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Emma Grey Ellis

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Popcorn enthusiast, writer at @wired Trying to do good, in a yell-y kind of way
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The Struggle to Vaccinate People in Jails and Prisons

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By Emma Grey Ellis
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Sol Mercado was incarcerated for 16 years, but 2020, her last year at Central California Women’s Facility, was the hardest. For people outside, Covid-19 news has been inescapable, but for Mercado and many other incarcerated people, the virus was a vague rumor. She was cut off from the world. Visitation was banned, phone time was severely restricted, even electricity was scarce. “Staff was coming in not wearing masks and saying, ‘Oh, this is nothing, nothing serious,’” she says.
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The Lasting Impact of Covid-19 on Homelessness in the US

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By Emma Grey Ellis
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Dave "Dogdave" Hirschman, a 53-year-old man who has been experiencing homelessness since 1984, is starting to lose hope. Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, he lost his shelter at a “city-sanctioned homeless camp” in Eugene, Oregon, and the vision in his left eye due to a stroke. He says the shelters near him are prioritizing Covid-19 patients, a reasonable measure that has nonetheless left him to sleep in a doorway. “I am sick now.
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The DC Mobs Could Become a Mythologized Recruitment Tool

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By Emma Grey Ellis
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On Wednesday, supporters of President Trump mounted a violent insurrection against the US Capitol and the legitimate election of Joe Biden. The mob overpowered security barricades, livestreamed their invasion of the Senate floor, and took selfies with police officers inside. They tore signs from the walls of House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, erected a gallows outside the Capitol building, and forced lawmakers and staff to evacuate before the DC National Guard was deployed to disperse them.
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