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“In race talk the move into mainstream America always means buying into the notion of American Blacks as the real aliens. Whatever the ethnicity or nationality of the immigrant, his nemesis is understood to be African American.”
- Toni Morrison
(On the Backs of Blacks)
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I look back at what happened to me and still struggle to comprehend it.
I defended women’s rights. I supported JK Rowling. I raised concerns about the medical treatment of children questioning their gender and the influence of commercial interests.
Then came serious allegations, investigations and BBC coverage that I felt presented a deeply unfair picture of me. I even sought advice about an injunction.
The first investigation cleared me, yet I apologised. A second investigation followed, with lawyers involved.
After resigning, I lost the company I had founded and built over seventeen years, a company bearing my own name. I also lost access to my company email, phone and family photographs. The professional and personal consequences were devastating.
I stand by my defence of women’s rights and my concern for children.
When I think about my experience alongside those of Denise Fahmy, Kate Clanchy, Rachel Rooney and other artists, I see a culture in which expressing a belief can put an entire career at risk.
Against the backdrop of allegations concerning prominent men in entertainment, I keep thinking about how the arts respond to questions of harm and responsibility.
Where was that care when women were losing work for defending our rights and raising concerns about children?
How the fuck did we get here?
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They rezoned the area around Barclays Center, promised affordable housing, failed to deliver it on schedule, and faced no penalties for the delays.
Meanwhile, Brooklyn got more luxury apartments, rising rents, and displacement.
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A CBS Mornings Exclusive: The University of Mississippi freshmen who captured the viral video of two white students making monkey gestures and sounds outside their apartment door speak out for the first time. The students and one of their mothers tell @Jerickaduncan how they feel now that one of the students involved has voluntarily withdrawn from the school.
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Jamie Reed @JamieWhistle sued @WashingtonUniv last week for retaliating against her after she exposed its pediatric sex trait modification practice.
When she blew the whistle in 2023 she was working in Wash U's pediatric hematology and oncology department. Her colleagues festooned her work area with 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ and made it impossible for her to take vacation days. Campus baristas refused to serve her ☕️. At a Wash U lecture, the organizer called her out from the stage and demanded she leave. Faculty denigrated her on a Wash U website and implied sex trait medicine was "evidence-based" 🤭
There's one more piece of whistleblowing I hadn't known about ...
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Happy 57th birthday @sesamestreet 💚💛
Fun fact: my dad was the original Gordon on this iconic show. I remember when it premiered on this day, November 10, 1969.
I was five and so excited about my daddy’s new job.
He wasn’t really supposed to be on camera.
He was hired as a consultant because the show was created to reach Black and Brown children who weren’t used to seeing themselves on TV
He stepped in when an actor dropped.
And he made the show sing!!
I miss him so much.
Rest In Peace, daddy 🕊️
#MatthewRobinson
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It is genuinely insane that laws based on reality are being changed based on what people like to wear.
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as texas attorney general, ken paxton offered a plea deal to waco pedophile that required him to only serve one day in prison
the "justice system" is just a slave trade that traffics black and brown people into private prison labor camps
Family members of a Texas teen crashes out in court as judge sentences him to 25 years in prison for robbing a convenience store.
Judge Raquel West sharply criticizes 18-year-old Caden James Fontenette before handing down the sentence
“There was a time some years ago that there really wasn't even a question. State's attorneys were recommending youthful offenders probation. Let's give everybody an opportunity” West said.
“You don't have a good likelihood of being successful if I were to put you on probation, I'm going to sentence you to a term of 25 years.”
NO TF HE ISN'T!!!
Of all the actors who’ve recently screen-tested to become the next 007, he’s the most off-the-wall pick—and the best one. vogue.com/article/the-case-f…
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i've been so depressed writing about over $1 Billion in FEMA grants going disproportionately to synagogues and Chabad centers for "security", and only now realized that these grants started the same year as Hurricane Katrina.
There are still people displaced from Katrina.
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my client that came from skid row told me hollywood actors will come by the shelters to drop off clothes for the people who needed it & the social workers & supervisors will take them 🙃
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The Supreme Court has vacated the 10th Circuit Court’s ruling in favor of a trans-identifying male inmate who sued after being placed in a men’s prison. The lower court has been ordered to consider the issue again, giving weight to recent Supreme Court decisions, one of which directly stated that “men and boys are not women and girls, not even when they think they are.” In other words, SCOTUS told them to try again, and make a better decision this time.
This is fantastic news for women, and comes as something of a relief in the wake of the midterms. Even if the Democrats take the White House and Congress in 2028, the Supreme Court is unlikely to reverse itself. A woman is an adult human female, both in fact and under US law, and no amount of trans melodrama can change either one. It will take a shift in the makeup of the court for men to be able to legally identify as women in this country, and that won’t happen anytime soon.
This is a joke, right?
Her daddy's name and money certainly contributed greatly to all the doors opened to her.
The more I criticize David Ellison and his moves at Skydance, the more fascinated I become by the contrast with his sister, Megan Ellison who is a prominent Hollywood producer, a four-time Oscar nominee, and the founder of Annapurna Pictures. Megan managed to build her own identity in the industry without relying on her father's or brother's corporate empire. She established her own production company and earned her reputation by financing and championing ambitious, auteur-driven films while collaborating with some of the industry's most respected filmmakers.
She made a name for herself entirely on her own terms, without having to inherit or take over the family business to establish her credibility, because David sure as hell didn't. Maybe David could learn a thing or two from his sister to be a respected producer, but I seriously doubt he genuinely cares.
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Last winter, when D.C. was one giant ice sheet, I saw an older lady slip & hit her head outside of Union Station. The absolute least I could do was lend her a hand and help her inside to get some medical attention. I vaguely remember she asked for my name and office I worked for.
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Sally Sargent (1968)foi apenas um episódio piloto rejeitado pela rede de TV norte-americana CBS e foi lançado nos cinemas no final de 1969.
Sally Sargent, uma estudante adolescente do ensino médio e agente secreta nos vibrantes anos 60!
