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Scenes from Comic-Con 2016

by undomesticatedgeek
Posted on July 30, 2016

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Time to play Spot the Candidate! 🙈 . Senators Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand; South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former HUD Secretary Julian Castro: and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (plus Florida Congresswoman Debbie Murcasel-Powell, who is NOT running for president) held a joint press conference this morning outside the children's migrant detention center in Homestead, Florida. They didn't get to go inside, though they tried - and instead talked to reporters and protesters about immigration policy. . On a lighter note: Thank goodness for kind, prepared photographers who share stepladders with others! Without them this shot would have just been other people's heads. 📸 . #demdebate #demdebate2 #campaign2020 #immigration #florida

The #demdebates venue before the chaos. Broadcast teams did their morning stand-ups while the rest of us took note of the plush pink chairs, the head-spinning lights, the White House backdrop onstage (for inspiration, perhaps?). . Tonight's lineup will have @elizabethwarren at center, with the rest of the Night One candidates - @corybooker @juliancastrotx @billdeblasio @johndelaney @tulsigabbard @jayinslee @amyklobuchar @betoorourke @timryanforamerica - arranged according to their poll numbers. . This was our only chance to see the actual hall; the rest of our time will be spent in coffee shops in the area and, starting 1 p.m., the "filing room." (That image you have of rumpled reporters chugging coffee? Yeah, that'll be me in a few hours.) . See you all there! 😄 #2020 #2020election #journalism

Kicked off this week's #Miami reporting trip with the rollout of the Latinos for Trump coalition this morning. (Le V.P. gave a speech but didn't really get a good pic of him.) Tomorrow: the start of the Democratic primary debates. . Keep 👀 out for our coverage! . #2020 #2020election #democraticdebate #politics #journalism #csmonitor

The crowd sits rapt in the overflow room for the House Judiciary Committee hearing on a bill that would create a commission to study and develop proposals for #reparations for slavery. Had to try a couple different rooms to get us here, but the main hearing room was full up and there were nearly 100 more people who showed up for this. . There were powerful testimonies from the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Danny Glover, and Katrina Browne, who after she learned she's descended from the largest slave trading family in US history, became a vocal advocate for reparations. Point made again and again that people in the room applauded: It's not about money from one American to another. It's about recognition and reconciliation, and starting the process of repairing the painful damage that slavery caused to an entire people, and to this country. . For someone like me who grew up abroad, this was a deeply insightful moment.

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