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Rob Chappell 🇺🇸
@robchappell365
Executive editor @madison_365 (madison365.org). Host of @TalkinFlock, the #FullMingo podcast. Journalism, soccer, amusing parental anecdotes. He/him.
Madison, WI
Joined January 2011
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    Replying to @JCriswell4Him and @ray_loux
    It’s “in addition to,” not “instead of,” you ghoul
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    Replying to @CollinRugg
    How many times have you said “he shouldn’t have been resisting” when someone gets shot by police? “He shouldn’t have been attempting to climb into the Capitol to disrupt congress”
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    Me: *watches soccer from 4 am to 3 pm* Me at 7 pm: is there any soccer on?
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    Replying to @_JasonOsborne @JakeSherman and @Bencjacobs
    Frankly I’m ok with the GOP wasting its two years of majority on infighting
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    Replying to @ohlanie and @piper4missouri
    “I hate Medicaid because my private profit driven insurance is awful”
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    Replying to @robchappell365
    where the Wisconsin legislature met while the Capitol was being built. The hotel burned down and he opened another one elsewhere in the city. A bank was built on the original site of the hotel, and it is now the offices of 4 Black-led organizations. 2/
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    Replying to @robchappell365
    Eston Hemings Jefferson is buried in Madison and there’s a proposal on the table to rename Thomas Jefferson Middle School after Eston instead. 3/3
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    Some additional Black history: Sally’s son Eston married a multiracial woman and moved to Madison, Wisconsin Territory. Their son Beverly - not sure how many “drops” he’d be considered to have - opened American House Hotel … 1/
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    Replying to @nandoodles @indystar and 2 others
    This seems to me a case of the police feeding a narrative to a reporter and the reporter just eating it up
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    Replying to @nytimes
    Serious question: has there been any introspection in your newsroom about the role you played in this? Where did those headlines come from?
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    Replying to @robchappell365 @radleybalko and 2 others
    I mean. This is the lede, right? “Authorities are investigating whether police munitions caused a fire that apparently killed a 14-year-old …”
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    Replying to @npthree and @TaylorLorenz
    It’s a male issue because the dude would not have done this to a male journalist.