@johnmccrory
Dance to protest. Twirl your umbrellas. Make balloon animals. Put a daisy in the barrel of the soldier's gun. Me: Poet. Content Strategist & UX. Ultimate frisbee dad. Montclair citizen. New JerseyYorkHampshire.
62.5% of the remaining 400 provisional votes (if they all count) would need to be YES for question 2 to pass. Seems unlikely based on the current pecentages across Montclair. But anything is possible!
Question 1 on 1-time tax increase to cover last year's deficit passes; Question 2 on a permanent increase is currently 4934 yes votes vs 5032 no votes — a gap of 98 more no votes out of nearly 10K cast.
Why can't they think for themselves? Those Republican elected officials facing constituents angry about ICE warehouse detention center concentration camps are being coached on what to say by DHS.
...a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.
ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on e.xclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said
More receipts:
"A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.”
AI has already violated the prime directive. And it's just a baby.
Republican lawmakers said it was deeply troubling to see the local teachers union partner with organizers of a protest that compared the Roxbury ICE facility to the Holocaust.
We're paying more for gas so we can bomb schools AI named as targets while spiking our electricity bills.
AI is limited by its dependence on abstraction. "The model is their reality." It's the mistake of metaphor: you use a metaphor to illuminate a thing by referencing an analogy, then you forget the thing and only see the analogy.
@wxpnfm.bsky.social's Dan Reed playing Shock the Monkey performed by _Don Ho_ reminds me of Barbara Streisand's cover of Bowie's Life on Mars on her 1974 album Butterfly.
Anyone can understand a poem one line long. It's universal.
they double-tapped a fucking girls elementary school
A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.
the age we live in
A graffito written in ink where the interpretive panel was removed shows an image of George Washington with a speech bubble saying "I cannot tell a lie. I, George Washington, "owned" human slaves on this very spot. President Trump doesn't want you to think about that. Isn't that great?!"
A wall at The President's House historic landmark in Philadelphia, showing interpretive displays removed.
"In nearly a year since Trump’s order, National Park sites have responded by removing exhibits that address slavery and the challenges overcome by minority and marginalized groups, as well as signs about the science of climate change."
Efforts to erase and whitewash history don't just happen. There are methodical plans. There is collaboration. There are receipts.
Now is the time to reimagine the immigration system we want as the singular nation that welcomes people who yearn for democracy, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” — Mark Twain
The painting came to the museum in 1952.
I don't know if Sister Jean made it or if it was the work of another Medical Mission Sister (they're based in Philadelphia). But this needlepoint, which I always liked and thought of as sort of a kitsch Picasso, has a much deeper meaning to me now.
In 1944, Jacob was arrested in France by the Gestapo. He died at an internment camp on the way to Auschwitz.
Painted in 1921, the picture is now like a memorial. Apollinaire had died three years earlier of flu, also weak from being wounded by shrapnel in the Great War.
In Philly, I learned the painting is a portrait of Picasso with two of his closest friends. On the right is Max Jacob, Jewish poet and painter in the giarb of a monk. In the middle, poet Guillaume Apollinaire as the sad clown Pierrot. On the left, as Harlequin, is Picasso himself.
Background: Sometime in the 1960s or 70s, Sister Jean Lorenz, a Catholic nun in the order of the Medical Mission Sisters gave this needlepoint to our family. A good friend of my Mom and Dad, she was an artist and medical illustrator who worked in a psychiatric hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
Needlepoint of Picasso's Three Musicians (1921)
This needlepoint hangs on the wall of my home office. Last week at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I saw the Picasso painting it portrays, "Three Musicians," and learned something I didn't know.
How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
ICE loses track of kids it kidnaps and industry benefits from family separation. Excellent reporting by Susan Du of the @startribune.com
Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
There isn't water, there is not waste water capacity.
If you live in Mt Olive, Stanhope, Netcong, Hopatcong, Mt. Arlington, Roxbury, Byram, Jefferson
The proposed #Roxbury ICE concentration camp would be 4 times the size of Delaney Hall.
The infrastructure isn't designed for that.
ICE's detention and internment camp plans reveal intent to hold tens of thousands in warehouses that were designed for storing goods and materials, not people.