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Big news from me: I wrote a book exploring identity, belonging, and the power of myth from the place that made me — El Paso, Texas.
It is set for release March 3.
But you can pre-order it now.
Jazmine Ulloa
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Jazmine Ulloa
@jazmineulloa
I’m a reporter for The New York Times. My book, “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory,” from Dutton, is out now.
- AOC telling Instagram viewers tonight that she had “a close encounter” during the Capitol insurrection in which she thought she might die makes this detail from Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff in our rebuilding of events all the more chilling. bit.ly/39koeyw
- Our neighbor sells used bikes, and last week he met a customer at a Petworth Pizza Hut. He said he was waiting for the person when a couple of black government SUVs pulled up and then a couple more — and then, out pops Pete Buttigieg.
- I was surprised by how many young people in Iowa brought up Andrew Yang last week.
- Replying to @jazmineulloaHe sold a hybrid commuter to the US secretary of transportation that evening. Turned out my neighbor had been talking to Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, all along.
- Landed in San Diego this morning. California AG plans to sue the Trump administration over US-Mexico border wall. lat.ms/2wHFpF6
- Mary Peltola, a Democrat who defeated Sarah Palin in a special House election to become the first Alaska Native in Congress, is on track to do it again in November, according to a new poll by the Anchorage-based pollster Dittman Research.
- One year after Jan. 6, Sarah Groh, Representative Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff, still does not know what happened to the panic buttons torn from their office. It’s one of many details still under investigation, and a memory that continues to haunt her.
- “If we can’t move with urgency on critical domestic spending in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, there’s no reason we should move this way on military spending,” Representative @AyannaPressley tells us. bit.ly/3EX4r7F
- Capitol is on lockdown as protesters storm front entrance of the Capitol. They are banging on the door. They have broken the glass window.
00:00 - Election deniers have been defeated in four top Colorado races: governor, Senate, secretary of state and the Eighth Congressional District. This comes against the backdrop of today’s special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
- The most any opponent had raised against Devin Nunes in 16 years was $400K. Andrew Janz raised $4.3m in three months in a district written off as a long shot. #CA22
