@davidnjoku @mekkaokereke In Brussels you have 10 ticket inspectors (with security one their backs) with 10 police officers (meta security) checking for tram ticket *cheats*.Yet a train can be functioned with one person.Its one of my sports to remind the police that their bosses are part of a process wasting over 500 EUR an hour to identify the poorest persons on the network.Im certain these stats get dumped into local policing statistics - as opposed to real community protection.

NGL, this goes hard?Pollsters say Hochul is now +2 in NYC, Buffalo, and Rochester, +6 in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens, and +20 with Black voters! When asked for comment, Hochul's staff offered the Post coupons to buy more barrels of red ink, and high resolution photos of Hochul in various berets posing with Mamdani.All jokes aside, for any voter smart enough to know that Mamdani is not an antisemite, this is a positive campaign boost for young New York voters that Hochul couldn't buy with any amount of money.This distances her from the Do-nothing Dems, and takes the edge off of her more unpopular cop overfunding positions.H/T to brilliant journalist Marisa Kabas

While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.‍️

The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it.Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment.And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.

@pixplz I think Newsom has qualified that statement, saying the "work" he wants continued is debate and discussion.That's me saying the globalization of Newsom's comments isn't what he actually said (AFAIK).But Kirk was a hatemonger and IMO his "debate" furthered that hate with practically every word, so I personally don't think Newsom gets much credit for being specific with his comments.

Tough!The New Zealand Black Ferns are just too good.Beating Ireland 40 - 0 in the women's rugby world cup is not easy to do.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_dcryqjPOKo

Do not disrespect Korean people.They're with us.I said what I said about where the Asian hate was really coming from: White nationalists.These people have explicit policy goals to reduce the number of Asian Americans. They wrote it down.They don't like you.This can't be more clear.Pro-tip: When Black people are trying to stand between you and white nationalists, let us.Don't join with the white nationalists in promoting lies about where the hate is coming from. That's self-defeating in a dangerous way.That hurts us first, then you.https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109887898118172520

One day we will stop making up silly terms for normal people acting rationally in this dystopian hellscape of an economy.That day is not today.https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hopping-is-out-job-hugging-is-in-for-fearful-workers-338fe1e6