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15 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
#BREAKING
A woman was raped on a SEPTA el train in Philadelphia. The rapist threatened her, tore off her clothes and sexually sexually assaulted her. Instead of intervening, other riders filmed the rape and posted it on social media.
Fishton Ngoy, 35, has been arrested and charged with rape and other offenses in the attack. Police commented that the train was crowded and someone should have intervened to help the victim.
This terrible story reminds me of Kitty Genovese, a young lesbian raped and murdered in NYC decades ago. Her screams went I responded to. I wrote about her for Curve magazine on what would have been her 80th birthday.
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14 Oct
Ignoring decades of scholarship and data on the topic, Netflix claims that perpetuation of stereotypes of marginalized people has no real world impact.

⚡️ “Netflix co-CEO doubles down on defending Chappelle amid mounting controversy over comedy special” twitter.com/i/events/14484…
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos went well beyond the Chappelle special to broaden his wrong messaging out to include excusing violence against women, and it's extraordinary Sarandos never heard of Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will, both of which caused immeasurable violence.
Regardless of what you feel about Chappelle's The Closer, Netflix has gone way beyond staring up for Chappelle to refute the impact of on screen violence on marginalized groups generally. Which is utterly irresponsible and ahistorical.
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12 Oct
I am a paraplegic.I've been talking about #CliffordOwensby's story for days.
More than half of all assaults and killings by police are of #disabled people.
Derrick Forward, president of the Dayton ACLU, says they are not calling it racial because the police officer is also Black.
But Derrick Forward says that this was a "pretextual context," for police profiling #CliffirdOwensby alleging that he was involved in drugs. There were no drugs in the car. BUT THERE WAS A CHILD IN THE CAR with Owensby.
#CliffordOwensby says he is still in pain from this horrific assault. Let me say, as a paraplegic, that you are in pain most of the time anyway. Being pulled from a car to the ground and then dragged to a police car is an egregious human rights violation.
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9 Oct
#BREAKING
Big fight in South Philly over the Columbus statue which Mayor Kenney boxed up last year. Friday a judge said the box must come off. Kenney said no. He is appealing the ruling. But folks have jumped the fence to take the box down. Police have stopped that.
The head of the Italian-American community says Kenney is in violation of the court order and thus in contempt of court. He tells media that the box will come down tonight in advance of Sunday's Columbus Day parade. Police are now lining the fence in front of the boxed statue.
Meanwhile, there are numerous celebrations of #IndigenousPeoplesDay throughout Philadelphia.
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28 Sep
Watching #Hoarders and I understand not being able to let go of family heirlooms or books, but this hoarding garbage thing is so hard to comprehend. I mean how do people live with the stench?
This grandma had 60,000 pounds of stuff removed from her house. And her granddaughter CiCi who she raised had to grow up in this hellhole. She's now in high school and just "wants a real home." Hoarding really hurts these kids. This girl slept on boxes. It's so sad.
This other family, the mom is the hoarder and the dad is a fireman.There are five kids and nowhere for them to sleep because of all the stuff. How could you put your kids through this? The trauma is so much.
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22 Sep
I've been writing about this for a few weeks--and, as an immuno-compromised person--living it throughout the pandemic. This piece has open access. Read it.

Hospitals overwhelmed by covid are turning to ‘crisis standards of care.’ What does that mean? washingtonpost.com/health/2021/09…
"Physician Kristen Solana Walkinshaw told The Washington Post last week that her team had four patients who needed continuous kidney dialysis and only two machines available."
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"The resource crunch could also force healthcare workers to give beds or ventilators to those most likely to recover. If resources become tight, they can consider universal DNR orders for hospitalized adult patients who go into cardiac arrest."
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21 Sep
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So Monday I was informed that a PT would be coming today. I ceased being able to get in-home PT at the end of March 2020 when the country locked down. I was not allowed to change the day (Tuesday is a deadline day for me).I asked for late afternoon and was told no.
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I was told the latest visit would be 2pm and that the PT would be here then. I organized my work day around that time, which was very difficult, and rescheduled some work for Wednesday morning. It has been stressful and energy-depleting.
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It is now nearly 4pm. The PT has not arrived nor called. I have been in stasis for two hours, unable to do work that involved interviewing because what if the PT shows up? Also, their day ends at 5pm, so the "two hour intake and session"won't be happening, either.
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