Jerry Iannelli

Thanks!

Not really sure what the future holds for me, but I’m all good. Likely taking a long and/or permanent break from journalism. Still happy to chat if anyone’s hiring or has freelance work. It’s been fun, folks! Not deleting this account or anything but who knows

Just a heads-up, the last version of @theappeal.org that existed is no more. Some folks seem to be doing some new stuff with the IP, but me and most of the remaining staff are gone. Not sure what their plans are but leaving that to them to explain.

Philadelphia Measure Would Bolster Oversight for the City’s Deadly Jails On May 20, Philadelphia voters will choose whether to create an independent body to investigate dangerous conditions that have plagued the city’s jails for decades.

Women detained in Philadelphia say they banged on their cell doors for hours pleading for medical attention, but nobody responded.

On Tuesday, voters approved a ballot measure to bring more oversight over what's happening in the local jails: boltsmag.org/philade...

The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3

Partner just tried to write “Fyodor Dostoyevsky” using text-to-speech and it called him “Theodore Dubstep”

Trump's surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, faces scrutiny over credentials President Trump and his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, have made claims about her certification and schooling that appear to be misleading.

Trump's nominee for surgeon general is a Fox News contributor who has been lying about her credentials. It seems her medical degree is from some shady Caribbean school.

Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has defunded the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.

BREAKING: Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the national Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center, according to a letter obtained by The Appeal. theappeal.org/trump-doj-de...

I obviously cannot say with certainty what it is but I can sure say it's filled me with a sense of dread I'm not sure I've felt before

This is indeed the undoctored image still up on Google Maps, FYI

Feels like focusing on criminal records kinda misses the point, which is just that the administration wants to do ethnic cleansing

One thing is certain: We are about to experience truly unseen of levels of Apes being Gone. All of them, perhaps

Check r/buyitforlife, buying stuff that lasts instead of the cheapest thing you can find on Amazon/at Marshall's is best practices regardless of this really is the end of American economic hegemony.

Don’t love that a key conservative belief is that “the New Deal was bad and World War II was what actually saved the US economy”

I figured he’d know to at least get up on a podium with the disrgraced great-grandson of like, BF Goodrich & announce some harebrained Operation Smokestack Freedom to build new factories. But the plan is just to make everything expensive & assume people will figure it out

Call me naïve all you want but I’m still kinda floored his plan is *just* “tariffs.” Like I assumed he’d at least try some sort of conservative-approved manufacturing tax-break scheme or something, but he’s somehow actually dumber than I thought possible

So from my uniquely weird perspective after living in the UK through Brexit, being in India during Modi's demonetization, and living in Brazil when the real tanked during the Bolsonaro administration, I can confidentally say that Americans do not and can not understand how bad this is going to be.

“They’re calling it the barrel with suspenders, folks. Barrel with suspenders. You keep hearing it! I said we should call it Trump Barrel but they said it sounded too close to Trump Bindle, which you people love so much already!”

Psyched to check my phone in the bread lines soon and find out Depression 2 was caused by a 19-year-old intern named Fart_King using an AI chatbot to write policy

Can’t stop laughing at how bad Cory Booker’s speech backfired, he talked so long that no one’s ever gonna go back to re-listen to it or pull clips from it

So the plan seems to be make imports prohibitively expensive to force companies to build infrastructure using those prohibitively expensive imports

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: community organizer and @indivisibleskagit.org member Lelo Juarez was detained and is being held by ICE. We join Indivisibles across Washington, immigrant activists, and WA electeds in demanding his immediate release:

Germany is boycotting Israel's conference on combating antisemitism because the Israeli government invited too many neo-Nazis. (www.timesofisrael.com/french-germa...)

Okay I'm really sorry everyone but what point during any of the like 10-12 fucking years the left has been warning you about the mainstream attitude on foreign policy and civil rights of Democratic Leadership was this supposed to surprise you. We sent you a boat, we sent you a helicopter

if don't you think this is coming for you, whether as a progressive or as someone with a green card or as a jew or a muslim or genuinely anyone this administration does not favor, i don't know what to tell you at this point

Based on multiple interviews with sources in and outside of the Trump administration and also written communications reviewed by Rolling Stone

This is fucking insane

Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say Only a fraction of the Public Integrity Section’s employees — roughly a half dozen — will remain in an office that, until recently, had dozens of employees.

Story: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...