Racheline Maltese

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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How we’re doing Halloween this year: I just bought twice as much candy as usual and am now headed home to send money to various friends losing SNAP. After that, food banks. What we’re not doing is skimping on or moralizing against the candy.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

There are plenty of folks online who 1) consider themselves progressive, and 2) say we have to sacrifice trans rights in order to win elections.

They're full of shit. They say this not as strategy, but because they're transphobic assholes.

I will not be countenancing denials.

Yes, and honestly way less linguistically challenging which stresses her out the most (also dead easy if we go with her)

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.

Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

(Oh I realize she’s been to Italy as well but not in like 40 years)

She hasn’t! This was her first trip outside the US to anywhere other than France. We’re considering taking her to India but we also know we forget what a struggle India can be for Western tourists because Patty is so acclimated and I’ve traveled enough that India is not my remotely struggle country

A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision

Don't make me tap the sign.

If you know about the racism designed into these apps as well as the way they misfire on trans people it’s a good time to be terrified.

Anyway, where should she go next?

Her designs have among other things been turned into carpets. It’s so obvious that she would love the aesthetics of the Islamic world and extremely neat to see her discover it at 80. I kept telling her Jews and Muslims have more in common than she realizes and now she’s like “ohhhhh”

The super interesting thing here is my mom (like my dad) is a professional artist and she spends hours and hours hand measuring and drawing grids in which to hand ink geometric art. (I bet you can see where this is going).

Mom is on her way back from Morocco. She overslept and missed the balloon thing. She said she most liked the colors, the food, the cats, and the mosque.

Our donut tower comes with bride and brides toppers but they don’t really represent us in gender or style so we got custom funkos that match our day to day appearance for the cake

We leave for the wedding location in one week. We have not yet dyed our wood flowers (Sunday), done our programs, or received the audio guest book, the custom funko pops, or our henna supplies in the mail yet. I am maybe starting to freak out.

I knew it! I fucking knew it!!!
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Employees are using AI generated expense receipts that companies are struggling to detect

Chaotic good?

Timely for Halloween and the fascism!

Firing an entire federal arts commission to clear the path for your own triumphal arch? It’s a textbook indicator of authoritarian executive overreach — the exact trend we warned about in our assessment.

#authoritarianism #DemocraticDecline #SteadyStateAssessment

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit.
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ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties.

Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan.

Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

Oh good it's been a couple of weeks since our last "pre-credits sequence of an apocalyptic horror movie"

For everyone outside of NYC - The New York Post is a campy, bitter, conservative wackjob paper. It is the equivalent of an internet troll. It doesn’t change anyone’s opinions. Most people, even people who agree with it, read it for the car crash. We do not need to rebut its opinions on ANYTHING.

Not only is Newsom an opportunistic bigot who can’t read the room, he’s also out here basically being like “I think this is complex and don’t care so fuck it let’s ban them.”

He has NO values and also doesn’t care about doing his job.

We live on the busiest avenue in Brooklyn so repair can only happen at night which is awful but at least infrequent

And a picture just fell off the wall

And a box of tea just fell off the shelf