School lunches in Paterson, NJ

I wasd born in Paterson. This looks bad.

This is the free lunch they are serving in Paterson Public High Schools.

The picture on the left is “chicken cheese steak”. We don’t know what’s on the right.

Our kids deserve better. pic.twitter.com/xVnBccv59n
— zellie (@zellieimani) September 18, 2021

Its not a pancake. It’s one slice of processed turkey and some carrots. And this was served to the kindergartner babies at MLK in Paterson for lunch.

No bread. No knife. This is a week after the city promised to start serving better food. pic.twitter.com/BNn21BuFgu
— zellie (@zellieimani) September 29, 2021

A new state of the art school was built in Paterson( Joseph A Taub). They served the students this, apparently two days in a row.

We don’t know what the spot is. The student who took the picture was allegedly told to delete the picture or be sent to the principal. pic.twitter.com/lg61FYRfbQ
— zellie (@zellieimani) September 29, 2021

Hollywood Reporter on Angelyne

Very strange story

I never heard of her until I read this tweet yesterday

Fascinating footnote to a footnote: Angelyne, a kind of cult figure in Los Angeles whose semi-fame was a result of posting billboards of herself in suggestive poses around L.A. in the mid-1980s, got 30,172 votes for governor in California recall election last week. More… pic.twitter.com/TQyHXbIRUf
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 19, 2021

Who’s Angelyne? Well, that’s a fascinating rabbit hole to jump down, as @garymbaum did in @thr in 2017: https://t.co/2smtI9FJIl
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 19, 2021

https://twitter.com/jlisajay/status/1496645778944643073?s=11

Emmy Rossum stars as the mysterious billboard icon Angelyne. Don’t miss the new @peacockTV limited series, streaming now.
— Peacock (@peacock) May 17, 2022

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Miklos Jancso was a great director

Jancso was a Hungarian director who made great films. The best known are from the 1960s and 1970s. They are really unique with very few shots per film. Right now, none of his films are on US DVDs or Blu-rays. Hopefully, Kino Lorber will release discs for the five restored films they are presenting. I hope Red Psalm is one of them. I am glad Richard Brody of the New Yorker keeps reminding us about Jancso.

UK label Second Run has some of his films but they are not all in versions that play on US disc players. One that can be played anywhere is Silence and Cry which is excellent.

Slow cinema but with lots of action: Miklós Jancsó's classic films, of which @Metrograph is showing six, prove yet again that thinking about what cinema is—in a word, form—is what makes cinema political: https://t.co/mUVNZPXks9
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) January 13, 2022

Miklós Jancsó, fallen wrongly into oblivion, is one of the greatest directors, and is unrepresented in the land of streaming (and not much on disk, either), so it's all the more significant that @TheNYFF is showing The Round-Up in its revivals section: https://t.co/uO17bwyb4a
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) September 17, 2021

Still not sure about the term or the category, but if it exists, it was created by Miklós Jancsó (delighted you're showing The Round-Up in the NYFF revivals); I haven't seen all (or even many) of his films; of those I've seen, I'd say Silence and Cry: https://t.co/HswpYUwb9X https://t.co/jvrtVk2kCZ
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) August 23, 2021

"Jancsó unfolds the ruthless spectacle of tyranny with a combination of meticulous detail and grand choreography." – @tnyfrontrow, @NewYorker

THE ROUND-UP screens in #NYFF59 Revivals and five restored Miklós Jancsó films are coming soon to theaters + 📀! https://t.co/S6Zogrb4uc pic.twitter.com/jh13r7mIkQ
— Kino Lorber (@KinoLorber) September 17, 2021

Republican irresponsibility on the debt ceiling

This is disgraceful. They’re willing to damage the country to make Biden look bad,. They voted to increased the debt ceiling when Trump was president and ran up the deficit.

Remember, the current debt limit involves only *past* spending, not future spending or the current budget. Of $29T in current debt, $8T dates from Trump admin including tax cuts and early Covid relief. #TheFacts pic.twitter.com/izyvMI9XUQ
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) September 22, 2021

Senate Republicans say they will vote to allow a debt default, leaving Democrats scrambling for plan to avert economic crisis @pkcapitol https://t.co/JHXq5Z6MDB
— Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) September 18, 2021

Let's be clear: Mitch McConnell is saying Senate Republicans will vote to default on US debts, debts they voted to incur under a Republican President.

A default would trigger a financial crisis that could cost huge numbers of jobs and wreck the US economy. He's voting for that. https://t.co/ewNyWDVLmi
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) September 17, 2021

The White House warns states of potentially dire effects if the government defaults https://t.co/tN3At4uY0s
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 17, 2021

The White House warned on Friday that a failure by the U.S. Congress to extend the debt limit could plunge the economy into a recession and could lead to cuts in critical state services. https://t.co/UPwrPFJQxe
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) September 17, 2021

"The left trying to move Senator McConnell with shame or pressure is like trying to move Mount Everest with a light breeze" – @ahrferrier .. https://t.co/kwZzroO8sY
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) September 16, 2021

“Well, we raised the debt ceiling because America can't default.

I mean—that would be a disaster.”

—Senator Mitch McConnell, 2019 pic.twitter.com/N8gbKWUzR7
— Senate Democrats (@SenateDems) September 13, 2021

NEW — Biden and the White House want the debt ceiling to be part of the CR, which requires 60 votes, according to sources with knowledge of the adm’s thinking. They believe McConnell will blink https://t.co/N0qUy01vti

via @lbarronlopez and @ccadelago
— Sam Stein (@samstein) September 9, 2021

He won’t

Just wanted to remind you that Republicans added $7 trillion to the national debt under the former guy, which is most of the debt now requiring a higher debt ceiling.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 21, 2021

Biden administration moves Land Management back to Washington

He should undo as much Trump damage as possible. Trump just wanted to wreck the government.

More than 87 percent of its staff quit when the Trump administration decided to relocate the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado. In a reversal, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will move the agency's headquarters back to Washington. https://t.co/hagb9ljSie
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) September 17, 2021

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has announced her plans to return the Bureau of Land Management national headquarters to Washington, DC, after it had been relocated under the Trump administration. https://t.co/u0AoMJGQu8
— CNN (@CNN) September 17, 2021

Republicans support increased access to guns

This is the opposite of the right approach to reducing gun violence. As usual., Republicans are an impediment to making our country better. We know Republicans will never support gun control when they were unwilling to do anything after kids were killed in Sandy Hook and Parkland. Here are tweets on Tennessee, Missouri and Texas.

Why has gun violence increased in Memphis? The D.A. has one answer. https://t.co/FNzl8oF7oF
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 17, 2021

So far this school year, Nashville police have confiscated six guns from juveniles in schools.

Permitless carry recently went into effect in Tennessee. #tnleg https://t.co/rfung5b8p2
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 17, 2021

“Background checks are supported by Democrats, Republicans, gun owners and non-gun owners. … The only place where they’re controversial is the Senate.” https://t.co/GJPIyC8jWo
— Jim MacMillan (@JimMacMillan) September 16, 2021

How will Republicans try to thwart Biden's vaccination effort?

Some Missouri lawmakers are floating ideas similar to the state's Second Amendment Preservation Act law, which prohibits local enforcement of federal gun regulationshttps://t.co/ltff9WtdAd
— Jonathan Shorman (@jonshorman) September 15, 2021

1/ A new style in vigilantism: 'a new gun law in Missouri grants residents the power to sue local law departments for giving “material aid and support” to federal agents for perceived violations of the Second Amendment. Under the law, which the Justice Department has challenged,
— Todd Gitlin (@toddgitlin) September 12, 2021

Austin's Police Chief says the city is likely going to see more homicides, "… weapons violations have seen a 28% increase this year over last year."

Road rage with guns is surging. Permitless carry went into effect in Texas earlier this month. #txlege https://t.co/AE36CAnBL6
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) September 15, 2021

"Frankly, the idea that someone as untrained as me can now buy and openly carry a gun without mandated permits or safety training is absolutely crazy," @KarenAttiah writes: https://t.co/g7fh2PPfsb
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 13, 2021

Bad CNN tweet on who is vaccinated.

Republicans are the problem. Romney’s statement is cowardly and should be challenged. The media really gets me angry. They’re afraid Republicans will say they’re biased.

This is a bad "both sides" take and should be challenged. The Democratic team has a much higher vaccination rate than the Republican team. Republicans have politicized this. https://t.co/g1snBUykI1
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 17, 2021

Facebook is overrun by right wing garbage

Facebook overrun by COVID vaccine lies even as it denied fueling hesitancy, report says

Did 901 people die of COVID-19 in a single day in Florida?
USA TODAY's @baylisswagner looked into how data interpretation went very wrong for 10,000+ Facebook users. https://t.co/D49AuMkwyV
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 10, 2021

Last month, WaPo reported that Facebook was allowing prominent Republicans to raise money by associating migrants with the surge of coronavirus infections in the US.

The claim had been rejected by doctors and fact-checkers at the time.https://t.co/yEEti2JIZn
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) September 17, 2021

I wrote about the Facebook circle of life:
– Build problematic systems
– Research their flaws and find serious problems
– Bury the findings to avoid bad press
– Get even worse press when the findings are leaked
– Change nothing https://t.co/UUxw7qYG08
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) September 16, 2021

Another devastating story about Facebook. You think you know the worst of it, but there’s always more. https://t.co/YubMs2uVl3
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) September 17, 2021

Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021

Unreal: "One potential solution remains off the table: holding high-profile users to the same standards as everyone else." https://t.co/VMWWNjbfmZ
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) September 13, 2021

"It's important to overcome the message that Facebook has been trying to project that we really can't tell whether social media use has anything to do with political divisiveness and partisan hatred. That just doesn't match up with facts.” https://t.co/RV2hnOahf6
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 13, 2021

From today’s @ReliableSources – broadcast exclusive: new NYU study shows that Misinformation from partisan news sources gets 6x more clicks than real news on Facebook. 68% of engagement from far-right sources comes from misinfo – 36% from far-left sources. https://t.co/wW4MCOsw5X
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) September 5, 2021

Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says

I'll say this once again: @Facebook could end the anti-vax death cult in this nation tomorrow. It's not hard.

They know who the sources of this poison are, and could shut them down with a few clicks and save countless lives.

But they won't.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 2, 2021

Two-thirds of all Facebook users who join extremist groups are guided to them by Facebook itself https://t.co/xWUa7V1J20
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 30, 2021

More on the bad Ivermectin theory

The case against ivermectin isn't that it's horse goo. The case against ivermectin is that we really don't have reason to think it works against Covid-19: https://t.co/jHPgo9fAlF
— Kelsey Piper (@KelseyTuoc) September 17, 2021

Can't stress how wild the ivermectin Facebook groups have become. So many people insisting to each other to never go to an ER, in part because they might not get ivermectin, but sometimes because they fear nurses are killing them on purpose "for the insurance money."
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 13, 2021

A few words about the news media coverage of ivermectin, a drug that some have claimed is a treatment for covid (though experts like the FDA, CDC, NIH and the Amer. Medical Assn. disagree). A few aspects of this coverage might be worth putting in context (a thread):
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 10, 2021

—@MattGertz writes about the "strong correlation between partisanship and interest in ivermectin, one that mirrors the correlation between partisanship and rejection of vaccination.” https://t.co/SqBvaHfVYi
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) September 8, 2021

"QAnon supporters have in recent days targeted Amita Resurrection Medical Center with a protest and a flood of phone calls demanding that doctors give a hospitalized ally ivermectin." https://t.co/5Xd2QVCiwJ
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) September 8, 2021

An Ohio judge reversed a decision requiring a hospital to administer ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug, to a patient as a treatment for Covid-19. The FDA has warned that ivermectin, primarily used for deworming livestock, can be toxic in humans. https://t.co/rTI2YrwrqZ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 7, 2021

OK, ENOUGH ALREADY.
Here's the #Ivermectin saga, people.
1.) In the 1960s Japan's Satoshi Omura did chemistry work, trying to find a medicine to kill helminth worms in livestock.
2.) In the '70s he joined forces with Max Tischler at Wesleyan in USA.
3.) They brought…
MORE https://t.co/ja68U2A7oi
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) September 6, 2021