taylorlorenz

taylorlorenz, 1 day ago to random

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taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

"Dr. King said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Sadly, medically vulnerable people are under no illusion that the Democrats are any kind of friend. But their silence is surely loud and clear." https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/biden-cdc-silent-as-north-carolina

taylorlorenz, 2 days ago to random

"After 50 years of crime without punishment, in many ways the violent settlers and the state have become one" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/magazine/israel-west-bank-settler-violence-impunity.html

taylorlorenz, 4 days ago to random

“At some point — whatever the justification — you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/army-officer-resigns-gaza-israel.html

taylorlorenz, 5 days ago to random

Revealed: US university lecturer behind far-right Twitter account and publishing house. Guardian investigation identifies Jonathan Keeperman, a former lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, as ‘Lomez’ https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/far-right-twitter-identity-revealed

taylorlorenz, 5 days ago to random

SCOOP w/ @drewharwell: TikTok creators sue U.S. government over potential ban. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge to the new law, which creators say violates their First Amendment rights. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/tiktok-creators-lawsuit-ban/

taylorlorenz, 5 days ago to random

"The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/campus-gaza-protests-student-protesters-role-history

taylorlorenz, 6 days ago to random

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/peaceful-pro-palestinian-campus-protests

taylorlorenz, 6 days ago to random

“It explains why you get pathologized and called everything from a doomer to a snowflake for caring about anything but yourself” https://www.okdoomer.io/thebadguys/

taylorlorenz, 7 days ago to random

Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.

Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

taylorlorenz, 7 days ago to random

Arms manufacturers have embedded themselves in STEM programs across the country, creating engineering degree to defense industry pipelines. In 2020, the government gave more money to Lockheed Martin than the Department of Education https://inthesetimes.com/article/lockheed-martin-recruiting-military-industrial-complex-student-debt

taylorlorenz, 9 days ago to random

"Crushing the symbols of human creativity to produce a homogenized branded slab is pretty much where the tech industry is at in 2024" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/08/apple-ipad-ad-tim-cook-backlash/

taylorlorenz, 11 days ago to random

“We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

taylorlorenz, 11 days ago to random

“The point at which COVID proved it would continue to evade our vaccines was the point at which liberals (and many leftists) decided harming vulnerable people was ok, after all.” https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant

taylorlorenz, 13 days ago to random

MrBeast is cutting ties with Night media and taking personal control of his business https://www.semafor.com/article/05/05/2024/youtube-star-mr-beast--management-company-night-media

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

“The media loves talking to PR people when it comes to corporations,” Piker said. “They have no problem talking to the media liaison when it comes to the NYPD or the LAPD and writing down everything they say without even asking remotely contentious questions. But when it comes to students, they don’t treat these students as an organized entity at all.” https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

Twitch streamers are providing real-time unfiltered coverage of the student protests in a way that challenges mainstream media narratives. https://wapo.st/3y2WMp3

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

"The videos showed counterprotesters attacking students in the pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours, including beating them with sticks, using chemical sprays and launching fireworks as weapons. No arrests had been made in connection with the attack" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/us/ucla-protests-encampment-violence.html

taylorlorenz, 14 days ago to random

Even Elon is sick of her shit

taylorlorenz, 16 days ago to random

“‘Morning After the Revolution’ is an object lesson in irresponsible reporting.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/05/02/morning-after-revolution-nellie-bowles-review/

taylorlorenz, 17 days ago to random

“This CNN segment on Wednesday about the pro-Palestine student protest movement is one of the most jaw-dropping, poisonous pieces of propaganda I have ever seen on a U.S. news outlet.”
https://www.discourseblog.com/p/cnns-disgraceful-propaganda

taylorlorenz, 18 days ago to random

“The real reason for the protests is being ignored in favor of stories about encampment crackdowns or overblown allegations of antisemitism.” https://newrepublic.com/article/181107/college-protests-israel-gaza-media-coverage-shameful

taylorlorenz, 19 days ago to random

“The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees.” https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/why-im-resigning-from-the-intercept