'Frank’ comes from the Medieval Latin ‘francus,’ meaning “free.”
So, to be frank is to be marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression.
‘France’ and ‘franchise’ also come from the same root word.
Nobody apologizes anymore, They just disappear and call it moving on. Accountability died somewhere between pride and ego. People would rather lose someone than admit they were wrong.
We've normalized walking away instead of working through it. Communication became optional, ghosting became the standard response to discomfort. Even closure isn't guaranteed anymore, people just leave you with questions and call it self care. Growth without honesty isn't growth, it's just avoidance wearing a better outfit.
we was stuck in the 181st 1 train station for 30 mins. literally a packed elevator with at least 15 ppl. it very hot and little oxygen had to breathe slow and stay calm. this station has no staircase. now i’m hearing @MTA wants to raise the fair AGAIN?
While Mamdani’s team continues to post cute pr fluff, his NYPD commissioner is targeting Palestinian humanitarian fundraising/mutual aid and Arab/Muslim Americans who support it. This is the context in which the Mayor’s racist ‘antisemitism task force’ needs to be understood.
The genocide of Jewish people called “holocaust”
The genocide of the Irish people called “famine”
The genocide of Native Americans called “discovery”
The genocide of Africans called “colonization”
The genocide of Palestinian called “self-defense”
The genocide of Lebanese called “security threat”
Language matters. A genocide is unjustifiable wherever happens. Never again
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Just so I don’t got to answer this question anymore. There is no other surgery for me to get besides a joint replacement. If I get a joint replacement, I can’t play with it and my career is over. So it will be wrapped until I retire ✊🏽
Jewish New Yorkers are not facing any structural racism - instead, the most rich and powerful among them often are part of structures of oppression especially against Arabs & Muslims; the last three years of the genocide of Palestinians have been testament to this. And is there a taskforce on anti-Muslim racism? Anti-Black racism?
If the attempt here is to appease Zionist Jewish communities (at the expense of the safety of others bc of how antisemitism is defined & used), it won’t do anything because inherent to the ideology of Zionism is the dehumanization of people like the Mayor here.
What a shame - not that this mayor upholds the frames that dehumanize our communities but that sycophants will do nothing but cheer him on.
Vanilla ice cream has three legal names. The difference is a word or two on the front of the carton. Under FDA's ice cream standard, it's vanilla ice cream when there's no artificial flavor in it. It's vanilla flavored ice cream when there's some artificial flavor but the natural vanilla flavor predominates. When the artificial flavor predominates or is the only flavor, it has to say artificially flavored vanilla ice cream.
The rule only sorts natural flavor from artificial. Vanillin, the main flavor compound in vanilla, can be made by fermenting other plant material and still count as natural, which puts it in the same category as the bean. In 2020 a federal judge in New York dismissed a suit over Wegmans vanilla ice cream. The front said natural vanilla flavor, and the list had no vanilla beans or extract. The judge said a buyer wants ice cream that tastes like vanilla.
If you want vanilla from the bean, look for vanilla extract or vanilla beans in the ingredient list.
More importantly: what incentive does any politician have to fight for the promises that got them elected if their own political base preemptively excuses them from doing so?
His opponents aren’t doing that. They pressure him relentlessly for what THEY want.
Why shouldn’t we?