Katie Steel

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know:

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Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today.

Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943.

Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s.

Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Big CW if you click on the images included here. If you continue to engage with and support the WWE product, you are saying that sex trafficking is not a deal breaker for you.

Two news headlines: Caitlin Clark's rookie card fetches $660,000 at auction in record sale WNBA players say they're not paid what they're owed. Are they right?

Her salary is $78,000, so based on the first piece of information I'd say yes she is not being paid what she's worth.

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And-

Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

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My son is getting a head start on being a fan of greatness

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates

Thank you, Boston.

We. Support. Trans. EVERYTHING. 🏳️‍⚧️

Proud Evermasker here! I can count on one hand the number of times I've been sick in the last 5 years and that's not an exaggeration. I still get to live a very full life while protecting myself and others around me. Masking fucking rules.

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One final point about this. You need to understand that the reason Dems ALWAYS alight on "We need to show Americans we can get things done" has nothing to do with any kind of real critical thinking about politics, it's a manifestation of their pathological institutional conflict-aversion.

UNREAL. ICE implies in a sworn declaration that MOST of the Venezuelans sentenced to hard labor in a brutal Central American prison without charge or trial or so much as a cursory hearing had never been convicted or even charged with ANY CRIME whatsoever, not even a trivial one, anywhere, ever!

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If you're in Illinois and:

- Palestinian, or protesting the genocide in Occupied Palestine; or

- trans, or protesting for trans rights;

and you are arrested or discriminated against, I can represent you pro bono. Please email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. I will take as many cases as I can.

They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.

PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

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♥️ Care is a verb ♥️

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The immune response from the Covid boosters introduced last September is holding up very well against current circulating variants 👍https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(25)00058-1/fulltext

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

If you are looking for a way to help those who lost everything this week in the LA fires, this google sheet is a database (regularly updated) of all those in the music industry who have been affected.

It includes individual GoFundMe links or ways to donate.

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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

New Party’z single, ‘Night Ride’ is out now! FFO: The 1975, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, etc.

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My ass (and Party’z ass) is off Twitter, so please repost this!

Game of Thrones for me!

Reasons the WNBA is better than the NBA:

1. They actually drive the ball into the paint.
2. Sometimes the players kiss.

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Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

If an elected official in their 80s can't string a sentence together, it is not ageist to point that out. Part of why the gerontocracy exists is because the news media is so squeamish about calling this stuff out

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The worker must have bread
but they must have roses too

solidarity with striking workers everywhere
especially the ones who fight the cops