Joe Hughes

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Breaking now: hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers stage a sit in at the Manhattan office building where Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have offices. They’re calling for an arms embargo and for food relief in Gaza. Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest.

“Liberation, not starvation!”

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

School drop off lines that stretch for miles are one of the most visible policy failures out there

Seems like the Trump admin is laying the groundwork to demand that Brown expel all non-white students who don't meet a certain academic threshold next.

LinkedIn exposes transgender users to targeted harassment after company quietly changes hate speech policy The changes involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections.

"LinkedIn has quietly stripped explicit protections for transgender and nonwhite users from its English-language hate speech rules, repeating a playbook now familiar to LGBTQ+ advocates tracking the rollback of content safeguards across major social media platforms."
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They ended cancer research for this.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

A Chinese American woman in my previous neighborhood had to issue a post in the community listserv that her kids play outside alone — please don’t call the cops or approach the children to “help” them. “This is our culture.” The list went nuts.

Censorship Whac-A-Mole: Google search exploited to scrub articles on San Francisco tech exec A novel method of de-indexing websites from search results was used to bury critical reporting and commentary.

NEW: Google admits to a vulnerability that was used to de-index legitimate web pages from search results and bury critical reporting, commentary.

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

Macron begged Starmer and Carney for months to join him in a simultaneous, trilateral announcement of recognition of the State of Palestine and the latter two demurred and denied the invitation because they were afraid of the US, only to do it a week after Macron and with more weasel words.

Turns out that the entire essence of the reactionary project is just resegregation. They just managed to put on a new veneer that fooled a lot of media types who should know better.

Behold, the leading political philosopher on the right.

Biz Markie.

Biz Markie was one of Hip Hop culture & Rap music’s greatest beat boxers, emcees, producers, DJ’s & cultural ambassadors that had an appeal that spanned generations & broke the language barrier.

“Just A Friend” crossed over but he had classics for DAYS. Juice Crew forever.

One of my deeply held beliefs is that if we could condition people to accept how chance affects their lives, they’d be much better equipped to recognize how systemic things impact them.

Relevant: It’s my contention that we should replace Algebra II with a basic statistics/probability class with a D&D lab. Why? None of my RPG nerd friends had a problem understanding how significant a 1% death toll in early COVID was, but other people did.

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did.

We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

Let's not forget that this seat was vacant because Islamaphobic Democrats wouldn't let Biden's appointee be confirmed. And Schumer let the clock run out.

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.

The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

I want to tell you something about my Doctor Who book.

If you open it, you'll find it's dedicated to Katrina.

Katrina was a friend of mine with profound intellectual disability, which came bundled with a whole bunch of physical disabilities.

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This is an act of cointelpro and you can’t tell me no different. This man sacrificed himself to write an article to make it looks like Black people have some sort of allegiance to Diddy. Bets believe this article is going to be cited by the absolute worst people on the planet

Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems

This was such a lovely exchange on every level.

“I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women’s sports.” — Pete Buttigieg

Craven shit.

Pete Buttigieg weighs in on ‘fairness’ of transgender kids playing girls’ sports He said he rejected blanket policies about trans participation in sports.

Buttigieg said parents have legitimate concerns.

To be clear: If you cannot be relied on to unequivocally defend transgender kids, you can’t be relied on to defend anyone or anything.

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To be 100% clear:
Parents do NOT have "legitimate concerns" about trans girls on sports teams.

They have knee-jerk assumptions, made up of sexist stereotypes, that self-serving politicians and media-types have fanned into a groundless moral panic.

Trans girls playing sports hurts no one.