag.com/article/exclus…
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Hateful and violent online rhetoric targeting LGBTQ people has been ratcheting up for months. Now, just hours after a deadly mass shooting at #ClubQ, the worst of these hate accounts, LibsofTikTok is targeting another drag event in Colorado. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/5-k…
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@bessbell19 Nov 2022
If you are outraged that Elizabeth Holmes has a small child and is pregnant and is going to jail, ask yourself: Who do you think populates women’s prisons?
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If this is our benediction… Let us end as we began… as friends
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Rana Cash@rana_cash16 Nov 2022
🚨JOBS ALERT 🚨 This seems like a good time to say that I have several great job opportunities at The Charlotte Observer. - Breaking News Editor, Breaking News Reporter, Audience Development Editor and Audience Producer. Apply at McClatchy Careers.
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Hahahahahaha amazing
Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) profile pictureCasey Newton
@CaseyNewton15 Nov 2022
Replying to @CaseyNewton
One detail that could prove important: Twitter has no automated means to remove verification badges for people who don’t pay for Blue. So Elon either has to build that tech, or have folks do it manually. Except he just fired 80% of his contractors. platformer.news/p/elon-only-…
The team identified several other risks for which Twitter has yet to identify any solutions. For starters, the company lacks any automated way to remove verified badges from user accounts. “Given that we will have a large amount of legacy verified users on the platform (400K Twitter customers), and that we anticipate we’ll need to debadge a large number of legacy verified accounts if they decide not to pay for Blue, this will require high operational lift without investment.” (And this was before the company laid off 80 percent of its contractors, but we’ll get to that.)

ALT The team identified several other risks for which Twitter has yet to identify any solutions. For starters, the company lacks any automated way to remove verified badges from user accounts. “Given that we will have a large amount of legacy verified users on the platform (400K Twitter customers), and that we anticipate we’ll need to debadge a large number of legacy verified accounts if they decide not to pay for Blue, this will require high operational lift without investment.” (And this was before the company laid off 80 percent of its contractors, but we’ll get to that.)

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Ben Rosen@ben_rosen9 Nov 2022
every picture of fetterman looks like he’s overhearing someone say johnny cash wrote “hurt”
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in lieu of joining a new platform I will be disappearing into the night sky in a hat carriage pulled by bats
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Actual QAnon accounts rush to get verified.
Mike (not a) Rothschild (@rothschildmd) profile pictureMike (not a) Rothschild
@rothschildmd5 Nov 2022
Among the first "peasants" to attempt to sign up for the new paid verified checkmark: conspiracy influencer QAnon John.
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Jo Madden
@JoMaddenSports4 Nov 2022
Omg I'll never unsee this now. – at Okotoks, Alberta
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Versha Sharma@versharma4 Nov 2022
editors and reporters: stop doing this
Mike Hixenbaugh (@Mike_Hixenbaugh) profile pictureMike Hixenbaugh@Mike_Hixenbaugh4 Nov 2022
It’s begun. Business-as-usual news articles about Trump’s 2024 run with zero mention — not even a clause — noting that he’s been working to overthrow American democracy based on lies about voter fraud, inspiring a violent attack on the US Capitol. axios.com/2022/11/04/trump-p…
Scoop: Trump team eyes Nov. 14 announcement to kick off 2024 presidential run

Scoop: Trump team eyes Nov. 14 announcement to kick off 2024 presidential run

Allies are blocking off days in their calendars for the week after the midterms.

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Gritty
@GrittyNHL30 Oct 2022
Who wore it better?
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