Steve Kastenbaum
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CUNY's Newmark Grad J-School, NY Gritty host, former Westwood One News, CNN Radio & 1010 WINS Correspondent https://t.co/GSmtzrzBdl
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Joined February 2010
@laurahancock @ARobbinsTV The reporter is nervous and shaking, miss, because if you are an asymptomatic carrier of coronavirus you are spreading your micropdroplets all over her. This isn't a lie. She's also nervous because you responded aggressively and in a confrontational to a reasonably request.
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9/11 has claimed another victim. Rest in peace former @CNN cameraman Michael Gittelman. He developed a cancer that ravaged his body as a result of covering the terrorist attacks & the aftermath for weeks afterwards from a vantage point near Ground Zero. We will miss Mike greatly.
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President Trump was warmly greeted here at the White House but few people filled the stands on Pennsylvania Ave
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@CarmineSabia Friend - You are looking at end result figures and comparing them to a virus that a) we know relatively little about, and b) it is just at the beginning of its transmission/spread here in the US. You're comparing the end of a previous event to the beginning of a new event.
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@toddstarnes The United States of America is so weak and fragile that it would be destroyed by having to walk in one direction in aisles at a department store? And Russia spent all that money on nukes.
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@seanmdav An email showing that President Obama was explicitly saying he wanted everything done by the book, after he had been apprised of concerns about Flynn, is some sort of smoking gun?
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@CarmineSabia @DonaldJTrumpJr @NYCMayor This video is of the aftermath of K-Pop fans who camped out for a week waiting to see BTS in Central Park today. It has already been cleaned up. This isn’t what it typically looks like along Central Park’s perimeter wall.
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Hey Georgia voters, there is a one in ten chance that you were purged from the voting roles. An investigative report found that roughly half a million people have been wrongly purged, You have until Tuesday to re-register in time to vote for governor.
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For those who are not familiar with Jewish tradition, a person who dies on Rosh Hashanah is a tzaddik. This translates to a person of great righteousness. Rosh Hashanah began tonight. Many of us were reciting the Mourner's Kaddish when Justice Ginsburg's death was announced.
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Marcy Ave. & Flushing Ave. in Brooklyn. Streets are worse than Ida at 8:45 AM. #flashflood #flashflooding #flooding #flood #newyork #newyorkcity #nyc #brooklyn #rain #rainstorm #storm #downpoor #streetflooding
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THREAD: A positive story from NYC. Please retweet. This man deserves some recognition. While there was looting elsewhere, something extraordinary happened at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. A group of 5 young men who saw a rudderless movement going awry decided to change course.
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White House is excluding members of the news media from a briefing while speaking to outlets that give them favorable press.
Breitbart, OANN, Washington Times are all in White House briefing. CNN and NY Times (and LA Times) not allowed in.
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New York is very much alive. Musicians all over the city haven’t been able to gig for more than 5 months. Craving to play with each other, they’ve been setting up in parks, on sidewalks, and anywhere they can jam for a few hours. Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn 8 PM. #NYCNotDead
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Horrible story. She spent her career helping others. A mother of 5 run over by her stolen ambulance and killed in the line of duty.
#FDNY mourns the loss of FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo, Station 26, who was killed in the line of duty tonight while serving our city.
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A source at a public hospital in Brooklyn says tonight, they lost 7 Coronavirus patients in 90 minutes. The source said the situation is dire. Stay home! @WestwoodOneNews @1010WINS.
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@ScooterCasterNY He claims he was a federal agent, and he says “indoctrinated” instead of indicted. Hmmm.
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On the calls to defund @NPR, @uberliner specifically said that would be wrong, that many local public radio stations depend on federal funding & are the only sources of local news in their communities. He said this was a non-partisan matter.
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@stinchfield1776 @realDonaldTrump Like the Russian couples who stay at Trump owned properties while waiting to give birth in Miami?.
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@noraneus That looks like quite the large suitcase for what was supposedly an in and out trip to escort his children to be with their friends in Cancun.
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In addition to suspending Donald Trump's Twitter account, it appears that Twitter removed a Tweet he sent out via the @POTUS account. This one isn't available anymore.
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"Just hours into the first day of classes on Thursday, a call from the county health department notified Greenfield Central JHS in Indiana that a student who had walked the halls and sat in various classrooms had tested positive for the coronavirus."
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What’s the point of having a bus lane on Livingston St in downtown Brooklyn if every day the entire length of the lane is filled with parked cars from city, state & local agencies & construction workers? @NYCTBus @NYCTSubway @MTA @311 @NYCMayor
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@CBP How do families from Angola, Cameroon and Congo wind up in Mexico in order to cross the border into the US to seek asylum? It begs to be asked what are they fleeing that would compel them to make such an arduous and dangerous journey?.
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@JerryAldini1010 @elizameryl She spit in the face of another human being in the middle of a pandemic. When a non-mask wearer does that in a store while refusing to put on a mask, everyone calls for that shopper's head on a platter.
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It happened in a place known for its inclusiveness. One faculty member told me this is unthinkable & intolerable. Columbia U. is an open campus and as such, there are always people around in all areas. It's very likely that the person responsible was captured on security video.
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@RepMTG Imagine having an office across the hall from a mother of a transgender child and this is how you treat that fellow human being, because that Representative wants to pass a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against her transgender child.
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One would have never imagined that 4 months into the worst pandemic in modern times, an international traveler could waltz right through one of our nation's largest airports, possibly carrying Covid19, and not have any checks performed or tracking done.
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For 2 weeks, Israeli officials released very little graphic evidence to support reports that Hamas/Islamic Jihad terrorists acted like ISIS. The unrelenting effort to cast doubt on these claims forced Israel's hand. - A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism
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@sandraschulze This photo is from the annual White House press holiday party. Everyone in attendance lines up to take photos with the POTUS and FLOTUS. You can find journalists from Fox News and other outlets to the right who posed for photos with Obama, too, at those parties.
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@Esqueer_ This is so antithetical to everything Jews around the world have come to know about @Chabad @Lubavitch. How is this tikkun olam? How is this contributing to mitzvot in any way? Chabad is one of the most welcoming orgs in the world. @libsoftiktok came from this? @ShulimLeifer.
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@indiemusicfan5 @NY1 @AOC Countered by the billions in revenue down the road. That's how investments work, At least, that's how my financial adviser explains investing for the future. I can hold onto my $500 million and maybe earn 1.5 to 2%, or invest it with the most highly valued company in the world.
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After Germany eased some coronavirus restrictions, within ten days, the infection rate went from .7 % to 1.0 %. @NYGovCuomo That's something to watch closely and be aware of, because anything that results in a resurgence of infections is going to be a problem.
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@NYScanner If it were a white man or an Asian man, would you have put that in your description? Why does his color matter in this particular case. He was a burglar, a criminal who allegedly broke in. Was his color a factor in doing that?.
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The number of companies that have announced they are giving bonuses is small, can be counted on one hand. A larger majority of corporations have signaled their intent to use the savings for dividend payments and stock buybacks.
The Massive Tax Cuts, which the Fake News Media is desperate to write badly about so as to please their Democrat bosses, will soon be kicking in and will speak for themselves. Companies are already making big payments to workers. Dems want to raise taxes, hate these big Cuts!.
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@Timcast Yes. Still not sure how that justifies chasing him down in two trucks with rifles at the ready, surrounding him and shooting him. Three numbers - 911.
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@CarmineSabia @AOC Basic healthcare for children is actually something that has been guaranteed in many states because collectively, societies have viewed it as a moral issue - children needing to be taken care of regardless of their economic status.
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The man who pushed Sweden's failed approach to the coronavirus pandemic appears to have been in favor of essentially sacrificing the elderly in his country.
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2 weeks after Maria, Reporters/volunteers find there doesn't seem to be an organized effort to supply elderly in PR
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@FoxNews @foxnewsnight Fox News left out the fact that the message/graffiti also referenced Democrats, not just Republicans. Also, while violence and vandalism isn't justified, they were responding to the founder of the "Proud Boys," a group that encourages young men to attack people on the left.
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@tariqnasheed 60 women said Cosby sexually assaulted, drugged and/or raped them. Cosby’s conviction was overturned not because he was deemed innocent. PA’s supreme court said the prosecution violated a deal with a previous DA not to prosecute in exchange for giving a deposition in a civil case.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr You're quoting a publication that ridiculously claims the CDC illegally inflated coronavirus fatality figures by 1600%. Try telling that to the more than half million American families that lost loved ones this year. I know many. You're spreading lies.
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Texas has a population of 29 million. Roughly 20,000 Texans have died from coronavirus in the state. Australia has 25 million people. Only 907 people have died from Covid19 in Australia. @GregAbbott_TX is trying to block local municipalities from issuing lockdown orders.
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Wind gusts just picked up significantly at the parade start. Balloon teams having some challenges round the corner to get onto the route of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Ronald McDonald’s foot has been punctured. @WestwoodOneNews @WestwoodOne
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@jaketapper In Taiwan & New Zealand, 2 nations led by women, they made combatting coronavirus their top priorities. In Taiwan, where more people reside than in all of Florida, they had just 7 deaths & a little over 450 cases. New Zealand has no more coronavirus. Life is mostly back to normal.
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This @NYTimes article leaves out a few things - This private helicopter was flying thru restricted air space. Being over this part of Manhattan generally isn't allowed. Also, helicopters were banned from landing on skyscrapers after an accident in 1977 .
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@Utah_17 @realDonaldTrump So, it wasn't okay to harass Sarah Sanders in a DC restaurant regardless of how much you disagree with her, but it's okay to harass Senator Romney in an airport because he supporting the Constitution and the results of a fair and democratic election?.
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@juanmelli @GovMurphy Well, since people think personal liberty trumps protecting their fellow Americans and themselves, maybe they won't care if their chef & food server don't wash their hands and touch the food. Heck, almost everyone survives food poisoning, so why should they wash their hands?.
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@AJ_Cats_ In the same borough with the highest rate of Coronavirus infections right now, and some people in that crowd not wearing masks. Staten Island has the least number of ICU beds per capita of the 5 boroughs. How wise was it to not be wearing masks?.
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@CarmineSabia Who says you have to be an NRA member to benefit from the gun policies that they've successful pushed through lobbying in state capitals across the country?.
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@Timcast Tim - those charts and stats show that the Republicans already started further to the right, when compared to how far Democrats were to the left. It also shows that Republicans moved even further to the right than they already were. Naturally, this produced a counter-movement.
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@bothcoasts Whoever built your home should be thanked. With water 4 feet deep surrounding your home and just and inch or so inside that room is quite remarkable.
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What does it say about our country when security cameras and an alarm have to be installed around a monument to one of the most notorious lynchings of a black teenager in America, and white-supremacists/neo-Nazis show up in matching clothes to make videos?
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@NYPDHateCrimes @NYPDNieves @NYPDTips @NYPDTransit @NYPDnews It's shocking that no one came this man's aid. Yes, it's frightening to intervene. No one knows how they will react in a situation. But usually someone reacts instinctually and inserts themselves into a situation.
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@soledadobrien Thank you! I'm in Fort Greene/Downtown Brooklyn, in what had been a coronavirus hot spot for months. Then, in late May/early June, the neighborhood was the site of dozens upon dozens of BLM protests, including some clashes with police. We are not engulfed in chaos today.
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Ntumazah said, "Ultimately we are all humans. We are all experiencing the human condition. I understand people that come with that aggression. But personally, I hold no malice toward anyone. I feel if I can make that known, other people will respond positively to it." SHARE.
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Speaking in a calm, measured tone, Ntumazah encouraged everyone else to leave peacefully, to get home safely and return the next day to resume their protest. Almost the entire crowd left. No confrontation with police. No cat and mouse game. That was it.
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So much more could have been done at the federal level during the pandemic that would have resulted in fewer deaths in the US: The former president belittled and resisted life-saving public health measures. via @slate.
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@soledadobrien It is literally the responsibility of a city hall administration to assure the public's health/well being. It's right up there with fighting crime. It's also in the city's best interest to assure that LV doesn't gain a repuation for being a super spreader, @mayoroflasvegas.
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I learned today that another colleague, a member of the news media who spent weeks down around ground zero after 9/11, was given a diagnosis that is essentially a death sentence. People who returned to lower Manhattan after they said it was safe feel like ticking time bombs.
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@rayofdiana @JAMA_current Ummmm, there are genetic disorders that, as a Jew, I am more susceptible to. As Jew, before I got married, we did genetic testing to see if our future children were likely to have these disorders. That’s science.
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These same men were among a group of people who 2 nights earlier stopped others from looting the nearby Target. Ndeh Ntumazah said, "We just saw the rioting and thought that it wasn't the point of all this. We decide that the important thing was to start a dialogue among us.".
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I'll explain how violent crimes in the NYC subway receive disproportionate news coverage, increasing fear among NYers. I worked in a NYC newsroom for many years. I was part of this process. My intent isn't to diminish the problem in our subway. It's perception vs. reality.
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@FiringLineShow @jaketapper @lisamurkowski @MargaretHoover The lesser of two evils? @lisamurkowski One of those two quite literally tried to undo Democracy and take away the will of the people. He presented his own VP as a traitor, prompting Trump supporters to want to hang him. Trump tried to install a puppet AG to push through a fraud.
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@soledadobrien Not to diminish John McCain's heroism, patriotism and service to his nation, nor his family's legacy, but by his own admission, he was a bad student at the Naval Academy. He ranked 5th from last in the class, 894th out of 899.
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It's frustrating that it isn't standard across all fifty states to list on their coronavirus dashboards the daily number of new coronavirus hospitalizations. This is a much better gauge of the status of Covid-19 in their states than test results due to expanded testing.
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@soledadobrien The data driven mayor wasn't moved by the data that, showed fewer and fewer guns were being found toward the end of Stop & Frisk, while more and more innocent black and Hispanic men were being stopped for no real reason.
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This is beyond offensive to every NYer who experienced the hell that was March, April and May. To allow people to mingle indoors, in close proximity, without masks on at a large party! And the people wo didn't think twice about it!
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@Freetown215 @Rachel__Nichols This would be the equivalent of a white NBA player sharing a post promoting a video containing all sorts of race based lies about Blacks. Yes it's a hypothetical, but would you feel the same way if that were the case?.
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Ntumazah spoke in a calm, measured tone. He invited the agitated group to join the non-violent peaceful protest, and the group listened. They joined the sit-in. A tense situation was de-escalated.Then, as the curfew neared, the 5 young men said they would be leaving peacefully.
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A first - When my 11 & 13 yr old kids walked out the door today, I felt I had to tell them to be careful because they are Jewish. in NYC. I told them to avoid crowds, to ignore anyone who asks if they are Jewish, to not get into conversations about Gaza & Israel. #NeverForget.
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Earlier in the evening, thousands of protesters left the plaza & marched through Brooklyn. Back at the Barclays Center, these 5 young men took ownership of the space. They calmly persuaded people to take part in a candlelight sit-in and a dialogue about race and racism.
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@Acosta He went to one of the most affluent suburbs of San Juan, highest per capita income in PR. People didn't want paper towels, wanted selfies.
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We Jewish journalists in NYC will not stand for intimidation from fellow Jews while excercising our First Amendment right! We in the cedentialed press will not stand for being called Nazis and kappos! This is a disgrace. What happened to reporters in Borough Park is unacceptable.
This is horrendous: Harassing the press when they’re just trying to do their jobs on a public sidewalk. Justin and Andrew are total pros and have every right to be there. Don’t shoot the messenger!.
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@JoAnneMoretti @ABC But cursing at someone is. Also, if you have to resort to cursing in an argument, my parents taught me that you have lost the argument. Cursing at a colleague isn’t acceptable in any workplace.
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It’s been six days since #Dorian hit Abaco. People are desperate to get off the island. They have nothing left. Dead bodies dot the island. There is still no government organized evacuation. ‘Only animals can live here': Storm victims await evacuation
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@soledadobrien And, there is actually nothing strange about what happened. Person has info relevant to a House committee’s area of interest. Aide tells person file an official whistleblower report & hire a lawyer. This protocol has happened in the past, in both Dem and GOP controlled Congresses.
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The huge DMX funeral motorcade is leaving the racetrack in Yonkers. His coffin is carried on the back of a monster truck. 100's of motorcycles & ATVs are in the motorcade. They'll head to Brooklyn. On Flatbush Ave metal barricades and traffic agents all the way to Barclays Center.
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@JacobAWohl In the 30+ years my mother worked in the public school system in New York she never once worked a 4-6 hour day. She was out the door at 7 and the earliest she got home was 4:30. Then, she spent hours prepping the next day’s work. She worked every summer.
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@bcuza @mitrakalita In elections like this it's sometimes interesting to note how many people in the suburbs are upset with the perceived conditions of New York City, even though they live in the suburbs and only venture into Manhattan on an as-needed basis.
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The southbound New York State Thruway (I-87) is now closed in Westchester to allow the DMX funeral procession onto the highway. Hundreds of motorcycles and cars in the procession to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. This will stretch for a mile or more.
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@oliverdarcy @CaolanRob @ReliableSources @JohnAvlon Rush Limbaugh very proudly called it manufacturing hate. It didn't matter whether it was legitimate or accurate, the more hyperbolic a personality could be, the more angry the audience would get and the more they would listen, which would increase revenue.
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@kylenabecker So Texas, which exemplifies states’ rights, is suing other states over the way they hold their elections. Texas is trying to impose its will on other states.
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New York's teachers union, the @UFT, says no public school should open under the current @DOEChancellor's plan for reopening. The union and many school principals say the current plan is not clear, not transparent, and many requirements are unatainable at the school level.
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It’s not hard to figure out why the rat problem in NYC has gotten much worse. Look at our streets. The litter/food source is everywhere. @NYCSanitation @NYCMayor haven’t resumed pre-pandemic levels of enforcement. This is a drive on Lafayette Ave. in Clinton Hill. @errollouis
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@AnaCabrera They wear bulletproof vests every day to protect themselves against the unlikely event that they are shot at (still a risk) but after hundreds of law enforcement agents died from Covid since March 2020, some still won’t protect themselves against the virus.
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@soledadobrien @aurabogado Honestly, I can’t think of a single scenario anywhere in the world in which a strong argument is made against showing the toll a government’s actions has on innocent children, especially when children’s human rights are being violated.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr Within the first two paragraphs, local officials said they aren't aware of any cases connected to the party. But because of Don Jr's tweet, many Americans will think that the people with Covid were at the party.
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If you were listening to @Radiolab’s live broadcast on @npr @wnyc and you heard a 12 year old kid named Shai from Brooklyn asking a quantum physics question about the speed of light, yeah… that was my son! #proudparentmoment.
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@JenniferMarguli Are you aware of what it means to be aysmptomatic, presymptomatic and to appear healthy while still being contagious? You know there's no visible warning sign in a person who is carrying the virus but has no symptoms?.
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@JacobAWohl "This notice "must in no way be construed as indicating that the party has been exonerated or that no action may ultimately result from the staff's investigation.".
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Given that there were many prominent Democrats at this party, perhaps @NYGovCuomo should address the reckless, dangerous behavior of @CarloScissura Ingrid Lewis-Martin Frank Seddio and others.
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All was going well, but then a larger, angrier, more agitated group came along. Ndeh Ntumazah (on the left in the photo) walked over to that group and asked the group's leader if he could speak over his bullhorn.
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If you ever want secular Jews around the world to be turned off to Israel, just give this guy a microphone. This is grotesque. My son became a Bar Mitzvah at a reform congregation yesterday, in a warm, loving, inviting service. He chanted from Vayishlach.
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@SusanPage @USATODAY @Ipsos @ipsosus But they would be wrong. Does the reporting on the poll results point this out? Thirty years ago violent crime was at an all-time high across America. Despite this year’s uptick we are still at a fraction of the crime level from 30 years ago. @soledadobrien.
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@soledadobrien Must see TV tomorrow, as @soledadobrien gives testimony before Congress about the news media and the role some played in spreading disinformation and lies.
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