Arts Worker, Activist, Organizer, Actor, Artist, Coach, and person who genuinely believes meaningful systemic change is possible. he/him
New York City
Joined October 2009
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Rest in peace and power Patrick. You were a model of professionalism, kindness, ability, skill, talent, and luminescence.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
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🚨HOLY CRAP:
Turn this off on your phone right now.
Go to your iPhone settings - accessibility - audio & visual - LIVE LISTEN.
Turn off LIVE LISTEN.
It even says it keeps TRANSCRIPTS.
This is NUTS.
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Every day. EVERY. Damn. Day. There's another scandal, crime, or issue that would have completely ended any other person in public life. We will spend the rest of our lives trying to find out how and why this particular person spent the majority of their lives with utter impunity.
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It's fucking crazy that an investigation exposing how Jared Kushner laundered billions if dollars through Azerbaijan, including payments to a warlord, a mercenary, and a hitman, isn't getting more attention.
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Late stage capitalism is when people who bought up property and fucked the housing market go on strike because they can’t force their guests to do domestic labor
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There is something deeply wrong with a political system that allows one trillionaire to buy his own personal U.S. Senator.
This is nuts. Neera and company won't stop tweeting about Piker. Journalist interviews them to ask them why they won't stop talking about Piker. Neera and company point to the question itself and ask, "Why are YOU talking about Piker so much!?"
What I find meta about this whole discourse is @mehdirhasan attacking everyone for talking about a streamer in California when he constantly asks people about him and then pushes out the videos. I pointed this out in my conversation with him at Georgetown when he asked me about Piker. Seems kinda hypocritical
Every election for the last decade, I have seen video footage of people trying to vote for the Democrat and the Republican nominee gets the check-mark on the screen. Now we live beyond the looking glass in AI video land. But this shit happening every few years is just maddening.
We are deliberately handicapping our ally and and aiding and abetting a recognized authoritarian expansionist aggressor. This would be unimaginable ten years ago. This is beyond nuts.
Latest: Zelenskyy tells reporters over WhatsApp that restrictions on Ukraine's Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone."
He says Ukraine has done tests to determine whether SpaceX is truly facing technical issues, as has been told Kyiv by the US side, or if this is a "deliberate operation... to restrict us, cut us off, and prevent us from defending ourselves and protecting our people, both at the front and among the civilian population."
He says Ukraine "sent a couple of vehicles equipped with Starlink terminals into European Union territory."
"They moved at speeds exceeding 180kph, and the Starlink systems worked perfectly. We have the relevant logs and evidence to prove this."
He adds: "The conclusion is clear: the restrictions are in effect within Ukraine but do not apply within the European Union. In other words, this is a planned operation."
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« L’oppression avance plus vite que notre capacité à comprendre ce qui nous arrive et c’est là toute la force de la machine à penser impériale. Il est plus facile de cacher une atrocité au milieu de quarante autres que de n’en commettre qu’une seule. »
— Nemik dans ANDOR
This. THIS 100%. It's the most evil act of the 21st Century so far. Maybe one of the most evil acts in the history of the world.
Alex Gibney: “There was an estimate that what [Elon Musk] did by suddenly cutting USAID would cost through disease and starvation as many as 14M lives. Even if you discount that, we know within a year of those cuts where they were literally burning food going to starving children, 500K children died. This is really a crime against humanity, but he makes a joke about it, I put USAID into the woodchipper. What he put into the woodchipper were children”
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Ukraine spent 5 years developing their defense from Russia around Starlink, and last night, Musk cut it off to help Putin.
This morning, the halls of power in Europe need to understand that Musk, Trump and Putin aim for total dissolution of democracy, and the primary target is Europe.
Hey @benshapiro, you should release him from the project.
Oh damn Boston. Coming in hot. You know, it’s been too long since I’ve visited. Gotta get up there this year. Cheers indeed.
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I am angry tonight.
Because today ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car.
ICE makes this city less safe.
We want them out. Now.
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ICE OUT OF NEW YORK
🚫 Out of our schools
🚫 Out of our hospitals
🚫 Out of our communities
🚫 Out of New York. Period.
When he “won” in 2024, he repeatedly, explicitly, said “We rigged the election”. No journalist ever asked him what he meant. Everyone always assumes he’s misspeaking instead of confessing.
