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indie reporter, researcher, cutie pie🌻 100% funded by the people🌻tips: taliajane@protonmail.com🌻i am not talia lavin🌻 be good; i love you ❤️‍🔥🖤
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NEW: I found an unidentified Humans of New York interview about a guy who is extremely passionate about doling out his sperm like he’s working a drive thru. It was Jonathan Rinaldi, aspiring City Council candidate.
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handled the slam dunk: jta.org/2023/05/24/ny/
Screenshot of Humans of New York caption: "One lesbian couple drove up from Philly and I handed it off to them in the car. Not my favorite way to do it, but it works. That baby was born yesterday. And I've got another one being induced in six hours. That'll be my twelfth in two years. Then there's three more on the way. I'm what they call a 'known donor! It's a whole community, a whole thing: there's forums, websites, apps. It's like a parallel economy. A viable sperm sample is $700-just for a little bit. And the fertility treatments can be thousands. Not everyone can afford it; that's where I come in. Everything is kinda handshake. I don't charge the mothers. And they don't expect any financial support. As for the insemination-there's different ways of going about it. Some use IVF. But it's like fish. Fresh is better than frozen. Menstrual cups work well. I'd say 25 to 35 percent of the women l've actually had sex with. There wasn't romance, exactly. (CONTINUED)
Alt text continued on a photo from the Humans of New York interview of the unidentified man, who has since been ID’d as Jonathan Rinaldi. A couple times they'd never been with a male before. The last one said: 'Let's soldier up, and get it done! But not everyone meets my criteria. Some women want it to be anonymous; I don't want that. I want to be involved. I explain to each one: 'This child will be born into a larger family. I have eighteen other children! I'd like as many as God will give me. Why put your entire bloodline into one child when you can spread it out? Eighteen is a holy number in Judaism. And the next one is thirty-six, so I'll reassess then. My ultimate goal is to find two or three of the mothers who will be sister wives, because I'm gonna need help with all this. But I know one thing: it will never be boring. It will be fun. I play in a softball league. And I'm hoping twenty years from now, I'll be able to field an entire team of my kids." I 28.9K 12.9K comments
Photo of Jonathan Rinaldi from his Facebook page.
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borwin10
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Meet Joshua Isgrigg, a neo-nazi from Porterville, CA who was caught with 100+ lbs of bomb-making materials in 2020. But now he’s back on the streets and active with the neo-nazi WLM and Active Club networks in Sacramento, Porterville, and SLO county.
A man wearing a black had with a white Odal Rune, a black and white shirt featuing the Nazi War Eagle clutching a Swastika, military-style pants and a skull mask holds his right hand up in a Nazi Salute. There are three red arrows pointing down and to the left superimposed over the image.
a man in a black shirt and black had with an Odal rune on it gives a nazi salute out the window of a car.
A mugshot of a man, he has long hair with a receding hairline and a scraggly, wispy beard with a mustache that doesn't connect
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Derek Thompson
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It's possible that the current "Ron DeSantis is terminally online" meme isn't the real story, but rather the tip of a bigger iceberg, which is that a majority of self-ID Republicans have decided to live as brains floating in a warm bath of Internet
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Patrick Ruffini
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Top 8 of 15 Republican primary voter concerns in April. “Woke” is in 3 of these, with wokeness in schools at #4 and #2 in the rate of those who are extremely concerned.
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Talia Jane
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If daddy allows us to do Community Notes on accounts that have us blocked a certain far right propagandist known to stoke hate with inflammatory, deceptive, and frequently untrue rhetoric is gunna have a whole lot of those pop up on his tweets.
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Talia Jane
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Lmao wtf is “block automation”? I block extremists & harassers by hand. You telling me there’s a way to *automate* making my psycho cyberstalker leave me alone???
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2 arrests so far. Per footage, march had kept to the sidewalks as per NYPD threatening arrest if they took the street. The arrested photographer appears to have been detained on the sidewalk, per footage, but it’s not clear what led to his arrest.
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This week’s march falls on the 3-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, and intended to elevate and reflect on his death. At this same march last year, they took the street without issue. This year, NYPD has been consistently threatening arrests if people enter the street.
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NYPD SRG just arrested a photographer who was documenting a weekly peaceful march. The protest is small, roughly 10-15 people, and marches under a “We Reject Eric Adams” theme. All this month, NYPD has been unusually highly mobilized on this march. Working on more info now.
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IfNotNow🔥
@IfNotNowOrg
We welcome the fact that the admin has chosen NOT to center the IHRA def in its strategy for combatting antisemitism, & we hope its approach will continue affirming that antisemitism is deeply intertwined with other forms of oppression, including anti-Palestinian racism.
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“In a statement shared with Hyperallergic yesterday, Rodriguez said she believed her life was in danger. “All this has taken a toll on my mental health, robbing me of my sense of safety, and creating reasonable fear that they would show up at my home to cause me physical harm…”
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“In the weeks following Rodriguez’s confrontation with Students for Life of America, Rodriguez received “vile and hateful emails, texts, and voicemails.” Some of these messages…included threats of death and physical violence as well as racial, sexual, and anti-immigrant slurs.”
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A Hunter College adjunct was fired after confronting a conservative anti-abortion group. She has since faced prolific harassment & death threats & fear for her life. NYPD arrested HER on harassment & menacing charges after a NYPost reporter stalked her.
hyperallergic.com
Artist Shellyne Rodriguez Arrested in the Bronx
The former Hunter College adjunct who confronted anti-abortion activists faces charges of harassment and menacing for threatening a tabloid reporter.
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I’ll just keep going. It’s funnier this way, being underestimated by editors and loved by reporters both for being a funky lil freewheelin bumblebee pollinating all over.
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Imagine… if I was staffed…?
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NEW: I found an unidentified Humans of New York interview about a guy who is extremely passionate about doling out his sperm like he’s working a drive thru. It was Jonathan Rinaldi, aspiring City Council candidate. @jhenrynews handled the slam dunk: jta.org/2023/05/24/ny/
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Screenshot of Humans of New York caption: "One lesbian couple drove up from Philly and I handed it off to them in the car. Not my favorite way to do it, but it works. That baby was born yesterday. And I've got another one being induced in six hours. That'll be my twelfth in two years. Then there's three more on the way. I'm what they call a 'known donor! It's a whole community, a whole thing: there's forums, websites, apps. It's like a parallel economy. A viable sperm sample is $700-just for a little bit. And the fertility treatments can be thousands. Not everyone can afford it; that's where I come in. Everything is kinda handshake. I don't charge the mothers. And they don't expect any financial support. As for the insemination-there's different ways of going about it. Some use IVF. But it's like fish. Fresh is better than frozen. Menstrual cups work well. I'd say 25 to 35 percent of the women l've actually had sex with. There wasn't romance, exactly. (CONTINUED)
Alt text continued on a photo from the Humans of New York interview of the unidentified man, who has since been ID’d as Jonathan Rinaldi. A couple times they'd never been with a male before. The last one said: 'Let's soldier up, and get it done! But not everyone meets my criteria. Some women want it to be anonymous; I don't want that. I want to be involved. I explain to each one: 'This child will be born into a larger family. I have eighteen other children! I'd like as many as God will give me. Why put your entire bloodline into one child when you can spread it out? Eighteen is a holy number in Judaism. And the next one is thirty-six, so I'll reassess then. My ultimate goal is to find two or three of the mothers who will be sister wives, because I'm gonna need help with all this. But I know one thing: it will never be boring. It will be fun. I play in a softball league. And I'm hoping twenty years from now, I'll be able to field an entire team of my kids." I 28.9K 12.9K comments
Photo of Jonathan Rinaldi from his Facebook page.
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Talia Jane
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It’s extremely funny how I’m not staffed because I’m ~a lil rascal~ while my fingerprints, my research, my reporting end up on stories in nearly every major outlet.
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Rafael Shimunov
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Very great to see that the Biden White House did not fall for the right wing attempt to define criticism of Israel and Zionism as antisemitism. A campaign funded by bad people, for a long time. Now we can actually get on to fighting antisemitism.
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Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
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As orgs representing progressive Jews across the US on the frontlines of the fight against antisemitism, racism & white nationalism, we celebrate the Biden admin’s release of its National Strategy Document on antisemitism. Read our joint statement: jfrej.org/jointstatement
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Logos for: Jews For Racial & Economic Justice, Jewish Community Action, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, Detroit Jews for Justice, and Carolina Jews for Justice Six Local Grassroots Progressive Jewish Groups Respond to Biden Administration National Strategy on Antisemitism Progressive Jews applaud Administration’s incorporation of progressive recommendations, including not adopting controversial IHRA definition
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Talia Jane
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An actual road safety tactic is following behind the hazardous vehicle with your hazards on, creating a barrier between them and other vehicles. Granted, the people I observed do this were tailing their clunker with non-functioning head and taillights, but it is common sense.
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Talia Jane
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Obviously you shouldn’t ride a moped on the freeway but also obviously you shouldn’t swerve through 4 lanes of traffic chasing & obstructing someone who would potentially become critically injured or killed as a result of you wanting someone on a moped to get off the freeway.
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Talia Jane
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You can seed start produce you buy to avoid retail refrigeration! Take the seeds, put in between a folded paper towel, pop that into a ziplock, add water, toss in a drawer (out of sunlight), and forget they’re there for 2-3 weeks like I did with these tomatoes.
photo of baggie described above, labeled ‘jalapeños.’
photo of baggie described above labeled ‘tomatoes’ with visible sprouts and root tails
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Signed, A former linecook & grocery store worker who just finished dicing up a bunch of jalapeños that made me want to cry because they were murdered by retailer refrigeration.
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