What is the purpose of @TwitterVerified? I qualify on several of these but they refuse to acknowledge it. I guarantee for my geographic location my follower count is high. I have more followers than the former mayor and the current sheriff of Rochester
I have twice the followers of local reporter Adam Chodak. Theresa Marsenburg has 655 followers but she has a blue check. Lots more than Amal and Natalie too. These people do the same type of work I do except I'm national. But if we're going by geographical location...
.@TwitterVerified claims that geographical location matters. Let's look at more journalists/entertainers/notables in Rochester. @ToddHallidy deserves a blue check and a lot more followers btw. Follow him. He's awesome. What a voice. So smooth, like butter.
OMG I have twice the following of Dr. Mike Mendoza, the health czar of Rochester. This was THE DUDE making covid restrictions. I have twice his reach.
Jennifer Lewke has a similar job to mine here in the Rochester area. She got an Emmy, I got a Happy Frog. Potato, potahto.
CHIEF meteorologist dude has half my following. No shade on any of these folks btw...just pointing out the facts to @TwitterVerified that keeps saying I'm not "notable." But Eric is.
Berkeley Bean, fewer followers than me. Same geographical location. Same job.
The damn District Attorney for Rochester has a fraction of my followers (no blue check though. She should have one.)
I'm dwarfing a local politician Joe Morelle.
But let's look at radio since a lot of what I do is broadcasting.
.@BobLonsberry is great. We have a similar Twitter following. He deserves a blue check too. Maybe he hasn't applied. I'm sure they'd give it to him.
.@LarrySharpe is the most popular guy on this list on Twitter. He's great btw. Love him. Glad to see Twitter verified him.
The point of all this is that if @TwitterVerified applies its rules equally there's no reason I should be denied verification. I not only qualify based on geographic location BUT papers of record have written about me and @PJMedia_com multiple times, I work for a media company
And that media company is a publicly traded media conglomerate with a network of radio stations and publications across this country. They're not verified on Twitter either. @SalemMediaGrp It's absurd. Why the discrimination?
If I'm not "notable" then why are all those publications and notable people writing about my stories? @TwitterVerified doesn't apply the rules equally @elonmusk. I enjoy the idiocy of it, don't get me wrong. I'm happy to continue to be an example of the extreme bias of the Twits.
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My daughter was given an assignment to write a paper on inequality. She chose men in women's sports. Her professor has informed her she can't use that topic. She may write about the inequality that trans women face in sports but not the inequality women face because of "trans women" in sports. Make that make sense.
Wow, this seems to have touched a nerve. A few things: 1. It's college sociology and it's a required class 2. My daughter isn't interested in blowing up her relationship with her professor in the beginning of the year if she doesn't have to 3. I will not give anyone the name of the school or the professor because the last thing we need here are accusations of "harassment" which is exactly what will happen if I do that. We all know many on the left can't handle free expression and my daughter doesn't need a target on her back because of who her mom is. 4. Thank you for all the offers to help. My daughter is taking some of you up on that and I'll keep you updated about how it goes.
College shouldn't be like this but it is. And hopefully, we can get some effort in the next four years to encourage intellectual freedom.
Here's the study her professor said she COULD use. Note how the topic is not about inequality but about "cisgendered" attitudes towards trans ideology. Forget women who are being pushed out of their sports. You're a bigot! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-29…
I was locked out of a juvenile court hearing today with no explanation other than "I'll have to talk to the lawyers to see if the public may observe the hearing." This is how they take kids. Behind closed doors. And they don't care that they're violating open courts.
If the state is so proud of how they remove children from their families, then do it in the open. Let us see the evidence they have. Doing it in secret does not engender confidence.
In this case, a sick boy was taken from his mother due to a misunderstanding that she could care for him. In CPS custody he has become morbidly obese and is now in the ICU and they will not let his mother see him. I wanted to observe this process and see what grounds they have
I wrote an article about this last year. She's 100% right. I did the same thing she did traveling alone with my children at a gas station some creep tried to ask me for money. I went off. I don't care if you are desperate, ask a man. pjmedia.com/columns/megan-…
I'm not going to put me and my children at risk to listen to your sob story scam. If you have something important to ask, find a man. Leave women alone in parking lots. We think we're going to be murdered in every single one we visit.
I agree 100% with #MarkGeragos here but I worry that today's juries don't care about facts or fairness. They just want revenge. (See Murdaugh and Anderson verdicts). #GwynethPaltrow isn't well-liked and that's going to work against her and that's too bad. It's not justice.
What I learned today is the Plaintiff had multiple underlying conditions and injuries that should have precluded him from skiing in the first place. It was very dangerous for him to do so. He took the risk. Then he traveled the world after the fall. He's also very wealthy.
Collisions happen all the time on mountains. You assume the risk and short some egregious action by one of the colliders, it's just a risk you assume. Also, where's the GoPro vid? It existed at one point but the plaintiff doesn't have it anymore. Why?
The funniest thing I heard #GwynethPaltrow lawyer say was "I really don't want an objection your honor," when the other lawyer objected during his cross. LOL
I cannot stop laughing.
Atty. Steve Owens doesn't know he can't show the deposition to the jury but that's all he has cued up to go. His sigh of exasperation when hauled up to the judge is pure comedy gold. Also why would the witness have a copy of his depo? Dunno.
Questions for @Patreon@PatreonSupport Your TOS says nothing illegal can be done (how are you checking?) and if fans are under 18 they need parents' permission to sub to an account. Have you verified if @thejeffreymarsh subs have parental permission? How do you verify this?
Marsh is literally teaching kids how to go "No Contact" with their parents. Surely, the parents didn't consent to that. He's also having explicit chats about sex. Someone at @Patreon needs to investigate this account. Please let me know if that's going to happen
Hi @jackconte do you have a press contact at Patreon? Who investigates violations of TOS? I have some questions for an article I'm writing. Can you help point me to the right person? Do you have anyone at Patreon actively looking for child predators? I think I have one for them.