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Tatiana Walk-Morris

@tatiwm.bsky.social

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She/her. Award-winning journalist. Mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht. Use your words wisely. The keyboard is mightier than the sword. Tips: [email protected] Clips: tatianawalkmorris.com/portfolio

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 28d

For @damemagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about the impact President Trump's tariffs are having on women of color entrepreneurs. For some, the tariffs pose a threat to their ability to stay in business.
www.damemagazine.com/2025/09/11/t...

Trump’s Tariffs Are Hurting Women of Color’s Businesses - Dame Magazine

Last year, Sherrill Mosee, inventor and designer of the multipurpose bag line MinkeeBlue, purchased enough inventory to last the year. She’d originally come up with the idea for the bag line in 2012 —...

www.damemagazine.com

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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 11h

If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish.

Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8h

trump was prosecuted for real crimes and now he's punishing the people who prosecuted him with fake crimes

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h

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Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

futurism.com

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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 9h

Lord. We are fuct.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

fucking WOOF

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

The Guardian reports that Letitia James has been indicted

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 12h

I missed the day in law school where they trained us to tell a federal judge what she must do, much less that she must defer to POTUS

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h

The government shutdown will soon hit the wallets of federal workers nationwide. Here’s what to know.

Federal Workers and Troops to Miss Paychecks Soon. Here’s What to Know.

Government shutdown means employees won’t get paid until standoff is resolved

on.wsj.com

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 18h

You need a jacket this morning. I used to pray for times like this.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1d

hate how this makes it sound like there was a comparable amount of blood shed on both sides

npr Israel and Hamas agree on the 'first phase' of Gaza ceasefire deal
The deal raises the possibility that the war may now be over, ending the bloodiest fighting ever between Israelis and Palestinians.

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Sharkhand @sharkhand.bsky.social · 1d

People cannot afford to hire an attorney because their wages are too low, so they turn to the job-killing machines presently poised to destroy the national & possibly international economies.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Will be really cool when 6th amendment is changed to “you have the right to a chatbot.”

These people ditched lawyers for ChatGPT in court

From pickleball disputes to eviction cases, litigants are using ChatGPT to fight their court battles — and they’re starting to win.

www.nbcnews.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 1d

It's finally cooling down! Thank God! 🙌🏽

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

66% of US companies “have already passed through up to 50% of tariff costs” to customers, per KPMG’s latest Tariff Pulse Survey, which polled 300 US-based C-suite and business leaders of companies with annual revenue exceeding $1 billion.

www.cfobrew.com/stories/2025...

Tariff-driven price hikes are (still) coming

The increases are just getting started.

www.cfobrew.com

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 3d

Genius (derogatory)

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 3d

Been busy in the old journalism mines today (not everyone gets a $150m payout). Good to see the NYT and WaPo leading w/the Trump-is-about-to-start-a-civil-war story. (though not framed as dire. nyt is full of live updates; wapo is "Trump’s use of Guard may have lasting impact on cities and troops")

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 3d

The hardest thing for me to do is to bite my tongue and pick up my pen, but that's what I have to do.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 3d

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 3d

People’s memories are a little too short & fuzzy for me.

Tiffany W @tiffany.thetriibe.com · 3d

why is Rahm Emanuel on CNN

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 3d

We are living through a new era of corruption, where legal guardrails have crumbled. What will end the culture of kleptocracy?

Join us for a live virtual event with @janemayer.bsky.social, @mawaldman.bsky.social, and @danw329.bsky.social on Wed., Oct. 15, at 3pm ET. RSVP:

Corruption in America

Experts lay out a plan to end the culture of kleptocracy.

www.brennancenter.org

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Ariel Cheung @missprint.bsky.social · 3d

CHICAGO JOURNOS: @citybureau.bsky.social is piloting a Spanish translation lab for ICE and immigrant-related coverage in Chicago, offering a limited number of article translations per day to news outlets with no/limited translation resources. Please email me at [email protected] if interested.

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 3d

Why do they keep letting Ryan Murphy direct these horror series???

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

Social arsonist OpenAI makes racist argument about why laws should not apply to them.

OpenAI's Sora 2 Is Generating Video of SpongeBob Cooking Meth, Highlighting Copyright Concerns

In a video that went viral, a clip shows Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth, raising copyright concerns.

futurism.com

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 4d

True, which is why the decision to do this feels so unwise.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d

Jony Ive is at OpenAI creating a screenless device with an always-on personal assistant similar to Humane’s AI Pin or the movie Her.

The device is struggling with privacy concerns as it’s a recording device and OpenAI doesn’t have enough data center capacity if the product becomes successful.

OpenAI's new AI device reportedly faces technical hurdles that could delay its launch

OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive are working on a new AI device, but the project is facing technical hurdles that could delay its launch.

the-decoder.com

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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 4d

It's very telling that — of all the things they could have created — they jumped straight to reducing famous, powerful women flirtation tools without their consent.

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

reut.rs

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