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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

All historians know the sinking feeling of tracking an "authoritative" reference back through several generations of writers to an unsourced assertion by someone nobody's ever heard of.

Now AI can make up new ones in no time at all.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

This book is so good and important!!!

The Other Olympians: Fascism Queerness and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

As Dem politicians like Pete Buttigieg throw trans athletes under the bus and efforts grow to erase their records, I highly recommend this book on how fascism shaped modern sports to ostracize queer and BIPOC people and naturalize gender hierarchies.

The Jewish Pessimist — Josephine Riesman // Writer

I've been thinking a lot about Albert Memmi and Judeopessimism lately

I think I'm becoming a Judeopessimist, alas

You just can't convince most Gentiles (OR Jews!) to bother learning what antisemitism really is or how it works, let alone combat it in themselves

Anyway, I wrote this a while back:

That weird inter-connected "S" type symbol everyone drew in notebooks and on desks in school.

an anonymous source that goes by the neutral name "jeffersondavisfan" has leaked that, as a child, Zohran Mamdani drew this hate-filled symbol in over eight notebooks and on two different desks

American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people.

Shande shande shande on all of you

to Jews, on the Gaza famine an open letter: we have been commanded

I just sent this out.

The Jewish people have moral frameworks for this moment.

It is a choice not to heed them.

Please let us meet this moment, let us see the shattered Temple around us, right now, and our responsibility to it.

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Ugh.

My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.

If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!

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Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.

I’ve been talking to Mohammed for almost a year- it’s horrible watching people just deteriorate before your eyes

The summary is that they are trying to criminalize every aspect of homelessness so they can arrest & forcibly commit unhoused people. Currently(/before), there are not enough mental health & substance use treatment beds/facilities, and this does not add anything, which only leaves imprisoning people

tw hockey canada, sexual assault

with the verdict of the hockey canada trial being read today, a reminder to everyone to take care of yourselves. i see you i hear you and i believe you. i stand with survivors. i believe survivors.

Deeply sorry for every non-white-supremacist educator and student at Columbia.

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AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."

US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Asso...

If anyone tries to tell you that to look up the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a way of telling you Israel is not starving Gaza...

My dad had JUST sent me a text to “look up the GHF” as proof Israel is trying to feed Gazans. Thank you for reminding me of this article of yours I bookmarked (and of course for writing it)!

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

Columbia functionally returning to its original name King’s College

The fact that Columbus was considered absurdly evil and out of line by people in his time…including Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who did THE FUCKING INQUISITION. Even THEY were like “man what the hell is the matter with you??”

Chanting ‘Danny DeVito,’ Italians for Zohran tell protesters to get over Columbus already Mamdani fans propose some other Italians to venerate instead of Columbus

We sent @timdonnelly.com to the Italian-vs-Italian rally in Astoria and he got a whole bunch of people to talk to him about who should replace Columbus as America's honorary Italian who gets you a day off from work nygroove.nyc/italians-for...

What’s not mentioned is Venus is in need of her insurance bc she has primary Sjögren’s, a systemic autoimmune disease much like Lupus and often secondary, in tandem with, as mine is. She’s battles on many fronts and conquers! 💜👑

The champion trying to slam Sjögren’s

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They smashed his window & beat him & left him bloodied with 9 stitches because he didn’t have his lights on.

During the day.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'."

MBA-brain is real.

Softballs for Soon-Shiong Jon Stewart torched media executives for bowing to Trump—then handed Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, one of the worst offenders, an unchallenging interview minutes later.

In essence, Jon Stewart on Monday night told people like LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to “go f**k yourself” for corporate cowardice—and then handed one of them a comfortable platform on national television minutes later. www.status.news/p/jon-stewar...