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Chief Architect @voxmedia @voxproduct

Oakland, CA
Joined June 2009
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1/ If you didn't listen to too many podcasts last year — or at least not as many as usual — you're not alone. As people’s lives changed, so did their listening habits. Enter Vox Quick Hits, our new home for bite-sized podcasts. trib.al/lLpjBjI
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Brainery is a free, on-demand virtual training program hosted by @voxmedia staffers. Learn about creative storytelling, social media, data & insights, and business strategy. Register today and learn what it’s like to work at a modern media company. voxmediabrainery.com/
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Our @Netflix show, Explained, is back, and we’re kicking it off with a miniseries on the mind. Did we mention it’s narrated by Emma Stone? Watch part one, Memory, explained, right here: youtube.com/watch?v=d95dOH-7… Or stream all of the episodes on Netflix: netflix.com/mindexplained
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Who wins in Week 1? RT - #6 Washington LIKE - #19 Auburn
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Soccer balls used to be a solid, reddish-brown color and looked more like a modern volleyball. Then TV happened.
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No Bernie. No Kerry. No Joe. No old white men that already had their shot in 2020.
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And the person at the bottom commenting on the tweet is a former Prime Minister. xitter.gq/_mharvey/status/921455…
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Jim Harbaugh's gay son cringes at his dad's fashion choices, especially the pants. #MichiganvsMichiganState outsports.com/2017/10/5/1642…
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The GOP spent the past 40 years trying to control women's bodies, limit access to birth control, promote abstinence-only & demonize gay sex. xitter.gq/CNN/status/90807087915…
Ted Cruz: Consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want in their bedrooms; “The media and the left seem obsessed with sex”
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McCain did the right thing, but more importantly, Collins and Murkowski have been doing the right thing all along.
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Made a football thing with mad scientists @jon_bois & @MacAree. Pretty sure we broke storytelling on the internet sbnation.com/a/17776-footbal…
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The most beautiful city halls in America. curbed.com/2017/6/1/15721360…
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Today, we're at the #MarchForScience promoting the progress of science and the useful arts of engineering.
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Private prisons are a rotten deal for taxpayers and it’s abhorrent we incentivize corporations to profit off the incarceration of millions. xitter.gq/AP/status/834884159000…
Attorney General Sessions rescinds Obama-era memo intended to reduce federal government use of private prisons. apne.ws/2lKVeZD
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Vox Media crew is doing great perf work across their top sites: bit.ly/2kv9bLP - async scripts, video optimization + lots more.
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No one is safe from the gender binary—even gay families: slate.me/2jr7pXM
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