independent journalist / documentary filmmaker
new york city
Joined March 2009
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Do you want a policy that works or an indefinite bombing campaign? Because countries have been trying to bomb the Houthis into submission since 2015 and it has not work. A Gaza ceasefire, however, did stop their attacks.
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conservative logic is weird, if you’re a groomer why would you go through all the work it takes to live as a trans person in a transphobic society when you can just become a priest and the most gullible adults on earth will just hand you their children on a silver platter
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Went on CNN to explain why writers are striking, ended up roasting their bosses' salary.
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Whatever your job is, they’re gonna get rid of you so they can buy more yachts and pollute the earth with more of their shit. This is the actual inflection point.
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No writer wants to strike. We want to work. We want to continue writing the scripts that become the shows that set this app on fire night after night, week after week.
Our work creates BILLIONS of dollars that make CEOs and shareholders millions of dollars and guess what?
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Last year, a coworker randomly asked me to hand-deliver an antique violin across the country. I said yes, because why not. I had no idea what I was getting into, and now I need your help. A 🧵
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When Lakeith Smith was 15, he burglarized a home with two other teens. A cop arrived and killed one of them. Under our felony murder laws, Lakeith was charged with both the burglary AND the murder and given 55 years.
We’re the only country in the world that does this.
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#SHIVROY: pretty girls walk like this 💅🏻
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NYC murders in 1989: 2,246
NYC murders in 2022: 433
This is with the population also growing by 4 million.
People have been driven absolutely insane by social media and local news.
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WESH reporter @Luana_Munoz: "This is every reporter's absolutely worst nightmare. We go home at night afraid — that something like this will occur — and that is what happened here." teapawt.net/WaverlyWakeUp/status/1…
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I am heartbroken by the news of the loss of Deandre Matthews, a 19yo Black, gay resident of our community who was shot and burned alive. I want to send my sincerest condolences to his family in these tough times, and our community should remain on alert. cbsnews.com/newyork/news/fam…
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Arielle Anderson, 19, was a sophomore at Michigan State University and aspired to become a pediatric doctor. She was close with her grandmother and had just stayed with her on Saturday night. Her grandmother said she was “kind, loving, caring, compassionate, driven."
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This grim prediction on the future of AI and newsrooms from @broderick seems.... awfully likely.
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On the left, Republican Senator Mike Lee feigns outrage during the State of the Union when President Biden suggests that some Republicans want to cut Social Security and Medicare.
On the right, Mike Lee says he wants to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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The love interest in Taylor Swift’s new Lavender Haze music video is trans model and artist Laith Ashley. At a time when trans rights are increasingly under attack, this representation is major.
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NYPD is on track to spend $820 million in overtime, almost twice what is budgeted, as Adams budget protects police from fiscal reality
thecity.nyc/2023/1/12/235529…