The New Chris Rock: The Comedy Icon on Directing ‘Misty Green’ and Not Returning to the Oscars Unless He’s Nominated https://t.co/RxQx9D7PqV via @variety
I am completely heartbroken by the loss of Cassandra Wilson. Her body of work moved jazz into the modern era. Her voice touched my soul and her music dug into the roots and touched the sky. I'm grateful to have been a friend and missing her terribly.
One of the most beautiful voices in jazz has been silenced. I have known Cassandra Wilson for over 40 years from her early days in New Orleans before we both journeyed to NY. A innovative and creative woman with great musical power. A heartbreaking loss.
Thanks to Trump mass deporting immigrants, my mother has to wait until 2027 to see her new rheumatologist.
A reminder that rheumatology is a medical specialties where HALF OF ALL RHEUMATOLOGISTS HERE are foreign born. The pay isnt as high as cardiology, dermatology or surgery and US students have a ton of school debt to pay off. It’s also a very analytical field of medicine and American students are fucking dumb.
We RELY on immigrants for the field.
The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage.
Meanwhile, Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE is proudly deporting children to danger.
Doris Coulson wasn’t supposed to be fed solid food — Parkinson’s put her at risk of choking. The staff at Joseph Schwartz’s nursing home served it to her anyway. She died. Doctors found scrambled eggs in her lungs.
Her family sued and won nearly $19 million. Schwartz never paid.
Schwartz ran a $39 million tax fraud scheme through his nursing home chain — money that should have gone to employee payroll taxes. He didn’t donate to a campaign. He paid a lobbyist $100,000, filed on federal disclosure forms, for one stated purpose: “federal presidential pardon advocacy.”
Three months into his sentence, Trump pardoned him. The Coulsons still haven’t seen a dime.
In 2005, as San Francisco DA, Kamala Harris created an Environmental Justice Unit to prosecute environmental crimes, including illegal dumping. Her office was holding businesses accountable for environmental violations long before she became VP.
[Source SFgate June 1, 2005]
🚨 Ohio cops handcuffed a 14-year-old Black boy sitting on his front porch, claiming he “matched the description” of a man suspected of stealing cars.
But once they arrested the real suspect, he looked nothing like the child they had detained.
https://t.co/AAhkoiy1sC
🚨NEW YALE STUDY: “A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace…”
Ok, now what’s y’all’s excuse? 🤔 #MedicareForAllNOW
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South Carolina let anyone 65 or older vote by mail for any reason at all.
Everyone younger had to bring a signed note from their boss, eleven days before Election Day.
Five voters sued over it.
One of the three federal judges who heard the case was put on the bench by Trump.
https://t.co/GWDu8qwnHv
In 2020, 13-year-old Callum Manning from South Shields, England, created an Instagram account for one simple reason. He loved books and wanted somewhere to share his reviews.
At the time, the page had around 50 followers.
Then some students at his new school found it.
Instead of encouraging him, they created a group chat and mocked him for reading, calling him names like “creep” and “sad weirdo.” Callum was added to the chat and had to watch the messages appear himself.
It hurt more than he expected. He later said it was the first time in a long while that he had actually cried.
His 24-year-old sister, Ellis, decided to do something. She shared what had happened online, hoping maybe 20 or 30 of her friends would follow Callum and leave a few kind comments.
That wasn't what happened.
Within days, Callum went from around 50 followers to hundreds of thousands.
Authors including Neil Gaiman, Malorie Blackman, Matt Haig and Caroline Kepnes reached out. Publishers offered him books. Waterstones encouraged him to keep reviewing and offered him a free book when he next visited.
And Callum kept reading.
The account that classmates had mocked became the place where hundreds of thousands of people came to hear what a 13-year-old thought about the books he loved.
His sister had only wanted a few people to remind him that there was nothing embarrassing about loving books.
She found an entire community waiting to tell him the same thing.
A pregnant mom with a 7 year old daughter are trapped in Dilley detention center while trying to self-deport. They have been begging @SenKatieBritt to intervene. She has not responded to the lawyers repeated requests.
She did find time to go on Fox & slur people though.