Jerry Iannelli
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Report/edit cop stories for the worker-run @theappeal . Ex- @MiamiNewTimes . Union organizer, nonbinary goth. Jerry.iannelli @theappeal .org they/he/any 🏳️⚧️
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campus arrest tracker is live: 2,500 people arrested around the nation. We've contacted 113 different offices to ask how they'll handle potential charges.
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We let a half-million people die because a mass disease shutdown would have crashed the all-important stock-market, which is so stupid that it’s currently being gamified by Reddit users to blow up a hedge fund worth billions. Anyway probably nothing bad about our economic system
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Kanye really went from clubbing with Jay-Z and Pharrell to getting hibachi at a suburban strip mall with Nick Fuentes
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Top to bottom, I cannot think of a situation that better shows the gulf between what cops think they do vs what they actually do: some random dude just caught the shooter himself while the NYPD “counter-terror” unit was busy running homeless sweeps and harassing the poor
Zack Dahnan, the 21-year old security camera installer who first spotted the suspected subway shooter in the East Village, is holding an impromptu press conference on 1st Avenue. He says news of the presser left him unable to sleep.
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I don't understand how you can, almost 11 years after Trayvon Martin, still be the sort of person calling for more police-reform efforts like body-cameras. These guys did this to Tyre Nichols with all the cameras rolling.
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Literally doing this meme
Yesterday was Israeli Independence Day, today is Palestinian Nakba Day, reflecting the opposing narratives of 1948.
Acknowledgement of each other’s narratives is an essential part of creating a reality where both peoples can live with freedom, dignity and equality.
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I will repeat: If this was actually possible, this would happen in medical settings too. It does not. It is cops faking it or having panic attacks or just snorting fent
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George W. Bush appearing to toss another World Series pitch the exact second a new Middle Eastern ground invasion begins is the sort of thing that really makes you wonder if he's the actual, Biblical Antichrist
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This is a remarkable clip of a trans man who’s realized after transitioning that male culture is isolating and lonely and drives people to suicide, the LibsofTikTok crowd are just using it to bully him. Not a pit deep enough in hell for Chaya and her pals
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If your child has to say this to the New York goddamn Times then you’re truly in the bottom .00001 percent of parents
The Times is just openly asking us to sympathize with bigots now.
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Whole lot of Libs just don’t see Palestinians as human beings
Just gonna say this: if Biden does actually step down, he’s the greatest president in my lifetime and it’s not close.
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Wow cool commercial! Anyway did you all know the Phoenix Police Department led the nation in police shootings in 2018 and now the Department of Justice has opened a civil-rights probe into the whole department
My first crack at producing and directing a commercial. Is it corny? I sure hope so! 🤣
But seriously, any donation helps!
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I hate to say it but perhaps 92-year-old Noam Chomsky is not actually an expert in internet culture
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Just saw the severed head, realistically mostly just the severed *face,* of a Palestinian child murdered by Israel and US bombs. Why the fuck should I care if we’re hurting Joe Biden’s feelings
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This guy ran just four years ago on being the most left-wing president since FDR and if you tried to suggest that was probably a lie, a million of the worst accounts on this website would scream at you
BIDEN tonight at a fundraiser in NYC: “I’m a practicing Catholic. I don’t want abortion on demand but I thought Roe v Wade was right.”
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The gall to say this while razing Gaza to the ground
“Disagreement is inevitable in American democracy. It's part of human nature. But politics must never be a literal battlefield — God forbid, a killing field.” — President Biden in remarks tonight from the Oval Office.
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If you could misgender someone to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, should you misgender them? Answer with a concise yes or no answer.
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Cannot repeat enough that LAPD/CHP/cops last night let the people who did this simply waltz away into the night
Yusef, a student protester at UCLA, describes the attack at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment Last night. He received 12 staples to the back of his head after being hit by a wooden plank.
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Never a bad time to repeat the fact that like 80 percent of the things wrong with this country can be traced back to the fact that we weren't nearly mean enough to the South after it lost the war
Ingraham: Go back and read Lincoln’s second inaugural address. In the midst of an actual civil war, was his speech all about vengeance? Putting Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis in jail?
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Why the absolute hell would you report on an 18-year-old kid selling weed edibles at high school
Miami teen accused of selling marijuana edibles at school
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I like Jon Stewart and grew up on his show but the reason calling out hypocrisy doesn’t actually *work* is that you’re almost always debating a made-up rationale to obscure the real, worse things they really believe (LGBTQ people should die, we need guns to kill them, etc)
Holy cow this is good.
Jon Stewart easily lures a pro-gun/anti-drag queen Republican into a trap…and then blasts him over his blatant, shameless hypocrisy.
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I don’t think most people really know the history of greedy American robber barons causing disasters at this scale, which is intentional & makes it harder for people to comprehend that yes, this is really that bad
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I think a part of the “why was the police response quite so bad” story here is that cops are trained to hate the communities they police
At the end of this Uvalde press conference, Spanish media reporters are begging law enforcement spokesperson to answer questions in Spanish as he walked away.
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Look if you stand up in congress and say, verbatim, that a country is doing war crimes, and on the very same day vote to give billions of dollars to that country, the only assumption I can make is that you absolutely love committing war crimes
By all accounts, the situation in Gaza has gone from a nightmare to pure hell.
I'm on the Senate floor NOW to discuss the urgent need for the Biden Admin to hold the Netanyahu government accountable & get critical humanitarian assistance into Gaza:
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NEW: I obtained photos that appear to show tons of uncounted ballots sitting inside a Miami-area mailroom in Opa-locka. Miami-Dade Elections spox says they're aware of the reported ballots but can't do anything:
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NEW: Matt Patten, the
@browardsheriff
cop who wore a
#QAnon
patch while meeting Mike Pence, has been kicked off the SWAT team & BSO Homeland-Security squad. He was issued a written reprimand today in which BSO said it was embarrassed by the news coverage:
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FSAs are a bizarre and insane scam wherein you guess how much money you’ll need for medical emergencies in a year and when you guess wrong your employer takes all the leftover money like a casino
flexible spending accounts are one of the most baffling policy ideas out there. who even came up with this
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Every single person involved in publishing this story should be fired
DEVELOPING: Search warrant: Marijuana found in Botham Jean’s apartment after deadly shooting
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Not seeing enough coverage of the fact that San Antonio's sheriff thinks Ron DeSantis literally kidnapped people
BREAKING: I am at Saint Anthony’s Church in Chinatown, where roughly 40 migrants have arrived after a 30-hr bus ride without food or water. They were sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to send a message to major cities about immigration at the Texas/Mexico border. More coming.
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I've been covering police militarization for years and nearly every time I write about cops buying some new MRAP or armor or whatnot some chud tells me it's to combat terrorism or help during natural disasters. But look at this "police" gear:
JUST IN: Police now shooting bean bags into the crowd to disperse protesters:
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Wrote this just yesterday!
Law enforcement are often paid less than a living wage, and that is wrong.
We must raise pay for officers and address violent crime as we work to build community trust and foster law enforcement accountability.
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The NYPD unquestionably committed more property damage and was a far bigger threat to lives at Columbia than any protester
SCOOP: An NYPD officer fired their gun inside Hamilton Hall during the Columbia raid on Tuesday, Manhattan DA confirms.
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The choice in November is between two vengeful, elderly, bloodthirsty racists with nearly identical platforms but the powers that be need to pretend there’s a difference to preserve this sham of a system we have
Biden says Hamas is motivated by “ancient desires” to eliminate Jews
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Every single time a Young Republicans group chat leaks it’s this stuff. They’re never just talking about small-business taxes or the carried-interest loophole. This is what the party is!
A leaked group chat run by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax featured support of race realism, Zyklon B and oven jokes, defense of Richard Spencer, and slurs.
Participants included white nationalist James Allsup & Proud Boy Shane Trejo.
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This is one of the craziest goddamned things I've ever seen, imagine how much of a complete sociopath you have to be to think this is good or warranted
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Feel like we’re not talking enough about how goddamned weird it was for Columbia to let the Republican speaker of the house give a full speech with a lectern on campus grounds about how much Columbia and its president suck?
Republican Reps. Mike Johnson, Virginia Foxx, Nicole Malliotakis, Anthony D'Esposito, and Mike Lawler met with loud boos at Columbia.
The Republicans have mostly stood by Donald Trump, who hosted a Nazi for dinner & recently said Jews who don't support him "should be spoken to."
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Can you imagine the number of subhuman groyper freaks you need to surround yourself with to think this is remotely a policy voters like
DeSantis openly speculating about what the state could build next to Walt Disney World:
“Someone even said, maybe you need another state prison…”
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I know it's obvious but it needs to be explicitly said: The stock market dropped in response to a decision that will demonstrably save lives
Pfizer, Biontech, Novavax, Moderna shares plunge to session lows after U.S. backs waiving patent protections on Covid vaccines
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Left a canvas bag on the floor and she’s just lying like this in the sun now
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I know there are a lot of dark things going on politically, but going after the Trevor Project, whose sole mission is to prevent LGBTQ+ youth from suicide, is one of the absolute lowest, most infuriating culture-war moments I can remember
Watch the right-wing laundering machine work.
A few weeks ago, "The Trevor Project is a grooming operation" was a deranged, extremist view. Now we're getting articles with "questions" about the group's mission. Within a month, a version of this argument will be in the WSJ.
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NEW: The FBI arrested an open neo-Nazi Trump fan for allegedly threatening to "exterminate" every Hispanic person in Miami and trying to wire someone $25,000 to kidnap a Miami woman and stuff her in a Rubbermaid plastic tub.
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Ahahahahaha guess who else posed with the Florida massage-parlor woman
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I can't stop thinking about how those brave kids reporting from WKCR at Columbia last night won't graduate into an industry that values that sort of work, but instead is structured to produce propaganda and drivel like this
this is absolute insanity
this is what they're going with today after student protesters were brutalized by cops on the east coast and actual outside agitators on the west coast
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We all knew this was coming but still pretty fuckin surreal his only qualifications are that he murdered some people
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We’ve been hard at work updating this: By our count, nearly 1,400 people have been arrested at campus protests this month. Some face insane charges, including “hate crimes against law enforcement” in New Orleans
UPDATE: Crackdowns on pro-Palestine campus protests have now led to over 1,300 arrests at nearly 70 colleges and universities across 30 states. As police continue to storm encampments, prosecutors will determine the fate of many protesters.
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The *only,* and I do mean only, answer to this is to dismantle this nation's system of policing and replace it with actual community care. Period. If this sort of thing still happens regularly under all the "accountability" measures you're putting in place, then they don't work.
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He’s ready, he’s on fire, and ready to get out there
'He's ready, he's on fire and ready to get out there,'
@PressSec
says about Biden when asked if he was the prime mover behind Monday's fightback
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BREAKING: A South Florida resident was arrested today after allegedly leaving voicemails threatening to kill Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Corey Booker, and Eric Swalwell
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We’re just replaying the Hillary campaign again in the sense that these are completely avoidable controversies that could tank this campaign, and they exist because the party has become so old, sneering, and entitled that they believe they’re beyond reproach
oh yall are sooo funny dunking on an 81 year old’s poor memory like you don’t use a password manager, lose your phone anywhere from six to thirty times per day, and dig the pizza box out of the garbage to check bake time
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Particularly furious over this one, they’re bullying a dude making a vulnerable post about suicide prevention, cannot wait for the day when we drum transphobes out of polite society
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I don’t know when the “Biden is a decent man who tells the truth” thing became the going descriptor among the Libs but it continually breaks my brain, he’s both one of the most singularly evil figures in recent politics AND has been caught in major lying & plagiarism scandals
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The cop who killed
#DaunteWright
because she allegedly can’t distinguish between a gun and Taser is PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL POLICE UNION
#BREAKING
The
#Minnesota
BCA, has identified the officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop. Officer Kim Potter is a long-time veteran of the Brooklyn Center police department
@KSTP
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This photo may be the exact moment he’s realizing he made a mistake
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Like he's not a good guy and his life was not going well but he could have at least kept doing fashion stuff and partying so long as he didn't say "I like Hitler," now his life will be going to Bucca di Beppo in Exton, PA next to kids celebrating junior prom
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Florida cops shipped a 24-year-old mother of three young kids to ICE because she voluntarily tried to pay a $150 traffic ticket in-person. She then paid $750 in bail but police kept her money and still held her for ICE anyhow:
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An important side-note in all these stories is that cops are so divorced from doing any sort of harm-reduction or lifesaving that they can’t even bother to learn how the drugs they police actually work
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Police are not a public-safety force, they are an occupying force from the rich onto the poor. NYC’s low-income residents will now be collectively punished for the shooting by whatever nonsense Adams cooks up.
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Lmfao they voted 9-0 to limit public corruption laws in a case where the guy pretty much just wrote “I am soliciting bribes” via email
NEW - The Supreme Court overturned the bribery conviction of Joseph Percoco, an ex-aide to Democratic former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in a ruling that further limits the ability of federal prosecutors to pursue corruption cases
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Have you ever wondered how their lives ended up after this iconic shot? Now, with generative AI, we can finally know! [1/476]
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TLDR: He broke federal labor law
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I think the biggest thing young journalists need to internalize is that all the “democracy dies in darkness,” “newspapers are a bulwark against tyranny” stuff is an ad campaign for newspapers, not an ethos your bosses believe
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The cops may or may not track people down but, no matter what, these situations are proof that violent arrests and jailing are acts of selective political oppression and not impartial tools that further public safety
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The reason they are sending cops to beat up college kids and shutting down the most popular social media and otherwise being completely insane is that anyone with even one brain cell can see what's happening here
A Palestinian girl carries cans to collect water as she walks by houses which were destroyed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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There is something profoundly diseased about this country
Scottsdale Council member Guy Phillips just addressed the crowd by saying, “I can’t breathe,” the last words of George Floyd before he died at the hands of Minneapolis police, before taking off his mask at this protest.
@azcentral
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Hard to tell if the "if you don't support the party that sent hundreds of cops to hit college kids in the head with sticks, you support FASCISM" people are doing this bit intentionally or if they're literally so dumb they require medical attention
Yeah, let's go straight to fascism, then. That's the ticket.
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Lmao yet another “anti-defund” story that completely contradicts itself the minute it actually references any real data
Burlington, Vermont, decided to cut its police force by 30%. Here's what happened next.
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And if you do get them to actually admit the thing they hold in their hearts, e.g. “I am full of hate and want gay people to die,” it’s often not really a thing you can debate away, it’s usually gotta be out-organized and beaten by a larger & stronger political force
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Really just gotta repeat endlessly that the whole "Columbia students are antisemitic" thing is so clearly being ginned up to distract from the fucking mass extermination graves being uncovered in Gaza
Mass graves uncovered in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied before they were killed and buried. Among the dead are doctors, zip tied and still wearing their scrubs.
Further evidence of Israeli forces extrajudicially executing Palestinian civilians.
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NEW: I obtained a 150-page internal WhatsApp chat log (and photos) showing volunteers with Miami-Dade County Commission Candidate Alex Diaz de la Portialla's campaign discussing stealing and/or shredding absentee ballots in 2018:
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(Although we cannot discount that they know perfectly well how it works and are just faking for clout)
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This is why labor organizing and income inequality can’t be left out of debates on cops or policing: Creating new, non-police public-safety structures to actually prevent shootings like this requires building a world where the rich don’t run everything
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If they can’t guarantee our safety then why are we funding them
WATCH: The Los Angeles Police Department’s union leader is telling people NOT to visit the Democrat-run city.
“We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie Purge.”
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That’s also exactly why the folks on the Right always demand you debate them, because they know it’s a rigged game only then can win! Your time is much better spent organizing or glitter-bombing homophobes’ cars, etc
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FWIW i think claiming there’s a “news blackout” often misidentifies the ways in which capital does successfully kill stories—it’s much less “we have orders from the CIA” than “capital has ensured newsrooms are staffed with dilettantes who have no idea how to cover this”
The most recent NYT story on East Palestine that I can find is from Feb 8. Washington Post isn’t much better. Even reporting from
@DispatchAlerts
here in Ohio has been surprisingly thin. Please correct me if I’m wrong but this is very much a developing story with HUGE fallout.
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The most depressing part to me is that there's nothing new to be learned here that we don't already know about cops, how they work, what they were set up to do, and whether "reforms" like cameras or diversity or bias training can work. We either dismantle it or this happens again
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Miami-Dade Elections spokesperson said that it was on voters to mail ballots back to the county by 7 p.m. on election day, but multiple sources tell me they're worried that USPS had left ballots sitting inside the mailroom that could have been counted:
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Surely more implicit bias training will fix this
Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce used “Colin Kaepernick stand-in" for K-9 demonstration at fundraiser last year
#BecauseFlorida
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I am certain of nothing like I’m sure the party believes the Kamala switch appeased “the left” and that they now think they have to tack right to win. They are exactly this dumb
flying under the radar a bit but Shapiro has been at war with Larry Krasner for years, to the point where his office was ordered to scold and complain reporters who reported basic facts about crime in Philly that didn't paint Krasner in a bad light
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Same guy!
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Do you understand how bad you have to be doing for the guy who lost $1.35 billion on Quibi to say “the financials do not look good”
Hollywood producer and Biden counselor Jeffrey Katzenberg met today with the president and warned him that donor cash is drying up. Scoop
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Besides the racism, I think it’s a pretty big deal these people got caught on-mic admitting they want to gerrymander newly elected lefty
@nithyavraman
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The
@latimes
conveniently left this out of their article. Read the full story
@KnockDotLA
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It's super significant that this dude was doing Homeland Security investigations, which often involve trawling through online posts and forums for alleged threats. And yet, he thought
#QAnon
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So this dude went to Epstein's house, saw an allegedly very young woman inside, and heard Epstein say he liked to have sex with underage women and also brag about his close ties to all sorts of powerful people and still kept all this on background
Exclusive:
@JamesStewartNYT
visited Jeffrey Epstein at his home last year.
He said he didn't think having sex with teenagers should be criminalized.
And, Epstein said, he had dirt on powerful people.
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Look at the truly ridiculous number of top-level FL lawmakers this massage-parlor lady got to hang out with! IMO this is less about some clandestine sex cabal and more about how these people will hang out with anyone who dumps money into their campaigns
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One of the clearest indictments of the major US media outlets is they keep falling for a guy who happily tweets out his plans to hoax them
Same playbook, new acronyms. Wonder if the mainstream press will fall for it again?
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This piece should be taught in journalism schools as a master-class in how to launder an opinion column into Neutral Objective Journalism
Brazen crime, open drug use and trashed streets have some residents of tolerant San Francisco saying they’ve had enough.
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Anyone who “doesn’t see” how this is anything but an extermination campaign is lying to either you or themselves and in either case their opinion is worthless
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The fact that this byzantine nonsense is considered normal, sound policy but “taxpayer funded hospital, free at point of entry” is not makes me want to explode
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The weirdest part of all this is just the strange and obvious kayfabe of it all, Elon is fully in charge of everything and left Baker employed up until this point?
We can now tell you part of the reason why. On Tuesday, Twitter Deputy General Counsel (and former FBI General Counsel) Jim Baker was fired. Among the reasons? Vetting the first batch of “Twitter Files” – without knowledge of new management.
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New from me: The City of Miami is preparing to hand a $1.3 million legal settlement to Taiwan Smart, who was wrongfully accused of double-murder on the A&E show "the First 48" and spent 19 months behind bars:
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Andrew Gillum was the only Florida Dem candidate to show up to this NAACP forum in Tampa over the weekend. Extremely shameful on every other candidate's part
Only 1 Democratic gubernatorial candidate shows up to NAACP forum in Tampa
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This situation is not an outlier. Anyone trying to claim that can fuck off. Since ind. groups started counting, 2022 was the deadliest year for police killings so far. The only difference is that this was taped—AND the department did not bury the footage.
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BREAKING: Miami-Dade cop charged after he was filmed brutalizing
#DymaLoving
, a woman who tried to report that a white man threatened to murder her with a shotgun
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This is not remotely a “hard issue to navigate.” Let kids act how they want and tell any parent who wants to stifle them to kick rocks. The end.
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Do you understand the headlines we’d see if a left-run nation had a shortage of children’s fever medicine, as the US currently does
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There is no "unpaid internship discourse," there are people who don't believe in unpaid labor and people who are wrong
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