Crystal Hill
@crystalhill.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. DC transplant, Indy native. Tips, rants, compliments at [email protected]
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US appeals court orders deportation of Atlanta journalist detained by Ice
Mario Guevara faces imminent removal from US as his attorney files emergency petition
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia sues to stop Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington.
September 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia sues to stop Trump's deployment of the National Guard in Washington.
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The majority of our newsrooms are cis-white serving. And what we actually need for journalism to be effective and for people to care about it is for it to be everyone-serving.
I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.
The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The majority of our newsrooms are cis-white serving. And what we actually need for journalism to be effective and for people to care about it is for it to be everyone-serving.
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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
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this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk
Kendrick Lamar’s Multilayered Halftime Show Was About Far More Than Just a Rap Beef
To dismiss the performance as the squandering of a global platform in service of nursing a petty grievance is to miss the significance of exactly what he is saying.
capitalbnews.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:37 PM
this that grey poupon that evian that ted talk
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I want to add some context to this piece: The Office of the Pardon Attorney at DOJ is notoriously, indefensibly stingy with clemency recommendations. Biden was forced to go around it because otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to make a real impact with his commutations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Biden Commutations Angered His Own Justice Department
The DOJ’s career pardon attorney told prosecutors that some of Biden’s moves to shorten sentences were “very upsetting.”
www.wsj.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I want to add some context to this piece: The Office of the Pardon Attorney at DOJ is notoriously, indefensibly stingy with clemency recommendations. Biden was forced to go around it because otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to make a real impact with his commutations. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
January 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night.
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar.
I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below.
What an immense loss
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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So I am to believe that Trump's top priority right now is filling low-level legal roles in his administration, AND he needed to talk to Alito specifically about this one, AND neither man said ANYTHING else in a private call of which there is no record, got it, great abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...
January 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
So I am to believe that Trump's top priority right now is filling low-level legal roles in his administration, AND he needed to talk to Alito specifically about this one, AND neither man said ANYTHING else in a private call of which there is no record, got it, great abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...
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this is media now.
January 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
this is media now.
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NEW: Self-identified non-Black voters could deny Black Louisianans another champion in Congress. In our story, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social and I explore what the case could mean for Black political power and why Black Southerners feel like they're "always going back." capitalbnews.org/black-louisi...
Louisiana's Brand New Majority-Black Congressional District Is in Peril
A group of “non-African American” voters could deny Black residents another champion in Congress.
capitalbnews.org
January 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
NEW: Self-identified non-Black voters could deny Black Louisianans another champion in Congress. In our story, @adamlmahoney.bsky.social and I explore what the case could mean for Black political power and why Black Southerners feel like they're "always going back." capitalbnews.org/black-louisi...
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Chris Brown, the alleged serial abuser and R&B singer, got $10M for his company. He pocketed $5M personally, and spent $80K on a birthday party featuring nude models.
Lil Wayne received an $8.9 million grant from a little-known pandemic-relief program. Here's how he spent it: www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
December 18, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Chris Brown, the alleged serial abuser and R&B singer, got $10M for his company. He pocketed $5M personally, and spent $80K on a birthday party featuring nude models.
This could have easily been written about the journalism industry
Hollywood vowed to change after the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and the protests that followed. So what happened to those DEI efforts? “It not only didn’t change, but in some ways it kind of got worse,” says Justin Simien.
@joypress.bsky.social reports: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
@joypress.bsky.social reports: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
Hollywood’s DEI Programs Have Begun to D-I-E. How Hard Did the Industry Really Try?
“I knew not to expect much,” says a TV creator, “but it’s still pretty disheartening when even the façade totally falls away.”
www.vanityfair.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:22 PM
This could have easily been written about the journalism industry
the way this article filled me with rage www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
How rich musicians billed American taxpayers for luxury hotels, shopping sprees, and million-dollar bonuses
Pop stars took advantage of the SVOG grant, using COVID relief funds for luxury spending. Lil Wayne bought Balenciaga and flew private.
www.businessinsider.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
the way this article filled me with rage www.businessinsider.com/lil-wayne-ch...
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“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half
After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2024 at 2:08 AM
“Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students, or 3.4 percent of the class, the lowest number since the 1960s, according to the data from the American Bar Association.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
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This is good but very sad
A generation of journalists moves on
"Instead of rewarding these things with fair pay, job security and moral support, journalism as an industry exploits their love of the craft."
www.niemanlab.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:36 PM
This is good but very sad
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Apparently this is a controversial view now, but I agree with the NYT editorial board that Tom Daschle should have paid taxes on his private equity consulting work.
This is how the NY Times treated Obama nominees in 2008. Compare to how it treats Trump today. Legacy media is broken.
"Mr. Daschle, who failed to pay $128,000 in taxes, primarily for personal use of a car and driver provided to him by a private equity firm for which he consulted."
"Mr. Daschle, who failed to pay $128,000 in taxes, primarily for personal use of a car and driver provided to him by a private equity firm for which he consulted."
December 10, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Apparently this is a controversial view now, but I agree with the NYT editorial board that Tom Daschle should have paid taxes on his private equity consulting work.
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“I don’t care how you feel about the Black woman who was at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, this election was about the Black women at the bottom of the totem pole, who will inevitably suffer most from Donald Trump’s policies.”
thetriibe.com/2024/12/the-...
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The Revolutionary Column: There’s no democracy in America without Black women • The TRiiBE
Let’s talk about how the thankless and tenacious work of Black women gave y’all the freedom and enfranchisement that you enjoy today.
thetriibe.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
“I don’t care how you feel about the Black woman who was at the top of the 2024 Democratic ticket, this election was about the Black women at the bottom of the totem pole, who will inevitably suffer most from Donald Trump’s policies.”
thetriibe.com/2024/12/the-...
thetriibe.com/2024/12/the-...
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A statement by the journalists of the L.A. Times. I don’t work there anymore, so I will happily add my own opinion that the owner is embarrassing himself and everybody else right now.
latguild.com/news/2024/12...
latguild.com/news/2024/12...
December 5, 2024 at 8:33 PM
A statement by the journalists of the L.A. Times. I don’t work there anymore, so I will happily add my own opinion that the owner is embarrassing himself and everybody else right now.
latguild.com/news/2024/12...
latguild.com/news/2024/12...
This is frustrating (the coverage, not Jong-Fast's response), and partly why I think people are turning away from cable news in droves. Not every answer is a quick soundbite and to interpret someone saying they need to process their thoughts as being "stunned" or "speechless" is asinine.
I want to write about something very stupid that happened to me yesterday. I don’t want to do it in a self-serving way but I do think it illustrates a good point. As the pardon news broke I was asked a question about it and I didn’t have a clear answer so I just said I had to think about it.
December 3, 2024 at 9:14 PM
This is frustrating (the coverage, not Jong-Fast's response), and partly why I think people are turning away from cable news in droves. Not every answer is a quick soundbite and to interpret someone saying they need to process their thoughts as being "stunned" or "speechless" is asinine.
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Trump’s selections for his Cabinet and administration include a “great replacement theory” proponent and an alleged white nationalist. capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...
How Trump’s Cabinet Picks Could Harm Black Americans
His selections for his Cabinet and administration include a “great replacement theory” proponent and an alleged white nationalist.
capitalbnews.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Trump’s selections for his Cabinet and administration include a “great replacement theory” proponent and an alleged white nationalist. capitalbnews.org/trump-cabine...
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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths
In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this:
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women www.propublica.org/article/geor...
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Elections do not—cannot—act as a substitute for criminal prosecution of a single person. That’s not what they’re meant to do. A campaign is not the same as an evidence- and rules-bound trial. The voters are an electorate, not a jury, and someone who runs a law blog should know the difference.
November 19, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Elections do not—cannot—act as a substitute for criminal prosecution of a single person. That’s not what they’re meant to do. A campaign is not the same as an evidence- and rules-bound trial. The voters are an electorate, not a jury, and someone who runs a law blog should know the difference.