Aid Worker Jezebel

Former aid worker and whistle blower. Big on urban homesteading, shit shows, dissociating. Recovering, sometimes.

[El Norte Recuerda @Vanessid]

That this “Woke 1” conversation is happening on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, the death that kicked off Ferguson and Black Lives Matter, which coincided with Gazans supporting protestors on how to deal with tear gas … Americans have such a short memory.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

Remember when we were screaming "They are doing more more than reading license plates!" and everyone went:

"You're crazy! They just looking for stolen cars!"

🤦‍♂️

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

THEYRE USING OUR DATA TO MASSIVELY SUPPRESS WAGES AND THIS ISNT HEADLINE NEWS WTF

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

One side is a convicted felon married to a former nude model. The other is a Michigan-born doctor married to a psychiatrist.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed on Trump posting an image of him and his wife in a restaurant with the caption "two VERY DIFFERENT Americas": "He's right. One in which your overlords are two people who don't like each other but joined in the interest in making billions of dollars off of you, or two people who genuinely love each other enjoying some pancakes together ... "

[Lance Cooper @lmauricecpr]

Black people don’t hang themselves from trees so high up that a ladder is required to reach them behind a random vacant house in a state with the highest number of lynchings in the country. Tasia Fortune was lynched.

[Boxy @ClassicBoxy]

I was a 911 dispatcher for 11 years and this is the worst idea you could possibly think of. You have scenarios where the person can’t speak well either language barriers, injuries or if they’re in a domestic situation and they pretend to call for pizza or something you need a person. You have to be able to determine how someone feels or pick up on what they aren’t saying or how they’re saying things. Same goes for open lines and hang ups. A real person needs to answer the phone not only to ensure the correct response is sent to the right place but to offer piece of mind to the caller and makes them feel safer. Situations where I had to give CPR instructions to a mother and father who’s baby wasn’t breathing was a constant occurrence and you have to be able to calm people down, an AI is not doing that ever. Same goes for dispatching calls, AI cannot do that, in theory it sounds ok for that portion but you have to acknowledge what resources are on hand, where people are, GPS isn’t always accurate so when we started using systems to automatically reroute units who were flagged as “closer” they usually weren’t. But a real person who lives in that county and knows the area, where the stations are, who’s in a move up or coverage or areas that are blocked off due to events that aren’t always in our mapping systems. The list goes on.

Terrible idea

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If someone made this exact same statement -- but replaced "Muslim" with "Jew" -- their career would not only be instantly and permanently destroyed, but their families, banks, communities and employers would be relentlessly hounded until they were denounced, disowned and banned.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

Never seen a concave forehead before. Looks like a Direct TV with a body.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “They say oh he campaigned with Hasan Piker. Who gives a shit? Tough titties, get over it. All of you are campaigning with JD Vance, Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, etc. Go fuck yourselves. Look at the monsters running this country into the ground”

[Naomi Klein @NaomiAKlein]

So NYT reports that Third Way is spending $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.”

Except that is not their real fear. Their real fear is that the left will go on to *win* the general election, and, like Mamdani in NYC, prove that the left can govern. They are willing to throw the general election to Republicans by smearing the left and dividing and demoralizing the Dem base to avoid that outcome.

How do we know they are willing gamble in this way? Because that's how Trump won the first time.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “ICE is not very old, it’s 15 years younger than I am. It was a bad experiment, it’s been weaponized to do the worst things and I think we need to abolish it and start from scratch perhaps going back to something like the INS which for a very long time very capably enforced immigration policy without shooting Americans and violating our civil liberties”

[Katie Klocksin, by the wayside @KatieKlocksin]

“If we were really becoming an immune compromised society there would be signs.”

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

In June I asked El-Sayed about Rs potentially using his whole name (or the fact that his brother is named Osama) against him.

His answer:

“I hope that they will. Yeah, my name is Abdul. I’ll say the whole thing: Abdulrahman Muhammad El-Sayed, and I want you to have health care, because you know what? Chances are, you probably had a doctor you trust with a name like mine.”

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

🔥 @hasanthehun popped the fuck off here: "Everyone being like, 'Abdul has a fuck-ton of work to do mending bridges', here's the fucking take nuke for you: You are all unbelievably Islamophobic pieces of shit. You literally called the dude a fucking terrorist for months on end and called him a sexist, misogynist, terrorist, bad candidate, fake doctor when he has two fucking degrees. And now you're going to say sit there and be like, 'you really gotta come to me now.' What are you talking about? Do you wanna win or not? LOCK THE FUCK IN."

[G.T @gingerrtom]

let them die bro.

[Message From HR @hidzdotfm]

Did you mean the British Empire who gave you the land for free, or the American Empire paying for your meds and missiles?

[manic pixie mean girl 🔪 @anikatineaddict]

he was literally driving my neighborhood’s kids to church at this date and time