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DC-based Multiplatform Host/Reporter • Wofford College and Georgetown Alum • Somewhere traveling ✈️ • Story ideas/wine recs 👉🏾DM me

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Hi! 👋🏾 I’m Cheyanne Mumphrey, and I'm a reporter for @apnews.com I cover #HigherEd! Always looking to connect with students, grads, families, profs & more. What I write is made more useful if real people are in it. Have a story or insight to share? Let’s connect 📧 cmumphrey@ap.org

12.06.2025 18:47 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Let’s go. @netflix.com

14.05.2025 19:46 — 👍 199    🔁 28    💬 27    📌 62
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Weeks ago, the ADL insisted that #Musk 's "awkward" gesture, despite its striking resemblance to a #Nazi salute, was "not a Nazi salute."

Wonder if this is another "delicate moment" & whether #SteveBannon, who seemingly ended his #CPAC speech with a Nazi salute, will be granted the same leniency.

21.02.2025 02:32 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Father Missing a Limb and Son with Cerebral Palsy Weren't Able to Evacuate L.A. Fires in Time, Family Says A 67-year-old amputee along with his son with cerebral palsy died in the Eaton fire on Jan. 8, according to his daughter.

A 67 year old amputee and wheelchair user lived with his son who had cerebral palsy.

They were killed in the Eaton fire while waiting for an ambulance that never arrived.

Many disabled people can not evacuate on their own. They need to be included in evacuation plans (yet almost never are)

11.01.2025 05:15 — 👍 4854    🔁 1803    💬 262    📌 166
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Black residents mourn lost homes, history as wildfires scorch Altadena “All that stuff that you thought was so important can be gone in five minutes.”

I talked to the Black residents of Altadena who say they’ve lost everything but hope.

“When you escape tragedy, you say, ‘it could have got me.’ It didn’t. So I’m going to keep on going,” said 83-year-old Walt Butler.

11.01.2025 21:36 — 👍 12922    🔁 3013    💬 182    📌 86
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Supreme Court to Hear Catholic Charity’s Bid for Tax Exemption The justices agreed to hear an appeal from a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the charity’s activities were insufficiently religious to qualify.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether Wisconsin was free to deny a tax exemption to a Catholic charity on the grounds that its activities were not primarily religious.

15.12.2024 00:31 — 👍 222    🔁 42    💬 22    📌 9

Tom Homan is ready to come out of federal retirement for one role: border czar. It’s not a new title for an administration but Homan is poised to have different access, benefits and challenges to carrying out Trump’s immigration agenda. My latest @npr.org :

www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...

10.12.2024 13:57 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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One of the coldest sports pics ever captured

10.12.2024 13:59 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.

27.11.2024 16:08 — 👍 64277    🔁 5454    💬 3114    📌 1068
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APPLY: Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship Class of 2025 NPF's annual Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship is accepting applications from young D.C. journalists for a year-long program.

We're excited to join all the journalists and journalism-supporters on Bluesky! And we don't arrive empty-handed: We're currently accepting applications for the Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship, free training for DMV-based journos that's 37 years strong! nationalpress.org/training/pau...

18.11.2024 21:05 — 👍 13    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

Nothing feels better than a deep clean of your home 😩🏠

19.11.2024 04:13 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead? Some X users say they’re hoping to create a new “Black Twitter” on other social media platforms.

“Black users on Bluesky are already working to build a community on the site. One user, Rudy Fraser, launched Blacksky, a collection of curated, Black-centered feeds that filter out racism and misogyny to provide a safe, inclusive experience for users.”

17.11.2024 17:19 — 👍 3090    🔁 849    💬 87    📌 70
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Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead? Some X users say they’re hoping to create a new “Black Twitter” on other social media platforms.

Black Twitter helped define the internet — so where will the exodus from X lead?

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

17.11.2024 20:30 — 👍 54    🔁 27    💬 3    📌 3
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Red Lobster CEO says endless shrimp is never coming back because 'I know how to do math' Instead, Damola Adamolekun is going back to what made the company successful in the first place.

Red Lobster CEO says endless shrimp is never coming back because ‘I know how to do math’

15.11.2024 03:47 — 👍 7698    🔁 853    💬 378    📌 720

Is it Friday yet?

14.11.2024 04:28 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom. Who owns the escaped monkeys now? It’s more complicated than you might think.

43 lab monkeys escaped in South Carolina. They have a legal claim to freedom.

12.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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a woman in a red dress is standing in a doorway and smiling . ALT: a woman in a red dress is standing in a doorway and smiling .

Welcoming escapees to BlueSky

Here's an app to find your Twitter follows - I did this yesterday and found HUNDREDS of people I followed.

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...

10.11.2024 16:07 — 👍 141    🔁 29    💬 13    📌 5
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Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Greeting, Dies at 74 Elwood Edwards, the man behind the iconic “You’ve Got Mail” message for AOL, has died at the age of 74.

Elwood Edwards, who voiced the iconic “You’ve Got Mail” message for AOL, has died. He was 74

07.11.2024 20:49 — 👍 675    🔁 141    💬 21    📌 46

The National Association of Black Journalists is hosting an in-person conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on Tuesday.

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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — Biden says 'everybody must condemn' attack at Trump rally, hopes to speak to former president.

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15.11.2023 14:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Where does rural Gen Z stand? @ximenabustillo.bsky.social and I went down to North Carolina, and got a group together to talk about it.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1185826401/rural-voters-lean-red-young-voters-lean-blue-so-whats-a-young-rural-voter-to-do

14.07.2023 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Hahaha, right!? And yes I am going! Are you?!

19.07.2023 03:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The WFH definitely makes it go by fast most likely. I’m back and forth between between WFH and the office, so it seems like most times it’s going by so slow 😩😂

07.07.2023 20:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Really? They seem to go slow to me 😂

07.07.2023 03:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

These 30 min weekends aren’t cutting it 😩🫠

02.07.2023 22:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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ICYMI: @AttorneyCrump and Mark Krudys has sent a letter urging the DOJ to open a criminal investigation into the death of Irvo Otieno.

Otieno died in police custody after prosecutors say he was held down by 7 Henrico County, Virginia, sheriff's deputies and 3 hospital employees.

28.06.2023 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Public Charter School Seeking Permission to Violate Students’ Co...

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejected an appeal from a North Carolina public charter school that wanted to be exempt from Title IX so they could enforce a "skirts-only" dress code against female students they deemed "fragile vessels." This leaves in place our victory against the policy.

26.06.2023 13:54 — 👍 136    🔁 39    💬 7    📌 9
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24.06.2023 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

👋🏾 Hey, y’all! Capital B is now on Bluesky!! If you don't know who we are, we're a Black-led local and national news organization reporting for Black communities across the country. Our first local newsroom is in Atlanta, and we're headed to Gary, Indiana, this fall!

23.06.2023 16:11 — 👍 95    🔁 57    💬 5    📌 2

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