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Strando Calrissian retweeted
in 2025 *alone*, the Dem-led @cbuscitycouncil’s approved tax abatements cost our local school district $84 million.
you can absolutely chide the GOP statehouse for gutting public ed spending, but don’t let Dems off the hook for making shit worse for our schools all on their own!
Columbus schools could see more staff cuts, closures and a potential levy to address deficit
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Strando Calrissian retweeted
Is the Dispatch merely a stenographer for the Columbus Way?
Despite 20+ people who testified in support of the Our City Our Say proposal (in line w/ 23,000 residents who signed the petition), not a single one of their voices was worth elevating in this article from @LairdWrites.
Labor, NAACP leaders weigh in on Columbus City Council overhaul dispatch.com/story/news/poli…
Strando Calrissian retweeted
Stop laundering their reputations for them. We all saw how they were willing facilitators of genocide with our own eyes. They belong in The Hague.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
here is Mamdani's entire speech at the Knicks parade, which is easily the best speech I've ever heard at an event of this sort
Strando Calrissian retweeted
Claiming The Rooster " ambushes officeholders" is a bit over the top. Maybe if so called journalists in this city did their job and approached our elected officials with some of the same energy and vigor as DJ, it would help clean up and expose the never ending corruption at the statehouse, City Hall, and OSU.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.
Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.
Read the report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
Strando Calrissian retweeted
Today's Supreme Court decision is a direct assault on the promise of the Voting Rights Act. It risks disenfranchising millions of Americans along racial lines and weakening the very foundation of our democracy.
Democracy is not self-sustaining. We must build, preserve, and defend it together.
Here in New York City, we will always lead a government of, by, and for the people — all of the people.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, weakening a landmark voting rights law’s protections against discrimination in redistricting. apnews.com/article/supreme-c…
Strando Calrissian retweeted
You know what, Ben? Since the Obama admin bombed an Afghan hospital, burned dozens of patients alive in their beds, lied about it repeatedly, blocked an independent investigation, then gave the killers a slap on the wrist, maybe you're not really in a position to get moralistic.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
I am outraged by the despicable, cowardly attacks against Muslim New Yorkers in Bay Ridge last week—one of which was on a 12-year-old girl. This violence is unacceptable, and we know that all too often visibly Muslim, hijab-wearing women and girls bear the brunt of it.
Muslim New Yorkers deserve to live with safety and dignity, and to be able to walk our streets free from harassment, threats, or harm. Islamophobia has no place in our city, and violence or intimidation against Muslim New Yorkers is unacceptable.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
Massive respect to @DropSiteNews. This is why supporting independent journalism is so critical right now.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
God-tier reaction gif just dropped
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Strando Calrissian retweeted
Venezuela has nothing to do with OxyContin, the drug that Andrew Witkoff reportedly overdosed on and died from in 2011.
OxyContin was created, marketed, and aggressively pushed by Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family. In the United States, over 500,000 people have died from opioid overdoses since 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Venezuela does not produce OxyContin, does not control its supply chain, and played no role in the Sackler-driven opioid epidemic.
The crisis was fueled by Purdue’s false claims about addiction risk and mass over-prescription by U.S. doctors. No member of the Sackler family faced criminal charges or prison time. In exchange for multibillion-dollar civil settlements, they secured broad legal immunity from future opioid lawsuits. No Sackler even admitted wrongdoing.
Yesterday my family would have been celebrating my brother Andrew’s 37th birthday. Instead, he’s gone, overtaken by a drug overdose
Drug overdoses are a national catastrophe and now the #1 killer of Americans ages 18–45
It’s surreal that on Andrew’s birthday, President Trump successfully captured Nicolás Maduro, an illegitimate narco-terrorist dictator with an active U.S. arrest warrant since the Biden administration. His drug networks have helped poison an entire generation of Americans
Anyone who defends Maduro is turning their back on tens of millions of American families afflicted by this drug overdose crisis every single day
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Andrew Witkoff died from an OxyContin overdose. OxyContin is an opioid and was developed by Purdue Pharma. OxyContin is not related to Venezuela or President Maduro, who is accused of trafficking cocaine into the US. Cocaine is a stimulant, not an opioid.
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Strando Calrissian retweeted
After racist attacks from Trump and the White House, Somali Americans are flipping the script by parodying pro-Israel talking points and joking that Minnesota was promised to them 3,000 years ago.
Video: AJ Plus
⭕️ Rep. Summer Lee Condemns Trump’s Attack on Ilhan Omar and Somali Community
@RepSummerLee blasted Donald Trump after he called Somali immigrants “garbage” and labeled Rep. Ilhan Omar “garbage” during a White House press event, saying his remarks “put a target” on Omar, her family, and her community. Lee warned that this rhetoric has real consequences, noting that a Minnesota lawmaker was killed this year in an act of political violence.
Strando Calrissian retweeted
In our latest, @realLandsEnd & @tracyrosenthal_ are joined by Lara Sheehi & @reproutopia of @wawog_now to discuss withholding cultural production as political action and why they organized a boycott to refuse to write for the New York Times Opinion section
on.soundcloud.com/DgEAPtszHs…
